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The United Nations Country Team resident members UNICEF, U.N.D.P., U.N.F.P.A., and PAHO held a press conference this morning to talk with the media about some of the social issues in Belize and where they fit in the bigger picture. The mandates of the resident agencies include equality, human rights, vulnerable groups and H.I.V./AIDS issues that […]
Written on April 24, 2015 | Posted in
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A dubious land transaction involving the sale of a beachfront parcel on Caye Caulker has left a retired English couple short of tens of thousands of dollars. Sydney and Anna Higgins fell in love with the island a few years ago and decided to own a property north of the village. The Londoners purchased an […]
The Higgins have sought legal advice and despite the efforts of their attorneys, have been given the runaround by the Lands Department. The uncertainty of how the matter will be resolved has forced the couple to suspend any development on the parcel. Sidney Higgins, Land Owner “The lawyers here have been looking at it […]
Former administrator of the Southern Regional Hospital, Nasley Somerville, has been dismissed from the public service after a year of administrative leave. Somerville was suspended from her post in October 2013 when it was discovered that over three hundred and sixty thousand dollars had been siphoned from the hospital’s account during a three-year period. Her […]
Government operatives charged with selling the Petrocaribe Bill 2015 have sought to convince the media that the outcry is much ado about nothing. But tonight the Petrocaribe fire continues to burn bright. Business sector Senator Mark Lizarraga has gotten hold of the loan agreement between G.O.B. and Alba Petrocaribe which he says proves that G.O.B. […]
Just in the event that you’re one of the very few who hasn’t been following the Petrocaribe hue and cry, the relevance is this. The government has stated time and again that it is forced to borrow and spend before seeking approval in the House because the exact amount of money to be borrowed cannot […]
The multi-million dollar Norwegian Cruise Lines tourism port on Harvest Caye is expected to be completed by the end of the year and opened in early 2016. It’s a huge project which received significant opposition across the political spectrum – primarily those sectors which are proponents of pocket tourism in the South as opposed to […]
Apart from the social concerns the NCL project raised, there are also some environmental concerns. One, raised just a week ago, is that developers have dumped rocks on top of coral heads which abound just off Harvest Caye. Another concern is that there is a proposal in the EIA to construct a thousand foot pier […]
Written on April 23, 2015 | Posted in
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This morning, dozens of men, women and children from thirty-eight indigenous communities in the south gathered at the Battlefield Park in anticipation of the CCJ’s ruling on the issue of Maya Land Rights. While they all stood around waiting for the decision to be handed down, another group showed up at the venue, placards in […]
Cristina Coc, spokesperson for the Maya Leaders Alliance, told News Five this afternoon that the objections raised by the gathering are merely statements of preference, since they are free to choose whichever form of land tenure they favor. Cristina Coc, Spokesperson, Maya Leaders Alliance “They are saying that they are not in support of […]
Written on April 22, 2015 | Posted in
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The Petrocaribe Bill 2015, and peripheral issues arising from its implementation, continues to feature prominently in the news. Just about everybody is speaking up on the controversial bill passed just recently. We start tonight’s Petrocaribe coverage with escalating tensions between the N.T.U.C.B.’s second Vice-President, Audrey Matura and immediate past President Dylan Reneau. Over the weekend […]
Matura-Shepherd sat at the head-table at a conference today hosted by the Vision Inspired by the People. And since it’s becoming apparent that the attorney, activist and thorn in the government’s side has her eyes on politics, we asked if her placement is a sign of things to come. For the first time, Matura-Shepherd confirmed […]
The Belize City Council today launched several new initiatives at the newly refurbished B.T.L. Park on Princess Margaret Drive. Among the many features added to the infrastructure were fourteen display panels that would hold a public exhibition on historic events of the area. News Five’s Duane Moody attended the launch and has this report. […]
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The embezzlement of over half-a-million dollars from the Treasury Department, an inside job that was unearthed a little over a week ago by officials within the Ministry of Finance, has set off a major investigation into this most recent financial crime. The scheme involved the misappropriation of two significant sums of monies, presumably by altering […]
Since the beginning of the week, the United Democratic Party’s legal adviser, Senior Counsel Michael Young, has been accompanying Financial Secretary Joe Waight on a series of media rounds to elucidate specific aspects of the Petrocaribe Law. As it is, there seems to be quite a lack of comprehension of the piece of legislation and […]
Despite the discussion and subsequent criticisms that have arisen out of the passage of the Petrocaribe Law, Young says the most important thing is to continue retrieving the funds. Michael Young, Legal Adviser, U.D.P. “The most important thing is to access these funds and to use it for the public good. We have an […]
Written on April 21, 2015 | Posted in
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In Monday’s newscasts we told you about the death of three persons over the weekend—the murder-suicide of well known couple Michael Estell and Colleen Sharp in Ladyville and the execution of tour guide, Vern Magdaleno. But there was another fatality over the weekend in the Belize District. A father of five young children, twenty-seven year […]
Written on April 21, 2015 | Posted in
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Many Belizeans have served and are serving in the U.S Military and like many other immigrants, have risked their lives to serve, but even after their service they are still held to the military’s standard and pay the ultimate price for infractions of that standard- they are banished from the country they served, separated from […]
The controversial Petrocaribe Bill has since been enacted and despite the N.T.U.C.B.’s seemingly lethargic response in criticizing that piece of legislation, a release by the umbrella organization was issued over the weekend. The statement is preceded by a bit of turbulence within the rank of the trade union congress in the wake of Senator Ray […]
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The Belize Tourism Board is in a financial crunch and has been for some time. The company which is responsible for marketing Belize, we are told, has had to impose serious austerity programs after amassing debts in the millions of dollars. Sources at the Ministry of Tourism point to mismanagement as one factor, but also […]
The tourism industry has lost one of its pioneers. Peter Tonti, the C.E.O. of Cahal Pech Village Resort passed away on Thursday. Tonti has been visiting Belize since the nineteen seventies as part of the Peace Corps. He fell in love with the country and decided to make it his home. He made his first […]
Written on April 17, 2015 | Posted in
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But aside from the long list of festivals that will be held over the course of the year, the events within the September Celebrations Calendar will see thousands of Belizeans within the Diaspora come back home to participate. The National Celebrations Commission has hit the ground running and today, Communications Officer for NICH, Shari Williams, […]
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And if you’d like to win a thousand dollars, you can also participate in the 2015 “September Celebrations Theme Competition.” All Belizeans, living at home and abroad, are invited to submit their most creative ideas for the theme for this year’s anniversary of the Battle of Saint George’s Caye and Independence. Williams says that the […]
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Puerto Azul, arguably the largest foreign direct investment in tourism in Belize, should it become a reality, was the subject of a press conference earlier today by a debt holder who is claiming ownership of Northern Two Cayes, the islands on which the billion-dollar development will take place. John Mills returned to Belize recently and […]
Written on April 16, 2015 | Posted in
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The government hasn’t been having much luck where mega-million dollar tourism investment in Belize is concerned. The interest is there, and perhaps so is the real intent, but the projects don’t seem to be able to get off the ground. Two of those grand-scale visions have been the Puerto Azul eight star resort complex and […]
Written on April 16, 2015 | Posted in
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