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Preliminary arguments in the ongoing legal battle involving Belize Telecommunications Limited were heard today by Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. The claim of Gilbert Smith, representing the B.T.L. Workers Trust versus B.T.L. and the Government of Belize began this morning with attorneys Lois Young-Barrow appearing for Ecom, Michael Peyrefitte for the workers, Michael Young for B.T.L., […]
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In related news, we have been informed by Jeffrey Prosser’s Innovative Communication Corporation that, in addition to its ongoing lawsuit against the Belize Government in Miami, it has given G.O.B. notice that it will seek binding arbitration in the hope of recovering another two hundred million dollars in damages. The arbitration emerges from the terms […]
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The embattled, demoralized and–did we forget–bankrupt, Development Finance Corporation finally has a new board of Directors. Leading the attempt to revitalize the government lending institution–or at least give it a decent burial–is highly respected accountant Arsenio Burgos. Burgos, who will also act in an executive capacity, is joined by board members: Kay Menzies, Maurice Underwood, […]
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They first came to Belize back in 1958… And now almost fifty years later, the first Mennonite Belizean has been nominated by a major political party to run for a seat in the House of Representatives. In a convention on Sunday, Elvin Penner, a businessman from Spanish Lookout, won the U.D.P. nomination in the Cayo […]
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An alleged drunken brawl has left a twenty-three year old woman dead and another woman behind bars. San Ignacio police report that the killing took place around eleven-thirty on Sunday night at a bar on Domingo Cruz Street. It is there Jessica Saldero, a Guatemalan resident of San Ignacio, reportedly got into an altercation with […]
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Belize City police are looking for two men who robbed a bar and wounded one of its patrons. The incident occurred around eight on Sunday morning when the suspects entered the River Bottom Bar on Regent Street West, one armed with a handgun and the other a shotgun. Several persons were in the bar drinking […]
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Andrea Elrington may have become a household name when she represented the country in the Miss Universe Pageant last month… but all that recognition did not stop two armed robbers from holding up the beauty queen on Friday night. Elrington was assisting her brother, who is the manager of Putt Putt Bar and Grill on […]
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Armed robbers were also active in Cayo’s Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve over the weekend as a local family and van full of tourists were victimized near the Rio Frio Cave. According to police reports, four men, believed to be Guatemalans, and armed with an automatic rifle, handgun, and machete, accosted the visitors to the […]
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A Belize City man has been charged for engaging in sex with a fourteen-year-old. Thirty-five year old Bert Abraham has been charged with four counts of carnal knowledge. Abraham was arrested following a report by the teenage girl who claims that on January sixteenth, February twenty-first, and March nineteenth and twenty-second of this year, she […]
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The twenty-sixth CARICOM Summit convened in St. Lucia on Sunday and Belize’s delegation was led by Deputy Prime Minister, Johnny Briceño. High on the leaders’ agenda is the implementation of the Single Market and Economy, crime, negative changes in the E.U. sugar regime, AIDS and the situation in Haiti. Briceño is joined by Belize’s Ambassador […]
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A fire at Goff’s Caye has destroyed a large thatch-roofed structure used by visitors. Police are still trying to find out what started the blaze that totally destroyed the palapa belonging to the Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute sometime on Thursday night. Valued at around thirty thousand dollars, the structure was used to provide […]
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B.T.L. Park in Belize City was the venue for the latest Courts Spin to Win show. After much entertainment and fanfare, lucky customer Irma Figueroa Pleytes, whose name was drawn previously, stepped up to give the big wheel a pull. Here’s how it went. Rafael Martinez, Spin to Win Host ?Are we ready folks to […]
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Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this fresh dish of Sports Monday. The Harrison Parks National Cricket Tournament staged game one of the three game championship series for 2005 at Crooked Tree Saturday where Brilliant hoped to take a one-game lead over archrival Excellence of Double Head Cabbage. The home team elects to bat last, […]
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