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The move was telegraphed on Wednesday when Mesopotamia Representative Michael Finnegan proclaimed a linkage between the construction of government houses on land he claimed belongs to the UDP and his party’s participation in a unified commission on the Guatemala issue. Today Leader of the Opposition Dean Barrow left no room for doubt. Calling the construction […]
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For his part, Prime Minister Musa had a few choice words of his own. Although he spoke to News Five on Wednesday, well before receiving Barrow’s letter, the P.M. made it clear that Guatemala’s present position is identical to that advanced while the UDP was in office…and that the UDP’s five years and three months […]
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Belizeans at home lament that some of our most well educated have left for greener pastures. Those abroad often wish they could come back and put their knowledge to good use in developing the country. Now the Belize Trade and Investment Development Service, BELTRAIDE is looking for Belizean Ph.d’s to become partially or fully attached […]
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Today nine families from Maya Mopan, got the keys to their new wooden, zinc roofed homes. Nine four hole tabletop stoves were also handed over as a donation from the BWEL gas company. The homes were destroyed when a strong wind sent sparks from an indoor fire hearth into a thatch roof and quickly spread […]
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It was supposed to have been received by all as good news and a positive step towards addressing the issue of a single minimum wage. However, the recent appointment of one of the members of the Wages Council by Valdimar Castillo, minister of Labour is being protested by the Women’s Issues Network. WIN – Belize […]
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Violent outbursts inside the walls of the Hattieville prison seem to be weekly events these days and this week was no different. Initial media reports were that two prisoners got into a fight in the prison yard on Wednesday morning over the spoils of a robbery on the “outside”. One was stabbed. Today Lloyd Augustus […]
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When he traveled to Guatemala last month for the inauguration of President Alfonso Portillo, Prime Minister Said Musa took an honoured and equal place at the table with visiting heads of state from all over Central America. But only a few weeks later the shooting of a Guatemalan civilian by a BDF patrol and the […]
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