Cops seize more wood from lumber smuggling

Close TO 900 pieces of lumber with a street value of nearly $5 million were seized on the weekend by police investigators who have widened their probe of a lumber racket uncovered last week.

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Southern Fisher-folk reject Jamaican fisheries encroachment

At a meeting held Wednesday evening, the chorus was sounded that the men and women who fish the southern waters of Belize for their livelihood—and who have been doing so since they were children—do not welcome the encroachment of Jamaican fishing vessels and traps into Belize’s already deteriorating marine fisheries.

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