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G.O.B. is not budging – at least that is the news coming out of the unions. The government has flatly rejected their cost-cutting proposal and wants to push full steam ahead with the salary cut and increment freeze to reduce the wage bill by eighty million dollars. Earlier this week, the unions informed their members […]
Written on March 26, 2021 | Posted in
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But it may not be a done deal. According to P.S.U.’s Dean Flowers, G.O.B. reached out to allow them a final chance to ventilate their reasons for their unwavering position. That meeting couldn’t happen today and has been pushed back for Monday – and we’ll tell you all about that next week. But you’ll remember […]
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And now turning to more public service matters – Dean Flowers is calling out the Ministry of Health and Wellness. He alleges that public officers are being treated to very disrespectful and wrongful actions. He says one such incident happened today – where two officers were basically chased out of their office. He explains what […]
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So, there you heard Flowers allege that the officers were being transferred at the orders of the Minister of Health and Wellness, Michel Chebat. But it doesn’t end there, according to Flowers, because the minister himself, allegedly, tried to get rid of a senior finance officer in his ministry and told her she would be […]
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And Flowers also took the opportunity to take some closing shots at Minister Michel Chebat – calling his actions arrogant and disrespectful. He alleges that Chebat’s issue with the Financial Officer in his ministry stems from a failure to follow procedure, one, he says, that was laid out way back in January as it relates […]
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Residents of Silk Grass Village woke up to the startling news of a murder this morning. The grisly scene of a vicious stabbing was discovered by a neighbor who saw her friend, a forest officer who recently moved to the community, mutilated inside his home. It happened overnight but was not reported until sometime around […]
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Alleged Belizean sea pirates Jaime Nolberto Coote, Vincent Esron Martinez, Fernando Avila, Justin Floyd Palacio, Jeremy Waylon Leslie and a seventeen-year-old minor – all reportedly from southern Belize – will soon be spending time behind bars at the central prison in Hattieville. The group of men were busted Honduran authorities in the Baja Mar community […]
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A pair of police constables who were recently victorious in a claim against the Belize Police Department has been charged for appearing on Channel Five’s Open Your Eyes morning show a few weeks ago. WPC Alleeya Wade was one of several claimants in whose favour the Supreme Court ruled that she was lawfully permitted to […]
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It’s something we often see discussed in international news. Now, two Belize City men have filed civil suits against the Belize Police Department for racial profiling. Case management conferences held this week set court dates for May. In December of 2020, Greg Nunez, through his attorney, Leslie Mendez, filed papers, while Bryton Codd filed his suit […]
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Justice Antoinette Moore, who presides over the southern session of Supreme Court trials, is expected to hand down a ruling shortly on the murder trial of thirty-three-year-old Nicholas Swazo. The crown and the defense wrapped up closing arguments recently in the trial and a date and time will be set for a verdict. Swazo was […]
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In the Belmopan session of the Supreme Court, twenty-three-year-old Ashton Puerto is spending his first week of a seventeen-year prison sentence after he was found guilty of the lesser charge of Manslaughter. Puerto was charged in July of 2016 for the murder of Maleek Norris in Roaring Creek Village. The two had a dispute over money […]
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Two weeks ago, the disturbing video of a fifteen-year-old boy being tortured in the Conch Shell Bay area of Belize City at the hands of two men went viral on social media. As a responsible media house, News Five did not rebroadcast the chilling video on television or Facebook that captured the minor being stomped […]
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The phased return of in-person learning by the government is being met with some resistance. The decision was made following the advice of a COVID-19 Education Task Force appointed by the Ministry of Education to come up with a plan. Earlier this week, the announcement was made that on April twelfth some schools will start […]
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Cabinet Minister Dolores Balderamos Garcia threw her support behind Education Minister Francis Fonseca and his C.E.O. for the phased return to the classrooms. Dolores Balderamos Garcia, Minister of Indigenous People’s Affairs “We have to learn English in this country yo know. They said a phased approach to reopening of the schools beginning on the […]
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On Wednesday, the Garifuna community spoke out about struggles surrounding communal land rights. In that press conference, its representatives spoke of land issues affecting three Garifuna communities in the south, between the villages of Barranco and Midway, Seine Bight and Placencia and Georgetown and Maya Mopan. It’s about the preservation of the cultural heritage of […]
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Minister Balderamos Garcia also spoke about the progress on the consent order issued by the C.C.J. in terms of the communal land rights case won by the Maya people in the south back in 2015. With a new commissioner, in the person of attorney Greg Ch’oc was recently installed, the minister says that they have […]
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As women’s month nears its end, a series of activities carried out by the Belize Coast Guard in celebration of the fifty women enlisted with the law enforcement agency culminated today with a symposium at its headquarters in Belize City. Former Commandant John Borland and Minister of Human Development Dolores Balderamos Garcia as well as […]
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In attendance at the symposium were members of the police department, the B.D.F. and the coast guard. One of the concerns addressed was the process through which aggrieved persons can lodge complaints. There have been numerous reports of sexual assaults behind military walls so we asked Acting Commandant of the Belize Coast Guard, Commander Gregory […]
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As Belizeans hope they might have a less restricted Easter than last year, elsewhere in the Caribbean, some residents are dealing with a threat even greater than COVID-19. Those living in the shadow of the volcano on the island of Saint Vincent are keeping a watchful eye on La Soufrière. Kenton Chance has this report […]
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