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There have been ongoing lectures in different parts of the country and from what has been detected, there seems to be an anti-I.C.J. sentiment. Minister Wilfred Elrington is known to be very candid and has received a lot of heat for his comments relating to the Belize/Guatemala dispute. For instance, in September Elrington stated that […]
Two point five million dollars have been budgeted by the government for the I.C.J. Referendum campaign. An education campaign, apart from but similar to the government-sponsored I.C.J. campaign, concluded on Tuesday night in Belize City. The I.C.J. Lecture Series, funded by the University of Belize and the Social Sector Senators, ended in a heated debate […]
There is another protocol to report about tonight. It is the Sarstoon Protocol, which is still up in the air. In June 2016, the foreign ministers of both Belize and Guatemala met at the O.A.S. headquarters in Washington to with O.A.S. Secretary General Luis Almagro to begin to negotiate the terms of a cooperation mechanism […]
The leaders of all seven Central American countries are in Belize for the 2018 SICA Summit. For the past six months, Belize was at the helm of the Central American Integrated System, SICA, after it assumed the Presidency Pro Tempore from the Dominican Republic on June thirtieth. On Friday, Guatemala will take over the Pro […]
While Guatemalan president and foreign minister are at the Biltmore, in Belmopan, a protocol was signed to deal with encroachments in the Chiquibul and Vaca Forests by persons from Guatemala who enter the protected area illegally. They extract the rich natural resources posing a serious threat to the environment and putting at risk the sovereignty […]
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The newly established guidelines, according to Minister John Saldivar, who holds the national security portfolio, sets out the means by which the respective agencies, including the Forestry Department, will conduct operations in the Chiquibul and Vaca forests. Saldivar says that it is an initiative that the FCD has been clamoring for all along. John […]
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Belizeans woke up this morning to the sad news that the iconic Miss Jane Usher had passed away peacefully at her house on the Philip Goldson surrounded by her loved ones. Miss Jane was known and loved by thousands of grateful Belizeans whose lives she touched. The founder of the credit union movement spent most […]
Written on December 12, 2018 | Posted in
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The beloved credit union pioneer was also a politician and former parliamentarian. She had represented the Pickstock Division under the People’s United Party from 1989 to 1993. Today, the House of Representatives took a moment of silence to remember her as a former member of the National Assembly. In a rare occasion Prime Minister Dean […]
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Tragedy struck a Belize City family on Tuesday night. Eleven-month-old Marianne Vasquez fell and drowned in a bucket of water at her home in Belama. According to the family, baby Marianne was playing with a piece of a paper which dropped in the bucket containing about six inches of water. That bucket was inside the […]
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Tonight police in Corozal are trying to figure out who killed Michael Arnold and why. Arnold, a very popular businessman in the community, was found with two gunshot wounds to the head on Monday night. His body was on the passenger side of his white Chrysler van in an isolated area of Baeza Layout of […]
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Just before News Five, the family and friends of missing woman, Anisha Young, congregated at the Queen Street Police Station when word spread that her boyfriend was being released from custody. He has been held for forty-eight hours following the disappearance of the twenty-three-year-old woman. Anisha went to a Christmas party on Saturday and left […]
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Wesley Primary School on Albert Street was broken into on Tuesday morning by two thieves who arrived at the school well armed to carry out the crime. Surveillance footage shows the duo jumping the fence before creeping towards the principal’s office. Once there, they proceeded to steal over a hundred dollars plus a laptop. It […]
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The last sitting of the House of Representatives for 2018 took place in Belmopan and generally, the members were in good form. A number of issues came up, but we start with the rising cost of fuel, which remains a concern for Belizeans, particularly those in the productive sector where the existing cost per gallon […]
The family of Anisha Young continues to hope for the best, but is bracing for the worse. Today, a search party was organized by her family and went looking for answers. Young disappeared on Sunday morning; she was at a night club after a work Christmas party and was seen getting into a taxi. But […]
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Corozal police are tonight investigating the callous murder of Michael Arnold, a beloved figure in the community. Arnold was found with two gunshots wounds to the head on Monday night. The gruesome discovery was made by police officers who were on mobile patrol that night. Their attention was caught by a white van which was […]
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After being missing for more than twenty-four hours, the body of prominent Corozal businessman, forty-one-year-old Rudy Morales of Morales Bus Company was found late this evening. His body was floating on the sea near the Cuello Maya Site in the Corozal District. Morales was part of a fishing expedition that took four men and a […]
Brace up, because the first order of business in the New Year is an increase in the cost of electricity beginning, January first, 2019. If approved, it will be the second increase in six months. This Monday, B.E.L. wrote to the Public Utilities Commission proposing to increase rates to forty-one point fifty cents per kilowatt […]
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The People’s United Party calls the hike a shameful act of duplicity on the part of both the Government of Belize and the state-owned B.E.L. A release states that just months ago, B.E.L. requested an increase of seven point one percent in the cost per kilowatt hour, and the P.U.C. approved six point twenty-four percent […]
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Pier One Bar is under the radar once more; the bar is located within the B.T.L. Park, a popular venue for recreation by families. For some time, we have reported on recurring violent incidents at the bar. Over the weekend a Bagdad Street resident was murdered inside the hangout as patrons socialized. Residents in the […]
The ten-year lease to principal shareholder of Pier One, Joseph Kee, speaks to the payment of three hundred and fifty dollars monthly for rent of the overwater structure. Mayor Bernard Wagner also disclosed today that the previous U.D.P. administration paid sixteen thousand dollars to repair damages to the structure as a result of Hurricane Earl. […]
Things got chaotic on Sunday evening in Santa Cruz Village in the Orange Walk District. Santa Cruz is an illegal port of entry which leads to the popular Mexican village of ‘Botes’. In 2017, the Ministry of Immigration warned that it would prohibit and prosecute persons who use these types of illegal border crossings to […]
Written on December 10, 2018 | Posted in
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Police are tonight looking for the gunman responsible for the murder of Asher Saunders. The twenty-year-old Bagdad Street resident was sitting at the bar of the Pier One night club when a single shot to the left of his head ended his life. As music blared and patrons moved around, Saunders was executed within minutes […]
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A Guatemalan man was viciously chopped to death on Friday night in a western village. Police believe that Guatemalan Filiberto Itche attacked and killed Dimas Choc in a fit of jealous rage. Both men had recently been living together at a piece of farmland in Cristo Rey Village along with their separate common-law-wives. But on […]
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Police have been unable to charge any suspects for the murder of Brenda Castellanos. The twenty-five-year-old mother was mortally wounded last Thursday as she stood inside a yard on Bishop Martin Street in Santa Elena, Cayo. Her friend, Jennis August, was also injured in that shooting and has since been treated and released from the […]
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The family of Anisha “Annie” Young is desperately looking for her. The young woman, who is an employee of Voyse International went missing on Saturday night. She attended her staff Christmas party and seems to have disappeared in thin air; calls to her phone are unanswered. She was last seen alive at Sit and Sip […]
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