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Several persons are to be charged for the worst air disaster in Belize. Two pilots and two crew members of the B.D.F. perished when their helicopter went down in the Gales Point Lagoon on February twenty-ninth, 2020. The crash raised alarm because it was not reported until much later and many questions were raised since […]
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Last week we told you that Noel Codd – the owner of the farm where the drug plane landed on Independence Day on the Northern Highway – wasn’t charged for facilitating the landing of airplane. That is what the cops wanted to charge him with but in the end he was charged for an entirely […]
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Last week we reported that the Customs and Excise Department’s internal investigation into the importation of cargo from Guatemala last weekend has revealed that Customs Officer in Charge of Punta Gorda Richard Garbutt acted in accordance with his duties when he facilitated the arrival of the shipment on the night of September nineteenth. The Customs […]
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This Thursday, October first, the Philip Goldson International Airport officially reopens to international tourists. But there are still lingering concerns from tourism stakeholders on the protocols and the processes in place at the airport as well as mandatory quarantining for visitors as well as returning Belizeans. During today’s Ask the Experts webcast, Director of Health […]
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Last week, the Ministry of Health launched rapid testing in the north in the village of August Pine Ridge, Orange Walk. During that activity, some sixty-six persons were processed and within minutes, six tested positive using an SD BIOSENSOR Rapid Test. These rapid tests will be used by personnel on the ground when the airport […]
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Two new COVID-19 deaths were recorded over the weekend, bringing the total number of deaths to twenty-four. There are over one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four confirmed cases of the virus in the country. Several patients who were intubated later succumbed to the novel coronavirus, many were identified posthumously. But the most recent deaths involve […]
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The preliminary data for today’s figures suggests that there are at least thirty-seven new cases of COVID-19. According to DHS Manzanero, over the last few weeks, the ministry has been recording lower positive rates of infection, down to about fifteen to eighteen percent daily. There are also increasing number of recovered persons. The most recent […]
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Last week, the matter of the controversial S.I. 134 caused consternation with the Ministry of Heath because it criminalizes the DHS if he does not provide confidential information on COVID patients to the Minister of National Security. There was overwhelming response that such information should not land in police hands. But Minister Anthony Martinez says […]
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Less than fifty percent of the persons who applied under Phase Two of the COVID-19 Unemployment Relief Programme have been approved. The government received sixty-four thousand two hundred and fifty two applications out of which thirty thousand five hundred and forty-four were approved. Thirteen thousand persons have been rejected, while more than three thousand applicants […]
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Police descended at 29 Faber’s Road, Belize City, on Saturday night to break up a group of persons gathered there. The family members routinely meet to play games of chance but gatherings of more than ten persons are not allowed due to the COVID pandemic. So the police are cracking down and during the operation […]
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Twenty-nine-year-old Erica Belisle lost her personal belongings as well as her house in a fire in Hattieville. It is the second time that she has been affected by fire. Belisle was staying in the city because of her job and learnt of the fire on Friday morning via a telephone call. She says she suspects […]
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There is an important update to the re-districting case filed before the Supreme Court by the Belize Peace Movement. In June, Madam Chief Justice Michel Arana ordered that an expert be appointed to determine independently if the electoral divisions as presently defined and constituted are sufficiently equal, to assess the impact of any mal apportionment. […]
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According to Lopez, the Belize Peace Movement is hoping that the case proceeds forward and is fully ventilated in the courts. He says that when the Prime Minister calls a date for election, the Belize Peace Movement will invoke an injunction to stay the election date. Robert Lopez, Belize Peace Movement “If it is […]
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One of the claimants that lodged the claim with the Belize Peace Movement is Wil Maheia. He is a politician who has ran several times in the south but last week he announced that he will be running in the Fort George Division in Belize City under the Belize Progressive Party. He says that Fort […]
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The political race in Port Loyola where U.D.P. standard bearer Phillip Willoughby is running against Gilroy Usher Senior of the People’s United Party will be one to watch come election day. Leading up to that date in November both candidates have been actively campaigning in the constituency where mudslinging between their respective camps has been […]
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Over the weekend, reports that the police file on the fatal accident that took the life of eight-year-old Gabriella Corales has gone missing spread like wildfire on social media. A news outlet reported that the D.P.P.’s office has claimed that the file is with the police and the police have claimed that the file is […]
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Police say they have arrested and charged a man in connection with the shooting of Debbie-Dee Clarke which happened on the sixth of September. Nineteen-year-old Nathaniel Betancourt of Santa Elena was hit with three charges, including attempted murder. Clarke was inside her home in Santa Elena when a gunman drove by on a motorcycle and […]
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There was an aggravated burglar over the weekend in Placencia. Police say an armed man held up a woman at her home around ten on Saturday morning. He robbed her and then made good his escape. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Police were called to the home of Miss Kay Westby […]
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Police have arrested and charged two men in connection with a robbery in Carmelita Village that happened last week Wednesday. The incident occurred around eight-fifteen in the night at the home of Maria Montenegro. Three armed men held her up at her home and demanded money. Montenegro handed over a sum of cash and her […]
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News of a fight between a teacher and student in Belmopan went viral on Facebook over the weekend. Reports say that the two women got into an altercation that led them to seek medical attention at the Western Regional Hospital. While a police report hasn’t been made, online reports say that the women sustained cut […]
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Police have arrested and charged four men in connection with a robbery that happened in Bullet Tree Village over a month ago. We reported that armed thieves wearing face masks targeted Twenty-Eight Supermarket on Bullet Tree Road in San Ignacio on the night of August third. We got an update from the police today about […]
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Gym owners, managers and trainers have come together in a united front to request that their facilities be allowed to open. It has been more than a month since they have had to shutter down and there has been no word on their re-opening. Well, today two of those experts called the press to share […]
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Staying healthy during these stressful times is a good way to stave off the novel coronavirus. Eating well and exercising are two important factors to keep you mentally and physically fit. A symposium today stressed the need for a healthy lifestyle by keeping both your mind and body in good form. Here is News Five’s […]
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Today’s House sitting is likely to be the last sitting of the current government before the general elections. This morning’s session went smoothly with both sides supporting a number of bills that will now go to the Senate. But on adjournment in the afternoon, the atmosphere of cordiality was shattered. The Opposition, People’s United Party, […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Comments Off on Opposition Leader John Briceño Calls Out Boots Martinez for Alleged Corruption
Minister Martinez was not inside the National Assembly chambers when Briceño was reading out the list of transactions. He raced to his seat after he was alerted of the revelations by his colleague sitting two seats away from him via a phone call. Martinez anxiously waited to rebut Briceño’s allegations. An angry Martinez denied the […]
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