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The Sugar Cane Production Committee is estimating that one point three million tons of sugarcane is available for grinding during the 2022/2023 crop. Due to the substantial amount of sugar cane to be milled, any time lost is costly. But, it was not all smooth sailing this morning at A.S.R./B.S.I.’s compound. There were further delays, […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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As we said, A.S.R./B.S.I. and B.S.C.F.A. signed a one-year interim agreement. The mill initially proposed a two-year interim agreement, following a failed mediation exercise. Shawn Chavarria, the Director of Finance at A.S.R./B.S.I., shared the company’s rationale behind agreeing to a one-year interim agreement in place of its initial proposal. Shawn Chavarria, Director of Finance, […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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In our conversation with S.I.C.B. Chairman Marcos Osorio, we also asked him about S.I.C.B.’s decision to push the start date to the twenty-seventh of December, despite the fact that the mill was prepared to accept sugarcane on the nineteenth. Osorio also responded to an allegation that the start date and the condition attached were primarily […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Tonight, two trucks, a large quantity of construction materials, a trailer full of furniture and twelve brand new golf carts are submerged off the coast of Ambergris Caye, after a barge carrying these items sunk. On Christmas Eve, a tugboat and barge left Belize City en route to San Pedro with three passengers onboard. Several […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Heavy rains that fell over the mountains last week spelled tragedy on Christmas Eve for an experienced tour guide employed at Caves Branch who had taken a group of tourists on an expedition and returned to find flash floods in the river they had to cross back over to reach their base. And on the […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Comments Off on Christmas Eve Flash Floods Claim Tour Guide’s Life at Caves Branch; Several Tourists Rescued Further Up River at Teakettle
The tragedy that claimed the life of Julio Escobar luckily did not result in additional deaths, but the flash floods that spread over the Cayo District on Christmas Eve left dozens of tourists stranded upriver from Caves Branch. The tourist and their guides had also gone out on an expedition – their choice was the […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Thirty-year-old Lindon Hinds, known to many in the Antelope Street Extension area as Monsta, was gunned down inside him in the wee early hours this morning. The incident happened at his home on Pitter Street. According to police, they visited the elevated wooden structure near the Lord Ridge Cemetery where the observed Hinds’ lifeless body […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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A woman has been arrested and charged in San Pedro for the weekend stabbing of a resident of the San Pedrito area. Talita Cruikshank was reportedly socializing with Omar Nal at his home on Boxing Day when a verbal exchange resulted in Nal being stabbed in the left shoulder. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Thirty-year-old Perry Stratford a British soldier attached to the British Army Training and Support Unit in Belize, BATSUB, was remanded to the Belize Central Prison earlier today after being arraigned for an alleged kidnapping, theft, harm and damage to property against his fiancée while in Belize. It is reported that on Christmas Eve, Stratford abducted […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Twenty-two-year-old Tafaree Sanchez, a Belize City resident, appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser today where he was arraigned on the charge of being a member of a gang. It is alleged that Sanchez, the son of former basketball player Edward “Bart” Sanchez, is a member of the P.I.V. gang. According to Sanchez, who appeared unrepresented, […]
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A group of ten Haitians was officially allowed to enter the country today after they were flagged by immigration officers at the Philip Goldson International Airport. They entered the country on Monday night, via a Tropic Air international flight, and were taken into custody until this morning when they were processed and released. Among the […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Rain did not stop the Chief’s “Single Cien” Boxing Day cycling race on Monday. Organized by the Weekend Warriors and Gonzalez Cycling Clubs, and sponsored by Santiago Castillo Junior, approximately one hundred and four riders competed for the title, including thirty-four elite riders. The one hundred kilometer race took a route from the Pallotti bus […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Sugar cane farmers in the north, represented by various associations, have signed a one-year interim agreement with A.S.R./B.S.I., effectively breaking a deadlock between the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association and the miller. That means that the new sugar crop will likely commence on Tuesday, December twenty-seventh. Earlier this week, Prime Minister John Briceño and Minister […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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According to Chairman Ortega, the interim agreement allows for the Briceño administration to amend existing laws to prevent the kinds of stalemate that threaten to frustrate the sugar industry. On the phone: Alfredo Ortega, Chairman, Committee of Management, B.S.C.F.A. “The one-year agreement that we signed with BSI is to give an opportunity to the […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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There’s growing frustration among some customers who have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of items purchased online and shipped to Belize by consolidators. It’s an industry that many have gotten into, conveying goods to Belize that are bought in the United States. Recently there have been concerns that items that were purchased, in some cases, […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Comments Off on Growing Concerns Over Shipping Clearance Ahead of Christmas
What we understand from credible sources within the Customs and Excise Department is that there has been an increase in the number of contraband items, including compressed, high-grade marijuana, being shipped to Belize from the United States. Out of an abundance of caution, shipping containers are being searched thoroughly and swept for illegal cargo. This, […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier this week, we aired the story of a house handing over that didn’t happen in the case of a single mother in the Port Loyola area of Belize City. And while we’ll have an update on that coming up, the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing has been going across the country gifting families, […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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And while several deserving citizens received their new starter homes, earlier this week, we brought you the story of the new starter home that was to be given to Port Loyola resident, Apolinaria Choc. But she did not receive the keys to the house because the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing did not approve […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Eighteen-year-old track and field athlete Mia Sylvester, a resident of Belmopan, is headed to the University of Idaho. Sylvester has been dominating regionally in the disciplines of shot put and discus, winning numerous gold medals for Belize. Recently, she received offered from several universities in the U.S to join their program as a student athlete. […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – not the celebration of the past two years that included lockdowns and movement restrictions, but Christmas like we used to prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the backdrop on which Prime Minister John Briceño sends greetings of the season to all Belizeans this year. In […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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For many families, Christmas will not be the same this year and for various reasons – whether they have lost someone over the past year or not having recovered from Hurricane Lisa. But that trauma aside, Christmas is about coming together to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. It is a time for thanksgiving and […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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As Belizeans go about their Christmas shopping, the downtown area of Belize City is abuzz with different sights and sounds. We took our cameras downtown to get a feel of how Christmas 2022 is looking for the people we spoke with. This was what we picked up. Sherima Moody “Merry Christmas to my Moody […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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At this time, most people are busy buying their ham and turkey for their traditional Christmas Dinner on Sunday. The rice and beans, made with coconut milk, and accompanied by potato salad, stuffings, cranberry sauce also dress the plate with these choices of meat. But there are people who do not eat turkey and others […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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‘Tis the season to be jolly and generous, and the Belize Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, BELAIFA, is living up to that tradition. Today the association handed out a hefty donation of food and other grocery items to Liberty Children’s Home. The gifts coincide with Insurance Awareness Week, and President of BELAIFA, Carol Panton-Rose […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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‘Tis the season for giving and this week there was no shortage of gift giving over at the bus terminal on West Collet Canal. That’s where terminal warden, Philip “Faada” Henry was giving out toys and bottles of Crystal juice. He told us that he solicited the gifts from Bowen and Bowen and from relatives […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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