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Four percent of the population in Belize is not registered at birth. An initiative to change that was launched today. The Belize Vital Statistics Unit, in partnership with the UN Refugee Agency, U.N.H.C.R., and the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, launched a new campaign to promote birth registration in Belize. The long term goal of […]
Written on August 4, 2020 | Posted in
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Today at the National Assembly building, Prime Minister Dean Barrow expressed his frustration with border jumpers, who continue to present serious threats. Most of the persons infected with COVID-19 are either border jumpers or have been in contact with someone who crossed illegally. Contrabandistas continue to operate along the northern and western borders, Belizeans continue […]
Written on August 3, 2020 | Posted in
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There are three positive cases reported in the Corozal District; two persons arrived via the northern border entry point as part of the repatriation process and are in hotel quarantine. They are also asymptomatic. The third person is a female officer attached to the Corozal Police Station. She is one of two persons in the […]
Written on August 3, 2020 | Posted in
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Also in the north, the Orange Walk Town Council has temporarily closed the market in that municipality. The reason is because a COVID-19 patient’s family in the Orange Walk District was conducting business at the market and now the area needs to be sanitized. Today, we spoke with Mayor Kevin Bernard who shares that while […]
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The Port of Belize and the Christian Workers Union made history on Sunday when they signed the first Collective Bargaining Agreement. It’s the first C.B.A. in sixteen years after countless negotiations and demonstrations and strikes that span multiple presidencies. But the culmination of the signing was rather relaxed and amicable, despite the contentious past two […]
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It has been a rocky journey to the signing of this first ever collective bargaining agreement for the stevedores. The relationship between the two deteriorated two weeks ago when more than thirty employees became redundant and tensions escalated at the compound. So what did it take to get this C.B.A.? Is it the violent confrontation […]
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The collective bargaining agreement was signed on Sunday afternoon. By this morning, there was a request for an urgent meeting for stevedores to file a grievance to the Labour Department. A letter, signed by Arlette Hutchinson, is seeking the meeting for a breach of “Duty for Fair Representation’’ against the C.W.U. Hutchinson writes that two […]
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The C.W.U. and Port of Belize have signed a Collective Bargaining for the stevedores. On Tuesday, the C.W.U. is set to begin a new round of negotiations for a new C.B.A., this time it’s for the staff of the P.B.L. Today, they decided to take that cry to the streets in a demonstration which ended […]
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ComPol Chester Williams is also pushing for stricter measures on violators of the COVID-19 regulations. Williams said today that he is advocating for an amendment to the quarantine statutory instrument to go further to hold establishment owners liable for not ensuring that patrons wear face masks and observe social distance. Chester Williams, Commissioner of […]
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The body of an elderly man was discovered in Punta Gorda today. Just after nine o’clock this morning, police were called out to the Joe Taylor Bridge in that southern municipality where they discovered the body of eighty-five-year-old Hugh Ordonez. ACP Joseph Myvett gave preliminary information, which suggests that there was no foul play in […]
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Late this evening, the Christian Workers Union issued a release and the news is that contrary to what the Prime Minister asserted this morning, stevedores have not ended their strike. The Port of Belize Limited and the C.W.U., however, remain in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement. The release from the C.W.U. states that, […]
Written on July 31, 2020 | Posted in
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On Thursday, screenshots of WhatsApp conversations surfaced in respect of the chaotic incident at the Port of Belize Limited last Wednesday when striking staff members of the P.B.L. went on a rampage and the GSU was called in to bring the situation under control. The gist of the messages centres around the bus that was […]
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While he was on damage control mode, Rosado says that the incident at the Port is a battle between giants and the little man is being trampled. Facing a backlash from FECTAB over the leaked WhatsApp messages, Yhony Rosado says he is officially severing all ties with the organization, which he claims to have personally […]
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Senior Counsel Lisa Shoman and Professor Westmin James have been appointed to the Supreme Court bench on a one-year tenure. Their appointments, however, have raised the ire of the National Evangelical Association of Belize which has come out strongly against the pair of lawyers who represented Caleb Orozco and the United Belize Advocacy Movement, UNIBAM, […]
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While the Port of Belize remains open, the business community has not been able to receive imports or to export cargo as stevedores are on strike. The port remains on security level two following a violent protest last week. On the morning of July twenty-second, as early as six-thirty, two buses were mysteriously parked at […]
Written on July 30, 2020 | Posted in
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Back to the port, meetings were held today between the parties seeking a way forward and it is expected that activity would resume in the next few days pending the arrival of cargo vessels. At this meeting, the Port of Belize put the cards on the table now that the Prime Minister has said that […]
Written on July 30, 2020 | Posted in
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Back in April, we told you that Justice Michelle Arana was elevated to the post of Acting Chief Justice of Belize. She officially took over from the former Chief Justice, Kenneth Benjamin, who retired in March. Arana is the first female Justice of the Supreme Court, but will she get the substantive CJ post? It’s […]
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One of the leading companies that specializes in the finest cuts of beef and pork is located in the west. Running W has been around for decades and overtime, it has redefined the quality of its meat, all locally grown. Their operations start from the pasture to the processing and then on to the dinner […]
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The Santa Cruz Village expansion project involving six hundred lots in southern Belize has yet to be completed, but there is a battle raging between the village council and U.D.P. standard bearer, Ivan Williams over the project. The expansion project kicked off a few years ago and according to Chairman Vincent Scott, the village council […]
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According to Williams, it is in the best interest of the villagers for Chairman Scott to handover the list of persons to the Lands Department so that the land expansion project can continue and be completed. Hipolito Novelo “The council’s belief however is that you are piggy backing on their project and seek to […]
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Today, the Youth Enhancement Services kicked off a two-day workshop for thirty police officers. The workshop, according to Karen Cain of the Y.E.S., is to sensitize in the officers in four key areas as frontline workers. Karen Cain, Executive Director, Youth Enhancement Services “Today, we have about thirty police officers in the house. We […]
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According to Karen Cain, the capacity building workshop will also help to strengthen the work that the Youth Enhancement Services does. More importantly, it will positively impact vulnerable lives. Karen Cain, Executive Director, Youth Enhancement Services “The four issues that we are dealing with are a big deal and issues of concern. We are […]
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A single father of one needs your help. Belize City resident, Travis Eiley says that his eighteenth-month baby boy, Jayden, was recently diagnosed with sickle cell anemia and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he has been having a difficult time in providing medication for this son. Eiley stopped by our studios seeking public assistance. Eiley […]
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The strike continues at the Port of Belize which means that cargo cannot be unloaded or loaded in the midst of the economic fallout due to the COVID pandemic. The ongoing logjam between the Port of Belize Limited and the Christian Workers Union, amid the termination of thirty-six employees last Wednesday, has seen operations at […]
Written on July 29, 2020 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Dean Barrow also weighed in on the row between the Public Utilities Commission and Belize Electricity Limited regarding a power purchase agreement that B.E.L. has been ordered to sign with Santander Sugar Energy Limited. While B.E.L. has indicated that it would rather enter into negotiations regarding the terms of agreement with Santander, P.U.C. […]
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