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This week, a News Five team has been covering the forty-third General Assembly of the Organization of American States that was held in Antigua, Guatemala. The annual event concluded with a press conference just before midnight on Thursday. There was heavy security throughout the proceedings and the media pool from the hemisphere covering the event […]
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Nineteen year old Calbert Roberts Junior appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith today, where he was indicted on a charge of burglary. The young gas attendant is accused of breaking and entering into General Shop in Biscayne Village on May twenty-sixth. Roberts reportedly stole four thousand, one hundred dollars in cash from his former […]
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Thirty-one year old Kenroy Vanzie, accused of fondling the breasts and private parts of an eighteen year old woman, pleaded not guilty when he was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court this morning. Vanzie, who was unrepresented, appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer, where he was read a single charge of Aggravated Assault of […]
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The Road to the Gold Cup: The Belize Jaguars are preparing to take on the United States, Cuba and Costa Rica in three games to be played in three cities in the United States: Portland, Oregon; Salt Lake City, Utah and Hartford, Connecticut. The team has been at camp in the past week training for […]
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The Church may be a hallmark of communities but no municipality can survive without a market. That is why the mayors from across the country were attending an important meeting at the El Rancho Bar and Restaurant in the Capital. A European Union (EU) Consultant had travelled the country and spent quality time at each […]
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From markets to the concerts, dancehall recording artist Tommy Lee is in Belize for a one-night-only performance this weekend. The controversial singer, whose alias and subject matter has stirred much talk about his brand of music, will be performing in Orange Walk on Saturday. Captain Sparta, as he is also known, will be throwing down […]
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All eyes are focused on the K.H.M.H. and a deadly bacteria outbreak in the neonatal intensive care unit. K.H.M.H. figures put the infant mortality in the first twenty days of May at thirteen and the official position is that seven of those infants died as a result of the bacteria, while the rest died from […]
Written on June 6, 2013 | Posted in
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On Tuesday, the Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action held a press conference to demand answers from the K.H.M.H. and the government on the thirteen newborn deaths in the neonatal intensive care unit in the month of May. And this morning COLA, some of the grieving parents and concerned Belizeans marched on the K.H.M.H. to […]
The General Assembly of the Organization of American States concludes tonight in Antigua, Guatemala. Aside from the drug problem in the Americas that foreign ministers have been debating, another issue that picked up traction has to with two Inter-American conventions that deal with racism and discrimination. Belize’s position in respect of the two conventions is […]
When the national gender policy was launched in mid-May, it immediately unleashed a firestorm of controversy from very vocal church groups and most recently, the Belize National Teachers Union. The most outspoken opposition has come from the west, where local pastors have led the charge to have the gender policy withdrawn and revisited. Prime Minister […]
Internet rates have gone down recently and while some people are counting the extra change in their pockets, there really should be quite a few dollars more that internet subscribers could save. Belize has the highest internet rates as well as the slowest bandwidth in CARICOM. How bad is it? Well, a survey of the […]
As we told you earlier, the O.A.S. General Assembly closes tonight at the historic Antigua, Guatemala. For two days delegations have been discussing the need to urgently address the drug problem in the region. Belize’s Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington was among the last to make a contribution to the debate. He likened the drug problem […]
As we reported on Wednesday, the issue of Guatemala’s territorial claim over Belize and the joint referenda to elevate the matter to the International Court of Justice was not discussed during the O.A.S. General Assembly. Guatemala’s Foreign Minister, Fernando Carrera, told News Five that prior to the annual meeting a decision was taken that neither […]
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A popular restaurant in Hopkins Village in the south is no more following an early morning fire that gutted the establishment. Taste of India, a quaint restaurant along the coast in the village, went up in flames just after midnight on Tuesday. It’s a loss of approximately seventy-five thousand dollars says restaurant owner and chef, […]
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Representatives from fourteen Mexican companies are in Belize as part of a trade mission organized by the Trade and Investment Mexican Agency, ProMexico and the Mexican Embassy. The delegation is meeting with their Belizean counterparts in order to identify potential buyers and suppliers for their products and services, but also to identify Belizean products which […]
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At a press conference in late April, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced the creation of the National Bank of Belize Limited. A Board of Directors, a Managing Director, location and startup money of twenty million dollars that would come from Petrocaribe funds were identified. It’s mission… principally to make residential mortgage and other consumer loans […]
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A Belize City man will have to answer to a sexual offense for allegedly having sex with a teenage school girl last year on April twentieth. Twenty year old Ellsworth Hendy, a Belize City laborer, was informed by the Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith on Wednesday that a prima facie case has been established against […]
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Norwegian Cruise Line will have to find a different island for its cruise ship port. But there is another tourism related project in development that far surpasses Norwegian’s hundred million dollar price tag. Stake Bank, originally estimated at US Two hundred and fifty million dollars would include the construction of three luxury hotels, a restaurant […]
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About one thousand students and other youths will be taking part in the 2013 National Festival of Arts which is underway at the Bliss Center for Performing Arts. The next two weeks will see a host of students on stage showcasing cultural and artistic skills. The annual event is organized by the Institute of Creative […]
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Music is a form of emotional expression. For young people, popular music is the medium through which they often express their mood, aspiration and development of their own cultural identity. Tonight News Five’s Isani Cayetano looks at the power of song and in this case, the power of dancehall music. Isani Cayetano, Reporting Across […]
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As we reported on Tuesday night, the Norwegian Cruise Line’s proposed one hundred million dollar tourism investment project in Belize is currently on hold. A technical team working with Cabinet’s subcommittee determined that Crawl Caye cannot be developed as a cruise terminal because of “numerous environmental considerations.” And that recommendation was endorsed by cabinet at […]
But all is not lost for Norwegian Cruise Line as it is now shifting attention to other islands for development in the southern Belize. Prime Minister Dean Barrow said that the rejection of Crawl Caye should not be interpreted as a rejection of cruise tourism. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “The word from the technical […]
The revised Gender Policy is here to stay, even though it has caused a maelstrom of activity since the Women’s Commission had the policy document updated. Strangely, the upset has little to do with women’s affairs but rather a redefinition of words that would change the meaning of sexual identities in the policy document. The […]
Written on June 5, 2013 | Posted in
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While the Gender Policy will remain as it stands according to the Prime Minister, in Guatemala, there is a resolution that is also being heavily debated and discussed by member states of the Organization of American States. The resolution includes issues of Human Rights Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression. Both Belize and Barbados […]
Turning to the referendum…when Guatemala announced it was not holding a referendum this year but in 2014, Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington said that he will be meeting his counterpart in the margins of the O.A.S. to press for a specific date. But that meeting will not be taking place at this time. C.E.O. Alexis Rosado […]
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