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P.U.P. Chairman Henry Charles Usher chimed in on the infighting within the Opposition, as it is all being played out on social media. He says that he is surprised by the disrespect and all that is happening. Henry Charles Usher, Chairman, P.U.P. “I am surprised first by the level of disrespect being shown between […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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The legislation for the People’s Constitutional Commission was tabled in the House of Representative for first reading in June. Minor amendments were made and at the next house sitting, the second and third readings will be held and it will be passed into law. Even before June, a lot of work has been done and […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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On Tuesday, the Belize Water Services Limited and the Belize Water Services Workers Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding to implement a newly revised Collective Bargaining Agreement. The last C.B.A. expired on November 1st, 2021, and the Labor Department needs to validate the C.B.A. before an official signing can be done. The final draft has […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Police have made an arrest in connection with the murder of twenty-nine-year-old San Ignacio resident Matthew Smith. The murder suspect has been identified as Christian Kelly, a twenty-two-year-old a resident of Roman Catholic Street in San Ignacio Town. As we reported, Smith was stabbed to death on Independence Day while attending an event at the […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Five small business owners will be receiving ten thousand dollars each in seed funding from the Belize Natural Energy Charitable Trust. It is a sizeable amount of money being granted to the second cohort of B.N.E. Charitable Fund’s Dare to Dream Initiative. Hundreds of entrepreneurs from the six districts will first participate in an Entrepreneurship […]
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Just before news time, Prime Minister John Briceño addressed the Seventy -Seventh United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York. At the opening of his address, P.M. Briceño discussed the ongoing international conflict between Ukraine and Russia, the rise in global poverty rates, food security, and the climate crisis that Small Island […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Last week, the Belize Bus Association raised issue over what it said was the practice of buses from neighbouring countries running through Belize and picking up other passengers along the same route, which affects their business. These buses were running routes through Belize with specific destinations prior to the COVID pandemic. But the runs have […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Since the land borders and sea ports reopened in February, there has been a significant number of irregular migrations into Mexico, prompting Mexican authorities to quickly step in and repatriate illegal migrants back to Belize. Ambassador Arnold says that sometimes minors are caught up in these circumstances because of the decisions of their parents or […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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When Mexican President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador visited Belize in May, it opened the way for greater trade relations to occur between our two countries. Soon after Obrador returned to Mexico, he signed a document that allows for Belizean agricultural producers to export their products to Mexico tax-free. Ambassador Arnold shared that that has piqued […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Eleven years ago on September twenty-first, 2011, Joshua Abraham, a nine-year-old student was fatally shot on Victoria Street in Belize City. In the wake of his senseless killing, his mother Marcia Argalles worked to revitalise a neighbourhood park on North Front Street, which had been left abandoned. Multiple attempts were made, but today, the Victoria […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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When you hear Coconu Bwai, it’s usually associated with a makeshift weapon used by the Baymen in the battle against the Spaniards on St. Georges Caye. But these days it’s associated with a household bruk-down artist. This week Sabreena Daly had a sit down well well-known calypsonian, Coconu Bwai. Sabreena Daly, Reporting Since 2014, […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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There was a murder in San Ignacio at around seven p.m. on Wednesday. According to police, they received information of a male person seen on the ground with multiple stab wounds to the upper part of his body, near the Macal River Park Area. The individual, later identified as twenty-nine-year-old, Matthew Smith, was rushed to […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Twenty-nine-year-old Stephen Barrington Flowers, a resident of Majestic Alley, has been charged with aggravated burglary, following an incident at the home of Basil Gordon on Saint Thomas Street on Sunday. Flowers is accused of participating in a home invasion that netted thieves almost four thousand dollars in cash and several other personal items belonging to […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Carlos Jose Martinez, a Honduran national, has been living in Belize illegally for almost a year before he was caught by immigration officials earlier this week. According to Martinez, he fled his home country in October 2021 when he, along with his wife and daughter, was reportedly threatened by gang members. He is now seeking […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The forty-first anniversary of Belize’s independence was celebrated in grand fashion on Wednesday, with an official ceremony being held in Belmopan. It was full pomp and circumstance, as the prime minister, government officials, and other dignitaries were in attendance. As is customary, we took a closer look at the speeches that were presented by Prime […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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In San Ignacio, politics was put aside on Independence Day. Mayor Earl Trapp and Belmopan Mayor Sharon Palacio joined each other on stage to dance to a Punta song, much to the delight of onlookers. When we caught up with Mayor Trapp today in San Ignacio, we asked him about that moment and the overall […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Public officers are leading the way towards digital transformation within the public sector. Today, an award ceremony was held for the second cohort of the Digital Transformation in Belize Course. These public officers were engaged in the training for the past four weeks. It focused on equipping them with the necessary tools to understand and […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Floralia has been given consideration to also conduct runs in the north and west of the country, which the B.B.A officers say they will also challenge should Floralia get runs that compromise their members’ economic stability. At the centre of the conflict is the Minister of Transport, Rodwell Ferguson, who has been giving the bus […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, at the House of Culture in Belize City, a book that chronicles the life of one of Belize’s national heroes was officially launched. Commissioned back in 2016 by the National Institute of Culture and History, the publication is entitled “The Time to Save Your Country: Philip S.W. Goldson, Biography of a National Hero.” Its […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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A brazen attempt at burglarizing the nation’s largest credit union was thwarted by an alarm system. On Monday morning, two men created an opening in the concrete wall at the rear of the Holy Redeemer Credit Union building in Belize City. They then entered the financial institution but no sooner beat a hasty retreat, after […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The lifeless body of fifty-five-year-old Phillip Palma was discovered in a shallow grave on an island off the coast of Belize City over the weekend. Palma was reported missing by a relative on Wednesday, September fourteenth, after the family received alarming reports that he had been kidnapped. Since then, his family and police officers have […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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A fishing trip went wrong over the weekend in southern Belize and ended with the death of a young dancer. Twenty-four-year-old Jamire Borland was out with his brother and another friend on a makeshift raft off the coast of Cattle Landing when the vessel capsized. Borland’s brother and friend were able to make it to […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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A resident of Bella Vista Village in southern Belize lost her life during a road traffic accident on Saturday night. Around seven-thirty, Jose Hernandez was behind the wheel of a Mitsubishi pickup truck travelling in the same direction as Elsa Payaz who was on a Meilun motorcycle. As they approached mile fifty, on the Southern […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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He is called the Father of the Nation for all that he did in his life to defy colonialism and fight for Belize’s political Independence. The late George Price, one of the founders of the ruling People’s United Party is remembered each year on September nineteenth, the date when he died eleven years ago in […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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For the past few years, we haven’t heard of any confrontations between Belizean civilian excursions to Sarstoon Island and the Guatemalan Armed Forced. But on Sunday, when the Belize Territorial Volunteers took an excursion of Belizeans, including a number of scouts to Sarstoon Island, they were met with stark resistance by a patrol of five […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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