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Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber is the most senior politician on the opposition bench. The former leader of the United Democratic Party has won his seat as a member of the House of Representatives as many as five times since he entered electoral politics almost two decades ago. He has also been at odds with […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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In an interview with News Five via phone this morning, U.D.P. Chairman Mike Peyrefitte explained the role of the Nomination Committee which is reportedly being chaired by Shirlette Martinez. While he is listed as an ex-officio member of several committees within the United Democratic Party, Peyrefitte says that he is not a member of the […]
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Is the decision of the Nomination Committee final? That’s a question we posed to U.D.P. Chairman Peyrefitte earlier today. He referred to a particular clause within the letter written by the chair of the committee to posit that the decision taken may be revisited at another time. Isani Cayetano “Are these decisions final? I […]
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What about the Shyne factor? Is the continued tailspin of the United Democratic Party the result of poor leadership? According to former U.D.P. Chairman Alberto August, working with Shyne Barrow has been a challenge and uniting the fractured party seems to be a daunting task. Isani Cayetano “Does this situation have to do with […]
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P.U.P. Chairman Henry Charles Usher chimed in on the infighting within the Opposition, as it is all being played out on social media. He says that he is surprised by the disrespect and all that is happening. Henry Charles Usher, Chairman, P.U.P. “I am surprised first by the level of disrespect being shown between […]
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One of the promises of the People’s United Party heading into the 2020 General Elections was that the minimum wage would be increased from three dollars and thirty cents to five dollars an hour. In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister John Briceño assured the people who fall in this income bracket that the minimum […]
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The legislation for the People’s Constitutional Commission was tabled in the House of Representative for first reading in June. Minor amendments were made and at the next house sitting, the second and third readings will be held and it will be passed into law. Even before June, a lot of work has been done and […]
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On Tuesday, the Belize Water Services Limited and the Belize Water Services Workers Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding to implement a newly revised Collective Bargaining Agreement. The last C.B.A. expired on November 1st, 2021, and the Labor Department needs to validate the C.B.A. before an official signing can be done. The final draft has […]
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About sixteen youth volunteers from across the country will take part in a four-day training in disaster preparedness, spearheaded by the Belize Red Cross Society. The training will be held under an ongoing project called Caribbean Prepared. It comes at a time when Belize is most prone to hurricanes at this time of the year, […]
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The National Fire Service has concluded its investigation into a fire near Holy Emmanuel Street in Belize City and the result points to an electrical flaw. Just before two o’clock, in the wee small hours of Thursday, as the Belisle family slept inside their homes in the family yard, a fire broke in the largest […]
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And while Mortis was speaking with News Five, a team of firemen was deployed to Rockville at mile twenty-one on the George Price Highway where a concrete house was on fire. He gave us preliminary details of the fire. Kenneth Mortis, Station Supervisor, National Fire Service “This information has just been received to us […]
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Police have made an arrest in connection with the murder of twenty-nine-year-old San Ignacio resident Matthew Smith. The murder suspect has been identified as Christian Kelly, a twenty-two-year-old a resident of Roman Catholic Street in San Ignacio Town. As we reported, Smith was stabbed to death on Independence Day while attending an event at the […]
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Five small business owners will be receiving ten thousand dollars each in seed funding from the Belize Natural Energy Charitable Trust. It is a sizeable amount of money being granted to the second cohort of B.N.E. Charitable Fund’s Dare to Dream Initiative. Hundreds of entrepreneurs from the six districts will first participate in an Entrepreneurship […]
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Just before news time, Prime Minister John Briceño addressed the Seventy -Seventh United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York. At the opening of his address, P.M. Briceño discussed the ongoing international conflict between Ukraine and Russia, the rise in global poverty rates, food security, and the climate crisis that Small Island […]
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Last week, the Belize Bus Association raised issue over what it said was the practice of buses from neighbouring countries running through Belize and picking up other passengers along the same route, which affects their business. These buses were running routes through Belize with specific destinations prior to the COVID pandemic. But the runs have […]
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Since the land borders and sea ports reopened in February, there has been a significant number of irregular migrations into Mexico, prompting Mexican authorities to quickly step in and repatriate illegal migrants back to Belize. Ambassador Arnold says that sometimes minors are caught up in these circumstances because of the decisions of their parents or […]
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When Mexican President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador visited Belize in May, it opened the way for greater trade relations to occur between our two countries. Soon after Obrador returned to Mexico, he signed a document that allows for Belizean agricultural producers to export their products to Mexico tax-free. Ambassador Arnold shared that that has piqued […]
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Eleven years ago on September twenty-first, 2011, Joshua Abraham, a nine-year-old student was fatally shot on Victoria Street in Belize City. In the wake of his senseless killing, his mother Marcia Argalles worked to revitalise a neighbourhood park on North Front Street, which had been left abandoned. Multiple attempts were made, but today, the Victoria […]
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When you hear Coconu Bwai, it’s usually associated with a makeshift weapon used by the Baymen in the battle against the Spaniards on St. Georges Caye. But these days it’s associated with a household bruk-down artist. This week Sabreena Daly had a sit down well well-known calypsonian, Coconu Bwai. Sabreena Daly, Reporting Since 2014, […]
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