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The Government of Taiwan has signed a Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with Belize. On Monday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington signed the MLAT with Remus Li-Kuo Chen, Ambassador of Taiwan to Belize. According to a release, the treaty had been previously signed by Minister Ching-Hsiang Tsai in Taipei. The MLAT is […]
Written on September 29, 2020 | Posted in
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The Belize Trade and Investment Development Service, BELTRAIDE, is now twenty years old. The agency opened its doors back in the year 2000 to create a competitive business environment that promotes an investment-friendly climate; as well as to provide support to micro, small and medium enterprises. To mark this milestone, the agency held a virtual […]
Written on September 29, 2020 | Posted in
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Atlantic Bank Limited has purchased a prime piece of prime property belonging to the Government of Belize. The property is located on Cleghorn Street in Belize City, adjacent to Atlantic Bank. It is the headquarters for the National Fire Services in the Old Capital and the value of the sale is unconfirmed, though it is […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Three residents of Saint Margaret’s Village on the Hummingbird Highway were drinking on Sunday night when one of them died and the other began to display odd behaviour and fell ill. Of the two surviving men, tonight one has been released from the hospital and the other is in critical condition. At this time, police […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Minister Anthony “Boots’’ Martinez was in the hot seat last Friday. According to documents presented in the House of Representatives, Martinez and his daughter, Stacey, have received hefty payments from government. When the matter became public in 2016, Stacey appears as the vendor for payments of rent presumably for office space for the ministry; she […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Several persons are to be charged for the worst air disaster in Belize. Two pilots and two crew members of the B.D.F. perished when their helicopter went down in the Gales Point Lagoon on February twenty-ninth, 2020. The crash raised alarm because it was not reported until much later and many questions were raised since […]
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Last week, the matter of the controversial S.I. 134 caused consternation with the Ministry of Heath because it criminalizes the DHS if he does not provide confidential information on COVID patients to the Minister of National Security. There was overwhelming response that such information should not land in police hands. But Minister Anthony Martinez says […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Less than fifty percent of the persons who applied under Phase Two of the COVID-19 Unemployment Relief Programme have been approved. The government received sixty-four thousand two hundred and fifty two applications out of which thirty thousand five hundred and forty-four were approved. Thirteen thousand persons have been rejected, while more than three thousand applicants […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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There is an important update to the re-districting case filed before the Supreme Court by the Belize Peace Movement. In June, Madam Chief Justice Michel Arana ordered that an expert be appointed to determine independently if the electoral divisions as presently defined and constituted are sufficiently equal, to assess the impact of any mal apportionment. […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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According to Lopez, the Belize Peace Movement is hoping that the case proceeds forward and is fully ventilated in the courts. He says that when the Prime Minister calls a date for election, the Belize Peace Movement will invoke an injunction to stay the election date. Robert Lopez, Belize Peace Movement “If it is […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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One of the claimants that lodged the claim with the Belize Peace Movement is Wil Maheia. He is a politician who has ran several times in the south but last week he announced that he will be running in the Fort George Division in Belize City under the Belize Progressive Party. He says that Fort […]
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The political race in Port Loyola where U.D.P. standard bearer Phillip Willoughby is running against Gilroy Usher Senior of the People’s United Party will be one to watch come election day. Leading up to that date in November both candidates have been actively campaigning in the constituency where mudslinging between their respective camps has been […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Over the weekend, reports that the police file on the fatal accident that took the life of eight-year-old Gabriella Corales has gone missing spread like wildfire on social media. A news outlet reported that the D.P.P.’s office has claimed that the file is with the police and the police have claimed that the file is […]
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Gym owners, managers and trainers have come together in a united front to request that their facilities be allowed to open. It has been more than a month since they have had to shutter down and there has been no word on their re-opening. Well, today two of those experts called the press to share […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Staying healthy during these stressful times is a good way to stave off the novel coronavirus. Eating well and exercising are two important factors to keep you mentally and physically fit. A symposium today stressed the need for a healthy lifestyle by keeping both your mind and body in good form. Here is News Five’s […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Today’s House sitting is likely to be the last sitting of the current government before the general elections. This morning’s session went smoothly with both sides supporting a number of bills that will now go to the Senate. But on adjournment in the afternoon, the atmosphere of cordiality was shattered. The Opposition, People’s United Party, […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Minister Martinez was not inside the National Assembly chambers when Briceño was reading out the list of transactions. He raced to his seat after he was alerted of the revelations by his colleague sitting two seats away from him via a phone call. Martinez anxiously waited to rebut Briceño’s allegations. An angry Martinez denied the […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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After making his point, Martinez left the National Assembly chambers where we caught up with him outside. Martinez defended his position, saying that he has not received any monies for rental from the government. The minister asserts that there is not a single document that can prove otherwise. News Five got a hold of the […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Caribbean Shores area rep Kareem Musa attempted to discuss the exclusive lottery contract which was given to Brads. In the recent past House sitting, Cayo South area representative Julius Espat revealed that Good Lee Limited controls majority shares in the boledo company. He also revealed that Good Lee is registered in Saint Lucia and questioned […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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But there was agreement on a matter. Prime Minister Dean Barrow has yet to officially announce a date for the 2020 General Elections even though his son and U.D.P. caretaker of Mesopotamia, Shyne Barrow, has said that it will be on November fourth. The Prime Minister has publicly hinted that it will be held in […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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The wheels of justice are turning slow for a former cop. Back in 2008, Anthony Polonia was found guilty of perjury by a Police Tribunal in a sensational case of murder turned manslaughter involving the now deceased Ben Bou-Nahra and he was removed from the department. Polonio was one of the cops who reportedly developed […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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At today’s Sitting of the House, parliamentarians gave bipartisan support to several bills including the Cybercrime Bill 2020. The bill was fashioned by the Office of the Special Envoy for Women and Children in collaboration with the Office of the Speaker of the House, and key government departments including the Office of the Attorney General […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Are big time landowners across the country once again getting a tax break? Another bill was introduced in parliament today by Minister of Natural Resources Hugo Patt that raised serious concerns from the opposition. The premise of the proposed legislation has to do with relief in respect of the payment of land taxes amid the […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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On Thursday, the Government of Belize formally opened a stretch of highway connecting Ladyville to the Western Pines community during an inauguration in which that thoroughfare was also officially named the John Smith Airport Link Road. In keeping with the theme of naming public buildings, roads and bridges after Belizean patriots, this morning Prime Minister […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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A joint declaration by the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the National Trade Union Congress of Belize and the Belize Network of N.G.O.s was signed this morning in Belize City. The tripartite statement is dubbed the Declaration of Social Partners of Belize for Reform of Essential Oversight Mechanisms to Strengthen the Democratic Governance of […]
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