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Cabinet met today in Belmopan. One member who was not around the table was Patrick Faber, who is travelling overseas. According to the reports, the new Minster of Fisheries, Omar Figueroa got the nod from Cabinet as U.D.P. leader-elect, though he is still relatively new to politics running for office for the time in 2015. […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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There are two sugar producing companies in Belize, A.S.R./B.S.I. in the north and then there is the Santander Sugar Group which has its operations located near Valley of Peace in the West. The company has been producing sugar for four years; it has invested five hundred million dollars and has introduced cutting edge technology in […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Santander Sugar Group plans to work with farmers in the area to increase its sugar production. The company exports its sugar through the Big Creek Port and for this harvest season, Santander Sugar Group is projecting a sugar production of fifty-seven thousand metric tons of sugar and to double production in two years. To do […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Seven hundred and fifty persons are employed by Santander Sugar Group. Twenty-year-old Guatemalan National, Francisco Andres Antonio Sebastian, was an employee of Santander until he was crushed to death. It happened in 2016 when Sebastian was dismembered by a harvester machine. This brings to light the need for enhanced safety issues. Chief Executive Officer Jose […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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In 2018, Santander Sugar was busted for selling sugar in the local market after it was granted an Export Processing Zone to produce sugar for export only. The violation resulted in a decision by the government to have the Customs Department confiscate a significant amount of plantation white sugar that the company had introduced into the domestic […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Belize City police are looking for another person of interest to assist with their investigation into the murder of forty-three-year-old Shane Budram who was shot and killed on Friday night in front of his home on Wagner’s Lane. Nineteen-year-old Kareem Eagan Junior is wanted for questioning following the shooting death of Budram, reportedly at the […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Last week Monday we told you about the twenty-seven-year-old Roy Grinage who drowned while he was swimming across the Belize River. Grinage, a resident of Saint Matthews Village, was returning from work with Santander and reportedly didn’t wait for the boat to ferry him across the river. Today, employer Santander commented on the tragedy and […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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There is a bizarre case of police brutality reaching our news desk tonight, where a cab driver reported that on Sunday evening, following the P.U.P. protest a pair of officers attached to the Mobile Interdiction Team reportedly caught his taxi at the stand on Mahogany Street. The policemen casually asked fifty-six-year-old Gerald Jones, also known […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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According to Jones, his life is under threat following the incident on Sunday because the young men in the neighborhood believe that he had a hand in the police raid. This morning, he made an urgent appeal to residents in the area that he was taken by surprise when the officers caught his cab to […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Residents in Riversdale say that a big developer is causing problems in the community. They are calling for the immediate removal of a road that they say was laid on top of a creek to the north of the village. The villagers say that the road is being pushed to facilitate the sale of lots […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Fox says that cutting off the creek may cripple the livelihoods of Riversdale fishermen. He reports that two creeks are being affected, but one of those creeks serves as spawning site for number of species. He told us today that the developer’s actions extend beyond Riversdale and will have consequences for other communities along the […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Last week, we went to Steadfast Village along the Stann Creek Valley Road to share Dylan Ysaguirre’s story with you. She’s a tour guide who has fallen ill with a tropical disease that has left her temporarily paralyzed. The good news for Dylan is that she can recover from this illness, but she needs quality […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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The Ya’axché Conservation Trust recently held its Community Forestry Symposium for State Actors under the theme, “Forest Conservation and Governance.” The symposium, which was held at the George Price Centre in Belmopan, is part of a regional Forest Governance Project, which includes Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, to safeguard forests, increase government transparency and indigenous […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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A fifteen-year-old boy is missing tonight and his parents say they have more questions than answers. Ashton Emmanuel Stevens was at the Rockville Booth Camp on Monday when he disappeared. His family says that he was last seen playing basketball around four-thirty that afternoon, but by fifteen minutes later he couldn’t be located. According to […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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The People’s United Party is energized tonight. In the thousands, supporters came from the villages, towns, cayes, and from the two cities in what looked like the greatest show of anti-corruption. They marched from Faber’s Road through the streets all the way to the Battlefield Park in the heart of the city. A long list […]
Written on February 24, 2020 | Posted in
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The People’s United Party’s massive demonstration on Sunday culminated at Battlefield Park in downtown Belize City hours after its start. The crowd flooded the area of the Supreme Court spilling into Albert and Regent Streets. There, thousands were addressed by leaders of the party. The fiery messages focused on corruption in the U.D.P. government, change, […]
Written on February 24, 2020 | Posted in
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The People’s United Party’s demonstration was announced two weeks ago when Leader John Briceño released the party’s proposed agenda on campaign financing, making five demands on the government. Briceño is calling for the appointment of an independent commission of inquiry chaired by an international Commonwealth jurist to inquire into the unlawful and unconstitutional spending of […]
Written on February 24, 2020 | Posted in
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The demonstration and rally went without a hitch on Sunday. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and his team kept law and order as demonstrators marched through the streets of the Old Capital and collected at Battlefield Park. Commissioner Williams was on the ground where he spoke to News Five about his estimated numbers of participants which, we […]
Written on February 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Shane Budram was shot and killed near his house on Wagner’s Lane in Belize City and tonight police are looking for his nephew, Raheem Budram, as the suspect in his murder. He is the sixth family member to lose his life due to gun violence. On Friday night, the uncle and nephew were hanging at […]
Written on February 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Twenty-four hours later, there was another murder in Belize City. Shortly after ten o’clock on Saturday night, Ezekiel Usher, an employee of Transparent B.P.O., was gunned down across the street from where he lived on Faber’s Road. One of two men who drove up on a motorcycle unleashed a volley of bullets that ultimately took […]
Written on February 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Police are also investigating the suspected murder of a Canadian national who was reported missing on Friday, after a friend was unable to make contact with him. Just before eleven a.m., James Slemp was found dead in the lagoon on the Hopkins Road. The seventy-nine-year-old man was living in the Fresh Water area on the […]
Written on February 24, 2020 | Posted in
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A sixty-year-old Canadian retiree was robbed on February fifth in San Pedro Town. The Canadian national visited our studios to share his story. According to the victim, he befriended a Belizean woman in her early twenties a month ago. He gave her access to his apartment where she stayed for few weeks. But according to […]
Written on February 24, 2020 | Posted in
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According to the Canadian national, the investigation into the robbery has not advanced since the incident two weeks ago. He wants the full force of the law on the woman. Voice of: Canadian National “I don’t believe that the investigation is going very well at all.” Hipolito Novelo “What do you mean?” […]
Written on February 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Twenty-four year-old Darwin Prado, charged with the double murder of Casey Lozano and Marlon Spain, remains behind bars after being denied bail by Supreme Court Justice, Antoinette Moore on Friday. Lozano and Spain were socializing along with others on Marage Road, in the Japan area of Ladyville, in January of 2018 when two armed men […]
Written on February 24, 2020 | Posted in
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In the court today, street figure Michael Arnold, aka “Teetie,” a Pickstock resident, was found guilty of robbery. Arnold was given a non custodial sentence and was fined two thousand dollars. In 2016, he robbed Maria Pou, the owner of the popular Pou Meat Pie located on New Road. Pou was collecting rent from a […]
Written on February 24, 2020 | Posted in
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