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Turning to another major issue…The sugar cane crop season and the sugar industry are in serious jeopardy; in fact, the situation has regressed. At an emergency meeting of cane-farmers on Sunday, a majority rejected the proposed agreement between ASR/B.S.I. and the B.S.C.F.A., which means that for all intents and purposes, negotiations have broken down completely. […]
But before a vote was taken, there was a surprise announcement. B.S.C.F.A. attorney, Chris Coye, would tell cane farmers that the latest proposed agreement was an improvement. Chris Coye, Attorney, B.S.C.F.A. “New agreement does not take anything in any way from the farmers but provides more for the farmers than what the old agreement […]
But Coye’s position came under swift attack from Javier Keme, the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the B.S.C.F.A. Keme rejected Coye’s view that the new agreement provided farmers with the better deal. He accused Coye of flip flopping. Javier Keme, Chairman, Finance Committee, B.S.C.F.A. (Translated) “The thirtieth of November at our general assembly, […]
It’s only five days into the New Year, and there are already three murder victims as the bloodbath extended from Belize City to Belmopan. The manager of Dream Valley, Yaima Ledesma, was murdered cold bloodedly on New Year’s Day at the resort in Teakettle. Over the weekend, two others were shot and killed in the […]
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Kareem Lopez was in the headlines dating back to 2006 for a slew of charges which included murder and attempted murder. He was out on bail for a November drug possession charge when he was murdered. This morning, on Central American Boulevard before seven o’clock, Mervin Underwood was executed near Pound Yard Bridge where he […]
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There were a total of four shootings over the weekend – three which ended fatal. The third killing occurred on Sunday night in Belmopan and police are saying that evidence so far would suggest that the shooter acted in self-defense. Sometime around seven p.m., the mutilated body of nineteen year old Kevin Vasquez was discovered […]
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Police Officer Bernard Villanueva who is attached to the Bella Vista Police Station has been arrested and charged for extortion. Villanueva was busted in a sting operation following a report made by twenty-eight year old Jeydi Romero who claimed that the cop had suggested that she cough up two hundred dollars for the release of […]
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A Good Samaritan of Police Street in Belize City is fortunate to be alive after he was stabbed while trying to intervene in a fight. Thirty-two year old Aaron Kerr was socializing at a party on Saturday morning at his residence when he was stabbed to the left side of the head as he intervened […]
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Aside from the murders and attempted murders, there was other criminal activity elsewhere in the country. In Roaring Creek, Nelson Gallardo reported to the Belmopan Police that at about two-thirty on Sunday morning, he was at his business place which is the Westar Gas Station, when he was alerted by a security guard that someone […]
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Several operations were undertaken by the Gang Suppression Unit over the weekend. On Saturday, the GSU were on the ground in the Conch Shell Bay Area. In an open lot, they found a black plastic bag hidden under several pieces of lumber. It contained ten live rounds of ammunition. The ammo was confiscated by the […]
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Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We kick off the action with Saturday night’s crunch time affair between Police United and the Belize Defence Force. The Police was looking to rebound and state its claim for leadership in the standings while the B.D.F. marched into the Isidoro Beaton Stadium looking […]
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There were two murders in less than twenty-four hours of each other at the start of the New Year celebrations. As Belizeans across the country prepared to say goodbye to 2014, there was a homicide in Orange Walk Town around six p.m. on Wednesday. Hours later, a woman would be shot and killed at a […]
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The second murder in two days, and the first of the New Year, happened at a resort in the village of Teakettle, in the Cayo District. It was a bizarre, broad daylight, cold-blooded execution of thirty-year-old resort manager Yaima Duany Ledesma. Reports are that two men, dressed neatly, walked casually into the bar at Dream […]
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But back to Orange Walk…The murder of fifty-one-year-old Miguel Medina was the start of a rash of violence in that municipality. Just after midday on New Year’s Day, police were called to the residence of Orlando Baiza on Baker’s Street in Orange Walk town. Baiza had reportedly took out his licensed firearm and fired a […]
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There was also a second stabbing incident in Orange Walk Town; it occurred in the wee hours of this morning. Three young men were stabbed at a wedding reception around twelve-twenty-three a.m. and rushed to the Northern Regional Hospital. Twenty-two year old Levy Bennett was stabbed once to the center of his chest and twice […]
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While the police started 2015 with a homicide in Teakettle Village, the National Fire Service also had its hands full for the start of the New Year. There were three fires – in Orange Walk, Benque Viejo Del Carmen and Punta Gorda; two were cases of arson. The most recent occurred this morning, in Orange […]
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The first fire, which investigators have revealed had a similar M.O. as that of the Orange Walk inferno, occurred in Punta Gorda. Firefighters responded to a fire at a concrete house located on Front Street in that southern town. After the blaze was extinguished, investigation would reveal that the house belonging to Victoria Ogaldez, who […]
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The fire in Punta Gorda was around four-thirty on Thursday morning. And seven hours later, there would be yet another fire – this time on Elizabeth Street in Benque Viejo del Carmen. The wooden house belonging to Orfelina Valdez was gutted by the blaze, which also damaged an adjacent house belonging to Leticia Vaca. Valdez’s […]
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It’s not exactly a New Year’s honor, but a Belize City man does have the distinction of being the first to be convicted of theft in 2015. Today twenty-three year old Lincoln Moralez appeared in court number two, where he was charged stealing a cell-phone belonging to one of his relatives. It happened on New […]
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The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association is convening a special general meeting on Sunday in San Roman Village. The objective of the meeting is for B.S.C.F.A.’s committee of management to present to its membership an agreement that has been met with B.S.I. They, in turn, will cast votes in favor of or objecting to the […]
In a letter to B.S.C.F.A. Chairman Ezekiel Cansino on Wednesday, a resolution was put forward instructing the B.S.C.F.A. and its committee of management to support the application for a writ of mandamus filed by Teck to have the court order the Sugar Industry Control Board set a date for the start of the crop season. […]
The birth of baby Allison Garcia is a moment that will forever remain etched in the history of her family. Not only does January first mark her birthday but she is also the first newborn for 2015. With that distinction comes gifts in the form of care packages, donations from San Cas and Brodies, as […]
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