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This morning in Belize City, the Wildlife Conservation Society recognized several fisher folk with the annual Fisher of Year Award. Each year, the environmental NGO formally acknowledges the work of fishermen and women who dedicate their lives to marine conservation. Among the awardees who were honored are Osvaldo Santoya from the fishing community of Chunox […]
Written on June 29, 2023 | Posted in
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Growing the Future Projects is back with another summer of learning activities for children this summer. The annual program took a hiatus for several years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But it’s back and kids are being encouraged to come out with their parents this weekend to sign up for the classes. Peter Lacey, […]
Written on June 29, 2023 | Posted in
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A new attorney general is set to take office on July first, replacing Magali Marin-Young as the country’s chief legal officer. Earlier today, the Government of Belize issued a release announcing that attorney Anthony Sylvestre has been nominated to take up the post. Under the Briceño administration, Sylvestre has held several positions on committees and […]
Written on June 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Today, the Essential Services Arbitration Tribunal reconvened a meeting with the Christian Workers Union and the Port of Belize Limited. The dispute between the two parties is over an award handed down in January 2022 for which compensation for loss must be paid to stevedores. But the P.B.L. is interpreting the ruling differently and so […]
Written on June 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Attorney Darrell Bradley, who represents the Christian Workers Union, says that the law puts in place the tribunal as the dispute resolution mechanism. ESAT decisions should be final. He explains that the union has been mature in the process, despite the award having been issued in their favour sixteen months ago. Darrell Bradley, Attorney […]
Written on June 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Today’s ESAT meeting took place two days before the twenty-one-day notice of strike would have expired. As stipulated in the act, the reconvening of the tribunal puts a stay on any industrial action. C.W.U. President Leonora Flowers believes that the move made was to prevent the stevedores from striking. Leonora Flowers, President, Christian Workers […]
Written on June 28, 2023 | Posted in
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The first in a series of public educational meetings, aimed at building awareness and understanding of issues related to Belize’s Constitution and proposals for its reform has been held jointly by the religious community and the People’s Constitution Commission. The meeting was held with the Belize Council of Churches, the National Evangelical Association of Belize […]
Written on June 28, 2023 | Posted in
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The United Democratic Party is preparing for the upcoming municipal elections, but as it stands only has two of sixty-seven seats in local government. Those seats are held by Mayor Earl Trapp and Councilor Bernadette Fernandez of the San Ignacio Town Council. But is there an internal effort among members of the U.D.P. to prevent […]
Written on June 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow has been candid in his position on the issuance of gun licenses, as well as the resulting scandal involving the Belize Police Department. While he has been very vocal on the matter, as someone who has been convicted and served time for a firearm offence in another jurisdiction, he too has […]
Written on June 28, 2023 | Posted in
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According to the Leader of the Opposition, public attention should be placed squarely on the Belize Police Department and the fact that officers who are said to be close to the Commissioner of Police are reportedly engaged in the sale of gun licenses. Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition “The focus should be that […]
Written on June 28, 2023 | Posted in
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While the issue of gun licenses remains a topic of conversation, earlier today in the lower courts, Ebony Street resident Linsford Baldwin has been sentenced to three years in prison for a firearm offense. Earlier today, he was found guilty of kept firearm without a gun license. Baldwin was initially charged with kept firearm and […]
Written on June 28, 2023 | Posted in
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We have long been reporting on the alcalde system that is practiced in indigenous Maya communities in the south. What comes to mind is the 2015 citizen arrest of Rupert Myles in Santa Cruz Village in the Toledo District. Thirteen persons were later charged as a result of that incident. That case raised several questions […]
Written on June 28, 2023 | Posted in
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A consultation exercise was held on Tuesday with mayors and key administrative staff from town and city councils across Belize on a proposed initiative to open municipal courts in all six districts. The Department of Local Government spearheaded the one-day session in order that the relevant authorities will be able to better understand the legal and […]
Written on June 28, 2023 | Posted in
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When a trio of food vendors arrived at their respective stalls on Coney Drive earlier today, they were surprised to have been met with summonses to appear before the High Court. That’s because a property owner in the immediate vicinity has lodged a claim demanding their removal from that location. The women are up in […]
Written on June 28, 2023 | Posted in
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The SICA Heads of Government Summit for Central American leaders and foreign ministers is finished but there was a lot of discussion coming out of the six-month pro-tempore presidency that Belize held for the past six months. One issue that is sure to surface at the upcoming CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in the first […]
Written on June 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Several students who are on the Special Olympics Team that were delayed in New York when their flight schedule was interrupted will arrive in Belize in time for their graduation on Thursday. The four students and two of their chaperones were supposed to land in Belize with the rest of their teammates on Tuesday on […]
Written on June 28, 2023 | Posted in
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The redistricting exercise is a long-overdue process that is finally underway, but not without controversy. The redrawing of the electoral map across several of the thirty-one constituencies is causing a stir among area representatives from both major political parties. In Belize District, the idea is to reduce the number of constituencies from thirteen to eleven. […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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This evening, Port Loyola Area Representative Gilroy Usher Senior issued a release regarding the ongoing redistricting exercise. While he vehemently opposes the reapportionment of his constituency, Usher says, “in fairness, the elimination of two divisions in the Belize District should begin with the smallest of the eight smallest divisions in the area, specifically Fort George, […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Heads of government of the Central American Integration System, SICA, have completed their fifty-seventh summit in Placencia. Tasked upon its receipt of the pro-tem presidency from the Dominican Republic six months ago to focus on economic and social integration, climate change, sustainable development, food security and migration, Belize’s Foreign Minister, Eamon Courtenay briefed the media […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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As Foreign Minister Courtenay just shared, one of the topics dealt with is food security. Notably, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and SICA signed a Framework Cooperation Agreement during the SICA meeting in Placencia. The main objective is to support the transformation of agri-food systems in countries with little rainfall. The […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Lubetkin says that if respective countries can improve their food security systems, food production would be better and would benefit the people who are not eating well. He shared interesting figures of how much food we would collectively be able to start producing to be able to feed the people who are still going hungry. […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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One country that the SICA heads of government want to assist in improving the conditions of its people is Haiti. Haiti shares a border with the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola. For decades, Haiti has had vulnerable communities plagued by floods, soil erosion, and wanton deforestation that have removed almost all of the […]
Written on June 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Two murders were recorded over the weekend. The body of missing witness, Iran “Basco” Jones was reportedly discovered in a shallow grave in Biscayne Village on Saturday. We’ll have that story for you next. But we begin our newscast with the murder of Luis Beaton, a cook at Chon Saan Palace, who was gunned down […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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He went missing about two weeks ago and on Saturday afternoon, someone passing through a freshly-surfaced feeder road in Biscayne Village stumbled upon the decomposing of human remains believed to be those of thirty-year-old Iran “Basco” Jones. The Belize City resident had just relocated to Hattieville after he had testified in the murder trial of […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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A daring robbery was carried out this morning in the parking lot of Belize Healthcare Partners Limited, here in the Old Capital, and investigators are trying to determine if it may have been orchestrated from within. According to the cashier, she was about to leave the medical facility to make a deposit when she was […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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