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As we said, A.S.R./B.S.I. and B.S.C.F.A. signed a one-year interim agreement. The mill initially proposed a two-year interim agreement, following a failed mediation exercise. Shawn Chavarria, the Director of Finance at A.S.R./B.S.I., shared the company’s rationale behind agreeing to a one-year interim agreement in place of its initial proposal. Shawn Chavarria, Director of Finance, […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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In our conversation with S.I.C.B. Chairman Marcos Osorio, we also asked him about S.I.C.B.’s decision to push the start date to the twenty-seventh of December, despite the fact that the mill was prepared to accept sugarcane on the nineteenth. Osorio also responded to an allegation that the start date and the condition attached were primarily […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Tonight, two trucks, a large quantity of construction materials, a trailer full of furniture and twelve brand new golf carts are submerged off the coast of Ambergris Caye, after a barge carrying these items sunk. On Christmas Eve, a tugboat and barge left Belize City en route to San Pedro with three passengers onboard. Several […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Heavy rains that fell over the mountains last week spelled tragedy on Christmas Eve for an experienced tour guide employed at Caves Branch who had taken a group of tourists on an expedition and returned to find flash floods in the river they had to cross back over to reach their base. And on the […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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The tragedy that claimed the life of Julio Escobar luckily did not result in additional deaths, but the flash floods that spread over the Cayo District on Christmas Eve left dozens of tourists stranded upriver from Caves Branch. The tourist and their guides had also gone out on an expedition – their choice was the […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Thirty-year-old Lindon Hinds, known to many in the Antelope Street Extension area as Monsta, was gunned down inside him in the wee early hours this morning. The incident happened at his home on Pitter Street. According to police, they visited the elevated wooden structure near the Lord Ridge Cemetery where the observed Hinds’ lifeless body […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Sugar cane farmers in the north, represented by various associations, have signed a one-year interim agreement with A.S.R./B.S.I., effectively breaking a deadlock between the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association and the miller. That means that the new sugar crop will likely commence on Tuesday, December twenty-seventh. Earlier this week, Prime Minister John Briceño and Minister […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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According to Chairman Ortega, the interim agreement allows for the Briceño administration to amend existing laws to prevent the kinds of stalemate that threaten to frustrate the sugar industry. On the phone: Alfredo Ortega, Chairman, Committee of Management, B.S.C.F.A. “The one-year agreement that we signed with BSI is to give an opportunity to the […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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There’s growing frustration among some customers who have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of items purchased online and shipped to Belize by consolidators. It’s an industry that many have gotten into, conveying goods to Belize that are bought in the United States. Recently there have been concerns that items that were purchased, in some cases, […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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What we understand from credible sources within the Customs and Excise Department is that there has been an increase in the number of contraband items, including compressed, high-grade marijuana, being shipped to Belize from the United States. Out of an abundance of caution, shipping containers are being searched thoroughly and swept for illegal cargo. This, […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier this week, we aired the story of a house handing over that didn’t happen in the case of a single mother in the Port Loyola area of Belize City. And while we’ll have an update on that coming up, the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing has been going across the country gifting families, […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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And while several deserving citizens received their new starter homes, earlier this week, we brought you the story of the new starter home that was to be given to Port Loyola resident, Apolinaria Choc. But she did not receive the keys to the house because the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing did not approve […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – not the celebration of the past two years that included lockdowns and movement restrictions, but Christmas like we used to prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the backdrop on which Prime Minister John Briceño sends greetings of the season to all Belizeans this year. In […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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For many families, Christmas will not be the same this year and for various reasons – whether they have lost someone over the past year or not having recovered from Hurricane Lisa. But that trauma aside, Christmas is about coming together to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. It is a time for thanksgiving and […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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As Belizeans go about their Christmas shopping, the downtown area of Belize City is abuzz with different sights and sounds. We took our cameras downtown to get a feel of how Christmas 2022 is looking for the people we spoke with. This was what we picked up. Sherima Moody “Merry Christmas to my Moody […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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At this time, most people are busy buying their ham and turkey for their traditional Christmas Dinner on Sunday. The rice and beans, made with coconut milk, and accompanied by potato salad, stuffings, cranberry sauce also dress the plate with these choices of meat. But there are people who do not eat turkey and others […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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‘Tis the season to be jolly and generous, and the Belize Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, BELAIFA, is living up to that tradition. Today the association handed out a hefty donation of food and other grocery items to Liberty Children’s Home. The gifts coincide with Insurance Awareness Week, and President of BELAIFA, Carol Panton-Rose […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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‘Tis the season for giving and this week there was no shortage of gift giving over at the bus terminal on West Collet Canal. That’s where terminal warden, Philip “Faada” Henry was giving out toys and bottles of Crystal juice. He told us that he solicited the gifts from Bowen and Bowen and from relatives […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize Police Department is serious about the safety of the populace not only during this festive season, but all year round. However, during this time, all municipalities are bustling with traffic and persons doing their last-minute shopping for the Christmas holidays. In Belize City, in particular, there are a number of crime prevention strategies […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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It’s another Lakers Christmas Party in the Saint Martins Community since a brief two- year disruption caused by Covid. Organizer, James Young and his family have been hosting the annual event for ten years. It’s their way of giving back to their community and each year it brings out hundreds of children and their parents […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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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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