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It has been a rocky journey to the signing of this first ever collective bargaining agreement for the stevedores. The relationship between the two deteriorated two weeks ago when more than thirty employees became redundant and tensions escalated at the compound. So what did it take to get this C.B.A.? Is it the violent confrontation […]
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The collective bargaining agreement was signed on Sunday afternoon. By this morning, there was a request for an urgent meeting for stevedores to file a grievance to the Labour Department. A letter, signed by Arlette Hutchinson, is seeking the meeting for a breach of “Duty for Fair Representation’’ against the C.W.U. Hutchinson writes that two […]
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The C.W.U. and Port of Belize have signed a Collective Bargaining for the stevedores. On Tuesday, the C.W.U. is set to begin a new round of negotiations for a new C.B.A., this time it’s for the staff of the P.B.L. Today, they decided to take that cry to the streets in a demonstration which ended […]
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While the extension of S.O.E. in the south side was on debate in the House, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, at the police press briefing also in Belmopan, confirmed that he had requested an additional sixty days of lockdown. This would allow some thirty-four persons, including four females, who are detained as a result of […]
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Back to COVID-19…the increase in number of cases has triggered the Belize Police Department to tighten up on the enforcement of quarantine laws. Commissioner of Police Williams says directives have been issued to officers to intensify enforcement of social distancing and the wearing of masks. ComPol Williams also says that an incentive will be issued […]
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ComPol Chester Williams is also pushing for stricter measures on violators of the COVID-19 regulations. Williams said today that he is advocating for an amendment to the quarantine statutory instrument to go further to hold establishment owners liable for not ensuring that patrons wear face masks and observe social distance. Chester Williams, Commissioner of […]
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The body of an elderly man was discovered in Punta Gorda today. Just after nine o’clock this morning, police were called out to the Joe Taylor Bridge in that southern municipality where they discovered the body of eighty-five-year-old Hugh Ordonez. ACP Joseph Myvett gave preliminary information, which suggests that there was no foul play in […]
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In the north, a forty-millimetre grenade launcher was discovered in Corozal. On Saturday afternoon, officers searched an overgrown property in the Dominguez Layout area and discovered the suspected military issued firearm, whose origin cannot be determined at this time. While no one was in the area, ACP Joseph Myvett says that the weapon was found […]
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A taxi operator remains in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot to the head by his fare here in the City. On Sunday, Walter Staine was driving on North Front Street when it is believed that a passenger in his taxi fired a single shot to his head. […]
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A U.S. retiree was injured in a home invasion in San Pedro over the weekend. Reports are that seventy-five-year-old John Wallace was at home in the San Pablo area on Saturday afternoon when around three-thirty, a Hispanic man entered his house. A struggle ensued and Wallace was cut multiple times to the hands and body […]
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He was detained by police minutes after he inflicted a fatal stab wound to William Rubio near the Pound Yard Bridge on the night of July twenty-ninth. Over the weekend, Shedrack White was charged for the murder of the Saint Matthew’s villager. Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser this afternoon remanded White to the Belize Central Prison. […]
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A pair of thieves, believed to be responsible for a series of robberies in the west, hit a supermarket once again on Friday night. Around seven-thirty as patrons went about their shopping at Twenty-Eight Supermarket on the Bullet Tree Road in San Ignacio, two gunmen wearing caps and face masks entered and robbed the owner […]
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Magistrate Emerson Banner today sentenced Samuel August Senior to seven years imprisonment after he found him guilty on Friday of the November second, 2018 robbery of a woman’s vehicle, which he later crashed into a parked backhoe on the Philip Goldson Highway. The father of three was receiving medical attention at the K.H.M.H. for an […]
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As COVID-19 cases continue to grow, there are concerns across the country about the reopening of schools. Parents and students are preparing at home in anticipation of the new school year after being out of the classroom for four months and a half. It’s perhaps the longest break they have had in years and now […]
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So, as you heard, the National President of the B.N.T.U. believes that majority of the schools are not ready for reopening. Senator Elena Smith says that information was gathered by a survey and at this time, there are mounting concerns among teachers about the readiness of their schools. Another issue that teachers are expecting to […]
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