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Gapi Vega is out in Orange Walk North. The former Deputy prime Minister had been inactive and without a portfolio for some time but resurfaced when John Saldivar launched his candidacy. His fall from grace came when it was exposed that his son Andre, had been given hundreds of thousands of dollars for land compensation […]
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Another U.D.P. minister to exit the political stage is Pickstock Area Representative Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington. He is demitting office at the end of his tenure and like Vega, he has also expressed publicly that he will not be seeking re-election under Faber’s stewardship of the United Democratic. It leaves his successor in quite a predicament, […]
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With desertions under this leadership come in, all eyes are on Patrick Faber. Senate President Darrell Bradley is one of the names popping up to fill one of those empty seats in the City. With all the dynamic changes within the party we asked him on Sunday for a perspective on these sudden developments and […]
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Robberies and other crimes continue to increase across the country; in broad daylight today, a Madisco delivery van was robbed. But is it an inside job? Surveillance camera images show as a gunman relieve one of two men inside the van of a bag containing an undisclosed amount of cash. The men, employees of Madisco, […]
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The Caribbean Court of Justice has ruled that the Court of Appeal should hear an appeal filed by D.P.P. Cheryl-Lynn Vidal in respect to Calaney Flowers. Flowers who was acquitted of the hit and run murder of her ex-boyfriend, Lyndon Morrison, is still fighting to remain free despite the matter making its way through the […]
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There is bad news tonight for persons who rely on the National Health Insurance Programme. A notice was issued today and it says that all referrals have been exhausted for the month of July, and that clients will now be required to pay for these services in full. The N.H.I.’s annual budget was cut and […]
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreck havoc on the economy and budget cuts are been imposed in most sectors, the foreign exchange crunch is not improving. Businesses are being advised that new limits are being imposed beginning this Wednesday. A cap had already been imposed earlier in the pandemic, and the new measure calls […]
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There are two new COVID-19 cases to report tonight. The first of these two cases is a repatriated Belizean. The patient is a male who arrived on a repatriation flight on Friday, July tenth. He is under quarantine and is asymptomatic. The second patient is a man in his fifties who was a patient at […]
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Two more cases of COVID-19 cases were recorded today. The concerning cases comes out of the Cayo District where an elderly man who found himself at the San Ignacio Community Hospital over the weekend with gastrointestinal symptoms and a loss of sense of taste. He is currently doing better at his home where he was […]
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Tourism stakeholders are counting down to the reopening of the P.G.I.A. on August fifteenth. But there are some in the tourism sector who don’t want the P.G.I.A. to reopen so soon because of the surge in cases in neighbouring countries and in the U.S.A., which is Belize’s largest tourism market. One of the properties that […]
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A long-delayed draft senate report being compiled by Senator Aldo Salazar on the immigration scandal of 2013 is being reviewed by his peers in the upper house. The scandal associated former Minister of State Elvin Penner with South Korean fugitive Wong Hong Kim and revolved around the issuance of a Belizean passport to Kim, who […]
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A policeman attached to the Intermediate Southern Formation in Independence Village is expected to be charged for the sexual assault of a seventeen-year-old female minor. On July sixth, the minor in the company of her mother reported that the officer, who took her into custody for driving a vehicle without a driver’s license, made an […]
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San Felipe and Blue Creek Villages are under quarantine and will remain in that state for no less than a month since Statutory Instrument one hundred came into effect on May tenth. Citizens trapped inside that area have to adhere to strict curfew regulations, no one goes in and no one comes out. Blue Creek […]
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In the west, locusts ravaging farmlands in Peten, Guatemala are near the border. They are about seventy miles away and making their way across Central America. In Guatemala, Prensa Libre is reporting that since Friday ‘large amounts of locusts have invaded cultivated fields, mainly corn and grasslands, putting the production of basic grains and livestock […]
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Organization for Plant and Animal Health has issued an alert to all member countries including Belize saying that the plague of the Central American locust has caused serious economic damage due to its invasions for centuries. OIRSA says that experts are predicting that due to environmental conditions and biological cycles of this species, high risks locust […]
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The annual Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate was pushed back as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Students across the region have been out of the classrooms and schools had to resort to online learning to prepare fourth form students for the regional exams. The Caribbean Examination Council, after consultations, decided on mid-July for the exams […]
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On Monday, Manatee Conservationist Jamal Galves and a team of volunteers rescued an orphan manatee calf. A concerned citizen spotted the calf in distress off the George Price Highway around mile six late Sunday evening. Galves and some volunteers went out early on Monday morning to assess the situation. There he found the calf alone […]
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An anti-gang state of emergency was declared once again for hotspots in south side Belize City last week in an effort to contain crimes linked to gang activity. The legal system is designed where incarceration is the last step, but due to the powers invoked by the S.O.E., thirty-one persons, including four females, were sent […]
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Legislation had been amended so that charges could be levelled against residents who are identified as being members of a gang or being the leader of a gang; the latter carries a stiffer penalty. The Crime Control and Criminal Justice Amendment Bill introduced stiffer penalties allowing the police to gather intelligence from various sources, including […]
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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams also says that the state of emergency can very well be extended past the month, but that will be determined prior to its expiration. He does say, however, that there are a number of initiatives that have been put in place to steer these men away from the criminal justice […]
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