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Parliamentary activity resumes this Friday when the first session of the thirteenth National Assembly is opened. The inaugural sitting of the Senate, for ceremonial purposes, will precede the first meeting of the House of Representatives under the Briceño Administration. Thirteen senators have been appointed to the upper house, including six from the newly formed People’s […]
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The United Democratic Party has been radio silent since its devastating loss at the polls on November eleventh, but it appears that its executive has been working quietly in the background to come up with a roster of shadow cabinet ministers. This afternoon, Opposition Leader Patrick Faber introduced several persons, including four area representatives, who […]
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Prime Minister John Briceño chaired another cabinet meeting today where nine hundred and thirty thousand dollars was approved for a special December COVID-19 Relief Fund to be equitably distributed among all thirty-one constituencies. Minister of Human Development, Families and Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, Dolores Balderamos Garcia, informed Cabinet that funds for the Food Assistance Program (FAP) […]
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A ceremony to commemorate the exportation of another consignment of cattle to Mexico was held today at Blue Creek Village, in the Orange Walk District. A total of six hundred and twenty heads of cattle is expected to be exported to Mexico. During the ceremony, Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise Jose Abelardo Mai […]
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The public has been experiencing a frustrating hike in prices of certain vegetables such as carrots and cabbage. There is a limited supply of these two vegetables and due to the law of supply and demand, the prices have increased. The price per pound of red kidney beans has also increased and this is particularly […]
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Director of the Belize Tourism Board Karen Bevans has hired the legal services of former Prime Minister Dean Barrow to sue Love FM and Prime Minister John Briceño. Bevans’ contention is with an interview with Prime Minister Briceño that Love FM aired last week. The topic of the interview was the extension of contracts given […]
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Michelle Brown, the police constable who is standing trial for the shooting murder of Belize City barber Fareed Ahmad, told the court in an explosive testimony on Tuesday that it was another lawman who had entered Ahmad’s vehicle and shot him. In a session that ended late in the evening, Brown testified under oath that […]
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The United Democratic Party, after being trounced during the November eleventh general elections, has commenced the mammoth undertaking of rebuilding from the ground up. According to Party Leader Patrick Faber, the U.D.P. has heard the loud complaints of the electorate and is committed to reshaping the party in the years ahead. He says that the […]
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Denise “Sista B” Barrow will represent Queen Square in the House of Representatives during Friday’s ceremonial opening of the thirteenth National Assembly, but there are still many questions surrounding her role in the opposition. For one, she has asked to remain in the background working for her constituents, as opposed to shadowing a P.U.P. minister. […]
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Belize’s economy shrunk by thirteen percent in the third quarter of 2020. According to the Statistical Institute of Belize, during the months of July to September, the total value of goods and services produced within the country for that period was down by more than eighty-five million dollars when compared to the goods and services […]
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During the S.I.B.’s press conference, Sabal delved into those numbers looking at how the different sectors performed. While the primary and secondary sectors recorded increases, the tertiary sector contracted by eighteen point six percent. Within the primary sector, agriculture, hunting and forestry grew. In the secondary sector, electricity saw a thirty-two point eight percent increase […]
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So, the hardest hit sector is the tertiary sector which accounts for the production activities of hotels, and restaurants, as well as wholesale and retail, and crude materials, personal goods, among others. According to the S.I.B., the sector remains the most severely impacted by COVID-19. The eighteen point six contraction of this sector resulted largely […]
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Coast Guard conducted a search and rescue operation earlier today in Crooked Tree Village. A report was received of two villagers who were heading to check on their farm in a sixteen-foot canoe with a small engine. The vessel began to take on water and capsized in the area of Spanish Creek. Coast Guard, along with […]
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The Briceño administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic is being criticized by the opposition which says that the new government has all but abandoned the measures that were put in place by the previous administration to tackle the virulent disease. While Opposition Leader Patrick Faber says that the P.U.P. neglected social distancing, as well as […]
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During today’s press briefing the Statistical Institute also shared findings from the Labour Force Survey of September 2020. We’ll tell you a bit more about those findings later in the newscast, but we take a look firstly at the impact of COVID-19 on the labour force. The S.I.B. says that between March and August 2020, […]
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The government wants the Corozal Free Zone to reopen before Christmas. That is the plan, but the plan comes with a price which the stakeholders at the Free Zone will have to pay. Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise Jose Mai, accompanied by officials from the Ministry of Health and Wellness met with the […]
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Since last week, the Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis team of the National Emergency Management Organization has been visiting areas that were severely affected by the recent floods. The assessment is being done to collect detailed information on damages to household items or structures, which can only now be determined post disaster. News Five’s Duane […]
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There are also forty persons still in shelters across rural Belize District. It is expected, however, that those persons will be returning to their homes by week’s end. Alpheus Gillett, Belize Rural Coordinator, NEMO “Shelters are still open at this time, but some people have already gone back to their homes where the water […]
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While for the most part floodwaters have receded, across Belize District, the villages of Crooked Tree and Maypen remain cut off by water from the rest of the country. The Crooked Tree Lagoon is still overflowing and the Belize River in the River Valley area is filled to capacity. It will take some time before […]
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The Statistical Institute of Belize’s Labour Force Survey for September 2020 puts the unemployment rate at thirteen point seven percent. Before we get into the details of this figure –we look at the big picture as presented by the S.I.B. Considering the impact of COVID-19 that has shutdown the tourism industry – leaving thousands jobless […]
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A closer look at the labour force figures by sex show that males stood at sixty percent. When analyzed by areas, eighty-two thousand are in urban centers while eighty-six thousand, five hundred and forty-two are in rural communities and make up fifty-one percent. The level of joblessness by sex shows females are at seventeen percent […]
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