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A team of Belizean bodybuilding and fitness athletes is getting ready for the Central American Games. After three rounds of vetting, Mister Belize Clayton Greenidge, and four other well-known bodybuilding competitors were selected to represent the country in Nicaragua on the eleventh and twelfth of this month. The team departs Belize on Saturday, but we […]
Five young artists used their talents to create works of art to show why HIV/AIDS patients have a right to medical access. On Thursday, the National AIDS Commission donated the paintings to five partner organizations: UNDP, UNICEF, B.C.C.I., Digicell and the Special Envoy for Women and Children. News Five’s Andrea Polanco tells us more about […]
Former Justice of Appeal Franz Parke has left a cloud of suspicion and scandal in the wake of his departure from the Court of Appeal, announced this week. The Jamaican-American attorney faced serious questions about his fitness to serve as a Judge on the Belize Court of Appeal, but it is concerns about his personal […]
Acting for the Belize Bank Limited, the Courtenay Coye LLP firm has written Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte regarding enforcement of the November twenty-second order of the Caribbean Court of Justice to repay the ninety million dollar judgment, principal and interest, in respect of a Government-guaranteed loan to Universal Health Services. First, the letter states that […]
As promised last week, the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry has responded in stinging fashion to Prime Minister Dean Barrow on the matter of the Universal Health Services fiasco. It repeats its insistence that Belize’s laws and political system need to be strengthened to prevent any administration from running roughshod over Belize’s finances. But […]
Is the Belize City Council behind in almost one million dollars in payment to the Belize Waste Control? Mayor Darrell Bradley responded to that report to say that the arrear is normal at this time of year because of the payment cycle, as per the contract with the company. While the mayor didn’t have the […]
And with those payments lingering, will your garbage be picked up? Mayor Bradley says that the trucks will remain on regular service, collecting garbage on all scheduled days. Today, he dispels the report that the north side garbage collection will be cut back because the Belize Waste Control has a cash flow problem. We reached […]
You heard the Mayor say that the City Council will come into some monies through revenue collection in the next few weeks – that is when the Belize Waste Control will start to get their monies for their services. But, overall, the City Council is not broke; in fact, he says they are doing quite […]
Friday’s meeting of the House of Representatives, the last for 2017, is expected to be chock-full of news. Hanging over the gathering like a specter is the UHS debt motion, which the Government is not expected to introduce until notice has been received from the Belize Bank or payment is agreed on and made as […]
The Public Sector Workers’ Trust, established in 2014, has been a source of controversy in the trade union community. Three retired public officers who say they represent many others sued the Public Service Union, Belize National Teacher’s Union, The Minister of Finance and the Attorney General, as well as five established trustees of the Trust, […]
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The Trust comes out of the infamous period between 1995 and 1997 when public officers’ wages and increments were frozen due to budgetary issues for the Manuel Esquivel administration, which also let go over eight hundred officers. Salary adjustments were re-instated in 1997 along with increments and the Government signed over nearly eight hundred thousand […]
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The Belize Tourism Industry Association held its thirty-second annual general meeting today at the Radisson where a new executive was elected. Reyneldo Guerrero is the new President of the B.T.I.A. Also on the agenda was the recently approved strategic plan to devise an action plan to meet the many targets therein to promote responsible tourism […]
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The new sugar crop got off to a good start this morning at Tower Hill where relations between millers and farmers seem to be on a good footing. A projected one million three hundred thousand tons of sugar are to be produced during the seven-month crop. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting […]
Disability awareness week is being celebrated under the theme ‘Transformation Towards a Sustainable and Resilient Society for All’. As a part of the activities, the annual Finger Bee was held today in Belize City. Nine deaf students from Orange Walk, Corozal, Cayo and Belize Districts competed in junior and senior categories. After several rounds of […]
‘Toys for Tots’ is an annual event organized by United Airlines where primary school students are treated to a Christmas dinners, toys and entertainment. The organization also partnered with T-shirt Factory to provide for one hundred underprivileged kids from across the city. Sales Representative Jarrett Requeña says that this year they were able to increase […]
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It’s the Christmas season and there are parties galore across the city! Today, we joined the Salvation Army at their annual grand Christmas festivities at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall. About seven hundred students gathered for a day of dance, gifts, food and entertainment organized by the Salvation Army and supported by the Belize City […]
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When we think of mosquito borne illnesses in Belize, Malaria is probably not the first disease to come to mind. There is a reason why that is so. That’s what we find out in tonight’s Healthy Living. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting 2020 – that is the target for Belize and other countries in this region […]
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The abrupt departure of Franz Parke from the Court of Appeal still leaves many scratching their heads. But there is damning and damaging allegations that suggests that that departure may have been inevitable. News Five tonight has obtained the disclosure letter written by Courtenay Coye LLP on behalf of claimant John Briceño to the Solicitor […]
One year after they began, the Senate Special Select Committee’s public hearings are now over. Auditor General Dorothy Bradley was the last to appear in Belmopan before the Committee this afternoon, as she was the first twelve months ago. We will have more from her testimony later on, but we lead tonight with a significant […]
The release of the immigration audit reports sparked a frenzy of criticism from the ruling party and others who accused the Auditor General and her team of failing to follow up with them as it relates to certain findings and conclusions in the report. At the hearing today, Bradley did not claim any vindication when […]
Business Community Senator Mark Lizarraga acted as pro-tem chair for today’s final meeting, which was delayed due to an administrative error that pushed the start time from this morning to this afternoon. Absent were the two Government representatives, regular chairman Aldo Salazar and Doctor Carla Barnett, and Opposition representative Eamon Courtenay, was substituted by Michel […]
Two most recent presidents of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry – incumbent Nikita Usher and predecessor Kay Menzies – have been vocal that the G.O.B. must respect the rule of law and pay the ninety million dollars, which is growing in principal and interest on what was initially a loan of thirty-three and […]
Three residents from the Arizona area in Teakettle have been charged for illegal assembly at the Belmopan Police Station. Twenty-three-year-old Mervin Correa, twenty-two-year-old Guadalupe Guerra and fifty-five-year-old Plines Gutierrez were all charged in connection with a bonfire on Tuesday that blocked the entrance to the area. The burning tires was held as protest by residents […]
Auditor General Dorothy Bradley, though it was her second appearance, was the final witness to appear before the Senate Special Select Committee today. As some witnesses have done in their appearances before the Committee, Bradley began her testimony with a short statement to the Senate panel. She indicated in that statement that she had been […]
The Auditor General also addressed the question of whether Police and the Director of Public Prosecutions were informed of the Immigration Audit Report and the obligation to inform of any issues regarding improprieties reported. Aware that her office doesn’t often get responses with regard to their investigations, the Auditor General forwarded copies, but the obligation, […]
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