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Each year, the Ministry of Agriculture names a Woman Farmer of the Year to complement its new senior and junior winners. This year’s Woman Farmer of the Year, fifty-year-old Esmeralda Stanley, showed us today that she is not only deserving of the recognition, but that she is certainly self-sufficient. She lives by the mantra that […]
Written on April 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Belize District is often referred to as the vegetable basket for the urban market. Thousands of pounds of edible plants that are consumed daily are produced by many cooperatives just off the Old Northern Highway. Today, a News Five team travelled to Bomba – a farming community outside of Maskall Village. The Bomba United Farmers […]
Written on April 19, 2023 | Posted in
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At this time, the opening ceremony of the Second Central American Commission for Environment and Development Regional Environmental Congress is concluding at the Princess Ramada Hotel in Belize City. It is being held under the theme, “Interregional Unity: Enhancing Human Security and Environmental Resilience.” As pro-tempore president of C.C.A.D., Minister of Sustainable Development, Climate Change and […]
Written on April 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Belize’s Constitution, as it is, speaks about human security and environmental protection and in a national context, the country has a national climate change policy and strategic plan which looks at thirteen sectors that have direct links to the environment. Minister Orlando Habet says that the congress looks at targets embedded within the sustainable development […]
Written on April 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Belize just recently welcomed and hosted the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Doctor Tsai Ing-Wen who was on a state visit to the Jewel and today, exactly two weeks after the president’s departure, the wife of the President of Mexico, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller (Mew-ler) arrived in Belize bearing gifts. The visit from Müller […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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And while the wife of the Mexican President came bearing gifts, her short visit created quite a bit of inconvenience for motorists and commuters in Belize City. Traffic was backed up for miles along the Phillip Goldson Highway for just over two hours. But, could this long wait have been avoided if there were better […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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The man who used to field questions from the media and share information on police news every Monday will be laid to rest on Friday, following a wake at the House of Culture on Thursday night, starting at six. Fittingly, today it was the family of Assistant Superintendent of Police, Fitzroy Yearwood who sat at […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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But Yearwood would never recover. His family said that even though he had rebounded well in the past from near-death situations caused by health complications, this time the prognosis from the get-go was grim. His brain had swollen and was hemorrhaging and it happened at a spot where doctors decided they could do nothing to […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Fitzroy Yearwood had initially signed up with the Belize Defense Force, but didn’t like that job and left. He then joined the Belize Police Department in 1996 and even though his health had dealt him a few stiff blows, he rose through the ranks to Assistant Superintendent of Police, the post he held up until […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-three-year-old Elden Flowers, a well-known street figure, walked free from the murder of Richard O’Neil earlier today after the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions entered a nolle prosequi in the courtroom of Justice Nigel Pilgrim. In November 2019, O’Neil was abducted and taken to an area along the Boom/Hattieville Road where he was […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Many would remember fifty-four-year-old John Brackett, an amputee who protested the Social Security Board last year regarding his disability benefits. Today, he appeared before Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft who imposed a suspended sentence for the lesser charge of attempted murder and deadly means of harm. In February 2018, Brackett reportedly stabbed Kenrick Valencio, a security […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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On tonight’s episode of Kolcha Tuesday, we look at a husband and wife couple that is working together to preserve Creole language and culture through artisanship. Andrea and Dion Rodriguez founded Kuchriments a few years ago, as a means of making some money from the sale of small trinkets and personal accessories, but their creative […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, better known as UNESCO, actively fights against prejudice and discrimination, as well as the defense of human rights and the protection of cultural heritage. The latter is what the donation from the Government of Mexico through the Recovery of Historical Records in Latin America and the Caribbean […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier today, when the media caught up with the Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Education, she was asked for an update on the rollout of the competency-based curriculum which was piloted at the start of the 2022 school year. As we’ve reported, education stakeholders have been travelling to schools across the country getting […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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C.E.O. Maheia also gave an update on the ministry’s free education program. At the start of the 2022 school year, four high schools on the south side of Belize City benefited from the pro-poor program. In mid-March, Prime Minister John Briceño announced that students in Toledo and Stann Creek Districts will also benefit from the […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) is carrying out a mutual evaluation exercise on Belize. The evaluation is being done to assess the strength of Belize’s technical compliance in combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Technical compliance includes the assessments of relevant laws and […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Reggae Dancehall Artist Ras Indio, with the support of the Belize Tourism Board and few of his other partners, represented Belize in the U.S at the Dallas Reggae Festival. Ras Indio is internationally known and he has produced quite a few popular songs in the last decade as an artist. We caught up with him […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Over the weekend, a track and field coach from Virginia spent time in Belize scouting young talents. Former world champion sprinter turned coach, Andre Cason, spent Saturday and Sunday at the Belize Athletic Association’s National Track and Field Championships where he was able to witness some of Belize’s most promising athletes in action. The good […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Members of the House of Shotokan won big over the weekend at the Wu Shu Kung Fu Martial Arts Championship. The competition was held on Saturday in El Paso, Texas and students from the karate academy won awards in form, fighting and martial arts weapons categories. Among the winners is Ampree Swasey, who won first […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Belize’s National Football A team will receive much-needed support through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding today, ahead of preparations to play upcoming games. The Belize Tourism Board and the Football Federation of Belize agreed that, under this arrangement, the B.T.B. as the main corporate sponsor of the Belize National Team Program, will provide […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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A pair of Belize City men, believed to be among three persons who robbed and fatally shot a vegetable vendor last Wednesday, appeared before the new Chief Magistrate earlier today. Twenty-three-year-old Milton Nunez, a resident of mile two and a half on the George Price Highway and twenty-one-year-old Emerson Elijio, a car washer of a […]
Written on April 17, 2023 | Posted in
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Two Belize City men who are part of the Leadership Intervention Unit were shot while socializing over the weekend on Amara Street. Ronlee Petillo and Alyon Domingo were at a yard on Amara Avenue on Saturday evening when shots rang out and the two sustained gunshot wounds. According to the Belize Police Department’s Regional Commander […]
Written on April 17, 2023 | Posted in
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A family is mourning the loss of their loved one who died in a traffic accident early this morning on the Philip Goldson Highway. It happened between miles thirteen and fourteen in the wee hours today, and claimed the life of thirty-two-year-old Leonel Cabanas, a resident of Sand Hill Village. The father of four had […]
Written on April 17, 2023 | Posted in
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On Saturday night, a fire broke inside a concrete structure in the Saint Martin de Porres area of Belize City. It was reportedly home to Glenford Webster, a person, residents, say who has a mental condition and lived in the house alone. The structure had no electricity and the fire is believed to have been […]
Written on April 17, 2023 | Posted in
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The National Fire Service today provided official details on a fire that destroyed four houses and left fifteen persons displaced. The mid-afternoon inferno occurred last Friday and investigation reveals that the fire started in the one of the structures at the rear of the property. It was a massive loss because nothing could have been […]
Written on April 17, 2023 | Posted in
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