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Like Tony Rath, Consultant Valentino Shal is also undecided. Shal, after reading the legal opinions, believes that Belize has a strong case but there are still risks. On Open Your Eyes, this morning, Shal took aim at Assad Shoman’s recently formed N.G.O. “Citizens for the Defence of Sovereignty’ and the source of its funding. […]
Written on March 18, 2019 | Posted in
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Joining Tony Rath and Valentino Shal on Open Your Eyes was former Marketing Manager Trudy Joseph Swaso who has been very vocal on the topic on social media. Also an undecided voter, Swaso expressed a growing concern on the level of confusion caused by the opposing campaigns. Trudy Joseph Swaso, Marketing Manager “None of […]
Written on March 18, 2019 | Posted in
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The Belize Peace Movement is a strong proponent of the “No to the I.C.J.” taking its campaign as much as possible across the country. So when it was not invited to send observers to provide oversight to the stand-alone April tenth referendum in respect of the polling as well as the counting process, it took […]
Written on March 18, 2019 | Posted in
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For the umpteenth time, the government is seeking funding for the Caracol Road. During Friday’s budget presentation, Prime Minister Barrow sought money for the Caracol Road in western Belize. This time it was twenty million U.S. dollars from the Kuwaiti Fund on top of another forty million U.S. dollars from OPEC Fund last year. It […]
Written on March 18, 2019 | Posted in
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Like the Caracol Road, the opposition is also wary of the cost and funding of the Coastal Road. At the end of October 2018, P.M. Barrow informed the nation via press conference that a feasibility study was being concluded, prior to moving to a design stage before going out on construction. The P.M. went on […]
Written on March 18, 2019 | Posted in
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Notwithstanding objections from the other side of the house, Prime Minister Barrow explained the source of funding, as well as the process of arriving at the estimated cost of building the Coastal Road. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “This money is coming via the CDB as a vehicle through which the British are making their […]
Written on March 18, 2019 | Posted in
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A sixty-two-year-old market vendor out west drowned in the Belize River on Friday night sometime after eleven. of Duck Run Village and his brother went in search of his nephew in an area called Mennonite Beach in the village. While at the river Molina Senior and his brother were drinking and later Molina’s brother realized […]
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On the heels of a fatal traffic accident on Wednesday night, another person has lost his life on the Southern Highway. Police say Adrian Choco was knocked down and killed around eleven on Saturday night in Hicatee Village, Toledo. A.C.P. Joseph Myvett shares the details of the accident. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes […]
Written on March 18, 2019 | Posted in
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Another person lost his life over the weekend, this time it was on the Hummingbird Highway. Police say that a senior citizen was knocked down within Belmopan City limits on Sunday night sometime after seven. It is not clear what caused the accident, but police say blood samples have been taken from the driver and […]
Written on March 18, 2019 | Posted in
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And keeping the news in Belmopan – one man received a large chop wound to the head after two persons attacked him over the weekend. Police were called out to the Western Regional Hospital on Saturday morning where Levi Gonzalez was hospitalized. Police say the men wanted money from Rivera. Here’s more from the police. […]
Written on March 18, 2019 | Posted in
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An elderly woman was shot inside her house on Thursday night just after ten. The incident happened on Marage Road in Ladyville near Compassion Lane. Margaret Elijio and her family were at home when a gunman fired a shot that caught her in the shoulder. Today police say that they believe that the bullet was […]
Written on March 18, 2019 | Posted in
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One man remains hospitalized following a vicious chopping incident in Caye Caulker last Thursday. Police say two persons were attacked by a man who claims to be mentally ill – that person inflicted several chop wounds to the two victims. The attacker Ephrain Puc has since been slapped with a slew of charges – two […]
Written on March 18, 2019 | Posted in
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In Belize, like elsewhere in the Caribbean, the queen conch is under threat due to over fishing. If you are a seafood lover, you will know that the queen conch is one of three seafood exports that fetch significant foreign exchange for the country. The conch season is underway from October first, 2018 to June […]
Written on March 18, 2019 | Posted in
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American Professional boxer, Mikey Garcia, was defeated over the weekend by Errol “The Truth” Spence Junior in an I.B.F. World Welterweight Championship fight in the US. The news tonight is that even though Garcia lost the match, Punta Gorda native Brian Lambey, won major publicity. Lambey came in contact with Garcia earlier in the year […]
Written on March 18, 2019 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Forestry celebrated the International Day of Forests with a tree planting ceremony today in Belmopan. Minister Omar Figueroa and staff from the Forestry Department gathered at U.B. Campus in Belmopan today to plant trees to observe the day. International Day of Forest is celebrated every year on March twenty-first as it is […]
Written on March 18, 2019 | 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 March 18, 2019 | Posted in
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The courtroom of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin was overflowing this morning with attorneys and claimants. Five parliamentarians and a deputy party leader of the P.U.P. are asking the court to determine the legality of the special agreement signed in 2008. That agreement ended negotiations and opened the way to take the territorial dispute between Belize […]
Written on March 15, 2019 | Posted in
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Deputy Party Leader Anthony Mahler and parliamentarians Michael Espat, Oscar Requeña, Rodwell Ferguson, Julius Espat and Cordel Hyde are bringing the claim against the Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Attorney General of Belize and the Chief Elections Officer. Hyde took aim at Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington, who signed the Special Agreement in […]
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The P.U.P.’s Cordel Hyde was also critical of the financing of the education campaign. He says the government has gone hat in hand to the international community, while it spent on unnecessary projects that go nowhere. That money, he argued, could have instead been spent on an independent campaign. According to Hyde, by depending on […]
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Attorney Lisa Shoman appeared on behalf of the government today in the case brought by the P.U.P. Shoman has been a party supporter having served as Ambassador, Senator and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Over the past months, she has had both a yes and no position, but more recently, she has been appearing on behalf […]
Written on March 15, 2019 | Posted in
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Before parliamentarians appeared in the Supreme Court, over at the Court of Appeal, a major decision was handed down. The court ruled in favour of Bahamian nationals Ron Knowles and Kelvin Leach. Since 2014, the two have been fighting a request by the United States Government to have them extradited to face trial for securities […]
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The budget for the new financial year that begins on April first, was read today by Prime Minister Dean Barrow in the House of representatives where a number of seats on the other side were empty as some parliamentarians were in the Supreme Court. The thrust of the “Moving Ahead” budget provides for massive spending […]
Written on March 15, 2019 | Posted in
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Government’s wage bill continues to be the single largest budget item as far as its recurrent expenditure, surpassing the cost of goods and services by as much as one hundred and ninety million dollars. Of the total that is being earmarked for interest payment on existing debts, government has set aside one hundred and fifteen […]
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The Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition don’t often see eye-to-eye on national issues, but the recent blacklisting of Belize by the European Union has both political leaders looking cross-eyed at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. That’s because the Government of Belize has raised significant concerns about the flawed conclusions drawn […]
Written on March 15, 2019 | Posted in
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While five P.U.P. area representatives were in Supreme Court this morning as claimants in the legal challenge brought about by the opposition, Party Leader John Briceño was in Belmopan for the presentation of the budget. We caught up with him afterwards for an official position on the legal challenge which also sees an application for […]
Written on March 15, 2019 | Posted in
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