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Another Belize City man is missing and hasn’t been heard from since Christmas Day when he left for a house party in the Jane Usher Boulevard area. It is unlike twenty-seven-year-old Akeem Augustine to leave home and not get in touch with his family. Tonight, his loved ones fear the worst. It has been a […]
Written on December 28, 2022 | Posted in
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An operation carried out by elements of the Special Patrol Unit has led to the recovery of a pair of firearms, matching ammunition and a quantity of retail cannabis. S.P.U. personnel descended on a property on Hondo Street, in the Backatown area of Belize City where they conducted a search of the residence. That operation […]
Written on December 28, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier today, thirty-year-old Perry Stratford, a British national who was arraigned on Tuesday for alleged kidnapping, theft, harm and damage to property against his fiancée, was granted bail at the Supreme Court. The emergency bail application before Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft commenced at 10:30, following a delay in transporting Stratford, a British army soldier, from […]
Written on December 28, 2022 | Posted in
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The 2022/2023 sugar crop officially began this morning, following long-drawn-out negotiations between the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association and B.S.I. As we reported on Friday, the B.S.C.F.A. and the miller signed a one-year interim agreement under the same conditions as last year’s crop. This was a watershed for the entire industry, as the Sugar Industry […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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The Sugar Cane Production Committee is estimating that one point three million tons of sugarcane is available for grinding during the 2022/2023 crop. Due to the substantial amount of sugar cane to be milled, any time lost is costly. But, it was not all smooth sailing this morning at A.S.R./B.S.I.’s compound. There were further delays, […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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As we said, A.S.R./B.S.I. and B.S.C.F.A. signed a one-year interim agreement. The mill initially proposed a two-year interim agreement, following a failed mediation exercise. Shawn Chavarria, the Director of Finance at A.S.R./B.S.I., shared the company’s rationale behind agreeing to a one-year interim agreement in place of its initial proposal. Shawn Chavarria, Director of Finance, […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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In our conversation with S.I.C.B. Chairman Marcos Osorio, we also asked him about S.I.C.B.’s decision to push the start date to the twenty-seventh of December, despite the fact that the mill was prepared to accept sugarcane on the nineteenth. Osorio also responded to an allegation that the start date and the condition attached were primarily […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Tonight, two trucks, a large quantity of construction materials, a trailer full of furniture and twelve brand new golf carts are submerged off the coast of Ambergris Caye, after a barge carrying these items sunk. On Christmas Eve, a tugboat and barge left Belize City en route to San Pedro with three passengers onboard. Several […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Sugar cane farmers in the north, represented by various associations, have signed a one-year interim agreement with A.S.R./B.S.I., effectively breaking a deadlock between the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association and the miller. That means that the new sugar crop will likely commence on Tuesday, December twenty-seventh. Earlier this week, Prime Minister John Briceño and Minister […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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According to Chairman Ortega, the interim agreement allows for the Briceño administration to amend existing laws to prevent the kinds of stalemate that threaten to frustrate the sugar industry. On the phone: Alfredo Ortega, Chairman, Committee of Management, B.S.C.F.A. “The one-year agreement that we signed with BSI is to give an opportunity to the […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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There’s growing frustration among some customers who have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of items purchased online and shipped to Belize by consolidators. It’s an industry that many have gotten into, conveying goods to Belize that are bought in the United States. Recently there have been concerns that items that were purchased, in some cases, […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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What we understand from credible sources within the Customs and Excise Department is that there has been an increase in the number of contraband items, including compressed, high-grade marijuana, being shipped to Belize from the United States. Out of an abundance of caution, shipping containers are being searched thoroughly and swept for illegal cargo. This, […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier this week, we aired the story of a house handing over that didn’t happen in the case of a single mother in the Port Loyola area of Belize City. And while we’ll have an update on that coming up, the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing has been going across the country gifting families, […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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A mother is in grief tonight after her son died of wounds he sustained, allegedly at the hands of police in Independence Village, nineteen days ago. Desiree McDougall told us that cops brutalized her son after they caught him smoking marijuana, and they are claiming he was disorderly. But whatever the situation was that led […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, we reported on the discovery of the body of a man in a shallow grave in Hattieville Village. While family and friends believed it to be Leroy Fuller, who also goes by the name Leroy McKoy and the alias Timba, there was still no confirmation from the Belize Police Department on the identity […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The five dollar minimum wage is now part of Belize’s Wages Regulation. Today, the Government of Belize signed into law Statutory Instrument number one hundred and seventy of 2022 which states that the minimum wage for all categories of workers has increased to five dollars an hour, effective January first, 2023. A release from the […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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But, Prime Minister John Briceño is not buying this argument. He responded by saying that the private sector has had ample time to prepare for the increase. Here is what he told us on Wednesday. Prime Minister John Briceño “I don’t think it is overnight, because we have been telling them. It was in […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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A new home for Christmas is a dream that many who live in less than ideal conditions wish for. A single mother in Port Loyola was poised to receive the keys to a new starter home this morning, but miscommunication between Area Representative Gilroy Usher Senior and the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing resulted […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The snafu ended up being an entire public rift between the Port Loyola Area Rep and the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing. Usher took the opportunity during his interview with the media to take aim at M.I.D.H. and chided them on a number of issues. He said his area is being discriminated against because […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing, Marisa Alamilla suggested that Usher was being disingenuous. She told us that only five, not fifty, applications for starter homes have been forwarded to the ministry from Port Loyola. And that all five have been approved. Marisa Alamilla, Public Relations, Publicity Mgr., M.I.D.H. “Both contractors that Mr. […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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One of the faults that Usher pointed to is that the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing is not building the homes at a fast enough pace to fulfill the pre-election promise that the P.U.P. made. Alamilla said there are reasons for that, but that they are building homes. Marisa Alamilla, Public Relations, Publicity […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The victim of a vicious beat down on the island of San Pedro, following a minor traffic mishap, is speaking out tonight. Aron Castillo took to his Instagram page over the last twenty-four hours to recount his traumatic encounter with three men on the island who allegedly attacked him in a fit of rage and […]
Written on December 20, 2022 | Posted in
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News Five has confirmed that three persons were arrested and charged in connection with assault on Aron Castillo, following formal report. The suspects are nineteen-year-old Victor Carillo, thirty-five-year-old Lorenzo Menjivar, and twenty-four-year-old Alexis Oretencio. They were arraigned inside the San Pedro Magistrates Court this morning for the crime of Wounding. All three men pleaded not […]
Written on December 20, 2022 | Posted in
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We also heard from Caleb Orosco, the Executive Director of the United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM). Orosco has been in communication with Castillo since the incident occurred. And, according to Orosco, the behavior displayed by the alleged perpetrators is a reflection of how the state, “gives these kind of people permission to sustain violence on […]
Written on December 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Chief Justice Louise Esther Blenman called two attorneys to the bar earlier today. One of those women is the owner of Gwen’s Kitchen, a popular restaurant right here on Coney Drive. But the story of Tiffany Cadle, as someone who overcame hardship to realize her dream of one day becoming a lawyer, is an inspirational […]
Written on December 20, 2022 | Posted in
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