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In response, Minister of State for Finance, Doctor Carla Barnett, noted that the impact of climate change has forced new thinking in the design and development of infrastructure. She was with the Caribbean Development Bank at the time and knows of the origin of the project and its associated hiccups. But in addition to warning […]
Written on October 25, 2017 | Posted in
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Other bills including amendments to legislation on land, protection of married persons, immigration and temporary residency and BELTRAIDE were also debated, with the International Banking Bill still to come this evening. But the afternoon session was mostly dominated by the debate of the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act, intended to decriminalize possession of ten grams […]
Written on October 25, 2017 | Posted in
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Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, among others, tried to make a correlation between use of legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco in public, and the use of marijuana which is mostly private. He contended that the Bill does not encourage anyone to begin smoking marijuana. But Peyrefitte says the law is there to encourage those […]
Written on October 25, 2017 | Posted in
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On Monday, we reported that the Guatemalan government has decided that the referendum on taking the territorial claim to Belize will be held on March eighteenth 2018. That country is expected to spend some forty million U.S. dollars to carry out the poll to decide the question: “Do you agree that any legal claim by […]
Written on October 25, 2017 | Posted in
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Around eleven-twenty five this morning a fire broke out inside a house on Tigris Street. Five family members, three adults and two children, were inside the house at the time of the blaze. The family escaped unhurt and managed to take out some of their belongings, but most of the bigger items were lost to […]
Written on October 25, 2017 | Posted in
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In less than two weeks over two hundred youths from around the world will gather in Belize for the World Youth Conference. The conference will convene national, regional and international youth leaders under the theme: “Globally running to 2030, Becoming Sustainably Strong” from November sixth to the ninth at the Princess Hotel in Belize City. […]
This evening, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is hosting representatives of several Caribbean countries at a forum at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts here in Belize City. The forum is intended to discuss confronting challenges with respect to boundary disputes in the Caribbean. In addition to Belize’s ongoing dispute with Guatemala, Guyana has […]
Written on October 25, 2017 | Posted in
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Police are on high alert tonight as gun violence in the Lake Independence area of the Old Capital escalates in the wake of the murders of Almendarez siblings, Jason and Shaqwuan, and a cousin, Sydney Lamb. At the heart of the latest hostility is Kenneth “Big Tom” Flowers. The known street figure told the media […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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Big Tom’s name undoubtedly stands among the many nefarious figures in the criminal underworld. Aside from tales of his shady dealings, he’s also into music and manages a roster of up and coming Belizean artists, including Unlimited and Cross Di Nitro. Tonight, his protégés are both making headlines, not for releasing new music, but for […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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Late this evening, News Five spoke with Genevieve Cayetano, Unlimited’s mother. She told us that after being given the runaround, she was finally able to locate her son at the Raccoon Street Police Station where he was being held pending charges. Cayetano says that not only was Unlimited badly injured, he was also slapped with […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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As we told you, the viral stream has caught the attention of Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie, who says that the department will actively pursue Cross Di Nitro and levy criminal charges against him for making those threats. ComPol Whylie also denied allegations that a state-sanctioned hit has been placed on Kenneth ‘Big Tom’ Flowers. […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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A woman remains hospitalized tonight following a case of domestic violence inside her Belize City house. Thirty-one-year-old Nikita Smith was asleep at about five-thirty this morning when her common-law husband stabbed her multiple times and hit her with a cement block. He then turned on his stepdaughter, a twelve-year-old student and when her brother intervened, […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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At around six o’clock this evening, a number of CARICOM Heads of Government, Foreign Ministers and delegations landed at the Phillip Goldson International Airport in a private flight made possible by the Mexican government. They were greeted by B.D.F. soldiers bearing the flags of the different nations in a small ceremony at the airport, from […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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In typical October style, the rains descended over the city and the western part of the country. Today, several schools sent students home and motorists and pedestrians had to navigate their way through streets with several inches of water. The downpour during this time is not unusual for October, but News Five’s Andrea Polanco spoke […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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With five or so weeks to go until the end of the Hurricane Season, we asked the Met Service what is the outlook for the immediate future. Climatologist Ronald Gordon says that it may still be a few wet weeks ahead, and the weather bureau continues to monitor any semblance of a development in the […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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‘Mek Mi Rich’ – it was the televised lottery game that Corozal businessman Curtis Swasey says he came up with and took to Belize Telemedia Limited a few years ago. But a version that made it to the television airwaves, backed by no less than Andre Vega and Sanjay Hotchandani, prompted a lawsuit, which Swasey […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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For the past thirteen days, the media implemented a boycott of the activities of the Belize Police Department, following a breakdown in the mutual relationship shared between both parties. The abrupt departure from what was an agreed mode of operation took place in mid-September when the police department began refusing interview requests from the media, […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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A lie detector test taken by senior officer Allen Whylie back in 2008 continues to make headlines, despite the fact that the result of the polygraph was never determined. That’s because Whylie, while not yet Commissioner of Police, did not bother to follow up on the results, nor was he sanctioned by the United States […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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A former B.D.F. volunteer who shot and killed another volunteer acted in self-defence, according to Judge Adolph Lucas in a ruling handed down this morning in the murder trial of twenty-four-year-old Jermaine Rhaburn. Rhaburn was accused of the shooting death of his colleague with an m-sixteen rifle during an incident at the Melisha Hall compound […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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Today, the U.S. Embassy handed over a renovated hospital to the Belize Defense Force. The U.S. Southern Command’s Humanitarian Civic Action funded the rehabilitation of the medical facility at Price Barracks for over half a million Belize dollars. The hospital will enable the B.D.F. to improve health services offered annually to military and civilian patients […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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The world celebrates United Nations Day annually on October twenty-fourth to honor the organization’s promotion of human rights, social progress, and world peace. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says, “The United Nations works for the entire human family of seven billion people, and cares for the earth, our one and only home.” Locally, the UN […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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Will Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood be dealt with disciplinarily for publicly lashing out against the Belize Police Department in the media on Monday? The former Media Relations Officer has been at loggerheads with the brass of the department ever since he was summarily transferred from that post to a desk job at the Queen Street Precinct. […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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The recent spike in murders in the Jane Usher Boulevard area has raised serious questions about citizen security for residents in that community. A string of homicides, including the shooting deaths of Justin Hyde and Keith Middleton, has prompted the police department to take additional measures to ramp up patrols and presence in that neighborhood. […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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Reports reaching News Five are that just before news time this evening, a female child and her grandmother were said to have been shot. The incident took place near the Puma New Road Service Station. Preliminary information is that the older woman was shot to one hand. The child is said to have sustained potentially […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Education for some time now has been exploring an active and practical way of learning math, science and language arts for primary school students. Over the weekend, a first cohort of teachers graduated from a professional development certification program, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. Facilitated by Mount Saint Vincent University in […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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