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The new board of the committee include: Hilberto Martinez who was reelected as President and Owen Meighan as Vice President. Meanwhile, Arturo Vasquez was voted in as Treasurer with Allan Sharp and Giovanni Alamilla as Secretary and Assistant Secretary, respectively. Also joining the board as members are Julian Murillo, Herman Pastor Junior and Deon Sutherland. […]
Written on February 22, 2017 | Posted in
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The Institute of Creative Arts is asking the public to come and party with them for the seventh edition of the Street Art Festival. The event, which will be held this Saturday in downtown Belize City once again, was created back in 2011 to showcase art and culture, giving artists a marketplace to dialogue one-on-one […]
Written on February 22, 2017 | Posted in
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Brukdown Queen Leela Vernon passed away on Sunday morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize City. The well-known Punta Gorda resident has received accolades locally and internationally and her death has been a blow, particularly to cultural enthusiasts. The tentative date for Vernon’s burial is next Wednesday, March first, but even before her […]
Written on February 22, 2017 | Posted in
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It’s arguably the most visible brand in supermarkets across the country—popular for everything from pepper sauce to luncheon meat and everything in between, including condiments. Today, Grace Kennedy (Belize) Limited officially celebrated its thirty-fifth birthday and it did so by sharing with the media a brief history of its origin in the country, just one […]
Written on February 22, 2017 | Posted in
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Government’s inability to make the twenty-six million dollar Super Bond payment that became due on Monday comes as no surprise to the Opposition. In fact, default on the debt obligation was anticipated, according to P.U.P. Party Leader John Briceño, who says that bold assertions made by Prime Minister Barrow back in 2012, of having fixed […]
Briceño’s premise hinges on the fact that the owners of the bond have put in place stringent conditions that, should government fail to pay the interest, taxpayers will be saddled with additional penalties. All things considered, the state of the economy, when factored into the existing predicament, also paints a rather gloomy picture. Briceño maintains […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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Three weeks ago, the Supreme Court-ordered mediation between the Belize National Teachers Union and the Ministry of Education concluded. Today, the parties returned to Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin’s chambers with an update and we can tell you that it is a major victory for the B.N.T.U. In the aftermath of an eleven-day strike in October, […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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Palacio went on to note that they had the precedents on their side, as well as the goodwill of their membership and the community, and that was more than enough to finally sway the ministry. He credits the success of their fight to staying the course, even as forces gathered against them demanding that they […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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The union says the financial hit to teachers would have been in the millions of dollars if the stand-off continued and the ministry followed through on planned salary deductions. There were times in the middle of the strike and afterward when it looked like the relationship between the B.N.T.U. and the Ministry would be sundered […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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Following today’s announcement that teachers have secured a major win in the high court, we asked P.U.P. Party Leader John Briceño for a brief comment on the outcome of the mediation. He says that the union stayed the course in defense of its membership and that they prevailed, despite the pettiness of the Minister of […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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On Monday night, we aired several parts of an extended interview with Minister of Immigration Godwin Hulse. He was on a working visit in the Spanish Lookout area when we caught up with him at an event. He fielded questions on all the burning issues surrounding the immigration scandal. He got pretty testy with the […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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Teresita Castellanos, one of the witnesses in the Special Select Inquiry into the immigration scandal, testified last Wednesday that the ring of corruption in the Immigration Department started from the top – Ministerial level – right down to the bottom – the clerks and those who are a part of the document processing inside the […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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This morning, accused murderer William ‘Danny’ Mason and his alleged partners in crime appeared in magistrates court where a preliminary inquiry was held. Their appearance was mostly drama-free. With the defence electing not to challenge the case brought by the prosecution, it was simply a matter of turning over the requisite evidence and the Chief […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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Coincidentally, the B.N.T.U.’s final appearance in court came moments before the Mason preliminary inquiry. As part of their eight good governance agenda demands issued during the October strike, they asked for the contracting of an international expert to investigate the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas in July 2016. Back in December, Prime Minister Dean Barrow appeared […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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The murder count went up by four over the weekend; the first occurred just after midnight on Saturday. Seventeen-year-old Eaton Lamb was stabbed and killed by his cousin, twenty-four-year-old Tishaun Hamilton. Hamilton was caught by officers on patrol in the Antelope Street Extension area of Belize City because Lamb ran to their location for assistance, […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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While the Belize City murder of Eaton Lamb is an open-and-shut case, it is a lot harder for investigators to crack the murder of Walter Dawson, whose body was found butchered on Marage Road around seven a.m. on Sunday. The fifty-seven-year-old resident of mile eleven on the Phillip Goldson Highway was chopped multiple times to […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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Quality Poultry Products say that quality is not just in the name – the quality has been internationally certified. Belize’s largest poultry producer has obtained its HACCP certification. This is a guarantee that states that as producers of poultry they have implemented management systems in which poultry safety is addressed through the analysis and control […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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Senior Counsel Denys Barrow is the first Belizean to ascend to the bench of the Caribbean Court of Justice, the judicial institution of CARICOM. Since its establishment in 2001, the CCJ has seen a number of judges from across the region being called to the bench. In March 2015, Belize replaced the Judicial Committee of […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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The Twenty-eighth Inter-sessional meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government concluded in Georgetown, Guyana over the weekend. During the conference, an update was provided on the most recent developments pertaining to Belize and Guatemala. Support was given for the important role that the Organization of American States plays in the process. The current issue of correspondent […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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For the past several weeks there have been reports circulating about an alleged obstruction of justice due to political interference where police have reportedly been instructed not to pursue the matter. There are reports of an incident involving the son of Immigration Minister Godwin Hulse – namely Kenzle Hulse – that happened back on January […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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The 2017 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship is underway in Nassau, Bahamas where Team Belize is currently doing battle on the sandy pitch against the host country. Earlier in the competition the Jaguars clinched their first victory over Jamaica. They were first on the scoreboard with the first goal being served up by Marlon Mesa within […]
Written on February 21, 2017 | Posted in
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Deadline for the payment of approximately twenty-six million dollars towards Belize’s consolidated billion dollar debt, collectively known as the Super Bond, has elapsed. That closing date is today and government, despite a recent trip by Prime Minister Dean Barrow to New York City to meet with representatives of bondholders, has not met its obligation. That’s […]
Written on February 20, 2017 | Posted in
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While the Super Bond is very much a pressing issue, the Barrow Administration is also preparing for its annual budget presentation, ahead of the 2017 fiscal year. Described by Prime Minister Barrow as a mild recession, there are serious concerns about Belize’s economic stability, particularly the very real possibility of tax increases. The idea, says […]
Written on February 20, 2017 | Posted in
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P.U.P. Senator Eamon Courtenay has come under fire from the ruling United Democratic Party and the Government of Belize, both of whom are demanding his immediate resignation from upper parliament. Courtenay is being asked to step down as the People’s United Party’s lead senator after filing an application challenging the constitutionality of the recently passed […]
So, what about the perceived conflict of interest purportedly arising out of business being conducted by the prime minister’s law firm with Ashcroft-related companies? The PM flatly describes that perception as a blue herring, a ploy that is being promulgated by the People’s United Party. Isani Cayetano “There’s been the issue of a conflict […]
