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The House of Representatives met today in ordinary session, one month after a special meeting was called to amend the Maritime Areas Act, following the May eighth I.C.J. referendum. But that Kumbaya moment during which there was peace and calm, or better yet a sense of political maturity between the government and the opposition, was […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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While things got testy between the PM and Espat, Opposition Leader John Briceño attempted to have order returned to House and despite the Speaker’s intervention, the cutting remarks kept coming. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “Again, that act… He… but I think all schizophrenics are actors. But I shouldn’t have said schizophrenic again, I apologize.” […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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A thorough investigation into the real estate swindle that was Sanctuary Bay is being undertaken by the Federal Trade Commission, an independent arm of the U.S. government tasked with providing and promoting consumer protection. The scam in which American investors lost over a hundred million U.S. dollars was perpetrated in Belize through Atlantic International Bank […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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Musa openly questioned the business transaction during which principal ownership of AIBL was assumed by former Chief Executive Officer Ricardo Pelayo, but not before taking a few more swipes at the Barrow family. Kareem Musa, Area Representative, Caribbean Shores “When these fraudsters, these Sanctuary Bay fraudsters were faced with lawsuits, who did these scam […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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While the Caribbean Shores Area Rep enjoys parliamentary privilege for utterances in the house, the prime minister took umbrage to the allegations that the Atlantic Bank may have had a hand in the purportedly dubious transaction. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “He is, in effect, suggesting that the separation between Atlantic International Bank Limited and […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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The topic of education proved equally testy as Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber responded to concerns raised by Freetown Area Rep and former Minister of Education Francis Fonseca. In responding to Fonseca, the Minister of Education mentioned assistance provided to students in the Fort George and Toledo West constituencies. It wasn’t long before area representatives […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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Eamon Courtenay has vacated his seat in the Senate. Having served as a parliamentarian in the upper house for as many as ten years as lead senator for the Opposition, Courtenay is moving on with the P.U.P. in another capacity. He has been appointed as the Opposition’s representative on the Belize-Guatemala Committee that is working […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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The Public Utilities Commission won its legal battle against Speednet Telecommunication Limited, the parent company of SMART. This morning, the Court of Appeal handed down a judgment effectively overturning the ruling of Supreme Court Justice Michelle Arana. In its claim, the P.U.C. asked the courts to order Speednet to pay one point four million dollars […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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According to Pitts, the Court of Appeal’s ruling is significant as it reminds public utilities providers to adhere to the legislation. Sheena Pitts, Attorney for P.U.C. “Quite frankly this decision is well received because what it does for the Public Utilities Commission which is a statutory body it tells the public, it tells public […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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Twenty-nine year old Juan Carlos “Canikas” Quintero is tonight behind bars at the Belize Central Prison. Quintero who was on the run for months and believe to have been residing somewhere in the Yucatan State of Mexico was captured yesterday while in Orange Walk Town. A warrant for his arrest was issued in 2018 as […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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A Supreme Court ruling in May has the Ambergris Caye Citizens for Sustainable Development ready to protect Cayo Rosario. The island sits in the middle of the Hol Chan Marine Reserve which is considered the number one of tourist attraction that Ambergris Caye has to offer. The group is strongly opposed to an approved multimillion […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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The decision to allow the development was made in 2018 by the National Environmental Advisory Board and the Department of Environment. The project calls for fifty island bungalows as well as fifty-four over-the-water structures over the protected fishing flats. It is for these reasons that stakeholders are vehemently opposed to the project. Minister Heredia says […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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Lieutenant Alma Pinelo received the honor graduate award after she successfully completed the International Maritime Officer Course at the U.S Coast Guard Training Center in Virginia, U.S.A. Lieutenant Pinelo is the first Belizean and the first female to receive this prestigious award, as a result her name and country will be enshrined into the Honor […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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Earlier this month, the Belize Coast Guard Special Operations Group deployed to Santiago, Chile to participate in the fifteenth Annual Fuerzas Commando Competition. The seven-man team is competing against nineteen other Special Operation Forces from across the Western Hemisphere in the most distinguished competition of its kind. Fuerzas Commando consists of a series of individual […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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The U23 Female Volleyball National Team departed Belize today for the fourth Central American U23 Female Volleyball Championship in Managua, Nicaragua. All seven Central American Countries will be participating. The games start on the twenty-third and end on the twenty-ninth. Belize’s team is made up of twelve players, three coaches and one referee. Today, we […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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On Thursday, we showed you the new head coach of the Belize National Football Team. He’s Vincenzo Alberto Annese from Italy. As you heard in our report, the new coach wants to inject the national team with new blood and introduce a more modern system of coaching for football in Belize. Well, Annese will be […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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The Belize Police Department has lifted a vendors’ curfew that was introduced a couple days ago. As we’ve reported since the start of this week, street vendors who operate from midnight into the early hours of the morning were being placed on a curfew to operate. The reason it was being implemented was to curb […]
Written on June 20, 2019 | Posted in
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The reinvigorated Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action, COLA, has jumped on the matter. The grassroots organization has been monitoring the situation and according to President Shawn Saldano, the only persons negatively affected by the department’s decision were the vendors. He says that the department’s choice to impose a curfew not only stifled the vendors […]
Written on June 20, 2019 | Posted in
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Belize is making progress in its fight against trafficking in persons and the U.S. Department of State has taken notice. In the 2019 U.S. Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report, Belize has been upgraded to tier two. According to the report, Belize has demonstrated notable improvements in victim services and strengthening the anti-trafficking police […]
Written on June 20, 2019 | Posted in
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There was a major drug bust on Wednesday night in Orange Walk. Personnel from the Belize Customs Department were conducting routine patrols when they intercepted a pickup truck containing ten parcels of marijuana. The drugs weighed about eleven thousand grams or over twenty-four pounds of weed. The vehicle was impounded and the driver taken into […]
Written on June 20, 2019 | Posted in
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The Commissioner of Police also gave an update on the deadly beating of Nestor Vasquez Junior. The sixty-year-old mental health patient was in police custody when he was fatally attacked by Collin Francis Junior inside a jail cell. The case made headlines and questioned the protocols and training of officers when dealing with mental health […]
Written on June 20, 2019 | Posted in
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CIB and coastguard personnel have been dispatched to Swallow Caye where the lifeless body of an unidentified male was discovered floating in the sea late this evening. The corpse which has the name Beulah Lee tattooed on the chest was observed with a single gunshot wound to the head. He is described as a dark […]
Written on June 20, 2019 | Posted in
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Abraham Leslie remains in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was stabbed on Monday afternoon. Just before three p.m., Ladyville police were called out to a mechanic shop between miles nine and ten on the Philip Goldson Highway to find that the thirty-one-year-old had been stabbed multiple times. Despite going […]
Written on June 20, 2019 | Posted in
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Also in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. is Jeremy McLaughlin. McLaughlin was riding a motorcycle on the Philip Goldson Highway when he collided with a vehicle near the intersection with the airport road. The impact sent the motorist to the pavement and he sustained severe head and bodily injuries. It occurred on Tuesday afternoon […]
Written on June 20, 2019 | Posted in
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Eight-year-old Gabriella “Gaby” Corales will be laid to rest on Friday. The standard-two student of Our Lady of Guadalupe RC School in Belmopan was knocked down and killed on Tuesday afternoon, as she rode her bicycle over a pedestrian ramp a few yards away from school. The little girl was on her way home when […]
Written on June 20, 2019 | Posted in
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