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The 2022/2023 sugar crop officially began this morning, following long-drawn-out negotiations between the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association and B.S.I. As we reported on Friday, the B.S.C.F.A. and the miller signed a one-year interim agreement under the same conditions as last year’s crop. This was a watershed for the entire industry, as the Sugar Industry […]
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The Sugar Cane Production Committee is estimating that one point three million tons of sugarcane is available for grinding during the 2022/2023 crop. Due to the substantial amount of sugar cane to be milled, any time lost is costly. But, it was not all smooth sailing this morning at A.S.R./B.S.I.’s compound. There were further delays, […]
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As we said, A.S.R./B.S.I. and B.S.C.F.A. signed a one-year interim agreement. The mill initially proposed a two-year interim agreement, following a failed mediation exercise. Shawn Chavarria, the Director of Finance at A.S.R./B.S.I., shared the company’s rationale behind agreeing to a one-year interim agreement in place of its initial proposal. Shawn Chavarria, Director of Finance, […]
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In our conversation with S.I.C.B. Chairman Marcos Osorio, we also asked him about S.I.C.B.’s decision to push the start date to the twenty-seventh of December, despite the fact that the mill was prepared to accept sugarcane on the nineteenth. Osorio also responded to an allegation that the start date and the condition attached were primarily […]
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Tonight, two trucks, a large quantity of construction materials, a trailer full of furniture and twelve brand new golf carts are submerged off the coast of Ambergris Caye, after a barge carrying these items sunk. On Christmas Eve, a tugboat and barge left Belize City en route to San Pedro with three passengers onboard. Several […]
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Heavy rains that fell over the mountains last week spelled tragedy on Christmas Eve for an experienced tour guide employed at Caves Branch who had taken a group of tourists on an expedition and returned to find flash floods in the river they had to cross back over to reach their base. And on the […]
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The tragedy that claimed the life of Julio Escobar luckily did not result in additional deaths, but the flash floods that spread over the Cayo District on Christmas Eve left dozens of tourists stranded upriver from Caves Branch. The tourist and their guides had also gone out on an expedition – their choice was the […]
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Thirty-year-old Lindon Hinds, known to many in the Antelope Street Extension area as Monsta, was gunned down inside him in the wee early hours this morning. The incident happened at his home on Pitter Street. According to police, they visited the elevated wooden structure near the Lord Ridge Cemetery where the observed Hinds’ lifeless body […]
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A woman has been arrested and charged in San Pedro for the weekend stabbing of a resident of the San Pedrito area. Talita Cruikshank was reportedly socializing with Omar Nal at his home on Boxing Day when a verbal exchange resulted in Nal being stabbed in the left shoulder. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, […]
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Thirty-year-old Perry Stratford a British soldier attached to the British Army Training and Support Unit in Belize, BATSUB, was remanded to the Belize Central Prison earlier today after being arraigned for an alleged kidnapping, theft, harm and damage to property against his fiancée while in Belize. It is reported that on Christmas Eve, Stratford abducted […]
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Twenty-two-year-old Tafaree Sanchez, a Belize City resident, appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser today where he was arraigned on the charge of being a member of a gang. It is alleged that Sanchez, the son of former basketball player Edward “Bart” Sanchez, is a member of the P.I.V. gang. According to Sanchez, who appeared unrepresented, […]
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A group of ten Haitians was officially allowed to enter the country today after they were flagged by immigration officers at the Philip Goldson International Airport. They entered the country on Monday night, via a Tropic Air international flight, and were taken into custody until this morning when they were processed and released. Among the […]
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Rain did not stop the Chief’s “Single Cien” Boxing Day cycling race on Monday. Organized by the Weekend Warriors and Gonzalez Cycling Clubs, and sponsored by Santiago Castillo Junior, approximately one hundred and four riders competed for the title, including thirty-four elite riders. The one hundred kilometer race took a route from the Pallotti bus […]
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