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The Belize Sugar Industries Limited is partly successful in challenging the existing Sugar Industry Act. That piece of law which governs the large-scale production of sugar in northern Belize is [...]
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Justice Patricia Farnese’s decision is that annual payments made to the Sugar Industry Control Board are, in essence, illegal. But what does it mean for the regulator whose operations are [...]
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Michael Peyrefitte, the Chairman of the United Democratic Party also weighed in on the ruling. This afternoon he held a virtual press briefing where he gave his thoughts on what [...]
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B.T.L. Chairman Mark Lizarraga was recently appointed to the Appeals Tribunal, a three-member panel tasked with reviewing a matter involving Waterloo Holdings Limited in which the Department of the Environment [...]
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King’s Counsel Ben Juratowitch is the lead attorney in Belize’s case against Guatemala that is presently before the International Court of Justice. The esteemed legal mind was also tasked with [...]
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Charges are yet to be levied in one of the most explosive sexual assault investigations to come out of the local evangelical church in recent times. Last week, Rebecca Lennan-Stirm, [...]
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The National Evangelical Association of Belize is yet to comment on the allegations of sexual abuse against Mervin Budram. We also tried once again to reach out to Budram for [...]
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The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is observed on August ninth each year. It’s a day set aside to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world’s [...]
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The United Democratic Party has scheduled its national convention for this Sunday, August thirteenth. Several months ago the U.D.P.’s National Party Council voted to endorse its current executive in an [...]
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A little girl was knocked down and killed in Hopkins Village today. Six-year-old Makaya Magdaleno was reportedly riding a bicycle on Main Street and was heading towards her house on [...]
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The Twenty-third Central American Senior Male Volleyball Championships continue tonight at the Belize Civic Centre where Belize takes on Honduras. The home team pulled off an excellent and important victory [...]
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On Monday, the official funeral for former government minister Carlos Diaz was held in Belize City. Diaz passed away at the age of seventy-five on Thursday, August third. Carlos Diaz [...]
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It’s Tuesday, so that means that your favourite entertainment show takes place tonight at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. Another battle round takes place tonight to determine which [...]
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