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November twentieth will make three years since Prime Minister John Briceño has been in office, elected by the people of this country. For the past two days, the PM has been on the ground engaging not only with voters and residents, but he’s also having pep talks with students in Toledo and Stann Creek, as […]
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The prime minister’s tour of the south is currently in the Dangriga constituency, which includes Hope Creek and Sarawee. There have been significant developments in this division that residents have been clamouring for. Prime Minister John Briceño and Doctor Louis Zabaneh say that they are spending the money wisely and that the people can expect […]
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We’ve been reporting on the citrus industry being on life support; the once booming sector that, at its peak, was exporting millions of boxes of juices annually. It has been holding on by a thin thread, producing less than a million boxes yearly. The industry was hit by citrus greening years ago and has never […]
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The Prime Minister also reacted to the record sugar cane price that stakeholders in the industry realised this year. On Monday, A.S.R./B.S.I. announced that all cane farmers’ associations with whom it conducts business received eighty-six dollars and twenty-eight cents per ton of cane. It’s the highest in eight years, which the PM says is good […]
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If you’ve been going to major supermarkets in several municipalities, including Belize City, you would find that there is no sugar on the shelves. As early as the beginning of October, residents had been complaining of a sugar scarcity, despite the millers saying that there is no shortage of plantation white sugar. It is because […]
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Earlier today, the High Court of Justice Genevieve Chabot handed down a decision in respect of a matter filed by Deputy Commissioner of Police Bart Jones against the Security Services Commission. DCP Jones applied for permission to seek judicial review of a decision taken by the Security Services Commission to promote Doctor Richard Rosado to […]
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The amendment to the Firearm Act was passed in the House at the last sitting and is expected to have already been signed into law. So anyone who wants a gun license must wait a bit until the board is constituted. Today, the Minister of Home Affairs told reporters that the board, which will now […]
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Police reported today that on Tuesday night around seven-thirty, while they were conducting patrols in the Wilson Street area of Belize City, they saw four persons walking on the street and stopped and searched them. The search of nineteen-year-old Erak King, eighteen-year-old Jadaey Williams, and two minors, aged seventeen and sixteen, yielded nothing incriminating. But […]
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As we reported in the last story, Commissioner Williams presided over a conference of the Regional Commission of Chiefs of Police and Police Directors of Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Colombia to which he was elected president several months ago. Today, Williams told the media where they identified their strengths and weaknesses. Chester […]
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Minister of Home Affairs, Kareem Musa, says that he and Commissioner Williams will review the details of the two-day conference. On the face of it, one of the challenges of arguably all police departments is the issue of finding adequate resources to address matters of crime. And, as far as Belize’s challenge on that issue, […]
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Brothers Tyrone and Ellis Meighan have beaten yet another case in court. In October when we reported that the brothers were found not guilty of being members of a gang, we also told you that they had a pending case of aggravated assault to answer to. Well, today the brothers received more good news. The […]
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We’re witnessing it in the present administration and we’ve also seen it in the last administration – that elected parliamentarian refuse to attend House meetings and represent the people who put them there. The Area Representative for Queen’s Square, Denise ‘Sista B’ Barrow, remains absent from House meetings for almost every session since she was […]
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As we reported earlier in the newscast, the prime minister is on a tour of southern Belize and among the many stops was a visit to the Stann Creek Institute for Technical and Vocational Education and Training located in Hope Creek Village. The school is located in a flood prone area and is affected even […]
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Twenty-four women entrepreneurs from Belize City are on their way to improving their businesses and increasing their profits. Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the United Women’s Group and the Taiwan Technical Mission in Belize, held a closing ceremony for its three-week women in business training course. Upon completion, each entrepreneur received […]
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Across the country today, various branches of the National Garifuna Council launched their respective itineraries for celebration events in the month of November. In Belize City, there was a brief launch at the Luba [loo-bah] Garifuna Museum this morning, where a calendar of events extending to December second was also presented. Beyond the schedule of […]
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Climate change has taken an unfathomable toll on the Caribbean. Through discussions on how climate events have impacted communities regionally, there’s a realisation that such experiences aren’t properly represented in the global climate resilience initiatives. According to the United Nations, the Caribbean Region is considered to be “ground zero” for the global climate emergency. As […]
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