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Attorney Arthur Saldivar is turning against his own party, which he wants to represent. This is all because he is not allowed to run for P.U.P. standard bearer in the Belmopan constituency. On June fifteenth, Saldivar filed an application requesting an injunction at the Supreme Court to halt the convention which was scheduled for this […]
The three candidates who have been accepted to contest the convention are Oscar Mira, Wiezsman Pat and Michelle Rodriguez. After this morning’s court session, Saldivar told supporters who had gathered at Battlefield Park why he wants to contest the P.U.P.’s Belmopan convention. Arthur Saldivar, Suing the P.U.P. “We are looking at a situation in Belize […]
A murder-suicide claimed the lives of a Belizean woman and her American husband. Thirty-five-year-old Rushan Tucker was shot and killed by her husband Malcolm Tucker on Sunday morning in their Seattle, Washington home. According to online media reports, Tucker, who lived in Belize City before relocating to the United States about ten years ago, was […]
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Over the past month and a half, there have been a string of robberies within the city and elsewhere across the country and police are inching closer to the perpetrators. The versatile thieves pose as customers, dress as police officers and even as students when they carry out the armed robberies. But is it a […]
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Despite an ongoing hunt, San Narciso businessman Omero Campos remains missing. Campos was abducted on June sixteenth when he headed to his farm in the nearby village San Victor, well known for contraband and other illicit activities. A one-million dollar ransom was demanded by kidnappers, but this week, an email surfaced where the purported abductors […]
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Within twenty-four hours, there were three shootings in the north, west and south of the country that have left six persons hospitalized. On Tuesday, shortly after eight p.m., Orange Walk Police responded to the Northern Regional Hospital and then to the residence of Nazario Herrera in Trial Farm Village where a wild shooting landed four […]
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Also on Tuesday night, there was a shooting shortly after nine p.m. in Bella Vista Village on the Southern Highway. Nineteen-year-old Valerio Bak was shot multiple times to the body by one of three men from the village with whom he had conflict. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett says that Bak was treated at […]
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Russell Hyde Junior has been charged for the aggravated assault and wounding of Jose Gonzalez, who was shot on Sunday in Camalote Village. Gonzalez was shot to the chest as he and a friend were returning from Buena Vista and stopped at the farm belonging to the deceased father of Hyde Junior. The shooting victim […]
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The spate of shooting started on Monday night in Camalote Village, in the Cayo District when Truman Parham was shot to the abdomen and arm by off-duty Police Corporal Luis Matute. An internal and criminal investigation is currently underway to determine whether the shooting was justified, since multiple recorded statements say that Parham entered the […]
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A forward operating base was launched on Wednesday at Hunting Caye in southern Belize. The base was long in coming; work started in 2014, but was abruptly halted after it was revealed that a Guatemalan company had been contracted to carry out the building of the strategic base which has national security importance. At Wednesday’s […]
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The price of fuel has been fluctuating in the last few weeks with the latest adjustment to diesel, a decreased of twenty-two cents and is now retailing for ten dollars and forty-five cents per gallon. Previous to that, regular fuel saw a decrease of thirty-three cents. At his last press conference, Prime Minister Dean Barrow […]
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G.O.B. has refused to reduce fuel tax. Entities such the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry have called on the government to re-strategize and review its fuel tax regime. Last month, the B.C.C.I. fired off a release in which is stated, “It is not hard to see that any increase in fuel cost quickly wreaks […]
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Petrocaribe is rolling no more. Belize is among eight countries affected by Venezuela’s PDVSA which has said that it is suspending its petroleum deliveries. Reports emerging from Venezuela suggest that PDVSA’s oil production is falling drastically. Coupled with the U.S. sanctions, its future financial status is bleak. Financial Secretary, Joseph Waight says that through the […]
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There are new developments in respect of the embattled Choice Bank Limited. In a first statement issued today, the financial institution informed its depositors that as of July second, they will be able to withdraw up to twenty-five thousand U.S. dollars from their respective accounts. The announcement comes after the offshore bank suspended all withdrawals […]
Two Guatemalan farmers from Peten were detained inside the Chiquibul National Park on Wednesday. Friends for Conservation and Development and Belize Defense Force personnel were on a patrol to document human footprint in the area of Cebada in the southern Chiquibul National Park, when they came across two farmers with two horses about two point […]
On Monday we reported a home invasion in Saint Matthew’s Village. Bibiana Kus and her family were accosted by a pair of armed men, who stormed her property sometime after nine p.m. on Saturday and stole an assortment of jewelry and her vehicle. The vehicle was recovered, but the jewelry remains missing. Today, police say […]
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Belize Telemedia Limited has spent forty million Belize dollars rolling out its National Broadband Plan. The project commenced in San Pedro in July 2017 and now the company wants to replace its outdated copper network with fiber network to the entire country. So government turned to Taiwan for a thirty-five-million-dollar loan for which it is […]
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A public consultation involving stakeholders within the Fort George Tourism Zone is underway at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex, the proposed staging ground for the relocation of tour buses in Belize City. The bottleneck caused by the parking of buses in the Fort George neighborhood, particularly in the vicinity of the Radisson Hotel and the […]
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According to Ian Jones, the National Sports Council is simply taking advantage of a business opportunity which it can parlay into the improvement of existing programs at the department. Ian Jones, Director, National Sports Council “We have the space available, we see it as a business opportunity basically for the sports council where we […]
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The conch season is closing from July first through to September thirtieth. During this period, anyone found in possession of the conch will be fined. The Belize Fisheries Department says that, “Any person or establishment found in possession of conch during the closed season will be charged and prosecuted in a Court of Law in […]
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Up north, the sugar cane crop at A.S.R./B.S.I. is officially closed. In a release issued today, the millers say that the final sugar cane fields have been cut and the last cane laden trucks trickled on Wednesday, marking the end of the 2017 -2018 grinding season. Farmers were able to deliver all their cane and […]
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Do you know your HIV status? The Ministry of Health and the National AIDS Commission have been working to ensure that you do. For some time now, there have been two major testing days annually for the public to know their status – one mid-year and the other in December first World AIDS day. Tonight […]
