The stalemate over the importation of rice from Guyana continues to play out and tonight importer Jack Charles is no closer to resolution. Three containers of Guyanese rice arrived on Wednesday night at the Big Creek Port where they continue to sit tonight. The Belize Agricultural and Health Authority did not allow the rice cargo […]
C.E.O. Alpuche notes that the fairly low prices of the rice from Guyana are because subsidies to the industry there and likely because there may be a surplus since Guyana has lost its market in Venezuela. As to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, Alpuche’s position is that the treaty prevents the importation into Belize. […]
The deadlock between importer Jack Charles and the Belize Agro-productive Sector Group, as well as the Government of Belize, has resulted in what is being called a technical barrier to trade. BAHA, according to regional trade expert Sergio Garcia, is being used as the vehicle to thwart that process. While C.E.O. Alpuche says the shipment […]
While the issue, at its core, involves regulations governing the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, provisions are made in the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas for the use of appropriate mechanisms to protect industries in Lesser Developed Countries such as Belize. This is in line with distinctions that recognize the difference in the stage of economic […]
Even as there is no resolution to the three containers of rice at the Big Creek Port, according to Jack Charles, a total of seven more containers are expected into the country within the next two weeks. Importation and cheap retail, he says, will significantly reduce the contraband rice coming in from Mexico. Jack […]
He is Belize’s longest-serving inmate on death row at the Belize Central Prison. And after thirteen years behind bars, Glenford Baptist, appeared in court this morning, but still does not know how many more years he will have to remain in prison. Baptist was convicted of the murder of Azrin White in 2000, but last […]
A new piece of legislation is coming into force prohibiting stevedores and other dockhands at the Port of Belize from effecting industrial action on a whim. Earlier today, the Ministry of Labor issued a release stating that a statutory instrument has been signed to amend the section of the Laws of Belize which deals with […]
According to Vasquez, the effect of the amended law is reciprocal. While stevedores cannot just up and strike without due notice, port management can’t simply lock them out from work either. Arturo ‘Tux’ Vasquez, Receiver/C.E.O., Port of Belize “It doesn’t take away their right to strike. It does not at all but what it […]
Three men were acquitted by Justice Adolph Lucas of three counts of firearm offenses in relation to an alleged would be kidnapping back in 2010. But two of them will have to face a jury of nine for other offenses. Earlier today, Judge Lucas directed the jury to acquit Tevin Abraham, Jamaal Tablada and Jarreth […]
Also in the courts, three more men charged in connection with the home invasion of the Lebanese Honrary Consul in Burrell Boom Village were granted Supreme Court bail but with stringent conditions. Tyrone Meighan was the first to be granted bail by Judge Herbert Lord in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars and two […]
After months of intense training, one hundred and sixty-seven new officers joined the police force today. Their graduation took place at the National Police Training Academy in the Capital. Family and friends beamed with pride as the officers were formally admitted to the force. On Monday, they take on assignments across the country. Duane Moody […]
While crime has been prevalent throughout 2015, the murder count is slightly less than 2014 so far. There were one hundred and twenty murders last year and that number this year stands at one hundred and sixteen with two weeks more to the end of the year. Minister Saldivar says that major crimes are down. […]
A Belize City resident and his girlfriend are in dire straits tonight after their home on Neal’s Pen Road collapsed on Thursday morning. Travis Myvette was at work when he received a phone call that the elevated wooden structure had crumpled into the swamp water below. When he arrived on the scene he observed that […]
A single mother and her three children will spend the Christmas in a more comfortable fashion. Earlier today the folks at Belize Bank along with Hand in Hand Ministries handed over keys to a new home to the Martinez family on Jane Usher Boulevard. The wooden two-bedroom structure was granted to the family based on […]
Bel Caribe Communications Services stepped up the plate this year again to make the Christmas far more enjoyable to a hundred families. With the support of a number of corporate partners, they are providing the meal for Christmas to families who have members afflicted by cancer. But that’s not all because the chosen recipients will […]
