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Two years ago, in November 2016, Commandante Fidel Castro, Cuba’s former president, died at the age of ninety from natural causes. In the 1950’s, Castro emerged as the Leader of the Cuban Revolution after defeating dictator Fulgencio Batista. He became President of Cuba in 1959. The “fiery apostle of revolution’ as the New York Times […]
Written on November 23, 2018 | Posted in
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The Government of Belize today received approval from the House of Representatives to borrow fourteen million dollars from the Inter-American Development Bank. This is in addition to tens of millions of dollars that in loans from the I.D.B. in 2015 for rehabilitation works being done from Roaring Creek Village to Santa Elena Town. The extra […]
Written on November 23, 2018 | Posted in
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More than ten years ago, G.D.G. Acquisitions, a company controlled by Glenn Godfrey, sued the Government of Belize in the U.S. The lawsuit claimed that the government was liable for additional lease payments on telephone equipment under the master lease agreement for the now-defunct INTELCO. G.D.G. sought thirty million dollars in damages, but the government […]
Written on November 23, 2018 | Posted in
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In October, the Caribbean Court of Justice ordered the Government of Belize to repay businessman David Gegg more than half a million dollars. Gegg is the owner of Cruise Solutions Limited and Discovery Expeditions Limited, two companies which initiated a legal case against the government with respect to taxation. Gegg requested the C.C.J. to determine […]
Written on November 23, 2018 | Posted in
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There is good news for forty plus teachers at Roman Catholic primary schools in the west. Following a meeting around two p.m., between management, the Teaching Services Commission and the Ministry of Education, classes are to resume as per normal on Monday. Since Wednesday, we’ve reported that the teachers at the Mount Carmel RC showed […]
Written on November 23, 2018 | Posted in
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This afternoon, executives of the Belize National Teachers Union met with the Ministry of Education to further discuss issues involving schools that are presently on the hardship list. The meetings are a series of discussions between both parties, following a demonstration in Belmopan earlier this month. Senator Elena Smith, National President of B.N.T.U., provided a […]
Written on November 23, 2018 | Posted in
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The battle over the Belmopan Hilltop property between the Public Service Union, the Belmopan City Council and an Asian businessman from Corozal, seems to have ended amicably following a meeting on Thursday with Prime Minister Dean Barrow who is also the substantive minister for the Public Service. According to the P.S.U., during the meeting, the […]
Written on November 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Dean Barrow says he is disappointed that Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte lost his bid to represent Port Loyola for the U.D.P. in the upcoming general elections. Peyrefitte, AC Shane Castillo and Dean Samuels were all defeated by former councilor Philip Willoughby. For some Willoughby’s win was an upset within the U.D.P., for others […]
Written on November 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Then there is the case of Doctor Carla Barnett and her failed political venture to represent the people of Freetown for the United Democratic Party. Doctor Barnett, a sitting cabinet minister and senator, was defeated by Orson “OJ” Elrington on November eleventh. It was Barnett’s second attempt at a political career. She was defeated by […]
Written on November 23, 2018 | Posted in
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PORT, an acronym for Pooling Our Resources Together, is the latest initiative to be undertaken by U.D.P. standard bearer Phillip Willoughby who aspires to represent the people of Port Loyola in central government. Since offering himself as the constituency’s next standard bearer, succeeding outgoing Area Representative Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez, he has been busy in the […]
Written on November 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Is there a land grab going on in San Juan Village? According to Chairman Carlos Peraza – it would appear so and the village council has no idea who is taking up the lands that has long been designated as an extension for the village. The community of San Juan, which has over six hundred […]
Written on November 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Chairman Carlos Peraza has notified the Ministry of Natural Resources about the developing issue in San Juan. Peraza told us that neighboring communities are experiencing the same problem. He says he has received names and possible connections to the land grabs happening in the village but he has not been able to confirm who distributed […]
Written on November 23, 2018 | Posted in
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BELTRAIDE held the final pitch for its Business Hackathon today in Belize City. Three four-member teams of I.C.T. professionals and students are the finalists having competed against other teams to present a solution to a problem that people experience in their daily lives. The problem they are hoping to solve is how to use technology […]
Written on November 23, 2018 | Posted in
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A meeting with Prime Minister Dean Barrow for his intercession in a land transaction which threatens to leave the Public Service Union without a roof over its head is perhaps a last resort in an attempt to save the labor organization’s headquarters. Since it was revealed on November twelfth that the Hilltop property had been […]
Written on November 22, 2018 | Posted in
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During the meeting, PM Barrow and the union representatives agreed that the P.S.U.’s Belmopan address should remain the same, despite the sale of the property. While Mayor Khalid Belisle has caught flak for selling the parcel of land without giving the union the first right of refusal, the PM says that in time the municipal […]
Written on November 22, 2018 | Posted in
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So what does the prime minister’s intervention mean for Mayor Belisle who went on record at a press conference last Tuesday to state that central government or the U.D.P.’s political directorate has not meddled in the administration of City Hall? Reporter “Is it regrettable for you that one of the young, rising stars of […]
Written on November 22, 2018 | Posted in
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‘tis the season for giving and while Belizeans across the country are preparing their annual wish list, government has also put together its budget for the Christmas Cheer program. This year, a sum of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars has been earmarked as funds to be used for social assistance across all thirty-one constituencies. […]
Written on November 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Punta Gorda police are investigating a murder-suicide involving one of their own and his common-law-wife. Police constable Steven Anthony Ferguson fatally shot Josephine Hamilton, before shooting himself in the head on Wednesday night at their residence in Punta Gorda Town. It happened shortly before eleven o’clock and when police arrived on the scene, they found […]
Written on November 22, 2018 | Posted in
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PC Steven Ferguson was a member of the Quick Response Team which is why he had a service issued pistol in his possession on Wednesday night. He was a member of the force for several years and had been transferred to the Punta Gorda police station recently. He relocated to Punta Gorda along with his […]
Written on November 22, 2018 | Posted in
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A woman is dead and tonight her relatives are in police custody. On Tuesday evening around four-thirty, Keidi Ramirez, a resident of San Juan Village along the Southern Highway, was socializing and drinking with family members when she had to be restrained. Four hours later, she was pronounced dead at the Independence Polyclinic. Police have […]
Written on November 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Around five o’clock on Wednesday evening, there was a fatal road traffic accident on the Hummingbird Highway near to Yim Sam Hotel in Belmopan. Thirty-two-year-old Guatemalan national Edwin Valdes of Camalote Village was knocked down off his bicycle by a Dodge Ram pickup truck on Wednesday evening. Twenty-year-old Joseph Penner was behind the wheel of […]
Written on November 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Fifty-five-year-old Teakettle resident, Simeon Alvaro Perez remains hospitalized at the Western Regional Hospital in a stable condition, following an early morning home invasion at his place of work in Ontario Village. Perez was defending his employer at the DeYoung residence on the hilltop off the Prayer Mountain Road because four armed thieves had accosted a […]
Written on November 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Investigations continue into the murder of Jermain Sanker. The twenty-three-year-old, who is originally from Corozal, was executed inside a rented car on Cemetery Road in the Salvapan area of Belmopan on Monday afternoon. Several persons were taken into custody today, but during the weekly police press brief this morning, ACP Joseph Myvett confirmed that Sanker […]
Written on November 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Police are nowhere closer to solving the November eighteenth murder of Eric Staine. The twenty-one-year-old Belize City barber was shot and killed on Sunday night at the intersection of Krooman Road and the George Price Highway. But police have still not been able to establish a motive for the crime nor has anyone been arrested. […]
Written on November 22, 2018 | Posted in
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A Belize City resident has been charged for the murder of American restaurateur Lamont Lipka. Lipka was executed in front of his patrons inside his business, Tropicana Bar & Grill on Coconut Drive, back on May thirteenth. For the past six months, police had been searching for a trio believed to have been responsible for […]
Written on November 22, 2018 | Posted in
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