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An Antelope Street family was today forced out of the building they called home for almost three decades when a group of men, representing the interests of Claudette Waldman, were accompanied by police to the property. The men proceeded to rip down their doors and remove all the household items belonging to Kenroy Staine and […]
Written on September 15, 2022 | Posted in
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Primary schools are now in session and Belizean American Josephine Menzies-McFadzean is giving back to teachers at multiple institutions in Belize City, in honor of her family who are educators. Today at Eglah’s Training Center, a donation of stationeries was handed over to leaders from educational institutions, one of which will benefit from volunteer work […]
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Today inside the courtyard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, government officials, including the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health and Wellness and the staff and management authority of the institution gathered to celebrate its twenty-seventh anniversary. Now seven hundred employees strong, the tertiary healthcare institution has been serving the country since September fifteenth, 1995. […]
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Earlier in our newscast, we told you about a letter written to the Ministry of Labor in which the business community requested that the upcoming public and bank holiday in honor of Queen Elizabeth the second, on the day of her funeral, be canceled. It was a decision taken on the home front to proceed […]
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While avian influenza can spread rapidly within the bird and poultry populations, bird flu viruses do not normally infect humans. But sporadic human infections of avian influenza, also known as bird flu virus, have occurred. Since the recent detection of the presence of avian influenza at one farm in the Orange Walk District, personnel from the […]
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The Court of Inquiry, an internal process by the Belize Defence Force, into the circumstances under which B.D.F. Private Micah Miguel took her own life continues. When the incident came to light back in early August, allegations of sexual assault of the former soldier also surfaced. Since then, the Belize Police Department has been investigating […]
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Approximately thirty soldiers from the Belize Defence Force have been engaged in learning the Mandarin language since last week. They will continue doing so for the next year through collaboration between the governments of Belize and Taiwan. Today at the B.D.F. headquarters in Ladyville, the language program was officially launched. A News Five team was […]
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B.D.F. Commander, Brigadier General Azariel Loria himself is participating in the program and says that it will help the soldiers to engage with Asian nationals in Belize who speak Mandarin. But what about teaching them to speak Spanish or even Maya and Garifuna? Across the country, there are communities who speak one of these languages. […]
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Technical experts from Taiwan are currently in Belize doing an assessment of fisheries resources in the exclusive economic zone of Belize, better known as the deep sea. The collaboration is between the Ministry of Blue Economy and Civil Aviation, the Belize Fisheries Department and the Republic of China (Taiwan) and is part of a deep […]
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Carrying out the survey is Doctor Hsin-Ming Yeh, a fisheries expert from Taiwan’s Fisheries Research Institute and Doctor Sheng-Ping Wan, a fisheries expert from National Taiwan Ocean University; they are joined by technical staff from the Government of Belize. The Acting Fisheries Administrator says that the Taiwanese experts will engage with the national fisheries authority, key […]
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A cooperation agreement between Belize and Taiwan was signed this morning by Minister of National Defense and Border Security Florencio Marin Junior and Ambassador David Kuan-Chou Chien on behalf of the Ocean Affairs Council. The scope of the agreement includes search and rescue, fisheries enforcement and combating transnational crime at sea. Rear Admiral Elton Bennett, […]
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The agreement further supports expertise and exchanges that will continue to enhance the coast guard’s ability to perform the very critical tasks associated with supporting the blue bond initiatives of expanding our marine protected areas. David Kuan-Chou Chien, Taiwanese Ambassador “This agreement creates a new opportunity, a new milestone for both Taiwan and Belize […]
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Back in August, Cabinet approved the Belize Blue Economy Development Policy and Strategy and the Belize Maritime Economic Plan. It is the result of a national development and consultation process that started back in 2021 which was recently approved. To break it down, these are guiding documents on development pathways of Belize’s blue economy. Now […]
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Belize and the State of Quintana Roo, Mexico, signed two Memoranda of Business Collaboration on September ninth. A release from the Government of Belize says, the first memorandum was signed between the Corozal Free Zone and the Chetumal Industrial Park to facilitate collaboration between both entities. The second memorandum formalized the Ministry of Finance, Economic […]
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Later this month, the Ministry of Health and Wellness will observe Wellness Week in union with the rest of Central America. Director of Public Health and Wellness, Doctor Melissa Diaz- Musa says that from September twenty-fourth to the twenty-ninth there will be daily activities, starting with a Soca-thon in Belize City. Dr. Melissa Diaz-Musa, […]
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Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley testified before the United States’ House Committee on Financial Services, on the impact of de-risking in the Caribbean. For several years, the issue of correspondent banking, in light of stringent measures taken by financial institutions to terminate or restrict business relationships with clients or categories of clients to avoid, rather […]
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The Belize Jaguars Football Team will get some more international exposure when it plays one of Ghana’s top football teams later this year. The friendly matches came about through ties that Belmopan Mayor, Sharon Palacio has made with officials of the Asante Kotoko, a professional football club of Ghana. The Football Federation of Belize’s Technical […]
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Marin says the Belize Jaguars will begin training for the friendly matches at the end of October, giving them roughly between two and three weeks to prepare. Philip Marin, Technical Development Director, F.F.B. “We will start the preparations for these matches the ending of October. The first match is scheduled for the seventeenth of […]
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An unexpected day off for government and private sector employees next Monday; News Five has confirmed that the day of the state funeral for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second will be recognized as a public and bank holiday in Belize. The Queen will be laid to rest on Monday, September nineteenth. Several Commonwealth countries, […]
Written on September 13, 2022 | Posted in
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The Government of Belize, under the administration of Prime Minister John Briceño, terminated the employment contract of Karen Bevans as Director of Tourism on March twelfth, 2021, several months after the People’s United Party took office. The legally binding agreement signed by former Minister of Tourism Manuel Heredia Junior and other members of the B.T.B. […]
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Senior Counsel and Acting Justice of Appeal in the Eastern Caribbean, Godfrey Smith took an oath of office this morning in Georgetown, Guyana where he joined Stanley John, Retired Justice of Appeal of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Justice Carl Singh, Retired Chancellor of the Judiciary of Guyana. They are the Commissioners of Inquiry […]
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Lord Michael Ashcroft has reportedly indicated intentions to bring a treaty claim against the Government of Belize over Waterloo’s proposed port expansion project. Reports are that earlier this year, Ashcroft wrote to Prime Minister Briceño, allegedly threatening arbitration over what he reportedly deem to be a breach of the 1982 UK- Northern Ireland- Belize treaty […]
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And, while it remains to be seen whether G.O.B. will have to face Lord Michael Ashcroft in court yet again, P.M. Briceño also spoke about the long-awaited ports policy that his Cabinet pledged to finalize back in October of 2021. Well, twelve months have passed and conservation N.G.O.’s are asking that all Environmental Impact Assessments […]
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The Belize Agricultural Health Authority has placed a poultry farm in Blue Creek Village under quarantine after detecting the Avian Influenza in its animals. The farm currently houses over twenty-five thousand chickens and is being monitored closely by BAHA officers. Containment measures have been put in place to restrict poultry products exiting the Blue Creek […]
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Yovany Sandoval, a twenty-six-year-old man who is wanted in his home country of El Salvador for an alleged rape of a minor in that country, will be deported after a magistrate issued a removal order today. Sandoval, who had been on the run in Belize for the past five years, was deemed a prohibited immigrant. […]
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