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Legislation had been amended so that charges could be levelled against residents who are identified as being members of a gang or being the leader of a gang; the latter carries a stiffer penalty. The Crime Control and Criminal Justice Amendment Bill introduced stiffer penalties allowing the police to gather intelligence from various sources, including […]
Written on July 14, 2020 | Posted in
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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams also says that the state of emergency can very well be extended past the month, but that will be determined prior to its expiration. He does say, however, that there are a number of initiatives that have been put in place to steer these men away from the criminal justice […]
Written on July 14, 2020 | Posted in
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Voting started at ten o’clock in the morning at the ITVET compound in Belize City; the delegates from Corozal were first to cast their votes for the new leader-elect of the United Democratic Party. The voting continued up until one o’clock with the Belize City delegates last in line to vote. Less than two hours […]
Written on July 13, 2020 | Posted in
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While Patrick Faber is the new leader elect of the U.D.P., he will not be sitting in the Prime Minister’s chair in the current U.D.P. term. And that’s because Prime Minister Dean Barrow will not be demitting office, as he had said, before his tenure as head of the U.D.P. comes to an end in […]
Written on July 13, 2020 | Posted in
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Pickstock Area Representative Wilfred Elrington garnered the least number of votes in Sunday’s leadership convention. Ten votes in all, which is five less than the total number of voting delegates permitted in the constituency. Going into the event, the Minister of Foreign Affairs said he was not up to campaigning. He had also indicated to […]
Written on July 13, 2020 | Posted in
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Punta Gorda Mayor Ashton McKenzie will not be offering himself as a candidate in the 2021 municipal elections. That’s because he has indicated that he will be retiring from electoral politics at the end of this term. Though he had endorsed Saldivar, McKenzie, who has spent the last six years as a member of the […]
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The U.D.P. Secretary General Pearl Stuart is also stepping down. The former executive director of the National Committee for Families and Children took up the post in 2008 when the U.D.P. assumed office under the leadership of Dean Barrow. Stuart has remained in that position since and has served the party faithfully under the PM, […]
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No one goes in and out from the villages of San Felipe and Blue Creek in the Orange Walk District, but there is movement of poultry and agricultural products. Those two communities have been placed under a State of Emergency given the increase of active cases of COVID-19 in Blue Creek. There is a fear […]
Written on July 13, 2020 | Posted in
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Traditionally, around this time, the Belize Police Department would put off an entire week of activities to celebrate police week. But due to COVID-19 pandemic police will instead be celebrating a citizen awareness initiative. The National Citizen Appreciation Day takes place on Wednesday, July fifteenth; all major police stations across the country will be identifying […]
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The new leader of the United Democratic Party, who will be referred to as leader elect, will be decided this Sunday. The three-man race has been narrowed down to a very confident Minister Patrick Faber, John Saldivar whose February leadership lasted three days and Foreign Minister Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington, who earlier this week, was totally […]
Written on July 10, 2020 | Posted in
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In the build up to the February ninth leadership convention, former Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber had a public spat with Mesopotamia Area Representative Shyne Barrow. At the time, the prime minister’s son was a staunch supporter of Faber’s political opponent John Saldivar and several nasty exchanges were made by the two on social media. […]
Written on July 10, 2020 | Posted in
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Three more cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Thursday night and it is expected that four more cases will be confirmed later tonight. All these cases are being recorded in the Orange Walk District, making it the country’s hotspot for the novel coronavirus which remained free of the virus for months. As it is right […]
Written on July 10, 2020 | Posted in
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Another repatriation flight landed today with over twenty persons including military officers and two diplomats. United Airlines landed at the Philip Goldson International Airport at around midday after applications were approved by authorities here. So far, one thousand and fifty-one applications have been made, nine hundred and eighteen have been approved and three hundred and […]
Written on July 10, 2020 | Posted in
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The Philip Goldson International Airport is scheduled to re-open for international travel on August fifteenth. This will allow visitors to enter Belize and jump-start the tourism industry and by extension support the recovery of the economy. There is the fear, however, that the arriving tourists will bring COVID-19. The Ministry of Health, in coordination with […]
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Around the country, land disputes are brewing in villages. In the latest case, the Georgeville Village Council is up in arms that a green space reserved for a sporting complex has been parceled off and granted to persons who do not live in the village. The village chairlady says this is contrary to the Village […]
Written on July 10, 2020 | Posted in
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The Public Service Union has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with private bus company ADK Charters to provide transportation for public officers who travel from Belize City to Belmopan for work. P.S.U. President Gerald Henry says that one of the terms of the M.O.U. is that public officers, who use the service, will pay a […]
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Belize City Councilor Allan Pollard wants to be the area representative for Queen Square, a traditional U.D.P. stronghold and the constituency of Prime Minister Dean Barrow since 1984. Barrow is retiring and is not seek re-election and it is known that his ground commander and sister, Denise “Sister B” Barrow will succeed him as the […]
Written on July 10, 2020 | Posted in
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In the following story you will meet an enterprising single mother of four children. She is Elsy Rosales and she started a small business from scratch. She did not have a lot of money in the bank nor experience in business, and was left homeless at a point, but she kept going and today, Everything […]
Written on July 10, 2020 | Posted in
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Earlier this week, the Corozal Town Council acquired a lawn tractor, a generator, two lawn mowers, four echo brush cutters and other essential tools to complement the equipment for its Sanitation and Operations Department. The investment allows for the council to improve its capacity to deliver services to the residents of the town. The new […]
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The popular tenth annual back to school trimming and hair braiding drive by Inspiration Arts is scheduled to be held on August eighth and ninth at its usual location on Fabers Road Extension. Every year, hundreds of primary schools students get free haircuts or hair braids by a group of volunteers who would give of […]
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And the man who led the anti-gang operation, Assistant Commissioner of Police Marco Vidal is already on the road to recovery after suffering a stroke on Tuesday evening, following the predawn raid in the Southside of the City. While ACP Vidal recuperates from the cerebro-vascular incident, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and Deputy Commissioner Edward […]
Written on July 9, 2020 | Posted in
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While on the matter of judges, there is word tonight that Prime Minister Dean Barrow will be proceeding to have Senior Counsel Lisa Shoman appointed to the post of judge of the Supreme Court. The Judicial and Legal Services Commission Council and the Leader of the Opposition, we are told, were consulted, as is required […]
Written on July 9, 2020 | Posted in
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A massive judgment with damages of one hundred and thirty-eight point seven million U.S. dollars was handed down earlier this week against businessman John Usher. He was embroiled in the Sanctuary Bay scam a few years ago, along with incarcerated real estate developer turned fraudster Andris Pukke, during which hundreds of millions of dollars were […]
Written on July 9, 2020 | Posted in
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Arguments were heard in the Supreme Court today on an application for judicial review filed by attorney Nazira Myles on behalf of her client Eldon Arzu. The Corporal of Police is before the courts again attempting to overturn the results of the recently elected executive of the Police Association. Myles submitted that the elections were […]
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At an event earlier in the day, Minister of National Security Michael Peyrefitte spoke of his efforts to ease tensions between the ComPol and the former President of the Police Association. He says that he tried to mediate, but it was not resolved. Michael Peyrefitte, Minister of National Security “It’s within the courts so […]
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