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There is significant development to report on tonight, in respect of Guatemala’s territorial, insular and maritime claim to Belize. That claim was filed before the International Court of Justice back in April of this year, following referenda in both countries in 2019. Guatemala’s Memorial, as it is known, avers what Guatemala is claiming in terms […]
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Guatemala’s submission is four thousand, eight hundred and thirteen pages long. In it, Guatemala is claiming all the rights inherited from Spain at the time of independence in 1821. A release from the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry announces an impressive list on their team. Guatemala’s legal team was hired in June 2019 and is comprises of […]
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There is a new Board of Directors at Belize Telemedia Limited headed by former Business Senator Mark Lizarraga as chairman. The recently constituted executive includes six directors, as well as a corporate secretary. They are Marconi Leal Junior, Jermie Usher, Jose Urbina, Denise Courtenay, Michael Bowen and Eric Eusey. B.T.L.’s corporate secretary is Melissa Balderamos-Mahler. […]
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The contract signed between Net Vasquez and B.T.L. which came into effect back in mid-January was endorsed by Marconi Leal Junior, in his capacity as Acting Chief Sales and Marketing Officer on behalf of the company. Leal has since been appointed as Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Public Utilities. He has also been […]
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With a new B.T.L. executive also comes a new structure and administration of the company. According to Chairman Lizarraga, an internal audit department will be answerable to the board of directors via an internal audit committee. That body, in the case of the Net Vasquez investigation, will determine whether criminal charges should be pursued against […]
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Does B.T.L. still maintain a competitive edge over other service providers in the country, despite a dismal economic performance? The chairmanship of the company is being assumed at a time when B.T.L.’s profitability is being called to question. So how will a new board help to change the course of the company and steer it […]
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The leading epidemiologist and the man who was put in charge of Belize’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic announced this afternoon that he is positive for the virus. Director of Health Services Doctor Marvin Manzanero announced his COVID-19 positive status on his Facebook profile saying, “For those who work closely, they would note that I […]
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The Belize Central Prison is now COVID-19 free. C.E.O. of the Kolbe Foundation Virgilio Murillo told News Five today that the prison has zero active cases. This is a significant achievement for Murillo and his teams since the first five infections in early October. That was followed by ninety additional cases on October twenty-seventh. A […]
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And while the prison is COVID-free, the country is a long way from that reality. Election Day is believed to have been a super spreader event with confirmed COVID cases at more than eight thousand. An additional sixty cases were confirmed today along with three new deaths. The total COVID-19 death toll now stands at […]
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The government also has plans to launch a massive countrywide campaign against the COVID-19 pandemic. Prime Minister John Briceno says that his government will be doing it differently but if there is a need for Ask the Expert then it will be resumed. Prime Minister John Briceño “We want to do is slightly different […]
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Prime Minister John Briceño today championed the achievements of the CARICOM-Cuba cooperation at the Seventh Summit of Heads of State and Governments which took place virtually with regional leaders logging in from their respective countries. Prime Minister Briceño emphasized the importance of a regional approach to face the challenges of COVID-19, access to affordable financing and […]
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It’s been over a week since we’ve been reporting on severe flooding in central Belize and that’s because with the change in weather, water levels have been receding in all areas, including the Belize River Valley where flood waters rose high into people’s homes. So today, we headed back to the Belize District to get […]
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In recent weeks we have been reporting about the effects of floods on the country. The agriculture sector has not been spared – with farmers losing hundreds of acres in crops. As we showed you last week, we went to Valley of Peace to find out how the farmers are rebounding from the losses. The […]
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The Sugar Cane Crop is scheduled to commence on December fourteenth but during a recent stakeholders meeting, cane farmers asked that it be delayed. They say the rains have flooded a large number of cane fields and ninety-nine percent of the sugar roads are impassable making it nearly impossible for farmers to reach their fields. […]
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Today, many residents on the south side lined up to receive food packages, but is it a continuation of the ‘Grocery Bag’ programme? As you’ll recall, some two weeks ago, Minister of Human Development Dolores Balderamos Garcia told us that the food programmes in the ministry had to be put on hold and would resume […]
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On Monday, the Ministry of Health and Wellness received a grant for the “Project for strengthening Medical Imaging Systems in Belize”, as well as other medical supplies from the Taiwanese Embassy. The donation forms part of a grant that is valued at more than one million Belize dollars that’s funded by the Government of the […]
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