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A mother is in grief tonight after her son died of wounds he sustained, allegedly at the hands of police in Independence Village, nineteen days ago. Desiree McDougall told us that cops brutalized her son after they caught him smoking marijuana, and they are claiming he was disorderly. But whatever the situation was that led […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, we reported on the discovery of the body of a man in a shallow grave in Hattieville Village. While family and friends believed it to be Leroy Fuller, who also goes by the name Leroy McKoy and the alias Timba, there was still no confirmation from the Belize Police Department on the identity […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The five dollar minimum wage is now part of Belize’s Wages Regulation. Today, the Government of Belize signed into law Statutory Instrument number one hundred and seventy of 2022 which states that the minimum wage for all categories of workers has increased to five dollars an hour, effective January first, 2023. A release from the […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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But, Prime Minister John Briceño is not buying this argument. He responded by saying that the private sector has had ample time to prepare for the increase. Here is what he told us on Wednesday. Prime Minister John Briceño “I don’t think it is overnight, because we have been telling them. It was in […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Back in November, we told you that the Department of Environment did not grant Waterloo Investment Holdings the environmental clearance necessary to green light its Port Expansion Project at the Port of Belize Limited. The developer had twenty-one days to launch an appeal of the decision. News Five has confirmed that Waterloo has launched that […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Briceño also answered questions related to the Public Sector Workers Trust. For context, the trust was established under former Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel. After his administration imposed a wage and increment freeze on the public sector from 1995 to 1997, former P.M. Esquivel gave public sector workers four hundred and fifty thousand shares […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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And, reporters also pressed the prime minister further on the new policies that guide the Online Business Registry System. Those policies were written to protect the identity of business principals and shareholders through their registered agents. So, what about personalities behind companies that are engaged in legitimate business with the Government of Belize? Prime Minister […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize City Magistrate’s Court is relocating to Coney Drive, several weeks after the building it occupies was hard hit by Hurricane Lisa on November second. As it stands, the lower court is only operational on one side of the Public Building, a situation which was made worse following the collapse of the ceiling on […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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There has been a number of new businesses that popped up over the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many were online and focused on the use of technology. But one business in the south – although small – is finding its way into supermarkets. It’s the brainchild of Julian Fisher, who fell […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The Protected Areas Conservation Trust is investing close to five and a half million dollars in several protected areas in Belize. PACT will be working with several non-governmental organizations in eleven protected areas for the next year. According to Nayari Perez, the Executive Director at PACT, the investment is part of their transition plan as […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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PACT also invested in the three non-traditional conservation programs as part of its extraordinary investment plan. The three entities are the National Biodiversity Office, the Association of Protected Area Management Organization and Friends for Conservation and Development. Perez told us more about PACT’s partnership with these organizations. Nayari Perez, Executive Director, PACT “Extraordinary investments […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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We also asked Perez about PACT’s future plans for investment in marine conservation in light of the establishment of the Belize Fund for a Sustainable Future (B.F.S.F.). As we have reported, B.F.S.F. was established as a result of the Blue Bond agreement. Its role as a sinking fund is to disburse funding to projects and […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, the Belize Nature Conservation Foundation held a grant signing ceremony at the Guanacaste Park in Belmopan in which approximately eighty thousand dollars was issued to two N.G.O.’s that work in conservation efforts in the Belize and Stann Creek districts. A News Five team attended the event and reporter Duane Moody files this report. […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Last evening, we showed you how contrabandistas smuggle illegal beers, perishables and other illegal goods across the northern boundary – the Rio Hondo. As Customs Officer Adrian Rancharan shared, they use the roughly ninety-mile stretch of the river to bring across the contraband goods via boats and small ferries that are provided by Mexican residents […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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