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It’s the end of a two-week summer camp at Tina Johnson’s free tutoring program. The kids have completed the academic session of the camp, but it was surely not short of fun. What began as an initiative to keep kids engaged academically during the pandemic, has blossomed into a registered program and a growing number […]
Written on July 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Last week, a group of social partner senators came forward in the media when their call for a meeting of the Joint Public Accounts Committee went unanswered. At the time, the chair of the taskforce told News Five that her parliamentary colleagues could have simply made the request via phone. This was after only one […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier this week, we reported on the twenty-million-dollar loan that the Social Security Board is providing to the Development Finance Corporation to be used on its mortgage program, as well as its real estate, and infrastructure and refinancing programs. S.S.B will disburse the money every two years in tranches of five million dollars. It is […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Concerns have been raised about the illegal occupation of private lands north of Caye Caulker Village. News Five understands that several persons have erected dwellings in an area on the other side of the Split and a recent encounter with squatters could have ended badly, as machetes were reportedly drawn. Earlier today, we asked Area […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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A recent Sustainable Energy for All report by the United Nations indicates that countries across the Caribbean are unable to meet their energy demands. CARICOM’s Regional Organization for Standards and Quality has sounded the alarm, stating that efforts to address sustainability in energy use are needed now more than ever. Saving money on energy is […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The second of two U.S. Air Force flights that were scheduled to transport emergency response vehicles to Belize in July, arrived today carrying two ambulances, two support trucks, and medical supplies. The donation was made possible through a U.S. government funded Central America Regional Security Initiative Economic Support Fund grant. The fund was established to […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The U.S. Secretary of State has released its twenty-second annual Trafficking in Persons Report and has upgraded Belize’s status to Tier Two. It’s a significant improvement that comes after two years of being placed lower on that index. The report highlights, quote, that the Government of Belize demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared with previous reporting […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Council, (ATIPS), is chaired by the Ministry of Human Development and is the multi-sectoral body which coordinates Belize’s response to human trafficking. On the phone: Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, Minister of Human Development “Because Human Development is sort of like the coordinator of our anti-trafficking efforts, we have to kind of wear […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The buzz words since the Earth’s surface temperatures began to increase two decades ago have been “global warming”, “climate change” and “climate resilience.” But while much discussion has surrounded the topic, how prepared would Belize, particularly its private sector, be to recover if we were to experience a catastrophic natural disaster as a result of […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Today in front of the NEMO headquarters in Belmopan, the Ministry of Transport held a small ceremony to signal the rollout of its fuel subsidy program. Almost a hundred bus operators stand to benefit from the six-month program to the tune of one point six million dollars. Witnessing the event were public and private sector […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, the Belize National Teachers’ Union celebrated its fifty-second anniversary. The union marked the day by acknowledging and thanking those who have fought diligently over the years to preserve and ensure its motto: service, security and success. According to a release issued by the union, it stands as the most steadfast and vocal trade union […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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You’ve seen on international news where students are executed on school grounds by gun-wielding attackers. While such an incident has never happened in Belize before, one school has a series of protocols that are to be exercised in the event of a disaster, a health crisis, injury at school and in this case, an intruder […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference and Trade Exhibition concluded in Miami today. CANTO, as it is referred to, is a non-profit association made up of operators, companies and individuals in the information and communications technology sector with a focus on leveraging regional ICT initiatives for CARICOM. This year’s theme was “Enabling the Digital Evolution” which spoke […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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On Tuesday night, the ten hopefuls who survived the first round of eliminations on KTV the Remix, Season Four were announced before a packed auditorium. They then took to the stage at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts with a Belizean song of their choice. From legends like Lord Rhaburn, Andy Palacio and Leela […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The neighboring state of Quintana Roo, Mexico reported its first case of the monkeypox virus on Monday. The patient has been identified as an elderly person who is currently in isolation, listed as stable, and has no links to any Belizean or travel history to Belize. The monkeypox disease was first identified in humans in […]
Written on July 19, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, members of Belize’s national under-twenty-one female volleyball team and coaching staff were celebrated by the Holy Redeemer Credit Union Limited for their stellar performance in the nineteenth Central American Volleyball Championship. Team Belize captured the silver medals, having lost only to Guatemala on the final night, but winning many individual achievement awards during the […]
Written on July 19, 2022 | Posted in
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The Garifuna Collective is back on the road after two years of being sidelined from the world stage due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s the moment the eight-member band has been eagerly anticipating since the world began to open up, a chance to once again showcase Belize’s cultural export. News Five’s Isani Cayetano spoke with […]
Written on July 19, 2022 | Posted in
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A few weeks ago, we introduced you to a couple of the vendors that will be partaking in the first-ever Belize International Music and Food Festival in San Pedro Town. And while those vendors are preparing for their culinary displays, our Belizean artists are doing the same. For over the past several weeks, the fourteen […]
Written on July 19, 2022 | Posted in
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An attempt on the life of Kenrick Gordon over the weekend, in the neighborhood of Lakeview Street, was thwarted by a police officer who was working a special assignment at an Asian place of business. When the firearm that a pair of gunmen attempted to shoot Gordon with snapped, the would-be assassins took off on […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize Police Department has launched a pair of investigations into an incident that occurred in San Pedro over the weekend which resulted in a man being injured when police officers opened fire after a pair of men on a motorcycle ran through a checkpoint. According to Communications Officer, A.S.P. Fitzroy Yearwood, the Professional Standards […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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The Government of Belize is seeking to borrow seventy-five million U.S dollars from the Government of Taiwan, as budget support for the next four years. According to the prime minister’s address in the House of Representatives on Friday, the loan will provide financial support to the Ministry of National Defense and Security, the Ministry of […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Opposition senators also weighed in on the matter of the seventy-five million U.S. dollar loan from the Government of Taiwan. Highlighting the financial plight that Belizeans across the country are facing with the rise in cost of basic good, Opposition senators criticized the government for its borrowing practices. Jaclyn Burns, Opposition Senator “We are […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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There was also a spirited back and forth in the upper house over a loan motion from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), valued at forty-eight million dollars. The loan is for the expansion and rehabilitation of a stretch of road along the Phillip Goldson Highway between miles eight and twenty-four. While Business […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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The opposition also accused the Briceño administration of plunging Belize further into debt, noting that thirteen loan motions have been introduced in the National Assembly since the P.U.P. took office. Well, Senator Coye denied the claim, accusing the opposition of misrepresentation and misleading Belizeans. According to Senator Coye, Belize’s debt is actually going down. Here […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Since the Ministry of Immigration began taking appointments for its amnesty program on July first, a total of four thousand, seven hundred and fifty persons have applied. One thousand, five hundred and eighty -six persons have applied from the Cayo District, six hundred, thirty- five applicants are from the Belize District, and six hundred, twelve […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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