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The University of Belize and the National Institute of Culture and History signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on matters of education, history and culture. The agreement has been in the pipeline for some time, but with the University on the verge of implementing new programmes, the formalizing of the collaboration is right […]
Written on August 15, 2018 | Posted in
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A three-day language disorder workshop wrapped up today in Belize City. The training which aimed to evaluate the communication disorder among diverse populations targeted thirty-nine special education teaches and rehabilitation officers from across the country. The Pan American Health Organisation sponsored the event and it was organized by the Inspiration Center in collaboration with the […]
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The spirit of the annual September Celebrations has been dampened somewhat with a dismal announcement coming out of City Hall this evening. A press release issued by the Belize City Council informs that the Municipal Fair which succeeds the Citizens’ Parade on the Tenth of September has been canceled. That’s because, according to CitCo, the […]
Written on August 14, 2018 | Posted in
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In speaking with Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber this morning, News Five was made to understand that the overall budget for this year’s festivities has taken a hit, Belize City not being the only municipality that will be affected. The cutback, says the Chair of the National Celebrations Commission, is due in part to a […]
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A former councilor tells News Five that the yearly subsidy is approximately eighty thousand dollars. Twenty percent less is roughly sixty-four thousand dollars. That individual, along with Deputy Prime Minister Faber, agrees that the sum is still workable, considering the fact that other revenue generating activities can be held on the day that would help […]
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There are additional details coming out of an investigation into missing heavy equipment that are the property of the Belize City Council. A bulldozer, as well as a flatbed trailer, has been recovered; however, other pieces of machinery are still unaccounted for. Deputy Mayor Oscar Arnold provided an update on the items earlier today. […]
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In an interview last week, former Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley confirmed to News Five that despite having made repeated requests about the missing equipment, the Caterpillar Bulldozer, the eighteen feet flatbed trailer, and the John Deer tractor were never delivered to the council. But the former councilor responsible for Works says otherwise. Dean Samuels, […]
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We are seventeen days away from the culmination of the mass re-registration exercise. As of August eleventh, a total of ninety thousand, eight hundred and seventy-three applications have been received by the Election and Boundaries Department. Last week, nine thousand, three hundred and twenty applications were submitted. This demonstrates another decrease when compared to the […]
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A five-year ban has been levied against twenty-seven-year-old football player, Darnel Mossiah for punching referee Yuri Daniels. The National Sports Council has condemned what it describes as a cowardly act committed by Mossiah against Daniels. The council says it condemns any act of violence towards any sports official and even more so, any acts of […]
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Former Belize City Councilor Dean Samuels has officially resigned from his government job in the Ministry of Works. He had to do so in order to contest the U.D.P.’s Port Loyola Convention. He is going up against Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, former Belize City Councilor Philip Willoughby and AC. Castillo. Samuels summoned the media this […]
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When the media interviewed Port Loyola Area Representative Anthony Martinez last week, he expressed support for Michael Peyrefitte. But according to Dean Samuels, Martinez’s support was misplaced because Martinez was under the impression that he would not run. Dean Samuels, U.D.P. Candidate, Port Loyola “Everybody knows in Port Loyola, you can go anywhere here; […]
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Also contesting the U.D.P. Port Loyola Convention is AC. Castillo. The former disc jockey and cyclist received his official acceptance letter earlier this month and today he stopped by to explained why he is the best candidate. AC. Castillo, U.D.P. Candidate, Port Loyola “I decided to throw my name in the game just for […]
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The Belize Sugar Industries has announced that it will invest an additional forty million dollars over the next eighteen months to improve efficiency and further increase value-added production to the benefit of the sugar industry. In September 2017, B.S.I. invested twenty-two million dollars to increase production of value added, direct consumption sugars at its Tower […]
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Mexican Senator Luisa Maria Calderon Hinojosa is in Belize to meet with the Ministers and C.E.O.s from the Ministries of Education, Agriculture, Health and Human Development. The mission is for Belize to join some seventeen other countries in the strengthening of school feeding programmes in the framework of the Hunger Free Latin America and Caribbean […]
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The Food and Agriculture Organization, better known as F.A.O., has been assisting Belize in the fight against malnutrition and hunger. Back in November of 2017, a project to improve food and nutrition security and encourage healthy eating habits for communities in southern Belize was officially launched in which gardens were constructed as part of a […]
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By now you’ve seen or heard of the national female volleyball team. They made history last week in the Central American Volleyball Championships when they defeated Costa Rica – a team that had not lost a game in more than fifteen years. And then they went on to get the silver medal in the competition […]
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And now to the costs. President Allan Sharp told the press today that getting to the championship and producing the result has been years of hard work that has required significant investment and sacrifices on the team’s behalf. But getting the dream team ready for this regional competition has cost over two hundred thousand dollars […]
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As you heard, Sharp says that there has been some verbal commitment of some form of assistance from G.O.B. towards the costs accumulated for the association to prepare the team and host the regional event. Today, he also discussed other pressing needs of the association – top of the agenda is their own facility. The […]
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Who has made the cut and will compete in the finals of season two of KTV the Remix? Find out tonight right here on Channel Five as five of the six performers advance and take to the stage at the Bliss for the final leg of the competition, before the winners will be announced. Tonight, […]
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It was a bloody weekend across the country, with four murders recorded in three districts. Two persons were killed in separate stabbing incidents in Belmopan, a man was bludgeoned to death with a crowbar in Hopkins and a fourth died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital two months after he was shot in the face. […]
Written on August 13, 2018 | Posted in
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There were two murders in Belmopan on Saturday night. Both victims were stabbed to the neck and later succumbed at the Western Regional Hospital. The first fatal stabbing happened on Rose Garden Street at around seven o’clock. The victim is thirty-two year old Ronnie Daly. He was with some friends when he was approached by […]
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A little less than five hours later, nineteen-year-old Franklin Tut became the second victim to be fatally stabbed in Belmopan on Saturday night. It happened sometime before midnight inside Mary’s bar in the Maya Mopan area. Tut ran inside the bar with the intention to flee from a person with whom he was arguing with […]
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He was shot two months ago and ever since then, Eugene Henderson Junior has been fighting for his life. Henderson Junior was given a fifty percent chance of survival; he and his family kept that hope for two months, but on Friday, it fizzled out when the twenty-two-year-old died. News Five’s Andrea Polanco spoke with […]
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There is an update to the murder of Richard Foster. The seventy-four-year-old British filmmaker, who made Belize his home forty years ago, was taken from his home at the Savannah Guest House off the George Price Highway last Tuesday and twenty-four-hours later, his body was found in the Rivera area of Belmopan. Foster had been […]
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A man was knocked down and killed along the Philip Goldson Highway over the weekend. Police say it was a hit and run that claimed the life of Virgilio Mena on Sunday sometime around nine in the night. There are not many details about the deadly traffic accident, but police say they are following several […]
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