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The 2017 Belize International Film Festival officially opened on Thursday night at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. Professionals in the audio and visual art industries walked the red carpet at the start of the three-day event. The annual festival has been growing steadily and this year, there are more entries in film and […]
Youth Empowerment Services and the Child Development Foundation partnered today to find out the status of children in the work force, particularly in the sugar industry. Available data shows that children below the ages of eighteen are already working in the industry and have dropped out of school. Forty-two percent of the population comprises children […]
Collet area representative and Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber announced in April that some one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars would be spent on upgrades to the football field adjacent to the basketball court and Grace Primary School in the Fabers’ Road Extension area. The main road is of course being re-done by Imer Hernandez […]
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There’s a massive pre-Battle of the Drums event scheduled to kick off at the Punta Gorda Multipurpose Complex shortly. After two years of work, the facility is finally completed and ready for use. On Thursday, an extensive site visit was conducted with the Local Sports Council Management Committee to certify that the facility is ready […]
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There’s another commitment that government has met. As ordered by the Caribbean Court of Justice on November first, G.O.B. has complied with a payment of about a hundred and sixty million dollars as a final payment for the 2009 and 2011 nationalization of Belize Telemedia Limited. The government today made the transfer of funds of […]
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This morning, residents in the vicinity of Raccoon Street Extension discovered a body inside a drain. Initially, it was believed that the then unidentified male may have been the victim of foul play. Belize City police were immediately called to the scene and it was later learned that the individual was fifty-five-year-old Elvis Bandosingh. According […]
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Dion Leslie or Bernard Wagner for next Mayor of the City? Elections are due until next March, but the campaign machines are in gear already. The two rival mayoral candidates for the Belize City Council have already hit the campaign trail, trying to gain the confidence of the electorate in hopes of winning the top […]
Bradley maintains that some matters could have been dealt with differently during the past five and a half years he sat in the mayor’s seat. But he says the City Council and sister municipalities across the country have been ensuring that they are accountable for all projects undertaken during their tenure. Bradley adds that he […]
Leon Usher is the man that Ladyville Police shot and is now under guard at the K.H.M.H. Police say that they responded to a domestic dispute at Usher’s residence in Milpa Area in Ladyville and he got into a verbal exchange and made threats. The report says, “Usher then aggressed the police in a boisterous […]
Police say that a criminal and internal investigation has been launched into this shooting incident. Usher remains hospitalized and is in need of surgery. But before he does that, he needs four pints of blood. Tillett made it clear that even though they were involved in a domestic altercation, she was not pressing charges and […]
The annual Kettle Appeal of the Salvation Army kicked off today in the downtown area of the city. The launch marks the beginning of the Christmas season during which the organization hopes residents will be generous and make a difference in someone’s life. The organization is this year spreading its wings to other areas and […]
The City Council, under the tenure of Darrell Bradley, has concreted one hundred and sixty streets across the city. The council invested twenty million dollars on the massive undertaking. That figure keeps popping up because Government is spending as much as eight million dollars for approximately a mile of work on Faber’s Road. Now, no […]
Do you want to make your acting debut to screens across the Caribbean? Well, whether you have acting experience or not, filmmaker Cristobal Krusen says he wants you to try out for his new TV series Life or Death. The series will be filmed in Belize next year but right now the team is looking […]
The central secondary school volleyball competition was held today to select the male and female teams that will represent the central region against the north, west and south. The national finals will be held in Belize City on Friday to select the best of the best of the high schools. After several rounds of competition, […]
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World Diabetes Day will be commemorated next Tuesday. This weekend the Diabetes association will be having its annual Ride Out Diabetes fundraiser. While, exercise is an important element in maintaining diabetes, it must be complemented with a proper diet. Tonight in Healthy Living, we look at the elements of a proper diet for diabetics. […]
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The Government of Belize says it has the money. But tonight, the question is whether it will meet the November tenth deadline for final payment of compensation for the double nationalization of B.T.L. Financial Secretary Joseph Waight confirmed today that payment had not yet been made, and said he expected that it would be done […]
The removal of seventy-eight million U.S. dollars or the equivalent of a hundred and sixty million Belize dollars from the country’s foreign assets is nothing to sneeze at. And the timing – as retailers go into high gear for the Christmas season – is going to have an impact. But Financial Secretary Joseph Waight told […]
October has come and gone and fuel prices remain relatively high despite continuous protest. As of October twenty-eighth, premium fuel retails at eleven dollars and ninety-two cents, compared to ten dollars and fifty-three cents after a price decrease was announced at the start of June. And after a crunching price rise for both regular and […]
Turning to another matter of national interest….Belize has, for now, raised no objections to Guatemala once again promoting its unfounded claim with an offensive map purporting to include our territory, ahead of the March eighteenth, 2018 referendum on going to the International Court of Justice. But Guatemala, it appears, is fairly easily offended by Belizean […]
Chinese national Zheng Yuanran and a Taiwanese national acting as his translator remain in police custody tonight in Belmopan. Zheng entered Belize on Sunday, November fifth, but the pair was arrested by the following day, on Monday, at the Social Security Board office after Zheng tried to apply for a Social Security card using a […]
While the final payment for the B.T.L. nationalization is to be met by Friday, there is still one more related case that may head to court. That is Sunshine Holdings—the company which acquired shared in B.T.L. using a Social Security loan in 2005. The Caribbean Court of Justice had rejected an application from the company […]
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Thirty-six-year-old Leon Usher is in the hospital under police guard after cops shot him in the knee on Tuesday. Ladyville police were called out to Usher’s residence in the Milpa Area because of a domestic dispute between him and with his common-law-wife, Tiffara Tillett. Tillett told the cops that Usher was stopping her from leaving […]
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The crime-ridden community of Port Loyola known as Jane Usher Boulevard has been designated as a hotspot by the Belize Police Department, following a recent spate of shootings in that neighborhood. Since launching Operation ACT a week and a half ago, there has been a round-the-clock presence of law enforcement in the area and incidences […]
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Channel Five viewers who this morning tuned in expecting live coverage of the scheduled public hearing of the Senate Special Select Committee will have been disappointed that there was none. But notice from the National Assembly issued on Tuesday is that the meeting was put off until next Wednesday, November fifteenth, due to the absence […]
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A World Youth Conference continues today in the Belize City. Representatives from over fifty countries are revisiting the importance of the Sustainable Development goals to their own advancement. One common, but critical issue affecting youths has to do with security. Violent crime has no borders while economic crime is destroying society. News Five’s Duane Moody […]
