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But one person who is not satisfied is Orange Walk Town Mayor Kevin Bernard. In an email, Mayor Bernard reminded Jones that “Fiestarama is a municipal fundraising event and revenues earned at this event goes right back to our community through educational opportunities.” Bernard is hoping that Jones would reconsider, but from what the NSC […]
Written on July 23, 2018 | Posted in
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The Elections and Boundaries Department has released its latest figures relating to the number of electors who have made it to re-registration centres around the country. In the past week, eighteen thousand five hundred applied at thirty-one centres countrywide. It means that as of July twenty-first, fifty-four thousand four hundred and fifty-one applications have been […]
Written on July 23, 2018 | Posted in
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A basketball athlete from the Belmopan Trojans team is tonight hospitalized in Chetumal after the passenger bus the team was traveling in collided into a truck near Bacalar, Quintana Roo. The team was returning to Belize from Cancun when the ADO bus collided into the rear of a Ford truck that was parked on the […]
Written on July 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Guilty of causing the death of nineteen-year-old Shamir Gonzalez, this morning twenty-four-year-old Abimael Pott walked out of the courtroom of Justice Colin Williams feeling like a free man. Pott was originally charged for the murder of Gonzalez which occurred seven years ago at Louisiana Government School in Orange Walk Town. He was convicted and sentenced […]
Written on July 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Justin Lemott was found guilty for causing the death of seventeen-year-old Richard Waight Junior. The twenty-nine-year-old was originally charged for the murder of Waight but today he was found guilty for the lesser charge of manslaughter by Justice Adolph Lucas. Justice Lucas has set August seventh as the day when Lemott will hear how much […]
Written on July 23, 2018 | Posted in
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On Friday afternoon just as the lunch hour expired, armed thieves ambushed a well-known business on Mahogany Street in Belmopan. The cashier at Diversified Life Solutions Office was beaten to a pulp by two men, one armed with a gun, as they demanded that he had over the money from the day’s sales. After enduring […]
Written on July 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Up north, Patchakan resident Dean Renald Bruhier was stopped and searched at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Fifth Street, Corozal Town on Saturday night just before nine o’clock. Inside a knapsack bag, he was carrying about nine point five pounds of weed tightly packaged in seven parcels. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett told […]
Written on July 23, 2018 | Posted in
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It’s been just about three weeks since the Belize City Council hired a new city administrator. Stephanie Lindo-Garbutt assumed the post left vacant for months following the suspended and thereafter termination of Candice Miller, who was sacked for dereliction of duties. So how have things been going since then? Mayor Bernard Wagner says that Lindo-Garbutt […]
Written on July 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Mayor Bernard Wagner and the City Council hosted some twenty-one young African American men from the United States, who are part of the Campaign for Black Men Achievement in the U.S.—an organization that focuses on improving lives of young men of color. The visiting group comprises of at-risk youths who have been traumatized by gun […]
City Council is working along with Ambassador Shabazz with the tour across the city. At today’s event, Mayor Wagner also received a prestigious award from one of the chaperones on behalf of Mayor Greg Fischer of Louisville, Kentucky. He was presented with a hat and a plaque. That aside, Wagner says that the invaluable social […]
Written on July 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Over the weekend, the Belize Tourism Board held its signature Taste of Belize competition where twenty master chefs, five junior chefs, four pastry chefs and six bartenders from across Belize battled it out for title rights, as well as other prizes. The event is held every two years to recognize and promote Belizean culinary creativity […]
Written on July 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
Written on July 23, 2018 | Posted in
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There was an execution in the city early on Tuesday night but stevedore, Raymond Arnold did not survive the second attempt on his life. At about seven-thirty after completing his duties for the day at the Port, Arnold was murdered. He was heading to his house in the Port Loyola area when a gunman on […]
Written on July 20, 2018 | Posted in
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Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin today dismissed an election petition brought by the People’s United Party against the San Pedro Town Council, affirming the results of the March seventh elections results. The P.U.P. San Pedro Mayoral candidate, Andre Perez and his team, had filed the election petition, asking the Chief Justice to declare the results void […]
Written on July 20, 2018 | Posted in
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Mayor Daniel Guerrero and his team were represented by Attorney Estevan Perrera. Following the C.J.’s ruling, Perrera told the press that the law recognizes that errors and minor miscalculations would be made during an election. He said that the provisions provide that if those errors and miscalculations are substantial and would affect the ultimate outcome […]
Written on July 20, 2018 | Posted in
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Three Jamaicans who drifted for twenty-five days at sea were lucky to dock in Ambergris Caye on Thursday morning. The men, twenty-three-year-old Romeo Lewis, forty-four-year-old Karma Beckford and fifty-year-old Noel Samuels, all fishermen of Westmorland, Jamaica, were reportedly spotted sometime around eleven-thirty on Wednesday night and the San Pedro police were alerted. The authorities went […]
Written on July 20, 2018 | Posted in
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The auto rental business qualifies for fiscal incentives; that’s according to the Ministry of Trade and Economic Development. An article in another sector of the media reported today that the Belize Estate and Company Limited had been granted a concession to import seventy-five new vehicles. The ministry says that no new fiscal incentive was granted […]
Written on July 20, 2018 | Posted in
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For residents of Orange Walk and others, Fiestarama is one of the most anticipated and biggest event in the municipality. This year, the municipal fair has been scheduled to take place on the twenty-seventh, twenty-eight, and twenty-ninth of July. But a standoff between the Orange Walk Town Council and the National Sports Council is putting […]
Written on July 20, 2018 | Posted in
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According to Deputy Mayor Ian Cal, the revenues generated from Fiestarama are used to fund a summer program for youth in the municipality. He says that if the National Sports Council insists in collecting the five thousand dollars rental fee for the People’s Stadium, Fiestarama will be postponed or worse, cancelled. Ian Cal, Deputy […]
Written on July 20, 2018 | Posted in
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The family of Elan White, a fifteen-year-old student from Ladyville, needs assistance in locating the young man. Elan, according to his mother Shamalin White, left home on third of July at about one-forty-five P.M. and since then he has not been heard from. He is about five feet six inches in height, dark complexion, slim […]
Written on July 20, 2018 | Posted in
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Belize remains on Tier Three in respect of human trafficking. A report by the State Department knocks the government for not fully meeting the minimum standards for the elimination of the scourge and goes further to say that there were no efforts to prosecute government employees complicit in trafficking. The report was issued at the […]
Written on July 20, 2018 | Posted in
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On Thursday, police seized one hundred and nineteen grams of cannabis from a Teakettle resident in the Cayo District. During a patrol in the village, police spotted twenty-five year old Gabriel Vasquez, sitting at a bus stop in the village. Vasquez was seen placing a knapsack behind him which when searched contained the four ounces […]
Written on July 20, 2018 | Posted in
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A second Special Sitting of the Caribbean Court of Justice was held today in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. This was the first time that the C.C.J. sat in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the home country of the recently installed C.C.J. President, Justice Adrian Saunders. The Special Sitting was held to honor Justice Saunders […]
Written on July 20, 2018 | Posted in
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A robotics and computer coding camp wrapped up today at the Samuel Haynes Institute in Belize City. Thirty kids between the ages of eleven and fourteen were selected to learn to build robots and how to do computer programming. The introductory programme taught the participants the basics and gave them a peek at the exciting […]
Written on July 20, 2018 | Posted in
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The Chamber of Commerce and Industry admonished the Government back in June for the exceedingly high fuel taxes. Prime Minister Barrow later responded saying that taxes weren’t going down. In the same letter to Chamber President Nikita Usher, the P.M. wrote that a cut-down on fuel taxes would cause a hit in G.O.B.’s budget and […]
Written on July 20, 2018 | Posted in
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