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Mexico is marking three important anniversaries in this month of February. On the fifth, it was one hundred years since the publication of the Constitution of 1917 during the Mexican Revolution. On the tenth, the Army marked its one hundred and fourth anniversary of formation, also during the Revolution, and the Air Force does the […]
The Mexican Constitution was created in the city of Queretaro and was widely acclaimed for its modern inclusion of a ‘bill of rights’ for the Mexican people. It has had a long shelf life, and has held up through many crises and a changing international landscape. Carrillo tells us that the Constitution is the Mexican […]
The University of Belize has a new president. He is professor Clement Sankat, former Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal of The University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago. Professor Sankat was born in Guyana and is trained as a chartered professional engineer. He succeeds Alan Slusher who held the post […]
News Five notes the passing of British international law attorney Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, who died on February eighth. He has represented many countries in land and maritime boundary cases including Barbados against Trinidad and Tobago, Bahrain, Chile, El Salvador, Israel, Malta and Namibia. He served as ad hoc Judge of the International Court of Justice […]
The National Sports Council under the new leadership of Interim Executive Director, Charlie Slusher, and in conjunction with the Queen Square Community has given a facelift to a sporting facility in that south side constituency represented by the Prime Minister. The basketball court, like many other recreational spaces and pitches across the Old Capital, was […]
The Caribbean Local Economic Development (CARILED) project closed off its first phase after almost five years in Belize. The project uses Local Economic Development as a participatory process to bring communities and other groups to form partnerships with the leadership of local government. By bringing together these bodies local economic activities are stimulated, leading to […]
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Belize’s first native Roman Catholic Bishop, The Most Reverend Osmond Peter Martin of Dangriga, is dead. He died, at the age of eighty-seven, sometime after three this morning at home of natural causes. Bishop Martin was ordained a bishop in 1982 after entering the priesthood in 1959, and after a short time as auxiliary bishop, […]
There has not been a murder in the City since February third when Keimar Nicholas succumbed to shooting injuries sustained days earlier. But early on Wednesday night, gunshots were heard in the south side of the city. Twenty-one-year-old Jason Cortez of Balan Street was shot multiple times as he walked on Western Avenue. He died […]
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A murder conviction was secured today in the courts. After languishing inside a prison cell at the remand section for more than one year after his trial concluded, Supreme Court judge, Troadio Gonzalez made a ruling in the murder case against thirty-year-old Byron James. James was accused for the May ninth 2012 murder of Frank […]
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Media Officer of the Belize Police Department, Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood also gave the media an update to the shooting of Alrick August, which occurred on February ninth on Western Avenue in Belize City. The twenty-three year old remains in a critical condition inside the Intensive Care Unit of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, and while […]
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Senior Counsel Denys Barrow has been a key Government helpmate in legal cases for many years, but he now appears to be moving on. He has confirmed that he has been selected by the regionally appointed and non-political Judicial and Legal Services Commission to take up an appointment as a judge on the Caribbean Court […]
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The Immigration Department has an entrenched culture of corruption and hustling, from the top of the ladder to the bottom. That is what former administrative officer in the Department Teresita Castellanos bravely said at Wednesday’s public hearings of the Senate Special Select Committee. The issue of this culture has been brought up to multiple visitors […]
Teresita Castellanos is a seasoned public officer. She provided scandalous details on Wednesday at the Senate hearings about the rot at the Immigration Department. She says she has been a public officer for thirty years and until she went to the Department of Immigration in 2011, she had said she only heard about the goings-on […]
On Wednesday we told you of the run-in between then-port commander in charge of Immigration Services in Belmopan, George Reynolds, and Patrick Tillett, financial controller of the Belize City Council, at Reynolds’ Belmopan office. Tillett and former deputy Mayor Eric Chang had come into possession of eight missing visa foils, which were later learned to […]
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George Reynolds was less circumspect than his former colleague Teresita Castellanos on the issue of a culture of corruption in the Department. He said that as far as his work was concerned he did it and there were no issues. But he does agree that the Department needs specific guidelines and that the higher-ups cannot […]
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There is a disturbing report of a fifteen year old girl from Succotz Village, Cayo District, who claims she was raped on Valentine’s Day. The horrible incident reportedly occurred at a house located on Riverside Street, Benque Viejo. According to the minor, around ten a.m. that day, she was along with two men drinking alcohol […]
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Belize Emergency Response Team (BERT) is as close to an official ambulance service as Belize has, boasting more than a decade of operation despite recent financial issues. So it came as a surprise to some that a Mexican ambulance from Cancun was seen near the Ramada Princess Hotel, apparently on standby for Mexicans attending an […]
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At this station, we want to wish the Queen of Brukdown, Leela Vernon, a speedy recovery. Leela has been hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the K.H.M.H. since last Friday ailing with kidney complications. The Punta Gorda born singer is known for a wide repertoire of Kriol songs, including one widely celebrated for its […]
The Ministry of Agriculture has yet to publicly comment on the issue of rotting potatoes that farmers across the country have been unable to get sold due to competition from Mexican potatoes imported by Belizeans on a weekly basis. But there is an agricultural and diplomatic triumph to report tonight in agriculture: the first shipment […]
Over a week ago, we told you about the discovery of what is believed to be a new species of sharks in Belize. Since 2000, a researcher from the Florida International University has been working in Belize on a number of fisheries projects including the biology of sharks. So, about seventeen years ago the researcher […]
Police Officers, Civilian Staff of the Department and community members were recognized today by the Belize Police Department. Over one hundred officers received awards in different categories as a part of the work they did in 2016. News Five spoke with Compol Allen Whylie who told us why these awards matter to the Police Department: […]
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High schools from across Belize District converged at the Gateway Youth facility near the Gwen Lizarraga High School in Belize City for the launch of an innovation challenge by the Ministry of Education. The ministry in collaboration with Price WaterhouseCoopers and Peace Work International are inviting the schools to come up with a creative project […]
There is breaking news of a shooting in the city. It happened at around six-forty p.m. in the Saint Martin’s De Porres area. One person, identified as Jason Cortez, was shot at the corner of Electric and Western Avenues and reports to our newsroom is that the victim has succumbed. We’ll have more on this […]
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The public hearings of the Senate Special Select Committee on Immigration have moved into high gear and today under oath, a bombshell was dropped from an unexpected corner. In the first six sessions of the Committee, from the end of November to the end of January, not counting holidays and other breaks, just three witnesses […]
Castellanos went on to accuse immigration officers of treating ‘civilian’ officers like herself as ‘intruders’ at the Department and even cannibalizing their own who were doing the right thing. She added that efforts by Maria Marin as Acting Director, among others, to clean up the Department were undercut by the lack of support from the […]
