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There is more tonight from the P.U.P. standard bearer Jorge “Milin” Espat whose trouble started on Thursday when it came to light that he had not registered to vote. But Espat is fighting back. Espat who is running for Cayo West says that the U.D.P. is desperately trying to attack his campaign and is being […]
Written on October 23, 2020 | Posted in
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The U.D.P. candidate for Corozal Southwest Doctor Angel Campos escaped unhurt after he was involved in a vehicular collision this afternoon. It happened at the entrance of Orange Walk Town, near the Belize Sugar Industries. Doctor Campos was in a white Toyota 4 Runner when it crashed into Dodge Nitro SUV. There are no reports […]
Written on October 23, 2020 | Posted in
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Police are following all leads in the gruesome murder of Guatemalan national Humberto Ramos. The caretaker was found dead inside a small wooden shed at his place of work in the village of Santa Cruz in southern Belize. He had been chopped to the head and his body was found on a bed. There are […]
Written on October 23, 2020 | Posted in
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It’s been more than a week since the twenty-eight prisoners escaped from the Belize Central Prison. And twelve days after the prison break, seven of the escapees remain on the run. They fugitives at large are: thirty-three-year-old Jaroud Lamb of Camalote Village who was convicted for murder and thirty-three-year-old Michael Faux of Kut Avenue in […]
Written on October 23, 2020 | Posted in
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The Southern Environmental Association, SEA, has been ramping up its presence within two marine locations that it co-manages, resulting in a number of fisheries busts over the past few weeks. On Thursday, rangers on patrol in the waters off the coast of Seine Bight Village confiscated three gillnets that were illegally placed in an area […]
Written on October 23, 2020 | Posted in
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Since its establishment, SEA has built on its relationships with the Belize Coast Guard and the Fisheries Department. That partnership has proven fruitful, says Palacio. Arreini Palacio Morgan “We’re very appreciative of the coast guard and their accompaniment on all of their patrols with us. We have a very good relationship with them, as […]
Written on October 23, 2020 | Posted in
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An Asian man who has given his address as Prince Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo and Calcutta Village, Corozal was granted bail today, one week after he was remanded to the Belize Central Prison on six counts of Trafficking in Persons. Justice Herbert Lord granted forty-one-year-old Jin Zhou Wu bail in the sum of fifteen thousand […]
Written on October 23, 2020 | Posted in
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A man whose profession is to sell and advise patients on the safe use of legal drugs and medicines is out on bail for a charge of possession of almost three pounds of cocaine. Thirty-two-year-old Albert Requeña, a pharmacist of New Road in Belize City, was today granted bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars plus […]
Written on October 23, 2020 | Posted in
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Across the country, police officers are among the many frontline workers who are exposed to COVID-19, even those who are not on active patrol, and more than one hundred and thirty are off duty. At the prosecution branch, an office within the Belize Police Department that works closely with the judiciary, over fifty officers have […]
Written on October 23, 2020 | Posted in
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The P.U.P.’s candidate for Cayo West, Jorge “Milin” Espat is under fire tonight after it surfaced that he is not a registered voter. Espat is a new comer to electoral politics and is challenging veteran U.D.P. area rep Erwin Contreras. At the launch of the P.U.P. manifesto today, he confirmed to News Five that he […]
Written on October 22, 2020 | Posted in
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The government has decided to disallow voters and strip away their constitutional right to voting because they carry the COVID 19 virus. That decision was announced last week when Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced that persons who are COVID-19 positive and those who have been ordered to self isolate will not participate in the November […]
Written on October 22, 2020 | Posted in
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While in Orange Walk on Wednesday, we polled three of the four candidates on the government’s decision to prohibit COVID-19 patients to vote on November eleventh. The Orange Walk district has the most confirmed cases of COVID-19 and the most active cases. Speaking out against the decision was Jose Mai, Ramon Cervantes, and Kevin Bernard. […]
Written on October 22, 2020 | Posted in
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We also asked four of Orange Walk’s U.D.P. candidates what they personal think about the government’s ban on COVID-19 patients Generally, most agreed with the Prime Minister, but they also believe that provisions should have been made to allow these persons to vote because as David Zetina of Orange Walk North says, everybody has the […]
Written on October 22, 2020 | Posted in
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There was a gruesome murder overnight in the southern community of Santa Cruz where a Guatemalan national was found with multiple chop wounds to the body this morning. Sometime around 7:20 a.m., officers in the village showed up at a block factory in the New Site area where they observed the lifeless body of twenty-six-year-old […]
Written on October 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Escaped prisoners Kendale Flores and Luke Bowen were captured overnight on the Placencia Peninsula, following tips from the community. This morning the recaptured men were taken to the Police Training Academy in Belmopan before they were charged for escaping and then taken to the Belize Central Prison in Hattieville from where they escaped on October […]
Written on October 22, 2020 | Posted in
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In February 2017, Vildo Westby, now thirty-two-years-old, absconded to Mexico following a murder in San Pedro where well-known activist Felix Ayuso lost his life. Ayuso, who was a member of the San Pedro AIDS Commission, was viciously stabbed with a screwdriver and his body was discovered inside his home three days later, on February fourth. […]
Written on October 22, 2020 | Posted in
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A six-year-old boy tested positive for COVID-19 and now he is hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. He is the first pediatric case in the hospital as of Wednesday evening. When he appeared on Ask the Experts today, DHS Marvin Manzanero also shared that the little boy is a referral from the Northern Regional Hospital and that […]
Written on October 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Turning to the number of positive cases confirmed today – late this evening on Ask the Experts webcast Dr Marvin Manzanero shared that the latest preliminary cases confirmed were fifty-eight out of a total of four hundred and thirty-seven tests processed. That is a record number for the lab, according to Manzanero. At the start […]
Written on October 22, 2020 | Posted in
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With all thirty-one candidates officially nominated for the November eleventh elections, the People United Party today launched its True Blu Plan entitled, “Everybody Fi Win.” The party that hopes to win the general elections is committing to bold ideas to grow the economy, improve healthcare, free access to education and provide land to first time […]
Written on October 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Candidates for the ruling United Democratic Party, the main opposition party, the People’s United Party, and the smaller parties officially got their names on the ballot to contest the November eleventh general elections. We are told that as many as ninety were nominated, but that number is yet to be confirmed. Now nomination day is […]
Written on October 21, 2020 | Posted in
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The People’s United Party was heavily criticized this morning for gathering party supporters before nominations. A sizeable group of people gathered in front of John Briceño’s constituency office in Orange Walk before he proceeded to the nomination centre. On Tuesday, Commissioner Williams reminded political parties that the quarantine regulations prevent any gathering larger than ten […]
Written on October 21, 2020 | Posted in
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During the interview this morning, John Briceño was asked about elections and what assurances he can give to voters that they will be safe on November eleventh. Briceño also spoke about how COVID-19 has forced him to alter his campaign strategy. John Briceño, Leader, P.U.P. “Well what we have been doing and we have […]
Written on October 21, 2020 | Posted in
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Today was not about the numbers and muscle. Across the city, the event was without fanfare. This afternoon, under the watchful eye of the police, the newly minted U.D.P. leader Patrick Faber had his turn to get his name on the ballot. It is his first nomination as leader of his party, so the stakes […]
Written on October 21, 2020 | Posted in
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Party Leader Patrick Faber, of the United Democratic Party, weighed in on motorcades that were held this morning by opposition candidates. In Belize City, P.U.P. Queen Square candidate Allan Pollard staged a sizeable procession of vehicles with dozens of party supporters as he made his way to Saint John’s Anglican School to be nominated. The […]
Written on October 21, 2020 | Posted in
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This morning, five candidates from the People’s United Party, including Cordel Hyde, Paul Thompson, Allan Pollard, Gilroy Usher Senior and Oscar Arnold, whose constituencies are on the south side of Belize City were nominated ahead of the upcoming general elections. On Euphrates Avenue around ten-thirty a.m., Pollard was accompanied by a motorcade of supporters before […]
Written on October 21, 2020 | Posted in
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