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As we reported, the Cabinet met last week to consider the plans for legislating the moratorium on activities related to offshore exploration for petroleum and conditions for lifting that moratorium. Following that sitting, Tourism Minister Manuel Heredia has confirmed that the moratorium and conditions originally proposed last year will remain in place, though he argues […]
Written on November 2, 2016 | Posted in
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For many, the company conducting the testing, TGS, came out of nowhere. But OCEANA’s Janelle Chanona reported that its relationship with the Government has been long-standing and it is clear that they were after one thing, and one thing only. Janelle Chanona, Vice-President, OCEANA Belize “What we have been told that government has had […]
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Businessman Michael Modiri and tourism stakeholder Bradley Paumen share a history of enmity over access to private lands in Franks Eddy Village. Earlier this year, Paumen, along with several others, was indicted on charges related to a plot to kill Modiri. Despite a Supreme Court ruling that reversed government’s acquisition of Modiri’s property for use […]
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The Ministry of Health has responded to concerns raised on social media about Chen’s Restaurant, an establishment in the Water Reservoir Area of Belmopan. Patrons and residents of the area had complained about unsanitary conditions, rodent infestation and waste water disposal a few weeks ago, and after an investigation by the Belmopan section of the […]
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Last Wednesday, Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams openly invited Raymond Rivers to a sit-down at the Raccoon Street Police Station, following a series of inflammatory social media posts made by the firebrand activist. Rivers has been trolling Phillip Willoughby’s Facebook page and reportedly making threats against the city councilor. While the comments were at […]
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Hurricane Earl struck Belize on August third causing substantive damages to properties in the city and elsewhere. And despite all efforts to bring relief to families affected, many are still struggling to restore normalcy to their lives. With rains bearing down since Tuesday night, the City Emergency Management Organization is visiting those families whose houses […]
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Since embarking upon its Hurricane Earl relief initiative, NEMO has been criticized by residents who have been affected by the natural disaster and have not been visited by ministry personnel. In a press conference held by Prime Minister Barrow in the wake of the storm, three forms of assistance were outlined for hurricane victims. This […]
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On Tuesday night, we showed you the opening of a training facility at the Eastern Division North. And noticeably absent was top cop Chester Williams. At today’s weekly meet and greet by the police, the media took the opportunity to ask Williams why he stayed away from the opening and if his south side officers […]
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As we said, we caught up with Commander of the Eastern Division South Chester Williams and his officers on their weekly meet and greet in Precinct One in the downtown area. The officers walked Albert, Orange, Church, Regent and surrounding streets to talk primarily with business owners and some residents about the safety and security […]
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In recent weeks, there has been a spate of shootings and murders across the city. It is believed that these have resulted from turf wars on the south side, namely the Antelope Street, South and North Creek Areas. These turf wars are because well-known criminal elements want to control specific areas to sell their drugs. […]
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On Tuesday, the Belize Defence Force and the Louisiana National Guard reached a milestone in their state partnership program. It has been twenty years since Louisiana and Belize have been partnering on several local and regional programs including trainings in the jungle, disaster response and infrastructure. The mutually beneficial partnership has grown from year to […]
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Advantage, Trimble, Digital Globe, AutoDesk, SCI are geospatial engineering companies that provide top of the line tracking hardware and software to public and private sector companies for cross-effective solutions. Through the regional company, GISCAD, they have been able to tap into twenty-seven countries including the Caribbean with the exception Jamaica. Today, the geospatial engineering organization […]
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Despite assurances that Belizeans and the B.D.F. can freely traverse the Sarstoon, News Five has obtained a video of another, more recent confrontation in the river between a Guatemalan gunboat and a B.D.F. patrol. The incident occurred as recent as October seventeenth, but there had been no official comment until today when we approached B.D.F. […]
Written on November 1, 2016 | Posted in
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That incident occurred on the same day when a group of Belizean fishermen were held briefly by a Guatemalan coastal patrol vessel. The fishermen were fishing in the Gulf of Honduras when they were intercepted by the Guatemalan patrol at a point between the mouth of the Moho River, Toledo and Punta de Manabique, Izabal, […]
Belize City police say they are armed with sufficient evidence to charge gun-toting Douglas Grant Junior with a firearm offense. But, will a warrant be issued for the U.D.P. henchman’s arrest? A criminal investigation into an incident which occurred on Sunday morning, a short distance away from the Sit and Sip Nightclub, reveals that Grant […]
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The department disputes the presence of a mobile patrol in front of the Sit and Sit Nightclub, but says that police officers arrived on the scene moments later. But Grant was never taken into custody. Instead, Ferguson was detained and taken to the Queen Street Precinct and held for a few hours. According to ACP […]
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The impasse between the Ministry of Education and the Belize National Teachers Union came to a head on Friday when B.N.T.U. National President Luke Palacio firmly stood his ground, following a meeting of the Council of Management. The decision coming out of those discussions was that if the twenty-five member delegation cannot meet with Deputy […]
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Saint John’s College and Junior College produced one of the best crops for this year’s CSEC and CAPE Examinations. Over at the high school Riki Alegria is the most outstanding student for the CSEC while at the junior college, Jose Guerrero was the top scorer and the Open Scholarship recipient. In fact, the top six […]
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G.O.B. is poised to bring an end to a long-running story – signing and ratifying the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC). In September, Prime Minister Dean Barrow agreed to form a working group with the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry to set the framework that would see Belize join more than one hundred […]
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And our question for tonight is: with additional information on crooked land deals surfacing, should Area Rep Gaspar Vega, resign from office? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com
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Two former United Democratic Party politicians from the Cayo District are among the latest to be fingered in the burgeoning land transaction scandal in the Ministry of Natural Resources. Copies of land rent statements forwarded to News Five suggest that former Cayo Northeast area representative Elvin Penner was still collecting favors from a party that […]
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A young mother in the village of Seine Bight, Stann Creek District, suffered a sudden loss over the weekend, after she found her fifteen-month old daughter motionless in her bed on Sunday morning. She had fed her child and put her to sleep on Saturday night. Police are investigating the incident as a sudden death, […]
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Compensation for Belize Telemedia Limited has been scheduled in two payments, the first of which was initially disbursed on July eighth. We say initially because that sum was returned to the Government of Belize when the Caribbean Court of Justice ruled in favor of Dunkeld and the B.T.L. Employees Trust. Both entities are part of […]
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In its Weekend Under Review session on Monday, Rural Eastern Division police spoke about incidents that occurred in rural Belize District. The officers pointed to a traffic accident that took place two miles into the Boom/Hattieville Road on Sunday morning. Faith Thompson is tonight in a critical, but stable condition at the K.H.M.H. after the […]
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There was a fire on Monday at one of the family houses at the Price Barracks compound. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but the family lost everything. Commander of the B.D.F., Brigadier General David Jones told us that the B.D.F. will be providing assistance to the family. The cause hasn’t been officially determined but it […]
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