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Saturday’s National Party Council meeting of the People’s United Party in Belize City was more of a celebration of the party’s sixty-sixth anniversary of formation in 1950. But there was one major item of importance on the agenda. That is the formation of a “Shadow Cabinet” – a group of party spokespersons that will closely […]
Written on September 26, 2016 | Posted in
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The People’s United Party has been hammering Government on the B.T.L. deal, stating that Belizeans must find five hundred and fifty seven million dollars for a company worth about one hundred million dollars. Today, in advance of Thursday’s return to the Caribbean Court of Justice to settle the dispute over whether payments should be made […]
Written on September 26, 2016 | Posted in
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While on the issue of B.T.L. the state-run company has confirmed that it has contracted the services of Ingetelca to assist with their recovery process following the damages to its infrastructure from Hurricane Earl. While that company is Colombian owned, B.T.L. acknowledges that its employees in Belize are Guatemalan. The issue has been bubbling on […]
Written on September 26, 2016 | Posted in
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There is also an online report alleging that one George Orellana, a member of the Board of the National Institute of Culture and History, has Guatemalan origin and close ties to Minister of Culture Elodio Aragon and other Belizean and Guatemalan officials. It suggested that he had recently been asked to tender his resignation from […]
Written on September 26, 2016 | Posted in
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The Belize National Teachers’ Union continues to have support from its grassroots partners, including COLA. President Geovannie Brackett says the Union’s demands are just the same as their own, and are not unreasonable or unwilling to compromise as depicted by the Prime Minister. Brackett stated that this fight is one that the country needs. […]
Written on September 26, 2016 | Posted in
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As we reported earlier, the sixty-sixth anniversary of the formation of the People’s United Party comes up later this week, on Thursday. The Opposition Party will dedicate this day to unveil a re-worked Good Governance Policy. Party leader John Briceño shared details today. John Briceño, P.U.P. Leader “It’s going to be a very important […]
Written on September 26, 2016 | Posted in
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A fire in Belize City destroyed a man’s home and personal belongings. Marlon Usher of Arlington Drive said he was hospitalized so he wasn’t at home when his house was destroyed by fire around eight on Saturday night. The Belize City man said that he suspects arson. Here’s what he told News Five about the […]
Written on September 26, 2016 | Posted in
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In court today, a suspect in the robbery of Kyrston Hulse, the son of the Minister of Home Affairs, was robbed at gunpoint on September twenty-second on Marine Parade Boulevard, Belize City. Kryston was in the company of his girlfriend celebrating his birthday, when he was robbed at gunpoint of his mother’s four-Runner SUV vehicle. […]
Written on September 26, 2016 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday.
Written on September 26, 2016 | Posted in
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At news time tonight, there are reports from Corozal that a body, believed to be that of a U.S. national, has washed ashore near the Finca Solana area. A white Ford Explorer pickup was also stationed in the area. At this early stage, the identity of the man is yet to be confirmed and so […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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Gringo, a documentary by Showtime producers on the life of John MacAfee, airs this Saturday on the US network. But before that happens controversy is already raging. Producers Nannette Burstein and Jeff Wise set out to follow the trail behind murder allegations against anti-virus mogul for the documentary. But on Thursday, four of John McAfee’s […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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The fifth person to come forward is Edward McKoy of twenty-six Dean Street in Belize City; he is a former security personnel employed by McAfee, who claims he was paid three thousand Belize dollars to provide information through an interview for the documentary. McKoy is the first to provide a paper trail; and News Five […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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Thursday’s four and a half hour meeting between the Prime Minister, Dean Barrow, and members of the Belize National Teachers’ Union concluded just around news time. From the immediate reactions of both sides, it seems there is still no conclusion to a saga begun months ago in the wake of the scandals surrounding the William […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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As we reported on Thursday night in our interview with Prime Minister Dean Barrow following a meeting with the Belize National Teachers Union, he appeared not to be concerned by the one hundred and fifty million dollars in domestic borrowing the Government must undertake to repay the former owners of Belize Telemedia Limited for the […]
Still on finances….this week we learned that Belize faces greater than ever economic strain, due to the expanding debt issues the country faces. Not the least of these is the Superbond, which sees a step-up in payments due next August. On Independence Day the Prime Minister promised he would have a solution before he leaves […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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Hurricane Earl swept through Belize since August but months later the damages left in its trail are multiplying. Several of eighteen fishermen on the island of Caye Caulker say they need significant help to recover from hurricane Earl, which threatens more damage to an industry that has already seen significant damage in other areas such […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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While the fishermen plea for help, on Tuesday we reported that some eight million dollars in relief was issued to the National Emergency Management Organization to start efforts at reconstruction and rehabilitation following the ravages of Hurricane Earl. In addition to relief from major country donors and international organizations, some Southside Belize City-specific relief is […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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In October of 2015, a twenty-three year old resident accused a forty-seven-year old known criminal figure of Belize City, of sodomizing him. The matter has just come up in court where it was learnt that the alleged victim was left traumatized. Basil Willis, aka “ET,” a resident of Black Orchid Street, Saint Martin’s de Porres […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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A Belize City man found himself between a hard place and a rock when a gun was found at the house he is sharing with his brother. The decision which twenty-four year old Steven Bradley, a resident of Sittee Street, Belize City had to make today saved his brother, twenty-one year old Kadeem Bradley, from […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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On Thursday, we reported about Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales’ maiden speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, where he spent about two minutes of a nineteen-minute speech addressing the forensic report on the death of Guatemalan minor Julio Rene Alvarado Ruano in April, essentially contradicting points raised in the report, and […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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On behalf of the B.P.P., Smith called on Belize’s diplomatic leaders and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington to issue a formal rebuke of President Morales’ remarks. He told us that anything less would not be acceptable. On the Phone: Paco Smith, Chairman, B.P.P. “It is obvious that based on the facts, with regards […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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Back to the Prime Minister’s Independence Day speech, which told the story of a recession. If there was any good news to be found in the address, it was about the proliferation of public works. These projects were funded in part by Petro Caribe funds of sixty million dollars given to Belize Infrastructure Limited (BIL) […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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On the matter of public works, according to the Prime Minister, there is more to come. He announced the planned paving and aligning of the Coastal Road, opening up the southern Belize District and northern Stann Creek District to traffic from Belize City and Dangriga. But that is only one of the new infrastructure projects […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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Police generally do a good job sealing off exits and entrances for crime scenes and at court moving prisoners around. But scene security during fires, in contrast, has been a constant struggle for officers who are deployed to cordon off the area and ensure that essential service providers like the Fire Department, B.E.R.T and B.E.L […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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This morning, at a brief ceremony on Coney Drive, the United Nations Population Fund handed over one hundred dignity kits to the Ministry of Human Development to aid with ongoing efforts to provide assistance to families affected by Hurricane Earl. Hundreds of families were displaced by the category one storm that made landfall back on […]
Written on September 23, 2016 | Posted in
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