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The matter of N.H.I. funds for the construction of a one point six million-dollar Central Medical Stores Building in Belmopan is still in the news tonight. Last Friday, different explanations were provided by the Financial Secretary and the C.E.O. of the Social Security Board which manages the N.H.I. funds about the grant for purposes not […]
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Over the weekend, disturbing photographs surfaced on social media showing a tourist exposing himself at an archaeological site in Belize. It is against park rules for visitors to be imbibing on the grounds, but to have the tourist urinating in open court near a monument is seen as a clear disrespect to the cultural heritage […]
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Just last year, there was a murder committed at the Cahal Pech Archaeological Site in San Ignacio. Unknown to rangers, the site was accessed via paths at nights by residents who converge to drink and socialize. According to Communications Officer Neil Hall, NICH is looking at the protocols in place to ensure that incidents like […]
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Why was Manuel Barrera, an elderly Guatemalan national, killed in Young Bank? It’s a question that investigators in the Cayo District are still trying to have answered. The seventy-eight-year-old met a vicious demise when he was attacked and killed inside his residence in that area of Camalote Village. Barrera’s decomposing body had what appeared to […]
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A formal report is yet to be filed with the Belize Police Department, following an incident on July twenty-sixth in which a vehicle driven by Brandon Mejia was reportedly shot at on Jasmine Street. According to Mejia, while driving along that carriageway in Lake Independence he came under gunfire from police in the area. The […]
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The land dispute between the Department of the Environment and seventy-six-year-old Primrose Gabourel and her son, Dion Zabaneh, has been languishing before the courts. It involves a property on Seashore Drive on which the Government has halted work. This morning, attorney Emil Arguelles, on behalf of Gabourel and Zabaneh, asked the lower court to stop […]
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Saul Perez, a former Assistant Quarantine Officer with OIRSA-Belize, is out of a job after he lied to his boss and the police when he claimed he was robbed of money belonging to the company. Perez later admitted to stealing a total of two thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars belonging to OIRSA. In court […]
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The Directorate General for Foreign Trade, with support from the World Trade Organization, is hosting over twenty government officials in the ‘Advanced Trade Negotiations Simulation Skills Training’ this week. The purpose of the training is to deepen the participants’ understanding of how the concept works in practice. It will provide them with the skills and […]
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Forty-six-year-old Antonio Chacon, a Honduran landscaper, was reported missing over the weekend when family members could not locate him. He was last seen on Friday morning around five a.m. when he set out from home on Antelope Street Extension with a weed whacker on his bicycle. With so many missing persons ending up killed, the […]
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Last month the Stabroek News of Guyana published an article outlining the challenges in the sugar sector for CARICOM states. The article headline reads that the, “extensive tax evasion sinking struggling sugar industry.” As we’ve reported in the past, the E.U. market changes from 2017, along with the low global commodity prices for sugar during […]
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The countdown is on for the 2019 September national celebrations. Among the first events is the national song competition which takes place this Saturday at the Civic Centre in Corozal Town. A total of nineteen performers, fourteen adults and five minors, will compete in both the senior and junior categories for the Belize song and […]
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Communications Officer Neil Hall also spoke on a concern that was expressed over the theme selected for this year’s September Celebrations. If you add the words in the chosen theme for 2019: “From Maya Grandeur to Modern Glory, Together Let’s Shape the Belizean Story,” there are twelve and not ten words as announced in the […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend in sports…]
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P.U.P. Leader John Briceño and his driver, Edwin Hill, are tonight recovering at the Northern Medical Plaza in Orange Walk Town after they were injured in a traffic accident earlier this morning. Around 9:45 a.m. when the party leader was en route to Belize City for work, they encountered an obstruction on the Philip Goldson […]
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According to Chief of Staff Stuart Leslie, Edwin Hill has been driving the party leader for eleven years. He is an experienced, defensive driver and was trained by the Special Branch Unit of the Police Department in driving the party leader. Leslie says that the family and the party are confident that Hill would have […]
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There has been an outpour of support for the speedy recovery of P.U.P. Party Leader John Briceño. In the aftermath of the accident, social media was abuzz with Belizeans expressing concern about his well-being. We are told that Prime Minister Dean Barrow also checked in on his political opponent and friend. A statement from the […]
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There have been many reports made to the Ministry of Transport about speeding on the highways and the need for monitoring and enforcement. Just last Sunday, four Belize City men perished in a fatal accident on the Philip Goldson Highway between miles six and seven; police said that speeding was a factor. Earlier today, Lorena […]
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This morning at the Charles Bartlett Hyde Building, government officially launched the Belize Tax Service. The amalgamated department aims to provide optimal services where GST and income tax are concerned. The new management team will work on the redesign of the department according to existing good practices and standards for tax administration and the delivery […]
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Financial Secretary Joseph Waight has weighed in on the Ministry of Health issue involving the awarding of a contract for the building of the Central Medical Stores in Belmopan. The contract is for a sum of one point six million dollars which was to have been financed via a grant from the National Health Insurance […]
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Today, Chief Executive Officer for the Social Security Board, Doctor Colin Young confirmed to the media that the Board did not receive any communication from the Ministry of Health, asking for grant funding through the N.H.I. fund. Doctor Young says that he heard of the purported request via media reports. The C.E.O. made it quite […]
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According to the memo, the request for the grant funding is to build a Central Medical Stores in Belmopan. Doctor Young says that such a request does not fall under the areas that can be funded from the NHI Reserve Fund. Dr. Colin Young, C.E.O., S.S.B. “First off, I don’t envisioned that any contractor […]
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An audit of Belize Telemedia Limited to determine whether it owes anything in taxes to the GST Department is underway and nearing completion. Financial Secretary Joseph Waight is on record confirming that a review of the company’s financials is being conducted. Whether the telecoms company is in arrears or up to date on its GST […]
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Two days after news broke of B.T.L.’s purported multi-million dollar debt; the resignation of C.E.O. Rochus Schreiber was announced. Via an employee bulletin, staffers were told that Schreiber “has decided to pursue other personal interests and reunite with his family in the United Kingdom at the end of September.” He is departing after being at […]
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The Belize Bus Association is not happy with the foreign bus runs happening in Belize. The B.B.A. wrote a letter to the Minister of Transport to say that its members are not in agreement with the buses crossing the border and picking up passengers. They say that this is taking money away from locals and […]
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So, what is the B.B.A. prepared to do to resolve this issue? The members have threatened industrial action. That means that most major public transportation will not be operating because majority of the big operators are B.B.A. members. Metzgen told us today that as recent as last week, they had a meeting with Ruth Meighan, […]
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