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While F.F.B. President Ruperto Vicente is preparing to run against members of his existing administration, the trio of executives opposing his presidency maintains that it is the final opportunity to have him deposed from his office. Vicente is telling them in no uncertain terms to relinquish their posts if they are unhappy with the way […]
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Lay-offs at Fruta Bomba and Belize Food Packers Limited are taking place up north. The companies which are located in San Joaquin Village and Corozal Town will be letting go, in the first phase, one hundred and twenty three of its two hundred and fifty employees in its workforce as it begins to pull out […]
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Today, members of the Bar and the Bench gathered at the Belize Biltmore Plaza for a forum of sorts. It was dubbed a law conference, but the focus wasn’t law, legal matters or the judiciary. Convened by the Bar Association, the session was entitled – The Belize Guatemala Border Dispute – When and How Do […]
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There is a critical backlog in the justice system and while it’s nothing new, it seems to be getting much worse. It has become commonplace for accused criminals to spend up to five years on remand before their Court session is called. As you can imagine, that causes no end of problem at every level […]
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In September 2014 Government moved legislation to amend the Legal Profession Act. That legislation removed mandatory membership in the Bar Association and paved the way for attorneys to form or join a new Association…or not. The amendment was sparked by a period of hostilities between then Attorney-General Wilfred Elrington and the Bar Association, which he […]
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In the past year there has been a perceived escalation in hostilities between Belize and Guatemala. That perception gained wings when thirty-seven Belizeans were basically kidnapped by Guatemalan military in Belizean waters and taken to Livingston. It flew higher still when Guatemalan military attempted to turn back Belizean vessels intent on circling Sarstoon Island. So […]
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Reporter Duane Moody and I are among a group of regional media personnel who will be participating in a Media Law Workshop to be held in Barbados which is funded by the Canadian Government. The two-day event is entitled Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean (IMPACT Justice). A release from the organizers says IMPACT […]
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The Toledo Maya Land Rights Commission was named a few weeks ago. The breadth of its work is the implementation of a Consent Order by the Caribbean Court of Justice. That directive mandates government to take measures to protect rights arising from Maya customary land tenure. Today, the Toledo Alcalde Association met to discuss the […]
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Also discussed during today’s gathering was the Director of Public Prosecution’s decision to proceed with legal action against the Santa Cruz Thirteen. They were arrested and detained last year for unlawfully imprisoning Rupert Myles who is occupying a portion of land at the ancient Maya city of Uxbenka. Mis provided an update to that situation. […]
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There is trouble brewing at the government owned Belize Telemedia Limited. This afternoon during their lunch break, dozens of staffers, members of the Belize Communication Workers Union, assembled outside of the Esquivel Telecom Center, the company’s headquarters on Saint Thomas Street. They met for approximately thirty minutes to discuss a range of issues affecting workers […]
Written on February 18, 2016 | Posted in
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The Twenty-Seventh Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM concluded in Placencia on Wednesday. Much of the discussions during the three-day event centered around major regional concerns, including the issues of correspondent banking and the Zika virus. While those topics remained at the front of the agenda, the CARICOM Development Fund, […]
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According to the economist, CDF’s directives come from sessions such as those recently held in Belize where keen attention is paid to the needs of lesser developed countries. Isani Cayetano “You’re in Belize on a working visit that goes along with the recent CARICOM Heads of Government, the intersessional meeting. Can you speak to […]
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An independent study shows that about six percent of newborns are not formally registered and that presents difficulties for the individuals later on in life, especially in accessing health care and education. But there is another side to that coin because a number of Belizeans in bordering towns are registered locally, as well as across […]
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If you’ve visited the Vital Statistics Unit recently to request a birth certificate, a marriage license or even a death certificate then you would be quite familiar with the apparent chaos at the Hydes Lane office. The perennial complaint is that files are haphazardly deposited and employees of that department are largely inefficient in accessing […]
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Earlier we told you about the rumblings at B.T.L., but that is not the only place where there is discontent. At news time, we are told that the executive of the Football Federation of Belize has been meeting all day on the future of its president, Ruperto Vicente. The executive is not happy with Vicente’s […]
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Recent adjustments to the price per pound of Grade C rice and white sugar have prompted the Belize Bureau of Standards to strengthen market surveillance activities for Controlled Price Goods. A total of one hundred and fifty stores have been visited across the country. Of that number, thirty businesses were found to have been gouging […]
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Women are living longer than men in Belize and life expectancy stands at seventy-five years. But elderly persons continue to be vulnerable. In fact, as it relates to pension, as much as sixty percent of the seenagers have no pension. This morning, the National Council on Ageing held a workshop which addressed a number of […]
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We have been reporting extensively on the loss of correspondent banks which was top on the agenda of the Twenty-Seventh Intersessional Meeting which concluded in Placencia on Wednesday. The ‘de-risking’ by the US banks is affecting negatively critical services such as remittance transfers, credit card settlements and has the potential to severely impact the tourism […]
PM Gaston Browne’s mission is to knock at all doors including the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and the United States Congress. At the CARICOM inter-sessional, the Heads of government also agreed to write to the US President Barak Obama. Gaston Browne, Prime Minister, Antigua & Barbuda “Among the strategies that we are looking […]
Thirty-nine-year-old Dorian August; he’s the light technician at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts and has been working with the Institute for the past twenty-two years. But tonight, he is asking for your help. August was diagnosed some time ago with Arnold-Chiari; it’s a condition that is usually caused by structural defects in the […]
Written on February 18, 2016 | Posted in
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August needs urgent surgery which he plans to undergo in Merida. A first round of tests will be carried out next week and he is asking for your assistance. Dorian August, Needs Assistance “We’re leaving on Saturday—me and my wife—going to Merida to do some follow up tests. The reason for these tests now […]
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A third winner was chosen this past Monday for the General Sales Tax Raffle. The raffle started last year with its first drawing on December fifteenth; there was another on January fifteenth and then February fifteenth. Belizeans across the country simply needed to request their GST receipts for purchases at stores. To every fifty dollar […]
Written on February 18, 2016 | Posted in
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The Conference of Parties 21, recently convened and concluded in Paris, has been dubbed a milestone session of world leaders where a concerted effort to understand, address and mitigate climate change is concerned. The challenge for CARICOM now lies in working out the tangible nuts and bolts which lead to binding treaty mechanisms and legislation. […]
Written on February 17, 2016 | Posted in
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The mosquito borne Zika has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization because it is believed it can cause microcephaly in newborns. So far, there are no confirmed cases in Belize, but the virus is transmitted by the aedes aegypti mosquito. As an individual country which is affected […]
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While the heads discuss the Zika in Placencia, in the city, health officials teamed up with the Belize City Council for a sensitization workshop on the virus. The partnership is fitting since local government is responsible for sanitation. The idea is to educate residents on a number of issues related to Zika, including the habitat […]
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