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But what really are Belize’s most important threats – as the Minister defined them, things that can cause injury, pain and harm, either from internal or external sources? Apart from those others he mentioned and some that do not directly affect Belize, the most obvious one is the Guatemalan claim, on which Elrington touched in […]
Written on September 19, 2017 | Posted in
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Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay, himself a former president of the Belize Bar Association, has raised serious objections to the proposed appointment of Franz Parke as a justice on the Court of Appeal bench. Courtenay joins the chorus of the legal fraternity in soundly criticizing the recommendation of Prime Minister Barrow to appoint Parke as a […]
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There are still more questions than answers in the murder-suicide of businessman Robert Godfrey of Triple A Security and his long time employee Delsie Smith over the weekend. The allegation is that Godfrey shot Smith to the head and then turned the gun on himself. But what led to the shocking shooting at the offices […]
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Three persons remain hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a weekend of gun violence in the Old Capital. One of the victims, Aaron King, we can confirm from relatives was shot up to six times, damaging his lung and several internal organs. The prognosis was not good and King was transferred to the […]
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He wasn’t noticed in all the chaos over the simultaneous crowning of two Queens of the Bay, but Opposition Leader John Briceño was officially absent from the Tenth of September official ceremonies in Belize City. It doesn’t happen very often, and he was asked about it today. His response was simple: after the events of […]
In diplomacy, ‘appeasement’ is a dirty word dating back to Neville Chamberlain and his accommodation of German dictator Adolf Hitler’s expansionist ideals, which led directly to the Second World War. It has been used before in relation to the current Government’s policy on Guatemala by opponents, and in the wake of the Guatemalan Armed Forces’ […]
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The incident at the Sarstoon River over the weekend, involving members of the Guatemalan armed forces, disrupted BTV’s Sarstoon Eco Challenge. During that event, Guatemalan vessels entered into Belizean waters. That, according to former Foreign Minister Eamon Courtenay, constitutes a military offensive, one that the Government of Belize is yet to respond to. Eamon […]
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It has been six years since the death of the Right Honorable George Cadle Price, architect of Belizean independence. In recognition of his service to his nation, September nineteenth has been designated National Service Day. This morning the members of his People’s United Party gathered at his grave site at Lords Ridge Cemetery to remember […]
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The Queen of the Bay controversy dominated social media and local chatter for days. At the centre of it all was Zenaida Moya who performed an epic crowning of Orange Walk’s Esmeralda Cal on stage as Stann Creek’s Aaliyah Ysaguirre was being crowned as the rightful queen. And as you all have heard by now, […]
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This year, Belize and Korea are commemorating thirty years of diplomatic cooperation. To recognize this milestone, on Monday the Republic of Korea sent a delegation to Belize bearing a four hundred thousand dollar gift. Lee In-ho, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in El Salvador, presented equipment and vehicles to Belize’s C.E.O. in the Ministry […]
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The International Monetary Fund has issued its final report on its annual Article Four consultation with Belize which took place in June. Despite Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s insistence that Belize is not following the projections of the I.M.F. lock, stock and barrel, the agency does appear to take credit for implementations of various reforms it […]
Day one of a two-day training of trainers’ workshop by the Caribbean Public Health Agency was held today at the Biltmore Plaza. Local medical practitioners from across the country are receiving refresher courses on infection prevention control. The workshop also focuses on better responses in terms of personal protective equipment required to be used in […]
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Following an eight point oh earthquake off Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico twelve days ago, a seven point one magnitude earthquake killed over a hundred people in Mexico City and surrounding states earlier this morning. The powerful earthquake toppled buildings, damaged streets and knocked out electricity for millions in Mexico. Some reports say that at least […]
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Hurricane Maria, a category five storm, made landfall on the island of Dominica on Monday night. Not much is known as yet about the extent of the damage, as initial assessments and search and rescue are believed to have just started later today. During the passage of the hurricane, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit updated his […]
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It’s been over two decades since Belize last had representation in the Central American and Caribbean Fitness Championships organized by the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness. But the Belize Body Building and Fitness Federation is this year fielding three athletes to participate in the international tournament to be held in Mexico City from September […]
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Two people were killed in a shooting that police had described as murder-suicide on Friday night. The shocking incident occurred inside the offices of AAA Security on the Philip Goldson Highway. The well-known business owner, Robert Godfrey, killed his long time employee and manager, Delsie Smith, before turning the gun on himself. According to Smith’s […]
Written on September 18, 2017 | Posted in
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There was more bloodshed in the city. Twenty-four hours after the murder-suicide at AAA Security, fifty-one-year-old Santos Miguel Bernardes was executed. The sanitary engineer was playing domino at his neighbor’s yard on Laura Dunn Street off Antelope Street Extension in Belize City, when a gunman would interrupt the game. One bullet hit Bernardes to the […]
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As the weekend progressed, party goers at an event in Buttonwood Bay scattered in fear of their lives. Among the guests was Belize City resident Aaron King. One of two hit men called out his name and when he turned to respond, King was met by fire. He fled from the scene, but the gunmen […]
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On the prime tourism island of San Pedro, residents in the area of San Mateo escaped grave injuries when a high explosive fragmentation grenade was thrown beneath the house of Amancia Martinez. It’s the first attack using a hand-thrown bomb to be recorded on the island, and many in the popular tourist destination are tonight […]
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Commander Jones says the fragmentation grenade sent shrapnel flying across a fifteen meter radius, shaking a number of houses in the immediate area of the blast. Brig. Gen. David Jones, B.D.F. Bomb Expert “I went out to the area afterwards where when I visited the area, I saw the crater at the bottom of […]
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Chief Justice of Belize Kenneth Benjamin has set a timeline to clear up the backlog of close to thirty overdue judgments on his desk. Reports to News Five are that the first two of those judgments were handed down today, with two more due on Friday and at the rate of two per week, the […]
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But what is behind the situation? Is it simply that the Chief Justice, contending with a court operating on a slender thread of resources and facing an increasingly litigious society, has become overworked? The Bar says it allowed for that and it is now up to him to lessen that work with the schedule he […]
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Over the weekend, Belizeans were harassed and turned back from traversing the Sarstoon River and circling the island during an organized canoe race at Belize’s southern boundary. The Belize Territorial Volunteers’ second-annual Eco-Challenge canoe and kayak race was threatened to become an international incident this past Saturday. Guatemalan gunboats manned the entrance of the river, […]
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This, of course, is not the first time that the B.T.V., or even the Belizean military and press including this station, have encountered Guatemalan military actively seeking to stop Belizeans from traversing the Sarstoon. Prensa Libre claims that Wil Maheia led a group to Sarstoon Island to install the Belizean flag and sing the national […]
Written on September 18, 2017 | Posted in
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Just after eight o’clock on Saturday night, some two hours before the execution of Santos Miguel Bernardes, several shots rang out near the corner of Pitter and Elston Kerr Streets, in the Antelope Street Extension area. Tonight, thirty-year-old Scheffield Ysaguirre remains in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. after he was hit multiple times to the […]
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