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The controversy surrounding a recent cabinet decision to put in place specific measures for visitors arriving from Haiti and Jamaica continues. The move by the Briceño administration to invoke a particular article within the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas has been met with strong criticism from the opposition which cites a 2013 decision by the Caribbean […]
Written on April 14, 2023 | Posted in
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Minister of Human Development, Dolores Balderamos-Garcia also chimed in on the implementation of a visa requirement for Haitian nationals. The Briceño administration has reported that there is a trend which indicates that persons are transiting through Belize to the United States and that government is invoking a clause within the Treaty of Chaguaramas to impose […]
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The steep increase in the cost of the new e-passport is also point of contention for the opposition which has, in a release issued on April thirteenth, disapproved of the sudden price hike. According to Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow, the Briceño administration is tone deaf and is out of touch with the economic realities of […]
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In a cabinet brief issued earlier this week, it was announced that the task force headed by the Minister of Agriculture to address the rampant issue of price gouging, will be meeting with importers within the Indian community. This comes after a recent sit down with business owners within the Chinese community who engage in […]
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There was a murder in Belize City overnight and it happened just off Holy Emmanuel Street. A businessman from Cayo District was at a bar just before midnight when he was attacked and robbed by a trio of men. He was fatal shot, before the robbers made off with his wallet and licensed firearm. While […]
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Two adults and two minors have been arraigned for a burglary in Los Lagos where thirty-eight thousand dollars, a high powered rifle and several other items were stolen. On Tuesday night, we told you that thieves broke into a home over the Easter holiday and escaped with these items. Well, tonight two of the four […]
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Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow has issued a statement denouncing the Briceño administration’s decision to take stricter measures against Haitian and Jamaican nationals traveling to Belize. That decision comes amid an increase in the number of persons arriving from those countries, and subsequently crossing over into Mexico illegally en route to North America. The Leader of […]
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Minister of Agriculture, Jose Abelardo Mai, also weighed in on the matter, saying that Belize’s decision to add more requirements for Haitian and Jamaican nationals to enter the country has nothing to do with trade. Mai explained that while he has said that it is difficult to conduct trade with CARICOM because of all the […]
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Police have arrested and charged to men for the murder of seventy-two-year-old Belizean American retiree William Maxwell Smith which occurred on Easter Sunday in San Ignacio. The accused are fifty-nine-year-old Ernest Thompson of Santa Elena Town and twenty-nine-year-old Isiah Azueta of Kontiki Extension. The men were jointly charged with one count of murder, one count […]
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In the wake of Easter Sunday’s deadly home invasion in the Kontiki area of San Ignacio, citizen security is once again at the center of public discourse. Notwithstanding a decrease in the number of homicides and other violent crimes when compared to the same period in 2022, the feeling of one’s personal safety is being […]
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The Belize Police Department, as well as its counterparts in law enforcement, is yet to identify the location of a suspected drug plane that is believed to have landed in southern Belize over the Easter weekend. Despite the deployment of air assets to survey the area, they have not been able to determine where the […]
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Forty-one-year-old Jermaine ‘Horse’ Garnett has been in the news on numerous occasions, as a criminal being arrested and charged, and later as a reformed gang member who has been working closely with the Leadership Intervention Unit. But when his name came up on the police blotter recently for his alleged involvement in an aggravated burglary […]
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A police officer in Seine Bight Village filed a report against the brother of the Commissioner of Police, Arthur Williams, accusing him of defamation through a social media post. Well, the report reached the desk of the Commissioner of Police and he gave his officers green light to detain and charge his brother. ComPol Williams […]
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There was a home invasion in San Ignacio Town on Easter Sunday that resulted in the murder of an elderly retiree. William Maxwell Smith returned to Belize in February and was here to oversee the construction of a resort in the Kontiki area, where he also resided. On the morning of April ninth, a pair […]
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The officers who responded promptly to the aggravated burglary are being recognized by the Belize Police Department for their quick work in apprehending one of the suspects not far from where the incident took place. Since the arrest and subsequent detention of a second suspect, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams has given assurances that all […]
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Thirty-eight-year-old Francis Augustine, a resident of Hopkins Village, was butchered in the wee small hours of April sixth. When residents of that coastal community woke up on the morning of Holy Thursday, it was to the news that “Chingu” had been stabbed multiple times and left for dead in front of his home. It is […]
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Police have arrested and charged twenty-three-year-old Jermaine Bardalez, a fisherman of Belize City, forty-one-year-old Germaine “Horse” Garnett, a laborer of Saint Martin de Porres area, and twenty-three-year-old Tyrique Garnett of Ladyville, for the crimes of aggravated burglary and two counts of aggravated assault. The arrests come several weeks after a foiled aggravated burglary at that […]
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Everyone knows long-time Carnival enthusiast and coach, Marina Welcome as the life of the party, so-to-speak. Every year for the better part of three decades, Welcome has been preparing, training, and coaching children to represent Jump Street in the carnival road march. But on Sunday evening, someone shot at the retired nurse’s house on Rio […]
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The Belize Police Department has lost a well-known colleague and so has the local media. Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood passed away this afternoon following a massive stroke that he suffered over the Easter weekend. The communications director, who had been serving in that capacity for the past three years, built a solid rapport with reporters, […]
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Lev Dermen, the Los Angeles-based businessman who made the news during his tax fraud trial in February 2020, when former Minister of National Security John Saldivar was named as receiving money in tranches from him, has been handed down a forty-year prison sentence. Dermen was one of five persons who were sentenced for the roles […]
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A man was murdered this morning in Hopkins Village. Thirty-eight-year-old Francis Augustine was at home, inside his bedroom, when a knife-wielding attacker inflicted multiple stab wounds to his body. Augustine collapsed and bled out in his front yard while attempting to run to safety. The latest homicide comes at the start of the extended Easter […]
Written on April 6, 2023 | Posted in
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As many people leave their homes to travel to be with relatives or friends elsewhere this Easter, thieves will likely be prowling as well to see where they can pounce without being detected. But coupled with the neighborhood watch groups, the Belize Police Department will be beefing up their patrols and presence in the different […]
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Traditionally, the sale of liquor on Good Friday was a no-no. In fact, many will recall last year when the Belize Police Department issued a notification warning against the sale of liquor and cracked down to ensure that business establishments stuck to the notice. But now, through an amendment to the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Regulation […]
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In a cabinet brief issued last Thursday, the Briceño administration informed that government will invoke Article 226 (a) of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas which will allow for the Minister of Immigration to immediately impose a visa requirement for Haitians wishing to visit Belize. That decision was taken in light of the fact that over […]
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The situation with Jamaican nationals disappearing after entering Belize is also similar, except that it involves a considerably smaller number. While the Immigration Department is monitoring the situation closely, stricter measures are yet to be put in place where Jamaicans are concerned. According to C.E.O. Middleton, a cabinet subcommittee will be formed to look at […]
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