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So who will take over from Gillett at the Belmopan Formation; and will Superintendent Daniel Arzu remain as Deputy Regional Commander at Eastern Division South? Here’s that update from Gillett. Sr. Supt. Howell Gillett, Newly Assigned Regional Commander, Eastern Division South “I am not aware that anybody has been identified to take over the […]
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Around six o’clock on Thursday evening, there was a ruckus outside the Michael Finnegan Market, Belize City that quickly became violent. Officers attached to the Special Patrol Unit were caught on camera man-handling avocado farmer, Lauriel Novelo. The video shows three officers dressed in camouflage uniforms – at least one holding a high powered rifle […]
This evening, the nineteen-year-old resident of San Victor visited News Five along with his family. Sister Maria Cowo said that while he was held at the Racoon Street Police Station, officers harassed and beat him, but ultimately no charges were laid after an inspection done by the Customs Department and B.A.H.A. Now according to Cowo, […]
A press conference will be held on Monday to announce the management company to take over the running of the brand new thirty-three million dollars Civic Center. The construction of the state-of-the-art facility, which has five courts and can be used as a hurricane shelter, concluded since last year, but its opening had been put […]
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Police this afternoon confirmed that the single person held in connection with a suspected drug plane that crash landed in the Cuatro Leguas area of Blue Creek, Orange Walk around midnight on Wednesday has been released. The individual is said to be highly connected and credible information suggests that the Police Department has been shaken […]
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Twenty-thousand Strong? Not quite – but they descended on Belize City nevertheless with their call for gender parity. This year, the women rallied for change with “Nurturing the Next Generation – hashtag press for progress” theme. Women make up over fifty percent of Belize’s population but are still largely disadvantaged when compared to men. Putting […]
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There is breaking news to report tonight. Just minutes ago, there was a murder in Belize City where a man has reportedly been shot and killed near the corners of King Street and West Canal. Reports are the murder victim was inside his vehicle when he was gunned down. A News Five team is on […]
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The outspoken folks at the Federation of Cruise Tourism Associations had been quiet for some time, but today they turned up the heat on Government, again. The organization wants to put in place an initiative that would allow only local operators to conduct tours at a well-known archeological site. FECTAB says the concept is being […]
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Since the beginning of the year, gang violence and gang-related murders are on the rise with the south side of the city particularly hit. 2017 ended with the second highest record number of murders and the start of 2018 is on the same trend. Gillett says that the fight against gangs and crime cannot be […]
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But will there be a return of the method of mediation with gang members as was employed by ACP Chester Williams alongside Dianne Finnegan and Nuri Mohammed? That initiative was put on hold for months, despite data indicating that the intervention worked in the reduction of violent crimes. Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett says that he’ll […]
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Gwen Liz High School continues to face a series of administrative troubles, this time at its board level. News Five understands that job interviews were being held this afternoon for prospective candidates to fill a vacancy for bursar. That session, we are told, was conducted by the school’s principal, as well as former councilor Alifa […]
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The Belize Agro-Productive Sector Group will meet with Prime Minister Dean Barrow and other top officials next Wednesday ahead of the Budget Debate. During the presentation on March ninth, the Prime Minister spoke of lifting of exemptions to General Sales Tax on land preparation for agriculture, harvesting, and crop dusting services as part of additional […]
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Twenty-year-old Esmir Garrido has been charged with grievous harm and use of deadly means of harm on taxi driver Reginald Garoy. Garoy was shot and injured in the right side of the cheek and right ring finger on February eleventh on East Canal, near the Rocky Road Bridge. Garoy was along with another man hanging […]
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The Court of Appeal this morning handed down a decision in the case of Belize Pickwick Club Hotel Limited and Belize Pickwick Club Limited, against Princess Entertainment Limited, Golden Princess Entertainment Limited, and their directors Sudi Ozkan and Meh-met Kara-go-zog-lu. It was an appeal from the decision of Supreme Court Justice Courtney Abel. Pickwick charged […]
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Thirty-three residents at the Sister Cecilia Home for the Elderly were treated to a tea party by Unicomer Belize as the company undertook a week-long of activities in volunteerism. Over the past two weeks, the home got a fifteen-thousand-dollar facelift and the folks had every reason to celebrate today. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. […]
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For two years now, a national sheep and goat-breeding center at the Central Farm has been in operation to develop this small sector and so farmers who are rearing sheep and goats will see changes in breed quality and even new markets for exportation. On Thursday, The National Sheep and Goat Breeding Center at Central […]
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The third suspected drug plane in two weeks was found deep in the farmlands of Blue Creek, Orange Walk around midnight on Wednesday. The area where the plane crash landed is called “Cuatros Lenguas.” It is believed its cargo had been removed and was transported across the Rio Hondo River to Mexico. Three vehicles were […]
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Twenty-nine year old Emil Audinett was a marked man and on Wednesday night he ran out of luck. He was sitting inside his home on Ordonez Street, Belize City, with his common-law-wife when a gunman entered the house and opened fire. Audinett was shot multiple times on the chest and head and died instantly in […]
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Fifty-two-year-old Bernadine Lauriano was shot and killed inside her home last Friday, as she sat in the living room with her two children. The mother of seven was injured multiple times when a lone assailant entered their yard on Aloe Vera Street and opened fire on them. Her daughter nine-year-old Bernadine Lauriano was injured while […]
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Mark Anthony Clarke, an I.T. technician, was stabbed as many as seventy-one times and dumped near a slaughterhouse along the San Jomal Road in the Corozal District. His body was later discovered on Saturday afternoon. The brutal slaying of the forty-one-year-old resulted in the detention of several persons, all of whom have been released due […]
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The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital says that it is operating on an ‘emergency mode’ after a section of the hospital’s roof collapsed. According to the hospital, a preliminary structural assessment shows a need for immediate reinforcement to a section of the building. The necessary repair has started and is affecting key areas within the K.H.M.H., […]
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At news time, representatives of some of Belize’s largest agricultural groups have written to Prime Minister Dean Barrow and other senior government officials. The Belize Agro-Productive Sector Group, after consultations among its members, says the lifting of exemptions to General Sales Tax on land preparation for agriculture, harvesting, and crop dusting services “could have some […]
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One man who heartily agrees with the Belize Agro-Productive Sector Group is Orange Walk South representative and farmers’ advocate Jose Mai. He tells News Five that it is consumers who will really pay because of the state of affairs in agriculture. He also questioned whether Government was properly advised prior to the Budget announcement. […]
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The announcement comes at a dicey time for the industry, which is coming off weather-related damage to crops caused by rains across Belize. When we visited San Carlos village in Orange Walk in the beginning of February, farmers were preparing to harvest potatoes, corn, beans and other crops. But they have since sustained extensive damages […]
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There is some progress to report concerning the implementation of the historic April 2015 Consent Order on communal land rights. The Maya Leaders Alliance and Toledo Alcaldes Association, representing the Maya villages of the Toledo District, and the Government of Belize have set some deadlines concerning the setting up of a dispute resolution framework between […]
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