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Today, U.D.P. area rep Tracy Panton posted on social media the words of her eighty-one-year-old mother on the proposed eleventh amendment bill. It says, “I do not agree with everything that Shyne Barrow has been up to. In fact, I outright disagree with many of his shenanigans. But his objection to the eleventh amendment is […]
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The news spread like wildfire today: a teenager vacationing with his family in the popular tourism destination of Placencia shot dead by police. Tonight that officer finds himself on the other side of the law as a criminal and an internal investigation begins into the incident. Today the police high command acted swiftly to detain […]
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This evening, the family of Laddie Gillett spoke to the media in San Ignacio about the tragedy. According to the legal guardian, Emil Bradley, Gillett was with friends at a neighbouring property. He received a call from his son saying that they were on their way back to the hotel and decided to jog. That’s […]
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Bradley reflects on his son, whose life was cut short at fourteen as he was innocently killed by a police officer. They were to return to their home in Cayo on Friday. Emil Bradley, Guardian of Deceased “…very friendly person, very funny person; he is always the clown in the group. He’s not that […]
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Late this evening, the teenager that was with Laddie Gillett during the fatal shooting posted on his Instagram page about the incident. Calling it a senseless murder, he says “the cops and security intercepted us as we were heading back to Chabil Mar resort. The men who caused us to run were dressed in all […]
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This morning, News Five caught up with Commissioner of Police Chester Williams in Dangriga as he is accompanying the Minister of Home Affairs on his country tour. ComPol Williams said that the department is investigating the antivaxxer group, Belize Rights and Justice Movement for violating quarantine regulations. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “I blame […]
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Also under investigation are several persons whose names have shown up in an audit report of the COVID-19 Unemployment Relief Program under the Barrow Administration. According to information reaching News Five, the public purse was allegedly fleeced and several persons who were not eligible for relief funds received monies from the program. ComPol Chester Williams […]
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In an update to the looming labor dispute at the Port of Belize, P.B.L. has reportedly agreed to meet with the Christian Workers Union next week. The union has served the port with a twenty-one-day notice of intended industrial action because stevedores fear they will be losing wages if the company which exports sugar at […]
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When asked about the go-slow the stevedores are currently staging and how this affects not only the Port of Belize or A.S.R./B.S.I., but also cane farmers, the union president said they are conscious of the cane farmer’s situation and that the go-slow is one part of the union’s attempt to jump start negotiations. Evan […]
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News Five also asked the C.W.U. leader about the right of a business to make changes to become more competitive. He referred back to the Memorandum of Understanding drawn up in the early two-thousands. Paul Lopez “Where do you stand on the right of the company to increase its efficiency by moving to the […]
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The Port of Belize Limited called a press conference this evening to address the ongoing matter with the C.W.U. members. According to P.B.L., since April they have been engaging the C.W.U. but talks stalled when the CWU failed to provide feedback following a meeting. C.E.O. Andy Lane says that it was on May twenty-eight that […]
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C.E.O. Lane is now hoping that G.O.B. will honor that M.O.U. and keep the sugar shipments in Belize. And he says if that happens, they want to transition into moving the Collective Bargaining Agreement forward with the C.W.U. as soon as possible. But we’ll only know what happens next week and although Lane has appealed […]
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The Public Service Union is celebrating its ninety-ninth anniversary. The P.S.U.’s President Dean Flowers and First Vice President Annisa Gomez appeared on Channel Five’s Open Your Eyes this morning. Annisa Gonzalez, 1st Vice President, P.S.U. “I am overwhelmed to be in the union first of all, very proud to be in the public service […]
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The A.S.R./B.S.I. group held a virtual launch of the Smart Sugarcane Project today. The three hundred and sixty-five thousand U.S.-dollar project seeks to transform the sugarcane industry through an innovative digital agro-credit, farm service business platform. It integrates the Tower Hill Sugar Mill with credit suppliers and more than five thousand two hundred small farmers […]
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This pilot project is being funded by Compete Caribbean Partnership Facility and led by the Belize Sugar Industries Ltd of the A.S.R. Group, in partnership with a number of sugarcane associations and local financial institutions. RIPE.IO is an innovative company which specializes in block chain solutions in agriculture and they have provided the design services […]
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The Ministry of Education has inaugurated the new building for the San Juan Bosco Preschool. The project was funded through a loan from the Caribbean Development Bank under the Belize Education Sector Reform Programme Two. The pre-school was previously housed in a building owned by the Baptist Mission in the San Juan/Cow Pen Bosco area. […]
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Isani Cayetano, Reporting The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many of us to rethink the way in which we go about our daily lives. In the hospitality industry, the strictures that come along with the many regulatory adjustments, where restaurants and bars are concerned, have prompted business owners to return to the drawing board. News Five’s […]
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