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Call it Community Policing, Christmas spirit or a combination of both – but whatever it is, it brought smiles to the faces of commuters pulled at random off rural buses today. That’s because the officers of the Rural Eastern Division decided to hand out some Christmas cheer of their own – the kind that folds. […]
Written on December 22, 2015 | Posted in
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If you thought that after Sunday’s blunder at the Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas, Steve Harvey won’t get to emcee another beauty pageant, well think again. Millions watched as Harvey crowed Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez as Miss Universe only to hand over the crown to Miss Philippines Pia Wurtzbach moments later. Well, as it […]
Written on December 22, 2015 | Posted in
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For the first time, the children in the peninsula have been hosted to a grand Christmas party. As you know, Norwegian Cruise Lines is investing heavily in a tourism port at Harvest Caye so it has partnered with local agencies to give a special treat to the children. Today, they came out in numbers to […]
Written on December 22, 2015 | Posted in
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The home invasion at the house of Lebanese Honorary Consul in Burrel Boom is back in the news tonight. A total of eighteen persons have been charged but the last of eight suspects believed to have invaded the home of Sarkis Abou-Nehra reportedly tried to commit suicide while locked down at the Ladyville Police Station […]
There is a serious allegation tonight coming out of San Ignacio but details are sketchy. A twenty-five year old woman from the village of Bullet Tree was in police custody when she was allegedly raped. She claims that at about five thirty on Sunday morning while she was being held at the police station, an […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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As many as six thousand Cubans are stuck in Costa Rica since November, unable to make their way to the United States. Once they set foot on American soil they would be granted residency under the wet foot dry foot policy of the United States. But to date Belize, Nicaragua and Guatemala have denied them […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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According to Elrington, there has been some indication that Mexico would be prepared to facilitate the passage of the Cubans, but nothing in writing. Belize is not prepared to budge without that written undertaking. In the meantime, Elrington says that Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis will just have to understand that this is the […]
There is now some action by Mexico. This Tuesday, technical teams will be meeting in Mexico City, to discuss a way forward for the Cuban crisis. The meeting was set for El Salvador but was moved to Mexico, which is seen as a key player in a solution to the crisis. One proposal from the […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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The number of deaths on the highways continues to be a cause for concern. The latest victim is a construction worker from Ladyville who died Saturday night when he allegedly crossed the road in front of a speeding vehicle. The incident happened on a poorly lit stretch of the Phillip Goldson Highway near the Belize […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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At news time tonight, there is no movement on the three containers of Guyanese rice at the Big Creek Port in the south and likely there will not be any offloading. That was the message from government officials today. On Wednesday night, RC Imports Jack Charles brought in the rice despite objections from local rice […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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With three more days before the Christmas, the containers with three million pounds of rice will not be discharged. Jose Alpuche, the C.E.O. in the Ministry of Agriculture maintains that the importation was initiated without a phytosanitary license obtained by the importer. That’s one of the grounds for which the containers of rice are being […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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Fourteen months ago construction of a Coast Guard Forward Operating Base was abruptly halted after public outcry. The base, funded by the US, was contracted out to a Guatemalan firm which Guatemalan workers. Belizeans claimed that fact compromised the security of the military base. Since October 2014, the almost completed base has been neglected, and […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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Sentencing for Glenford Baptist took place this morning in the courtroom of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. Baptist is the inmate who languished in prison for thirteen years on death row without being sentenced. Last week in a hearing attorneys and the crown agreed that his constitutional rights were breached and violated. Today, the Chief Justice imposed a […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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A Belize City man who is almost three times the age of his alleged victim was arraigned today on a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse. The accused is thirty-two year old Dalton Longsworth of a Victoria Street address. Allegations against Longsworth are that on November eleventh, 2015, he sexually abused a twelve year old girl. […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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Three men were busted at a checkpoint in the area of the toll bridge on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Just before midnight on Friday, a vehicle with license plates BZ-C-34105 was stopped and checked. Travelling in the vehicle were thirty-one year-old Alrick Smith, twenty-seven year old Norely Cruz, both of Ladyville and thirty two year […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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Thieves burglarized a warehouse on the Philip Goldson Highway and made away with a sizeable amount of beers sometime in the past week. Forty-two year old businessman Jignesh Paintar of Euphrates Avenue reports that his warehouse at Miles four and a half was broken into and the beer thieves stole one hundred and twenty five […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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On Friday, in the wake of a four-day strike by stevedores at the Port of Belize in the Old Capital which brought operations at a standstill, the Ministry of Labor signed a statutory instrument making stevedoring an essential service. It means that stevedores can no longer strike without giving a twenty-one day notice. The move […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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Matura-Shepherd says that the government’s action is on the side of big people and against working Belizeans. Furthermore, it strips stevedores from a fundamental pool to bargain for better terms and conditions of employment. Matura-Shepherd lists three options the government could take. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, President, CWU “One, they have learn and understand why since […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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With the signing of the SI, stevedores will only be able to strike after a twenty-one day notice to the government. So what is the next step for the CBA? Audrey Matura-Shepherd, President, CWU “It’s so ironic what could possible happen because the only bargaining unit for the stevedores is the CWU and the […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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An internal investigation is taking place at the Post Office following a report of missing monies. As many as ten thousand dollars was allegedly misappropriated by a second grade clerk from Orange Walk who works in the EMS unit of the Belize City office on Queen Street. The report has been forwarded to the C.E.O. […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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In recent years the Government’s Christmas Cheer program has become a staple of the season – as welcome in some political quarters as ham and turkey. How it’s worked in the past is that U.D.P. area representatives receive double what their counterparts from the Opposition receive. U.D.P. caretakers receive the same amount as P.U.P. Area […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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Group Hug – it’s a newly established organization dedicated to assisting disenfranchised youths and families. Today, they hosted one hundred and fifty primary school children from the city and Hattieville to a Christmas party at the B.T.L. Park. President Andre Pitts told News Five about the success of the initiative. Andre Pitts, President//Founder, Group […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The pressure filled home and away series for the 2015 PLB Tournament title kicked off inside the Norman Broaster Stadium Sunday as Verdes FC hosted Police United. The police get going early with this nice work of penetration by Byron Chavez whose left foot […]
Written on December 21, 2015 | Posted in
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The stalemate over the importation of rice from Guyana continues to play out and tonight importer Jack Charles is no closer to resolution. Three containers of Guyanese rice arrived on Wednesday night at the Big Creek Port where they continue to sit tonight. The Belize Agricultural and Health Authority did not allow the rice cargo […]
Written on December 18, 2015 | Posted in
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C.E.O. Alpuche notes that the fairly low prices of the rice from Guyana are because subsidies to the industry there and likely because there may be a surplus since Guyana has lost its market in Venezuela. As to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, Alpuche’s position is that the treaty prevents the importation into Belize. […]
Written on December 18, 2015 | Posted in
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