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Back in September, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration held the inaugural meeting of the International Cooperation Council. Established by cabinet, this entity will look at cooperation programs that Belize has with friendly countries and institutions to ensure that there is no duplication of efforts. Foreign Minister Eamon Courtenay says that another […]
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Municipal elections are slated for March sixth of next year; that’s five months away and the People’s United Party is well underway in finalising slates for the election. Over the weekend, a meeting of the National Party Council was held and News Five has been informed that several slates will be getting endorsed within the […]
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San Pedro Mayor Wally Nunez says that he and his team have been working since taking office in 2021 and have been able to get a lot done, despite the condition in which they found the town council’s accounts. As the PM mentioned earlier, Nunez and his slate are being endorsed. Mayor Nunez says that […]
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There was a clearing of mangroves in the San Mateo area of San Pedro town for which an investigation is underway to determine whether or not the developer had received a permit from the Forest Depart to do so. Mayor Wally Nunez says that it is illegal to clear or even trim any mangroves and […]
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A climate and ocean risk vulnerability initiative assessment is being conducted in Belize City and surrounding communities. It began earlier this week with a series of seminars and meetings with key stakeholders from local businesses, government, academia and civil society. This morning, we stopped by the Biltmore Hotel where the sessions were being held. Carolyn […]
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It’s only the first week in October and plans are already underway for all the festivities surrounding Halloween. Companies are decorating their lobbies and shop windows with spooky designs to celebrate All Hallows’ Eve, which is observed on the thirty-first of this month. But while around the world, it’s a time used for children – […]
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The Leadership Intervention Unit in collaboration with the University of Belize and the Ministry of Home Affairs held a Crime Prevention and Crime Control Forum in Belmopan today. Among the presenters were Minister Kareem Musa, LIU Chairperson, Dominique Noralez, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Doctor Richard Rosado, and U.B. President, Doctor Vincent Palacio. Following the event, […]
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One of the topics of discussions at today’s crime prevention and control forum had to do with the effects of social media on the psyche of Belizeans, as it pertains to violent crimes. According to Minister Musa, statistics show that violent crimes are down, however, the prominence of social media is causing people to live […]
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As we reported on Wednesday night, the Belize Police Department presented its computer statistics, which show that major crimes, including murders, are down throughout the country. So, for a department that has been able to realize this achievement, at least in the first nine months of the year, it speaks to the leadership of that […]
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On Wednesday, the Commissioner was taken to task once again during a media interview over alleged conversations he had with slain businessman Ricardo Borja, who held licenses for several firearms. Borja was shot and killed back in August, moments after driving into the yard of an apartment on Coney Drive. The presumption is that his […]
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ComPol Williams also answered questions about a vehicle that Ricardo Borja purchased from his car dealership just a couple months before Borja’s murder. During the lengthy back and forth, the reporter suggested that car dealerships are a way of laundering money. Williams chastised that reporter, and retorted that people can launder money using various means. […]
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This afternoon in Lord’s Bank Village, a mother of three was thrilled to receive the key to a brand new home that she can finally call her own. The donation of a wooden house to Tyrah Rodriguez was made possible through the efforts of Hand in Hand Ministries and Bowen & Bowen. Our final story […]
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The trial against Attorney Oscar Selgado for abetment to commit murder, continued today at the High Court. At the start of the trial on Monday, six witnesses took the stand. Marlyn Barnes, the woman who Selgado allegedly contracted Giovanni Ramirez to kill, was the first to take the stand. She told the court that she […]
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The land dispute between Yemeri Grove and Laguna villages is in the news for a third consecutive night. This is because it is somewhat creating a division within the country as tensions continue to rise. It is a topic that came up in cabinet on Tuesday, for which the Ministry of Natural Resources and the […]
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Earlier today from its seat in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the Caribbean Court of Justice held a monitoring hearing in respect of the Consent Order, as well as the overall progress of the Maya land rights issue. During the session, the most recent flare up of tension between the southern villages of Yemeri Grove and […]
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During a recent visit by the Belize Territorial Volunteers to the Sarstoon, there was a confrontation with the Guatemalan Armed Forces – who were clearly in Belizean waters and agitating the situation on the ground. This escalation comes ahead of both countries preparing for a hearing at the International Court of Justice on the longstanding […]
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Prime Minister John Briceño says that he has not received an official report on the incident, but that Guatemala needs to understand that majority of the Sarstoon belongs to Belize. He says the aggression by the GAF is unacceptable because Belizeans are allowed to travel the length and breadth of the country unimpeded. However, those […]
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The Belize Defense Force has walked back its preliminary finding that the device retrieved from a Maya Island Air flight which arrived in Belize City from San Pedro on September twenty-sixth was an improvised explosive device. The discovery of what has since turned out to be a cold flare, initially left many confused about what […]
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This morning, we also heard from Commissioner of Police Chester Williams who spoke on the incident from the perspective of the Belize Police Department. He also confirmed that further analysis proved the device to be a flare. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “I was away and I was briefed that there was some explosive […]
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Recent crime statistics have shown that murders in Belize have dipped by twenty-two percent. That is the information coming out of the Belize Police Department’s CompStat Report, short for computer statistics. CompStat is a method by which the police department measures crime trends, as well as crimes in a particular region. The revelation that murders […]
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And as the Belize Police Department endeavors to keep the murder rate below figures of previous years, one of its concerns along that path has to be that a high-powered weapon that was used in the murder of Orel Leslie at the Albert and Regent Street junction in late August has still not been found. […]
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After the Chairman of the Leadership Intervention Unit, William Dawson passed away in January, Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, along with the Belize Police Department and the Ministry of Home Affairs scrambled to see how they could configure a team that would also be effective in keeping gang activity and violence at a minimum. Since […]
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The Senate Special Select Committee that has been established to conduct an investigation into the Definitive Agreement has scheduled the public hearing for November. The committee met on Monday in Belmopan where the members agreed on a date. They also approved a six-month budget which has been submitted to the Ministry of Finance. A release […]
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There is no shortage of plantation white sugar from the miller. That’s what B.S.I. confirmed today, amid reports of a sugar scarcity in various municipalities. The steep cost of that commodity in neighboring Guatemala and Mexico has apparently led to Belizeans transporting large quantities of sugar across the border where it can be sold for […]
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According to Chavarria, it is B.S.I.’s belief that sugar is being sold to Mexico by Belize and Guatemala. The Director of Finance says that an additional two thousand tons of sugar was milled between October 2022 and September 2023. Shawn Chavarria, Director of Finance, B.S.I. “We believe both. We believe that there could be […]
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