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The Belize International Services Limited, the parent company for the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize, IMMARBE, and the International Business Companies Registry, I.B.C., was forcibly acquired by government under former Prime Minister Dean Barrow in 2013. Seven years later, in July 2020, the Caribbean Court of Justice determined that the appropriation of B.I.S.L. was […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The decision handed down by the C.C.J. two years ago disparaged the Barrow administration, describing the appropriation of the registries as, “constitutionally immoral and failing to meet the standards set for compliance with the value of the rule of law”. Furthermore, it continued to criticize the absence of good faith, fairness, and practicality exercised by […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Secretary General Luis Almagro, of the Organization of American States, called on Prime Minister John Briceño during a visit to Belize today. The head of the O.A.S. last visited Belize in April 2016. This morning at the Leigh Richardson Building, the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sec Gen Almagro met with the prime […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The territorial dispute between Guatemala and Belize, despite the matter being taken to the World Court for settlement, is also an area of concern for the O.A.S. Notwithstanding the pending outcome, Secretary General Almagro urges both countries to continue strengthening their cooperation through confidence building measures. Luis Almagro, Secretary General, O.A.S. “We should all […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Notwithstanding the protracted nature of the age-old dispute and the funding that has gone into keeping the O.A.S. office at the Adjacency Zone open, Secretary General Almagro and Prime Minister Briceño have pledged that the work at the western border will continue to be financed for at least another eighteen months, beginning in 2023. […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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It’s a quiet fishing community off the Coastal Road, fifty-three miles by land from Belize City and twenty-seven miles from Dangriga. But residents of Gales Point Manatee say they have reason to become vociferous in order to protect the sanctity of their community the way it has been known to be for generations. This weekend, […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Ladyville tour guide and businessman, Benigno Betancourt, popularly known as Ben, met an untimely death on Saturday evening when he drowned while on an expedition in Gales Point Manatee Village. The forty-six-year-old had reportedly gone to spend the weekend with his family at the Manatee Lodge and went on a canoe on the lagoon. On […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, the Police Department’s Communications Director, Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood, confirmed that it was Betancourt who took his family on the lagoon and that he jumped into the water to test the depth of the lagoon. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department “Sometime around four p.m., in the village of Gales Point […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The United Democratic Party’s National Party Council met over the weekend, in another attempt at putting an end to the internal strife that threatens to destroy the U.D.P. at its core. A meeting several weeks ago between former Party Leader Patrick Faber, Albert Area Representative Tracy Panton, and current Party Leader Shyne Barrow, with the […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Despite the internal turmoil, the United Democratic Party is planning a protest for Tuesday in Belize City. On Thursday of last week, Assistant Commissioner of Police Howell Gillett, the Regional Commander for Eastern Division, denied the U.D.P. Chairman’s application to conduct a protest. Still, Peyrefitte told reporters today that the party will be out in […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Chairman Peyrefitte contends that his application to protest was denied on political grounds. He accuses the Commissioner of Police of attempting to muffle the U.D.P., asserting that ComPol Williams’ feelings are hurt and that he is thin skin. When asked how protestors would respond to an attempt by police officers to shut down the protest, […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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A man is in police custody following a fire in Dangriga on Saturday night. A reportedly intoxicated Michael Flores visited his father’s house in the Wagierale area of the town. They got into an argument before the twenty-four-year-old took out a machete and attacked his father, fifty-one-year-old Santos Flores. Flores believes that his son then […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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This afternoon, police released the official results of a post-mortem examination carried out on the body of Leroy Cus. The graphic designer of Belmopan died from multiple penetrating stab wounds to the chest. Cus was senselessly robbed and killed as he was walking from the bus terminal in Belmopan. Over the weekend, reports surfaced of […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Three men were the victims of an armed robbery on Saturday night in Belize City. Darwin Henderson reported to police that around ten-thirty p.m., he was on Baracat Street with his son and another person when they were accosted by two men; one brandished a firearm. The trio was searched and robbed of an undisclosed […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Orange Walk resident Elias Reynoso has been charged with Manslaughter by Negligence, following a fatal road traffic accident in Ladyville. Details are that Reynoso was behind the wheel of a pickup truck on Poinsetta Street around six-thirty p.m. on Friday when he knocked down and killed eight-year-old Mercedes Campos who was with her mother at […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The Premier League of Belize (P.L.B.) is investigating the circumstances surrounding a brawl that took place at the end of a football match between Altitude FC and Verdes FC in Independence Village. At the end of the game, a group of fans stormed on to the football field and attacked a member of Verdes FC’s […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Tonight, health practitioners from across the country are mourning the loss of a devoted Belizean doctor. Senior Surgeon at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Doctor Jose Moguel passed away over the weekend while under the care of his colleagues, after being diagnosed with stage four colon cancer. He served as a general practitioner at the […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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HIV/AIDS continues to be a priority in Belize and the National Health Insurance, in collaboration with the Social Security Board, has been able to secure an almost three million U.S.-dollar grant from the Global Fund to support the efforts of stakeholders in preventing and managing HIV/AIDS and related health threats. During a signing agreement for the […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Over the weekend, the Saint Martin’s Community Hub distributed approximately one hundred and fifty school bags and stationeries to primary school children across the community. The hub is one of six established in partnership with the U.S. Embassy back in 2020, to create employment opportunities for reformed gang members. Fast track to 2022 and these […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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They competed for the first time regionally in 2018, as power-lifters, and came back with medals. That set the stage for the Belize Power-lifting Association to once again prepare a team to represent the Jewel beyond our borders. They spent last week in Panama at the North American Power-lifting Championships, where the eight-member team, despite […]
Written on August 22, 2022 | Posted in
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