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Earlier we heard Minister of Education, Francis Fonseca speak about the rollout of government’s free education for the southside program. The minister explained that the program will include more and more schools with each passing year. But he also spoke with us about a countrywide summer program entitled Let’s Catch Up that the ministry is […]
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And so it begins. On Tuesday night at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts, the country was introduced to the twelve participants who made the cut for KTV the Remix, Season Four. It was a long awaited return of the entertainment show after a two-year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This cohort performed […]
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The Joint Public Accounts Committee, an expanded working group that now includes three social partner senators to oversee government’s expenditure relative to its annual budget has only met on three occasions since it was formed in 2021. JPAC, as it is otherwise known, is chaired by Albert Area Representative Tracy Panton who sits on the […]
Written on July 12, 2022 | Posted in
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Business Senator Kevin Herrera, who spoke on behalf of his social partners colleagues, told News Five this morning that the work of the committee is critical to good governance and going for a prolonged period without meetings being convened is of serious concern. Senator Kevin Herrera, Member, JPAC “The work of that committee is […]
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For the Joint Public Accounts Committee to carry out its work effectively, it needs input from the Office of the Auditor General. According to Panton, since the retirement of former Auditor General Dorothy Bradley in 2021, her post as an independent auditor reporting on government spending has remained vacant. The absence of someone in that […]
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Twenty-four-year-old Wendell Thurton Jr. is free from prison after spending six years and six months on remand, following a 2016 murder in Belize City. Today, Thurton pleaded guilty to the crimes of abetment to murder and abetment to attempted murder in the January 2016 stabbing death of thirty-seven-year-old Ian Blair, and the attempted murder of […]
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To mark the one-year anniversary of his untimely passing, Laddie Gillett’s family and the Laddie Gillett Foundation will be hosting a Laddie Memorial Day on Thursday, July fourteenth. It was on the same day, one year ago, that Laddie Gillett lost his life at the hands of police officer P.C. Kareem Martinez. P.C. Martinez was […]
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We also asked Valdez about the vision behind the creation of the Laddie Gillett Foundation. She shared details on how the foundation and Laddie’s family have navigated the last twelve months in their pursuit for justice. Here is what she told us. Christy Valdez, Public Relations, Laddie Gillett Foundation “The reason was first of […]
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A Belize City resident is seeking public assistance in identifying an individual who burglarized her home. Keisha Banner a resident of Estella Metzgen Street in Belize City has obtained surveillance footage of a man she believes was involved in the burglary of her home at around three p.m. on Monday. The surveillance footage shows a […]
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A head-on collision between an S.U.V. and a motorcycle on Monday, has left one driver dead and the other injured. It happened on the Boom/Hattieville Road sometime around two-twenty p.m. and left in its wake a scene littered with debris, a family in mourning and the injured driver recouping at home. News Five’s Marion Ali […]
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Caye Caulker Village has received its first-ever fire truck, through a donation from the United States of America. The vehicle came aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 and will serve the northern part of the island. The truck was donated through the assistance of the late James E. York the Third, and the Beechworld Christian […]
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The Shirley Roberts-Young Care and Educate Foundation is providing twenty scholarships to deserving children who are transitioning to high school this coming August in its inaugural scholarship program. The recipients are from across the length and breadth of the country, as the organization had the difficult task of choosing the lucky students out of one […]
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The United Democratic Party has been in free-fall for the past two years and has seen a number of changes in its leadership in a fairly short interval. It doesn’t bode well for the unity of the party as the opposition. But a concerted effort led by Party Leader Shyne Barrow to bring together the […]
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Last week, we told you about members of the Ministry of Public Service engaging in emotional intelligence training. The two-day seminar was replicated today at the University of the West Indies Open Campus but with staff from the Ministry of Human Development, Families and Indigenous People’s Affairs. The training is being facilitated by the Loving […]
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We’ve been hearing about the BA Five sub-variant in other countries and now it has been confirmed to be in Belize. The Ministry of Health and Wellness issued a press release today, stating that forty samples that were processed between June first and twenty-eighth, and all were of the Omicron variant. While the majority – […]
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Belmopan City Councilor, Nikki Augustine, is organizing an event that she believes will help teenagers process some of the modern personal challenges they face in everyday life. TAG Teen Summit 2022 is being described as an event where teens from across the country will be able to gather, learn from each other, exchange shared experiences, […]
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KTV the Remix is back by popular demand. Season four of the live shows kicks off tonight inside the Bliss Center for Performing Arts. Twelve competitors will take the stage. In the end, there can only be one KTV champion. The winner will walk away with the grand prize. News Five’ Paul Lopez takes a […]
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A Belize City man was shot dead inside his yard just before midnight on Friday and police believe that the attack on the Antelope Street resident was the result of an ongoing conflict over the sale of weed in that neighborhood. It’s the second execution of its kinds we have reported on in the Old […]
Written on July 11, 2022 | Posted in
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ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, B.P.D. “A little after eleven [p.m.], police responded to, yet again, the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where they saw Edward Anthony Nunez, twenty-eight-years-old, suffering from apparent gunshot wounds to his left upper thigh and to his right upper thigh, inner thigh. Initial investigation revealed that on Friday, he was […]
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Also over the weekend, there was a stabbing incident on Saturday night that ended with a twenty-three-year-old being hospitalized in a stable condition. Deon Jones visited a residence in Rowland’s Alley where he began tossing bottles at the home and was subsequently attacked by a knife-wielding individual. He was badly beaten and stabbed multiple times […]
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A member of the Belize Coast Guard has been named as the suspected getaway driver in the robbery at Puma Gas Station last Thursday. On Friday, we reported that three armed men robbed the gas station at the corner of Faber’s Road and the George Price Highway. An undisclosed amount of cash was stolen, but […]
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This morning, coast guard officer Shakeem Richards appeared in court and was arraigned for two counts of robbery. Because the crime was committed with a firearm, it is an indictable offense and no bail was offered to the accused. He was instead remanded until September fifth. Late this evening, Richards was escorted to Hattieville – […]
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A fatal road traffic accident on the Old Northern Highway in the Belize District claimed the life of a Sand Hill resident on Sunday night. Thirty-five-year-old Deon Ozaeta was traveling on a motorcycle and as he came up to a curve between miles nineteen and twenty, he collided with a pickup truck, driven at the […]
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In May, it was discovered that someone had gotten possession of a bottle of pesticide and emptied it in a water reservoir in San Vicente Village, Toledo District. The incident sent at least six of the villagers to the P.G. Hospital seeking medical attention after they became ill from consuming the tainted water. C.E.O. in […]
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If you have empty pesticide containers, the advice from the Pesticides Control Board is that you store them and take them to the nearest collection outlet in your zone. The Department of the Environment and the Pesticides Control Board are working jointly on a national empty pesticide containers management plan. When the plan is implemented, […]
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