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It was the last day for voter transfers before the next general elections so today; there was a frenzy of activities across the country to get voters registered in new divisions. There are many voters who legitimately have changed addresses to new constituencies, but there are many others who have been enticed and then facilitated […]
Written on August 31, 2020 | Posted in
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Still on the issue of transfers, cases of suspect transfer of voters are challenged in court by opposing political representatives. The problem lies with verification of addresses; this is to be carried out by the Elections and Boundaries Department but when resources are thin, so many fraudulent transfers slip through the cracks. In the following […]
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The Prime Minister’s son and U.D.P.’s Standard Bearer for Mesopotamia, Shyne Barrow appears to have let the cat out of the bag. In a video recording, Shyne is heard saying that November fourth is the date for the general elections, getting ahead of any official announcement by the Prime Minister. Now, the last general election […]
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Shyne Barrow has been in a privileged position and may know more than the U.D.P. ministers because today we asked Minister Elodio Aragon Junior about the specific date for general elections. He says that he is not one to follow gossip. Hipolito Novelo “Sir has the U.D.P. discussed that elections will be on November […]
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And while Elodio Aragon Junior is not listening to the noises to the noises in the market, Orson OJ Elrington says that November fourth is a convenient date. Elrington will go up against four-time area Representative, Francis Fonseca, in the Freetown Division. He says that while it is understood that elections will take place in […]
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Here in Belize City, the machineries of the two major political parties made a last big push to get voters on the list for the general elections due in November. While registration continues, today marked the end of the transfer period so lines snaked at the Elections and Boundaries offices. Here is News Five Isani […]
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Belize’s COVID-19 cases have jumped dramatically the one thousand mark. To close the month of August, =the number of confirmed cases stands at one thousand and seven, which means cases have soared in the last month. The highest number of cases in a single day was this past Saturday; ninety-four positive cases were identified, while […]
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Over the weekend, a thirteenth patient died from COVID-19 related complications. DHS Doctor Marvin Manzanero says that the Belize City resident was intubated for more than two weeks at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital before she died. She is the mother of a City Council employee of the Traffic Department. As you know, the council […]
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Last week Friday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced that Belize will be using the Abbot Rapid Test which will be rolled out for the P.G.I.A. reopening on October first. Today, we asked DHS Manzanero for some clarification on how those tests will be administered – and if it can eventually be used for mass testing […]
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The Sanctuary Bay saga was back before the U.S. courts late last week. A default judgment was entered on August twenty-eight in the U.S. District Court of Maryland by Justice Peter Messitte. The Justice granted the Federal Trade Commission’s motion for a default judgment against Andris Pukke, Peter Baker, Luke Chadwick, and Belizean John Usher […]
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Health Minister Pablo Marin shot and killed a man last week. Suspected burglar Arkel Matura was caught burglarizing the Minister’s house in Corozal on Thursday night. Matura was shot twice by the Minister who told police that Matura came charging at him with a knife. A warning shot was first fired before the Minister lodged two […]
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A cop has been placed on interdiction pending the outcome of a kidnapping case in the south. Police Constable Dwayne Sutherland Junior, not to be confused with the Commander of the Professional Standards Branch who carries the same namesake, has been charged for forcibly abducting a woman he is in a relationship with. The incident […]
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Also in the local courts, a man charged with Unlawful Sexual Intercourse with a minor received bail on Friday. He is Edras Ville Bran. His bail was also for ten thousand dollars. The incident in question allegedly occurred with a fifteen year-old girl on July eighth in the Cayo District. At the time, the girl […]
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In Belize City, a woman has been charged for the attempted murder of her husband’s cousin. On August twenty-seventh, a fight between a pair of cousins on Nurse White Street in Belize City ended with the stabbing of Austin Robinson. During the scuffle between Robinson and Clifford Caballero, Jennifer Elizabeth Sanchez inflicted a stab wound […]
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A man is hospitalized at the Northern Regional Hospital after he was the victim of a brutal attack on Sunday morning in San Jose Village in Orange Walk. Jonathan Juchim was heading to his house in the village when he was accosted by three men, one who wielded a machete. He was chopped to the […]
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Earlier we told you about voters transfer in Orange Walk and Belize City. The situation in Belmopan is no different. As you know, three candidates are making their bid for that seat; independent candidate Anna Banner Guy, P.U.P. standard bearer Oscar Mira and the incumbent U.D.P. area rep John Saldivar. Between July and up to […]
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Comments Off on 55 Voters Are Disallowed from Transferring to Belmopan
Up to July tenth, eight thousand and forty voters are registered for the Belmopan division; about four hundred registrations that have been challenged and are before the courts. And at the pace of registration, come general elections, the constituency could swell to about eight thousand five hundred voters making it one of the biggest constituencies […]
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The National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) and the National Meteorological Services of Belize are monitoring a westward-moving tropical wave that is located over the eastern Caribbean Sea just west of the Windward Islands. Projections are for a tropical depression to form during the next two days. Today we spoke with Deputy Chief Meteorologist Ronald Gordon […]
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Frustration and desperation have given rise to a new movement in San Pedro Town. It’s called “Change for San Pedro” and it champions the concerns of the residents who remain under lockdown under the State of Emergency. “Change for San Pedro” was created when a resident from island, Candice Garbutt, was trapped on the mainland […]
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The FIRST Global Challenge is an annual Olympics-style robotics competition that promotes education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, as well as careers for youths. The challenge was hosted in Dubai in 2019, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic; a host country was not selected this year. Instead, the competition is being held virtually and […]
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The mystery flight that landed in Belize several weeks ago, whose passenger was being investigated by PM Barrow, has been unraveled. After causing such a stir, it turns out, that the individual is a major tourism investor in San Pedro with an ongoing development project that has seen an infusion of twenty million U.S. dollars […]
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As you heard earlier in the newscast, November fourth is touted as the date for the general elections. So there is no postponement or deferral of the upcoming general elections, despite an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country which has now topped one thousand and expected to continue to climb. So […]
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The delegate representing Belmopan will be crowed as the new Queen of the Bay. The pageant took place on Saturday night; five young ladies competed in the seventy-fifth edition of the longest running pageant. Because of COVID-19, the show was held virtually in unchartered waters—there was no live audience, but all the same, it went […]
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There is a lot to cover tonight from the re-opening of the P.G.I.A. to the use of rapid tests coming out of a lengthy press conference with Prime Minister Dean Barrow. We will have all that coming up but we head to Corozal Town where a suspected burglar was shot and killed on Thursday night […]
Written on August 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Comments Off on Health Minister Pablo Marin Shoots and Kill Suspected Burglar
The file of the fatal shooting of Matura will be sent to the office of the Director of Public Prosecution for determination. Minister Marin did not offer any comments today, but during a virtual press conference, Prime Minister Dean Barrow expressed that he is standing in solidarity with his cabinet colleague. Prime Minister Dean […]
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