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Belize City comprises ten constituencies with the south side being a traditional stronghold for the U.D.P. and north side normally polling in for the P.U.P. at General Elections. The battle here was fought long and hard, but on Wednesday, the U. D. P. machinery cranked up and out-maneuvered the P.U.P. and the NO vote. At […]
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Comments Off on Successful I.C.J. Referendum Results is an Overwhelming YES Vote for Belize
Leader of the Opposition, John Briceño released a pre-recorded statement today, following the outcome of Wednesday’s referendum. In a separate press release, Briceño first thanked Belizeans for being part of the referendum process and lauded the peaceful exercise of democracy. The Party Leader says that it will be the responsibility of the people to hold […]
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Comments Off on Opposition Leader Speaks on Referendum Results
This afternoon, the Guatemalan Government issued a recorded statement by President Jimmy Morales alongside his Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel. Morales celebrated Belize’s decision to take the territorial dispute to the International Court of Justice and expressed hope that the issue be resolved soon. Here is an excerpt from the two and a half minute statement. […]
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The Commonwealth Observer Group is winding down its visit to Belize. The group was formed by the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland following an invitation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to observe the referendum, which was originally scheduled for April tenth. The Observer Group is led by Hubert A. Ingraham, former Prime Minister of The […]
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Comments Off on Commonwealth Observer Group: Referendum was “Credible, Transparent and Inclusive’
There were several issues raised with the Observer Group as matters of concern. Some potential voters were reportedly being denied the franchise as a result of the inability to produce their required voter re-registration documents from the Office of Vital Statistics. The concerns also included the adequacy and sufficiency of voter education and the lack […]
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Fuel prices see another hike as diesel goes up by seventeen cents at midnight tonight. The new pump price increases from ten dollars and twenty-six cents to ten dollars forty-three cents per gallon.
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As the counting of ballots was underway in the City, a newspaper vendor was ambushed and executed on Lacroix Boulevard. Thirty-eight-year-old Karl Lamb was speaking to an individual when he came under attack. A gunman approached him from behind and fired multiple shot, killing him instantly. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting […]
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Comments Off on Popular Newspaper Vendor is Executed in Belize City
An internal investigation by the Professional Standards Branch is ongoing in southern Belize after two persons in police custody were able to escape from the cellblock inside the police station in Independence. Gregory Flowers and Clinton Coleman somehow damaged the lock to a detention cell and escaped without detection by any on-duty officer. It was […]
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Meanwhile two of three prisoners who escaped from the Central Prison are back behind bars in Hattieville. Christian Neal, Rafael Mencias and Wilser Echevarria were incarcerated for different crimes from carnal knowledge to murder and manslaughter and escaped on Tuesday afternoon. Mencias was captured soon after, while Echevarria was re-detained by prison authorities on Wednesday. […]
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An elderly man from southern Belize remains hospitalized after he was chopped multiple times by his nephew on Tuesday night sometime around seven o’clock. Sixty-five-year-old Elias Coleman was in the Yemeri Grove Village, Toledo when he was attacked by a Mark Cadle, who is almost half his age. Coleman was rushed to the Punta Gorda […]
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On Monday night, a Lakeview Street resident was targeted by a gunman in the Old Capital. Osbert Gentle was shot in the neck during a brazen attack in front of his home. A gunman entered the alley that leads to his house and opened fire at Gentle and another person who stood talking with him. […]
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Thomas Requeña, who was wanted by Belmopan police for the stabbing of his common-law wife, Katherine Anthony, is tonight in police custody pending charges for the crime. Anthony was attacked by her husband on Saturday night following an altercation between the couple at a house on Sarstoon Street in Belmopan. There was no record of […]
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Back to the referendum….In the Orange Walk District, two of the four constituencies voted in favour to submit the claim to the I.C.J. Orange Walk South and East voted YES while Orange Walk Central and North voted NO. Hipolito Novelo takes a closer look at the figures. Hipolito Novelo, Reporting Similarly to polling areas […]
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Comments Off on Orange Walk District Votes YES to the I.C.J.
Further up north in Corozal, the results were similar to those in Orange Walk. The south east constituency went NO where the P.U.P. has been strong for years. The difference was in the bay where at the national level, U.D.P.’s Pablo Marin has been representing the constituency, which went blue in the recent municipal elections. […]
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Our reporters and correspondents were deployed across the country, including La Isla Bonita. The message in the Belize Rural South constituency was YES to the I.C.J. Admittedly, both the Area Representative Minister Manuel Heredia Junior and his political opponent, Andre Perez from the P.U.P., are on the same page of the referendum. Here is Dalila […]
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Comments Off on A Resounding NO in Belize Rural South
From north to south….Toledo voters said NO to the I.C.J., but residents in Dangriga, including Sarawee and Hope Creek, voted a resounding YES. The voter turnout in southern Belize surpassed the fifty percent of the total number of newly registered voters. In Toledo east, fifty-seven percent of the voting population cast their votes. Of these, […]
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Looking at Dangriga, which includes Sarawee and Hope Creek, there are four thousand four hundred newly registered voters; sixty-one percent cast their votes. Unlike Toledo, fifty-nine percent of the voters went YES. Correspondent Jolie Pollard followed the process in the division. Reporter “Did you fell prepared to make this decision today?” Sylvia Kuylen, […]
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There were surprises in the Cayo District. Cayo South constituency, which is represented by the P.U.P.’s Julius Espat who is a staunch NO supporter, voted YES. If that was unexpected, it was also so for the border community in Benque Viejo del Carmen, a U.D.P. stronghold. There, in Cayo West, there was a resounding NO […]
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On the eve of the I.C.J. Referendum, Belizeans across the country, as well as families and friends who have been sidelined in the Diaspora, are on the edge of their seats in anticipation of the outcome of Wednesday’s historic vote. The national poll to determine whether Belize should go to the International Court of Justice, […]
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Comments Off on A Message from the PM on Referendum Eve
The message from the Leader of the Opposition, John Briceño, had a different ring. Briceño took aim at the ruling party for failing to properly educate the masses of voters via a public awareness campaign headed by the Referendum Unit. He also points to government’s lackluster record in litigation at home and abroad as a […]
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Comments Off on Opposition Leader Takes Final Jab at Barrow Administration Ahead of ICJ Referendum
One hundred and forty seven thousand plus voters are eligible to vote this Wednesday when the polls open at centres across the country. On this station our coverage starts at six o’clock and will continue throughout the day until the results are in. While the referendum will held be held under the Representation of the […]
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Comments Off on Yes or No: the people will have their say
The Elections and Boundaries Department sent out two advisories this evening in respect of the voting on Wednesday. It clarifies that electors wishing to cast their ballots in respect of the Belize Territorial Dispute Referendum can do so with or without their voter’s identification card. So there you have it, once you re-registered and your […]
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Comments Off on No Voter’s Identification Card needed for Referendum Day
At this time observers from the Commonwealth and from CARICOM are already in Belize in respect of Wednesdays Referendum. Their role is to keep an eye on the voting process. But there is also a role for monitors which are normally drawn from political parties but on this referendum the Elections and Boundaries Department has […]
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Comments Off on BCCI and BNN collaborate to provide Polling and Counting Monitors
An argument between the P.U.P. and U.D.P. over I.C.J. banners was sparked on social media this morning. The U.D.P., on its Facebook page, posted a picture of a banner hung in the Cayo North constituency. The banner reads “In Cayo North, Party Above Country, Say no to the ICJ.” The U.D.P. said “This is so […]
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Comments Off on UDP and PUP Quarrel Over ICJ Banners
The leader of the relatively small, Belize People’s Front, appeared before the media today. Nancy Marin Juan caused a stir last week following an incident at the controversial Sarstoon. On the anniversary of the signing of the 1859 treaty on April thirtieth, Marin was escorted by Wil Maheia of the B.T.V. and journeyed to Sarstoon […]
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