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News Five has confirmed that an emergency cabinet meeting has been called for Wednesday morning. That meeting will be held at the Prime Minister’s Office at the Laing Building, in Belize City. As we’ve reported the situation is fluid and it is expected that a decision on the John Saldivar situation may be forthcoming.
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At news time tonight, the government and the new leader of the U.D.P., John Saldivar have remained mum about the incriminating revelations coming out from a court in Utah in a trial that has captivated the nation. A press conference announced for this Wednesday by the U.D.P. has been called off as Saldivar comes under […]
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Early this morning, a new photograph surfaced in the ongoing saga involving the new U.D.P. leader, John Saldivar. Saldivar’s name has been ringing in the Salt Lake court where Lev Dermen is being accused of defrauding as much as five hundred and ten million U.S. dollars from the U.S. government in fuel tax credit. This […]
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There are two elected leaders of the U.D.P. following Sunday’s convention when John Saldivar took the oath as party leader. Today, the party sent out a release asserting that Prime Minister Dean Barrow continues to lead the party. A release points to the party’s constitution which cites that whenever the party leader is serving the […]
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After garnering the most votes from delegates during the National Party Convention on Sunday to become the new deputy leader of the U.D.P., Corozal North Area Representative and Minister of Natural Resources, Hugo Patt, has been sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister which means that he sits next to the PM in the House. The […]
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Ahead of Hugo Patt’s swearing-in this afternoon, we caught up with him following today’s cabinet meeting, the first gathering of the Barrow administration since the U.D.P. convention on Sunday. We quizzed the Minister of Natural Resources on his thoughts about the Lev Dermen scandal, in the context of newly elected party leader John Saldivar being […]
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Will the latest developments from Jacob Kingston’s testimony earlier today during which he provided the court with text messages of John Saldivar requesting fifty thousand U.S. dollars prompt an abrupt change within the upper echelon of the United Democratic Party? According to Patt, he does not envisage any immediate changes following today’s testimony. Reporter […]
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Remember John McAfee? He is the eccentric U.S. anti-virus software pioneer with a sordid history. Among other things, McAfee was a person of interest in the 2012 murder of his neighbor in San Pedro, another U.S. national, Gregory Faull. In that same year, his property in Orange Walk was raided by the G.S.U. McAfee claimed the raid […]
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Earlier today, a letter from the Scotiabank to Mesopotamia Area Representative Michael Finnegan went into wide circulation on social media, since the sixty-day notice concerned the termination of his constituency’s account. The letter, dated January twentieth, was written by Branch Manager Erwin Arthurs and informs Finnegan that, “Scotiabank has undertaken a strategic review of its […]
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According to Port Loyola Area Representative, Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez, he, too, received a letter from Scotiabank late in 2019 informing him of the pending termination of his constituency account. He says that no more than four thousand dollars at any given time was deposited or withdrawn from that account prior to its closure. Anthony […]
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Javan Moody says that he is being framed for a murder he didn’t commit. Moody, as we reported on Monday, was arrested and charged for the killing of his girlfriend, Ariana Jones. Today, Moody appeared before the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court where he was arraigned on a single charge of murder. We spoke with his attorney […]
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The case of Corporal Eldon Arzu versus Commissioner of Police will proceed to trial. This morning the matter was before the court, but was adjourned until May twelfth, in order for a new trial judge to be appointed. In November of last year, Nazira Myles, attorney for President of the Police Association Corporal Eldon Arzu, […]
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On Monday, the parties involved in the P.S.U. land claim were back before the courts. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that Simplex Design Limited was the legitimate owner of the hilltop property and that the union’s battle was with the Belmopan City Council who sold the property to the private company, based in Corozal. […]
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There was a shooting incident this morning in Belize City. According to reports, multiple shots were fired on Euphrates Avenue just after ten o’clock. One report to News Five is that someone opened fired at a moving vehicle, but no one was injured. Police arrived on the scene shortly thereafter and canvassed the area, but […]
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Officials from the Department of Environment, the Fisheries Department, the Belize Port Authority and the Belize Audubon Society today travelled to the site of a recent grounding on an aquarium near Long Caye in the Lighthouse Reef Atoll. On Sunday, a vessel, namely the Samadhi, which is registered in Cayman Island, had dropped its anchor […]
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According to Ports Commissioner Merlene Bailey-Martinez, charges can be filed by both the Belize Port Authority and the Department of Environment in incidents like this, but the D.O.E. normally takes the lead when it comes to environmental issues. According to the Harbours and Merchant Shipping Act, charges for negligence in causing the destruction to the […]
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Last week, the Belize Council of Churches issued a press release to provide its position on the Equal Opportunities Bill. According to the Council of Churches, they are supportive of the idea of legislation that would further promote and protect the right to equal protection under the law and non-discrimination, contained in the Constitution of […]
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Albert Area Representative Tracy Panton received the fewest number of votes in Sunday’s U.D.P. convention. She had from the onset admitted to being at a disadvantage since only seventy-five percent of the five hundred and sixty-eight delegates were made available to her during the campaign. Today, Panton shared with the media her feelings on the […]
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On Sunday, Belize Rural North Area Rep, Edmond ‘Clear the Land’ Castro predicted that John Saldivar would have defeated political opponent Patrick Faber handsomely to become the U.D.P.’s new party leader. The results of the leadership race weren’t too far from his prediction. Today, he was asked whether the United Democratic Party, in spite of […]
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The Ministry of Health says that a cruise ship that docked at Harvest Caye has been cleared. The ship was carrying three passengers who were exhibiting flu-like symptoms. Those passengers, according to the Ministry of Health, were in quarantine on the ship and didn’t disembark. The Ministry says that a medical doctor was assigned to […]
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And in the Ministry’s preparation and prevention plans for the virus, Manzanero says that they are working with their partners to prepare because the way the virus has been spreading indicates that it is very likely that it will spread to Belize. Manzanero says that they are keeping updated as information surrounding the virus calls […]
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Today, the National Institute of Culture and History (NICH), through the Institute for Social and Cultural Research, in partnership with cultural stakeholders released the Belize Living Heritage Website. The online portal is dedicated to promoting the cultural skills, traditions, and knowledge that are transmitted, continuously practiced and safeguarded in communities across Belize. Here is Duane […]
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