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Norwegian Cruise Lines’ Memorandum of Understanding has been signed. The MOU which was shared in the media was the sixth draft according to Godwin Hulse, who led the ministerial committee that negotiated with NCL. Although the MOU is not legally binding, it presents a more palatable view of the development. However, there are grey areas […]
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The Norwegian Cruise Line press conference pulled out a surprise announcement from Colin Murphy, NCL’s Vice President of Destination and Strategic Development. NCL would not only hire a thousand Belizeans, but they would also hire Belizeans to work on the new ships in development. Murphy also brought along a former employee of Florida’s Disney. NCL […]
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Minister of Tourism Manuel Heredia took a back seat to Minister Hulse, and Laura Esquivel Frampton, the Director of Tourism. The Belize Tourism Industry Association often referred to the Belize Tourism Board’s Sustainable Tourism Master. The B.T.I.A. noted that the master plan called for only a few hundred cruise ship passengers in the south. Although […]
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Sarteneja is a small village in the Corozal District, accessible by ferry from Corozal Town, or by dirt road from Orange Walk Town. With a population of about thirty-five hundred, the laid-back seaside community survives on its fishing industry and is also becoming very popular with tourists, primarily backpackers. But the tentative tourism potential of […]
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In 2012, the Belize Bank started a scholarship program to match the celebration of its twenty-fifth anniversary. Twenty-five students across the country went home will full scholarships. Now thirteen more students have been added to that amount for 2013. News Five’s Jose reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting For the second year, the Belize Bank has […]
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A delegation of thirty-five Belizean performers, fashion designers, visual artists and writers, led by president of the National Institute of Culture and History Diane Haylock, left for Paramaribo, Suriname this morning, where they will be representing the Jewel for the next sixteen days. The Caribbean Festival of Arts, CARIFESTA 2013, a celebration of the region’s […]
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Earlier in the newscast we told you about the thirteen scholarships that the Belize Bank has given to well deserving students. UNICOMER, the parent company of Courts Belize also gave ten scholarships to intelligent young Belizeans today. Duane Moody joined the kids who will now attend high school courtesy of Courts. Duane Moody, Reporting […]
A Utah born serial killer, linked to eleven murders in the U.S., was in Belize for a month in 2005. Israel Keyes slit his wrists In December 2012 while incarcerated for a murder in Anchorage, Alaska. According to reports in the international media, between 2001 to 2008 Keyes traveled to Canada, Mexico and Belize. The […]
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Comments laden with sexual innuendo which were aimed at member for Belize Rural Central Dolores Balderamos Garcia have resulted in a fiery public outcry outside the House. Mesopotamia’s Michael Finnegan was defending sergeant at arms Brian ‘Yellowman’ Audinett when he lashed out at Balderamos-Garcia, insinuating that he should have asked her the size of Yellowman’s […]
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The raw comments made in the House of Representatives last Wednesday by Finnegan went viral as soon as they were uttered. This morning, Baldermos-Garcia, flanked by women in the People United Party, said she was so affected, she even considered not going back to the House. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting […]
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Following the P.U.P. Women’s Press Conference at Independence Hall, News Five headed over to Michael Finnegan’s house. Far from cowering from the pressure of the P.U.P. Women’s Group, Finnegan was in fighting form. He as you have guessed will certainly not resign. And when it comes to giving an apology, he believes one should be […]
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After more than three years of begging on the street to feed his family with no assistance from Government, Stephen Buckley received fifty thousand dollars on Friday. The money is part-payment of a compensation for injuries he received at the hands of a policeman in April 2010. According to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, Buckley will […]
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This morning the Senate met in Belmopan to debate and vote on bills and motions passed through the House this past Wednesday. One of the financial bills up for approval is a loan to government from the Caribbean Development Bank. The loan is in the amount of five point two U.S. million dollars to be […]
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One motion which never made it past the House floor and wasn’t up for debate at the Senate meeting today was on the Public Accounts Committee. The Opposition tabled a motion at last week’s Special House Sitting to change the composition of that committee to give the majority vote to civil society. As it stands, […]
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On August first, SATIIM and the communities of the Sarstoon Temash Region wrote to U.S. Capital Energy asking the company to suspend its operations within the Sarstoon Temash National Park. That suspension was requested pending the hearing of an application for an injunction scheduled for September nineteenth. U.S. Capital Energy has responded, through its attorney […]
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The Belize Marketplace Expo and the Carnival Road March are both highly anticipated events in the national celebrations calendar. This year, they are both set for September fourteenth and this has created a problem for the private sector which is complaining that its stands to lose on its investment for the two-day event which is […]
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The first event in this year’s national celebrations committee took place on Saturday night at the Memorial Park. Junior and senior artists battled to win the top spot in the National Song Competition before a huge crowd and television audience. To make the cut, the hopefuls were judged on lyrics, stage presence and much more. […]
Three years and four months ago construction worker Steven Buckley was shot twice in the face by an Inspector Dennis Lopez on April twenty-eighth 2010. Buckley, his employer and another worker had just retired from work in the Port Loyola Area when a police patrol headed by Lopez intercepted them. Before they could exit the […]
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That disappointing trip to the St. John’s Credit Union was taken at a little after midday. But just after two this afternoon Buckley got the news from his attorney Dickie Bradley that payment had been made – fifty-thousand dollars to be exact. News Five was there as Buckley made his second trip to the credit […]
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There is an ongoing dispute tonight within the executive council of the Belize Ex-Services League, despite a recent Supreme Court ruling in favor of the organization’s membership. The problem is the result of a proposal to sell to the proprietors of Golden Princess Casino, the property where the existing headquarters has stood since its establishment […]
The Customs and Excise Duties Amendment Bill was one of the thirteen bills tabled at the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The bill essentially increases the import duty on flour from twenty-five percent to one hundred percent. Earlier in the year, when bakers were allowed to import freely, they enjoyed a substantial cost reduction on […]
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Samer Akil Rada’s name has surfaced in an ongoing investigation that goes back to a July nineteenth cocaine bust in El Salvador. It involves two containers, one in which eight hundred and eighty pounds of cocaine was found in frozen pineapples in El Salvador and another which Rada’s company transported from the western border to […]
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Former NBA player Derek Anderson is currently on a working visit to Belize during which he is sharing his life story, both as a professional athlete, as well as an established businessman, with the Belizean public. Anderson, who has also embarked upon a career as a motivational speaker, gave a stirring presentation to an audience […]
Samer Akil Rada, the Venezuelan-Lebanese businessman whose name is associated with the seizure of eight hundred and eighty pounds of cocaine destined for the Corozal Free Zone, is back in the headlines. It is reported that he is the subject of an investigation being conducted by the Financial Intelligence Unit. News Five has been reliably […]
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There were thirteen motions raised in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, two of any significance. One was passed, and the other fell on the floor. But those procedural House matters have taken second place to the very heated debate which characterized the session. And a vicious attack on Belize Rural Central Area Representative Dolores […]
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