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The Belize Police Department is also investigating the death by hanging of a man inside the Corozal Police jail cell. Rayford Anderson was taken into custody for a domestic violence report and when an officer went to make checks, Anderson was dead. ACP Joseph Myvett says protocols were followed, but an internal investigation is nevertheless […]
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The economy has been ravaged by the COVID-19 and up to date, not all the assistance sought from the international financial institutions has been received including from International Monetary Fund which has placed the country at number eighty-eight on the list of nations seeking aid. Prime Minister Barrow said on Sunday that monies are already […]
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The Barrow administration is being called upon to exercise transparency, accountability and good governance. This comes on the heels of long term contracts recently issued past the life of the current government. The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry in a release today said that the government continues to operate within the grey areas on […]
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Today, the University of Belize Faculty and Staff Union was officially certified as the Bargaining Agent for Full-time and Temporary Assignment of Faculty and Staff employed for two consecutive twelve-month contracts. The certification included a virtual segment where the Union representatives and UB management witnessed the signing at the Labour Office in Belmopan. A release issued […]
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A family of five needs assistance to recover from a fire that damaged their house. Kendra Timmons and her four children were watching television on Sunday night when the fire broke on the ground floor of the house they occupied. The family managed to get out but part of the building was ravaged by the […]
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There is more on the crime blotter. Walter Castillo is in a stable condition at the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan after he was chopped multiple times during a fight. On Saturday night, police responded to a brawl inside a bar Armenia, just outside Belmopan on the Hummingbird Highway. The brawl involved Castillo and a […]
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There were two robberies reported over the weekend in the south; one included the assault and robbery of an elderly man in Jacintoville, on the Southern Highway in Toledo. Sixty-five-year-old American expat, Julian Fischer was inside his property in the village when a two masked men approached him. He was beaten and taken inside the […]
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Meanwhile in Independence Village, ACP Joseph Myvett says that police in that area are looking for a known suspect in a robbery at Anna’s Store in the village. While the robber was not armed, police say that the proprietor was pinned to the ground before he was robbed of an undisclosed amount of money. It […]
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No one goes in and out from the villages of San Felipe and Blue Creek in the Orange Walk District, but there is movement of poultry and agricultural products. Those two communities have been placed under a State of Emergency given the increase of active cases of COVID-19 in Blue Creek. There is a fear […]
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Traditionally, around this time, the Belize Police Department would put off an entire week of activities to celebrate police week. But due to COVID-19 pandemic police will instead be celebrating a citizen awareness initiative. The National Citizen Appreciation Day takes place on Wednesday, July fifteenth; all major police stations across the country will be identifying […]
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The new leader of the United Democratic Party, who will be referred to as leader elect, will be decided this Sunday. The three-man race has been narrowed down to a very confident Minister Patrick Faber, John Saldivar whose February leadership lasted three days and Foreign Minister Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington, who earlier this week, was totally […]
Written on July 10, 2020 | Posted in
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In the build up to the February ninth leadership convention, former Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber had a public spat with Mesopotamia Area Representative Shyne Barrow. At the time, the prime minister’s son was a staunch supporter of Faber’s political opponent John Saldivar and several nasty exchanges were made by the two on social media. […]
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Three more cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Thursday night and it is expected that four more cases will be confirmed later tonight. All these cases are being recorded in the Orange Walk District, making it the country’s hotspot for the novel coronavirus which remained free of the virus for months. As it is right […]
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Another repatriation flight landed today with over twenty persons including military officers and two diplomats. United Airlines landed at the Philip Goldson International Airport at around midday after applications were approved by authorities here. So far, one thousand and fifty-one applications have been made, nine hundred and eighteen have been approved and three hundred and […]
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The Philip Goldson International Airport is scheduled to re-open for international travel on August fifteenth. This will allow visitors to enter Belize and jump-start the tourism industry and by extension support the recovery of the economy. There is the fear, however, that the arriving tourists will bring COVID-19. The Ministry of Health, in coordination with […]
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Around the country, land disputes are brewing in villages. In the latest case, the Georgeville Village Council is up in arms that a green space reserved for a sporting complex has been parceled off and granted to persons who do not live in the village. The village chairlady says this is contrary to the Village […]
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Minister of Education Patrick Faber has been fairly silent on the UB matter. Aside from government cutting the subvention for the national university amid the resulting economic crisis from COVID-19, there has been no official word from the Barrow administration on the standoff between the UB Faculty and Staff Union and the university’s senior management. […]
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B.N.T.U. National President, Senator Elena Smith has come forward to say that a majority of schools across the country will not be ready to reopen their classrooms on August tenth, the date scheduled for the commencement of the 2020 academic year. Several reasons have been cited, including a lack of financial resources to assist teachers […]
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Going back to Sunday’s leadership convention, a number of U.D.P. area representatives have also shifted their support from John Saldivar to Patrick Faber, including Cayo Central’s Rene Montero and Erwin Contreras. While Faber was defeated earlier this year by a margin of well over a hundred votes, he says that a minimum of sixty votes […]
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A Guatemalan woman, who calls Belize home and who was intercepted for violating the quarantine regulation in April, was denied bail when her attorney, Hurl Hamilton applied on her behalf today before Justice Colin Williams. Olga Galdamez was initially caught jumping the Belize/Guatemala border via the Macal River on April fourth and was taken to the […]
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A man, who allegedly forced his way into the home of an elderly American couple in Seine Bight, then proceeded to beat and rob them, was granted bail today, but on strict conditions that includes a night-time curfew. Barry Castillo is accused of forcing his way into the home of eighty-year-old Ervin Sverdrup and his […]
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Juan Bermudez, who is accused of firing gunshots during an altercation with another man in Trial Farm Village, Orange Walk was today granted bail by Justice Colin Williams. Bermudez allegedly fired the shots sometime around ten thirty last Sunday night while he was embroiled in a heated dispute that turned physical. Attorney, Marcel Cardona managed to get […]
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As part of an ongoing law enforcement operation to round up known gang members who are said to be involved in the recent flare up of violence in Belize City, several persons have been detained and will be processed at the Queen Street Police Station before being taken to the Belize Central Prison. Under the […]
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The Public Service Union has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with private bus company ADK Charters to provide transportation for public officers who travel from Belize City to Belmopan for work. P.S.U. President Gerald Henry says that one of the terms of the M.O.U. is that public officers, who use the service, will pay a […]
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Belize City Councilor Allan Pollard wants to be the area representative for Queen Square, a traditional U.D.P. stronghold and the constituency of Prime Minister Dean Barrow since 1984. Barrow is retiring and is not seek re-election and it is known that his ground commander and sister, Denise “Sister B” Barrow will succeed him as the […]
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