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Production within the sugar industry has been put on pause. That’s because on Monday stakeholders decided to suspend harvesting and delivery of sugar cane to the B.S.I. factory at Tower Hill. This inevitably pulls the plug on milling for the time being, as the delivery of cane has hit an all-time low due to recent […]
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According to Osorio, during the first few days of the crop, minimal amounts of cane deliveries were made. He says that roughly eight thousand tons of cane have been burnt and will be delivered to the factory. Milling resumed at four o’clock and deliveries should be received up to two o’clock on Wednesday afternoon. From […]
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The primary factors that have affected the delivery of cane to the factory include the recent weather, deteriorated sugar roads and low cane quality. For the factory to run efficiently farmers would have to deliver at least forty-eight thousand, seven hundred tons of cane. In the past eight days, however, only thirty-four thousand, six hundred […]
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The hemp industry is back in the spotlight tonight, following a Cabinet decision on Monday to constitute an inter-ministerial taskforce to carefully go over the Misuse of Drugs Act. That committee will then make recommendations to amend the existing legislation in order to enable the proper development of the hemp industry. It will also establish […]
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The House of Representatives meets for the first time this Friday since the inaugural opening of the thirteenth National Assembly on December eleventh. The order of business for the initial session will include the introduction of legislation to authorize the Central Bank of Belize to provide for emergency programs and facilities to assist during unusual […]
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A new executive has been named for the Social Security Board, including an Investment Committee led by Chairman Reynaldo Magana. It’s the latest round of appointments to statutory bodies as the Briceño administration continues to take shape. Nine members, including Nigeli Sosa as chairperson, are sitting on S.S.B.’s board of directors. The other members are […]
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Today, News Five’s reporter Duane Moody and cameraman Kenroy Michael travelled west to Benque Viejo del Carmen where, as the days go by, the Caceros family is fearing that the worst has happened to sixty-nine-year-old Miguel Caceros. It’s been five days since the elderly man was last seen alive. But was he killed during an […]
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The Corea family from the Santiago Juan area of San Ignacio is also looking for its patriarch who has been missing since December twenty-eighth. Oscar Corea Senior left home on that day to socialize with friends and has not returned to work or home since; he didn’t carry a cell phone so there is no […]
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There is a disturbing story coming from the Orange Walk District to report tonight. The Cante family in San Felipe Village is furious with the Belize Police Department after they were given the wrong body to bury. The family says that Fernando Cante died on Wednesday night and was taken to the Northern Regional Hospital […]
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The family was taken to the burial site in Trial Farm and was told that they can either exhume the body or leave the body there. The family had already made preparations to properly lay Cante to rest. On the Phone: Lewis Cante, Son of Deceased “What my family decided is it has passed […]
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Former Commissioner of Lands Wilbert Vallejos made headlines on Monday following a raid on his property in Patchakan, Corozal District. During the operation, officers assigned to the Mobile Intercept Team seized over sixty-nine thousand Belize dollars in cash, as well as assorted currencies in Pesos and U.S. dollars. While the Financial Intelligence Unit is investigating […]
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When asked about the monies Chavarria-Requeña has invested in the purchase of the property, she says that she is expecting answers from the Lands Department regarding the unstamped documents. Duane Moody “The monies, obviously it’s thousands of dollars that you’ve paid. Who got those monies, because if there is no record…” Andrea Chavarria-Requeña, […]
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Another woman, a relative of Chavarria-Requeña, who lives in Santa Elena also, shared a recent experience with News Five involving a similar land transaction whereby a proxy who reportedly works on behalf of the lands department accepted money for a title. According to Carolyn Westby, she too got swindled out of a property that had […]
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A state funeral in honor of Doctor Dame Minita Gordon, Belize’s First Governor General, is being organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The public ceremony for the former head of state will observe strict rules of protocol and will also include much pomp and circumstance, as well as distinctive elements of military tradition. Doctor […]
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Occasionally, autopsies on bodies that are discovered in an advanced state of decomposition have been conducted at the Central American Health Sciences University along the Burrell Boom Road. Despite the infrequent use of its facilities and expertise, a working relationship between the National Forensic Science Services and CAHSU was never formalized. That was until Monday […]
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There is a COVID-19 outbreak at the Palm View Center in the Capital. Late this evening, the Ministry of Health and Wellness issued a release confirming the unfortunate situation at the residential care facility in Belmopan. The mental health facility has twenty-seven residents of which twenty-one tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Monday. Seven […]
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The country has recorded ten thousand, nine hundred and thirty-eight cases of COVID-19. With more than ten thousand recovered patients, five hundred and eighty-seven remain active. The Corozal and Orange Walk districts continue to record the most number of new cases daily. This led to the Ministry of Health and Wellness restricting travel to and […]
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The Pan American Health Organization, PAHO, has donated ninety-four thousand, nine hundred and seventy-five antigen tests with antigen controls and rapid diagnostic test analyzers. This is to increase the lab capacity efforts for COVID-19 testing in Belize. A release from PAHO earlier today states, “the importance of timely and accurate testing is crucial to the […]
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An industrial fire erupted at Belize Sugar Industries Limited on New Year’s Eve. A release from B.S.I. says that the fire occurred at the BELCOGEN Power Plant. Milling was suspended for approximately two hours to ensure the safety of all employees while containing and extinguishing the fire. Fortunately, no one was injured and the fire […]
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