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Voting started at ten o’clock in the morning at the ITVET compound in Belize City; the delegates from Corozal were first to cast their votes for the new leader-elect of the United Democratic Party. The voting continued up until one o’clock with the Belize City delegates last in line to vote. Less than two hours […]
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While Patrick Faber is the new leader elect of the U.D.P., he will not be sitting in the Prime Minister’s chair in the current U.D.P. term. And that’s because Prime Minister Dean Barrow will not be demitting office, as he had said, before his tenure as head of the U.D.P. comes to an end in […]
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Pickstock Area Representative Wilfred Elrington garnered the least number of votes in Sunday’s leadership convention. Ten votes in all, which is five less than the total number of voting delegates permitted in the constituency. Going into the event, the Minister of Foreign Affairs said he was not up to campaigning. He had also indicated to […]
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Punta Gorda Mayor Ashton McKenzie will not be offering himself as a candidate in the 2021 municipal elections. That’s because he has indicated that he will be retiring from electoral politics at the end of this term. Though he had endorsed Saldivar, McKenzie, who has spent the last six years as a member of the […]
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The U.D.P. Secretary General Pearl Stuart is also stepping down. The former executive director of the National Committee for Families and Children took up the post in 2008 when the U.D.P. assumed office under the leadership of Dean Barrow. Stuart has remained in that position since and has served the party faithfully under the PM, […]
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And from politics to health; Belize has fifteen active cases of COVID-19 with nine being in the Orange Walk District. On Friday, four more cases were identified and the persons placed at the quarantine facility in Orange Walk Town. All seven cases were identified as persons, who had been crossing the border into Mexico through […]
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According to Doctor Manzanero, officials have not been able to trace whether or not the infected persons travelled outside their community. He says that the family has not been forthcoming with information but nonetheless the community of Blue Creek is cooperating. If further cases are identified, Doctor Manzanero says that random sampling will be increased. […]
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As you heard, the infected family has not been forthcoming with information to officials about their recent travels. That family remains in quarantine in the Orange Walk Multi-purpose Complex and today from within the facility one of the parents spoke out against authorities. According to the mother, her daughters were never caught illegally crossing the […]
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Tonight, there is a tragic case of fratricide to report down south. It’s not often we report on such crimes – where a sibling kills another – and when you hear why, it makes for an even sadder case. The brothers were reportedly drinking and had an argument over a cellular phone and that is […]
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Police also spoke today about this latest murder. ACP Joseph Myvett told the media that the men were intoxicated and they believe that contributed to what transpired. Here’s the police’s official report after they were called out to the scene later that night. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “An investigation was […]
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Guinea Grass resident, Minor Betancourt was hit on the chest by a volley of rubber bullets on Saturday night. Betancourt was among a group of persons hanging out at La Cabana’s Cool Spot when a fight broke out. When police arrived to cool down the tensions, Betancourt was shot as he attempted to free his […]
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The sentencing of the five men convicted of the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas has been further adjourned. Today, William “Danny” Mason, Ashton Vanegas, Ernest Castillo and sibling, Keiron and Terrence Fernandez were to reappear in the Supreme Court in Belize City where trial judge Antoinette Moore was to commence the sentencing proceedings; defense attorneys […]
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Attorney Norman Rodriguez is also representing the Board of the Claver College Extension in Punta Gorda in a lawsuit brought against the church. According to Rodriguez, the Saint Peter Claver Parish issued a notice of eviction to the institution for the end of June 2020. Due to quick legal action, a stay has been secured […]
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San Andres villager, Earl Armstrong is arrested and charged for a slew of traffic offenses, including Manslaughter by Negligence, following a fatal road traffic accident on the night of July tenth. Reports are that Nestor Grant was travelling in the pan of a pickup truck driven at the time by Armstrong. Somehow, Grant fell from […]
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The Belize Police Department is also investigating the death by hanging of a man inside the Corozal Police jail cell. Rayford Anderson was taken into custody for a domestic violence report and when an officer went to make checks, Anderson was dead. ACP Joseph Myvett says protocols were followed, but an internal investigation is nevertheless […]
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The economy has been ravaged by the COVID-19 and up to date, not all the assistance sought from the international financial institutions has been received including from International Monetary Fund which has placed the country at number eighty-eight on the list of nations seeking aid. Prime Minister Barrow said on Sunday that monies are already […]
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The Barrow administration is being called upon to exercise transparency, accountability and good governance. This comes on the heels of long term contracts recently issued past the life of the current government. The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry in a release today said that the government continues to operate within the grey areas on […]
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Today, the University of Belize Faculty and Staff Union was officially certified as the Bargaining Agent for Full-time and Temporary Assignment of Faculty and Staff employed for two consecutive twelve-month contracts. The certification included a virtual segment where the Union representatives and UB management witnessed the signing at the Labour Office in Belmopan. A release issued […]
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A family of five needs assistance to recover from a fire that damaged their house. Kendra Timmons and her four children were watching television on Sunday night when the fire broke on the ground floor of the house they occupied. The family managed to get out but part of the building was ravaged by the […]
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There is more on the crime blotter. Walter Castillo is in a stable condition at the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan after he was chopped multiple times during a fight. On Saturday night, police responded to a brawl inside a bar Armenia, just outside Belmopan on the Hummingbird Highway. The brawl involved Castillo and a […]
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There were two robberies reported over the weekend in the south; one included the assault and robbery of an elderly man in Jacintoville, on the Southern Highway in Toledo. Sixty-five-year-old American expat, Julian Fischer was inside his property in the village when a two masked men approached him. He was beaten and taken inside the […]
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Meanwhile in Independence Village, ACP Joseph Myvett says that police in that area are looking for a known suspect in a robbery at Anna’s Store in the village. While the robber was not armed, police say that the proprietor was pinned to the ground before he was robbed of an undisclosed amount of money. It […]
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No one goes in and out from the villages of San Felipe and Blue Creek in the Orange Walk District, but there is movement of poultry and agricultural products. Those two communities have been placed under a State of Emergency given the increase of active cases of COVID-19 in Blue Creek. There is a fear […]
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Traditionally, around this time, the Belize Police Department would put off an entire week of activities to celebrate police week. But due to COVID-19 pandemic police will instead be celebrating a citizen awareness initiative. The National Citizen Appreciation Day takes place on Wednesday, July fifteenth; all major police stations across the country will be identifying […]
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