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One more story on the dilemma facing the U.D.P. Minister of Natural Resources, Hugo Patt is running for first deputy leader under team Saldivar. They have been around the country meeting delegates who they say have been endorsing the slate. Earlier today when we spoke with the Corozal North area representative, we asked him whether […]
Written on January 23, 2020 | Posted in
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The 2020 season of the National Elite Basketball League kicked off last Friday with matches across the country. There have been many changes in almost all teams. There is also the return of a Punta Gorda team in the semi-pro basketball competition. Tonight, we feature the Benny’s Hurricanes which is boasting some new and veteran […]
Written on January 23, 2020 | Posted in
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If you’re investing a lot in your skincare or if you’re confused by all the ads and articles about how to best take care of your skin, then listen up. Tonight’s Healthy Living will give you some useful tips that can save you money as well. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting If you follow beauty blogs […]
Written on January 23, 2020 | Posted in
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Around midnight, villagers in the area of Crooked Tree Village, Belize District, say they heard a plane circling above. Hours later at around six o’clock this morning, police and B.D.F. descended in the village. A suspected drug plane, an HS 125 Hawker jet, was found intact close to the nearby village of Lemonal in rural […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Opposition Leader John Briceño spoke to News Five today about the drug plane. He says he is not surprised that yet another drug plane landed in Belize. Briceño says that the circumstances of the landings are yet again suspicious and as such, maintains his position that government officials are allegedly involved. John Briceño, Leader […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Belize’s Consul General in New York Herman Longsworth has been fired after an audit report into the finances of the National Sports Council revealed serious cash irregularities. Longsworth, who was the then Minister of State with responsibility for Sports and the U.D.P. Albert Division Area Representative, was awarded the post after he stepped aside to […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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A press release from the Government says that Longsworth termination will become effective February twenty first, 2020, to allow him time to wrap up the affairs at the Consulate and hand over. As far as we know, another family member is employed at the Consulate in New York which is housed away from the Belize […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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The Belize Coast Guard says that the chance of finding Alison Mackenzie alive is nil. They wrapped up their search mission on Tuesday evening, after they widened the search area. As the Coast Guard ended its search for the missing woman, the Belize Police Department received an offer of help from the F.B.I. As we […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Convicted murderer William ‘Danny’ Mason and four other men who carried out the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas, as well as the alleged abduction of David Dodd, await sentencing for that capital offense at the Belize Central Prison. Their sentencing is expected to take place sometime in March. This morning, the men appeared before Justice […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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A staggering six-figure debt owed to Pedro’s Inn by the Belize Police Department remains unpaid and Commissioner of Police Chester Williams is turning to tourism stakeholders in San Pedro to help defray the hotel bill. An increase in crime on the island town resulted in more officers being deployed to San Pedro, without adequate housing […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Former Minister of State Herman Longsworth Jr. has been terminated from his cushy appointment in New York as Consul General, following the Auditor General’s report on the finances of the National Sports Council. He is one of several individuals named in the audit for questionable cash transactions. At Friday’s sitting of the House of Representatives, […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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President of the Belize National Teachers Union, Senator Elena Smith says that teachers are up in arms and are considering industrial action. The B.N.T.U. Council of Management circulated a memo on Monday asking the teachers to wear their green T-shirts every Friday to send a strong message to the ministry of education that enough is […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Senator Smith also told News Five that she will be visiting Julian Cho Technical School in the south with the hopes of having a discussion with the administration. Those talks are expected to focus on the audit recently tabled in the House of Representatives for the period 2014 to 2016. The audit shows major financial […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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This morning in Independence Village, thirty-seven-year-old Anthony Parks was shot multiple times by someone known to him. Parks was sitting on his verandah when he heard someone call him by name. When he made a check to see who it was, Parks was fired upon and received as many as four shots to the body. […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry, the Environment, Sustainable Development and Immigration and the Ministry of Natural Resources have signed over approximately seventeen thousand acres of national lands remaining on the Turneffe Atoll. The lands, primarily comprised of mangrove ecosystems, have been handed over to the Turneffe Atoll Trust. According to TASA’s Valdemar Andrade, the […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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The agreement states that Turneffe Atoll Trust must maintain properties as a nature conservation reserve for the protection of nationally significant species, groups of species, biotic communities and physical features of the environment within the Turneffe Atoll Marine Reserve. While in principle, Valdemar Andrade says that the protection of the national land is the goal, […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Documents shared with News Five show illegal dredging activities being carried out within the Hol Chan Marine Reserve. As we reported on Tuesday, residents in the Secret Beach area have been conducting dredging to obtain landfill. When they were confronted by officials, the property owners claimed that the San Pedro Town Council headed by Mayor […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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News Five understands that several small dredgers who have been conducting small scale operations in the area have been working with relevant authorities for permission to continue working the area. These men, described as artisanal dredgers employ the use of small fishing vessels which they fill with sand for use as landfill on properties in […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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A pair of senior police officers was recognized by the Belize Department for their leadership effort in reducing crime in Belize City and San Pedro. This morning, Christopher Noble and Alden Dawson were both acknowledged by the brass of the police department after it was recorded that instances of crime and violence were down considerably […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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This morning at the Police Training Academy in Belmopan, senior officers from across the country gathered for an annual conference to address communication issues between management of the police department and its rank and file members. It’s the third of its kind assembly and today the department was joined by Crime Stoppers Belize which presented […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Coming out of the conference was a question on the effectiveness of precinct policing, a model which is being employed in Belize City primarily. According to ComPol Williams, while senior officers are often paired to head the various precincts, there is no duplication of roles, nor has the department become top heavy in its management […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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A tourist staying in Punta Gorda says that she has been robbed multiple times and authorities down there didn’t take her report seriously. DeeAnn Steiner of Utah in the U.S.A. says that she has been in Belize since November of last year. She says she plans to relocate to Belize although she has encountered shady […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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A Salvadoran national wanted in his home country for participating in criminal activity described as domestic terrorism, was nabbed in Belize earlier this week. Police caught up with the fugitive in Bella Vista Village and are working with immigration authorities to deport him to El Salvador where he is expected to face charges. Bella Vista, […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Belize’s Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington is among a group of ministers from seven other countries meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who is in Kingston, Jamaica. The gathering prompted controversy because not all Caribbean countries were invited so that Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and others are not attending. The United States is […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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There is a report tonight that the Consul General in New York, Herman Longsworth is heading back home abruptly and has been fired. Longsworth, as you know was named in the Auditor General Report for deposits from Petrocaribe funding for sports that ended up in his Albert Constituency Office as well as his private account […]
Written on January 21, 2020 | Posted in
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