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So what was included in the package that the P.U.C. purchased? According to the businessman, the Mirab building, including the property it sits on, and an open lot adjacent to the Belize Insurance Center, was bought for ten point three million dollars. He further explains how he acquired the piece of land owned by the […]
Written on January 19, 2021 | Posted in
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The Food Assistance Program, a merging of the Grocery Bag Program and the COVID Food Assistance, is whittling down in terms of the funds made available for the initiative to continue to the end of this financial year. As it stands, there are approximately thirty thousand applications for relief through the Ministry of Human Development. […]
Written on January 19, 2021 | Posted in
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The Corozal Free Zone will reopen in less than two weeks on February first. There is a lot at stake with the reopening of the zone and serious preparations are underway to prevent the further spread of the COVID-19 virus, especially since Mexico has recorded one point six-five million cases and more than one hundred […]
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Meanwhile, the nationwide curfew from eight p.m. to five a.m. has been in effect since December twentieth of last year. And in the Corozal and Orange Walk districts, the restrictions were stricter, with no cross-district and inter-district movement allowed. Since then, the COVID-19 cases in the northern districts have been steadily decreasing. There has been […]
Written on January 19, 2021 | Posted in
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One man who agreed with Health and Wellness Minister is the P.U.P. Orange Walk Mayoral Candidate, Ladrick “Madbull” Sheppard. He says the current quarantine regulations have proven useful as the figures in both districts have been declining. Sheppard added that he has seen the positive effects of the regulations. Ladrick “Mad Bull” Sheppard, OW […]
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The municipal election will be held on Wednesday, March third. Both major political parties have been working on finalizing their slates in each municipality. In Orange Walk, the P.U.P. selected the new mayoral candidate following the successful election of Kevin Bernard as Orange Walk East area representative. Councilor Ladrick “Mad Bull” Sheppard has stepped up […]
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One man who didn’t make it on the P.U.P.’s Orange Walk slate is Haresh Vaswani. He first joined the P.U.P. team in 2018; he was elected a councilor with five thousand and fifty-four votes. Vaswani has had his run-in with the law after being charged for violating the COVID-19 regulation. However, Vaswani says that he […]
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Here in Belize City, the final P.U.P. slate is still unknown. Mayor Bernard Wagner has confirmed he will be seeking re-election, but it’s anyone’s guess as to who will be on his slate. Party Chairman Henry Charles told us that the slates would be finalized as early as this week as the successful applicants’ names […]
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The by-election for the Corozal Bay constituency that was left vacant by the recent death of David “Dido” Vega will be held simultaneously with the municipal elections on March third. The P.U.P. has made a call for interested candidates. This is even after the late Vega’s sister, Elvia Vega-Samos, had already announced her interest in […]
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The government will appoint a new commissioner to deal with the carrying out of the C.C.J.’s consent order regarding the issue of Maya land rights and the appellate court’s ruling in the days ahead. On Thursday, however, the Government of Belize will be reporting to the Caribbean Court of Justice with an update on the […]
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2020 proved to be a year of disasters, from multiple storms to the ongoing pandemic. And the trauma of all of it will remain etched in our minds. UNICEF wants to remind us that the most vulnerable group in any disaster is our children. Child-friendly spaces are widely used in emergencies as a first response […]
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Belize proudly received the body of its first Governor General this afternoon when it arrived at the P.G.I.A. It was draped in the Belizean flag and met by a detail of Belize Defense Force soldiers who carried with much pomp and circumstance. Government officials, including Prime Minister John Briceño, were on hand to witness the […]
Written on January 18, 2021 | Posted in
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The Public Utilities Commission bought the old Mirab building on North Front Street for ten point three million dollars in December 2019. But since the purchase, the P.U.C. remains at its Gabourel Lane address, paying about twelve thousand dollars in monthly rent. The details of the sale were revealed by the new chairman of the […]
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A new year is underway on the legal calendar, commencing on a somber note as the judiciary laments the dire straits in which it finds itself once again. With a bottleneck of undelivered decisions and pending cases brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, the budget set aside for the work of the third […]
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On March third, voters head back to the polls for the municipal elections. The two major political parties are readying their slates as there are a total of sixty-seven seats up for grabs. Public Service Minister Henry Charles Usher, under whose ministry elections and boundaries fall, says that preparations are well underway for the municipal […]
Written on January 18, 2021 | Posted in
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On Sunday, the United Democratic Party announced that it had held a virtual convention to determine its city council slate for Old Capital. Very few details about the process were revealed except that there were four mayoral and twenty-four councilor hopefuls. Media personality, Orson Picart was selected as the mayoral candidate for Belize City in […]
Written on January 18, 2021 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, the P.U.P. National Executive is expected to meet this week, where its nine municipal slates will be approved for the upcoming elections. The process was different this year, and conventions were not held due to COVID-19. Henry Charles Usher – in his capacity as P.U.P. Chairman – says that after the December eighteenth deadline […]
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Corozal Mayor Rigoberto Vellos says that he and his slate have been readying for a second term in office. The P.U.P. Mayor says that there are three new candidates on his slate, and they have already hit the ground running. Rigoberto Vellos, Mayor, Corozal Town “We already going on the ground, a slate is […]
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Public Service Minister Henry Charles Usher chimed in on what he referred to as the insolence of Estevan Perera, who has refused to resign from the appointment as chair of the Elections and Boundaries Commission. In July 2020, just four months before the general elections, the former U.D.P. administration gave Perera the appointment. Last week, […]
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On Friday, as Belize commemorated the first George Price Day – now a National Public and Bank Holiday – People’s United Party officials along with family members of the late Father of the Nation gathered for a wreath-laying ceremony. Every January fifteenth, since his passing, the tradition has been held to celebrate the birth of […]
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Two fire trucks were delivered today to the Placencia Fire Station, courtesy of the Joanna Volunteer Fire Department and Cross Hill Fire Department of South Carolina. The fire trucks landed at the P.G.I.A. in a U.S. Air Force C5 today. The delivery of the trucks was facilitated by the U.S. Embassy in Belize with the […]
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Prime Minister John Briceño left the country on Tuesday and is to return on January seventeenth. During his absence, the Minister of Natural Resources, Petroleum, and Mining is acting as Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economic Development. But those additional duties did not prevent Minister Hyde from a scheduled visit to Dangriga, where […]
Written on January 14, 2021 | Posted in
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It was infamously dubbed as a “hotbed of corruption” by former Prime Minister Dean Barrow and tonight, new Lands Minister Cordel Hyde speaks of the unabated pillaging of crown land facilitated by former ministers and employees of the Ministry of Natural Resources. Land scams, land grabs – it is all being uncovered by Minister Hyde, […]
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While speaking about weeding out the department’s corruption, among those who have left is Wilbert Vallejos. Vallejos was the Lands Commissioner under the U.D.P. administration. Police raided his home in Patchakan, Corozal, found over sixty thousand dollars in various currencies and denominations, and called in the Financial Intelligence Unit. But was the former lands commissioner […]
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The municipal elections are about a month and a half away, and the United Democratic Party is gearing up. Party Chairman Michael Peyrefitte says that there has been an overwhelming interest from persons wanting to represent the U.D.P. in the upcoming elections. The hopefuls need to apply and be vetted by the party’s screening committee […]
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