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UDP Politics as Usual…

UDP Politics as Usual…

Friday, March 26, 2010 0:57

Responses to the budget… As predicted, Mr. Barrow’s sweet delivery could only mask the sour reality of the budget for so long, and judging from responses coming in, Belizeans want none of it. Tourism stakeholders are now weighing ...

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Barrow’s New Taxes Will Cripple Tourism!!!

Barrow’s New Taxes Will Cripple Tourism!!!

Friday, March 26, 2010 0:51

Tourism’s Impact Very Important Tourism is by far the single largest industry in Belize, generating just about 600 million Belize Dollars for our economy. It is also responsible for 25 percent of the jobs created, a major source of foreign ...

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FAREWELL TO JUSTICE

Friday, March 26, 2010 0:48

Today is a very sad day for Belize’s democracy, and in particular our justice system. Thanks to Dean Barrow, today we begin ...

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Former Cop wins Round One against Police Dept.

Former Cop wins Round One against Police Dept.

Friday, March 26, 2010 0:45

Five years after he was dismissed from the Belize Police Department, former Police Constable Aldo Ayuso has won a decision against the department on his dismissal.  The ruling was made this morning by Chief Justice Dr ...

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Crooks Sought By Police

Crooks Sought By Police

Friday, March 26, 2010 0:37

One of Jamaica's own former Police superiors, Harold Crooks, is that country's latest most wanted fugitive.  Crooks who authored the popular Crooks Report for the Belize Police Department has been confirmed by his attorney, Vincent Wellesley, to have fled Jamaica ...

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Happy April Fool’s Day from your UDP Government

Friday, March 26, 2010 0:36

The recently announced tax measures that are specifically aimed at increasing revenues for Prime Minister Honorable Dean Barrow’s administration to close the more than $60 million shortfall in the 2010/2011 Fiscal Budget (and Belizeans would not be ...

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Court of Appeal Discontinues Hearing of Landowners Assn.

Friday, March 26, 2010 0:35

The fight of the late Sir Barry Bowen and the Landowners Association ended on Friday in the Court of Appeal when the court discontinued the hearing of the case. The late Sir Barry, who crashed his privately owned plane while approaching San Pedro on Friday February, 26th, had challenged the government's original ...

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Angry Belizeans March for Peace

Angry Belizeans March for Peace

Friday, March 26, 2010 0:34

Heavy rains could not stop nearly four hundred resolute mothers and relatives of murdered youths whose hearts have been shattered by the spate of gun warfare in Belize City streets, from marching from the end of Central American Boulevard ...

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Family of Slaughtered Police Officer says he was Murdered

Friday, March 26, 2010 0:33

Police Sergeant Paulino Reyes, who shot and killed Corporal Gavin Sanchez early last Thursday morning, is on administrative leave. While that is not exactly interdiction, it certainly speaks volumes of the suspicion that hovers over his head, primarily because of the number of bullets he fired into his fellow officer, coupled with ...

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Court of Appeal Upholds Rape Sentence

Court of Appeal Upholds Rape Sentence

Friday, March 26, 2010 0:32

The Court of Appeal last Friday upheld a 12 year sentence imposed on forty year old Levi Jackson in May of 2009.  Jackson was sentenced by the Supreme Court in May of 2009 after one of his former co-workers at ...

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