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The government has also come under fire because the expedition which included approximately one hundred and fifty Belizean men, women and children was not afforded the protection of a Belizean military presence. According to the PM, two questions have been at the forefront – whether the military should have been present…and since there is talk […]
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PM Barrow says that they don’t just talk the talk about maintaining sovereignty, but actually claim it. Every Tuesday, the B.D.F. travels down the Sarstoon to change shifts at the Cadenas Observation Post, and do not ask permission from the Guatemalans stationed at the mouth of the Sarstoon to do so. According to the PM, […]
The Forty-Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union is currently taking place in Grenada. One of the highlights of the week-long event is the Caribbean Broadcasting Awards which are presented to journalists from across the region whose work captured the attention of a panel of eminent judges from the Caribbean. At the event […]
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The Prime Minister claims that following Sunday’s incident with the Guatemalan Navy, there is no doubt that tensions and thus the risk and danger has increased, not only to the BTV contemplating a return trip, but also to B.D.F. soldiers who must traverse the Sarstoon every week. Commander of the B.D.F. Brigadier-General David Jones echoed […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington was at the press conference today and indeed, the entire issue of the Sarstoon expedition and Guatemalan falls squarely in his portfolio. But apart from being just a face at the head table, Elrington did not contribute to the briefing. Perhaps the PM believed that Elrington said more than […]
And just in case that was a little ambiguous, it was made clearer by the Prime Minister. He didn’t exactly go so far as to say that Elrington has been messing up, but he did say that when he has the need to step into any minister’s portfolio, then his line is the only line […]
Already escalating anti-Guatemalan sentiment was fuelled by a news report of the incident released by a Guatemalan reporter with Canal Antigua. That reporter conducted an interview with Vice-Commander Thomas, the senior Guatemalan naval officer on the scene – in fact, the one who ordered the Belizean vessels to turn back. Thomas asserts that everybody knows […]
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On Saturday morning, there was a murder on Newtown Barracks near the MCC Grounds. An Oleander Street resident, twenty-eight-year-old Joel Bishop was brutally beaten by a group of men and then ran over by a vehicle; he died hours later at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Now, Oleander Street is part of the PIV gang’s […]
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GSU Commander, Superintendent Mark Flowers, also attended the meeting to express the GSU’s perspective in dealing with the criminal activities in these areas. However, on Monday, a motive has not been definitively ascertained as to what led to the murder of Bishop. News Five asked Senior Superintendent Williams if during the mediation, they were able […]
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Today, the ITVET Compound in Belize City was buzzing with officers, prosecutors and scenes of crime personnel. A team of officers intercepted a heavily tinted Toyota four runner, detaining two persons. The men were bringing firearms into the country. An inspection of the vehicle led to a massive discovery – sixteen firearms ranging from shotguns […]
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The F.F.B. Stadium in the Garden City came alive on Tuesday night for game one of a home and away series between Verdes F.C. and Los Gallos Blancos of Queretaro, Mexico in the Scotiabank Champions League being held by CONCACAF. While the scoreless match featuring the Green Machine’s best talents was not aired live on […]
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Today, children in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City were provided with much needed school bags and supplies, just in time for the start of the new school year. The donation was courtesy of Eastern Division South of the Police Department, who for some time now has been rolling out several community policing […]
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Last month, we showed you the summer camps being held to train students and teachers at the primary and high school levels on how to better manage financial resources, plan and even open and manage a business. Those workshops were held by the PricewaterhouseCoopers and Peace Work in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, and […]
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The twelfth annual CARIFESTA, the premier festival of the arts and culture in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is set to open this Friday in Port au Prince, Haiti. The regional government cultural event puts on display the very best of the performing arts including dance, music and theatre; visual arts, literary arts, film and media […]
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Following an incident in the Sarstoon between the Guatemalan military and a group led by the Belize Territorial Volunteers on Sunday, the People’s United Party has condemned the actions of Guatemala. Claiming that five vessels carrying Belizeans were trespassing in Guatemalan waters, senior Guatemalan naval officers attempted to forcefully stop those vessels. The government has […]
The People’s United Party did not form a part of the expedition, but former P.U.P. Foreign Minister and current Senator Lisa Shoman was present and accounted for…as was P.U.P. Deputy Leader Carolyn Trench-Sandiford, who is a member of the Belize Territorial Volunteers. Both took the opportunity to recount their experiences of Sunday’s Sarstoon incident, and […]
Immediately after BTV’s trek to the Sarstoon, the government of Belize, through the National Security Council, announced that they had been on top of things, monitoring the entire expedition – start to finish – with multiple agencies. But when met with multiple claims that Guatemala aggressed Belizeans in Belizean waters, Foreign Minister Elrington has been […]
The release from the National Security Council has been met with disbelief and outrage in certain quarters, largely because it does not even acknowledge that there was any incident at all. In fact, the NSC expresses its, “profound pleasure” that there was no incident. The BTV isn’t impressed by the release, and according to de […]
Fonseca says that while all eyes are on Guatemala and the threat to the Sarstoon, there is another critical issue on the front-burner which has potentially devastating consequences on Belize’s economy – the crisis in our banking system. In recent months, Belize Bank, Belize Bank International and Atlantic Bank International have lost correspondent bank relationships […]
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A group of P.U.P. standard, informally dubbed the G-eleven, continues to boycott party functions. On Sunday, when a consultation was held in Big Falls, they were not there. The eleven, which includes powerhouse politicians John Briceno, Cordel Hyde and Dan Silva, is agitating for change within the P.U.P. and by change they mean a restructuring […]
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A Belize City man is clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after being hit by a vehicle and left for dead on the George Price Highway over the weekend. The incident which occurred on Saturday is yet to make the daily police situation report and tonight the family of Hilton Conorquie is […]
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Police are nowhere closer to determining who was responsible for the murder of twenty-eight-year-old Joel Bishop. Bishop, a resident of Oleander Street in Belize City, was along with a group of friends on Saturday morning socializing at Pier One at the B.T.L. Park on Newtown Barracks. As the group headed home around three a.m., they […]
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Employment in Belize has been a hot-button issue for the public and private sector. Approximately forty percent of the country is poor and the unemployment rate is just as dismal. The unemployment figures in 2014 have been slightly lower when compared to 2013, but the decrease in joblessness in the city was eclipsed by an […]
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In May, Efrain Alpuche and Saulito Vasquez were arrested by Orange Walk Police and charged for allegedly burning cane fields in San Lorenzo belonging to Belize Sugar Industries Limited. But on Friday, all charges were dropped on the instructions of the office of the D.P.P. The reason given is a lack of evidence, as a […]
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Forty-two-year-old James Rhaburn, accused of killing Michael Richard Ysaguirre by beating him to death in June 2014, remains in police custody tonight pending a charge of murder. Ysaguirre is the deceased sibling of former Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya. The prime suspect, a resident of Conch Shell Bay, has been in pretrial detention for the […]
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