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Jumoke Castro, son of U.D.P. Cabinet Minister Edmond Castro was in the hot seat after he made vile comments on social media against Plus TV’s Shasta Wade. Jumoke, who is a member of the Public Service Union, threatened Wade with gang rape, attracting widespread condemnation and disgust. He was placed on administrative leave from the Belize Tax Service […]
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The Supreme Court has struck out the claim by the Public Service Union against Simplex Design Limited. The union had filed a lawsuit against the Belmopan City Council, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Simplex Design Limited over its Hilltop headquarters. The court ruled that Simplex Design is the legal owner of the property, but according […]
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Police Constable Erwin Hernandez of Corozal Town, charged with Keeping a Firearm and Ammunition Without a Gun License, was also lucky to get bail today when he appeared before Justice Antoinette Moore. Hernandez is charged along with his brother, Ronny Hernandez, a construction worker of Halls Layout, Corozal. The charge against them originates from an incident […]
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Daron Gonzalez, who was originally charged with Murder, was today granted bail after the charge was reduced to manslaughter. Gonzalez, the man wearing locks in the video, is accused of setting a guesthouse in Hopkins Village on fire, in which Jorge Magana lost his life on May twentieth, 2018. Police had claimed soon after the incident that […]
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The body of an elderly man was discovered this morning on the beach in Placencia. Seventy-seven year old fisherman, Enrique Castellanos was reported missing on Thursday and less than twenty-four hours later, he was found dead. It is believed that the resident of Riverdale area in Stann Creek District drowned. Police say the body was […]
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Forests across the world are disappearing at an alarming rate and because deforestation causes almost twenty percent of global emissions, the preservation of trees is important to slow down climate change. About two years ago, Belize was recorded as having fifty-nine percent of its forest cover, with a deforestation rate of zero point six percent […]
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Three protected areas within the Belize National Protected Areas System received funds today to strengthen the management of their sites. A brief ceremony was held today to hand over the funds to the awardees. News Five was there to find out more about how the funds will help the grantees. Here’s the story: Andrea […]
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A group of proud parents received gifts today for ensuring that their newborns receive the necessary vaccines in the first years of their lives. Dubbed as supers, the mums and dads as well as the babies were honoured at a health centre on Central American Boulevard for ensuring that the babies grow healthy and are […]
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The fifth annual Cocktails for the Manatees fundraiser, organized by Programme Coordinator Jamal Galvez of the Clear Water Marine Aquarium Research Institute, is ongoing at this time at Kukumba Beach on the Old Belize Compound. For years, the manatee population in Belize has been at risk due to collisions with boaters in the Belize Harbour. […]
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We have heard about the text messages between John Saldivar and Jacob Kingston; well tonight we will share them with you. The string of texts were presented in the Utah court on Tuesday; there are thirty-three in all and was the evidence that led to the fall of John Saldivar as U.D.P. party leader-elect as […]
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John Saldivar was elected as the next leader of the U.D.P. on Sunday at a convention with all the bells and whistles and he portrayed himself as the future of the party. But all that soon came crashing down. Within three days, he had lost the top U.D.P. post and suspended for an indefinite period […]
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The People’s United Party today called a press conference to discuss the state of the nation and called out the Prime Minister to deliver his promise that he would fire any of his cabinet ministers who received monies from accused fraudster Lev Dermen. The text messages reveal that John Saldivar who served as the U.D.P.’s […]
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Prime Minister Dean Barrow and his cabinet in 2008 were elected on the platform that they would eradicate corruption. PM Barrow himself had gone on record to say that he would use his two-sided machete to chop the head of corruption but as the public has seen, corruption is thriving within government. The Prime Minister […]
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The People’s United Party is mobilizing to hold a national demonstration against corruption in government and others ills. Leader John Briceño sounded the clarion this morning as the fallout from the John Saldivar saga continues to unravel. Briceño invited the social partners, the private sector and all Belizeans to join and march in Belize City. […]
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Along with a national demonstration, the People’s United Party also unveiled its strategic plan to effectively deal with corruption in government. Leader John Briceño says that policies will be implemented along with the amendments of legislation that aim to cease criminal and improper activities in government. Briceño says that under a P.U.P. administration, UNCAC will […]
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There is news from Corozal, that the body of a man has been found inside a van on a property located on the Santa Elena Road. According to the reports, the body is in an advanced state of decomposition and the identity of the person is not known.
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The case involving two cops and two Mexican nationals accused of landing a drug plane in the Orange Walk District crumbled today in the Orange Walk Court. David Chi, Norman Anthony, Eli Figueroa Nunez and Azarias Manzano were all charged after a drug plane loaded with cocaine landed in Tres Leguas in September 2018. Today, […]
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In the Belmopan Supreme Court, another former high ranking cop was freed of charges. Former Deputy Commissioner of Police Miguel Segura was acquitted of the charge of manslaughter by negligence on Succotz resident, Yolanda Valencia and causing negligent grievous harm on Yanic Ku. This morning, the judge accepted a no-case submission on Segura’s behalf when […]
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A man wanted for murder in Belize was captured in Puerto Cortes, Honduras. Rodwell Arzu, a resident of Independence Village has been on the run since July of 2019; police believe that he pulled the trigger and killed his ex-girlfriend, Geraldine Flowers in the New Site area of Dangriga. It is believed that in an […]
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This morning, the Ministry of Health held its first press conference to discuss COVID 19, formerly known as the corona virus. Health officials in Belize have been working diligently to come up with a comprehensive strategy should there be an outbreak of the novel virus locally. Epidemiologist, Doctor Russell Manzanero gave a brief history of […]
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According to Director of Health Services, Doctor Marvin Manzanero, the Ministry of Health has been working closely with NEMO in coming up with a course of action to combat an outbreak and that the emergency management organization has attended several meetings in an effort to prepare its personnel in the case of an outbreak. […]
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From an immigration and border management perspective, Horace Guzman described the incident that happened at the Phillip Goldson International Airport over the weekend. He says that while the twelve Asian nationals who arrived on Saturday were held at the P.G.I.A. overnight, they were kept in isolation inside the old VIP Room at the airport. […]
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In the constituency of Belmopan, the P.U.P.’s Standard Bearer Oscar Mira says that the constituents have had enough of John Saldivar. The embattled U.D.P. Area Representative has resigned his ministerial portfolio after having been placed on indefinite suspension by Prime Minister Dean Barrow and stripped of the post of leader-elect. Saldivar maintains his innocence, saying […]
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In his statement this morning, John Briceño spoke of the Chief Justice’s latest ruling against Dean Barrow and his government. In January C.J. Kenneth Benjamin ruled that over one billion dollars were spent illegally by the Barrow Government. He said that Barrow as the Minister of Finance was in breach of the constitution which demands that […]
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Julian Cho Technical High School remains without a principal tonight. It has been months since the school has been thrown into disruption and word to News Five is that three applications have been received by the board. The former principal, the U.D.P.’s Standard Bearer for Toledo West reportedly left the school’s financial standing in a […]
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