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An outstanding young man from Benque Viejo del Carmen has received an extraordinary gift through an organization called Project Hope Belize and the Community Policing Unit in San Ignacio. Ricky Cunil lost his leg in 2012 due to a tumour, but the youth never allowed it to hold him back. He has been a Police […]
Written on January 21, 2016 | Posted in
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This weekend at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital the annual orthopedic clinic of the World Pediatric Project will take place. Every year, some eighty patients are seen at the clinics with fifteen surgeries being performed annually. Patients with severe cases are sent overseas to the U.S. Chapter of the World Pediatric Project for surgery. Project […]
Written on January 21, 2016 | Posted in
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After an announcement made in August 2014, a pair of UH1H Huey helicopters, to complement the B.D.F.’s existing fleet of aircrafts, has arrived in Belize. The generous donation is from the Republic of China (Taiwan). Since the withdrawal of British troops several years ago, the Belize Defense Force has been without air support. But in […]
Fugitive David Nanes Schnitzer slipped through the cracks immediately after he was granted a ten thousand dollar bail by the Supreme Court on November twentieth, 2015. Nanes, who was caught in San Pedro on November sixth, where he was living for some years, was arrested with a slew of illegal Belize documents—from a social security […]
Carrot farmers in the Orange Walk District have reported that seventy percent of their produce has been rotting in the fields because government has been issuing licenses to select persons for the importation of the vegetable from Mexico. The Government has countered that claim saying that it allows carrots to be brought in only when […]
Written on January 20, 2016 | Posted in
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The contraband of goods into Mexico from Belize and from Belize into Mexico is a thriving trade. The Commercial Free Zone is an area of particular concern. It is known that cigarettes and other goods enter the zone and eventually make it into the Mexican market. Contrabandistas are also known to use the Rio Hondo […]
Written on January 20, 2016 | Posted in
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There is also the issue of the transshipment of illicit drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana that get into Mexico from Belize. Just two weeks ago, on January third, Orange Walk’s Quick Response Team came up on a very large quantity of drugs that was suspected of being a drug cartel shipment. The compressed […]
Written on January 20, 2016 | Posted in
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On Tuesday, there were widespread reports of an aircraft landing in the Louisville area of the Corozal District. It was not clear at first whether it was a commuter plane, a private aircraft or even a drug plane that had touched down in the expansive location. Law enforcement officers, accompanied by personnel from the Department […]
Written on January 20, 2016 | Posted in
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Ten years after its establishment, the Belize Coast Guard has grown considerably in numbers as well as in the scope of duties. Today, it presented a report card of accomplishments even as it projects further growth in its long-term strategy. One issue on the horizon is to be held in partnership with the Belize Defense […]
Written on January 20, 2016 | Posted in
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A historic groundbreaking ceremony was held on the bank of the Sarstoon River on December ninth to mark the beginning of construction of a forward operating base near Belize‘s southern border with Guatemala. Well, it has been a little over a month since that formality and work is yet to get underway at the location. […]
Written on January 20, 2016 | Posted in
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With the interruption of work on the building of a new forward operating base on Hunting Caye, coast guard personnel have had to endure the discomfort of utilizing the existing facility on the island. As you would recall, work was discontinued at the location by the United States Army Corp of Engineers when a stink […]
Written on January 20, 2016 | Posted in
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As it relates to arrivals from across the Mexican border, the numbers are not on our side. The Mexican ambassador says he wants to close the gap by encouraging Mexican nationals to visit Belize. Though a figure is not available, Belizeans are known to flock across the border in droves and the Ambassador wants to […]
Written on January 20, 2016 | Posted in
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Turning to the Marion Jones Stadium…there was a soft launch just before the November elections. It is a project that dates back to 2008 and seven years later it has not been fully completed, depriving athletes and the public use of the facility. The Mexican government pledged financial support and came through with it, but […]
Written on January 20, 2016 | Posted in
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Back in July of 2015, Foreign Affairs Minister Wilfred Elrington visited Mexico in an official capacity where he signed on to nine bilateral agreements with his Mexican counterparts. While functional cooperation has been taking place with our northern neighbor for decades, the agreements put in place a legal framework for the execution of a number […]
Written on January 20, 2016 | Posted in
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And on the streets of the city, a team of police officers led by Superintendent Suzette Anderson was deployed this afternoon. While there was no chaos or crime to report on in the downtown area today, the officers were busy chitchatting with residents in Precinct Three’s jurisdiction. They shook hands, asked questions, laughed and made […]
Written on January 20, 2016 | Posted in
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The sensational and very disturbing case of Dark Night owner Bradley Paumen continues to attract major scrutiny. Paumen, charged with four counts of Abetment to Murder, is out on fifty-thousand dollars. Two of Paumen’s employees, Ian Skeen and Linzburn Anderson, are behind bars tonight. They were charged on Monday for Abetment to Murder. Paumen is […]
Written on January 19, 2016 | Posted in
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At news time tonight, Police Officers from Corozal and a team from the Civil Aviation Department are scouring the cane fields behind Louisville in the Corozal District. Just before midday today, reports circulated that a small plane went down somewhere in the vicinity of that community at around mile seventy-three on the Phillip Goldson Highway. […]
Written on January 19, 2016 | Posted in
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The People’s United Party will elect its new leader on January thirty-first in Belmopan. The race is getting tighter as Francis Fonseca, John Briceño and Cordel Hyde zero in on the delegates in the last stretch of the three-man race. All three have expressed confidence, but only one will emerge as the new party leader. […]
Written on January 19, 2016 | Posted in
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To conclude our reporting on a lengthy interview with the Prime Minister, we asked him about an issue that is often a matter of national debate; that is, the referendum. Now, the dates for holding the poll have been delinked since last year when the compromis was amended by both parties. It means Belize and […]
Written on January 19, 2016 | Posted in
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Embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Miguel Segura, remains on interdiction and is receiving only half of his monthly salary, despite being sued by the family of Yolanda Valencia. The woman perished in a road traffic accident in August 2014, when a Nissan Pathfinder driven by an allegedly intoxicated Segura collided head-on into a taxi cab […]
Written on January 19, 2016 | Posted in
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Tonight, there is a report of a Guatemalan woman that mysteriously disappeared in Belize. A report has been made to the Benque Police by her son, nineteen-year-old Alexander Enrique Garcia Giron. According to Melchor De Mencos resident, his mother, Lidia Janet Garcia Giron travelled to Belize since January the eighth and has disappeared. Lidia reportedly […]
Written on January 19, 2016 | Posted in
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Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington recently attended the thirty-seventh meeting of the Community Council of Ministers in Georgetown, Guyana. Plans for the upcoming gathering of regional heads of state, to be held in Belize in February, were being discussed. As of the first of January, Prime Minister Dean Barrow assumed pro tem chairmanship of the Caribbean […]
Written on January 19, 2016 | Posted in
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The People’s United Party will elect a new leader at the end of January. Close to three thousand delegates will vote at the Belmopan convention to determine where Francis Fonseca keeps the job or whether John Briceño or Cordel Hyde will be leading the opposition party. The campaign is in full swing with the three […]
Written on January 18, 2016 | Posted in
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Comments Off on PM Barrow Says Interim Convention for U.D.P. Set for March
It is expected that in the first part of this year, an arbitration tribunal will determine the value of shares arising from the nationalization of Belize Telemedia Limited. Now, government has already paid a total of one hundred and sixty million dollars as part of a compensation package for B.T.L. assets agreed to between Lord […]
Written on January 18, 2016 | Posted in
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While we discussed the issue of the arbitration award, we also inquired whether relations between Barrow and Lord Michael Ashcroft were on the mend. The PM recently said that he was giving serious consideration for a major investment in a cruise port; that proposal is coming from the Ports Investment Limited which holds the receivership […]
Written on January 18, 2016 | Posted in
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