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The Belize National Teacher’s Union and the Prime Minister are meeting at this time at the Biltmore Plaza. The marathon meeting started at two p.m. and continues as government attempts to hammer out an agreement with the B.N.T.U. The meeting follows another from last week with the joint negotiating team, which in addition to the […]
Official Independence Day ceremonies were held countrywide, but in San Ignacio, the day was tainted by violence. There were two stabbing incidents at the same venue on Hudson Street in the town. The first was fatal for a San Pedro resident who had recently relocated west for work. Twenty-seven year old Jesus Mai met his […]
Written on September 22, 2016 | Posted in
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Within less than twenty-four hours, around one a.m. today, two men were also stabbed after they exited the same nightclub on Hudson Street. Benjamin Pinelo and Antonio Aldana were involved in an altercation with two men who introduced knives into the fight. Pinelo was rushed to the Western Regional Hospital was treated and released this […]
Written on September 22, 2016 | Posted in
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Belize marked the thirty-fifth anniversary of Independence this past Wednesday. This September twenty-first comes at a major crossroads, when much of the nation is agitating for change and there is unease about where the country is heading. The official ceremonies were held in Belmopan where both Prime Minister Dean Barrow and the Leader of the […]
Just moments ago, the marathon meeting between Prime Minister Dean Barrow and the Belize National Teachers’ Union’s Council of Management concluded. This is after four and a half hours of negotiations on an eight-point agenda at the Belize Biltmore Plaza Hotel this afternoon. This meeting comes on the heels of a successful demonstration and rally […]
Shortly after Palacio’s interview with the press, Prime Minister Dean Barrow came down and addressed what he discussed with the teachers, much of which he had already responded to in a letter to the Union responding to their original letter of a few weeks ago. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “Well the agenda was pretty […]
Gringo, it’s the anticipated documentary about John McAfee, the eccentric millionaire, which is airing this Saturday on Showtime. But like most things in McAfee’s life, there are twists and turns that are surfacing just prior to the airing. Showtime producers are being accused of bribing four former employees to lie about McAfee. And they have […]
Tuesday’s hearing at the Caribbean Court of Justice addressed a number of issues with regard to the Settlement Agreement for Belize Telemedia Limited, including the issue of paying back the former owners of the telephone company, represented by Dunkeld International Investments and the B.T.L. Employees Trust, in U.S. dollars. The attorneys for Dunkeld and the […]
But aside from the B.T.L. arbitration award, there are other outstanding cases before international courts. Belize stands to lose another significant sum based on the decision of the most powerful court in the United States. Financial Secretary Joseph Waight gave us the details on Tuesday. Joseph Waight, Financial Secretary “There are three arbitration awards […]
Magistrate Deborah Rogers today found thirty-nine year old Calvin Lauriano and one of his passengers, Marlon Chaneck, a resident of Santa Elena, Cayo, guilty of drug trafficking. On June seventeenth, 2015, police at a checkpoint found the two men, who were along with two women, in possession of one hundred and forty-eight pounds of marijuana […]
Written on September 22, 2016 | Posted in
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Taxi driver, Alfred Lamb did not follow the golden rule of don’t drink and drive. He was found to have consumed more than twice the amount of alcohol than prescribed by law and as a consequence has been banned from driving for six months. Lamb was also fined five hundred dollars for the offense. He […]
Written on September 22, 2016 | Posted in
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There was no holiday on Wednesday for members of the National Fire Service based in Belize City, as around one in the afternoon they were called out to battle a blaze on Neal’s Pen Road in Belize City. Orin Smith, Station Manager at the Fire Department reports that the fire totally consumed the upper portion […]
Written on September 22, 2016 | Posted in
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Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, Christopher Glancy, delivered Wednesday’s invocation at the Independence Day celebrations. But was he more to the point than the PM and the Leader of the Opposition? At least part of it was an indictment of governments’ missteps which have put them – and the nation – in peril. But […]
Written on September 22, 2016 | Posted in
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World leaders are gathering in New York City where the United Nations seventy-first General Assembly is underway. The Belize delegation, we are told, is already in New York for the delivery of the Belize statement by Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington on September twenty-fifth. But earlier today, it was Jimmy Morales, the president of Guatemala, who […]
And while on the subject of the General Assembly, UNIBAM’s Caleb Orozco also addressed a side event of the assembly organized by the UN LGBT Core group in New York. That presentation took place on Wednesday and Orozco met with personalities such as Vice President Joe Biden as seen in the photographs.
Zika education continues. The Ministry of Health and other agencies have been working to keep the public aware of the preventative measures being recommended. As this emerging illness continues to be studied there is more and more information available to the public on the risks and effects. It is common knowledge that pregnant women should […]
Written on September 22, 2016 | Posted in
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