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Doctor David Pendergast, a renowned American archaeologist, famous for his work at Altun Ha and Lamanai, returned to London today, following a brief visit to Belize. Unfortunately, while here in the Jewel, the eighty-eight-year-old ended up being hospitalized at the Belize Medical Associates after suffering a fall at Lamanai Lodge. From his hospital bed this […]
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It’s summertime and the kids are rolling into two months of recess! Summer camps are kicking off and the Bliss Institute for the Performing Arts is one of the places being occupied by children while they are out of the classrooms. Kids ages three to fourteen are currently engaged in three weeks of theater activities. […]
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The religious community has finally broken its silence since Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai announced earlier this week that the churches were successful in meeting the ten percent threshold needed to trigger a referendum on the issue of cannabis legalization in Belize. On Monday, Pastor Louis Wade, the church’s spokesperson for its anti-marijuana effort, told […]
Written on July 7, 2022 | Posted in
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Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa has quite a tough job spearheading government’s response to the scourge of crime and violence associated with the illegal marijuana trade. In his dual capacity as Minister of New Growth Industries, Musa mentioned during a one-on-one interview with News Five on Monday that the referendum will also determine whether […]
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The churches and the Government of Belize are on opposite ends of the great cannabis debate, however, they are both working on a finite timeline. The Briceño administration has drafted legislation. It has also taken the bill through all the necessary stages in parliament, despite objection from the religious community. Notwithstanding public discourse around the […]
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In acknowledging that the result of a referendum is not legally binding, there is a likelihood that government can go ahead with the passage of its Cannabis and Hemp Control Licensing Bill. According to Pastor Louis Wade, going against the popular vote would not bode well for the democratic vote. Louis Wade, Belize Coalition […]
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While the Briceño administration and the Belize Coalition of Churches are preparing their respective campaigns leading up to the cannabis referendum, the Belize Police Department has been busy seizing quantities of the drug in various locations across the country. In Belmopan on Wednesday, a rectangular-shaped parcel wrapped in transparent plastic was discovered during an operation […]
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Today, when the media caught up with Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Development, Elvia Vega, she was asked about the proposed increase of the minimum wage from three dollars and thirty-cents to five dollars. It is something that the Briceño Administration said it would address under its Plan Belize manifesto. Minister Vega […]
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And while laborers who fall within the minimum wage category will be smiling when they receive their first paycheck reflecting that increase, Belize has also made some inroads in the exportation of cattle to Mexico, which will inject some much-needed foreign currency into our economy. There is a down side to that, however, because just […]
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More exports of cattle to Mexico means a more lucrative business for cattle producers when compared to the amount they make locally for the same product. The reality is that the higher the demand is for cattle and cattle products beyond our borders, the higher the price is expected to go at home. So that […]
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Fifteen Belizean agri-businesses are receiving support from an international business development agency through Export Belize, an arm of Beltraide, to take their products into new international markets. ExportBelize made a call in May of this year for local businesses to participate in this Agro-business Support Program. The program, which seeks to offer technical assistance to […]
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Agrochemicals are important to the health of the produce we grow for food, but so too are the ways in which we use and apply them. This is what the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security & Enterprise and the Pesticides Control Board are discussing today and tomorrow. The objective is to come up with a […]
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The Pesticides Control Board is in the process of amending its legislation, so what comes out of the two-day meeting that is currently underway will help policy-makers to put together the necessary adjustments to the legislation. That legislation governs how agrochemicals are used in Belize. Chief Environmental Officer, Anthony Mai suggests that there have been […]
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“Elder abuse” or “abuse of older people” is defined as a single or repeated act or lack of appropriate action occurring within any relationship in which there is expectation of trust that causes harm or distress to an older person. That’s according to the World Health Organization and today, at the Biltmore Plaza in Belize […]
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Education is one of the keys to success, and members of the Belize Coast Guard are well on their way to becoming university graduates. Today, the Belize Coast Guard and the University of Belize signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will see five coast guard officers receive scholarships to study at the university in the […]
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Sixteen young Belizean football players were awarded scholarships to attend university in the United States. The combined value of the scholarships amount to over eight hundred thousand Belize dollars. Of the sixteen athletes, four were awarded scholarships to pursue their master’s degree, six were awarded scholarships to pursue their bachelor’s degree, and the remaining six […]
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When we caught up with the Minister of Education today in Belize City we got an opportunity to ask him about his ministry’s summer initiatives to bridge the learning gap caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Minister Fonseca spoke with us about the “Let’s Catch Up Summer Camp”, a program that is being carried on radio, […]
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Another young Belize City man is dead after he was targeted at his place of residence in the Lake Independence area of Belize City. The police have not spared much information about the incident, except to say that it happened at Eighty, twenty-two Giles Street at around nine-forty p.m., and claimed the life of Tyrone […]
Written on July 6, 2022 | Posted in
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A man was found guilty this afternoon of the murder of his uncle, and he will be sentenced later this month along with a friend who was also convicted of the same crime. Nineteen-year-old Raheem Budran and twenty-one-year-old Kareem Eaghan, Junior, were both found guilty today of the murder of forty-three-year-old Shane Budran. The incident […]
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There’s a public warning being issued tonight from the financial sector about a phishing scam that’s targeting Belizeans. The fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies, in this case the local banks, in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers is not a […]
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According to Ruta, customers are often ensnared when attempting to check their bank accounts online, after realizing that they had shared key information on the phony website. Agata Ruta, Chief Operations Officer, Belize Bank “Some of the customers they realize that something is off. And how can you realize that something is off? By […]
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On Tuesday evening, we began our comprehensive look at the proposed minimum wage adjustment and the process that is being undertaken to introduce a phased-in approach to the new five dollar threshold. Earlier today, we spoke with Minister of Tourism Anthony Mahler who sits on a cabinet subcommittee along with Junior Minister of Finance Chris […]
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The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry is also represented on a government-appointed taskforce to carry out the minimum wage adjustment. BCCI President Marcello Blake sits on the taskforce and told News Five that consideration needs to be made for employees who are currently being paid at five dollars an hour. Likewise, he agrees that […]
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Last night we told you about the increase in the price of premium gasoline which now stands at over seventeen dollars per gallon. Today, we took to the streets of the Old Capital to ask motorists about their bloated monthly fuel budgets and the steps they are taking to curtail the additional expenses. We also […]
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The Government of Belize has committed to continue keeping diesel and regular gasoline prices at their current levels. In a release issued today, G.O.B. reiterated the various steps it says Cabinet has taken to, quote, cushion increases in the imported price of fuel products, which has raised substantially as a consequence of, among other developments, […]
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