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Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington is back from the recent SICA summit in Panama where he met with his new Guatemalan counterpart, Sandra Erica Jovel Polanco, appointed in August after the exit of Carlos Raul Morales. We will have more on their discussions including progress in the setting up of the I.C.J. referendum shortly, […]
Foreign Minister Elrington made note that the Cabinet is reviewing the amendment to the M.A.A. But he went on the offensive against Courtenay, accusing him of all sorts of things and trying to take advantage of the situation for two reasons. He argues that the slightest spook of the Guatemalans could postpone the April referendum, […]
It is closing in on two years since the government was forced to temporarily close access to the Sarstoon River after Guatemalan military personnel started enforcing its claim to the entire river including Sarstoon Island. The government proposed working on an accord with the Guatemalans concerning treatment of persons traveling up the river, whether B.D.F. […]
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Belize and Guatemala traded protest notes earlier this year over two inter-linked issues: Guatemala employing offensive maps of the countries linked together except for a jagged line, and Belize using the word ‘border’ in a documentary about the Belize Defence Force. While one seems heavier than the other, Foreign Minister Elrington said they agreed to […]
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Guatemala is planning its referendum on the International Court of Justice question for next April fifteenth. If a simple majority is achieved the ball moves to Belize’s court to vote later in 2018, after our municipal elections and re-registration. Minister Elrington detailed what Guatemala’s plans are at this point and how Belize is maneuvering, including […]
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A duo was arraigned today in the Magistrate Court for a cocaine bust made in the City over the weekend. The men are from Caye Caulker and Lords Bank, Belize City. Information is that they were being monitored and on Sunday police moved in on them. Aside from the five kilos of cocaine stashed in […]
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Fifty-three-year-old Dennis Bodden, a sanitation worker with the Belize City Council, is yet to appear before the magistrate’s court where he will face charges in connection with a near-fatal assault on his coworker on Monday. Bodden, along with Michael Tesecum and several others, sat inside a work bus during their lunch break. According to an […]
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Charges, if any, are yet to be preferred on a suspect who is presently in police custody after being released from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital earlier today. According to investigators, Osbaldo Nieto, matches the description of a man who was seen struggling with fifty-three-year-old Mark Vasquez near the Radisson pier on Saturday night. During […]
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A B.B.O.C. bus run out west was held up a by a pair of thieves on Monday night in the vicinity of Camalote Village. According to forty-two-year-old Betty Torres, a conductor employed with the Belize Bus Owners Cooperative, a pair of men boarded the vehicle around six p.m. One of them then produced a handgun […]
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Two pistols and a trove of ammunition were stolen from the University of Belize Punta Gorda Campus. Police say that burglars broke into an office sometime between seven on Monday night and ten o’clock this morning. UB Administrator Roy Polonio reported that once the burglars gained entry to the building, they made their way into […]
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A Belize City mason from the Gungulung area remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for stab injuries to the chest and back. On Monday night, Sherman Sanker had been stabbed multiple times at Moe’s Pizza Grill on the Phillip Goldson Highway. The act of violence stems from an altercation around six-forty-five that day […]
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Twenty-one-year-old Nutmeg Street resident, Dean Nembhard Junior is spending his first night behind bars at the Central Prison after he was arraigned today for the robbery at Monica’s Pawn Shop. Last Thursday, businessman Dorian Usher was robbed at gunpoint outside of the pawn shop; four days later, police arrested and charged Nembhard Junior for the […]
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The criminal past of Jorge Abraham Jaen, the Miami investor behind the multi-million dollar investment in the Basil Jones Airstrip to convert it into a full-scale international airport, continues to unravel. News Five has received copies of the Articles of Association for International Airport Alliance LLC, the apparent parent company of International Airport Alliance Belize […]
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There’s more on the proposed international airport. The People’s United Party today reacted to the announcement of a proposed multimillion dollar international airport on San Pedro. Calling it ‘Déjà Vu All Over Again,’ the P.U.P. says that the news that the investor is actually a realtor based in Miami with no experience in building or […]
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A new home for the holidays is a wish for many at this time of the year. With space a scarce commodity in the Old Capital, any initiative to provide shelter is welcomed. But residents of a ‘long barracks’ property scheduled to be torn down are up in arms tonight, because they feel their area […]
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Earlier we made mention of the first meeting between Foreign Minister Elrington and his Guatemalan counterpart, Sandra Jovel Polanco who succeeded Carlos Raul Morales in August. Polanco is the first female Foreign Minister of Guatemala. She asked for the meeting on the sidelines of the SICA summit and a full rundown of Belize-Guatemala affairs was […]
It’s arguably one of the most trafficked bridges in the country of Belize, but also one of the more poorly maintained. The Government of Belize and M and M Engineering signed an eleven-point-three million dollar contract to construct a new Roaring Creek Bridge connecting the village to Belmopan at Mile forty-eight on the George Price […]
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Santa is in town! He is here to bring some cheer to needy families and so today he was out in full force giving away hams around the city. This is the fourth year that he is helping to make some families’ Christmas brighter but he is not ready to disclose his identity. The secret […]
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