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Three Belizean football athletes, twelve-year-old Keffer Pertau and thirteen-year-olds Kayia Requeña and Javan Belisle left Belize today en route to Casa Grande in Arizona, U.S.A. to participate in the Rush Select 2004/2005 Boys I.D. Camp. The three were chosen among sixty other boys and girls who will be trained and their performance evaluated. At the […]
Written on November 8, 2017 | Posted in
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There’s a new leader at the helm of the Young Women’s Christian Association. In the YWCA’s sixty plus years of service to Belize, Deanna Gomez is only its ninth General Secretary. She succeeds Sonia Linares, who is retiring after twenty-six years on the job. Gomez is recognized as a senior executive with twenty-five years of […]
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A small car, reportedly travelling at high speed collided into a cargo truck and the passengers are lucky to be alive. The near fatal traffic accident happened this morning on the George Price Highway. Three persons were injured; two of them were transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, while a third person, Warren Davis, […]
Written on November 7, 2017 | Posted in
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Media personality Alfonso Noble is due back in court on January twenty-fourth, 2018, for a preliminary inquiry into the indictable charges of manslaughter by negligence, among others stemming from a traffic accident on Christmas Eve of 2016. But tonight, News Five understands that a major settlement has been reached with Andrea Myers, the widow of […]
The Immigration Department made a significant arrest today. Two Asian nationals are tonight in custody at the Belmopan police station where they are being investigated for immigration offenses. Chinese national Zheng Yuanran arrived in Belize on Sunday and reports are that by Monday, he went to the Social Security Board office in Belmopan to apply […]
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Two foreign ministers, the current and the former, were going at it in court today going back to a case when Wilfred Elrington was also the Attorney General. In July, the Caribbean Court of Justice ruled that principal of Pitts and Elrington firm, Wilfred Elrington, must return all the conveyancing documents that Progresso Heights Limited […]
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And while Elrington continues to plead innocence or ignorance on what happened to the documents, rival Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay laid into him for what he believes is unnecessarily dragging out the case for seven years and frustrating his clients. Representing Progresso Heights Limited, Courtenay chastised Elrington for first attempting to block the post-hearing appeal […]
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In the high court, forty-six-year-old Glenford Gilbert Bermudez, the man who shot and killed his wife, was in court today for mitigation. Bermudez said he is sorry for his actions and apologized to the children of forty-year-old Racquel Violet Bermudez who was killed on November twenty-second, 2007. In mitigation plea before Justice Adolph Lucas in […]
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On Monday night, we reported on the murder of eighteen-year-old Oscar Obando. The teen was shot to the chest and left for dead on a farm between Belize and Guatemala. There are more questions than answers about what Obando was doing in the area and who killed him. So far, police do not have a […]
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A young woman remains in a critical condition inside the Intensive Care Unit of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a near fatal shooting in the Corozal District almost a week ago. Last Wednesday morning around eight-thirty, twenty-two-year-old Brenda Jandrez was shot to the abdomen while inside her house. Jandrez was at home along with […]
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The Opposition People’s United Party announced a week ago tonight that it had filed a motion in the Senate to allow for debate on amending the Maritime Areas Act of 1992. That motion will be officially announced at the next meeting of the Senate by the lead P.U.P. Senator, Eamon Courtenay. The goal is to […]
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It was a rare moment at the Supreme Court this morning: Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington giving the press an interview on issues related to Guatemala, with former Foreign Minister, Senator Eamon Courtenay, appearing to listen keenly in the background. And he surprised the press by going to the Guatemala issue first rather than […]
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Senator Eamon Courtenay told News Five that the P.U.P.’s three Senators hope to join with the social partner Senators to get the matter debated in the Senate, preferably with but possibly without governmental support, after which it would go to the House once the motion passes. But the “excuses” raised by Foreign Minister Elrington will […]
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As stated earlier by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the issue has come up in cabinet. On Thursday last, deputy Prime Minster Patrick Faber was quizzed about it. He said that the hands of cabinet ministers have been freed for them to vote their conscience. Patrick Faber, Deputy Prime Minister “It is a matter […]
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On Monday, we told you that the Guatemalan public awareness campaign as to the March eighteenth, 2018 referendum on settlement of the unfounded claim on Belize at the International Court of Justice re-introduces a rather offensive item. We speak specifically of a map of Guatemala that includes Belize as the disputed “twenty-third province,” with a […]
Similar to Elrington, we posed the question of what can be done to counter the offensive Guatemalan map which affixes Belize as part of its territory to Senator Eamon Courtenay. The former Foreign Affairs Minister first questioned what the Government’s position was, and upon being told there was apparently none, incredulously issued out a laundry […]
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The religious community continues to sound off on the issue of marijuana use and decriminalization. Despite having lost ground with the government in respect of its protest to the recent passage of an associated law, the Council of Churches remains vocal in its objection. This morning, Pastor Lance Lewis, the President of the National Evangelical […]
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On Friday, Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte called into question the moral authority of the church on the issue of marijuana since it has been accused, and in some instances found guilty, of a number of atrocities. Nonetheless, its representatives firmly believe that within a democratic society they ought to be able to enjoy the freedom […]
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The Immigration Department has quickly responded to allegations raised on this newscast on Friday by members of the LGBT community. Director Diana Locke has told executive director of the United Belize Advocacy Movement Caleb Orozco by email that her office has not received any application for visas from any Haitian national other than those attending […]
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The World Youth Conference 2017 is being held under the theme, “Globally Running to 2030, Becoming Sustainably Strong.” The three-day meeting of youth leaders from across the world commenced today at the Ramada Belize City Princess. At the end of the conference, the Mahogany Declaration will be signed by all participants, which will lay out […]
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On Friday night, businessman Amit Moryani was brutally killed in Orange Walk Town, while attempting to defend his mother who was under attack by armed robbers. A month ago, Daniel Carillo was gunned down as he headed home. Aside from murders, there has been a growing number of crimes happening in that municipality. But the […]
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Belize’s Customs and Excise Department is meeting with its partners on the National Committee for Trade Facilitation all this week in Belize City to discuss efforts to increase volume of trade. The Brussels, Belgium-based World Customs Organization sent two of its experts to assist with the consultation process. But the Customs and Excise Department has […]
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The Bliss Center for the Performing Arts is the venue for the Gwangdae’s Korean folk performance, “Spin Jump Fly.” Just before news time tonight, the Korean Embassy in El Salvador which is accredited to Belize showcased Korean traditional dance, percussion instruments and the comedy of the circus. “Spin Jump Fly” is being performed by ten […]
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There were four murders between Friday night and Monday morning in San Pedro, Orange Walk, Benque and in Belize City. The carnage started early on Friday night here in the Old Capital where a twenty-year-old delivery man was shot and killed. Dedron McKay was visiting with family when he was gunned down in the yard […]
Written on November 6, 2017 | Posted in
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Minutes later in Orange Walk, a businessman was murdered in front of his business on Friday night. Thirty-seven-year-old Amit Moryani was inside his store when he saw two men assaulting his mother, Babita. He ran out to assist her and that is when one of the assailants shot and killed him. The killers, nevertheless, escaped […]
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