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Parliamentary activity resumes this Friday when the first session of the thirteenth National Assembly is opened. The inaugural sitting of the Senate, for ceremonial purposes, will precede the first meeting [...]
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The United Democratic Party has been radio silent since its devastating loss at the polls on November eleventh, but it appears that its executive has been working quietly in the [...]
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Prime Minister John Briceño chaired another cabinet meeting today where nine hundred and thirty thousand dollars was approved for a special December COVID-19 Relief Fund to be equitably distributed among [...]
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A ceremony to commemorate the exportation of another consignment of cattle to Mexico was held today at Blue Creek Village, in the Orange Walk District. A total of six hundred [...]
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The public has been experiencing a frustrating hike in prices of certain vegetables such as carrots and cabbage. There is a limited supply of these two vegetables and due to [...]
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Director of the Belize Tourism Board Karen Bevans has hired the legal services of former Prime Minister Dean Barrow to sue Love FM and Prime Minister John Briceño. Bevans’ contention [...]
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Michelle Brown, the police constable who is standing trial for the shooting murder of Belize City barber Fareed Ahmad, told the court in an explosive testimony on Tuesday that it [...]
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The United Democratic Party, after being trounced during the November eleventh general elections, has commenced the mammoth undertaking of rebuilding from the ground up. According to Party Leader Patrick Faber, [...]
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Denise “Sista B” Barrow will represent Queen Square in the House of Representatives during Friday’s ceremonial opening of the thirteenth National Assembly, but there are still many questions surrounding her [...]
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Belize’s economy shrunk by thirteen percent in the third quarter of 2020. According to the Statistical Institute of Belize, during the months of July to September, the total value of [...]
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During the S.I.B.’s press conference, Sabal delved into those numbers looking at how the different sectors performed. While the primary and secondary sectors recorded increases, the tertiary sector contracted by [...]
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So, the hardest hit sector is the tertiary sector which accounts for the production activities of hotels, and restaurants, as well as wholesale and retail, and crude materials, personal goods, [...]
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Coast Guard conducted a search and rescue operation earlier today in Crooked Tree Village. A report was received of two villagers who were heading to check on their farm in a [...]
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The Briceño administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic is being criticized by the opposition which says that the new government has all but abandoned the measures that were put in [...]
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During today’s press briefing the Statistical Institute also shared findings from the Labour Force Survey of September 2020. We’ll tell you a bit more about those findings later in the [...]
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The government wants the Corozal Free Zone to reopen before Christmas. That is the plan, but the plan comes with a price which the stakeholders at the Free Zone will [...]
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Since last week, the Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis team of the National Emergency Management Organization has been visiting areas that were severely affected by the recent floods. The assessment [...]
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There are also forty persons still in shelters across rural Belize District. It is expected, however, that those persons will be returning to their homes by week’s end. Alpheus [...]
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While for the most part floodwaters have receded, across Belize District, the villages of Crooked Tree and Maypen remain cut off by water from the rest of the country. The [...]
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The Statistical Institute of Belize’s Labour Force Survey for September 2020 puts the unemployment rate at thirteen point seven percent. Before we get into the details of this figure –we [...]
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A closer look at the labour force figures by sex show that males stood at sixty percent. When analyzed by areas, eighty-two thousand are in urban centers while eighty-six thousand, [...]
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