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Prime Minister Briceño also answered questions related to the Public Sector Workers Trust. For context, the trust was established under former Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel. After his administration imposed a wage and increment freeze on the public sector from 1995 to 1997, former P.M. Esquivel gave public sector workers four hundred and fifty thousand shares […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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And, reporters also pressed the prime minister further on the new policies that guide the Online Business Registry System. Those policies were written to protect the identity of business principals and shareholders through their registered agents. So, what about personalities behind companies that are engaged in legitimate business with the Government of Belize? Prime Minister […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize City Magistrate’s Court is relocating to Coney Drive, several weeks after the building it occupies was hard hit by Hurricane Lisa on November second. As it stands, the lower court is only operational on one side of the Public Building, a situation which was made worse following the collapse of the ceiling on […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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There has been a number of new businesses that popped up over the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many were online and focused on the use of technology. But one business in the south – although small – is finding its way into supermarkets. It’s the brainchild of Julian Fisher, who fell […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The Protected Areas Conservation Trust is investing close to five and a half million dollars in several protected areas in Belize. PACT will be working with several non-governmental organizations in eleven protected areas for the next year. According to Nayari Perez, the Executive Director at PACT, the investment is part of their transition plan as […]
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PACT also invested in the three non-traditional conservation programs as part of its extraordinary investment plan. The three entities are the National Biodiversity Office, the Association of Protected Area Management Organization and Friends for Conservation and Development. Perez told us more about PACT’s partnership with these organizations. Nayari Perez, Executive Director, PACT “Extraordinary investments […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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We also asked Perez about PACT’s future plans for investment in marine conservation in light of the establishment of the Belize Fund for a Sustainable Future (B.F.S.F.). As we have reported, B.F.S.F. was established as a result of the Blue Bond agreement. Its role as a sinking fund is to disburse funding to projects and […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, the Belize Nature Conservation Foundation held a grant signing ceremony at the Guanacaste Park in Belmopan in which approximately eighty thousand dollars was issued to two N.G.O.’s that work in conservation efforts in the Belize and Stann Creek districts. A News Five team attended the event and reporter Duane Moody files this report. […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Last evening, we showed you how contrabandistas smuggle illegal beers, perishables and other illegal goods across the northern boundary – the Rio Hondo. As Customs Officer Adrian Rancharan shared, they use the roughly ninety-mile stretch of the river to bring across the contraband goods via boats and small ferries that are provided by Mexican residents […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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A new home for Christmas is a dream that many who live in less than ideal conditions wish for. A single mother in Port Loyola was poised to receive the keys to a new starter home this morning, but miscommunication between Area Representative Gilroy Usher Senior and the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing resulted […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The snafu ended up being an entire public rift between the Port Loyola Area Rep and the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing. Usher took the opportunity during his interview with the media to take aim at M.I.D.H. and chided them on a number of issues. He said his area is being discriminated against because […]
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The Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing, Marisa Alamilla suggested that Usher was being disingenuous. She told us that only five, not fifty, applications for starter homes have been forwarded to the ministry from Port Loyola. And that all five have been approved. Marisa Alamilla, Public Relations, Publicity Mgr., M.I.D.H. “Both contractors that Mr. […]
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One of the faults that Usher pointed to is that the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing is not building the homes at a fast enough pace to fulfill the pre-election promise that the P.U.P. made. Alamilla said there are reasons for that, but that they are building homes. Marisa Alamilla, Public Relations, Publicity […]
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On Monday, a joint patrol led by the Belize Defense Force deployed along the Sarstoon River to investigate reports of suspected coca plantations in the farthest reaches of the country. Upon arrival, the team located and destroyed a total of three coca plantations. In total the plantations contained approximately twelve thousand plants. Earlier today, we […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The body of a man was discovered inside a shallow grave in Hattieville Village earlier today. A resident happened upon the ghastly site several yards off the George Price Highway at the approach to the Hector Creek Bridge. Scenes of crime personnel, as well as police investigators, were at the location for several hours as […]
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Last night, we told you that A.S.R./B.S.I. is proposing a two-year interim agreement with B.S.C.F.A. under the same conditions as last year’s crop. Well, Prime Minister John Briceño says B.S.I.’s two-year agreement is too lengthy a term. According to the P.M., the government will intervene to propose a one-year interim agreement. During that one-year period, […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Late this evening, Minister of Agriculture Jose Abelardo Mai, confirmed with News Five that mediation between A.S.R./B.S.I. and the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association has failed. He conceded that while mediation was a worthwhile effort, many expected it to fail. We asked him about the Sugar Industry Control Board’s decision to propose that the 2022/2023 […]
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Contraband – it is illegal trade that a significant number of people engage in, perhaps don’t even see anything wrong with, but that has plagued the Belizean economy for decades. Every time we purchase a pound of contraband carrots, or a case of smuggled beer, we undermine businesses that sell legitimate, locally-made or locally-grown products, […]
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Tonight, the Belize Defense Force soldier that was shot in the buttocks at the Valentin Conservation Post back in November is recovering at Price Barracks. Investigators are still trying to gather information as to the origin of the bullet that is still lodged inside the soldier. The latest information coming out of that investigation is […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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This morning, the Belize Fund for a Sustainable Future awarded grants amounting to five hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars to five non-governmental organizations for the management of eight protected areas across. At a signing ceremony held at B.F.S.F.’s office, Chair of the Board of Directors, Kennedy Carillo, carried out the first ever awards under the […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize Defense Force held its annual Christmas Luncheon today at Price Barracks. During the event, Prime Minister John Briceño handed over the keys for ten new trucks to the organization. Also, all government officials in attendance joined forces with the senior officers in serving every soldier a meal. News Five’s Paul Lopez was there. […]
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In the past, opportunities like these were not readily available, but today, thirty young athletes, along with their respective parents, signed off on a contract for an athletic scholarship to assist with their development. The Belize Basketball Federation, in partnership with the ministries of Education and Sports, made this opportunity a reality for members of […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, the Salvation Army officially handed out its coupon for food packages to eight hundred persons who have been identified as most needy during this time. Its annual initiative has provided many homes with that opportunity to have a Christmas meal on their tables, and once again, the humanitarian organization is giving the recipients an […]
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The victim of a vicious beat down on the island of San Pedro, following a minor traffic mishap, is speaking out tonight. Aron Castillo took to his Instagram page over the last twenty-four hours to recount his traumatic encounter with three men on the island who allegedly attacked him in a fit of rage and […]
Written on December 20, 2022 | Posted in
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News Five has confirmed that three persons were arrested and charged in connection with assault on Aron Castillo, following formal report. The suspects are nineteen-year-old Victor Carillo, thirty-five-year-old Lorenzo Menjivar, and twenty-four-year-old Alexis Oretencio. They were arraigned inside the San Pedro Magistrates Court this morning for the crime of Wounding. All three men pleaded not […]
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