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President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is on his return to Mexico, following a tour of several Central American countries and Cuba. The Mexican president met with government leaders from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Belize before heading to Havana. His shortest stop along the tour was here in Belize where he spent a little under […]
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One government official who was elated about the opportunities for farmers and improving food security was Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise Jose Abelardo Mai. Just last week, Minister Mai spoke to News Five about further expanding trade relations with Mexico and tapping into that market, which has approximately one hundred and twenty-eight million […]
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The cost of living continues to increase with the rise in prices of several basic items over the last year. According to the Statistical Institute of Belize, prices for basic goods rose by almost six percent during March of 2021 to March of 2022. Food items like pigtails and tomatoes recorded an above fifty percent […]
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Prime Minister John Briceño also weighed in on the opposition’s call for the Minister of Home Affairs and the Commissioner of Police to resign. PM Briceño argues that Minister Musa has been able to do more than the previous administration in fighting crime. As for ComPol Williams, PM Briceño says his legal and policing experience […]
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In response to the opposition’s repeated call for his resignation, Kareem Musa, the Minister of Home Affairs and New Growth Industries, says Belizeans have been able to see the results of the work his ministry has undertaken in fighting crime. Minister Musa also responded to calls for a state of emergency in areas where violent […]
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The Church’s effort to gather twenty thousand signatures in an attempt to trigger a writ of referendum on the Cannabis Bill is remarkable and good for democracy says Kareem Musa, the Minister of Home Affairs and New Growth Industries. But, only a couple of weeks ago, Minister Musa suggested that the time had passed to […]
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Weed, says Minister Musa, is a normal part of life, and it is not going anywhere. In his justification for the legalization of the industry, he pointed to the economic and social pros of the bill. Minister Musa says Cabinet has agreed that the industry will bring economic benefits, as well as help to decrease […]
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A.C.P. Marco Vidal is going on early retirement. On Friday, the Governor General of Belize approved his application for early retirement. The Department is now in talks with his attorney to settle on a retirement package. But, is this a simple slap on the wrist for A.C.P. Vidal who was also the subject of an […]
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In his comments on the ACP Marco Vidal investigation, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams revealed that there were infractions uncovered, but that they were of an administrative nature and only minor infractions. ComPol Williams reiterated the investigation into the drug plane landed did not find ACP Vidal complicit. ComPol further argued that he was not […]
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Viewers may recall that Corporal Elmer Nah, a former member of ACP Vidal’s team, was charged with keeping unlicensed ammunition after he was busted with over one hundred rounds at a checkpoint in Independence Village, following the drug plane landing. At the time, the Commissioner of Police confirmed that the ammunitions are the property of […]
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MS-13 gang members are fleeing to Belize after a crackdown on gangs in El Salvador by its president, Nayib Bukele. President Bukele’s administration has been detaining gang members and putting them in though conditions inside Salvador prisons. This response came after the nation experienced its highest single day murder toll a month ago. Now, some […]
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A foiled burglary at a nightclub on the Philip Goldson Highway over the weekend has resulted in one of several thieves being shot. Belize City police responded to the Titanic Nightclub, formerly Dream Like City, where they encountered four men fleeing the scene of the burglary. One of them produced a firearm and opened fire […]
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There was also an attempt on the life of a villager in Seine Bight over the weekend. Frank Augustine was injured when someone shot him while he attempted to enter his vehicle. A suspect is being sought in connection with this shooting. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department “A Seine Bight resident, […]
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An all-points bulletin remains in effect for the capture of Christon Rocha who is wanted by police for stabbing his former common-law wife Vanessa Reyes in Placencia during the Easter weekend. Despite issuing wanted posters at various border points across the country, Rocha, a Honduran national, is yet to be apprehended. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, […]
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The Belize Police Department recently deployed a number of specialized units into Belize City as a means of address in gang-related violence in the Old Capital. Among them is the Special Patrol Unit, a team that is lead by Assistant Superintendent of Police Aaron Gamboa, who the Commissioner of Police praises as being result oriented. […]
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Liquor license extensions are creating a problem for police enforcement in Belize City. According to ComPol Williams, extension approvals are being granted to several establishments within the city without police knowledge. As a result, the department recently met with the Liquor Licensing Board to have a discussion on the issue. ComPol Williams explained. Chester […]
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The seven Cubans who wanted to seek amnesty in Belize will know their fate around the end of the month. That is how long it will take the two sides in the matter to present their closing submissions and counter submissions before the presiding judge makes her ruling. News Five’s Marion Ali attended the morning’s […]
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A powerful explosion at a luxury hotel in Cuba on Friday has reduced an entire section of the building to rubble, killing at least thirty-five people, and leaving twenty hospitalized with injuries. The Hotel Saratoga, a five-star ninety-six-room hotel in Old Havana, was preparing to reopen after being closed for two years when a gas […]
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They are considered ferocious predators and are often depicted as just that in films. But, to MarAlliance, sharks are the heartbeat of the ocean and, as a result, must be protected at all cost. That is why the work MarAlliance is doing to protect sharks across the region is so critical. On Friday, a News […]
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Stann Creek West Area Representative Rodwell Ferguson journeyed to Silk Caye over the weekend at the invitation of Placencia residents who are concerned about the degradation of the island. Silk Caye has been in the news recently because a team led by Eworth Garbutt attempted to reclaim parts of the island that had been affected […]
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The Ministry of Home Affairs, in partnership with Sprite, officially opened its SPRITE Live Life Basketball Youth Tournament 2022, on Saturday. The competition is seeing participation from fifteen teams across the Belize District. These are teams made up of young men who are prone to become victims of the gang warfare that plagues their communities. […]
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In the wake of the stabbing death of footballer Chris Rodriguez by the caretaker of the Norman Broaster Stadium in San Ignacio, the National Sports Council of Belize has issued a memo on fees for use of sporting facilities countrywide. There had been outrage on social media platforms claiming that Rodriguez was killed for not […]
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Prime Minister John Briceño was present at the launch of the multinational defense exercise Tradewinds 2022, on Saturday in Ladyville Village. The two-week exercise will see one thousand, eight hundred military men from twenty nations training shoulder to shoulder. It is a display of force and unity among these nations on land, air, sea, and […]
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It’s not June yet, but the first tropical wave was detected over the weekend in what weather experts are calling an early 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season. But while the hurricane season for this region officially opens in June and ends in November, Chief Meteorologist, Ronald Gordon says it is not strange for these weather systems […]
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Tonight we note the passing of Belize’s oldest woman. Earlier today, our newsroom was informed that Leonora Patnett whom we have covered for several years since turning one hundred, passed away. She was one hundred and eight years old.
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