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Belizeans trapped overseas are returning home in a trickle via the ongoing repatriation exercise being led by the ministries of Foreign Affairs, Health and National Security. This afternoon, a United Airlines flight arrived at the Philip Goldson International Airport with forty-five passengers onboard, a majority of whom are Belizean citizens. The P.G.I.A. remains closed indefinitely; […]
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So far, there have been twenty-two confirmed cases of COVID 19 in the country. The latest case involves one of three Guatemalans, who was busted for illegal entry into Belize, earlier this week. The men were caught in the company of a Belizean who facilitated their movement through the western border. That individual remains in […]
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As we said, patient twenty-two is a Guatemalan border jumper. He and two other Guatemalan men and a Belizean were detained over the weekend at a checkpoint in Unitedville Village, Cayo. The four men reportedly entered the country illegally through the western border and were swabbed and placed in quarantine at the Victor Galvez Stadium […]
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Waters have now receded and traffic is flowing on both the George Price and Hummingbird Highways. Incessant rains and the force of flood waters damaged the highways, rendering them impassable to traffic. In the south, the highway was restored hours after the water gushed across the thoroughfare. At Mile thirty-eight, the culverts collapsed disconnecting the […]
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The House of Representatives meets this coming Friday in Belmopan; at its last sitting in March the House dealt with legislating the State of Emergency which now expires at the end of June. On the agenda for next week’s meeting are four loan motions which the Prime Minister will be introducing. Government is seeking a […]
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In the south, a stop order has brought to a screeching halt the construction of a service station at the entrance of Punta Gorda Town that is the subject of public concern. The private sale of prime real estate from one Asian businessman to another raised eyebrows among residents who, for many years, believed that […]
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Last week on June tenth, Opposition Leader John Briceño officially resigned from the COVID Nineteen National Oversight Committee. The committee was formed when the novel coronavirus pandemic broke and was co-chaired by Briceño and Prime Minister Dean Barrow. The number of cases has not increased significantly since March, and Briceño believes it is time for […]
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The Belize Defence Force says that plans are already in place to address some of the internal wrongdoings outlined in the investigation into the allegations at the training company. Today they hosted the media in an almost two-hour long discussion before they fielded questions about the investigation into allegations of a sexual nature, extortion, physical […]
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Now this plan, comes on the heels of a number of allegations in the training school and more recently following an allegation of rape for which Sergeant Margarito Pop was criminally charged. But Pop, from what we are told, still hasn’t been placed on interdiction. The B.D.F. says that final sign off comes from the […]
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During today’s interview, the Commander also spoke about the direction the B.D.F. is moving. He acknowledges that times are evolving and things need to change, now that may sound like good talk and all, but the General says he is committed to doing so. And on the topic of change, women are at the centre […]
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And finally on the topic of B.D.F for tonight, the press also took the opportunity to ask General Ortega about the issue of the border jumpers escaping from quarantine facilities. There were two incidents, one at the ITVET over a month ago and more recently in the south. The soldiers, as explained by the B.D.F. […]
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The Supreme Court has been operating with a chronic shortages of puisne judges but an attempt to fill the void through new appointments is meeting challenges. That is because recent submission and interview processes did not include the president of the Bar Association who has a rightful seat on the Judicial and Legal Services Commission. […]
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You may know him on social media as Tape Boss, but tonight Roderick Wade is trying to clear his name after a crude joke on Facebook backfired on him. Several weeks ago, Wade posted a video onto his social media account along with a narrative that purportedly described an unwanted sexual encounter with an unknown […]
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An eighteen year old youth is out on bail two days after he was remanded to the Belize Central Prison for having sexual intercourse with a minor. Attorney, Oscar Selgado today argued for bail for Rasheed Coffin before Supreme Court Justice, Colin Williams and was successful. Justice Williams granted Coffin bail of seven thousand dollars […]
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A man who was caught walking out of 88 Shopping Centre on Central American Boulevard on Thursday with three pounds of pork chops which he ordered and did not pay for, was fined today when he appeared before Magistrate, Stephanie Gillett. Kenroy Gomez told the Court that he finds himself in all kinds of financial […]
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Two men were arraigned today for the brazen Wednesday evening robbery of Gaz Tomza on the George Price Highway. It is alleged that Robert Spain and Clive Hendricks, armed with a weapon, entered the business office sometime around four o’clock on Wednesday evening and relieved Jim Catzim, an employee of Gas Tomza of three cell phones and […]
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As you heard earlier, flooding has affected the western and southern parts of the country and it is anticipated that up north, flood levels on the Rio Hondo at Blue Creek, Santa Cruz, San Antonio, San Roman, and Douglas are rising. The New River at Tower Hill and Caledonia is above normal and also rising. […]
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The National Fire Service is getting ready to pilot its emergency medical technician services in the west. As a part of its preparation, the Fire Service received two ambulances; a Ford E350 Ambulance and International 4300 Ambulance. The emergency response vehicles were transported by the U.S. Government on a C17 military aircraft from Charleston Air […]
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This coming Sunday, fathers will be honoured in a number of ways with cook-outs, cards, gifts and other forms. Father’s Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June and much like Mother’s Day; it is an opportunity to shower fathers around the world with love. It is not a public holiday but it is […]
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