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A fiery debate topped the Senate’s agenda today on the Belize-Guatemala dispute. It happened when Senator Eamon Courtenay presented a Motion for Belize to accede to the Treaty of Bogota, to which Honduras is a signatory. The treaty stipulates for a general obligation on the signatories to settle their disputes through peaceful means and also […]
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U.D.P Senator, Mike Peyrefitte, who was in government when the referendum was held on whether Belize should go to the I.C.J. with Guatemala, roundly rejected Belize’s accession to the Bogota Treaty. He suggested that the government takes the issue to Belizeans and if necessary, hold another referendum on whether Belize should accede to the Bogota […]
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Following Peyrefitte’s argument, Senator Courtenay pointed out that it was Peyrefitte and his government in 2019 that held the I.C.J. Referendum without disclosing the Honduras claim to Belizeans. Courtenay explained that they are now prohibited from sharing everything on the matter, so as to protect the integrity of Belize’s case against Guatemala. Senator Eamon […]
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Despite Peyrefitte’s efforts, a majority of the senators supported Courtenay’s motion, including Kevin Herrera, senator for the business sector, Janelle Chanona for the non-government organizations, and Reverend Moses Benguche for the Churches. Notably, the National Trade Union Congress of Belize remained neutral on the matter, as their Senator, Luke Martinez outlined in his presentation. […]
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After a year and a half of planning and carefully coordinating with a team of designers and technology experts from various departments across the Government of Belize, the Briceño administration has introduced a new passport. The travel document, along with a new electronic passport issuance and control system, succeeds an older, antiquated process that was […]
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During the senate proceedings today, parliamentarians also weighed on the new passport that the Immigration Department has introduced. Over the past few weeks, information circulating on social media has raised public concern over increased fees for the new travel document. But, contrary to those reports, the Leader of Government Business, Senator Eamon Courtenay, assured Belizeans […]
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Conservative and Unionist Party Leader Rishi Sunak, a former chancellor of Exchequer, will become Britain’s next prime minister on Tuesday. He is set to become Britain’s youngest head of government in over two centuries and its first leader of color. Sunak is the son of Indian immigrants. He won the contest to former Prime Minister […]
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The Belize Coast Guard is one boat short of an entire fleet of patrol vessels. That’s because on Saturday night, a thirty-eight foot Boston Whaler, outfitted with three, two hundred and fifty horsepower outboard engines, was gutted by fire. It’s a massive loss for the maritime law enforcement agency which is investigating the fire, along […]
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Police have formally arrested and charged Raymundo Castellanos, a fisherman, for arson in relation to a fire last Thursday in the Riversdale community in southern Belize. Just after midday on October twentieth, police responded to a report of a house fire in the Riversdale area and found a wooden house belonging to Zulma Aguirre engulfed […]
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There is a murder to report tonight, following the passing of John Jeffords this afternoon. Jeffords was admitted at the K.H.M.H. in a critical condition for injuries he sustained during a beat down on Friday. His sister, Osey Jeffords reported to police that the forty-two-year-old mental health patient of a George Street address left home […]
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A Caye Caulker resident is in a critical, but stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was stabbed during an altercation on the island last Thursday. Rafael Marin was discovered on Avenida Langosta Street suffering from a stab wound to his lower abdomen. Investigation revealed that at about ten p.m., the nineteen-year-old […]
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Investigators, as well as a family from Hopkins Village, are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination on the body of Abraham Rodriguez. Rodriguez, whose body washed ashore over the weekend near a resort in the village, is believed to have had a mental health condition. Police were called out to retrieve the body which […]
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A thirty-eight-year-old man died at the San Ignacio Hospital’s Accident and Emergency ward on Sunday night. Initial reports were that Calcutta resident, Manuel Manzanero was awaiting treatment when he collapsed and died outside the ward. Those reports brought the hospital under heavy scrutiny, because it would mean that a patient in critical condition was not […]
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There is a disturbing report of rape coming out of Ladyville tonight. A seventeen-year-old female is claiming that she was out socialising with a group of persons and ended up at Eruptions Nightclub. While the minor was not to be at the nightclub, she says that at some point, she lost consciousness and woke up […]
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An elderly U.S. national living in San Ignacio is the most recent victim of a home invasion. On Saturday, seventy-five-year-old Sheldon Dannelly was at home with a female friend when two gunmen entered his house and robbed them of approximately twenty-four thousand dollars in cash and items. These include a wallet containing three hundred U.S. […]
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Welcome back to another edition of Sports Monday. I am Paul Lopez. Tonight we will dive right into what we have for you, with our player profile of the week. On Saturday, we spent some time with an ambitious, young boxer from Belize City. He is Amir Rudon. He has an incredible story and he […]
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