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The Briceño administration continues to consult with stakeholders, including the business community, ahead of presenting a budget for the upcoming fiscal year. While government receives input from various corners for [...]
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According to Flowers, who is also the P.S.U.’s public relations officer, another freeze in increments and benefits would be the fourth. While the union understands the difficult financial bind that [...]
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The People’s United Party served the United Democratic Party a major defeat in the 2021 Municipal Elections. The P.U.P. went from controlling three full councils to majority control of all [...]
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The inaugural meeting of foreign ministers Eamon Courtenay and Pedro Brolo Vila took place on Thursday morning at the O.A.S. Office in the Adjacency Zone. For many years, Belize and [...]
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The Belize-Guatemala Joint Commission is also being reinvigorated and, through the existing Partial Scope Agreement, trade will be expanded to include other goods and services following a meeting with the [...]
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During the municipal elections, former Minister of Health Pablo Marin came out in support of Hilberto Campos, the U.D.P. standard bearer for the Corozal Bay division. Campos replaced him following [...]
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Marin is also watching as the situation with Doctor Marvin Manzanero is playing out, as he believes it is political victimization. He says his wife, Danini Contreras-Marin, also employed with [...]
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Opposition Leader Patrick Faber also commented on the Doctor Marvin Manzanero situation. While it is not clear what is going to happen next, it is certain that he is not [...]
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Leader of the Opposition and Former Minister of Education, Patrick Faber during an interview with News Five on Election Day spoke of what he claims is reckless behaviour on behalf [...]
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The Mexico-Belize Business virtual roundtable was held today. The online meeting was between public and private sector businesses from both countries and was done through collaboration between the Embassy of [...]
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Sunday is International Children’s Broadcasting Day. The event was started by the UNICEF in 1991 to raise awareness of children’s issues and to encourage media houses to pay more attention [...]
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While the young hosts on Open Your Eyes enjoyed getting their questions answered on live TV, News Five also had a young journalist embedded in our newsroom today. Nyree Kisling, [...]
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In November, political pundits called the People’s United Party’s massive win of national assembly seats the “Blue Tsunami.” Well, just months later, a second wave has washed over the land [...]
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That twinkle of red was Mayor Earl Trapp and U.D.P. councillor Bernadette Fernandez. Fernandez narrowly made the cut by ten votes while Mayor Trapp won over the P.U.P.’s Ramon “Monchi” [...]
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There were a number of women who won their bid for political office across the country, as an area rep and a mayor. History was made in the Corozal Bay [...]
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Turning to the Capital City, the P.U.P. soundly defeated the U.D.P. team after fifteen years of U.D.P. municipal control. Significantly, Belmopan now has its first female mayor in Sharon Palacio. [...]
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We go back north to take a look at the municipals and we start with Orange Walk Town. A little over sixty percent of the voters went out the polls [...]
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Just before eleven p.m., the result of the elections at the northernmost municipality was announced. The incumbent mayor Rigoberto Vellos of the P.U.P. and his entire slate came out victorious. [...]
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It took the People’s United Party eighteen years to regain municipal government control in San Pedro. But it did so in convincing fashion on Wednesday, snagging all six councilor seats [...]
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With the assistance of our Dangriga and Punta Gorda correspondents Harry Arzu and Aurelio Sho, reporter Andrea Polanco put together a report on the municipal elections in the two southern [...]
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While San Pedro in the Belize District had the second highest voter turnout in the country, Belize City had the lowest with only forty-six percent. News Five’s Isani Cayetano and [...]
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U.D.P. leader Patrick Faber began his rounds up north in Corozal where News Five’s Duane Moody caught up with him. While he did not make any predictions, Faber spoke of [...]
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The U.D.P. maintains that the now re-elected Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner should be disqualified from office because he does not actually reside in Belize City, which U.D.P. attorney Orson [...]
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Foreign ministers Eamon Courtenay and Pedro Brolo Vila met for the first time this morning at the Office of the Organization of American States at the Adjacency Zone. The meeting [...]
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If you were hoping that a decrease in COVID-19 cases might mean an end to the ten p.m. to five a.m. curfew, think again. The Government of Belize has announced [...]
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