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On Monday, Minister of Health and Wellness, Kevin Bernard, made a commitment to visit the nurses at the Southern Regional Hospital in the wake of a demonstration that began with a walkout on Saturday.Today, Minister Bernard kept his word. Nurses at the Southern Regional Hospital were the first to stage a protest over the weekend, […]
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The Ministry of Health and Wellness recently signed tender contracts valued at thirty million dollars for the supply of medications and medical supplies. Minister of Health Kevin Bernard explained that there is a brief delay in the delivery of these items, because the contracts give suppliers thirty to sixty days to deliver. Minister Bernard says […]
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Nextera Environmental and Engineering Consultant, Allan Herrera, has responded to a group of non-government organizations that wrote to him last week. The group of N.G.O.s had asked Herrera, the principal consultant for the Port of Belize Cruise Tourism Facility and Cargo Expansion, proposed by Waterloo Investment Holdings Limited, to point out the difference between two […]
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As we reported last week, Vulcan Materials Company has written to the people of Gales Point, offering them jobs that pay two times the existing minimum wage to carry out additional core sampling on White Ridge Farms where it intends to conduct mining activities. Since then, there has been what is being described as a […]
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A child is dead following a freak accident inside her home in Pomona Village. Eight-year-old Jacqueline Valdez was electrocuted while connecting a television to an extension cord. She was alone in the house at the time of the incident, as her mother was serving customers inside the family’s store. It is a tragic death and […]
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Twenty-seven-year-old Jason Sanchez appeared before Justice Herbert Lord on Monday where he was convicted for the execution style murder of Emmerson Arnold, an employee of Belize Water Services Limited. The incident took place on the morning of November, twenty-eighth, 2014 when Arnold was shot as many as six times by his attacker. Sanchez, otherwise known […]
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A security guard employed by the Belize Brewing Company has been charged for stealing fifteen cases of Smirnoff from the compound in Ladyville. Thirty-year-old Phillip James Lopez is accused of making off with the boxes, each valued at seventy-eight dollars. The theft allegedly occurred over the weekend and was captured on surveillance camera. This morning, […]
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A second joint U.N. work plan was officially signed today between partner agencies as part of a strategic program to support migrants, refugees and the Belize Amnesty 2022. It is a plan that focuses on areas such as advocacy, legal reform, system strengthening and capacity development as well as community engagement among those vulnerable migrant […]
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During today’s press conference, News Five asked about the status of the Amnesty Program 2022. There are an estimated sixty thousand unregulated migrants living in Belize. The process so far has identified that majority are located in Cayo District, followed by Belize City and then Dangriga and Toledo. To date, approximately ten percent of this […]
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On the ground, there are those who, due to financial constraints, have not applied to the amnesty program. And so, to help with boosting those numbers, the U.N. network in Belize has been lending support to the government in engaging with those who qualify for amnesty. Diana Locke, Head, International Organization for Migration “We […]
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Karl H. Menzies is making the switch to online sales only. The decision to do so comes after five decades of doing business from the company’s storefront on Barrack Road. The announcement was made earlier today and News Five visited Belize On, a subsidiary of Socias Ltd. which operates Karl H. Menzies. News Five’s Isani […]
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FIFA President, Gianni Infantino will be in Belize ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. Infantino is scheduled to pay a visit to the Football Federation of Belize’s headquarters in Belmopan on Wednesday where he will brief the press. When we caught up with Minister of Sports, Rodwell Ferguson earlier today, we asked him […]
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The Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of National Defense and Border Security signed a pair of contracts at a value of roughly three million dollars for the purchase and delivery of ten Hino troop lifting vehicles, as well as office equipment. These items will be used by the Belize Defense Force. The procurement […]
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The highly anticipated return of the Carnival Road March is four days away and band leaders are preparing their final costumes for the bacchanal. A total of nine bands will be participating in the road march this year – four seniors and five junior bands – all from Belize City. But even before the revellers […]
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Carnival season is in full swing and over the weekend, the battle of the giant costumes raged on at the Belize City Civic Center. While the competition does not have an influence on the final score for the road march, the King and Queen Competition is always a spectacle. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. […]
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