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On adjournment, we caught up with Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow and got his take on the ceremonial sitting, as well as the significance of President Tsai Ing-Wen’s presentation. Here’s that interview. Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition “I was very moved by her speech. We have so much in common insofar as existential […]
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Three persons lost their lives over the weekend in two separate shooting incidents and a road traffic accident. We begin with the murder of sixteen-year-old Belize City student, Wellington Williams on Central American Boulevard. At around six-thirty on Saturday night, Williams was walking towards the Port of Belize compound to deliver food for his aunt’s […]
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Hattieville resident Denver Montero was chopped and shot to death in Gracie Rock Village on Sunday evening. Another man, Ryan Kerr was also injured, but was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he is reportedly admitted in a stable condition. Montero and Kerr were among a group of persons socializing in the village […]
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A six-year-old student of Unity Presbyterian School in the Antelope Street Extension area of Belize City lost his life on Saturday morning when he was knocked down and killed just a stone’s throw away from his house. Initial reports were that Armando Godoy was heading to a shop across the street from where he lived […]
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Two other persons lost their lives in separate road traffic accidents out west. On Friday night, Horace Popper was knocked down and killed by a taxi driver around mile fifty-one on the George Price Highway in Ontario Village. Guillermo Garcia has since been served with a notice of intended prosecution. Today, ASP Fitzroy Yearwood shared […]
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He was a football athlete with Georgeville FC, but on Saturday night, Adrian Usher also lost his life in a traffic accident on the George Price Highway in the area of Central Farm. Usher was riding his motorcycle when he collided head-on with a pickup truck, driven by William Swan. The incident occurred around seven-thirty […]
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For the first time since 1984, the United Democratic Party has a standard bearer in the Queen’s Square Division who does not bear the last name “Barrow”. On Sunday, attorney Godwin Haylock emerged victorious over Shane Williams in an election convention to succeed incumbent Area Representative, Denise “Sista B” Barrow. The day’s proceedings went without […]
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Earlier today, Party Leader Shyne Barrow congratulated the new U.D.P. standard bearer for Queen Square, following a resounding victory on Sunday during a constituency convention. Godwin Haylock and Shane Williams contested the candidacy for that electoral division under the United Democratic Party. When the polls closed later that evening, Haylock, a close relative of incumbent […]
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The National Party Council of the U.D.P. met on Saturday to discuss a number of issues related to the political organization moving forward. During the meeting, a vote was also taken to determine whether Shyne Barrow should be challenged as party leader ahead of the 2025 general elections. There was a near-unanimous decision, a majority […]
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Last week, word broke that Ian Jones was going to step aside as the U.D.P. Standard Bearer for Collet, citing that it would be the best thing for the party, and for unity, heading into an election season. This, coupled with the U.D.P. Leader, Shyne Barrow’s comments, indicating that there’s a mending of fences between […]
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Despite Faber’s wishes, the U.D.P’s National Party Council still went ahead and voted overwhelmingly to support Barrow’s proposal to keep the status quo within their party. The proposal, as it stood, was to keep Moses “Shyne” Barrow as its leader, First Deputy Leader, Hugo Patt, Second Deputy Leader, Senator Beverly Williams, Chairman, Senator Michael Peyrefitte […]
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Following President Tsai’s stop at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the office of the Prime Minister, and the House of Representatives, she was hosted in Belmopan to a luncheon by Governor-General, Froyla T’zalam. From there, she traveled to Central Farm, Cayo, where she toured the sheep and goat centre, a breeding project that the Republic […]
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Goodnight and welcome to another edition of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. Like fireworks on September twenty-first, the George Price Highway lit up on Saturday morning for the thirty-second Annual Puma Women’s Cross Country Cycling Classic. The seventy-three mile race from Columbus Park in San Ignacio Town to the Digi Park in Belize […]
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The discussion around price gouging involving local Chinese business owners became more prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the Briceño Administration steers the ship of economic rebound, Belizeans across the country have been bitterly complaining about the increased cost of goods at the stores. The blame, for the most part, has been placed on the […]
Written on March 31, 2023 | Posted in
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Another commodity that has seen a recent increase is poultry. Viewers might have taken note that the price of poultry increased by ten cents earlier this week. As a result, some of the popular fast food restaurants have already increased their prices to reflect this change. We asked Minister Mai about this latest increase. Here […]
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There was a huge bust of contraband pharmaceuticals over the weekend in Orange Walk. The information is that customs officials intercepted a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck on the San Antonio Road. Inside the vehicle were German Antonio Lobos and Maribel De Leon and over two dozen boxes of illegally imported medications, valued at a little […]
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During last week’s budget debate, Albert Area Representative Tracy Panton questioned the budget in terms of the allocation for medical supplies and medication to the Ministry of Health and Wellness. According to the draft estimates of revenue and expenditure for 2023/2024, medicine and technology for last fiscal year were over twenty-five million dollars, but the […]
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The Albert Area Representative also made reference to the number of non-established staff in the health sector which since 2022 has been up to six hundred and forty-one. The wage bill for these persons is estimated at four hundred and twenty-one thousand, five hundred and two dollars. But there is also the issue of nurses […]
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Speaking about the increase in allowance for community healthcare workers, nurses have been migrating for better wages. It is among the many issues that have been brought to the Ministry of Health and Wellness over the past months. Minister Bernard says that the ministry is looking at adjustment of salaries for nurses, pharmacists and those […]
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U.D.P. Standard Bearer Ian Jones stepped down as the party’s candidate of choice for Collet on Wednesday. His choice to withdraw as the nominee for that constituency was shared in a social media post on Facebook. But was there more to that decision than what we were privy, based on Jones’ statement? Earlier today, Collet […]
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Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen arrives in Belize on Sunday evening at four o’clock. The visit of the head of government to the Jewel, her second call on Belize since taking office as president, will be covered live on Channel Five. Earlier today, we caught up with Cabinet Secretary Stuart Leslie who shared an itinerary of […]
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The case of thirty-six-year-old Jared Ranguy, accused of killing his mother, sister, and stepfather, took an interesting turn today when the trial judge announced that he has decided to recuse himself from the case. The announcement by Justice Ricardo O’Neill Sandcroft followed a sequence of uncertainties when attorneys who were assigned to the case also […]
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Police have released information on Thursday’s fatal shooting incident near Sand Hill Village on the Philip Goldson Highway that claimed the life of thirty-three-year-old Justin Pollard. The Belize City resident was discovered dead sometime around seven-thirty Thursday morning inside his Toyota 4-Runner S.U.V that was parked a few yards off the highway between miles thirteen […]
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It is one of the worst things that can happen – a medical professional in who trust is placed to carry out a job, and that individual perverts that role and sexually abuses the patient. It is not a common allegation that has surfaced in the news in Belize, but it is making the news […]
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The Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management is tonight calling out the Toledo Alcalde Association and the Julian Cho Society. According to a press release from SATIIM, back in 2018, the Julian Cho Society received one point eight million dollars to further their work in implementing the Free, Prior, and Consent Order. SATIIM says the […]
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