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The Belize Elite Basketball League is back with its 2024 Season. The first game of the season takes place on Friday night inside the Belize City Civic Center, between last year’s finalists, the Benny‘s Belize Hurricanes and the San Pedro Tiger Sharks. This afternoon, Glen Gill, the league’s newly elected commissioner held a press conference […]
Written on January 22, 2024 | Posted in
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One of the major points raised in today’s BEBL press conference has to do with the cost that comes with using the Belize City Civic Center for matches. According to the league’s commissioner, each team pays five thousand dollars to use the Civic Center for each home game played. With three teams using the civic […]
Written on January 22, 2024 | Posted in
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Goodnight, and welcome to another edition of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. We begin tonight’s coverage with the final match of D’ Gym Basketball Tournament. It was a wet Saturday night in Sugar City. The game started outdoors at the East Sports Center and had to be finished at the Orange Walk Sporting Complex. […]
Written on January 22, 2024 | Posted in
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Since the beginning of the week, we have been following a pair of allegations made against a well-known attorney here in Belize City. The lawyer is accused of raping two young ladies after a night of partying on the entertainment strip last Thursday. Since then, the Director of Public Prosecutions has been furnished with a […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Human Development has also issued a reminder for persons to be careful and vigilant while socializing and consuming alcohol. It has also committed to providing the necessary support and counseling to the victims. Isani Cayetano “The issue of victim blaming though, as you alluded to earlier, it would seem as though […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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Twenty-seven-year-old Belize City Council employee, Jimmy Estuardo Rojas, has been arrested and charged for the January twelfth murder of Jose Matus. As we reported, just after midday on Friday of last week, police responded to reports of shots fired on the corner of Singh Street and Rio Grande Crescent in Belize City. When they arrived […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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A fifty-two-year-old Belize City man was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Thursday night with gunshot injuries. Reports are that Kenrick Gill, also known as Bones, was walking on Hunters Lane when a gunman targeted him. Gill received a single gunshot to the left shoulder. He was treated for the injury and later […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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The recent shortage of sugar that the country faced prior to the Christmas holidays should not be a recurrent problem, not if an arrangement between the Ministry of Agriculture, A.S.R./B.S.I. and Santander is properly set in place. Recently, Santander issued a release in which it stated that Belize should never be in a position of […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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Comments Off on Ministry of Agriculture Takes Steps to Prevent Sugar Shortage
Will the government adjust the prices of sugar that are sold locally? That is the question that cane farmers, pastry makers and restaurateurs are probably asking. The prices of Belize’s sugar sold locally, both white and brown, have been blamed for the high contraband activity of the product, resulting in sugar being smuggled into neighbouring […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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The year 2023 was not a good one for the citrus and banana industries in terms of revenues. Even citrus bi-products did not do well on the market. There was a marginal increase last year in those returns, but according to the Minister of Agriculture, the uptick in those numbers have not yet reached significant […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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In March of 2023, the Cabinet decided, based on the demands primarily of cane farmers of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association, to hold a commission of inquiry into the sugar industry. The inquiry will analyse and identify areas along the entire chain of the sugar industry in an attempt to modernize the Sugar Industry […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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The communities of Conejo, Crique Sarco, Santa Teresa, Sundaywood and Graham Creek have arrived at several conclusions after carefully reviewing the draft Maya Customary Land Policy. The collective has determined that the draft is rather confusing and incomplete in many parts. The villages also disagree with the fact they must apply for the registering of […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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This afternoon, twenty-three men and women attached to various law enforcement agencies completed a brief training on ammunition and firearms management. It’s part of a regional initiative to reduce gun violence by ensuring that firearms that are stored by the police departments do not end up in the hands of criminals who use these weapons […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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According to Nikita Mohammed, the Regional Program Manager for the Mines Advisory Group, they are also working with the Belize Police Department to destroy weapons and ammunitions that have been confiscated. They will also be looking at various ways in which physical security of armories at these various agencies can be upgraded. Nikita Mohammed, […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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A family of three is left without a home to call their own after losing everything in a house fire earlier this week. On Monday, around two-thirty p.m. in Gracie Rock Village, the Young family was socializing in their yard when they were alerted by a friend that their house was on fire. Sixty-four-year-old Carlton […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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They have been pushing the boundaries of piano music across the globe. And, this week, Belizean students from the Stann Creek and Belize districts were given the opportunity to hear them live. Duo Mundi George and Guli is in Belize. The world renowned piano duo took time out of their busy schedules as music professors […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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It’s been around for over fifty years through funding provided by a Canadian aid program, and now, the Belcan Bridge has served its time and needs to be replaced. In fact, of the three Belize City crossings over the Haulover Creek, the Belcan is the one that needs the most urgent attention. News Five’s Marion […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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Our story this week showcases an extraordinary individual who has not only embraced the role of a youth pastor at a high school, but has done so with unwavering determination, despite facing the challenges of visual impairment. Meet the remarkable man who, through his steadfast commitment and unyielding spirit, has become a beacon of hope […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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Three Belize City residents are lucky to be alive tonight after a gunman opened fire at their vehicle on Maskall Street. And, if that street sounds familiar, the last time we visited the area was to cover the Christmas Eve murder of Darnell Puerto and the shooting of his friend Jehvon Ramclam. Last night’s attempted […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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A teenager is left hospitalized after being stabbed last night in Ladyville. According to police reports, around three thirty pm, a sixteen-year-old male and his friends were on their way home from school when they encountered a seventeen-year-old male on Marage Road. The youths allegedly got into an argument that quickly escalated and turned violent […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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Thirty-year-old Ignatius Williams has been sentenced to eight years and three months at the Belize Central Prison after being convicted of the rape of a woman back in August 2019. On Wednesday evening, Justice Candace Nanton delivered a sentence after Williams pleaded guilty to rape and sparing the victim from having to testify against him […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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Kenneth “Big Tom” Flowers has been convicted for possession of a pipe used for smoking crack cocaine. The well-known street figure appeared unrepresented in the Magistrate’s Court earlier today where he was read single charge of possession of a pipe. Flowers wasted no time and pleaded guilty to the offense. A non-custodial sentence in the […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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Santander wants in on the domestic sugar market, following the recent scarcity of plantation white sugar due to rampant contrabanding of this commodity into neighboring Mexico and Guatemala. In a press release issued by the company earlier today, it acknowledged that, “the decreased availability of sugar in our local market is a problem that Santander […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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According to Burke, Santander writes to the Government of Belize annually, requesting permission to enter the domestic market. The PR Manager went on to say that Belize, as the largest sugar producer in the Caribbean, should never run out of sugar for local consumption. On the Phone: Beverly Burke, PR Manager, Santander Sugar “On […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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As we’ve reported, the scarcity of particularly white sugar just prior to the Christmas holidays forced the government to issue a permit to A.S.R/B.S.I. to import sugar into the country to meet the demands. The problem arose out of the illegal contraband trade of sugar to neighbouring countries. When we met with him today, News […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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