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The Sarstoon and Temash Institute for Indigenous Management has a new executive director. This follows the recent appointment of Froyla Tzalam to the post of Governor General. The board of directors for SATIIM, following an extraordinary meeting, has confirmed that Maya Ch’oc is the new head of the organization. Maya Ch’oc, the daughter of former […]
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The City of Belmopan has a new landmark. The David L. McKoy Business Center, which sits on the Social Security Board compound, was officially opened today. The building is named after one of the pioneers of the fund. The eight-million-dollar building will house multiple business and government offices. A short ribbon cutting ceremony was held […]
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Deputy Prime Minister Cordel Hyde today confirmed that the Prime Minister’s office will be renting a space in the new building. Now, the Prime Minister’s office has, for over a decade, been situated inside the sir Edney Cain Building in Belmopan. So why the sudden move to rent a space that News Five understands can […]
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The Briceño administration says it will not be negotiating with the gangs. It’s a position that the prime minister himself has made abundantly clear. But that is not to say that gang violence will be left unchecked, or that services to improve gang members lives won’t be made available. What will be implemented is a […]
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There was an ordination ceremony held earlier today at Sacred Heart parish in Dangriga where Brother Mateo Salam was ordained as a transitional deacon for the diocese. Salam, a proud Q’eqchi Maya from San Pablo, Toledo, entered the seminary in 2013 where he pursued priesthood. He studied for three years at Sacred Heart Junior College […]
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The Belize Red Cross is working with seven communities through a climate change and disaster resiliency preparedness project. As a part of the project, they are carrying out a number of workshops with to train first responders to recognize violence in shelters, as well as how to make those spaces more gender friendly and safe […]
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It’s official: salaries for teachers, public officers and open vote workers will be readjusted to reflect a ten percent reduction as of June first. Earlier today, Financial Secretary Joseph Waight issued a circular to the Office of the Governor General, Chief Justice, Auditor General, Solicitor General, and C.E.O.s, among others, regarding a reduction in public […]
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It was rumored from last week that there would be a challenge to Patrick Faber’s leadership of the United Democratic Party. This evening, Moses “Shyne” Barrow, the U.D.P. area representative for Mesopotamia, appears to be making a move. Via social media, Barrow announced an emergency meeting is being convened of the National Party Council. He […]
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On Monday, we told you about a COVID-19 cluster identified in Santa Cruz village in the Stann Creek District. Well apparently this is not the only area of concern. This morning the Minister of Health and Wellness Michel Chebat appeared on Open Your Eyes this morning to give an update on several other communities. He […]
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While an account of how many children have been infected so far could not be shared, the spread of the virus in schools is an eventuality that the country was attempting to avoid. Two weeks ago, several schools in Belize City and up north had to close down after positive cases of COVID-19 were identified. […]
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Those additional cases have pushed the country over the hundred mark once again. For weeks now, the number of active cases has been low, despite several clusters popping up here and there in schools and at the Princess Casino. But with an additional thirty-eight new cases identified over the weekend, the country now has one […]
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Before we get to additional details about the COVID-19 situation in the country, the Minister of Health and Wellness also confirmed that about twenty-five to thirty nurses from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital are leaving the institution to pursue opportunities outside of the country. Minister Chebat says that millions of dollars have been invested in […]
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The Minister of Health and Wellness has once again made an appeal for teachers to get inoculated. Currently about forty-seven percent of the teaching population has received a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. There is also a campaign to get more Belizeans vaccinated, while working with the business community and opening up phase-four of […]
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Later this week, a third shipment of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is expected to arrive in country through the COVAX facility. But the Ministry of Health and Wellness is also in the process of acquiring the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. As it relates to the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines, there is need for cold storage […]
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On Monday, Prime Minister John Briceño said in an interview on Channel Five’s Open Your Eyes that Belize’s international bondholders had been playing what he called “hard ball,” but were “shooting themselves in the head.” Well, it seems the bondholders’ approach has changed. This afternoon, Reuters news agency reported that the group of Belize’s creditors […]
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In a demonstration of regional solidarity, the Caribbean Union of Teachers has written to Prime Minister John Briceño asking him to reconsider the ten percent pay cut for Belize’s teachers. In a copy of the letter sent to News Five, the umbrella organization for regional teachers says it is “perturbed by the recent events in […]
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As we reported on Monday, the Forest Department has issued a cease and desist order to Gary Seawell and a co-investor, halting logging operations in the vicinity of communal land owned by the residents of Crique Sarco. In the wake of that directive, the Sarstoon and Temash Institute for Indigenous Management issued a release commend […]
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For years, the main street in Dangriga in front of the bus station has been in a deplorable state. Well works have finally begun on one of two streets in that southern municipality following the signing of a contract between the town council and A & N Construction. News Five spoke today with Mayor Robert […]
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NICH is bringing archaeology into the national museum and district houses of culture. The history of the Maya people, coupled with the benefits of forest gardening from a climate change standpoint, will be featured at the museum. That was the official message sent today during a brief ceremony held at the Government House in Belize […]
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The Friends for Conservation and Development are reporting an escalation of illegal activities inside the Adjacency Zone. FCD notes that they have been using remote sensing, aerial reconnaissance and ground patrols which show that one kilometer of the width along Belize’s border is “heavily compromised.” News Five spoke with Executive Director Rafael Manzanero. Rafael […]
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The Friends for Conservation and Development has also detained two Guatemalan poachers in Chiquibul Forest. Raul and Victorino Rivera were detained on Saturday and handed over to San Ignacio Police. They were found with game meat and a baby peccary. The young animal was handed over to the Wildlife Referral Clinic. The men are expected […]
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As we reported at the top of the newscast, the U.D.P.’s Patrick Faber is having his leadership challenged following a videotaped altercation with his daughter’s mother. Since the video went viral, current and former area reps of the United Democratic Party have issued statements to condemn his actions. When he appeared on Open Your Eyes […]
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Last week Friday, a number of community leaders got together to hold what they call a leadership intervention program to address crime and violence in Belize City. A release from the group says that the initiative is led by the Behavioral Modification and Conflict Management Services, formerly C.Y.D.P. It brings together key persons from the […]
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A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by the Belize High Seas Fisheries Unit, Oceana and Global Fishing Watch for the availability of tracking data for commercial vessels flying the Belizean flag. By sharing its fishing vessel data with Global Fishing Watch, Belize’s fishing fleet, made up of more than forty vessels, will be accessible […]
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The Protected Areas Conservation Trust, a statutory body is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. Since its inception in 1996 the organization has invested over thirty-four million dollars in the country’s protected areas. To mark the milestone, PACT will carry out a series of activities over the next twelve months that will see fresh branding and encourage […]
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