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We reported on Tuesday night, that the O.A.S. Secretary General Luis Miguel Almagro arrives in Belize on Thursday though the nature of his visit has not been confirmed. A number of high-level meetings are on the agenda for the overnight visit, including one with the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister. Almagro is heading here […]
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The house belonging to the Scott family of Prince Street, Belize City was struck by fire this morning. Six family members occupied the upper flat of the two-storey wooden building where the fire broke. Arliee Scott, who lives on the ground floor cried out for help and the fire department soon arrived on the scene […]
Over the past three weekends, there has been a considerable increase in homicides across the country; the most recent being a string of unrelated murders, including that of sixty-six-year-old Elbert Gillett. The elderly cab driver was shot and killed, before being dumped in a secluded area near Belizean Beach. His body was found in an […]
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When will Belize City get a functioning cruise port? It has been a favourite question of tour operators who see potential in the cruise product whether at Stake Bank off the north coast or in Port Loyola on Southside. The former has been at a standstill since developer Michael Feinstein asked for an exclusive contract […]
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Still on the tourism industry…Is the honeymoon over for Norwegian Cruise Lines? Their Harvest Caye project was intended as an exclusive footprint in Belize for the cruise line, which shared the Belize City port with rivals Carnival and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines among others. But the company has, for unknown reasons, reduced its port calls […]
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An American national lost his life on Tuesday evening when he drowned in Placencia. Fifty-three-year-old Steven Gail Wine, from his hometown of Erie, Colorado, was vacationing on the peninsula when he decided to go swimming. Sometime around six-thirty p.m., Wine left his common-law wife Annie Berrardi and other members of his family at the Barefoot […]
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There is a most disturbing report of cyber bullying against a minor by an alleged sexual predator. A thirteen-year-old student from the Belmopan area has reported to police that man from the Camalote area whom she knew and had been communicating with, asked her to send him nude photos of herself. The incident happened last […]
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Back to the senate hearings…The second witness at today’s public hearing, Francisco Gonzalez, was a busy man for most of 2013 and early in 2014. He was point man for the Audit team investigating the Immigration Department for their special audit and had been working with them around the clock as a database administrator with […]
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Gonzalez spent most of the session leading Senators through an explanation of how technological failures with the machine readable passport system were an underlying cause of the problems within the Immigration Department at the time of the audit report. With news of the Government’s plans to purchase a new machine and the concurrent problems with […]
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The village of Biscayne stretches for five miles on the Philip Goldson Highway. Anyone travelling on the highway will detect the hustle and bustle among the population of over seven hundred. But the villagers have had one major setback…for decades they haven’t had potable water. This morning, a water system was finally inaugurated which brings […]
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To raise awareness of the rights of consumers, March fifteenth is set aside to commemorate World Consumer Rights Day. Since the early 1980’s, the day is celebrated annually to instigate action among citizens for the international consumer movement. It provides a platform for consumers to voice challenges they face and ensures that their rights are […]
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There’s been a lot tonight on the tourism industry…Saturday’s Southwest Airlines’ touchdown at the Philip Goldson International Airport will not be the last arrival of an airline in Belize for the year. Apart from Southwest’s own introduction of a Fort Lauderdale to Belize flight in June, two other well-known airlines will launch new flights, one […]
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The identity of a female who was stabbed multiple times, her throat slit and then set on fire has been determined. Her body was found over the weekend at the Belmopan dumpsite by a caretaker. She had been burnt beyond recognition, but tattoos on her arm have led police to her identity. News Five’s Duane […]
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On Monday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow said that Superbond Three point Oh was a done deal. Financial Secretary Joseph Waight this evening confirmed to News Five that some eighty-seven percent of bondholders have now subscribed to the new terms and conditions. The custodian of the offer has so informed, but Waight says that a formal […]
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News Five has begun its review of the 2017-2018 General Revenue and Appropriations Bill, also known as the Budget, which is scheduled to be debated on the second reading on Thursday, March twenty-third and Friday, March twenty-fourth. The Government of Belize is projecting a primary surplus for the first time in several years of just […]
Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin has reserved judgment in the case of the Belize Bank Limited and the Government of Belize after hearing submissions from both parties. A second day of litigation resumed this morning in the Supreme Court where a cadre of lawyers, led by senior counsels Eamon Courtenay and Denys Barrow, concluded their arguments. […]
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The question of whether or not the case is deliberately being retried is also central to the argument. According to Barrow, government decided at the eleventh hour to challenge the enforcement proceedings. Despite being able to mount a successful legal challenge, the Ashcroft Group is seeking enforcement in another jurisdiction. Barrow says that is a […]
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Courtenay maintains that government took the decision of the CCJ to the U.S. jurisdiction and requested that the enforcement not be granted. Barrow, on the other hand, says that the decision of the high court is being undermined by the actions of the Belize Bank attorney. Eamon Courtenay, Attorney for Belize Bank Ltd. “My […]
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Is the Government conceding that the former owners of Belize Telemedia Limited have triumphed in relation to the second payment of the B.T.L. settlement? It is due later this year and part of the hefty price tag has to do with the Accommodation Agreement scorned by Government. There is a dispute as to the actual […]
It has not been officially announced, but the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro arrives in Belize this Thursday. This is Almagro’s second visit to Belize, the first was last April when he was present for the program for Promoting a Culture of Peace facilitated by the O.A.S. Peace Fund in […]
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The huge expanse of the Chiquibul National Park has been under continuous threat for all sorts of illegal activities over the years. The protected area has an abundance of highly sought natural resources by persons from across the border. Tonight, the news is that the harvesting of xaté and the poaching of the scarlet macaw […]
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As we first reported last week, the Government is demanding ten percent of the revenue of statutory bodies to go into the Consolidated Revenue Fund. A Cabinet committee is reviewing the performance of statutory bodies to see where they can improve their performance, with the ultimate plan of regulation by Government through financing. According to […]
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Three witnesses are to be called for Wednesday’s public hearing of the Senate Special Select Committee. But the testimonies of former Deputy Mayor of Belize City, Eric Chang, and former Financial Controller of the Belize City Council, Patrick Tillett, delivered last Wednesday, still resonate. While both men deny untoward involvement in Immigration activities such as […]
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It may be a while before any Ministers of Government are called before the Senate Special Select Committee on Immigration, but quite a few, past and present, have had to sweat out recent weeks as their names were called in relation to overweening influence in the activities of the Department. Belize Rural South representative and […]
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Interdicted police officer, Corporal Darrel Usher, who over the weekend was allegedly busted with a huge amount of cannabis, was today arraigned after a number of issues delayed his arraignment on Monday at the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. At ten o’clock this morning, the officer appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith and was read […]
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