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Tourism stakeholders are counting down to the reopening of the P.G.I.A. on August fifteenth. But there are some in the tourism sector who don’t want the P.G.I.A. to reopen so soon because of the surge in cases in neighbouring countries and in the U.S.A., which is Belize’s largest tourism market. One of the properties that […]
Written on July 14, 2020 | Posted in
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A long-delayed draft senate report being compiled by Senator Aldo Salazar on the immigration scandal of 2013 is being reviewed by his peers in the upper house. The scandal associated former Minister of State Elvin Penner with South Korean fugitive Wong Hong Kim and revolved around the issuance of a Belizean passport to Kim, who […]
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A policeman attached to the Intermediate Southern Formation in Independence Village is expected to be charged for the sexual assault of a seventeen-year-old female minor. On July sixth, the minor in the company of her mother reported that the officer, who took her into custody for driving a vehicle without a driver’s license, made an […]
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San Felipe and Blue Creek Villages are under quarantine and will remain in that state for no less than a month since Statutory Instrument one hundred came into effect on May tenth. Citizens trapped inside that area have to adhere to strict curfew regulations, no one goes in and no one comes out. Blue Creek […]
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In the west, locusts ravaging farmlands in Peten, Guatemala are near the border. They are about seventy miles away and making their way across Central America. In Guatemala, Prensa Libre is reporting that since Friday ‘large amounts of locusts have invaded cultivated fields, mainly corn and grasslands, putting the production of basic grains and livestock […]
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Organization for Plant and Animal Health has issued an alert to all member countries including Belize saying that the plague of the Central American locust has caused serious economic damage due to its invasions for centuries. OIRSA says that experts are predicting that due to environmental conditions and biological cycles of this species, high risks locust […]
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The annual Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate was pushed back as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Students across the region have been out of the classrooms and schools had to resort to online learning to prepare fourth form students for the regional exams. The Caribbean Examination Council, after consultations, decided on mid-July for the exams […]
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On Monday, Manatee Conservationist Jamal Galves and a team of volunteers rescued an orphan manatee calf. A concerned citizen spotted the calf in distress off the George Price Highway around mile six late Sunday evening. Galves and some volunteers went out early on Monday morning to assess the situation. There he found the calf alone […]
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An anti-gang state of emergency was declared once again for hotspots in south side Belize City last week in an effort to contain crimes linked to gang activity. The legal system is designed where incarceration is the last step, but due to the powers invoked by the S.O.E., thirty-one persons, including four females, were sent […]
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Legislation had been amended so that charges could be levelled against residents who are identified as being members of a gang or being the leader of a gang; the latter carries a stiffer penalty. The Crime Control and Criminal Justice Amendment Bill introduced stiffer penalties allowing the police to gather intelligence from various sources, including […]
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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams also says that the state of emergency can very well be extended past the month, but that will be determined prior to its expiration. He does say, however, that there are a number of initiatives that have been put in place to steer these men away from the criminal justice […]
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Voting started at ten o’clock in the morning at the ITVET compound in Belize City; the delegates from Corozal were first to cast their votes for the new leader-elect of the United Democratic Party. The voting continued up until one o’clock with the Belize City delegates last in line to vote. Less than two hours […]
Written on July 13, 2020 | Posted in
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While Patrick Faber is the new leader elect of the U.D.P., he will not be sitting in the Prime Minister’s chair in the current U.D.P. term. And that’s because Prime Minister Dean Barrow will not be demitting office, as he had said, before his tenure as head of the U.D.P. comes to an end in […]
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Pickstock Area Representative Wilfred Elrington garnered the least number of votes in Sunday’s leadership convention. Ten votes in all, which is five less than the total number of voting delegates permitted in the constituency. Going into the event, the Minister of Foreign Affairs said he was not up to campaigning. He had also indicated to […]
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Punta Gorda Mayor Ashton McKenzie will not be offering himself as a candidate in the 2021 municipal elections. That’s because he has indicated that he will be retiring from electoral politics at the end of this term. Though he had endorsed Saldivar, McKenzie, who has spent the last six years as a member of the […]
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The U.D.P. Secretary General Pearl Stuart is also stepping down. The former executive director of the National Committee for Families and Children took up the post in 2008 when the U.D.P. assumed office under the leadership of Dean Barrow. Stuart has remained in that position since and has served the party faithfully under the PM, […]
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And from politics to health; Belize has fifteen active cases of COVID-19 with nine being in the Orange Walk District. On Friday, four more cases were identified and the persons placed at the quarantine facility in Orange Walk Town. All seven cases were identified as persons, who had been crossing the border into Mexico through […]
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According to Doctor Manzanero, officials have not been able to trace whether or not the infected persons travelled outside their community. He says that the family has not been forthcoming with information but nonetheless the community of Blue Creek is cooperating. If further cases are identified, Doctor Manzanero says that random sampling will be increased. […]
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As you heard, the infected family has not been forthcoming with information to officials about their recent travels. That family remains in quarantine in the Orange Walk Multi-purpose Complex and today from within the facility one of the parents spoke out against authorities. According to the mother, her daughters were never caught illegally crossing the […]
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Tonight, there is a tragic case of fratricide to report down south. It’s not often we report on such crimes – where a sibling kills another – and when you hear why, it makes for an even sadder case. The brothers were reportedly drinking and had an argument over a cellular phone and that is […]
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Police also spoke today about this latest murder. ACP Joseph Myvett told the media that the men were intoxicated and they believe that contributed to what transpired. Here’s the police’s official report after they were called out to the scene later that night. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “An investigation was […]
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Guinea Grass resident, Minor Betancourt was hit on the chest by a volley of rubber bullets on Saturday night. Betancourt was among a group of persons hanging out at La Cabana’s Cool Spot when a fight broke out. When police arrived to cool down the tensions, Betancourt was shot as he attempted to free his […]
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The sentencing of the five men convicted of the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas has been further adjourned. Today, William “Danny” Mason, Ashton Vanegas, Ernest Castillo and sibling, Keiron and Terrence Fernandez were to reappear in the Supreme Court in Belize City where trial judge Antoinette Moore was to commence the sentencing proceedings; defense attorneys […]
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Attorney Norman Rodriguez is also representing the Board of the Claver College Extension in Punta Gorda in a lawsuit brought against the church. According to Rodriguez, the Saint Peter Claver Parish issued a notice of eviction to the institution for the end of June 2020. Due to quick legal action, a stay has been secured […]
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San Andres villager, Earl Armstrong is arrested and charged for a slew of traffic offenses, including Manslaughter by Negligence, following a fatal road traffic accident on the night of July tenth. Reports are that Nestor Grant was travelling in the pan of a pickup truck driven at the time by Armstrong. Somehow, Grant fell from […]
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