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Commissioner Williams says that his concerns about the nightclub extend beyond not having the liquor license displayed. He says that this business was granted a license, but there are requirements that it has not met in terms of the facility. He also pointed out that that the Liquor Licensing Board is granting extensions to businesses […]
Written on November 20, 2019 | Posted in
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Parliament today had a much different feel and tone. The special sitting was called to mark International Children’s Day so young students from all over the country were standing in as parliamentarians. They took their seats in the Speaker’s chair as well as on both sides of the aisle. There was no posturing to the […]
Written on November 20, 2019 | Posted in
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Opposition Leader John Briceño and Julius Espat, Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, are claimants in a suit brought against the Minister of Finance, Prime Minister Dean Barrow, Financial Secretary Joseph Waight and Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte. They are challenging government’s expenditure of over one point three billion dollars, including the PetroCaribe funds that were […]
Written on November 20, 2019 | Posted in
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Road traffic accidents are a major cause of deaths on the roads and highways across the country so much so that the Police Department is now enforcing a number of initiatives to reduce the dreadful statistics. In tonight’s newscast, we report on two deadly accidents. In Belize City, a waterfront worker perished in a horrible […]
Written on November 18, 2019 | Posted in
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The second accident was in the south, a Hopkins resident was knocked down and killed by a drunk driver on Friday night. Forty-year-old Steven Olivas was riding his bike in the village when an American national in a vehicle hit him from behind. The driver of the vehicle, Mark Cairns, was slapped with several charges, […]
Written on November 18, 2019 | Posted in
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Two women were at home in Belize City when three intruders broke into their Rio Crescent house in Belize City. The ordeal on Friday afternoon has left them traumatized. The women were stabbed and injured but their lives were saved due to the quick thinking and action of the son of the house owner. While […]
Written on November 18, 2019 | Posted in
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This morning in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer, an eighteen-year-old fisherman of Belize City was arraigned for the murder of fireman Jiovanni Lennan. Appearing before the lower court judge unrepresented, Denver Bevans, who alleges that the arresting officers fractured his mandible, was read two charges. He has been charged for the shooting death […]
Written on November 18, 2019 | Posted in
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In court today, Wasani Castro, the son of the Minister Edmond Castro, appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer. The twenty-six year old cyclist is facing charges for assaulting a female police officer. Wasani is no stranger to the law and the most recent incident for which he is accused took place over the weekend. Senior […]
Written on November 18, 2019 | Posted in
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And in the Supreme Court , David Zetina, who pleaded guilty to “Causing Death by Careless Conduct”, will be sentenced on December thirtieth, 2019 by Justice Marilyn Williams. Zetina knocked down and killed sixty-five year old Constance Andrewin on February twenty-fifth, 2012, in Biscayne, Belize District. The woman was about to get to her house […]
Written on November 18, 2019 | Posted in
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Thirty-seven-year-old Belize City delivery man Issa Nunez is tonight recuperating after an attempt on his life was made on Saturday afternoon. Nunez was shot while inside a parked delivery truck on Saint Thomas Street. Two thieves approached Nunez, demanding monies before firing the shots. Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero told the press today that the culprits escaped […]
Written on November 18, 2019 | Posted in
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A firefighter was executed early on Thursday night. He was heading to his house on Welch Street, Belize City when Jiovanni Ian Lennan, was ambushed from behind by a gunman who delivered the fatal blast to his head. Lennan had just left the National Fire Service located on Cleghorn Street where he was training recruits. […]
Written on November 15, 2019 | Posted in
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Well-known Belize City barber and cabdriver Ursulo Mendoza, known by many as Dread or Barba, was manhandled by a pair of policemen attached to the Special Patrol Unit on Wednesday. The incident happened inside his barbershop on Mahogany Street where the officers parked in front of the establishment to conduct a search. According to Mendoza, […]
Written on November 15, 2019 | Posted in
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The encroachment into Belizean territory was as clear as daylight when we visited Barrio El Juda on the western border on Thursday. Guatemalan families have settled there and their community continues to grow on land that is owned by businessman Jorge Espat. Espat is of the view that the longer it takes to move the […]
Written on November 15, 2019 | Posted in
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Joining the trip to the western border on Thursday was firebrand activist and former COLA President Geovanni Brackett. Brackett saw the developing Guatemalan community that has been inching its way into Belizean territory. He says that Espat’s land problem is a national issue that needs the urgent attention of the Government of Belize. Geovanni […]
Written on November 15, 2019 | Posted in
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Nefretery Nancy Marin is the leader of the recently formed Belize People’s Front. Marin was also present during Thursday’s trip to the Barrio el Juda along Belize’s side of the border with Guatemala. Marin says that the illegal Guatemalan encroachment on Espat’s land is not a problem he can address on his own. She says […]
Written on November 15, 2019 | Posted in
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The government has moved to establish fix prices for the sale of Liquefied Petroleum Gas known as L.P.G. beginning this Saturday. The fixed prices are to prevent predatory pricing by major importers who are said to have engaged in an act of driving prices down below the maximum ceiling for retail and wholesale of L.P.G. […]
Written on November 15, 2019 | Posted in
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Commissioner Chester Williams confirmed today that there was a suspect low flying aircraft within Belize’s airspace late Monday. But he says that there is no information to suggest that the illegal airplane landed in Belize. The last known drug plane that landed in Belize was on September thirtieth, in the area of Blue Creek, Orange […]
Written on November 14, 2019 | Posted in
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At the start of the week, former City Council Administrator, Candice Miller started to crowfoot the assets of the Belize City Council located at its facility on the George Price Highway. According to reports, the crow-footing affected most departments and the labelled items include the sledge truck, backhoes, water truck, grader and roller…all which affect […]
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Police say that the driver involved in the fatal accident that claimed the life of retired B.D.F soldier Myron Martinez is expected to be served with a notice of intended prosecution. As we reported on Wednesday night, Martinez passed away at the K.H.M.H. in the afternoon. Martinez was on the Philip Goldson Highway when he […]
Written on November 14, 2019 | Posted in
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This morning in Corozal District, six area representatives, including Gaspar Vega and Minister of National Security John Saldivar, were on hand for the groundbreaking ceremony to commence work on the Corozal/Sarteneja Road. We will have more on that event elsewhere in the newscast. While at the event, we took the liberty to follow up with […]
Written on November 14, 2019 | Posted in
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Hugo Patt’s entry into the race to fill the available posts is wholly endorsed by cabinet colleague Pablo Marin, who is also an area representative in Corozal Bay. Marin was one of over twenty area representatives and standard bearers present at John Saldivar’s campaign launch on November third. According to the Minister of Health, his […]
Written on November 14, 2019 | Posted in
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There is another report on Guatemalans entering illegally in Belize. Following the protest against the ban of gillnets in Dangriga on Wednesday, the Belize Network of Non-Governmental Organizations says that it is appalled at reports that non-resident fisherfolk entered the country to participate in the demonstration. Reports are that these persons entered Belize via our […]
Written on November 14, 2019 | Posted in
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Residents can breathe a sigh of relief tonight following an initial decision made by the Public Utilities Commission not to increase water rates for the next two years. On October first, the Belize Water Services Limited tabled an application for approval of a five-year business plan for increase to the tariffs, fees and charges for […]
Written on November 14, 2019 | Posted in
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Retired Belize Defense Force soldier Myron Martinez passed away at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital this afternoon, following a road traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway in the early hours of November ninth. Martinez, who was employed with the Belize Ports Authority, was returning home to Lord’s Bank Village on Saturday morning when he […]
Written on November 13, 2019 | Posted in
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Police have cracked a recent murder that occurred in Ladyville, Belize District. . Twenty-seven-year-old Jason Garcia and a teenage minor appeared before Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson this morning where they were both arraigned on a charge of murder. Garcia, an automotive technician of a Ladyville address and the seventeen-year-old, a student at Gateway Youth Center, are […]
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