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As August second draws closer for Belize’s Amnesty Program to kick in, the hubs that the International Organization for Migration (I.O.M.) has been holding across the country over the last several months to educate interested immigrants have now ended. But if you still have interests but are concerned about certain aspects of the application process, […]
Written on July 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Belize High School student Karina Espat today successfully completed a STEM Summer Camp with youths from her community. Around fifteen children were engaged in learning science concepts and were handed their certificates. Espat also invited some of her peers from the robotics team at B.H.S. who exposed the camp goers to the fundamentals of this […]
Written on July 22, 2022 | Posted in
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It is one of three summer camps that were organized in the Fort George constituency. Area Representative Henry Charles Usher says that the youth within the community were also engaged in an art and sport summer camp, which he says it critical for their overall development. Henry Charles Usher, Area Representative, Fort George “Every […]
Written on July 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The Youth Innovation Incubator Summer Program is a feature program by the Belize City Council and the Belize City Child Advisory Body. The three-week experience gives participants an opportunity to build useful skills for the future. A myriad of courses offered during the program include steel pan, entrepreneurship, communications, self development, sports, and financial literacy. […]
Written on July 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Five years have passed since the Belize Tourism Board revised its Cruise Tourism Policy. With the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, B.T.B. says the time has come to address the gaps within the tourism industry. This morning, cruise tourism stakeholders gathered in Belize City for a national cruise tourism policy planning workshop to update […]
Written on July 22, 2022 | Posted in
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To thrive in the future of cruise tourism, Belize’s cruise industry is in need of berthing facilities. Royal Caribbean, one of Belize’s partners in the industry, recently announced that its largest cruise vessel to date, Utopia of the Seas, will be launched in two years. In the absence of a berthing facility, Belize will be […]
Written on July 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Evan Tillett also answered questions pertaining to the rebound of the cruise tourism industry. Tillett says, while the industry is yet to record 2019 numbers, the outlook for the sector in Belize is promising. Evan Tillett, Director, Belize Tourism Board “In terms of the numbers, it is not at 2019 numbers, and it will […]
Written on July 22, 2022 | Posted in
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And, while cruise tourism is steadily bouncing back, the Phillip Goldson International Airport has been inundated with overnight travellers outside the regular tourist season. While Tillett conceded that the current travel experience at the P.G.I.A. may negatively affect the experience of visitors, he gave some details of an expansion project that the airport’s management is […]
Written on July 22, 2022 | Posted in
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It’s the end of a two-week summer camp at Tina Johnson’s free tutoring program. The kids have completed the academic session of the camp, but it was surely not short of fun. What began as an initiative to keep kids engaged academically during the pandemic, has blossomed into a registered program and a growing number […]
Written on July 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Tonight, we begin our newscast with the murder of a twenty-five-year-old Guinea Grass resident. Lisandro Martinez was shot and killed on Wednesday night as he headed to Boston Village in the Belize District on a motorcycle driven at the time by Jose Morales. A vehicle drove up beside them on the Old Northern Highway and […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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In the wee hours of March fourteenth, 2016, Edwin Ixpatac was beaten to death while in police custody in San Pedro Town. In the wake of the incident, three police officers: PCs Reydel Teck, Jahsimir Cob and Romelio Logan were charged with murder. Today, the trio appeared before Justice Ricardo Sandcroft in a trial by […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Last week, a group of social partner senators came forward in the media when their call for a meeting of the Joint Public Accounts Committee went unanswered. At the time, the chair of the taskforce told News Five that her parliamentary colleagues could have simply made the request via phone. This was after only one […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Blue Economy and Civil Aviation is proposing what is known as an Aviation Hub City for Belize. The idea, according to Minister Andre Perez, is to prioritize the economic importance of the country within the context of regional aviation. The proposal was pitched to Cabinet on Tuesday and was well received. As […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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According to the Minister of Civil Aviation, to every dollar that is made from employment in the aviation industry, five dollars is generated. Andre Perez, Minister of Civil Aviation “First of all this presentation was in the Cabinet and it was well-received in the Cabinet and they said well, we should pursue it. And […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Embassy and the Government of Belize met to reaffirm the U.S.-Belize security partnership. The bi-annual bilateral meeting between the United States and Belize is to strengthen cooperation to combat national and regional challenges, such as narco trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and gang violence. During the meeting, shared priorities in areas […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Statistical Institute of Belize, S.I.B., reports that Belize’s debt-to-G.D.P. ratio has made a forty-five percent fall from a hundred and thirty-three percent in 2020 to eighty-eight percent, where it currently stands. S.I.B. points to the restructuring of the Super Bond to what is now the Blue Bond as a major contributor. C.E.O. in the […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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But while C.E.O. Martinez and the S.I.B. statistics present one figure, Economist, Carlos Magana raises questions as to whether that percentage was arrived at perhaps because some elements were eliminated. Carlos Magana, Economist “It all depends on the formula that was used, the model that was taken into consideration to be able to classify […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier this week, we reported on the twenty-million-dollar loan that the Social Security Board is providing to the Development Finance Corporation to be used on its mortgage program, as well as its real estate, and infrastructure and refinancing programs. S.S.B will disburse the money every two years in tranches of five million dollars. It is […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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As the whole discussion of climate change and carbon credits takes shape, Belize being under-developed, as it were, is an advantage for us in the greater scheme of things. That’s because we can benefit from a significant amount of money, possibly hundreds of millions of dollars because we are still a green nation with a […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Concerns have been raised about the illegal occupation of private lands north of Caye Caulker Village. News Five understands that several persons have erected dwellings in an area on the other side of the Split and a recent encounter with squatters could have ended badly, as machetes were reportedly drawn. Earlier today, we asked Area […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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A recent Sustainable Energy for All report by the United Nations indicates that countries across the Caribbean are unable to meet their energy demands. CARICOM’s Regional Organization for Standards and Quality has sounded the alarm, stating that efforts to address sustainability in energy use are needed now more than ever. Saving money on energy is […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Lait Up Belize Project, an initiative of the European Union, is providing the financial support needed for the Belize Bureau of Standards to develop its energy efficient labeling framework. Glynn Morris, the team leader at Lait Up Belize was present at this morning’s event. He gave an overview of aid being provided. Glynn […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The second of two U.S. Air Force flights that were scheduled to transport emergency response vehicles to Belize in July, arrived today carrying two ambulances, two support trucks, and medical supplies. The donation was made possible through a U.S. government funded Central America Regional Security Initiative Economic Support Fund grant. The fund was established to […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize International Music and Food Festival is less than two weeks away, and while the performing artists are fine-tuning their sets, the San Pedro Town Council and Area Representative Andre Perez are looking forward to the first-of-its-kind event on the island. It’s not to say that La Isla Bonita has not hosted international concerts […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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It has been a little over six years since the Sarstoon F.O.B. was inaugurated at the southernmost end of the country. Viewers would recall that at the time of the opening there was conflict between our security forces and the Guatemalan military which patrolled the waterway and often crossed over into Belize’s side of the […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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