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International Customs Day was celebrated virtually this year, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. January twenty-sixth is the day designated to honor custom officials and agencies for their function in taking care of the flow of goods across the world borders. But with the pandemic still raging, issues of effective service delivery and revenue collection are being […]
Written on January 26, 2021 | Posted in
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On Monday, January fourth, detainee Gregory Bowen was found dead in his cell at the Queen Street Police Station. Police reported his death as an apparent suicide. In an interview with the media following the incident, the Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, said that officers conducted hourly checks on the detainee and that the police […]
Written on January 25, 2021 | Posted in
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Elrington added that the unfortunate incident is similar to the tragedy that befell the Vasquez family when their loved one, Nestor Vasquez Junior – also known to have mental health issues – died while in police custody in June 2019. The family’s attorney calls it a systematic breakdown. Orson Elrington, Attorney for Bowen […]
Written on January 25, 2021 | Posted in
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The National Forensic Science Services assists the police department with carrying out post-mortems on about five hundred bodies. These are in the cases when a person’s death is classified as sudden, unexpected, unexplained, suspicious, and violent deaths. With support from the U.S. Embassy, the Government is working to strengthen Belize’s Medicolegal Death Investigation System, specifically […]
Written on January 25, 2021 | Posted in
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More than one thousand young men and women from across the country performed successfully in the police exams. The next step to becoming a police officer is passing the interview segment, which for Corozal and Orange Walk residents was done today at the Police Training Academy in Belmopan. Dozens of hopefuls waited patiently for their […]
Written on January 25, 2021 | Posted in
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The Caracol Road Project was always a divisive issue in the House of Representatives. The road is being done in phases – and the current administration has shared that they do not support the entire project. In the first week of January, Minister of Infrastructure Julius Espat told the press that he supports the first […]
Written on January 25, 2021 | Posted in
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This morning in Belize City, many persons gathered at the office of the Lands Department near the Cemetery Road roundabout. News Five understands that those individuals were all applicants for first-time land ownership. The gathering outside of the building drew the attention of passersby, and the police were called in to enforce the COVID-19 regulations. […]
Written on January 25, 2021 | Posted in
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Going digital is the new direction that the Government of Belize plans on taking. It is expected that this administration will introduce significant changes during their five-year mandate. The Minister of Youth Sports and e-Governance is tasked to increase efficiency and cost-effectiveness in delivering public services. The work began last week with an e-Governance Task […]
Written on January 25, 2021 | Posted in
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As for CITO, government’s Central Information Technology Office, it will be the digital hub for delivering those internet-based services. The idea, says the Minister of e-Governance, is to convert ninety-five percent of the existing services to the online platform by the end of this term of office. Kevin Bernard, Minister of e-Governance “The […]
Written on January 25, 2021 | Posted in
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Today, the wife of Prime Minister John Briceño was officially appointed the Special Envoy for the Development of Families and Children. Rossana Briceño, an educator by profession, is an advocate for special needs and helped develop a programme for students with diverse abilities at the Saint Peter’s Anglican School in Orange Walk. Flanked by her […]
Written on January 22, 2021 | Posted in
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Twelve new homes for twelve deserving families; it is a charitable initiative that Heritage Bank Limited is undertaking. The donation is in celebration of the bank’s twentieth anniversary. In partnership with Hand in Hand Ministries, the bank has committed to donating one new home each month this year. According to a bank release, customers who […]
Written on January 22, 2021 | Posted in
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Former Governor-General Doctor Dame Minita Gordon was laid to rest on Wednesday at the Lord Ridge Ceremony. While her sendoff was stately, she was not always treated with the respect and dignity deserving of her position. In fact, in her retirement, she was often seen around Belize City, where others who did not know her […]
Written on January 21, 2021 | Posted in
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While those drugs weren’t linked to any individual, two cops Dion Bellini and Joel Cantun were both busted with weed in separate incidents in the north in less than a month. Cantun was caught with twenty-eight pounds of weed last Thursday, while Bellini was picked up with forty pounds in the last week of December. […]
Written on January 21, 2021 | Posted in
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Some very promising news delivered by Minister Musa on Thursday was that the Witness Protection Programme is in the pipeline for Belize. Last week, the U.S Embassy hosted the Government of Belize in a second high level roundtable to discuss the implementation of a witness protection and victim care programme. The discussions centered on the […]
Written on January 21, 2021 | Posted in
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On Monday, we reported a leaked letter sent by the new Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission to attorney Andrew Marshalleck. Chairman Molina is seeking legal advice regarding a sale made by the previous P.U.C. board. It was the purchase of the old Mirab building for a little over ten million dollars. The 2019 purchase […]
Written on January 19, 2021 | Posted in
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So what was included in the package that the P.U.C. purchased? According to the businessman, the Mirab building, including the property it sits on, and an open lot adjacent to the Belize Insurance Center, was bought for ten point three million dollars. He further explains how he acquired the piece of land owned by the […]
Written on January 19, 2021 | Posted in
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The government will appoint a new commissioner to deal with the carrying out of the C.C.J.’s consent order regarding the issue of Maya land rights and the appellate court’s ruling in the days ahead. On Thursday, however, the Government of Belize will be reporting to the Caribbean Court of Justice with an update on the […]
Written on January 19, 2021 | Posted in
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2020 proved to be a year of disasters, from multiple storms to the ongoing pandemic. And the trauma of all of it will remain etched in our minds. UNICEF wants to remind us that the most vulnerable group in any disaster is our children. Child-friendly spaces are widely used in emergencies as a first response […]
Written on January 19, 2021 | Posted in
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On Friday, as Belize commemorated the first George Price Day – now a National Public and Bank Holiday – People’s United Party officials along with family members of the late Father of the Nation gathered for a wreath-laying ceremony. Every January fifteenth, since his passing, the tradition has been held to celebrate the birth of […]
Written on January 18, 2021 | Posted in
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Two fire trucks were delivered today to the Placencia Fire Station, courtesy of the Joanna Volunteer Fire Department and Cross Hill Fire Department of South Carolina. The fire trucks landed at the P.G.I.A. in a U.S. Air Force C5 today. The delivery of the trucks was facilitated by the U.S. Embassy in Belize with the […]
Written on January 18, 2021 | Posted in
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Prime Minister John Briceño left the country on Tuesday and is to return on January seventeenth. During his absence, the Minister of Natural Resources, Petroleum, and Mining is acting as Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economic Development. But those additional duties did not prevent Minister Hyde from a scheduled visit to Dangriga, where […]
Written on January 14, 2021 | Posted in
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It was infamously dubbed as a “hotbed of corruption” by former Prime Minister Dean Barrow and tonight, new Lands Minister Cordel Hyde speaks of the unabated pillaging of crown land facilitated by former ministers and employees of the Ministry of Natural Resources. Land scams, land grabs – it is all being uncovered by Minister Hyde, […]
Written on January 14, 2021 | Posted in
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While speaking about weeding out the department’s corruption, among those who have left is Wilbert Vallejos. Vallejos was the Lands Commissioner under the U.D.P. administration. Police raided his home in Patchakan, Corozal, found over sixty thousand dollars in various currencies and denominations, and called in the Financial Intelligence Unit. But was the former lands commissioner […]
Written on January 14, 2021 | Posted in
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And the unanswered letter from the PM to the Public Services Commission is telling. The Commission’s functions include the formulation of schemes for recruitment to the public service and the fixing of salaries and privileges. But there is the sense that the Commission has been non-function for some time. Union Senator Elena Smith says that […]
Written on January 14, 2021 | Posted in
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Two billion people are registered users of the messaging service WhatsApp. It’s one of the most widely used apps across the world. And in these COVID times, it has helped many of us stay in touch with loves ones with their text, voice, and video messages and calls. But a recent update has left many […]
Written on January 14, 2021 | Posted in
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