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The Garifuna Collective is back on the road after two years of being sidelined from the world stage due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s the moment the eight-member band has been eagerly anticipating since the world began to open up, a chance to once again showcase Belize’s cultural export. News Five’s Isani Cayetano spoke with […]
Written on July 19, 2022 | Posted in
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A few weeks ago, we introduced you to a couple of the vendors that will be partaking in the first-ever Belize International Music and Food Festival in San Pedro Town. And while those vendors are preparing for their culinary displays, our Belizean artists are doing the same. For over the past several weeks, the fourteen […]
Written on July 19, 2022 | Posted in
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There was a fatal traffic mishap last evening involving the prime minister’s driver during which he knocked down and killed a man believed to be a resident of Biscayne Village. Up to news time this evening, the victim remains unidentified. Edwin Hill and two other occupants were traveling in his private SUV en route to […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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A twenty-year-old resident of Bella Vista Village was found dead on a dirt road off the Southern Highway near the entrance to the polyclinic in the village. He had been stabbed multiples times to the neck. What is believed to be the murder weapon was recovered a short distance away from the body of Randy […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Twenty-two-year-old Rasheed Maskall and his girlfriend are the victims of an armed assault at their home in the Bainsville community of Hattieville. The couple was in bed when a volley of gunshots disturbed their slumber. Shortly after the shooting, Latifah Ferguson and her boyfriend realized that they were both injured. According to Assistant Superintendent of […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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An attempt on the life of Kenrick Gordon over the weekend, in the neighborhood of Lakeview Street, was thwarted by a police officer who was working a special assignment at an Asian place of business. When the firearm that a pair of gunmen attempted to shoot Gordon with snapped, the would-be assassins took off on […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize Police Department has launched a pair of investigations into an incident that occurred in San Pedro over the weekend which resulted in a man being injured when police officers opened fire after a pair of men on a motorcycle ran through a checkpoint. According to Communications Officer, A.S.P. Fitzroy Yearwood, the Professional Standards […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Two Belize City men have been remanded to the Belize Central Prison for a most heinous crime. Ronald Michael and Herman Grant were charged separately for the rape of a child when they appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser. Reports are that the fourteen-year-old minor was raped by both men on July seventh and then […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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The Government of Belize is seeking to borrow seventy-five million U.S dollars from the Government of Taiwan, as budget support for the next four years. According to the prime minister’s address in the House of Representatives on Friday, the loan will provide financial support to the Ministry of National Defense and Security, the Ministry of […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Opposition senators also weighed in on the matter of the seventy-five million U.S. dollar loan from the Government of Taiwan. Highlighting the financial plight that Belizeans across the country are facing with the rise in cost of basic good, Opposition senators criticized the government for its borrowing practices. Jaclyn Burns, Opposition Senator “We are […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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There was also a spirited back and forth in the upper house over a loan motion from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), valued at forty-eight million dollars. The loan is for the expansion and rehabilitation of a stretch of road along the Phillip Goldson Highway between miles eight and twenty-four. While Business […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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The opposition also accused the Briceño administration of plunging Belize further into debt, noting that thirteen loan motions have been introduced in the National Assembly since the P.U.P. took office. Well, Senator Coye denied the claim, accusing the opposition of misrepresentation and misleading Belizeans. According to Senator Coye, Belize’s debt is actually going down. Here […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Since the Ministry of Immigration began taking appointments for its amnesty program on July first, a total of four thousand, seven hundred and fifty persons have applied. One thousand, five hundred and eighty -six persons have applied from the Cayo District, six hundred, thirty- five applicants are from the Belize District, and six hundred, twelve […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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As we told you on Friday, the House of Representatives passed an act to reinstate the ten percent salary that was withheld from public officers back in 2021. But, when will G.O.B. reinstate public officers’ increments? U.D.P. Senator Jacklyn Burns raised this question during today’s meeting, to which Senator Courtenay responded. Jacklyn Burns, Opposition […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Approximately five thousand children are engaged in some form of work that presents a real danger to their physical, mental, and moral well-being, according to studies done in 2013. The Government of Belize is now moving towards strategically addressing the scourge of child labor across the country. Today’s launch of the National Child Labour Policy […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Twenty-nine Belizean farmers and agriculture students returned home today after spending the last eighty-four days in Colombia in Technical Agriculture Studies. All twenty-nine graduated from the program. Noemi Romero is an agriculture student who hails from San Pedro Columbia Village, Toledo. She is enlisted in agriculture studies at the Central Farm campus and told News […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Romero shared that prior to now, she was experimenting with trial and error to apply bio-fertilizers, but now she has the technical know-how on what to do and how much of what to use on her farm, as well as in her agriculture course. Noemi Romero, Completed Technical Agriculture Studies “I was practicing some […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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They did not capture gold, but Belize’s Under Twenty-one Volleyball Team made us proud this weekend as they played their hearts out against Guatemala. Belize took silver at the Nineteenth Under-twenty-one Female Central American Volleyball Championship Games on Saturday night at the Belize Civic Centre. Guatemala won the first set 25-19, then Belize won the […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Four young Belizean business people were selected from a pool of over two thousand to take part in an exchange program that the U.S Department of State introduced in 2015. The objective of the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (Y-LAI) is to empower entrepreneurs with the necessary training, resources and networking opportunities. Through the […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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As we told you, Khadija Assales made Belize proud by winning the title of Ambassador of the U.S Young Leaders of the Americas for 2022. She explained on Open Your Eyes today that she went with a plan and came back with a wealth of knowledge. Khadija Assales, Owner, Kaj Expressions “I did my […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Over the past several months, we’ve heard people in various parts of the country turning up with winning Scratch and Win tickets. The latest such winner, who for safety reasons only goes by the name Cesar, hails from the west. He told News Five today that he lives in Benque but decided to buy a […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Cesar won by matching the number seven on his ticket. It is a game so easy to play and win, Scratch and Win Promoter, Alex Gamero told us, that winners are popping up all over the country. He said that the return rate to customers is around eighty percent. Alex Gamero, Director, Scratch & […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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The House of Representatives met today in a marathon session that ran for several hours and there was a lot that was covered during the sitting. Among them was the introduction of a supplementary allocation to cover the cost of the upcoming cannabis referendum. The national vote on the establishment of a marijuana industry in […]
Written on July 15, 2022 | Posted in
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Now that the government has to find five million dollars that it didn’t budget for in its recent national budget, we ask, could this have been avoided had there been proper consultations with all interested parties, including the churches? The churches and the opposition argue that government should have done more by way of reaching […]
Written on July 15, 2022 | Posted in
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Prime Minister John Briceño “Honestly I was one of them that saying maybe we should have the referendum and get it over with earlier, but when they told me it was going to cost as much as five million dollars, we said it’s really too much. And that five million dollars we could use […]
Written on July 15, 2022 | Posted in
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