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After sending out the call to several education institutions to make the bid, today, Belize Telemedia Limited signed a memorandum of understanding with Saint John’s College Junior College. The MOU offers an associate’s degree program in Computer Networking with emphasis in IP Technology to Telemedia employees and SJCJC students. The joint initiative, which is valued […]
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The media also took the opportunity to ask Chairman Barrow about several issues including the drop in profits at the government-owned telecommunications company. Barrow says that while the financials have seen a declining profit in the past, this year, the company expects to rebound. Anwar Barrow, Chairman, Executive Committee, B.T.L. “I think we have […]
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But that is little or no consolation to Telemedia customers who for months now have been experiencing dropped calls, interruptions in data services despite the stabilization of the 4G service offered by B.T.L. Barrow says that the hiccups in the system are caused by demand. Anwar Barrow, Chairman, Executive Committee, B.T.L. “We put out […]
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In 1990, Belize signed on to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Twenty-six years later, government through the National Committee for Families and Children has established a group called CRC Ambassadors, who will be deployed across the country to monitor compliance with the various commitments made under the convention. News Five’s Duane […]
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The anticipated traditional and ceremonial opening of the Supreme Court took place this morning in a packed courtroom of the judiciary and other guests. Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin presided over the proceedings and provided a report on the 2015 legal calendar year. The report card was gloomy: there is an increase in the remand population […]
The National Party Council of the People’s United Party met at Saturday to pave the way to a national convention set for January thirty-first in Belmopan. Various positions are up for grabs, but all eyes are on the leadership position. Immediate past leader Francis Fonseca, who stepped down on November fifth, stepped back in unexpectedly. […]
Written on January 11, 2016 | Posted in
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As we told you, all eyes will be on the race for leadership which has led to very heated and unpleasant debate on social media. The Chairman position is also up for grabs. Henry Charles Usher is the incumbent, so to speak, but very successful politician Oscar Requeña, wants a shot at that post. Usher […]
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One constituency which is always volatile even at the best of times is Belmopan. These are not the best of times, and early on in the convention race there was controversy over the delegate lists. Reports are that standard bearer Patrick Andrews has been manipulating the delegate list to ensure that all persons on that […]
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It is now six weeks since three minors perished during a fire at the Youth Hostel near mile twenty-one and a half on the George Price Highway and still there are no official findings on the deaths of the three girls. On the afternoon of November twenty-seventh 2015, a massive fire started inside a room […]
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According to Minister Martinez, contrary to what is being said, the ministry is not dragging its foot with the independent investigation into the matter. But will the ministry wait until the conclusion of the investigation to make changes at the Youth Hostel? Anthony “Boots” Martinez, Ministry of Human Development, Social Transformation & Poverty Alleviation […]
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Twelve-year-old Shinique Perez, a student of Saint Martin’s Primary School, remains missing tonight after failing to return to her classroom on Friday afternoon. The family was immediately notified by the school. Today, her grandmother, Eleanor Wright confirmed to News Five that Shinique has not been seen or heard from in the past three days and […]
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Another minor is missing. Fifteen year old Seily Jozeline Aguilar has been missing since January sixth. She left her home in Valley of Peace early, as usual, in her Belmopan Comprehensive School uniform. She never returned home. Her mother has been frantic since, and has enlisted the aid of the Belmopan Police in an attempt […]
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Now on a point of clarification…first, attorneys for Jitendra Chawla aka Jack Charles, have written the media to say that Charles is not the proprietor of RC Imports, which has no involvement in the rice dispute. Second, on Friday there was a report that Chukka was an interested party in a new cruise port for […]
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There is another looming crisis within the agriculture sector to report on tonight, involving vegetables, particularly carrots, being imported from neighboring Mexico. The importation of produce from across the northern border is placing local farmers in the Orange Walk District at a great disadvantage. They complain that acres of root vegetables are rotting in fields […]
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Harrison says that while there are approximately ten acres awaiting harvest in the north, there are other communities producing vegetables in various parts of the country. The issue, he concludes, is one of supply and demand, despite farmers controlling upwards of ninety percent of the market for carrots. On the Phone: Roberto Harrison, Chief […]
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Is Jack Charles gearing up for another wave of attacks on the local rice industry? News Five can confirm tonight that the businessman has lodged a formal request to import ten containers of Guyanese rice into the country. This time however, it is presumed that all I’s will be dotted and T’s crossed, ahead of […]
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Developer Michael Feinstein, the man behind the mega-million dollar Stake Bank Tourism Project, today told News Five that as far as he is concerned the project is on indefinite hold. Feinstein told us that unless he has the assurance that G.O.B. will give exclusive support to the venture which represents an investment of hundreds of […]
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In twenty-three days, the People’s United Party will have a new leader or a new old leader, as the case may be. Two of the men vying for the position, John Briceño and Francis Fonseca, have been leaders of the P.U.P. – Briceño from 2008 to 2011, and Fonseca from that point until he stepped […]
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A Tropic Air pilot is said to be missing and efforts are underway to locate him. He is Guilherme Duarte from Portugal who was last seen in San Pedro at about midnight on Thursday after he had drinks at a local bar. This morning, alarm bells rang when he failed to show up for his […]
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The elderly resident of Fern Lane in Belize City, Patrick Grant was left comatose for days after a home invasion on December twenty-seventh. Grant has miraculously recovered and is back home where he’s settling back into his daily routine and from the looks of it, Grant has a new lease on life. Today, he was […]
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There have been two senate meetings since the new government took office last November, but the senator to represent the unions and civil society has been conspicuously absent. The unions have been unable to name its senator because they have been unable to put in motion the proper appointment process. The former union senator, Ray […]
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Mora, as Secretary General of the Belize Energy Workers Union, also addressed the issue of the Guyanese rice sitting at the Big Creek Port in Independence. He says first, that as a consumer of the staple and given current economic conditions, the rice could be put to best use by humanitarian organizations and for feeding […]
There is major news and cause for celebration today in Mexico where the world’s most wanted man is back in the hands of the police. At a predawn operation around four o’clock this morning, the notorious drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo’’ Guzman was recaptured in the town of Los Mochies, in Sinaloa, his home state […]
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What should have been a memorable holiday in the Jewel, ended tragically for a U.S. visitor, who arrived early this morning on the Princess Cruise Lines. Sixty-seven year old Janice Mittlelstadt ran into difficulties while she was snorkeling today. She was removed from the water at Sergeants Caye and placed in the boat of a […]
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Prime Minister Dean Barrow, as of the first of January, assumed pro tem chairmanship of the Caribbean Community. For the next six months he will preside over a series of CARICOM meetings, including the annual gathering of regional heads of state scheduled for mid-February in Placencia. This is why the Secretary General of CARICOM, Irwin […]
