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Tonight, there are two developments on the territorial claim to Belize that could explain Guatemala’s aggressive behavior for months. A map released by the Guatemalan government has surfaced showing that fisherfolks from that country are free to fish well within Belizean waters including the Sarstoon River where, as you know, Guatemala maintains a strong military […]
Over the past two years, Guatemala has been asserting sovereignty over the area, going as far as militarizing the remote area and now escorts Belizeans traversing our side of the Sarstoon River. A recent official forty-page document on travels by Guatemalan officials details a meeting between Foreign Ministers Wilfred Elrington and Carlos Raul Morales at […]
He walked free from court on Monday afternoon for the brutal attack on an elderly man, but tonight police are looking for thirty-six-year-old Chester Noralez. He is to be re-arrested and charged for the aggravated burglary and near-fatal assault of ninety-three-year-old Patrick Grant. Grant was the victim of a home invasion at his residence on […]
Written on December 21, 2016 | Posted in
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The Price Barracks residence of Brigadier General David Jones was broken into a few weeks ago, while the B.D.F. commander was out of the country. The discovery that his home had been burglarized and ransacked was made upon his return on the weekend of December second. Stolen from the property was approximately thirty thousand dollars […]
Written on December 21, 2016 | Posted in
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Turning to developments in the agriculture sector…. The Annual General Meeting of the Citrus Growers Association planned for January twenty-first, 2017, is a crossroads in the survival of the multi-million dollar industry. The industry has been suffering from in-fighting between larger growers aligned with Belize Citrus Mutual and medium and smaller growers still loyal to […]
Written on December 21, 2016 | Posted in
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The 2016-2017 citrus season is behind schedule due to impacts from Hurricane Earl in August. Millions of dollars in damages was suffered by growers of grapefruit and orange, the former in particular. However, after a delay, the season is picking up with grapefruit deliveries underway and orange set to join in as well in the […]
Written on December 21, 2016 | Posted in
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Almost five years ago, the Citrus Growers Association opened a four-million Belize dollar nursery for citrus plants which it sells to growers. The Plant World Nursery, located off the Southern Highway in Red Bank village, hosts as many as three hundred and fifty thousand plants and is the center of the multi-million dollar industry’s efforts […]
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Teachers and students across the country are officially on Christmas vacation. Some are enjoying time with friends and family, while others are catching up with their to-do list ahead of the long weekend. In spite of the festive holiday spirit, both are once again locked into a situation that is not necessarily of their own […]
The United Nations is set to appoint an independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity issues, following three contentious rounds of voting at the international body in New York City. Belize has consistently voted in favour of LGBT rights issues at the U.N., and on this issue twice voted in favour of appointing the […]
Crime continues to grip the city. A shooting overnight has left a fifty-three year old Belize City resident hospitalized. Griffith Moody was outside his home on Lakeview Street with a friend when three masked men, one wielding a firearm, held them up and demanded his belongings. Fearing for his life, Moody handed over a gold […]
Written on December 20, 2016 | Posted in
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Gardenia Mechanic Dean Dawson was knocked down and killed earlier in March of this year and so far there has been a lot of back and forth, but no one has been charged. The driver of the vehicle is Dorian Pakeman of the Government Press Office. He was put on leave following a urine sample […]
Police are no closer to identifying the body of the woman retrieved from the Belize River last Wednesday. When it was fished out of the river, it was noted that the body had several cut wounds and post-mortem certified that she died as a result of the cuts to her head. Although Police announced that […]
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After as many as forty years, a double murder case has been cracked. An American from California has been charged with two counts of maritime murder for the deaths of a British couple in their mid-twenties who had travelled to Belize. Seventy-five year old Silas Duane Boston is accused of luring Christopher Farmer and Peta […]
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A recent ruling by the Court of Appeal will have significant bearing on the lives of inmates convicted for murder. The decision primarily hinges on parole rules mandating that those serving life sentences for homicides are not to be considered, much less granted parole. The court in October determined that the Criminal Code is unconstitutional […]
A mother of nine was savagely murdered at her house in Santa Elena, Cayo. The gunman entered her home and unleashed a barrage of bullets that took her life. Paulina Urbelina Sanchez is sixty-nine- years old; she was killed in front of family members. A land dispute is said to be at the centre of […]
Written on December 19, 2016 | Posted in
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On Friday evening around five thirty a man was killed by his close friend. It happened in the San Martin community in Belmopan. The men got into an argument and one pulled out a knife and stabbed the other several times. While the exact nature of the conversation they were having is not known, what […]
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There was an attempted murder in Buena Vista Village, Cayo that happened on Thursday evening after five. The village is also where a farmer, Armando Medrano, was murdered on the same day. A twenty-year-old woman, mother of two Consuelo Queme was shelling corn under home when her ex-spouse approached her and proceeded to chop her. […]
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A triple road fatality outside of Orange Walk Town late on Saturday has forever marred Christmas week for three families in the community of Yo Creek. Police have yet to sort out right from wrong in the deaths of two cousins, driver Mainor Hernandez and Jovanni Gongora, and their friend Jason Gongora. The young men […]
A couple who own a business on the Belize-Corozal Road in Orange Walk Town were attacked late on Sunday. A masked and armed pair stormed into their residence, intent on committing burglary, but they were unable to get away with anything and barely got away from police. However, they did cause damage to both household […]
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The Ministry of Education and the Belize National Teachers Union will enter into mediation in the days ahead, to resolve the standing issue of teachers salaries post the eleven-day strike back in October. That’s what Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin has instructed. The issue of salary deduction aside, there are a number of burning issues between […]
Written on December 16, 2016 | Posted in
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As far as Managing Authorities are concerned, their position is clear. At a meeting held on November second with ministry officials, it was unanimously agreed upon that classes should resume on January third, as part of an overall schedule to make up for time lost. The B.N.T.U. doesn’t share that position. In fact, teachers are […]
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According to career educator Adelaida Guerra, trade unionist and claimant in the case brought against government, B.N.T.U. is quite clear on its position based on the existing Education Rules. Acting on the advice of Senior Counsel Courtenay, the union will remain firm in requesting that teachers return to school on January ninth. Adelaida Guerra, […]
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Courtenay says that government is treating teachers with disrespect and that the Education Rules must be adhered to by the Ministry of Education, as well as the Managing Authorities. Reporter “Sir, are your clients the teachers going to honor this January third that they should show up for work come the New Year?” […]
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The decomposing body of a sixty-year- old man was discovered on Thursday at his farm a couple miles away from Buena Vista Village in the Cayo District. When Manuel Medrano didn’t show up for work on Monday and Tuesday his boss became concerned and alerted the family. A search of his property lead to the […]
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Almost four weeks after officially opening its multimillion dollar cruise tourism investment on Harvest Caye, Norwegian Cruise Line formally invited members of the local media to visit the exclusive island getaway. It was our first and likely only invitation to the much talked about location and our news team made the most of the experience. […]
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