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The Guatemalan press reported that Taiwan is to grant that country six hundred fifty million U.S. dollars in assistance to construct the CA-Nine Highway to Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. But the Taiwanese Ambassador to Belize has responded that his country is not in a position to accommodate the multi-million dollar request. According to Foreign Minister Elrington, […]
Minister Elrington was also asked about an embarrassing case that has gone as far as the Caribbean Court of Justice, brought against him by Progresso Heights Limited. The court had given Elrington thirty days to hand over land documents to the company and that deadline is soon approaching, on the twenty-first of August. Elrington was […]
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Doctor Lorna McKay, principal of Gwen Lizarraga High School, was sent on administrative leave on August seventh during the Tropical Storm Franklin scare, when she was visited with a letter from chairman of the Board of Directors of the school, Roosevelt Blades. Blades is the community representative and the right-hand man of Minister of Education […]
In an update to a burglary at Caribbean Tires in Spanish Lookout, Cayo, over the weekend, police have arrested a company employee. He is twenty-two-year-old Omar Gomez, a truck driver of Billy White village. Today, he was taken to San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court and charged with Burglary, Handling Stolen Goods and Damage to Property. Gomez […]
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Corozal police made a significant bust in a joint operation in the village of Chan Chen earlier today. In an open lot, they found nineteen point five pounds of compress cannabis in several parcels. No one was in the area so the drugs are in the custody of police.
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Wednesday night saw the launch of lighting fixtures for what is expected to be the crown jewel of Belize’s sporting facilities, the Marion Jones Sporting Complex. The Mexican Agency for International Development and Cooperation, AMEXCID, has become a key partner in advancing the development of the stadium to represent more sporting disciplines, with the building […]
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Incumbent Belmopan area representative John Saldivar’s slate came in together in the August thirteenth U.D.P. convention for the City Council, freezing out Anna Banner-Guy, who is left to serve out a second term. Banner-Guy supported Saldivar’s rival for deputy party leader, Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber, who was willing to return the favor. Today, Faber […]
With municipal elections coming up in March 2018, the speculation has been that the U.D.P. will be pulling a fast one and calling general elections at the same time so that the Prime Minister can proceed to retire early with no losses under his belt. Senior Minister Wilfred Elrington dispelled that rumor, saying that general […]
The new school year starts in a couple of weeks for primary school children across the country. Today, the Rural Eastern Division of the Police Department had a back to school initiative where almost two hundred children from all thirty-two villages in its jurisdiction received school bags and supplies. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. […]
Today, we also found politicians tying down loose ends in assisting residents with expenses for the new school year. This morning, Albert Area Representative Tracy Panton received a donation from Taiwanese Ambassador Charles Liu. A cheque for five thousand dollars, earmarked for the people of Albert, was handed over to Panton as the first of […]
For the past three to four years, the Samuel Haynes Institute of Excellence has been facilitating a landscaping and beautification program for single mothers and youths from the Pickstock constituency. Over a thousand plants and flowers have been rooted across the area throughout the years and today, the facility received a donation of rakes and […]
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Late this evening, News Five has been able to get a sneak peek at the 2012-2013 Auditor General’s Report which is expected to be tabled this Friday in the House. The document is voluminous so it will take more time to go through its content page by page. But from what we have seen so […]
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There are more details available tonight on the state of finances of the Belizean Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Last week, Shyne Barrow resigned abruptly when it became known that his predecessor Heather Cunningham and current Chair of BSCAP, was charging more than half a million dollars in fees for 2010 to 2013, even […]
Late this evening, BSCAP’s chairwoman, attorney Heather Cunningham, responded to claims being made by Shyne during a press conference earlier today. Those statements cast a negative light on Cunningham, as well as the organization because she is, for all intents and purposes, being accused of financial mismanagement during her term as C.E.O. While Shyne provided […]
Cunningham has taken umbrage to the allegations made by Shyne because she says they are slanderous. According to the chairwoman, the twenty-five hundred dollars that has been earmarked for distribution to member artists is the sum of what has been collected in revenue between 2014 and 2016. On the Phone: Heather Cunningham, Chairperson, BSCAP […]
At news time this evening, police confirmed that Jafari Castro and Gilbert Franklin are in police custody pending charges. The duo was detained earlier today in the south side of Belize City. Assistant Commissioner of Police responsible for Operations, Edward Broaster, told us earlier that the third suspect in the beating of basket ball player […]
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As police were announcing the arrest of twenty-one-year-old Christian Espat on Monday evening for charges of attempted murder, deadly means of harm and dangerous harm for a shooting incident on Ambergris Caye over the weekend, he was being brought to Belize City and arraigned even before getting to speak with attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley. Espat […]
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It’s been a month since the last increase at the pumps, but get ready for another crunching increase in fuel prices. At midnight tonight, regular gasoline rises by a whopping fifty-one cents, to ten dollars twenty-one cents from nine dollars seventy cents. Diesel prices sit at eight dollars eighty-two cents, rising from eight dollars sixty-eight […]
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One week ago, Police Constable Franklin Ramirez was busted by fellow officers in the Mobile Interdiction Team along with three civilians. He was driving a vehicle carrying a gun hidden secretly under the dashboard coming across from Guatemala. He was charged for firearm and ammunition offenses and is out on bail but his troubles are […]
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San Ignacio police continue to investigate the burglary of the Caribbean Tires depot in Spanish Lookout, Cayo District, which is believed to be an inside job. On Saturday some twenty thousand U.S. dollars in cash; five thousand in cheques and an undisclosed amount in Belizean currency were stolen but a majority of it was almost […]
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Over the weekend San Ignacio police received six Guatemalan nationals – thirty-eight years old Agusto Perez Gonzalez of Dolores, Petén; twenty-six years old Wilfredo Antoniel Chavez of Barrio Nuevo; eighteen year old Dimas Espana of Las Brisas; and three minors all seventeen years of age. They were caught digging for gold deposits inside a pit […]
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A motorcycle stolen from the Ministry of Education has been recovered by police from the possession of a fisherman. Today in court, Lerone Williams, a resident of Faber’s Road in Belize City, was arraigned for handling stolen goods. He appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser and pleaded not guilty to the charge. Williams […]
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The Professional Standards Branch of the Belize Police Department is inundated with cases of alleged police misconduct and there were several updates coming out of Monday’s press conference with its head, Assistant Commissioner Chester Williams. Back in June, Chunox resident, Richard Allen Garcia, got into a stand-off with police. The officers dispatched from Corozal Town […]
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In Punta Gorda, two cops have been accused of shaking down a school principal for money to hush up an alleged violation of insurance expiration. They agreed to accept money to avoid towing away her vehicle and revoking her drivers’ license. But they didn’t count on getting caught red-handed with the money by their own […]
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Though not confirmed, there are reports of an altercation between Customs and a group of Belizeans in the Santa Cruz area of Orange Walk. This village is particularly known for contraband activities and has been difficult to police by the department. The report is that one person, identified as Dwayne Almendarez was shot to the […]
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