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An international mining company, Vulcan Materials, is in the process of acquiring several hundred acres of land off the Coastal Road, near Gales Point Manatee, in an area called White Ridge Farms. As we reported on Monday, the villagers overwhelmingly rejected the company’s project proposal in fear of irreversible environmental damage that preparatory work will […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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But while there is a meeting set for Vulcan Materials Company and personnel from the Ministry of Sustainable Development this week, C.E.O. in that ministry, Kenrick Williams told News Five today that there has not been any formal proposals from the company, just a request for a preliminary meeting. But even before it goes into […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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The National Meteorological and Hydrological Services has been collecting data since the 1960’s. This data, which is readily available, can be used to track the changes and variability in the climate since then. A high-level meeting which seeks to establish a national framework of weather and climate services in Belize was held at the Green […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Today’s discussion included two different levels of stakeholders – partner institutions like the U.N. system and international financial institutions and other development organizations interested in supporting climate change adaptation and mitigation in Belize. The collaboration with other line ministries helps with Belize meeting its nationally determined contributions to COP. Dr. Kenrick Williams, C.E.O., Ministry […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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The information and data collected by the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services is readily available on the websites. Already there is an automatic weather station, building the capacity of the met office to collect data from various municipalities and early warning systems. But C.E.O. Doctor Kenrick Williams says that there is much more to come, […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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On Monday morning, a letter signed by senior members of the Audit Department was tendered to Chief Executive Officer Rolando Zetina of the Ministry of the Public Service. The letter places on record concerns from members of staff with respect of upward mobility within the department. According to the letter, it has been the practice […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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According to President Flowers, while the Briceño administration has started discussions with the Audit Department, the Ministry of Public Service is not moving fast enough to address the issues being raised. Dean Flowers, President, Public Service Union “I will give a little bit of credit to the Ministry of Public Service under this administration […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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A Columbian national working in Belize as a Computer Technician was charged with rape and remanded to the Belize Central Prison today after he was denied bail. Forty-six-year-old Luis Alejandro Rios is accused of committing the sexual offense on Sunday, upon a twenty-three-year-old woman. While rape is a bailable offense, Prosecutor, Sgt. Theodore Lopez objected to bail […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Tonight, two fishermen of Belize City are spending their first night on remand after they were charged in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for the robbery of a maintenance worker. Thirty-year-old Stanley Wade, of a Faber’s Road address and thirty-one-year-old Eugene Fraser of West Canal were denied bail. The allegation is that on Saturday, the pair […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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An FPIC Protocol, the source of contention that has divided the Maya community in the wake of a consent order from the Caribbean Court of Justice, has been signed by residents of San Jose Village, Toledo District. The endorsement of the document took place on Sunday, in the presence of government officials from the Ministry […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Belize made waves at the United Nation’s Conference of the Parties last November in Glasgow, Scotland, getting noticed for its exemplary conservation and forest management efforts. The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as COP27, will be held from November sixth to the eighteenth in Egypt. But even before then, pre-sessional meetings […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Comments Off on Belize Delegation Ready to Defend National Position at COP27
Doctor Kenrick Williams also gave a brief comment on the Stake Bank Cruise Port project where an Environmental Compliance Plan was approved and allowed for the investor to construct a causeway in the Belize harbour, linking the ship docking facility to the mainland. C.E.O. Doctor Williams says that a review process is still underway. […]
Written on August 23, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize International Services Limited, the parent company for the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize, IMMARBE, and the International Business Companies Registry, I.B.C., was forcibly acquired by government under former Prime Minister Dean Barrow in 2013. Seven years later, in July 2020, the Caribbean Court of Justice determined that the appropriation of B.I.S.L. was […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The decision handed down by the C.C.J. two years ago disparaged the Barrow administration, describing the appropriation of the registries as, “constitutionally immoral and failing to meet the standards set for compliance with the value of the rule of law”. Furthermore, it continued to criticize the absence of good faith, fairness, and practicality exercised by […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Secretary General Luis Almagro, of the Organization of American States, called on Prime Minister John Briceño during a visit to Belize today. The head of the O.A.S. last visited Belize in April 2016. This morning at the Leigh Richardson Building, the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sec Gen Almagro met with the prime […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The territorial dispute between Guatemala and Belize, despite the matter being taken to the World Court for settlement, is also an area of concern for the O.A.S. Notwithstanding the pending outcome, Secretary General Almagro urges both countries to continue strengthening their cooperation through confidence building measures. Luis Almagro, Secretary General, O.A.S. “We should all […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Notwithstanding the protracted nature of the age-old dispute and the funding that has gone into keeping the O.A.S. office at the Adjacency Zone open, Secretary General Almagro and Prime Minister Briceño have pledged that the work at the western border will continue to be financed for at least another eighteen months, beginning in 2023. […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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It’s a quiet fishing community off the Coastal Road, fifty-three miles by land from Belize City and twenty-seven miles from Dangriga. But residents of Gales Point Manatee say they have reason to become vociferous in order to protect the sanctity of their community the way it has been known to be for generations. This weekend, […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Ladyville tour guide and businessman, Benigno Betancourt, popularly known as Ben, met an untimely death on Saturday evening when he drowned while on an expedition in Gales Point Manatee Village. The forty-six-year-old had reportedly gone to spend the weekend with his family at the Manatee Lodge and went on a canoe on the lagoon. On […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, the Police Department’s Communications Director, Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood, confirmed that it was Betancourt who took his family on the lagoon and that he jumped into the water to test the depth of the lagoon. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department “Sometime around four p.m., in the village of Gales Point […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The United Democratic Party’s National Party Council met over the weekend, in another attempt at putting an end to the internal strife that threatens to destroy the U.D.P. at its core. A meeting several weeks ago between former Party Leader Patrick Faber, Albert Area Representative Tracy Panton, and current Party Leader Shyne Barrow, with the […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Despite the internal turmoil, the United Democratic Party is planning a protest for Tuesday in Belize City. On Thursday of last week, Assistant Commissioner of Police Howell Gillett, the Regional Commander for Eastern Division, denied the U.D.P. Chairman’s application to conduct a protest. Still, Peyrefitte told reporters today that the party will be out in […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Chairman Peyrefitte contends that his application to protest was denied on political grounds. He accuses the Commissioner of Police of attempting to muffle the U.D.P., asserting that ComPol Williams’ feelings are hurt and that he is thin skin. When asked how protestors would respond to an attempt by police officers to shut down the protest, […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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A man is in police custody following a fire in Dangriga on Saturday night. A reportedly intoxicated Michael Flores visited his father’s house in the Wagierale area of the town. They got into an argument before the twenty-four-year-old took out a machete and attacked his father, fifty-one-year-old Santos Flores. Flores believes that his son then […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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This afternoon, police released the official results of a post-mortem examination carried out on the body of Leroy Cus. The graphic designer of Belmopan died from multiple penetrating stab wounds to the chest. Cus was senselessly robbed and killed as he was walking from the bus terminal in Belmopan. Over the weekend, reports surfaced of […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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