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From the violence on the PBL compound to the courts…On Tuesday night we told you that the Attorney General would file a request for injunction, on behalf of the Labour Commissioner, to stall the implementation of redundancy at the Port of Belize. Well, before the AG could file that injunction, at eleven o’clock today the […]
Written on July 22, 2020 | Posted in
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As you heard just now, that matter is being brought by the Attorney General’s Ministry. The Christian Workers Union is only an interested party in this matter – as it is about the terminations of the workers they represent. President of the C.W.U., Evan ‘Mose’ Hyde was briefed about what happened in court by one […]
Written on July 22, 2020 | Posted in
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…that application for an injunction was held this afternoon before Justice Sonya Young, but was it too little, too late considering the fact that the employees have since been made redundant? According to Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, it was necessary to bring the matter before the court because Port of Belize was attempting to skirt […]
Written on July 22, 2020 | Posted in
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While both sides are looking for answers, someone did give the order for the GSU to be deployed to the area and an infuriated Chester Williams is trying to get to the bottom of it. According to Williams, the GSU was pulled back after he received words that the officers had descended on the protestors. […]
Written on July 22, 2020 | Posted in
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The tourism industry is gearing up for the arrival of international visitors to designated properties. In less than a month, the Philip Goldson International Airport will reopen with flights from the U.S.A., where the number of persons affected by the coronavirus continues to break records. In some Caribbean countries, the virus has been spreading with […]
Written on July 21, 2020 | Posted in
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Residents in the Cayo District can breathe a sigh of relief tonight. The COVID-19 case involving a male in his early fifties does not seem to be a community spread. The man had visited the San Ignacio Community Hospital last week after experiencing gastrointestinal symptoms and a loss of sense of taste and smell. It was […]
Written on July 21, 2020 | Posted in
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Two more COVID-19 cases were confirmed on Monday. This brings the total of active cases to eighteen. The tests resulted positive after sixty six more samples were processed, mostly from repatriates who had arrived in the country on Friday, July seventeenth. The two new cases are both males. One person entered the country through the […]
Written on July 21, 2020 | Posted in
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Police continue to investigate a wild shooting that happened on Joseph Andrews Drive in San Ignacio on Sunday morning. The shooter was targeting football player, Windell Trapp, but he also killed a taxi driver and injured three other innocent persons. As we’ve shared, Trapp and Samuel Hill were killed on the spot. And although Danny […]
Written on July 21, 2020 | Posted in
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Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, following a senate meeting last Wednesday, told the media that the families of deceased B.D.F. airmen, Majors Adran Ramirez and Radford Baizar and Corporals Reynaldo Choco and Yassir Mendez, had been compensated. The four Belize Defense Force soldiers perished in a helicopter crash on February twenty-seventh in the vicinity of Gales […]
Written on July 21, 2020 | Posted in
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COVID-19 has put a severe financial strain on families, and according to Matura, a suggestion was initially made for the Choco and Mendez families to receive an advance until they were able to sort through the legal maze ahead of them since neither of the deceased airmen left behind a will. She says that the […]
Written on July 21, 2020 | Posted in
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The widow of one of those deceased airmen continues to reside at Price Barracks, despite the likelihood that she will be asked to vacate the home since, as a civilian, she has no legal grounds to remain on the military compound . It is on that basis, Matura says, that a request for an advance […]
Written on July 21, 2020 | Posted in
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In political news, Foreign Minister Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington and former minister Gaspar Vega both announced they will not seek re-election in the Pickstock and Orange Walk North constituencies. Their decision came immediately after Minister Patrick Faber became the leader elect of the U.D.P. less than two weeks ago, on July twelfth. In Punta Gorda, Mayor […]
Written on July 21, 2020 | Posted in
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Schools are scheduled to reopen on August tenth and across the country, preparations are underway to keep students safe when they return to classrooms as COVID-19 cases inch upward. The Ministry of Education is putting in place the required protocols for the new normal in classrooms. Social distancing is a major factor under the new […]
Written on July 21, 2020 | Posted in
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Two men were murdered and three others were injured in crazy gun violence in Cayo. In the early hours of Sunday morning, hell broke loose outside the C.K. Sports Bar in San Ignacio. Patrons were milling outside the small bar, when gunshots were fired. Police say there were two killers out that morning, who fired […]
Written on July 20, 2020 | Posted in
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So, there you heard from the families of three of the victims in the shooting. We turn now to the police department for the official report. In the story, you heard that there may have been a second person involved, but police say there was only one gunman and the killing was motivated by a […]
Written on July 20, 2020 | Posted in
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The location where the deadly weekend shooting took place in San Ignacio is a concern to the police department since it poses serious security risks for patrons of the establishment. CK Bar, according to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, is operating a nightclub without a proper license and the fact that regular customers have to […]
Written on July 20, 2020 | Posted in
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As a result of the shooting that claimed two lives, police say that they are taking swift action to quell that growing problem in the west. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams shares what the department is doing. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “I know that the police may be wondering what the police will […]
Written on July 20, 2020 | Posted in
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Hours before the double murder in Cayo, the Ladyville area exploded with gun violence in another gang-related murder. Just after seven o’clock on Saturday night, Egbert Baldwin, who as recent as last Wednesday was freed of a charge of attempted murder, met his death when a volley of bullets was unleashed in his direction. Multiple […]
Written on July 20, 2020 | Posted in
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A low-flying aircraft was seen hovering above Chunox overnight, where law enforcement assets had scrambled to the vicinity of the isolated village in Corozal District in anticipation of an illegal landing. The flight which originated in South America is believed to have been a drug plane destined for northern Belize. Despite tracking the aircraft into […]
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The villages of San Felipe and Blue Creek remain cut off from the rest of the country. Agriculture produce from Blue Creek is allowed to be transported out of the zone, but no one goes in and no one comes out. Well that is how it should be, but reports emerging from within San Felipe […]
Written on July 20, 2020 | Posted in
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According to residents, some thirty students in San Felipe Village missed their CSEC examinations due to the lockdown. No provisions were made to have them sit the exams at a school in the village. With little money to spare, parents are unable to get their children ready for school. Furthermore, there is no word whether […]
Written on July 20, 2020 | Posted in
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Tonight Health Officials are baffled and continue to investigate the case of a man in his early fifties who tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. The case was detected at the San Ignacio Community Hospital after the individual visited the hospital over the weekend with gastrointestinal symptoms and a loss of sense of taste and smell. Earlier […]
Written on July 17, 2020 | Posted in
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A United Airline flight arrived today as part of the repatriation process which may lead to more cases of COVID 19. We say may because testing will confirm new cases. But the country’s fortieth case of the novel coronavirus was confirmed late on Thursday by Director of Health Services. In the latest case, the patient […]
Written on July 17, 2020 | Posted in
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Attorney, Estevan Perera was sworn-in as the new Chairman of the Elections and Boundaries Commission this morning. In the Senate on Wednesday his appointment came under fire because some senators did not deem him to be independent; Perera replaces Doug Singh, who had impeccable U.D.P. credentials, but, resigned back in April after he was recorded […]
Written on July 17, 2020 | Posted in
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And what does the new chairman make of the opposition to his new role expressed during the Senate debate? Estevan Perera was asked about the comments that question his ability to be impartial and fair considering his political connections with the United Democratic Party and by extension members of government. The attorney has served on […]
Written on July 17, 2020 | Posted in
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