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Love Staff November 29, 2022 No Comment

The Ministry of Youth and Sports holds the National Youth

Today, the Ministry of Youth and Sports held the first-ever national youth symposium. The event
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Love Staff November 29, 2022 No Comment

The Mexico Sports Center’s roofing damaged by Hurricane Lisa

The Mexico Sports Center will be closed for over a month due to damage to
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Love Staff November 29, 2022 No Comment

The Belmopan City Council treats a dozen kids with diverse-abilities

Today, a dozen children with diverse abilities were given a special treat from the Belmopan
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Love Staff November 29, 2022 No Comment

Over two hundred buses need to be replaced says CEO

Over two hundred public transportation buses will need to be replaced. That’s according to the
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Love Staff November 29, 2022 No Comment

The Ministry of Transport is working with South Korea to

The Ministry of Transport’s planned reforms for public transportation means that it will be working
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Love Staff November 29, 2022 No Comment

Community of Santa Rosa in Stann Creek now able to

The community of Santa Rosa in Stann Creek District is going to be able to
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Love Staff November 29, 2022 No Comment

The Ministry of Blue Economy to Host Climate Resilience Forum

The Ministry of Blue Economy will host a two-day Climate Resilience Forum. The event will
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Love Staff November 28, 2022 No Comment

Prime Minister Revives Petro Caribe Agreement During Recent Trip to

Prime Minister, John Briceño, returned to Belize today after a three-day official visit to the
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Love Staff November 28, 2022 No Comment

PM Briceño Says No Seismic Testing for Now

Prime Minister John Briceño says no seismic testing plans are set in stone. However, he
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Love Staff November 28, 2022 No Comment

Will Rejection of Waterloo’s Project Prompt a Legal Battle?

Can Waterloo Investment Holdings mount a legal battle after the Cruise Tourism Facility and Cargo
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Love Staff November 28, 2022 No Comment

Police Department Investigating John Saldivar

Former UDP Minister John Saldivar is challenging the United States Government to produce evidence that
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Love Staff November 28, 2022 No Comment

BDF Soldier Shot While On-duty along Belize/Guatemala Border

A Belize Defence Force soldier was shot on Saturday during an incident near the Valentin
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Love Staff November 28, 2022 No Comment

Maya Communities Consulted about Proposed Developments Down South

The Government of Belize held preliminary consultation sessions over the weekend with several Indigenous communities
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Love Staff November 28, 2022 No Comment

Ministry of Labour Says They Are Ready to Revisit the

The Trade Licensing Bill is closer to becoming law. When the bill was introduced at
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Love Staff November 28, 2022 No Comment

GOB Says Outdated Labour Act Will Be Revamped

Minister of Labour, Oscar Requena, also told us that his ministry will be undertaking a
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Love Staff November 28, 2022 No Comment

$5 Minimum Wage to take effect January 1, 2022

It is expected that at the start of the New year, in January 2023, the
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Love Staff November 28, 2022 No Comment

New grassroots movement plans to fight for change

Newly formed grassroots movement Moving Ahead Together or MAT hosted a weekend event in Belize
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Love Staff November 28, 2022 No Comment

BNTU President says teachers want their increments now

Teachers are demanding that their increments, which were frozen in 2021, be reinstated post-haste. Senator
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Love Staff November 28, 2022 No Comment

Former Minister says people don’t know the Constitution; PCC has

The work of Constitutional reform is underway after the People’s Constitution Commission held its first
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Love Staff November 28, 2022 No Comment

BNTU President weighs in on work of People’s Constitution Commission

We also asked BNTU National President Senator Elena Smith about the newly formed, People’s Constitution
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Love Staff November 28, 2022 No Comment

Labour Complaints Can Now Be Submitted Virtually

The Ministry of Labour launched today the Labour Complaints Management System – an online portal
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Love Staff November 26, 2022 No Comment

PM Briceno and President Madura Sign Agreement

Prime Minister John Briceno is in Venezuela tonight. He was officially welcomed this evening by
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Love Staff November 26, 2022 No Comment

The NWC To Become A Statutory Body

The National Women’s Commission will now be able to exercise more autonomy over its affairs.
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Love Staff November 26, 2022 No Comment

GOB Looks To Revise Sexual Harassment Policy and Take it

Minister of Human Development, Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, also highlighted that these sixteen days of activism promote
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Love Staff November 26, 2022 No Comment

Children Parliamentarians Take a Seat in the Chamber

Today the Sitting of the Children’s Parliament was held in Belmopan. Belizean youth from different
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Love Staff November 26, 2022 No Comment

Boledo drawings temporarily relocated in the wake of ceiling collapse

The ceiling, which caved in earlier this week at the Courthouse in Belize City, has
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Love Staff November 26, 2022 No Comment

GOB and the UN hold National Steering Committee Meeting

The United Nations is working with the Government of Belize to ensure the country achieves
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Love Staff November 24, 2022 No Comment

John Saldivar says he is innocent and will be challenging

Tonight, John Birchman Saldivar is fighting back and says he is innocent of all the
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Love Staff November 24, 2022 No Comment

John Saldivar says let the people of Belmopan decide

While Saldivar says he will be challenging the US’s decision, he also has to prove
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Love Staff November 24, 2022 No Comment

The Supreme Court’s Collapsed Ceiling Also Caused by a Lack

The Ministry of Infrastructure Development is also tackling the restoration of the Supreme Court building
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Love Staff November 24, 2022 No Comment

Belize will soon look for new judges, magistrates and other

The employment contracts of several judges, magistrates and other support staff in the country’s legal
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Love Staff November 24, 2022 No Comment

The PCC holds its first official working meeting

The People’s Constitution Commission (PCC) held its first official meeting this morning in Belize City.
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Love Staff November 24, 2022 No Comment

Educational Campaign is Important

As we mentioned, for the next 18 months the People’s Constitution Commission (PCC) will be
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Love Staff November 24, 2022 No Comment

PM John Briceño Visits Venezuela

The Government of Belize announced today that Prime Minister, John Briceño, will be departing the
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Love Staff November 24, 2022 No Comment

Legal practitioners expand knowledge of the original CCJ jurisdiction

Judges and other officers within Belize’s legal system are participating in a two-day workshop in
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Love Staff November 24, 2022 No Comment

Belize continues to work at its energy policy

The Ministry of Public Utilities, Energy, Logistics and E-Governance hosted the second stakeholder consultation on
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Love Staff November 24, 2022 No Comment

How does BEL see itself in distributive generation in the

Belize Electricity Limited says that it has a vested interest in Belize’s energy needs for
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Love Staff November 24, 2022 No Comment

Belize and FAO Sign Country Programming Framework

The Government of Belize and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) signed the official country
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Love Staff November 24, 2022 No Comment

GOB Approaches New Housing Regulations from a Social Stance

The Government of Belize continues to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Lisa. However, the
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Love Staff November 24, 2022 No Comment

One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure

 Work on the embankment along the Mile 7 stretch on the Philip Goldson Highway is
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Love Staff November 23, 2022 No Comment

The UDP establishes a committee to investigate accusations of corruption

The United Democratic Party (UDP) has decided to establish a special committee to investigate the
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Love Staff November 23, 2022 No Comment

The UDP’s legal advisor resigns

Attorney Estevan Perrera resigned as the UDP’s legal advisor this morning. Perrera’s resignation comes after
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Love Staff November 23, 2022 No Comment

APSSM President says increments are not automatic

Public sector workers and teachers saw the ten percent pay cut, implemented by the Briceño
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Love Staff November 23, 2022 No Comment

APSSM President talks allowances

Even though increments are not automatic, the APSSM President, Sharon Frazer also discussed the issue
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Love Staff November 23, 2022 No Comment

The LOO says he supports seismic testing but only for

The Leader of the Opposition Moses “Shyne” Barrow says he supports Oceana’s call to trigger
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Love Staff November 23, 2022 No Comment

Caye Caulker gets new health facility

Caye Caulker Village has now gotten a new health centre. The community, with an estimated
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Love Staff November 23, 2022 No Comment

PUC Gives A Breakdown of How Utility Rates Are Set

The Public Utilities Commission of Belize (PUC) held a media session this morning to share
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Love Staff November 23, 2022 No Comment

The Prime Minister undertakes tour of southern Belize

Prime Minister John Briceño conducted a tour of the south over the weekend. He spent
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Love Staff November 21, 2022 No Comment

Former Brazil Central Bank Governor is the new IDB President

Ilan Goldfajn (gold-fine) was elected president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) during a Special
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Love Staff November 18, 2022 No Comment

Prime Minister Briceño tours the south

The nation is gearing up for Garifuna Settlement Day this weekend with southern communities holding
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Love Staff November 18, 2022 No Comment

LOO and UDP Chairman meet Inglewood, California Mayor

Leader of the Opposition, Moses “Shyne” Barrow and UDP Chairman, Senator Michael Peyrefitte are in
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Love Staff November 17, 2022 No Comment

BTV Gets Back Their Belizean Flag

The Belize Territorial Volunteers (BTV) have finally recovered the flags that were stolen by the
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Love Staff November 17, 2022 No Comment

UB and the Ministry of Blue Economy and Civil Aviation

In 2020, the Briceno Administration formed the Ministry of Blue Economy whose mandate includes the
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Love Staff November 17, 2022 No Comment

Minister Bernard speaks on ultimatum from health professionals coalition

The Belize Coalition of Medical Professionals has raised a number of concerns via a press
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Love Staff November 17, 2022 No Comment

Things need to change at the KHMH, says Health Minister

For years, there have been multiple challenges on various fronts at the nation’s flagship public
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Love Staff November 16, 2022 No Comment

PM John Briceno comments on The Saldivar Saga

Former UDP Leader and Minister John Saldivar remains on the defence tonight after the US
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Love Staff November 16, 2022 No Comment

PM says GOB Cannot Intervene in Sugar Impasse

The impasse between the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association (BSCFA) and Belize Sugar Industries/American Sugar
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Love Staff November 16, 2022 No Comment

PM Briceno Responds to JUNT

Prime Minister John Briceno says his government is not ignoring the leaders of the Joint
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Love Staff November 16, 2022 No Comment

Belize secures $10 m loan from IDB

Belize has secured a 10-million-dollar loan from the Inter-American Development Bank. This funding will help
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Love Staff November 15, 2022 No Comment

US Secretary of State Accuses John Saldivar of Significant Corruption

John Saldivar is persona-non-grata in the US. That’s because the US Secretary of State, Anthony
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Love Staff November 15, 2022 No Comment

PM Briceño speaks on newly installed People’s Constitution Commission

Prime Minister John Briceño’s government is hoping that the constitutional reform process will result in
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Love Staff November 15, 2022 No Comment

PM Briceño says everyone’s input counts in reform process

There are some 26 groups that have representation on the newly-formed People’s Constitution Commission. The
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Love Staff November 15, 2022 No Comment

Political and Constitutional Reform Minister says revamping the Supreme Laws

Yesterday’s launch of the People’s Constitution Commission is seen as a campaign promise being fulfilled
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Love Staff November 15, 2022 No Comment

Dissenting opinions, a natural part of consultations

A group of more than two dozen organisations have a year and a half to
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Love Staff November 15, 2022 No Comment

PM Briceño says everyone’s input counts in reform process

Those 26 or so groups, which have representation on the newly-formed People’s Constitution Commission, saw
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Love Staff November 14, 2022 No Comment

Constitution Committee officially begins its work

For the first time in more than 20 years, Belizeans will see the start of
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Love Staff November 11, 2022 No Comment

UDP’s Internal Battle for Collet is On!

Ian Jones is expected to be endorsed in a convention tomorrow morning at the UDP
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Love Staff November 11, 2022 No Comment

Minister of the Public Service weighs in on the restoration

Tonight, the CEO of the Ministry of Economic Development, Dr. Osmond Martinez is defending the
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Love Staff November 11, 2022 No Comment

PUP Chairman says the past two years have been a

Today, November 11, marks two years since the People’s United Party led by Prime Minister
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Love Staff November 11, 2022 No Comment

CEO of Economic Development shares his thoughts on COP 27

A small delegation of Belizeans is in Egypt for COP 27. The country is hoping
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Love Staff November 11, 2022 No Comment

Cultures come alive in Garden City

Yesterday, the Belmopan City Council and the National Institute of Culture and History (NICH) held
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Love Staff November 10, 2022 No Comment

COP 27 Update: Loss and Damage on the Agenda!

COP 27 is underway in Egypt. A Belize delegation is currently there with the hopes
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Love Staff November 10, 2022 No Comment

Climate Experts Observing US Midterms Election Results

And because the US is a big polluter country, Climate Change experts in the region
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Love Staff November 10, 2022 No Comment

LOO speaks on the UDP’s efforts to assist persons affected

In the wake of Hurricane Lisa, numerous organizations have mobilized to assist residents affected by
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Love Staff November 10, 2022 No Comment

La Isla Bonita has 36 new Justices of the Peace

The JP Association’s San Pedro branch has 36 new members in its chapter. The Justices
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Love Staff November 9, 2022 No Comment

Belize’s highways free of major damages from Hurricane Lisa

The Ministry of Infrastructure Development says that Belize’s highway system received little to no damage
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Love Staff November 9, 2022 No Comment

ECLAC Data and Policy Workshop held as COP27 continues in

The workshop, which is being supported by the Economic Commission for Latin American & the
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Love Staff November 9, 2022 No Comment

The century old “Swing Bridge” survives Hurricane Lisa’s impact

The Swing Bridge – it’s one of the oldest landmarks of Belize City that was
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Love Staff November 9, 2022 No Comment

Stann Creek Village Leaders Meet to Discuss How Funds Will

Village leaders from the Stann Creek District were in Belize City over the weekend intent
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Love Staff November 8, 2022 No Comment

UDP Constituencies Were Also Aided through Constituency Development Fund

This weekend the Belize District was bustling with Area Representatives visiting their constituents to provide
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Love Staff November 8, 2022 No Comment

GOB Looking to Crack Down On Building Standards

The Government of Belize is now planning to raise the building standards and implement stricter
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Love Staff November 8, 2022 No Comment

Mayor Wagner speaks on Hurricane Lisa’s lessons

Hurricane Lisa’s rampage of the Belize District has undoubtedly left a mark on many residents.
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Love Staff November 8, 2022 No Comment

Belize reps at FOPREL meeting in Costa Rica

Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration, Ramon Cervantes
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Love Staff November 7, 2022 No Comment

Belize Continues to Rebound After Being Devastated by Lisa

The Government of Belize is in “relief mode” as area representatives continue to assist their
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Love Staff November 7, 2022 No Comment

BNTU President is not happy with how GOB is handling

While the focus of today’s event by the Belize National Teachers’ Union was the post-Hurricane
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Love Staff November 7, 2022 No Comment

BNTU President says GOB’s reinstatement of CEO allowance “a kick

A kick in the face: that’s what Senator Elena Smith said today of the Government’s
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Love Staff November 7, 2022 No Comment

Cayo North Constituents Experience Crop Damage During Hurricane Lisa

While Hurricane Lisa devastated much of Belize City and some areas of rural Belize, the
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Dave November 3, 2022 No Comment

7PM to 6AM Curfew For Belize District

Prime Minister of Belize Hon. John Briceno has announced that there will be a 7:00
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Dave November 2, 2022 No Comment

Ministry Monitoring Canal Capacity

Kindly be advise that the Ministry has its team monitoring the canal capacity and we
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Dave November 2, 2022 No Comment

PM John Briceno Declares State of Emergency

Prime Minister issued an audio message, explaining that he has spoken to the Attorney General
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Dave November 1, 2022 No Comment

Prime Minister Address on Tropical Storm Lisa

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Love Staff November 1, 2022 No Comment

GOB Launches Maritime Economy Plan

The Government of Belize Launched the Maritime Economy Plan today. This plan defines policies and
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Love Staff November 1, 2022 No Comment

BTV visit the Sapodillas: illegal fishing still taking place

Over the weekend, the Belize Territorial Volunteers (BTV) went on a surveillance expedition of the
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Love Staff November 1, 2022 No Comment

BTV: Wi wanh bak wi flag!

The Belize Territorial Volunteers (BTV) also were on the Sarstoon River this weekend, about six
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Love Staff November 1, 2022 No Comment

CARICOM Ministers are preparing for COP27

Countries in the Caribbean Community are preparing for the upcoming COP27 which will be held
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Love Staff October 29, 2022 No Comment

Former UDP Leader Protests In Front of UDP HQ

Former UDP Leader Patrick Faber has emerged- this time with a handful of supporters in
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Love Staff October 29, 2022 No Comment

PM Briceno Responds to PSU’s Concerns on CEO Allowances

The Public Service Union yesterday called on the government to unfreeze public officers’ increment. This
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Love Staff October 29, 2022 No Comment

Cabinet Secretary defends the restoration of CEO allowances

Tonight, Cabinet Secretary Stuart Leslie is defending the restoration of all allowances for government CEOs.
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Love Staff October 29, 2022 No Comment

UDP Leader says GOB does not prioritize well

The United Democratic Party hosted a press conference this morning at their headquarters in Belize
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Love Staff October 29, 2022 No Comment

UDP Lead Senator criticizes GOB for its handling of Pact

Another issue that was raised was the Government’s decision to accede to the Pact of
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