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The rice industry imbroglio continues without clear definition because government stakeholders in the Ministry of Agriculture have remained mum. Currently rice retails at over one dollar and twenty cents a pound, while importer Jack Charles maintains that he can import rice from Guyana which would then retail for around sixty-nine cents a pound. It’s got […]
Written on March 25, 2015 | Posted in
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Game one of a home and away series between the Belize Jaguars and the Cayman Islands national team kicks off immediately following tonight’s newscast. Final preparations are underway at the F.F.B. Stadium in Belmopan where the Jaguars are hosting the visiting team in the first of several qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup. While […]
Written on March 25, 2015 | Posted in
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The Marion Jones Sporting Complex is finally looking at completion. Since its groundbreaking in August 2009, the projected launch of the state of the art facility has been put off multiple times. In fact, the fence was constructed by a company operated by the current Minister of State in the Minister of Sports, Herman Longsworth, […]
Written on March 25, 2015 | Posted in
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The 2015-2016 Proposed Budget by the Barrow Administration will be heavily debated in the next two days at the National Assembly Building where it is expected that the Opposition will poke holes at the proposed expenditure and revenues of public funds. But even before the debate, which is expected to be a fiery one, the […]
Written on March 25, 2015 | Posted in
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BYM also touched on issues affecting the youth such as education and crime. Micah Goodin and Alberto Vellos spoke of not getting the monies worth out of what has been spent. Alberto Vellos, BYM “We call for value of money at the ministry of education. Does the investment match up with the results? Clearly […]
Written on March 25, 2015 | Posted in
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The Statistical Institute of Belize today released the Consumer Price Index, Gross Domestic Product and External Trade Stats for Belize for the end of last quarter and the first two months of this year. According to the S.I.B., the falling world fuel prices have made its mark on Belize’s economy. As of February, the prices […]
Written on March 25, 2015 | Posted in
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This Wednesday, starting at eight p.m. sharp, the Belize Jaguars will be playing against the national football team from the Cayman Islands in the first leg of qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup. Today, the Cayman delegation arrived in Belize on Taca Airlines, but interestingly, there were no officials from the Football Federation of […]
Written on March 24, 2015 | Posted in
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The retail cost of rice on the local market remains a topic of discussion since last Thursday when Belize City businessman Jack Charles issued a release shedding light on seemingly exorbitant prices. Charles, proprietor of Xtra House, has expressed an interest in importing rice from Guyana at a cost, he argues, that would be significantly […]
Despite the argument that the local rice industry is self-sustained, over three million pounds of rice was brought into the country from Guyana in 2014. The importation, according to Rempel, was the result of a shortage attributed to crop failure, and the reason for not seeing packaged product bearing Guyanese brands is simply because the […]
Written on March 24, 2015 | Posted in
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There have been no arrests in the double homicide of Orange Walk minors Oscar Valdez and Michael Usher on Saturday night. But the unexpected violence has unleashed an intensive Police operation – as part of the hunt for the killer, but also to crack down on gang activity in the community – leading to the […]
Written on March 24, 2015 | Posted in
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The Lands Department is advising private landowners to be on full alert after the discovery of active attempts to rob them of their properties. The scam was discovered last week when perpetrators attempted to lodge applications for first registrations. For those who don’t know, first registrations are carried out by those landholders who have not […]
At least twelve instances of land fraud have been discovered, going as far back as 2012. Land scammers are apparently focusing on three areas so far, including Consejo, Commerce Bight and Placencia. Those being targeted are primarily absentee landowners, who are in real danger of returning to Belize to find they no longer own a […]
Michael Feinstein, developer of the Stake Bank/Drowned Cayes cruise port project, is suing the Government of Belize and owners of the Fort Street Tourism Village over agreements signed in the nascent stages of FSTV in 2004. Feinstein claims that the “head tax” presently collected by government is not suitably accounted for in the Consolidated Revenue […]
Written on March 24, 2015 | Posted in
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According to Williams, there was opportunity for settlement but the legal issues surrounding the claim are complicated enough, involving issues of both public and private law that need to be resolved in court. Rodwell Williams, Attorney for FSTV “The case has been brought by Mister Feinstein to the court so you simply have to […]
Written on March 24, 2015 | Posted in
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Twenty-eight-year-old Phillip Mass Samuels was slapped with firearm offences when he appeared in court today. The Belize City man was charged with kept firearm, and kept ammunition in connection with an incident on March twelfth. It is alleged that Samuels was found in possession of a chrome and black handle nine millimeter pistol loaded with […]
Written on March 24, 2015 | Posted in
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The Department of Environment, along with the Hol Chan Marine Reserve Management, extracted the deep water submersible that has been lodged in the reef in front of San Pedro for the past few weeks. Following Saturday’s removal of the piece of equipment, the Hol Chan team wrapped up an assessment on the area where the […]
Written on March 24, 2015 | Posted in
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Seventeen manatees in twelve weeks; those are the startling statistics coming from the Belize Manatee Conservation Program Coordinator today, following yet another sighting of dead manatees in Belizean waters. It has only been twelve weeks since the start of the year 2015 and since then, there has been up to seventeen manatees that have been […]
Written on March 24, 2015 | Posted in
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But the Belize River Mouth area is heavily trafficked by boaters and is important to stakeholders in the tourism industry. Over the years, human activities in the area are primarily the causes of death of manatees in Belize. Despite visible no-wake zone signs and the awareness campaign that Galvez has been championing, the number of […]
Written on March 24, 2015 | Posted in
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Years of Grace: The History of Roman Catholic Evangelization in Belize is the brainchild of the late Charles Wood Senior. The Belizean historian spent countless hours documenting the arrival of Spanish conquistadores and the subsequent conversion to Christianity of the inhabitants they encountered in this part of the world. Following his passing several years ago, […]
Written on March 24, 2015 | Posted in
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The book is an in-depth look at evangelization dating back to 1524 and was funded by the German Bishops Foundation, Holy Redeemer Credit Union, as well as the Institute for Social and Cultural Research Research, among others. Sylvaana Udz, Co-author, Years of Grace “Years of Grace begins as a story in 1524 when Ferdinand […]
Written on March 24, 2015 | Posted in
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UNICOMER Courts Belize Limited handed over a cheque to the Kidney Association of Belize. Courts and the Association hope that the monies will provide much needed Kidney treatment for patients with renal failure. News Five was at the handing over today. Kovenka Rodriguez, Senior Marketing Officer, Courts Belize “Courts recognizes that Belizeans suffer from […]
Written on March 24, 2015 | Posted in
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A Thousand Smiles for Cleyon…the foundation was created back in November of last year. It all started with a little boy named Cleyon Marage, who is suffering from Acute Myeloid Leukemia, and was in desperate need of financing to travel to Merida to obtain life-saving treatment. Since then, the foundation has taken on six other […]
Written on March 24, 2015 | Posted in
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Since its inception, one of the seven children that the foundation has been working with has passed. According to founder, Michelle Rudon, while they cannot guarantee life free of cancer to these children, they are providing them with hope and support to improve the quality of their lives. Michelle Rudon, Founder, 100 Smiles for […]
Written on March 24, 2015 | Posted in
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There has been only one other murder in Orange Walk since the beginning the year, but on Saturday night, all that changed when two teenage friends were gruesomely murdered in front of a house across from the popular Boundary Store Warehouse compound located on Palmar Boundary Road. The double murder of sixteen year old Oscar […]
Written on March 23, 2015 | Posted in
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There was also an attempt made of the life of a forty-one year old salesman of Orange Walk Town on Saturday night. Around eleven o’clock, Rosendo Santana was at his Progress Street house when someone called his name outside. As he opened the front door to see who it was, a man dressed in dark […]
Written on March 23, 2015 | Posted in
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