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For months a scandal involving widespread corruption in FIFA has continued to unravel. Today, the U.K. based Guardian newspaper is reporting that lawyers representing the football organization have revealed that three high-ranking former FIFA officials secretly gave themselves pay raises and massive World Cup bonuses totalling a whopping seventy-nine million US dollars. According to the […]
Written on June 3, 2016 | Posted in
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The family of two-year old Elaxie Brown needs your help. She was recently diagnosed with leukemia and has been taken to a medical facility in Honduras, where she is currently admitted for treatment. But her family cannot afford the mounting bills for chemotherapy. They need urgent financial assistance to cover costs to keep the toddler […]
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Eight teacher education students from Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia were at Helpage Belize today mingling with our golden citizens, some from the nearby Sister Cecilia Home and some brought in for the occasion. It’s part of a program designed to throw the students headfirst into different cultures and experiences, with the expectation that it […]
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A small protest was held this morning near the office of Area Representative Beverly Castillo. A group of women was denied a permit to protest but still gathered to decry the firing of two women who were let go by Castillo because they purportedly supported Minister Patrick Faber and not John Saldivar for the first […]
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The transportation industry in Belize is in terrible shape, and that’s putting it kindly. Terminals are deteriorating and so are the buses. Schedules are iffy at best and there are just too many commuters for the buses on the roadways, which leads to serious and even dangerous overcrowding. These conditions aren’t new, and over the […]
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But is it a situation where the Department is just overwhelmed? Is the lack of supervision, oversight and regulation the cause of the transportation woes? It’s likely, but Galvez says that with so many factors in play, they plan to look first and foremost at the road service permits held by bus operators, and then […]
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The hurricane season opened on Wednesday and as it usually does, the City Emergency Management Organization, CEMO, held a press conference to update the public on its readiness to deal with disasters. It continues to be a work in progress, and Mayor Darrell Bradley told News Five that the most important component in dealing with […]
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In any response to an emergency, the National Transport and Evacuation Committee will play a very critical role. It is one of thirteen national committees, and is comprised of representatives from various agencies including the Police, municipalities, Ministry of Works and the Coast Guard. On Wednesday, as CEMO opened the Hurricane Season, National Liaison Officer […]
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For quite some time, we have followed the adventures of Rowan Garel; his ascent to the summit of Victoria Peak, his mission to walk across Belize and his dive into the depths of the Blue Hole. While a children’s story book highlighting these brave feats has been published, the recent high school graduate is preparing […]
In April, News Five brought you the shocking story of raw sewage being pumped into the Haulover Creek on North Front Street. We say shocking because it was, to us at least, but apparently this is something which has been happening for a long time. We tried to get BWS for comment but anybody who […]
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A freelance tour guide and artisan is up in arms tonight after she was suspended from selling her arts and craft and setting foot on the Altun Ha Archeological Site by the Institute of Archeology, NICH. Anne Arana has been working at the Mayan site for almost two decades, providing tourists and visitors with authentic […]
June is being celebrated as Fisherfolk Month in Belize. To kick-off the celebration, an open day was held on Wednesday at the B.T.L. Park where related agencies and conservation groups displayed the services they offer to the fisheries industry which contributes about three percent to the G.D.P. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, […]
A city council initiative to promote self-employment has resulted in the handing over of twenty weed whackers to a group of enterprising Belize City youths. The brainchild of councilors Michael Theus and Dion Leslie, the recipients were selected by constituency. Each councilor was given an opportunity to identify two individuals within their respective areas. While […]
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June fourteenth is World Blood Donor Day. Everywhere people are encouraged to give blood selflessly to improve health conditions or save lives. Additionally, the Day is used to build awareness about the need for availability and appropriate use of safe blood and blood products. At the Blood Bank of the Central Health region, there is […]
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On Tuesday’s newscast we told you about reports of a ruckus in Cabinet…reports later denied by all the Ministers with whom we came into contact. But while nobody will outrightly admit it, there is a chasm between the Saldivar camp, a majority of Cabinet and the Faber camp. News Five has been able to confirm […]
The campaign for deputy leadership of the United Democratic Party was a spirited effort and both camps somehow managed to temper the mudslinging. While the issue of Faber’s professional relationship with women in his ministry and his political life came up, he says the negative spin by his opponent caught him by surprise. According to […]
On Tuesday, avid U.D.P. supporter Ingrid Hernandez, a constituent of Belize Rural Central, stopped by our office to express her discontent with animosity taking place within the party after Sunday’s convention. She had been working as a campaigner for Area Representative Beverly Castillo and was subsequently chosen as a delegate in the special convention. Hernandez, […]
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Patrick Faber will be confirmed as Deputy Prime Minister by next week Tuesday, and fully expects that in that position he will be groomed for eventual leadership of the United Democratic Party. John Saldivar has indicated that he will contest in 2020, but Faber seems unconcerned, since he told News Five that he’s grown up […]
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Julia Arana was hit on the Phillip Goldson Highway on April first. The Trial Farm resident was crossing the highway when a vehicle driven by area representative Jose Abelardo Mai hit her, leaving her comatose for some time. The mother of popular cyclist Nissan Arana was subsequent released from the K.H.M.H., but as we said, […]
The IMF’s Article Four consultation report came out last week, and as we reported then, it seems to be pretty much all bad news. It makes reference to a slowing economy and rising external vulnerabilities, reduction in GDP growth, widening of the current account deficit, falling exports, falling international reserves, widening of the fiscal deficit, […]
The IMF states in its Article Four consultation that Belize is on shaky footing economically and measures will need to be put in place for recovery in the medium and long term. Earlier you heard the numbers man Joseph Waight explaining about austerity and government having to control expenditures. But Waight isn’t a politician. The […]
The People’s United Party has also issued a statement on the IMF report and it is not taking the blame for the economic woes. According to the P.U.P., while the U.D.P. government has been unable to truthfully explain the economic realities to the Belizean people, in his budget presentation, Party Leader John Briceño signaled that […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilfred Elrington attended the eight summit of the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Heads of State and Governments. The summit concluded today in Papua New Guinea with the adoption of a declaration which included language on Belize. It reads in part: “We strongly reaffirm unequivocal support for Belize’s sovereignty and territorial integrity […]
On Friday News Five was stopped by Guatemalan military as we tried to enter the Sarstoon. They claimed that we were in their national waters. That claim is nothing new, but it is distressing because just days before Belize and Guatemala had allegedly come to an informal understanding that Belizeans would be allowed untrammeled access […]
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While John Saldivar has been in the news of late mostly in reference to his bid for U.D.P. Deputy Leader, he is the Minister of National Security and border security features prominently in his portfolio. So when we had the opportunity we asked him about the incident on Friday in the Sarstoon, and also about […]
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