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Last Friday, the Christian Workers Union gave Notice of Intended Strike Action on behalf of its stevedores employed by the Port of Belize Limited. C.W.U wrote to the Minister of Labour stating its reasoning that there is a live trade dispute between them and P.B.L. The two sides have different interpretations of the Essential Services […]
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C.E.O Peralta explained that the reason why the Port of Belize does not agree that it ought to make redundancy pay-outs to the stevedores is because the company, in its effort to keep everyone employed, transferred those stevedores to other posts. As a result, they never lost earnings or their job. Ted Peralta, C.E.O., […]
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So how does the Port of Belize move forward leading up to the date when the Notice of Intended Strike Action expires on June twenty-ninth? Peralta feels that continued communication is the best way forward, but the company is looking at all possibilities of how it will bring about a contingency plan to avert a […]
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The Director of the National Sports Council, Ian Cal, has tendered his resignation. Cal was appointed by Kevin Bernard, the former Minister of Sports, shortly after the People’s United Party administration took office in 2020. News Five understands that Cal’s contract with the council expired at the end of March, but he continued to serve […]
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In tonight’s episode of Kolcha Tuesday, we feature the Hopkins Mango Street Festival that was held over the weekend. Thousands of persons converged at the village to indulge in culture, music and, of course, the tropical fruit mango, which is currently in season. It is quickly becoming a staple on the list of festivals that […]
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Musicians in Orange Walk Town can now produce quality music in a fully equipped recording studio established through the Government of Belize and the Inter-American Development Bank. The sound lab is similar to the Reef Recording Studio launched in Belize City back in February. Both professional spaces are part of the Ministry of Tourism’s vision […]
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Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a viral video showing an ex-cop being held for ransom by Mexican cartels. Reports are that the individual seen in the video is currently in the U.S. in good health. On Monday, Chester Williams, the Commissioner of Police, informed reporters that he has tasked investigators to contact the family […]
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On Monday, a transport officer was charged after a sting operation revealed that she had allegedly extorted money from a motorist who was driving an uninsured vehicle. Diaris Tepaz alerted the police when the transport officer, identified as Andrea Peters, informed her of the violation at a checkpoint near Independence Village. Tepaz said after the […]
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Life can be hard on the average person who is struggling to make ends meet or to find the job they’d like in a fiercely competitive world. But one man who was violently struck down during a jealous rage says you can do whatever you put your mind to if you have the drive to […]
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We begin tonight’s newscast with a triple fatality that occurred on Friday night on the Philip Goldson Highway near Tubal Trade and Vocational Institute at mile ten. Kurtis Belisle was the driver of a pickup truck and traveling along with him were the Davis sisters Virginia and Dorothy and Virginia’s daughter, Torrie. Belisle was reportedly […]
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On Friday night shots rang out at the basketball court behind the Charles Bartlett Hyde building in Belize City. When the gunfire subsided, Rosalind Ranguy had been shot to the foot. She was rushed to the K.H.M.H. where she is in a stable condition. Police say that two teenagers, one of whom is a minor, […]
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Three families have been displaced by an early morning fire on Rivero Street in Belize City. If the area sounds familiar that is because just last week, an eighteen-year-old resident was shot dead a couple blocks away on Fabers Road and there has been tension in the area ever since. In fact, one of the […]
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Forty-five-year-old Elvis Humes, an electrician of Bullet Tree Falls Village, has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, kept firearm without a gun license and kept ammunition without a gun license. The battery of charges follow a deadly shooting incident during a hunting trip over the weekend in Cayo District. Humes […]
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A freak accident in Corozal has left one man dead. Reports are that Carey McCulloch was at home in San Antonio Village, Corozal when a beam fell on his head while dismantling a structure. He was rushed to the Corozal Community Hospital and then transferred to the K.H.M.H. where he succumbed to his injuries early […]
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And, while ComPol Williams was waiting on the outcome of Usher’s case before taking action, he did not waste any time in revoking Marybeth Wade’s gun license, after concluding that she received it through fraudulent means. According to ComPol Williams, he signed off on an application that painted a squeaky clean picture of Marybeth Wade. […]
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We also asked ComPol Williams if he believes there is a black market for gun license operating in Belize and if he thinks high ranking police officer are involved. Here is how that conversation went. Paul Lopez “Are you aware then that there is a gun license black market operations here in Belize and […]
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Last Monday we visited Libertad Village in the Corozal District where thirty-seven-year-old Kurtis Usher was gunned down in front of his home and his three-year-old son was grazed to the head. Today, we headed back to the community with Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and a team of senior officers for a community meet and […]
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Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow has written to Chief Executive Officer Jason Liberty of the Royal Caribbean Group regarding the company’s recently signed Memorandum of Understanding with Portico and Boskalis. In the five-page letter, Barrow writes, “the harrowing revelations of illegal, unauthorized, and unethical one-sided offerings in the Portico Definitive Agreement are enough to give one […]
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This morning on Open Your Eyes, Minister of Tourism & Diaspora Relations Anthony Mahler also weighed in on the chaotic state of cruise tourism development in the country. As we’ve reported, Mahler and Minister of State Chris Coye have been tasked with meeting with Portico, Royal Caribbean and Boskalis to revisit the controversial Definitive Agreement. […]
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More specifically, Mahler said that they have started the process of scrutinizing the Definitive Agreement with a view to remove parts of the contract that are deemed excessive. Anthony Mahler, Minister of Tourism & Diaspora Relations “Inside of Belize, we‘ve started to dissect the Definitive Agreement just to say, this can‘t work, this can […]
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There numerous claims of bribery by motorists in attempt to catch a break when passing through checkpoints. But tonight, an employee of the Transport Department is in hot water after she was charged for extortion. Last Wednesday, three transport officers were detained in connection with a report made by Diaris Tepaz who claims that she […]
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Goodnight and welcome to another edition of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. “Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made”, that a quote from Gabby Douglas, an American Gymnast. And boy, did the Under-Sixteen Girls Football National Team have a hard day when they played against Costa Rica’s Under-Sixteen National Team […]
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There is a new development to report on tonight, pertaining to the controversial signing of a Definitive Agreement between Portico Enterprises Limited and the Government of Belize, signed by former Minister of Economic Development, Erwin Contreras. Attorney Godfrey Smith has written a Notice of Intended Proceedings to Erwin Contreras on behalf of Port of Belize […]
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Christopher Coye, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, also returned to Belize this afternoon, along with Prime Minister John Briceño. He was more receptive to the media and the questions on the Definitive Agreement. Minister Coye was asked about reports suggesting that he was the one who tabled the controversial contract in […]
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In our one-on-one interview with Lord Michael Ashcroft on Wednesday, he suggested that at least one of the controversial port contracts is, “a pension plan for the boys, except I think some of the boys have actually worked out that they are not in on the deal”. We caught up with Kareem Musa, a sitting […]
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