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The inaugural sitting of the House of Representatives, led by Prime Minister John Briceño, is being held this Friday. Several bills will be tabled for the first reading, including a proposed piece of legislation that will empower the Central Bank of Belize to provide for emergency programs and facilities. This is in the context of […]
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On Wednesday, Minister of Infrastructure Development and Housing Julius Espat detailed the allegations of misuse of resources by former Minister Rene Montero. He also shed light on the ongoing review of high-cost public buildings initiated under the previous administration. Viewers will recall that the Belize Infrastructure Limited, B.I.L., was the special purpose vehicle under the previous administration […]
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An assessment of the recently constructed Foreign Affairs headquarters, the Leigh Richardson Building in Belmopan continues. The new administration is concerned about the value for money. As it stands, the structure, built at the cost of several million dollars, is not designed to meet the foreign ministry’s everyday needs or the office of foreign trade. […]
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A decision on who will succeed Colin Griffith as the next Comptroller of Customs is yet to be determined by the Ministry of Finance. While senior customs officers Ian Haylock and Estelle Leslie have interviewed for the post, an announcement is pending. Until then, the Customs and Excise Department’s outgoing head has been granted a […]
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The U.S. Embassy in Belize has issued a statement on the deadly events at the Capitol on Wednesday. Chargé d’Affaires Keith Gilges, in speaking about American democracy, said, quote, it was tested again yesterday by the assault on the Capitol. The U.S. Congress carried out its duties as enshrined in the Constitution to certify the […]
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Four persons were charged with drug offenses after the K9 dog, Terry, sniffed out the location of hidden cocaine and crack cocaine at an Orange Walk residence. Officers descended at a residence along Liberty Avenue where Amin Mendez, Jessica Melendez, Amini Mendez, and Henry Nunez. Police say that Terry led them to a small fuse […]
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Sixty-one thousand, five hundred and eleven COVID-19 tests have been conducted as of today. Eleven thousand, one hundred and fifty-two cases have been confirmed with two hundred and sixty-seven deaths, this includes the additional seven deaths which were reported today. Five hundred and forty-one cases remain active. The Ministry of Health and Wellness has ramped […]
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The Cante Family in San Felipe Village is advised to request financial compensation after the family’s patriarch was mistakenly buried as a John Doe in another village without the family. Late Wednesday evening, the Ministry of Health and Wellness issued a statement clarifying the mishandling and erroneous release of Fernando Cante’s corpse at the Northern […]
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Did thirty-nine-year-old Gregory Bowen kill himself inside a holding cell at the Queen Street Police Station on Monday morning? That’s what police say happened, but his family doesn’t believe that’s what happened. As we told you on Wednesday night, Catherine Bowen says her brother suffered from depression and that the police were aware of his […]
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The final statistics for 2020 showed that last year murders were down overall in Belize. The Belize Crime Observatory compiled and analyzed the 2020 crime statistics. The agency says that Belize’s murder rate is below what is considered civil war levels for the first time in seven years. Overall, major crimes have decreased with murders […]
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The Belize Police Department has a new board. On Wednesday, an election was held to elect the new representatives. Two slates contested the election – one was led by the former president Corporal Eldon Arzu, and Sergeant Jermaine Hyde led the other. Following the elections, Hyde’s slate was victorious. He trumped Arzu by almost double […]
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Today, News Five’s reporter Duane Moody and cameraman Kenroy Michael headed north to the sugar belt to highlight an issue that has cost the government millions of dollars annually. While it is expected that the sugar roads are in poor condition at this time of year due to the yearly rains, this year, it is […]
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Today our news team found acres of sugar cane still underwater, and with a forecast for more rain to come on Friday, conditions are not favourable for harvesting. The problem is that typically drenched cane fields equate to high mud content. Industrial Operations Superintendent for the Milling Plant at A.S.R./B.S.I., Nolberto Avilez, breaks it down. […]
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On Monday, sugar industry stakeholders will meet to discuss when burning and delivery of cane will resume. The decision to temporarily pause the harvesting and delivery of cane was taken on January fourth after cane deliveries to the factory hit an all-time low. The factory at Tower Hill needs an average of five thousand tons […]
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There isn’t an exact figure to indicate how much cane is in the fields, even though there is a tool that could do this very calculation. It is called the Sugar Industry Management Information System or SIMIS. But the issue here is that farmers are resisting implementing the software, and so is the Minister of […]
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But A.S.R’s Mac McLachlan strongly disagrees with the Minister. McLachlan says that SIMIS is a hugely important tool that can be used to develop and modernize the industry. He says if the system had been effectively implemented by this time around, the struggles that farmers are facing would have probably been non-existent. Mac McLachlan, […]
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Municipal elections are just under two months away and slowly, the major political parties are announcing members of their slates in different municipalities. Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner has already indicated that he will be seeking re-election; the United Democratic Party is yet to reveal its slate for Belize City. One councilor hopeful who on […]
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The appointment of several close relatives of elected P.U.P. officials to statutory bodies, including the Social Security Board, has raised many eyebrows, as concerns about nepotism have arisen. Jose ‘Pepe’ Garcia, the husband of Human Development Minister Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, sits as a member of the newly constituted board of directors for Belize Water Services Limited. […]
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Before taking office late last year, the People’s United Party pledged that it would curtail expenditure related to the purchase of new vehicles for elected officials amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But not all ministers and C.E.O.s seem to be in line with that initiative, as reports indicate that several of them have gone ahead with […]
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For many of us, we are happy to put behind us the memories of 2020. But the year of the onset of the global pandemic wasn’t all bad for everyone. Tonight, we’ll share one young man’s inspirational journey of transformation. Here’s more in tonight’s Healthy Living. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting It started with the scare […]
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