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Queen Elizabeth II will be laid to rest on Monday, and the Government of Belize, along with several other Commonwealth countries, is observing the nineteenth of September as a public and bank holiday. While employees across the private and public sectors are grateful for the extended Expo weekend, the announcement was met with cold water […]
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Bus operators held a press conference this afternoon in Belize City to share their concerns regarding the public transportation sector and what they feel are unreasonable conditions being placed on them as the Ministry of Transport seeks to upgrade the industry. The bus operators presented letters written by some of their members about some of […]
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Aside from the issue that the bus operators have with Floralia, they are also making additional requests, including duty exemption on their imported buses, more funds than the National Bank is willing to lend, and buses from Mexico and Guatemala to stop running through Belize. Ewart Metzgen, Secretary, Belize Bus Association “The National Bank […]
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News Five contacted the Minister of Transport, Rodwell Ferguson following the bus operators’ press conference to get his reaction to the concerns about Floralia and the permits they want to extend for ten years. Here’s what he had to say. Rodwell Ferguson, Minister of Transport “In terms of Floralia, when they first came on […]
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Minister Ferguson also told us that while he would have to take the request for duty exemption back to Cabinet, his fellow ministers would have to approve the granting of this request. Rodwell Ferguson, Minister of Transport “Since the pandemic, no buses from Guatemala, no buses from Mexico is coming into Belize. They want […]
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The price per gallon of liquefied petroleum gas (L.P.G.) has decreased by five cents. The Government of Belize announced the new fixed price for L.P.G. on Wednesday. The price now stands at six dollars and six cents per gallon retail. While the decrease is welcomed news, is it enough to offset the increasing cost of […]
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During an interview with Prime Minister John Briceño earlier today, he was asked about the exorbitant fuel prices, which have been the highest the country has experienced. The P.M. was asked about the fuel contingency fund which was established with the Central Bank of Belize to keep the prices at the pump fixed, and if […]
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A few weeks ago, there was a countrywide walkout by nurses from public health institutions as they protested poor working conditions and salary deductions. In some cases, there were also issues surrounding pension. Cooler heads prevailed after the Minister of Health and Wellness met with the Nurses Association of Belize, as well as the ministries […]
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During to his speech today, Prime Minister John Briceño said that the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is in need of infrastructural improvements. In an interview with the media, the PM went further to say that they are looking at the possibility of constructing a tertiary care institution in Belmopan and possibly a new facility in […]
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Case management in the kidnapping trial involving William “Danny” Mason, Ashton Vanegas, Kieron Fernandez, Ernest Castillo, and Ryan Rhaburn is set to begin with a voir dire. The alleged victims in this case are businessman Lloyd Thiessen and his wife. The men are accused of kidnapping the couple after a business deal with Mason went […]
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Forty-five-year-old Ervin Middleton, a windshield repairman of a Santa Barbara Street address, appeared unrepresented before the magistrate’s court earlier today where he was read a single, indictable charge of rape of a child. It is alleged that two years ago, sometime during September 2020, he forced a thirteen-year-old girl into having sexual intercourse with him. […]
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The Belize People’s Front leader has criticized Cayo West Area Representative, Jorge Milin Espat for visiting and distributing schoolbags among Belizean voters who live in Guatemala. Nancy Marin calls the recent visit “clientelism” and she has also called for the resignation of the recently appointed member for the redistricting task force, Senator Collet Montejo, who […]
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An Antelope Street family was today forced out of the building they called home for almost three decades when a group of men, representing the interests of Claudette Waldman, were accompanied by police to the property. The men proceeded to rip down their doors and remove all the household items belonging to Kenroy Staine and […]
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Primary schools are now in session and Belizean American Josephine Menzies-McFadzean is giving back to teachers at multiple institutions in Belize City, in honor of her family who are educators. Today at Eglah’s Training Center, a donation of stationeries was handed over to leaders from educational institutions, one of which will benefit from volunteer work […]
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Today inside the courtyard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, government officials, including the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health and Wellness and the staff and management authority of the institution gathered to celebrate its twenty-seventh anniversary. Now seven hundred employees strong, the tertiary healthcare institution has been serving the country since September fifteenth, 1995. […]
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Earlier in our newscast, we told you about a letter written to the Ministry of Labor in which the business community requested that the upcoming public and bank holiday in honor of Queen Elizabeth the second, on the day of her funeral, be canceled. It was a decision taken on the home front to proceed […]
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