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Carnival 2016 is getting off to an excellent start and it all reads up to the highly anticipated road march on September seventh. The number of bands has increased this year and the costumes are looking more elaborate and glamorous. On Saturday night, the King and Queen competition took place at the Marion Jones Stadium. […]
Written on September 5, 2016 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Infotel went into Game II of the BDBA Firms Division 3 game Champion Series needing only a win to own the 2016 title as they faced the Belize Bank Bulldogs inside the BES Gym Friday night. The opening minutes displayed the tension in the […]
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The Belize Bus Owners Cooperative (BBOC) and ADO bus company of Mexico have escalated a rivalry over a key bus run in the North of Belize. Beginning this morning, ADO, which runs a special night service between Belize City and Cancun and Merida, Mexico is operating an eleven a.m. run on the same route; but […]
The driver faces charges of obstruction, assault of a police officer and disorderly conduct. Senior Superintendent Dawson explained that apart from transport issues, the police were mostly interested in restoring order to traffic in the busy area and he believes the situation could possibly have been handled differently. Sr. Supt. Alden Dawson, Dep. Regional […]
The Senate on Wednesday rejected a motion for a senate select investigation into the Immigration scandal. On Thursday, the Prime Minister announced that the Chamber of Commerce would support a bicameral investigation. The N.T.U.C.B., however, says it was taken by surprise when it found out that the business community has opted for a Joint Select […]
Written on September 2, 2016 | Posted in
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Trade unionist Elena Smith is the last senator standing among her social partner colleagues, based on an informal process of elimination conducted by Prime Minister Barrow on Thursday. During a press conference to discuss the Auditor General’s report, PM Barrow disregarded senators Ashley Rocke and Mark Lizarraga as potential chairs of the Joint Select Committee. […]
Senator Ashley Rocke has come under intense scrutiny from the churches, whom he represents in upper parliament, since voting against the Senate Select Taskforce. In the aftermath of that critical vote, other organizations, including the N.T.U.C.B. continue to criticize the embattled pastor for his reversal in the vote. While President Mora admits that the matter […]
News Five tried today to seek comment from the Office of Auditor General Dorothy Bradley concerning the Immigration Special Audit Reports. But she was unavailable. However, we have received reliable information which suggests that she is seeking legal advice based on the comments made by Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Minister for Immigration Senator Godwin […]
The People’s United Party has reacted to the Prime Minister’s press conference held on Thursday. The P.U.P. had tabled a motion for a Senate Select Committee to investigate the Immigration and Nationalization scandal, but it was defeated five vote for and seven against. A release from the P.U.P. says that what the Auditor General’s report […]
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The Government, in a press release this evening, announced it has reached agreement for the continuation of emergency services by BERT. G.O.B. has committed to grant Belize Emergency Response Team forty-five thousand dollars per month for the next six months while the two sides continue negotiations over the long-term financial sustainability of BERT’s land ambulance […]
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Today, Brigadier General David Jones, Commander of the Belize Defence Force, issued an update to last night’s report about a group of soldiers who went to verify that Guatemalan citizens had obeyed an order to depart Belizean territory where they had established a settlement and walked into gunfire which they returned. The shooting took place […]
Written on September 2, 2016 | Posted in
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In the village of Crooked Tree, Belize District, health authorities had to take matters into their hand when part of the building housing the clinic caved in. The facility was built years ago and had deteriorated considerably. On Wednesday, the verandah came crashing down. A six year old was playing under the verandah, but fortunately […]
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Back to the N.T.U.C.B…..an internal memo criticizing the General Council of the Congress for its style of management was leaked to the media earlier this week. In the communiqué, signed by presidents of the Belize Communications Workers Union and the Belize Water Services Workers Union, General Secretary Rebecca Suazo is chided for incompetence and unproductively. […]
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Immigration Minister Godwin Hulse insists his troubled department has not tried to keep its records secret in relation to the issuance of visas, especially to Chinese nationals. It turns out that, according to Hulse, the Chinese paid more for their visas than all of the others issued visas in the same time period. Now, the […]
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The Immigration Minister also defended the purpose of recommendation of persons to receive visas. He says it’s about who knows you, not who you know. Senator Godwin Hulse, Minister of Immigration “So this issue, that somebody would recommend somebody in China to come here and they don’t know somebody; when you ever recommend somebody […]
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Thursday’s three-hour press conference included a live walk-through presentation by Immigration Officer Diego Bol covering the entire immigration process from start to finish. It was not taped, but it was intended to show the many failsafes put in place in the wake of the Special Audit Report. However, many of the names called in the […]
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It’s been exactly one month since Hurricane Earl hit south of Belize City and swept through Belize and Mexico. While there were no casualties in Belize, in Mexico up to fifty persons perished due to the storm and thousand were affected. Today, a donation of fifty thousand U.S. dollars for hurricane relief was handed over […]
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According to Ambassador Quesnel, the amount was determined following assessments from the Government and the Belize Red Cross. The Red Cross has helped approximately five hundred families across the Belize District and Director General Lily Bowman says that the financial assistance forms part of the Belize Disaster Risk Emergency Fund. The money will be disbursed […]
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Earlier this week, we told you about an increase in the number of persons visiting the health facility on Caye Caulker with symptoms similar to that of zika. So far, there have been thirty confirmed cases of zika in Belize, ten of tested positive from samples from the island. News Five spoke with Regional Health […]
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Fans of boxing on the Showtime Network are quite familiar with the name Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller. He’s the larger than life Belizean athlete who is taking the sport by storm. His most recent fight was with Fred Kassi whom he defeated in a third round technical knockout, before calling out Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder […]
There’s a new music video that has gone viral on social media in Belize. Summer Sun Medley is the new single of Belize City artist Ty Linares featuring Et Dan and upcoming female artist, Dajah. The track was produced by King Kosa and the video was shot locally by Dream Light Studio. Linares says that […]
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Was the motion presented by Senator Rocke today originally crafted in the office of the Prime Minister and presented as the Church’s motion. More importantly, Senator Rocke said during the meeting that there were consultations between the Churches and the other social partners – meaning the trade unions and civil society and the business community […]
The Special Audit on Immigration has exposed rampant corruption within the Department of Immigration. Thirteen ministers, past and present, as well as senior officers and politically connected persons have been fingered in the investigation that covered a two year period, 2011-2013. Today, the Prime Minister in one of his lengthiest press conferences discussed one of […]
The audit was triggered by the scandalous Won Hong Kim fiasco involving then Minister of State Elvin Penner and has unearthed the rampant sale of Belizean nationality to persons who had not even been to Belize and in other cases who got their nationality having arrived in Belize for a day. Now, having apologized and […]
At the Senate Meeting on Wednesday, the People’s United Party proposed a motion for a senate select investigation into the immigration irregularities. This is the second time that that motion has been put to the floor and the second time that it has been defeated. Prematurely, as it turns out, lead senate for government, Godwin […]
Written on September 1, 2016 | Posted in
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