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Ten women who took part in a Female Entrepreneurship Program have received seed funding to begin or continue their own small businesses. On Tuesday, the Belize Trade and Investment Development Service (BELTRAIDE), with support from the Taiwan Government, handed over checks valued at four thousand dollars to each of the women. The money came from […]
Written on August 24, 2022 | Posted in
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Women representing Belize internationally in football does not make the news every day, but we have one person to feel proud of tonight in that discipline. Jayda Brown graduated from Galen University last year and is now enrolled at Campbellsville University where she plays football with the university’s Tigers Football Team in the state of […]
Written on August 24, 2022 | Posted in
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There’s also basketball news tonight with the first-of-its-kind National Basketball Tournament held over the weekend for youths in Belize City. The Ministry of Youth and Sports hosted the two-day event for under-fifteen and under-eighteen youths who competed for cash prizes and scholarships for secondary and tertiary levels. The tournament marked the culmination of two months of […]
Written on August 24, 2022 | Posted in
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The United Democratic Party took to the streets of Belize City today in protest. After failing to acquire the necessary permits from the Belize Police Department to demonstrate, the U.D.P. still went ahead and executed its plan to march against the cost of fuel. However, protestors were brought together at a time when the party’s […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Former Party Leader Patrick Faber and Area Representative for Albert Division Tracy Panton did not attend the demonstration. Both elected members of the U.D.P. have been at odds with the party’s leader. And, while the National Party Council sought to resolve the internal divide over the weekend, the absence of Faber and Panton was noticeable. […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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On Monday, we told you about the discounted settlement that the Government of Belize has signed on to for financial damages payable to the Belize International Services Limited. As we reported, B.I.S.L was forcibly acquired by government under former Prime Minister Dean Barrow in 2013. The initial ask from B.I.S.L was seventy million U.S. dollars; […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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The National Meteorological and Hydrological Services has been collecting data since the 1960’s. This data, which is readily available, can be used to track the changes and variability in the climate since then. A high-level meeting which seeks to establish a national framework of weather and climate services in Belize was held at the Green […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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The information and data collected by the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services is readily available on the websites. Already there is an automatic weather station, building the capacity of the met office to collect data from various municipalities and early warning systems. But C.E.O. Doctor Kenrick Williams says that there is much more to come, […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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On Monday morning, a letter signed by senior members of the Audit Department was tendered to Chief Executive Officer Rolando Zetina of the Ministry of the Public Service. The letter places on record concerns from members of staff with respect of upward mobility within the department. According to the letter, it has been the practice […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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According to President Flowers, while the Briceño administration has started discussions with the Audit Department, the Ministry of Public Service is not moving fast enough to address the issues being raised. Dean Flowers, President, Public Service Union “I will give a little bit of credit to the Ministry of Public Service under this administration […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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An FPIC Protocol, the source of contention that has divided the Maya community in the wake of a consent order from the Caribbean Court of Justice, has been signed by residents of San Jose Village, Toledo District. The endorsement of the document took place on Sunday, in the presence of government officials from the Ministry […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize International Services Limited, the parent company for the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize, IMMARBE, and the International Business Companies Registry, I.B.C., was forcibly acquired by government under former Prime Minister Dean Barrow in 2013. Seven years later, in July 2020, the Caribbean Court of Justice determined that the appropriation of B.I.S.L. was […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The decision handed down by the C.C.J. two years ago disparaged the Barrow administration, describing the appropriation of the registries as, “constitutionally immoral and failing to meet the standards set for compliance with the value of the rule of law”. Furthermore, it continued to criticize the absence of good faith, fairness, and practicality exercised by […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Secretary General Luis Almagro, of the Organization of American States, called on Prime Minister John Briceño during a visit to Belize today. The head of the O.A.S. last visited Belize in April 2016. This morning at the Leigh Richardson Building, the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sec Gen Almagro met with the prime […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The territorial dispute between Guatemala and Belize, despite the matter being taken to the World Court for settlement, is also an area of concern for the O.A.S. Notwithstanding the pending outcome, Secretary General Almagro urges both countries to continue strengthening their cooperation through confidence building measures. Luis Almagro, Secretary General, O.A.S. “We should all […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Notwithstanding the protracted nature of the age-old dispute and the funding that has gone into keeping the O.A.S. office at the Adjacency Zone open, Secretary General Almagro and Prime Minister Briceño have pledged that the work at the western border will continue to be financed for at least another eighteen months, beginning in 2023. […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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It’s a quiet fishing community off the Coastal Road, fifty-three miles by land from Belize City and twenty-seven miles from Dangriga. But residents of Gales Point Manatee say they have reason to become vociferous in order to protect the sanctity of their community the way it has been known to be for generations. This weekend, […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Ladyville tour guide and businessman, Benigno Betancourt, popularly known as Ben, met an untimely death on Saturday evening when he drowned while on an expedition in Gales Point Manatee Village. The forty-six-year-old had reportedly gone to spend the weekend with his family at the Manatee Lodge and went on a canoe on the lagoon. On […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, the Police Department’s Communications Director, Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood, confirmed that it was Betancourt who took his family on the lagoon and that he jumped into the water to test the depth of the lagoon. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department “Sometime around four p.m., in the village of Gales Point […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The United Democratic Party’s National Party Council met over the weekend, in another attempt at putting an end to the internal strife that threatens to destroy the U.D.P. at its core. A meeting several weeks ago between former Party Leader Patrick Faber, Albert Area Representative Tracy Panton, and current Party Leader Shyne Barrow, with the […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Despite the internal turmoil, the United Democratic Party is planning a protest for Tuesday in Belize City. On Thursday of last week, Assistant Commissioner of Police Howell Gillett, the Regional Commander for Eastern Division, denied the U.D.P. Chairman’s application to conduct a protest. Still, Peyrefitte told reporters today that the party will be out in […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Chairman Peyrefitte contends that his application to protest was denied on political grounds. He accuses the Commissioner of Police of attempting to muffle the U.D.P., asserting that ComPol Williams’ feelings are hurt and that he is thin skin. When asked how protestors would respond to an attempt by police officers to shut down the protest, […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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A man is in police custody following a fire in Dangriga on Saturday night. A reportedly intoxicated Michael Flores visited his father’s house in the Wagierale area of the town. They got into an argument before the twenty-four-year-old took out a machete and attacked his father, fifty-one-year-old Santos Flores. Flores believes that his son then […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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This afternoon, police released the official results of a post-mortem examination carried out on the body of Leroy Cus. The graphic designer of Belmopan died from multiple penetrating stab wounds to the chest. Cus was senselessly robbed and killed as he was walking from the bus terminal in Belmopan. Over the weekend, reports surfaced of […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The Premier League of Belize (P.L.B.) is investigating the circumstances surrounding a brawl that took place at the end of a football match between Altitude FC and Verdes FC in Independence Village. At the end of the game, a group of fans stormed on to the football field and attacked a member of Verdes FC’s […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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