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Seidy Quetzal, a Belizean student who recently returned home from studying in Taiwan, is the activist who lobbied for the government to remove all taxes from female sanitary products. Quetzal’s “Don’t Tax My Femininity Campaign” has been in the works since January. She was present at today’s House Meeting where she spoke with reporters. […]
Written on March 10, 2023 | Posted in
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He was officially reported missing on Thursday, but was last seen alive by relatives and friends on Sunday, March fifth. This morning, during a search by family and friends, the decomposing body of twenty-one-year-old Freddy Chicas was discovered off the George Price Highway a few hundred yards away from the roadside. News Five’s Duane Moody […]
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A man reportedly suffered a bullet wound while handling a loaded gun this afternoon in San Pedro. News Five has learned that the Lebanese/Belizean was in the company of a few friends and was inspecting a gun that is licensed to one of the friends when the weapon accidentally discharged. The man suffered a gunshot […]
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A daring shootout between a pair of armed thieves and police officers responding to a robbery in progress in Seine Bight Village has raised serious concerns about citizen security on the Placencia peninsula, a prime tourist destination. On Thursday night, both men showed up at a beachfront resort and were in the process of robbing […]
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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams met with the Vice Minister of Security of Honduras at his office in Belmopan on Thursday to discuss various matters, including bilateral working cooperation, human trafficking, and transnational crimes, among other issues. Doctor Semma Julissa Villanueva pledged to assist the Belize Police Department in a number of areas such as […]
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It’s Women’s Month and today, a group of female police officers stationed across Eastern Division, were recognised by the top brass of the Belize Police Department for their work at the Queen Street Police Station in Belize City. Over five hundred female officers are employed with the Belize Police Department which represents just about twenty-five […]
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It’s been nine years since sargassum has been drifting to our shorelines, but based on the amounts that are drifting ashore and the broad stretch of beaches that has already begun to cling to, the impact for 2023 is threatening to be the worst yet. This year, even the southwestern portion of the island where […]
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News of dredging occurring on the western side of San Pedro has raised public concerns. The story spoke to the concerns about the area which is said to be a spawning area for fish and also about the uncertainty of the environmental clearance for the project. But today News Five’s Marion Ali did some searching […]
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Parents, this question is for you. Has it been a challenge getting your children to eat their veggies? Do you have to sit and watch them chew and swallow their food so they don’t toss it out when you turn your backs? The truth is, eating vegetables is a challenge for both adults and children. […]
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The next story is a plight of a burly middle-aged man who was employed and, for the most part, suffered no known health issues during the first forty-three years of his life. But in March of last year, Jomo Avila suffered a heart attack on the job. It would mean the gradual decline of his […]
Written on March 9, 2023 | Posted in
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The United Democratic Party is currently in its convention season and standard bearers are being elected and endorsed across the country. In the Queen Square Division, Shane Williams, who is no stranger to politics, is hoping to be voted as the new U.D.P. standard bearer. Former Prime Minister Dean Barrow won that seat for eight […]
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The family of a twenty-four-year-old man from Hopkins Village is seeking the public’s assistance to locate him. Marlon Martinez, who is hearing- impaired, was reported missing on Monday after he failed to respond to text messages from his mother since Thursday of last week. Martinez is well known in his community and he works as […]
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Fifty-nine-year-old Byron Broaster appeared unrepresented earlier today before Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman where he was read a single charge of theft. The Guatemalan/Belizean, who is homeless, claims to be on medication for a mental condition. Nonetheless, it is alleged that on March seventh, 2023, he dishonestly appropriated a Mitsubishi pickup truck valued at thirteen thousand […]
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Tonight, we will feature two Belize on Reel stories. The first is in honor of Women’s Month and the other is in commemoration of Child Stimulation Month. Meet Alma Franz, she’s ninety years old and a real inventor. For the better part of the past fifty years she has been busy inventing and re-inventing several […]
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It’s kite season, an annual tradition that has for many years firmly taken root in Belizean culture. While handmade kites are no longer as popular as they once were in the eighties and nineties, flying kites during the month of March is an enduring pastime. It also ties in with Child Stimulation Month, as it […]
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Today, a Memorandum of Agreement was signed for the upgrade of several miles of road in the Valley of Peace community. The two point two million dollar initiative is being funded through the Rural Resilient Belize Project under the Ministry of Economic Development. The road project, which is being implemented by the Ministry of Infrastructure […]
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The Coastal Highway is on schedule to be completed later this year. It is a project that provides alternative access for commuters to southern Belize. Today, News Five caught up with Minister of Infrastructure Development and Housing, Julius Espat who says that the project was designed to mitigate flooding, but will generate substantial economic activities […]
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In March 2020, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was detected in Belize. Since then, nearly seventy-one thousand confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been recorded and a total of six hundred and eighty individuals have died from the virus in Belize. COVID-19 brought the local economy to a virtual standstill which led to economic contraction, […]
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This afternoon, the Belize Central Prison received two hundred and forty Chrome Books from the Port Moody Rotary Club in British Columbia. It was the final phase of an ongoing educational program that the club helped to set up back in 2018. The program has aided hundreds of inmates who have passed through the doors […]
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A resident of Guinea Grass Village is twenty-five thousand dollars richer after spending three dollars on a Scratch and Win ticket. The winner, however, declined the request to be interviewed, so Alex Gamero, the Director of Scratch and Win, spoke with us instead. Gamero also told us about his company’s new ten dollar ticket that […]
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The People’s United Party has called for the immediate removal of one of its own, following a domestic incident involving P.U.P. councillor Moses Cal, a member of the Punta Gorda Town Council. Cal, also a high school teacher, has been charged for wounding a woman in the south. In the wake of the altercation, the […]
Written on March 8, 2023 | Posted in
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So what’s the future of Cal in the People’s United Party? As a party and government, the P.U.P. says it has absolutely no room for any form of domestic violence. Prime Minister John Briceño reiterated this in a brief statement to the media this morning. Prime Minister John Briceño “Our party was very clear […]
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Transport Minister Rodwell Ferguson wrote to C.E.O. Marconi Leal Junior recently, informing him that all financial transactions exceeding five thousand dollars require his expressed approval, effective February twenty-third. On Friday, the minister rationalized his decision by telling the media that he received information which ultimately prompted the letter. He also alluded to the likelihood that […]
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Prime Minister John Briceño is scheduled to present the General Revenue Appropriation Bill for fiscal year 2023/2024 on Friday. P.M. Briceño is on record stating that this year’s budget will build upon his administration’s work over the past two years. It will include investments in infrastructure, health, education, and housing as areas of priority for […]
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The Opposition Leader also spoke on the education budget, criticizing the Briceño administration’s commitment to free education as an unattainable objective. He says the 2023/2024 budget should instead provide more channels for families and students to access financing for education. Here is how he puts it. Moses “Shyne” Barrow, Leader of the Opposition “Education, […]
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