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The Belize Coast Guard has maintained a law enforcement presence at Sapodilla Caye Range with a forward operating base at Hunting Caye. Notwithstanding the geopolitical issue at play between Belize, Guatemala and Honduras, Rear Admiral Elton Bennett, Commandant of the Belize Coast Guard, explains the strategic importance of the remote string of islands. Rear […]
Written on October 25, 2022 | Posted in
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There was a murder recorded on Monday night in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. That community has been relatively quiet, but around six-thirty p.m., gunshots echoed across the neighbourhood. Calvin Palma, who had just recently been staying in the area on Curl Thompson Street, was killed as he headed back home from […]
Written on October 25, 2022 | Posted in
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Thirty-year-old coast guard officer Emmanuel McFadzean was arraigned earlier today on three counts of arson, following a fire on Saturday night that completely destroyed a coast guard patrol boat. This morning, the resident of Double Head Cabbage appeared before the magistrate’s court in the presence of attorneys Richard “Dickie” Bradley and Leeroy Banner. McFadzean, who […]
Written on October 25, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize High School has been getting some unwanted attention. Thieves attempted to break into an office on the high school’s compound. This incident happened over the weekend. Fortunately, they did not make off with anything, because they were unsuccessful in gaining access. Administrators returned to school on Monday to a vandalized burglar barred door. […]
Written on October 25, 2022 | Posted in
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It’s less than two months to the opening of the next sugar crop and there is still an impasse between the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association and American Sugar Refinery/Belize Sugar Industries Ltd. At the heart of the contention is distrust and demands. The B.S.C.F.A. distrusts the figures the company has provided over revenues and […]
Written on October 25, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association went at length to explain the issues it has with A.S.R/B.S.I. It’s the same concerns that have remained on the negotiating table even before the last sugar crop opened. But it’s just weeks to the opening of the new crop and the association made it clear today that […]
Written on October 25, 2022 | Posted in
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The last sugar crop opened late and translated into some losses for cane farmers. The reason was twofold. There was inclement weather and also, there was only one mill operating at Belize Sugar Industries Ltd. The projection for the new sugar crop, provided that there will be a new signed agreement between both parties, is […]
Written on October 25, 2022 | Posted in
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This week’s Culture Tuesday feature is all about Cuban culture. We will take a closer look at some of the similarities between Belizean and Cuban music, food, and visual arts. This year, Belize and Cuba celebrated twenty-seven years of diplomatic ties. Recently, the Belize City House of Culture hosted a Cuban National Culture Day event […]
Written on October 25, 2022 | Posted in
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One week after the Belize High School Robotics Team returned home with gold from the First Global Challenge in Geneva, Switzerland, they met with Prime Minister John Briceño and his Cabinet. There they gave a presentation to a rapt audience of elected officials. Cabinet also presented the team with awards of recognition. News Five’s Paul […]
Written on October 25, 2022 | Posted in
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On Saturday night inside the Caribbean Motors Showroom, stakeholders in the tourism industry gathered for a night of recognition, as the Belize Tourism Board hosted its annual tourism awards. The event is held to honour those who provide excellent service in the hospitality and tourism industry under ten different categories. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. […]
Written on October 25, 2022 | Posted in
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A fiery debate topped the Senate’s agenda today on the Belize-Guatemala dispute. It happened when Senator Eamon Courtenay presented a Motion for Belize to accede to the Treaty of Bogota, to which Honduras is a signatory. The treaty stipulates for a general obligation on the signatories to settle their disputes through peaceful means and also […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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U.D.P Senator, Mike Peyrefitte, who was in government when the referendum was held on whether Belize should go to the I.C.J. with Guatemala, roundly rejected Belize’s accession to the Bogota Treaty. He suggested that the government takes the issue to Belizeans and if necessary, hold another referendum on whether Belize should accede to the Bogota […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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Following Peyrefitte’s argument, Senator Courtenay pointed out that it was Peyrefitte and his government in 2019 that held the I.C.J. Referendum without disclosing the Honduras claim to Belizeans. Courtenay explained that they are now prohibited from sharing everything on the matter, so as to protect the integrity of Belize’s case against Guatemala. Senator Eamon […]
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Despite Peyrefitte’s efforts, a majority of the senators supported Courtenay’s motion, including Kevin Herrera, senator for the business sector, Janelle Chanona for the non-government organizations, and Reverend Moses Benguche for the Churches. Notably, the National Trade Union Congress of Belize remained neutral on the matter, as their Senator, Luke Martinez outlined in his presentation. […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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After a year and a half of planning and carefully coordinating with a team of designers and technology experts from various departments across the Government of Belize, the Briceño administration has introduced a new passport. The travel document, along with a new electronic passport issuance and control system, succeeds an older, antiquated process that was […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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During the senate proceedings today, parliamentarians also weighed on the new passport that the Immigration Department has introduced. Over the past few weeks, information circulating on social media has raised public concern over increased fees for the new travel document. But, contrary to those reports, the Leader of Government Business, Senator Eamon Courtenay, assured Belizeans […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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Conservative and Unionist Party Leader Rishi Sunak, a former chancellor of Exchequer, will become Britain’s next prime minister on Tuesday. He is set to become Britain’s youngest head of government in over two centuries and its first leader of color. Sunak is the son of Indian immigrants. He won the contest to former Prime Minister […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize Coast Guard is one boat short of an entire fleet of patrol vessels. That’s because on Saturday night, a thirty-eight foot Boston Whaler, outfitted with three, two hundred and fifty horsepower outboard engines, was gutted by fire. It’s a massive loss for the maritime law enforcement agency which is investigating the fire, along […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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Police have formally arrested and charged Raymundo Castellanos, a fisherman, for arson in relation to a fire last Thursday in the Riversdale community in southern Belize. Just after midday on October twentieth, police responded to a report of a house fire in the Riversdale area and found a wooden house belonging to Zulma Aguirre engulfed […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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There is a murder to report tonight, following the passing of John Jeffords this afternoon. Jeffords was admitted at the K.H.M.H. in a critical condition for injuries he sustained during a beat down on Friday. His sister, Osey Jeffords reported to police that the forty-two-year-old mental health patient of a George Street address left home […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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A Caye Caulker resident is in a critical, but stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was stabbed during an altercation on the island last Thursday. Rafael Marin was discovered on Avenida Langosta Street suffering from a stab wound to his lower abdomen. Investigation revealed that at about ten p.m., the nineteen-year-old […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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Investigators, as well as a family from Hopkins Village, are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination on the body of Abraham Rodriguez. Rodriguez, whose body washed ashore over the weekend near a resort in the village, is believed to have had a mental health condition. Police were called out to retrieve the body which […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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A thirty-eight-year-old man died at the San Ignacio Hospital’s Accident and Emergency ward on Sunday night. Initial reports were that Calcutta resident, Manuel Manzanero was awaiting treatment when he collapsed and died outside the ward. Those reports brought the hospital under heavy scrutiny, because it would mean that a patient in critical condition was not […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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There is a disturbing report of rape coming out of Ladyville tonight. A seventeen-year-old female is claiming that she was out socialising with a group of persons and ended up at Eruptions Nightclub. While the minor was not to be at the nightclub, she says that at some point, she lost consciousness and woke up […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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An elderly U.S. national living in San Ignacio is the most recent victim of a home invasion. On Saturday, seventy-five-year-old Sheldon Dannelly was at home with a female friend when two gunmen entered his house and robbed them of approximately twenty-four thousand dollars in cash and items. These include a wallet containing three hundred U.S. […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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