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As we reported last Thursday, the Supreme Court has granted the proprietors of James Bus Line leave for judicial review against the Department of Transport and Floralia Bus Company. The decision came after legal arguments were made on behalf of James Bus Line to the effect that the insertion of Floralia into the southern schedule […]
Written on September 26, 2022 | Posted in
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Prime Minister John Briceño met with US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken at the Department of State in Washington D.C. today. The meeting was to discuss issues of mutual concern between both countries, including climate change, energy, food security, and finance. Prime Minister Briceño and Secretary of State Blinken spoke with the press briefly, […]
Written on September 26, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, PathLight Belize signed a Cooperation Agreement with the Organization of American States (O.A.S.) in Washington, D.C. The agreement provides a framework for both organizations and the Government of Belize to collaborate in achieving the sustainable development goals through education. The Cooperation Agreement was signed by Adele Catzim-Sanchez the C.E.O. at PathLight, and Luis Almagro, […]
Written on September 26, 2022 | Posted in
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For the second time in just over a month, a Belize Defense Force soldier has taken his own life. В.D.F. Сaptain, thirty-three-year-old Damacio Coc, who was remanded pending trial, was found hanging from a bed sheet inside his cell in the Tango Ten section of the prison facility on Sunday morning. Coc was awaiting trial […]
Written on September 26, 2022 | Posted in
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Captain Coc’s suicide came as a surprise to prison officials, who normally look out for signs from inmates as a part of their training. Murillo told us that Captain Coc was remanded for a month and that he showed no signs of suicidal tendencies during the period that he was incarcerated at the facility. […]
Written on September 26, 2022 | Posted in
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Thirty-five-year-old Kenya Villamil was viciously stabbed by her ex-boyfriend in San Narciso Village on September twenty-first. She was injured as many as twelve times when Myron Palencia reportedly took a knife to her while she was on her way home that night. Communications Director, Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood told us today that the incident is […]
Written on September 26, 2022 | Posted in
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The lifeless body of fifty-year-old Sergio Jovannie Valdez was found near a dumpster in Chan Pine Ridge last Thursday. A post mortem examination indicates that the fish vendor died as a result of a chop wound he received to the neck. This morning, A.S.P. Yearwood told reporters that information to the police department has not […]
Written on September 26, 2022 | Posted in
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Welcome to this Monday’s edition of Sports Monday. Tonight, we will be bringing you the stats and highlights from the U13 Elite Boys Championship, the Benny’s Interoffice Basketball League, and the men’s national team basketball open tryouts. We begin our coverage with the Football Federation of Belize’s Under-thirteen Elite Boys Championship, which came to a […]
Written on September 26, 2022 | Posted in
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Moving on now to the Benny’s Interoffice Basketball League in memory of Ian Mariano Sr. On Friday night, six teams faced off in three, action-packed basketball matches inside the Mexico Center in Belize City. The Central Health/Customs Enforcers took on the Digi Wallet Bucks. The Belize Coast Guard/Belize Port Authority went up against the Grace […]
Written on September 26, 2022 | Posted in
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This week’s I.B.L. matches are scheduled for this Thursday, Friday, and Sunday inside the Mexico Center. And to more basketball news, an open men national team basketball tryout was held on Sunday at the Belize Civic Center. The tryout was hosted to select a national team to compete in the upcoming FIBA 2023 United Cup […]
Written on September 26, 2022 | Posted in
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Flooding in Belama Phase Three has been a perennial issue for residents and business owners in that community. While it hasn’t been raining incessantly, the area is still submerged and getting in and out of the neighborhood is quite a challenge for commuters. Tonight, we look at the crisis that residents are faced with along […]
Written on September 26, 2022 | Posted in
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Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber is the most senior politician on the opposition bench. The former leader of the United Democratic Party has won his seat as a member of the House of Representatives as many as five times since he entered electoral politics almost two decades ago. He has also been at odds with […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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In an interview with News Five via phone this morning, U.D.P. Chairman Mike Peyrefitte explained the role of the Nomination Committee which is reportedly being chaired by Shirlette Martinez. While he is listed as an ex-officio member of several committees within the United Democratic Party, Peyrefitte says that he is not a member of the […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Is the decision of the Nomination Committee final? That’s a question we posed to U.D.P. Chairman Peyrefitte earlier today. He referred to a particular clause within the letter written by the chair of the committee to posit that the decision taken may be revisited at another time. Isani Cayetano “Are these decisions final? I […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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What about the Shyne factor? Is the continued tailspin of the United Democratic Party the result of poor leadership? According to former U.D.P. Chairman Alberto August, working with Shyne Barrow has been a challenge and uniting the fractured party seems to be a daunting task. Isani Cayetano “Does this situation have to do with […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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P.U.P. Chairman Henry Charles Usher chimed in on the infighting within the Opposition, as it is all being played out on social media. He says that he is surprised by the disrespect and all that is happening. Henry Charles Usher, Chairman, P.U.P. “I am surprised first by the level of disrespect being shown between […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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One of the promises of the People’s United Party heading into the 2020 General Elections was that the minimum wage would be increased from three dollars and thirty cents to five dollars an hour. In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister John Briceño assured the people who fall in this income bracket that the minimum […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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The legislation for the People’s Constitutional Commission was tabled in the House of Representative for first reading in June. Minor amendments were made and at the next house sitting, the second and third readings will be held and it will be passed into law. Even before June, a lot of work has been done and […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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On Tuesday, the Belize Water Services Limited and the Belize Water Services Workers Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding to implement a newly revised Collective Bargaining Agreement. The last C.B.A. expired on November 1st, 2021, and the Labor Department needs to validate the C.B.A. before an official signing can be done. The final draft has […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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About sixteen youth volunteers from across the country will take part in a four-day training in disaster preparedness, spearheaded by the Belize Red Cross Society. The training will be held under an ongoing project called Caribbean Prepared. It comes at a time when Belize is most prone to hurricanes at this time of the year, […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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The National Fire Service has concluded its investigation into a fire near Holy Emmanuel Street in Belize City and the result points to an electrical flaw. Just before two o’clock, in the wee small hours of Thursday, as the Belisle family slept inside their homes in the family yard, a fire broke in the largest […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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And while Mortis was speaking with News Five, a team of firemen was deployed to Rockville at mile twenty-one on the George Price Highway where a concrete house was on fire. He gave us preliminary details of the fire. Kenneth Mortis, Station Supervisor, National Fire Service “This information has just been received to us […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Police have made an arrest in connection with the murder of twenty-nine-year-old San Ignacio resident Matthew Smith. The murder suspect has been identified as Christian Kelly, a twenty-two-year-old a resident of Roman Catholic Street in San Ignacio Town. As we reported, Smith was stabbed to death on Independence Day while attending an event at the […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Five small business owners will be receiving ten thousand dollars each in seed funding from the Belize Natural Energy Charitable Trust. It is a sizeable amount of money being granted to the second cohort of B.N.E. Charitable Fund’s Dare to Dream Initiative. Hundreds of entrepreneurs from the six districts will first participate in an Entrepreneurship […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Just before news time, Prime Minister John Briceño addressed the Seventy -Seventh United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York. At the opening of his address, P.M. Briceño discussed the ongoing international conflict between Ukraine and Russia, the rise in global poverty rates, food security, and the climate crisis that Small Island […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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