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It has been the main discourse for the past couple of weeks – the leverage that social media platforms enjoy over the formal media in terms of legal parameters. Quite often persons, using fake names, use the social media platforms to attack others, sometimes even slandering them. This is what many believe that Hot Off […]
Written on January 26, 2024 | Posted in
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Retired B.D.F. soldiers who were overpaid as a result of an error that was made back in 2019 with their benefits will not have to repay any of the extra monies that they have collected as a result of that miscalculation. Today, the Minister of the Public Service, Henry Charles Usher explained to reporters that […]
Written on January 26, 2024 | Posted in
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Minister Usher, who is also the Chairman of the P.U.P., was asked when the government will set in place some policy governing the matter of campaign financing. Around election time, political parties receive funds for their electioneering from sponsors far and wide and this has become a concern for many who believe there ought to […]
Written on January 26, 2024 | Posted in
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Today, the Customs and Excise Department participated in the celebration of International Customs Day. It is meant to highlight the various roles of customs agencies around the world in ensuring border security and facilitating trade. This year’s festivities carried the theme, “Customs: Engaging Traditional and New Partners with Purpose. News Five’s Britney Gordon attended the […]
Written on January 26, 2024 | Posted in
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This evening, the Belize Defense Force held a ceremony on its parade square at Price Barracks for a march pass, physical fitness display and distribution of awards on the occasion of its forty-sixth anniversary. The anniversary is celebrated with the theme: Defending Our Nation: Forty-Six Years of Commitment and Courage. During the event, awards were […]
Written on January 26, 2024 | Posted in
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The rations that the B.D.F. soldiers are provided when they are deployed in the field is also still a topic of concern. While the Prime Minister and the B.D.F. commandant have said it’s merely a matter of introducing a better diet for the soldiers, some insist that there is hustling happening in the purchasing of […]
Written on January 26, 2024 | Posted in
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As the topic of conservation continues to gain relevancy throughout Belize, an increasing number of organizations are looking for alternative solutions to the unique challenges we face on a daily basis. Over the past few months, several organizations have partnered up to get youths involved in a data-forward waste management initiative. The Plastic Tide Turners […]
Written on January 26, 2024 | Posted in
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The Impact Art Exhibit will be on display for the next seven days inside the Image Factory. The exhibit was curated by Adriana Smith an artist and graphic designer. Smith describes her curation as inclusive. She explained that it includes multiple art forms from fifteen artists between the ages of eight to fifty years-old. The […]
Written on January 26, 2024 | Posted in
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Alda Ramos is a resilient and determined woman whose journey from janitor to university graduate is nothing short of inspirational. Alda initially began as a caretaker at the University of Belize. For nineteen years, she diligently ensured the cleanliness of the campus, while quietly holding on to a dream of pursuing her education. In this […]
Written on January 26, 2024 | Posted in
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The Belize Police Department continues to investigate the murder of thirty-year-old Margaret Cleland that occurred on Tuesday evening in Willows Bank Village. As we reported, her common-law husband, fifty-two-year-old Emeterio Reyes, was detained by police for questioning. His alibi, however, will likely be that he arrived home on the same bus with his neighbor who […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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The High Court has found thirty-seven-year-old Rodman Welch guilty of the 2020 murder of Shakeem Dennison. On October twelfth, 2020, Dennison was shot and killed at the Yarborough Bridge in Belize City. Welch, a father of four, was soon after arrested and charged for his murder. The case was brought before the High Court in […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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Oscar Mira, the Minister of State in the Ministry of National Defense, says that reports of a ration shortage within the Belize Defense Force are being done to create mischief. Minister Mira, himself a former soldier, contended that the organization would never deploy soldiers without sufficient rations. He further explained that the B.D.F. has recently […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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The Belize Defense Force is celebrating its forty-sixth anniversary on Friday, but the military organization is doing so with the likelihood that salaries for the men and women who serve in the security services may be decreased going forward. That’s because there seems to be a confusion regarding what should have been a salary adjustment […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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Earlier this week, while announcing the start of a new basketball season, the BEBL raised serious concerns regarding the cost of renting the Civic Center on game nights. Each team is required to pay for the use of the sporting facility for every night that it has a home game. The cost, according to the […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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Ground will be broken in the weeks ahead for the long-awaited hospital in San Pedro. Funding for the facility will come from Taiwan and it should take around two years to be completed. The government has re-assigned the location for the hospital to the southern portion of the island and, as Belize Rural South Area […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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Cabinet has pledged to continue its Boost program under the Ministry of Human Development. That decision made today’s Cabinet brief. The release stated that the program is an important pillar of social protection for the neediest Belizeans. But, was the announcement made as a political ploy to curry favor with voters only forty days before […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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Today, fire officials cut the ribbon at a spanking new fire station in Dangriga. Funding for the station was provided by the U.S Embassy and the facility consists of offices, amenities, as well as space for two full-sized fire trucks. Today’s ceremony marked an accomplishment of a plan conceptualized twenty-four years ago when the location […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, a video surfaced online showing village leaders from Corazon, San Lucas and Mabil Ha ripping up the Government of Belize’s proposed draft Maya Communal Land Policy. According to the villagers, the proposed changes threaten the livelihoods and well-being of these communities. Their collective cry was for G.O.B. to “respect us, respect our lands”. […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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Today, we got an update from the Minister of State in the Ministry of National Defense, Oscar Mira, on the status of fifty Belize Defense Force soldiers that are being trained for deployment to Haiti. According to Minister Mira, an official decision has not yet been made and the Government of Belize is waiting for […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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Commercial bus operators will have to adhere to the regulation that prohibits overcrowding very shortly. Today, Minister of Transport, Rodwell Ferguson explained that as part of the upgrade to the bus industry, aside from acquiring new buses, the bus companies will also have to exercise proper rules of the road. Ferguson said that the Transport […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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The Dorothy Menzies Childcare Center will have a new facility in Belmopan, in the near future. Today, ground was broken for the center. Upon completion, the operations of the center in Belize City will be moved to Belmopan. It is a huge move for childcare services in Belize, because the facility will be much more […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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Today marks the first anniversary of the sudden loss of William Dawson, the former chair of the Leadership Intervention Unit. The department, an arm of the Ministry of Home Affairs, works closely with community leaders and at-risk youths in various neighborhoods across Belize City. During his time as head of the L.I.U., Dawson became a […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, Wesley Methodist Church hosted its one hundred sixty-third annual meeting of the Belize-Honduras District of Methodist Churches in the Caribbean and the Americas. The meeting was attended by nearly one hundred delegates hailing from northern and southern regions of Belize, as well as various parts of Honduras. It is part of a week-long […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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This week, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is celebrating its ninth annual Jalsa Salana convention in Belize. The purpose of the event is to gain a nearness to God and develop ties of brother hood, within the community. This year, the event carries the theme of “Peace” and will be held on January twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth. […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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For the past two decades, there have been concerns over various development projects in San Pedro where questions have been raised regarding the involvement of the Department of Environment in those decisions. Those concerns are finally being allayed with the establishment of permanent offices for the Department of the Environment and Forestry on the island. […]
Written on January 25, 2024 | Posted in
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