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It is day two since land borders have been reopened for Belizeans, and today a News Five team headed to the western border with Guatemala to see exactly what the procedure and traffic was looking like. We found just a small group of persons, primarily tourists who were going on one-day tours to Peten, using […]
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What’s happening with the hundreds of students from neighbouring Guatemala who study in Belize? Today, a News Five team visited with Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Primary School in Benque Viejo del Carmen. About twenty percent of its student population resides in Guatemala, and pre-pandemic, they commuted daily across the border for classes. The process that […]
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And, while there has not been a rush of Belizeans heading across the border yet, health and border officials do expect an influx of traveling Belizeans over the weekend. But, Dr. Gilharry says, they are prepared for the exodus. Dr. Angela Gilharry, Medical Chief of Staff, Corozal Community Hospital “Definitely at the beginning when […]
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Forty-year-old Glendford Soberanis was arrested and charged on Monday, following an armed attack on Antelope Street Extension over the weekend. On Saturday evening, a volley of shots was fired, injuring five persons, including two women. It is reported that the gunman targeted Robert Lamb and in the process injured several bystanders. Soberanis subsequently appeared before […]
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An extraordinary general meeting is being requested by members of the Cycling Federation of Belize in an attempt to elect a new executive. This afternoon, Tariq Cano and Alexi Ordonez, having tendered a copy of the requisition to the National Sports Council, convened a brief question and answer session with the media. According to Cano, […]
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Running for vice president on Cano’s ticket is Alexi Ordonez. Despite trying to revive interest in the sport, Ordonez says that much more can be done to meet the needs of cyclists at all levels of riding. Alexi Ordonez, Vice Presidential Candidate “If you notice, Cano said five years, but almost for the past, […]
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An aquaculture workshop was held Monday at the Tilapia Hatchery Center in Central Farm for shrimp famers. Aqua experts Grant Stentiford and Matthew Sanders from the United Kingdom facilitated. The pair is in Belize along with the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquatic Science (C.E.F.A.S.) to look at how aquaculture, fisheries, and food security can […]
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The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise has gotten a donation of eight hundred small beetle traps from the International Regional Organization for Agricultural Health. The traps were purchased in Australia and will help Belizean farmers who are battling the small hive beetle, a scavenger and parasite of honeybee colonies. The pest is native […]
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The Belize Audubon Society is the oldest conservation organization in the country. Established in 1969, the N.G.O. has evolved to becoming one of the leading environmental groups advocating for sustainable management of Belize’s natural resources. On Sunday, the Audubon celebrated its fifty-third anniversary. While there is much to be proud of, the organization has also […]
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On February sixteenth, the Belize Audubon Society will host the annual James Waight Awards Ceremony. The virtual event recognizes exemplary Belizeans in the area of conservation and environmental awareness. The first award was issued in 1987, and since then as many as thirty-four persons have received awards. Amanda Acosta, Executive Director, Belize Audubon Society […]
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It started with the Belizean T-shirts he made for himself, but now a Belizean student studying in Taiwan is producing items for other international students with their country flags and colors. Twenty- three year old Josh Petillo from Punta Gorda is balancing his engineering studies with his entrepreneurship. His plan is to make his small […]
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Is the tenure of the present United Democratic Party executive redundant? It’s a charge that Patrick Faber made on Friday in a letter written to Chairman Mike Peyrefitte. Faber suggested that the seats being occupied by the existing committee have since expired. When we asked Peyrefitte about a national convention to elect a new executive, […]
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The president of the Caribbean Development Bank, Dr. Gene Leon, is heading a delegation to Belize this week. According to the C.D.B., Dr. Leon will meet with Prime Minister John Briceño and the Cabinet, the Governor of the Belize Central Bank, the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre. […]
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A man lost his life over the weekend following a stabbing incident in Lord’s Bank Village on Friday. The evidence so far suggests that a woman’s jealous boyfriend attacked Evan Mitchell and stabbed him to the head as they walked to a neighbourhood shop. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting Forty-nine-year-old Lord’s […]
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Around six-thirty p.m. on Saturday, shots rang out on Antelope Street Extension in Belize City. When the echo from the blasts subsided, five persons, including two women, had been shot. Reports are Tyrone Teck, Kenyon Ramirez, Rochelle Reynolds and Garisha Tillett were near a yard when Robert Lamb walked by. A gunman opened fire on […]
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The weekend gun violence continued into this morning and just after ten o’clock, shots rang out on Cemetery Lane in the Yarborough area of Belize City. According to official reports, a gunman on motorcycle rode up and unleashed a barrage of bullets on a group of men working in the area. At least one bullet […]
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There was also a fatal accident in southern Belize over the weekend. On Saturday morning, police responded to an RTA on the Southern Highway in the Stann Creek District. Mario Sanchez was behind the steering wheel of a black Honda Pilot heading north; Elsworth Lamb was travelling with him on the passenger side. Between miles […]
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Communications Director for the Belize Police Department, ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, gave brief comments this morning on a video that went viral over the weekend. It captured a uniformed police officer on San Pedro assaulting a man. According to Yearwood, while a formal report has not been made by the victim, he did see the video […]
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The National Party Council met virtually on Saturday in a marathon session to discuss the way forward for the U.D.P., amid what appeared to be a leadership crisis. On Friday, the chairman of the United Democratic Party received a letter from Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber in which several concerns were raised regarding the direction […]
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With Faber’s departure, he is succeeded on an interim basis by former deputy prime minister and Corozal North Area Representative Hugo Patt. A leadership convention has been scheduled for March twenty-seventh at which time at least two candidates, including Tracy Panton and Shyne Barrow will be contesting the seat that has been vacated by the […]
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What about Mike Peyrefitte? Did the chairman also have his eyes on the provisional leadership of the U.D.P.? Here’s how he answered that question. Mike Peyrefitte, Chairman, U.D.P. “I don’t aspire to be interim anything, I don’t expect to be interim anything. I am a senator, why would I be interim when I could […]
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At last Friday’s House Sitting, Prime Minister John Briceño presented a Bill to amend the Central Bank of Belize Act. The Bill proposes to increase the authorized capital of the Bank to fifty million dollars and to adjust the profit-sharing ratio of net profits from a ten-ninety split to a thirty-seventy split. Here’s how the […]
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A few weeks ago the Prime Minister admitted a contract given to Smart as a telecoms provider for various ministries had been approved without first going to the Contractor General for final review. The PM said that there was nothing sinister, just that time was quickly running out for the government’s license to be renewed. […]
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Two political parties have teamed up to blast the government on the current fuel prices. The Belize People’s Front and the Belize Progressive Party issued a joint press release today saying they have remained silent since the general elections out of respect for the choice of the electorate. They say now they feel they have […]
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While the two parties have lambasted the government for hiking fuel prices, Prime Minister John Briceño said on Friday that his government is committed to lowering the price of gasoline. But, he says it is the government’s largest source of tax revenue and G.O.B. still relies on it heavily. Prime Minister John Briceño “We […]
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