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Great Belize Television’s Channel Five has once again emerged victorious at the annual Caribbean Broadcasting Awards Competition held on Tuesday night in Nassau, Bahamas. As many as eight coveted prizes were won in fourteen various TV categories, including Climate Change and Renewable Energy, Coverage of Disaster Risk and Best Public Service Spot. The awards were […]
There are two murders to report tonight and in both cases, the identity of the victims has still not been established. Just before two p.m. today, police were called out to an area between miles three and four on the George Price Highway. Some three hundred feet off the pavement in some bushes, they discovered […]
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Belize City police are investigating what appears to be a murder at sea. Shortly after one o’clock this afternoon, officers were summoned to an area on Princess Margaret Drive near St. Anthony’s Trading Company where a report was made that an unidentified person was badly beaten and tossed into the murky waters a short distance […]
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An accused killer is tonight on the run from the law after escaping from police custody early this morning. Twenty-four-year-old Jevon Belizaire was arrested and charged on Tuesday for the murder of his next door neighbor on Neal’s Pen Road on Sunday night. He was being held at the Raccoon Street Police Station prior to […]
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There have been quite a few murders in San Pedro over the past week, including several shootings. Last Wednesday night, Scott Charles was shot multiple times inside his home in the Bay Side area of San Pedro Town, as he responded to a knock at the front door to his house. He died the following […]
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Minister Heredia says that the trafficking and sale of drugs are at the heart of criminal activities on the island, but are there contradictory rules in place? At last Friday’s House Meeting, the government tabled a bill to amend the Misuse of Drugs Act that decriminalizes possession of up to ten grams of marijuana. But […]
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Recently, further revelations were made about the land-grabbing activities of the Vega family during Gaspar Vega’s tenure as Minister of Natural Resources. Tonight, News Five can share some documents concerning land originally turned over to the Belmopan City Council under Said Musa as Prime Minister, but which ended up in the hands of Ignacio German […]
Get ready for higher gas prices once again. For the second time in eight days, prices are set to rise at midnight tonight for premium gasoline and diesel. Premium rises to near eleven dollars at ten dollars and ninety-nine cents from ten dollars and forty-nine cents, while diesel climbs over the nine-dollar mark to nine […]
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There was minimal resistance from the Opposition at last Friday’s meeting of the House of Representatives to the amendment to the Town Councils Act, which allows for greater power of the municipal councils to obtain funds for capital projects. The reason ostensibly given by Prime Minister Dean Barrow for the rush-through of the bill is […]
The Government side was hard-put to defend the bill, with Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte accusing the opposition of playing politics with the issue. Dr. Carla Barnett pointed out that Government has issued no guarantee for the project and is not otherwise involved beyond the legislation. It had already done the kind of inspection necessary to […]
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It is the sole province of the senate to accede to the ratification of international treaties and conventions signed by Belize in order for them to be ratified. At this morning’s meeting the senate considered three such treaties: the Protocol Amending the CARICOM Agreement on Social Security; the Amendment to Annex Three of the Agreement […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow was dismissive of statements made by the Senator for Non-Governmental Organizations, Osmany Salas, concerning the importance of re-registration to our national political system. While not engaging directly with the P.M., Salas re-emphasized that with the Guatemala I.C.J. referendum coming; Belize must get its house in order and clean up the voters’ […]
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Is the Taiwanese Embassy meddling in the affairs of government? It’s a suspicion that many in the Belize Chinese Association are grappling with tonight, reportedly following a decision by the Barrow administration not to waive a sum of sixty-six thousand dollars in visa fees for a visiting group of thirty-three visually impaired Chinese performers. The […]
Reports have been circulating that the chairman of the Belize Airports Authority resigned. According to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, it may have been based on concerns raised by an ex-employee, though it is not clear if these concerns have to do with misappropriation of funds. But the Minister in charge of Civil Aviation, Manuel Heredia […]
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Speaking about the BAA, there have been concerns about the travel tax that was implemented, particularly so for Tropic Air, which had some regional flights that they had to suspend. The Belize Tourism Industry Association has also issued a statement because the tax does not foster development of the domestic airline. It stressed for intervention […]
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Four students from across the country were awarded scholarships today courtesy of the Belize Tourism Board. They are all pursuing degrees in various areas of tourism and the overall value of the awards provided to the 2017-2018 cohort is approximately thirty-one thousand dollars. News Five’s Duane Moody was at a brief ceremony at the B.T.B. […]
