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There is breaking news tonight, as the body of an unidentified male believed to be in his forties has been found in the village of Santana in the Belize District. There is no confirmation as yet whether the individual is the victim of foul play. News Five understands that a team of officers is presently […]
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Tonight, there is confirmation that an undisclosed, but significant amount of rosewood has disappeared from the Savannah Forest Station. We say disappeared, but there’s no magic involved, just a Cabinet directive. News Five has been following the chronology of events and came up with this. The rosewood in question, illegally harvested, was confiscated during the […]
There was a large gathering of Maya communities in Punta Gorda today. In fact, leaders and representatives from thirty-eight communities were present for the event in which the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management explained the way forward as it relates to the controversial pre-drilling activities by US Capital Energy. Greg Ch’oc, Executive Director of […]
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There is a serious charge being made tonight that the District Association of Village Councils which convened a meeting in Toledo over the weekend is creating division within the Mayan communities in the south, amid the ongoing issue of oil exploration within the Sarstoon Temash National Park. Village leaders are being asked by DAVCO representatives […]
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Twenty-four year old Keron Jeffords was celebrating his birthday along with friends in Isabella Bank when his birthday celebration ended in his death. The Belize City resident went swimming in the Belize Old River, but never resurfaced on Sunday afternoon. Jeffords was the first to jump into the river followed by his friends. As they […]
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In other news from the judiciary, the faces of the current Court of Appeal are expected to remain the same at least for the near future. There is word tonight that government will be extending the contract of Justice Samuel Awich for another eight years. The justice is sixty-seven years of age and will be […]
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World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) is observed annually in the Caribbean on May seventeenth. It is spearheaded by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and this past Saturday, to commemorate the occasion, a Trinidad and Tobago based company, CANTO, engaged in several activities including a video competition. Held under the theme, “Broadband for Sustainable […]
The Belize Red Cross is hosting a regional contingency planning workshop with representatives from CARICOM nations as well as international partner societies in the US, Norway and France. The two-day workshop is held annually prior to the hurricane season and is done to strategically plan and produce a document that is presented to respective governments […]
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One of the key issues being discussed is the challenge facing the region when it comes to adequate response to natural disasters. Head of Programs and Operations for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is Jan Gelfand. The headquarters is based in Panama. Gelfand says that the reality is that in […]
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Another visitor is Belizean-American Artist and Producer, Faron Smith, who is here promoting his new film, “States.” Smith, who is also the producer of the “True Belizean Channel” in the U.S. has produced several Belizean films. “States” depicts a Belizean immigrant who headed to the U.S.A. with dreams of becoming rich. Smith spoke to News […]
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The Belize Camping Experience is a Belize City based N.G.O. that was established back in 2008 and has been sponsoring summer camps across the city. While the youth organization has been thriving on donations from the private sector, today majority of its operating funds are generated from its own initiative, Harvest for Kids. Founded in […]
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Relations between the government and BGYEA have not always been cozy. In fact, the two have been mostly at odds over a development at the Harmonyville community on the George Price Highway. BGYEA President, Nigel Petillo is the outspoken head of the grassroots organization; this morning, emotions were running high because Cabinet has decided that […]
Following our visit to Harmonyville to get a firsthand understanding of the lay of the land, News Five caught up with Commissioner of Lands and Surveys Wilbert Vallejos. He explained government’s position on the development of the buffer zone, near the mile forty-one community. On Friday, a release was issued announcing Cabinet’s rejection of a […]
A judgment has not been delivered in the case of Caleb Orosco and the United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) versus the Attorney General of Belize, supported by various church groups. That case was heard in the Supreme Court on May twenty-thirty. But while that ruling is pending, in Jamaica, a University of the West Indies […]
Earlier you heard about the ongoing land disputes in Harmonyville. That’s one of the most recent because there have been countless cases. Last week, News Five broke the story of a brewing land dispute in the small community of Unitedville in the Cayo District. The Ministry of Lands gave title for a five acre plot […]
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While this dispute has the appearance of being resolved, it points to gross negligence in the Lands Department. Those are the words of Commissioner of Lands Wilbert Vallejos, who went further to state that corruption is a plague in the department. Wilbert Vallejos, Commissioner of Lands “It’s a plague that has been damaging the […]
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One of the country’s most generous partners is the government of Taiwan. This morning in Belmopan, Ambassador David Wu presented a cheque in the sum of five million U.S. dollars to the Prime Minister Dean Barrow. The cheque is a grant from the Republic of China for the Bilateral Cooperation Program between the two countries. […]
Just before Mother’s Day, the Ministry of Finance gave seventeen U.D.P. Area Representatives eight hundred and fifty-thousand dollars. Those Area Representatives then handed out fifty and hundred dollar bills to select U.D.P. supporters in their constituencies. There are thirty-one political constituencies in Belize…the other fourteen got nothing. Still, for some strange reason the cash giveaway […]
On Thursday, we broke the story of a land dispute in Unitedville in the Cayo District. The Lands Department gave title for five acres of land in the village to Bernadette Fischer. Nobody is sure exactly when. The thing is that the five acre plot, subdivided into twenty-six house-lots, has been occupied for many years […]
As we told you, the eviction notices were delivered to the residents in 2011. They ignored it, but the matter got new life after Bernadette Fischer took one of the residents to court. The resident is new to the area, and actually is occupying a plot which belongs to her father. With his permission, she […]
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Teachers around the country today were engaged in different activities to celebrate national teachers’ day. And while things with the Ministry of Education are not the best, at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday night, an impressive lineup of teachers from across the country were honored for their contributions to education at […]
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There have been mounting complaints from various businesses across the country that there is a scarcity of Bowen and Bowen products. The complaint is that alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in glass bottles have not been available at the company’s distribution centers or from the pre-sellers, who are part of the new system implemented earlier this […]
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But with a move like this by the company, there must be setbacks. Christelle Wilson spoke of the risks in taking this step. Christelle Wilson, Internal Legal Counsel & PR Officer, Bowen & Bowen “It is a risk, yes, but we have to reinvest in our country. As you said, there is more competition. […]
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An open day, organized by the Government of Belize and the United Nations Development Program, was held in Belmopan in honor of Europe Day. The aim was to call to attention various achievements under the EU funded Global Climate Change Alliance project which commenced in June 2011. The purpose of GCCA is to improve Belize’s […]
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Representing the Government of Belize was Minister Godwin Hulse. With responsibility for National Emergency Management, some eventualities the result of climate change, Hulse says the partnership between Belize and the EU is fruitful. Godwin Hulse, NEMO Minister “As you know, climate change is a significant issue for the whole world and let me turn […]
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