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Belize recorded its highest number of new COVID-19 cases over the weekend. It has sent the Ministry of Health on high alert since schools and the Philip Goldson International Airport are scheduled to reopen in a matter of days as the situation goes downhill. So, an alarming nine new cases between Saturday and Sunday drove […]
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Today at the National Assembly building, Prime Minister Dean Barrow expressed his frustration with border jumpers, who continue to present serious threats. Most of the persons infected with COVID-19 are either border jumpers or have been in contact with someone who crossed illegally. Contrabandistas continue to operate along the northern and western borders, Belizeans continue […]
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There are three positive cases reported in the Corozal District; two persons arrived via the northern border entry point as part of the repatriation process and are in hotel quarantine. They are also asymptomatic. The third person is a female officer attached to the Corozal Police Station. She is one of two persons in the […]
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Also in the north, the Orange Walk Town Council has temporarily closed the market in that municipality. The reason is because a COVID-19 patient’s family in the Orange Walk District was conducting business at the market and now the area needs to be sanitized. Today, we spoke with Mayor Kevin Bernard who shares that while […]
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Even as there is a spike in the number of cases, government is preparing for the reopening of the Philip Goldson International Airport on August fifteenth and the soft reopening of the tourism industry to international tourists. Today, four bills were introduced and passed in one sitting. The Electronic Transactions Amendment seeks to promote the development of […]
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While parliamentarians adopted the extension to the period of public emergency in the south side of Belize City, the motion, which was also tabled at the House of Representatives today, was hotly debate. The continued increase of crime, especially murders, has prompted the Barrow administration to extend the State of Emergency for an additional sixty […]
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According to members of the ruling United Democratic Party, Belize is not the only country in the region that has used legislation to curb crime. Jamaica and other Caribbean countries have imposed state of emergencies on certain communities in order to deal with major crimes. The government says that the extended S.O.E. will produce the […]
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington knocked his own government during today’s sitting. Elrington is a senior member of the United Democratic Party, which took over the reins of the government in 2008. So for twelve years, Elrington has been minister, but as he departs from politics, Elrington has chosen to be very frank about […]
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As Elrington concluded his rant against his party and the government, Cayo South Area Representative Julius Espat brought it to Elrington’s attention that after three terms in office, Elrington failed along with his party. Espat described the Foreign Minister’s remarks as hypocrisy at its highest. Julius Espat, Area Representative, Cayo South “Talk is cheap. […]
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Disagreeing with some of Elrington’s comments was his cabinet colleague, Michael Finnegan. Finnegan pointed out to Elrington that the Samuel Haynes Institute of Excellence was built to arrest the societal problems in south side Belize City, but apparently it has also failed to do so. Michael Finnegan, Area Representative, Mesopotamia “I listened to my friend member […]
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The Port of Belize and the Christian Workers Union made history on Sunday when they signed the first Collective Bargaining Agreement. It’s the first C.B.A. in sixteen years after countless negotiations and demonstrations and strikes that span multiple presidencies. But the culmination of the signing was rather relaxed and amicable, despite the contentious past two […]
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It has been a rocky journey to the signing of this first ever collective bargaining agreement for the stevedores. The relationship between the two deteriorated two weeks ago when more than thirty employees became redundant and tensions escalated at the compound. So what did it take to get this C.B.A.? Is it the violent confrontation […]
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The collective bargaining agreement was signed on Sunday afternoon. By this morning, there was a request for an urgent meeting for stevedores to file a grievance to the Labour Department. A letter, signed by Arlette Hutchinson, is seeking the meeting for a breach of “Duty for Fair Representation’’ against the C.W.U. Hutchinson writes that two […]
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The C.W.U. and Port of Belize have signed a Collective Bargaining for the stevedores. On Tuesday, the C.W.U. is set to begin a new round of negotiations for a new C.B.A., this time it’s for the staff of the P.B.L. Today, they decided to take that cry to the streets in a demonstration which ended […]
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While the extension of S.O.E. in the south side was on debate in the House, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, at the police press briefing also in Belmopan, confirmed that he had requested an additional sixty days of lockdown. This would allow some thirty-four persons, including four females, who are detained as a result of […]
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Back to COVID-19…the increase in number of cases has triggered the Belize Police Department to tighten up on the enforcement of quarantine laws. Commissioner of Police Williams says directives have been issued to officers to intensify enforcement of social distancing and the wearing of masks. ComPol Williams also says that an incentive will be issued […]
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ComPol Chester Williams is also pushing for stricter measures on violators of the COVID-19 regulations. Williams said today that he is advocating for an amendment to the quarantine statutory instrument to go further to hold establishment owners liable for not ensuring that patrons wear face masks and observe social distance. Chester Williams, Commissioner of […]
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The body of an elderly man was discovered in Punta Gorda today. Just after nine o’clock this morning, police were called out to the Joe Taylor Bridge in that southern municipality where they discovered the body of eighty-five-year-old Hugh Ordonez. ACP Joseph Myvett gave preliminary information, which suggests that there was no foul play in […]
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In the north, a forty-millimetre grenade launcher was discovered in Corozal. On Saturday afternoon, officers searched an overgrown property in the Dominguez Layout area and discovered the suspected military issued firearm, whose origin cannot be determined at this time. While no one was in the area, ACP Joseph Myvett says that the weapon was found […]
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A taxi operator remains in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot to the head by his fare here in the City. On Sunday, Walter Staine was driving on North Front Street when it is believed that a passenger in his taxi fired a single shot to his head. […]
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A U.S. retiree was injured in a home invasion in San Pedro over the weekend. Reports are that seventy-five-year-old John Wallace was at home in the San Pablo area on Saturday afternoon when around three-thirty, a Hispanic man entered his house. A struggle ensued and Wallace was cut multiple times to the hands and body […]
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He was detained by police minutes after he inflicted a fatal stab wound to William Rubio near the Pound Yard Bridge on the night of July twenty-ninth. Over the weekend, Shedrack White was charged for the murder of the Saint Matthew’s villager. Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser this afternoon remanded White to the Belize Central Prison. […]
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A pair of thieves, believed to be responsible for a series of robberies in the west, hit a supermarket once again on Friday night. Around seven-thirty as patrons went about their shopping at Twenty-Eight Supermarket on the Bullet Tree Road in San Ignacio, two gunmen wearing caps and face masks entered and robbed the owner […]
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Magistrate Emerson Banner today sentenced Samuel August Senior to seven years imprisonment after he found him guilty on Friday of the November second, 2018 robbery of a woman’s vehicle, which he later crashed into a parked backhoe on the Philip Goldson Highway. The father of three was receiving medical attention at the K.H.M.H. for an […]
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As COVID-19 cases continue to grow, there are concerns across the country about the reopening of schools. Parents and students are preparing at home in anticipation of the new school year after being out of the classroom for four months and a half. It’s perhaps the longest break they have had in years and now […]
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