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The Eastern Police Division Headquarters today hosted its first ever Christmas Cheers for one hundred children from around Belize City. The children, between the ages of two and eight, were treated to the full works: food, dessert, as well as a gift for the Christmas. It’s an initiative of the Community Policing Unit of the […]
Written on December 23, 2014 | Posted in
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As we near the end of the year, the Belize Police Department will be busy formulating statistics on crime, violent and otherwise. We’ll have a more comprehensive look at that as we close out 2014, but tonight one Police commander is taking a look back at his year, and giving credit where it’s due. Superintendent […]
Written on December 23, 2014 | Posted in
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There are two murders to report tonight, both of them in western Belize. The first happened, it is believed, sometime early Saturday morning, on the More Tomorrow road outside of Belmopan. One man was viciously stabbed to death and left in the bushes on the side of the road to be discovered later that morning. […]
Written on December 22, 2014 | Posted in
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The second murder was a particularly bloody one, as a Guatemalan labourer was stabbed to death on the remote More Tomorrow Road. It happened sometime in the early hours of Saturday morning, when it is believed that twenty-two year old Juan Alberto Guerra Ramirez was socializing with other persons at a bar nearby when there […]
Written on December 22, 2014 | Posted in
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On Friday, we reported that the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association had refused to endorse a purchasing agreement with Belize Sugar Industries Limited under the premise that B.S.I. had introduced articles which were outside of the extent of the initial agreement. While B.S.I. has since argued the point that as purchaser the company reserves the […]
Written on December 22, 2014 | Posted in
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Now that the contentious item has been cleared from the contract Carballo says a response, as well as a signature from B.S.C.F.A. is imminent. The next step, he says, would be to discuss and finalize a starting date for the sugar crop. Belizario Carballo, Financial Controller, B.S.I. “We expect to have an agreement as […]
Written on December 22, 2014 | Posted in
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While B.S.I. remains optimistic that a response from B.S.C.F.A. is forthcoming, up to news time tonight the agreement had not been endorsed. The effect of the delay of the sugar crop, says Carballo, will only be known towards the end of the season in May 2015. Belizario Carballo, Financial Controller, B.S.I. “The response is […]
Written on December 22, 2014 | Posted in
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A Ladyville family lost all their belongings and the place they called home to a fire on Saturday evening. While it was initially believed to be a case of arson, an official investigation by the National Fire Service has since dispelled claims that the fire was intentionally set. News Five’s Duane Moody has the following […]
Written on December 22, 2014 | Posted in
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Separate road traffic accidents on the Phillip Goldson Highway have left one person dead and several others injured. A fatal accident on Saturday between Douglas and San Juan villages in the Orange Walk District claimed the life of a sixty-two-year-old farmer of Douglas. Initial Investigations reveal that Fermin Gonzalez was hit by a pickup driven […]
Written on December 22, 2014 | Posted in
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Did Clive Myers falsify his certifications? An investigation is currently ongoing at the Belize Tourism Board where for the past four years, Myers had been working –initially in the marketing department and then as Destination Planning and Development Coordinator, before being appointed as Acting Director of Marketing and International Relations. But that position was short-lived […]
Written on December 22, 2014 | Posted in
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But if in fact, Myers documents were falsified, would that warrant criminal charges against the former Acting Marketing Director? Reporter “We understand that there were rumors circulating when Mister Myers was first being looked at as the replacement director and that this information reached to high-level ears and that it was sort of ignored. […]
Written on December 22, 2014 | Posted in
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Last week we told you about the historic renewal of diplomatic affairs between the governments of Cuba and the United States. The news was followed by the announcement of the establishment of diplomatic missions in Havana and Washington. But there is also another outcome of the decision; that is, Cuba as a tourist destination. So […]
Written on December 22, 2014 | Posted in
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Fourteen-year-old Janae Matute was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, a lifelong condition that has been attributed to a medical error committed when Doctor Raju Meenavalli miscalculated her mother’s pregnancy. Janae was born several weeks premature and since then has been totally dependent on her mother. A subsequent lawsuit was filed against Doctor Raju where […]
Written on December 22, 2014 | Posted in
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A young man from Belize City is on remand at the Belize Central Prison tonight after he was charged with rape. Police say that on Friday, twenty-three year old construction worker Alexander Nunez was in the act of raping a woman in a yard on Raccoon Street when they passed by and stopped him. Nunez […]
Written on December 22, 2014 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The PLB playoffs was a bang this weekend as the 4 teams making the scene brought out even the kitchen sink in an effort to get off on the good foot. We kick off the action with Saturday night clash between the #1 team […]
Written on December 22, 2014 | Posted in
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The Government of Belize will have to cough up the huge sum of nearly one hundred million dollars following the long awaited decision of an international Treaty Tribunal. Today, the Treaty Tribunal handed down its decision in the case of the British Caribbean Bank and the Government of Belize. The arbitration held in Costa Rica earlier […]
The government today issued a lengthy release attempting to explain the significant award to the BCB. While the government is admitting that it has responsibility to pay, the release goes on to argue that somehow it is Telemedia who should be paying. But today’s tribunal decision makes it clear that it is the Government of […]
Tonight, the sugar industry is in a serious state of limbo, and tensions in the north are rising. The B.S.C.F.A. has refused to sign onto the purchasing agreement, the N.T.U.C.B. has jumped into the fray and B.S.I. is putting security protocols in place in anticipation of a protest. So how did we get to this […]
Written on December 19, 2014 | Posted in
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As we showed you, the National Trade Union Congress of Belize has put its considerable weight behind the cane-farmers of the north. That will without a doubt enhance the B.S.C.F.A.’s bargaining position – an enhancement it could no doubt have used in the past months when the Association, bit-by-bit relinquished all its bargaining points. But […]
Written on December 19, 2014 | Posted in
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The N.T.U.C.B. says one of its biggest concerns is the hardship to farmers who, Matura-Shepherd claims have been negotiating under economic duress. She’s said that Prime Minister Dean Barrow should roll the Petrocaribe up north, but in the absence of that, Fairtrade money will have to do. On Sunday cane-farmers passed a motion for two […]
Written on December 19, 2014 | Posted in
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ASR/B.S.I. cannot be trusted! That’s the principal message coming from the National Trade Union Congress of Belize to the sugar cane farmers up north in respect of the ongoing crisis. The umbrella organization is saying that the agreement proposed by ASR/B.S.I. is oppressive and unfair and undermines the cane farmers, who are the bedrock of […]
Written on December 19, 2014 | Posted in
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The government was quick to respond to the N.T.U.C.B. While the G.O.B. reprimands ASR/B.S.I. for acting in bad faith in trying to undermine the Sugar Cane Production Committee, it says that the industry is “finally poised to sign a commercial agreement that will provide the stability required for more in depth strategic planning.” But the […]
Written on December 19, 2014 | Posted in
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Well-known street figure, Ellis Meighan, who was charged with the attempted murder of Carlos “Zimbab” Abraham, a George Street boss, appeared before Justice Antoinette Moore today. Meighan went to the Supreme Court to apply for bail and it was granted. But after he had secured bail, it was disclosed to the judge that the police […]
Written on December 19, 2014 | Posted in
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Sixty-seven year old Jose Antonio Santos, a Salvadoran national living in the village of Paraiso, Corozal was arraigned on Thursday in the Corozal Magistrate’s Court for the double murder of forty-nine year old Fernando Rivas and nineteen year old Heidy Atherly. The couple was viciously chopped to death on Sunday just after six a.m. in […]
Written on December 19, 2014 | Posted in
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As you know, thirteen agreements have been signed between Belize and Guatemala. The historic signing was done by the Foreign Ministers of Belize and Guatemala and has been described as a huge achievement by the government but the opposition says it cannot support because the people were not consulted. The agreements are wide ranging and […]
