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Late this evening, the Christian Workers Union issued a release and the news is that contrary to what the Prime Minister asserted this morning, stevedores have not ended their strike. The Port of Belize Limited and the C.W.U., however, remain in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement. The release from the C.W.U. states that, […]
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Also this morning, the Prime Minister was asked about the nationalization of the Port which he said on Wednesday was under consideration. According to him, that is not on the table at this time. As far as we know, a meeting was held on Thursday with the Prime Minister and Ministers Edmund Castro, Carla Barnett […]
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Turning to politics, Port Loyola area representative Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez announced his pending retirement from electoral politics several years ago, indicating that upon completion of this five-year term, he would retreat into private life. His retirement was timid to the retirement of Prime Minister Dean Barrow. That constituency has elected Philip Willoughby as the U.D.P. […]
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As for Martinez’s ministerial colleague, Frank ‘Papa’ Mena, there is still no certainty whether he will be contesting the Dangriga constituency come November. That’s because a petition has been launched by the U.D.P. committee in that area asking for his removal as candidate in the upcoming general elections. This afternoon, PM Barrow spoke glowingly about […]
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The economic downturn caused by COVID-19 continues to affect the business sector. The mainstay, the tourism industry, crumbled causing massive unemployment once the pandemic began to spread. Flights resume at the P.G.I.A. on August fifteenth, but recovery of the sector is unknown. Today, the government rolled out an economic plan, named the “Economic Recovery Strategy […]
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The biggest private sector organization, the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry is celebrating one hundred years this year. It’s a milestone for the organization that has endured the test of time and now readies itself to face the challenges in a post-COVID Belize. At its annual general meeting on Thursday night, the B.C.C.I. also […]
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The guest speaker at the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s AGM on Thursday night was Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amore Mottley. PM Mottley spoke on the challenges of COVID-19 – how it has shown to be the ultimate test of Caribbean nation’s development and capacity to respond. Mottley called on the business community […]
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On Thursday, screenshots of WhatsApp conversations surfaced in respect of the chaotic incident at the Port of Belize Limited last Wednesday when striking staff members of the P.B.L. went on a rampage and the GSU was called in to bring the situation under control. The gist of the messages centres around the bus that was […]
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While he was on damage control mode, Rosado says that the incident at the Port is a battle between giants and the little man is being trampled. Facing a backlash from FECTAB over the leaked WhatsApp messages, Yhony Rosado says he is officially severing all ties with the organization, which he claims to have personally […]
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A lawsuit in which government is being sued by several parties, including the Belize Peace Movement, the People’s United Party and Lord Michael Ashcroft, is presently before the Supreme Court where an international expert will be called in to provide input in the matter. The claim, in respect of an urgent need for a redistricting […]
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There’s a third standard bearer for the Belmopan constituency. She is Anna Banner Guy and she is contesting the next general elections as an independent candidate. Guy is a well-known face in electoral politics in Belmopan, having served on the Belmopan City Council under the United Democratic Party. She is going up against John Saldivar […]
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Senior Counsel Lisa Shoman and Professor Westmin James have been appointed to the Supreme Court bench on a one-year tenure. Their appointments, however, have raised the ire of the National Evangelical Association of Belize which has come out strongly against the pair of lawyers who represented Caleb Orozco and the United Belize Advocacy Movement, UNIBAM, […]
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You will remember Samuel August, the former Belize City Council employee who armed himself with a backhoe in the wee hours of October twenty-ninth, 2018 and rammed it into the Faber’s Road home of his three children and their grandmother, killing one of the children, five-year-old Samir August and the grandmother, fifty-three year-old Louise Young […]
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Twenty-five-year-old Jamie Patnett, who was on remand for the March 2017 murder of eighteen-year-old Kerona Ara, was granted Supreme Court bail of thirty thousand dollars on Thursday after his attorney argued that the Prosecution seems not to be able to produce any forensic evidence against Patnett. Attorney Dickie Bradley argued before Justice Colin Williams that […]
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Reginald Pott, another man who is on remand for the murder of another young woman was also granted bail of thirty thousand dollars when he appeared before Justice Colin Williams. Pott was originally charged along with two other men for the June 2017 murder of sixteen year-old Emy Guerra in Familia Village, Cayo and with the […]
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Also in the court this week, Jervis Valencia was freed for a second time of a murder charge. Valencia was charged with the murder of Moses Gonguez in 2015 on mayflower Street, Belize City. Gonguez was with a group men when he came under attack; another person, Triston Gordon was also injured in the shooting. […]
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Since 2001, the Social Security Board of Belize has given out nine hundred scholarships all to the tune of three point eight million dollars. And for 2020, they have added another fifty-two students to the annual scholarship programme. But due to the pandemic, the S.S.B. didn’t hold its usual celebratory fanfare for its awardees where […]
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On Thursday, the U.S. Embassy in Belize officially handed over to the Ministry of Education a classroom building constructed through the U.S. Southern Command’s Humanitarian Assistance Programme in San Isidro Village in the Toledo District. On hand for the ceremony was Education Minister Patrick Faber, school officials and families of the San Isidro students. According […]
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The Santander Sugar Group is reporting a bumper year in sugar cane production. It kicked off the season towards the end of February and today the last truck was escorted to the dumping table to much fanfare as the sugarcane season came to an end at the Santander facility in Valley of Peace. The company […]
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Are you ready for some theatre filled with laughter and excitement? Well listen up cause on August seventh and eighth at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts, “Covid Chronicles” comes alive on stage. It will be two nights of nonstop comedic presentations for the entire family with well known comedians, including Dillon Jones, Bryan […]
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Justice was served today in, without question, a most heinous and reprehensible crime and the family of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas can now find closure. Having been convicted in December 2019 of the pastor’s beheading, William “Danny” Mason and four others are looking at another thirty-five years behind bars. In the case of the youngest convict, […]
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The heinous murder in July 2016 and the subsequent trial of the five men grabbed national attention. William “Danny” Mason was a highly connected man in Belmopan, who socialized with politicians and the law. Justice Moore found the crime reprehensible and wants to send a message to society. The pastor was killed, beheaded and his […]
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There was a murder in the city on Wednesday night. A man from Saint Matthews Village was murdered in around seven o’clock. A single stab ended the life of William Rubio, a construction worker and father of nine. The deadly incident happened in front of a pharmacy near the Pound Yard Bridge. The details of […]
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While the Port of Belize remains open, the business community has not been able to receive imports or to export cargo as stevedores are on strike. The port remains on security level two following a violent protest last week. On the morning of July twenty-second, as early as six-thirty, two buses were mysteriously parked at […]
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Back to the port, meetings were held today between the parties seeking a way forward and it is expected that activity would resume in the next few days pending the arrival of cargo vessels. At this meeting, the Port of Belize put the cards on the table now that the Prime Minister has said that […]
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