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This evening, Port Loyola Area Representative Gilroy Usher Senior issued a release regarding the ongoing redistricting exercise. While he vehemently opposes the reapportionment of his constituency, Usher says, “in fairness, the elimination of two divisions in the Belize District should begin with the smallest of the eight smallest divisions in the area, specifically Fort George, […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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A request under the Freedom of Information Act has been sent to the Ministry of Sustainable Development for gathered facts on environmental clearance, as well as an Environmental Compliance Plan, for the Port of Magical Belize. A little over two years have gone by since the Department of Environment granted that permission to Portico Enterprises […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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The question of whether permission has been granted to Portico for use of the seabed to construct a manmade peninsula was posed to the Minister of Sustainable Development earlier today. Clearance for such activity falls within the purview of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Mining, however, Minister Orlando Habet told us today that the […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Concerning the dredging up of millions of cubic meters of material from the seabed, Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow said that the environmental community was incensed at the thought of Waterloo’s proposal. However, no one, including Chief Executive Officer, Doctor Kenrick Williams, has said anything about Portico’s plan to excavate eight and half million cubic meters […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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And during his weekly sit-down with the media, the Leader of the Opposition also commented on the response he has received from the Royal Caribbean Group. It follows a letter that was written by Barrow to C.E.O. Jason Liberty on June twelfth in which several concerns were raised regarding the Memorandum of Understanding signed between […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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For the first time in the history of the country, FIBA will be hosting a junior national team competition in Belize. The U-seventeen Centrobasket Championship is a qualifier for the World of Basketball and today, News Five caught up with the U-seventeen national basketball team during a practice session at the Belize City Civic Center. […]
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Heads of government of the Central American Integration System, SICA, have completed their fifty-seventh summit in Placencia. Tasked upon its receipt of the pro-tem presidency from the Dominican Republic six months ago to focus on economic and social integration, climate change, sustainable development, food security and migration, Belize’s Foreign Minister, Eamon Courtenay briefed the media […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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As Foreign Minister Courtenay just shared, one of the topics dealt with is food security. Notably, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and SICA signed a Framework Cooperation Agreement during the SICA meeting in Placencia. The main objective is to support the transformation of agri-food systems in countries with little rainfall. The […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Lubetkin says that if respective countries can improve their food security systems, food production would be better and would benefit the people who are not eating well. He shared interesting figures of how much food we would collectively be able to start producing to be able to feed the people who are still going hungry. […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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One country that the SICA heads of government want to assist in improving the conditions of its people is Haiti. Haiti shares a border with the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola. For decades, Haiti has had vulnerable communities plagued by floods, soil erosion, and wanton deforestation that have removed almost all of the […]
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They were scheduled to arrive on the United Airlines flight around eleven-thirty this morning and then participate in a motorcade having competed and won three medals for Belize, but today, four athletes and two chaperones are delayed in New York after the airline company bumped them from their flights. While the issue was unpredictable, the […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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KTV-The Remix is back! Season Five of the popular entertainment show on Channel Five begins tonight with highlights from the auditions. The judges believe that this year’s hopefuls are the best set of singers to date and we can hardly wait to introduce them to you. So following the newscast tonight, stay tuned to this […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Two murders were recorded over the weekend. The body of missing witness, Iran “Basco” Jones was reportedly discovered in a shallow grave in Biscayne Village on Saturday. We’ll have that story for you next. But we begin our newscast with the murder of Luis Beaton, a cook at Chon Saan Palace, who was gunned down […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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He went missing about two weeks ago and on Saturday afternoon, someone passing through a freshly-surfaced feeder road in Biscayne Village stumbled upon the decomposing of human remains believed to be those of thirty-year-old Iran “Basco” Jones. The Belize City resident had just relocated to Hattieville after he had testified in the murder trial of […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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A daring robbery was carried out this morning in the parking lot of Belize Healthcare Partners Limited, here in the Old Capital, and investigators are trying to determine if it may have been orchestrated from within. According to the cashier, she was about to leave the medical facility to make a deposit when she was […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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A Notice of Intended Prosecution has been served on a bus driver after fatally knocking down a cyclist in Lemonal Village over the weekend. Thirty-seven-year-old Juan Charlesworth lost his life on Saturday when he was ran over by a commuter bus driven by Elvis Dawson. The tragic incident happened along the road leading to the […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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The lifeless body of an unidentified man was retrieved from the Caribbean Sea beneath a dock in San Pedro. This morning, just after five o’clock, law enforcement officers on the island were called to an area on the island where they made the discovery. ACP Hilberto Romero, Regional Commander, Eastern Division “On Monday, June […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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The Royal Caribbean Group, one of three parties that have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding regarding the construction of Port of Magical Belize, has responded to a letter written by Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow several weeks ago. On Friday, R.C.G.’s Vice President of Destination Development, Joshua Carroll wrote to Barrow addressing several concerns that […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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In other news related to the proposed Port of Magical Belize development, News Five has obtained a copy of the minutes of a meeting held in February 2021 by the National Environmental Appraisal Committee, NEAC. The meeting convened three months after the Briceño administration took office was attended by twenty-three members of the working group, […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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This Friday, June thirtieth would have been the deadline for a notice of strike issued by the Christian Workers Union on behalf of stevedores. The notice was sent to the Minister of Labour as negotiations had broken down between the union and Port of Belize Limited over the interpretation of the Essential Services Arbitration Tribunal […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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The reconvening of the Essential Services Tribunal, via its act, disallows for any industrial action on the part of the stevedores and likewise the port from “locking out” the stevedores from doing their jobs. Labour Minister Oscar Requeña says that his ministry has been monitoring the situation because the services play a crucial role in […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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There were several fires reported over the weekend in San Pedro, Belize City and Mahogany Heights. In the case of the fire in Mahogany Heights, it is being investigated as a case of arson, as surveillance footage has been recovered and a possible motive established. Today, News Five spoke with the owner of the property […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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In Belize City, sixty-four-year-old Anthony Mortis is without a roof over his head after the small wooden structure he lived in was destroyed by fire in the wee small hours of Saturday. Mortis lived in a ten-by-ten structure, located behind his sister’s house on Cemetery Road, next to La Popular Bakery. He’s a diabetic and […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier today in Placencia, Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade for the Central American Integration System, SICA, and CARICOM held an economic and political dialogue. The discussion comes as part of a series of meetings being held under Belize’s pro tem presidency of SICA. This morning, Assistant Secretary General for CARICOM, Wayne McCook addressed […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Foreign Minister Eamon Courtenay also addressed meeting and spoke of the importance of the Caribbean region, as well as the need to protect its rich marine resources. Eamon Courtenay, Minister of Foreign Affairs “Each of our countries is blessed with the bounty of the Caribbean Sea. Fringing coral reef, attractive beaches, warm crystal clear […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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