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But the highest court, the Caribbean Court of Justice headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago announced the imminent retiring of Sir Dennis Bryon, having reached his seventh non-renewable year at the helm of the CCJ. According to a release, the process to appoint his successor is already in train and regional and international stakeholders have so […]
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Children First and Last Belize is a non-profit organization that supports children in education and health care. As a part of their contribution to education, today members of the organization presented a check of about seven hundred dollars to the Principal of Bethel Primary School in Belize City. The money is to cover school fees […]
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On Friday, the annual carnival motorcade throughout the streets of Belize City gets underway. This will be followed by the revered competition of the giant costumes on Saturday night at the Marion Jones Stadium in Belize City. This year, an impressive ten junior bands and six senior bands will participate in the 2017 King and […]
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Seventeen-year-old Erwin Paulino Rodriguez of Grown Dove Street in Belize City is missing. The teen was last seen in the Jane Usher Boulevard area on Thursday sometime after three o’clock in the afternoon. He went to his mother’s work for some money but then left shortly and disappeared. The teenager is of Hispanic descent, stands […]
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Police have issued a bulletin for an eighteen-year-old Orange Walkenos who is wanted for a vicious crime that occurred last Thursday in the village of San Jose in the north. According to reports, Ronald Reyes also known as Pito made an attempt on the life of fifteen-year-old minor of the same village. The minor was […]
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On Monday, we reported that the Prevail Combat Club of Belize City hauled in thirteen medals, eight of which are gold, when they participated in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competition held in Mexico over the weekend. Jameel Smith wants to promote the sport among youths and calls for them to join an upcoming program for those […]
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KTV, the Remix is inching closer to a successful end. The show started with fifteen performers selected from a wide pool of talent from around the country. After many rounds of battle, it is down to five performers, one who will exit the stage tonight. The four finalists will move on to perform R and […]
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Across the western border, Guatemala has been thrown into a political crisis following an attempt by President Jimmy Morales to expel United Nations anti-corruption commissioner Ivan Velasquez. It succeeds an announcement on Friday that Velasquez and Chief Prosecutor Thelma Aldana would seek the removal of the president’s immunity so he could be investigated for campaign […]
Written on August 28, 2017 | Posted in
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The unrest is particularly worrisome for Elrington who says that Belize must now be extremely conscientious of its relationship with its neighbor since the territorial dispute can be used as a smoke screen to distract Guatemalans from internal conflicts. Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs “Whenever you have these occurrences in our region, […]
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So, with Carlos Raul gone, should Belize step up its security presence along the western border? According to Elrington, that has been his intonation all along; however, it doesn’t mean that Belize’s security forces should take on a confrontational approach. When asked what the present state of affairs signifies for the recently approved referendum process […]
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2008 was the last time the United Democratic Party staged a contested convention for the mayoral nomination for Belize City; the U.D.P. has been in control of the City Council since 2006. That year, more than six thousand, six hundred voters cast ballots at the Belize City Center, and incumbent Zenaida Moya defeated her then-deputy, […]
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Earlier today, we asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs about dubious campaign financing. Elrington says it’s not a charge that can be made against him since his political campaigns and those of his daughter Alifa are personally funded from monies he says he legitimately earned. On Sunday, Elrington’s youngest daughter offered herself for candidacy on […]
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Has the gang truce in the city fallen apart? This month alone, there have been as many as eight murders in the Old Capital where August has turned out to be the most murderous month for 2017. This morning, as early as eight o’clock, a man was killed near his house on Curl Thompson Street […]
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Following Friday evening’s news, police announced the arrest of two men in connection with the murder of Windell Gibson and attempted murder of Karon Santos. The men were shot by assailants on Lindo’s Alley in an attempt to get to another person in the area who escaped. Today, twenty-six-year-old Orlando Salazar of South Creek, and […]
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Lyndon Dean Flowers is accused of the rape of a fourteen-year-old girl on Ambergris Caye in July. Today, he was read charges alongside his attorney Oscar Selgado in the court of Magistrate Carlon Mendoza. According to the teenager, Flowers raped her on the third of July, but she was afraid to report the matter because […]
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There have been as eight murders in the city this month and all indications are that the killings have broken the fragile truce. Today, Eastern Division South’s Senior Superintendent Marco Vidal told the media that the division is doing everything to curb the violence but that what we are seeing on the streets is only […]
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Guatemalan authorities have arrested a Belizean man they believe is behind a criminal structure dedicated to cloning credit cards for the purpose of fraud. Guatemalan news sources say fifty-seven-year-old Harold Lindsay Amos Rodriguez was held after attempting to avoid a checkpoint in the Nueva Montserrat section of Guatemala City and using a firearm to attempt […]
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Twenty-year-old Raymond Dominguez of Otro Benque Road, Orange Walk Town has been served with a notice of intended prosecution in respect of a fatal traffic mishap on the Philip Goldson Highway early on Saturday morning. According to police the body of fifty-two-year-old Raymond Hendricks of Trial Farm, Orange Walk was found lying next to a […]
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The Chinese Disabled People Performing Arts Troupe arrived in Belize over the weekend and took to the stage free of cost at the Bliss on Sunday, as part of a two-night cultural presentation in the city. But the arrival of the thirty-three visually impaired performers was not without controversy. The Belize Chinese Association is up […]
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The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives met in session this morning in Belmopan to plot a course for investigation into the 2012-2013 Auditor General’s Report tabled in the House on August eighteenth. Chairman Julius Espat of the People’s United Party has campaigned for the hearings to be held in public as part […]
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Espat is hardly deterred, saying he will continue to fight for publication of the Committee’s work before the final report is laid on the House’s table at some point in the future. But today’s result has spurred Espat to once again call for a bi-cameral joint special committee, inviting members of the Senate, specifically the […]
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Belize was spared a direct hit from what was then Tropical Depression Harvey a week ago tonight, but residents of the Gulf Coast of Texas have not been so lucky. The storm intensified to Category Four status before striking the Houston area late on Friday. The storm has since been downgraded to tropical storm status, […]
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San Pedro Ambergris Caye is considered a tourist’s paradise; but a visit to southern Belize shows that in the jewel you can do the sea, enjoy eco-tourism and learn so much of our cultural diversity… all in one package. Over the weekend, the local media travelled south, courtesy of the Belize Tourism Board to experience […]
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Across the region, the economic and social well-being of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean have been plagued by high levels of violent crimes. Formally known as CariSECURE, short for Strengthening Evidence Based Decision Making for Citizen Security in the Caribbean, the initiative is part of USAID’s Youth Empowerment Services. It aims to improve youth crime […]
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The song competition is an anticipated event in the calendar of national celebrations for budding as well as established artists. The judges look for originality, presentation and performance by the competing artists. The competition headed south this year and was hosted in the culture capital Dangriga, which provided the perfect setting for the occasion. Cynthia […]
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