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Despite the weekend violence in Belize City, efforts are being made in other parts of the country to assist with emergency medical response. Earlier today, three ambulances were handed over today to further enhance San Pedro’s emergency response efforts. Two ambulances were given to the Belize Emergency Response Team (BERT) and one to the Rickilee […]
Written on May 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Over the weekend a new president was elected to serve the Christian Workers Union for the next term. Leonora Flowers has been a trade unionist for the past twenty-eight years, working at the Social Security Board as the C.W.U.’s representative, before retiring in October 2022. Flowers remains passionate about unionism even in retirement and when […]
Written on May 22, 2023 | Posted in
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For the most part, the conversation about indigenous peoples and their rights have been primarily associated with the Mayans of southern Belize. But for decades, the Garifuna people have also been recognized as an indigenous group. Descendants of African and Carib Indian ancestors, the Garinagu originated in the seventeenth century from the Caribbean island of […]
Written on May 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Three days have gone by since the decomposing body of nineteen-year-old Imari Galvez was discovered off the Hummingbird Highway. Police are yet to make an arrest and our requests for an update from the department have gone unanswered. At the start of this morning’s Sitting of the House of Representatives, Kareem Musa, the Minister of […]
Written on May 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, the funeral for the nineteen-year-old was held this evening in the Maya Mopan area of Belmopan where she lived. Galvez was found murdered on Tuesday evening off the Hummingbird Highway and police have since detained popular football player, Woodrow West, who lived with Galvez for a few months. The two had problems and Galvez […]
Written on May 19, 2023 | Posted in
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This morning, news spread like wildfire about the attempted murder of a woman in Belize City. She was waiting at the entrance of the Linda Vista Estate area at around mile two on the George Price Highway when she was approached by a man on bicycle. Moments later, screams were heard and residents flocked to […]
Written on May 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-six-year-old Armando Medina, accused of stealing a vehicle valued at forty-five thousand dollars from businessman Yhony Rosado, was acquitted of the charge earlier today, following a no case submission from his attorney. Medina appeared before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson in the presence of attorney Orson Elrington. During the trial, footage of the incident that occurred […]
Written on May 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Forty-eight hours have passed since the lifeless body of nineteen-year-old Belmopan resident, Imari Galvez, was found off the Hummingbird Highway. Police are yet to level any charges as the investigation continues. But, on Wednesday night, inquiries led them to a football match in Orange Walk where the captain of Verdes Football Club, Woodrow West, was […]
Written on May 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Forty-five-year-old Allen Felix is one of two men acquitted of murder today for separate incidents they were suspected of committing. Felix was on remand for the 2018 murder of businessman Mario Guerrero, who was bludgeoned to death with a barstool inside his home at Sunset Park. This afternoon, Felix appeared before Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft […]
Written on May 18, 2023 | Posted in
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The other prisoner to be set free today was twenty-five-year-old Antoine Rivero. He was acquitted of the murder of Marcia Downs who was shot and killed as she exited her residence on Handyside Street in April 2018. This matter was also heard before Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft. Senior Crown Counsel Porsha Staine-Ferguson opened the case […]
Written on May 18, 2023 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, information spread quickly of a boat that capsized in the English Caye Channel, just off the coast of Belize City. Seventeen passengers were onboard the vessel travelling from Rendezvous Caye to English Caye when the boat began taking in water. The Belize Coast Guard received the distress call around five-twenty and quickly deployed […]
Written on May 18, 2023 | Posted in
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A day earlier, the Belize Coast Guard also assisted a U.S. national who had suffered divers’ sickness while diving out at the Turneffe Atoll. Bends is decompression sickness that is caused by a rapid decrease in the air pressure that surrounds a person while he or she is engaged in deep-sea diving. In this incident […]
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A family’s worst nightmare was confirmed on Tuesday evening when the decomposing body of nineteen-year-old Belmopan resident Imari Galvez was found. Her body was in some bushes near mile forty on the Hummingbird Highway. She was partially nude. Injuries to her left breast and right leg were observed. Investigators believe she was shot in the […]
Written on May 17, 2023 | Posted in
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The murder trial of thirty-two-year-old David Gonzalez, accused of the shooting death of his wife in San Pedro in October 2020, continued today in the courtroom of Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft. On Tuesday evening, the Crown’s primary witness took the stand and provided the court with critical evidence of what transpired that fateful night on […]
Written on May 17, 2023 | Posted in
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The infamous Elmer Nah returned to the Belmopan Magistrate Court this morning. He stands accused of murdering Vivian, Jon and David Ramnarace on the night of New Year’s Eve 2022. Unlike his previous court appearance, there wasn’t a visible presence of heavily armed police officers. We are told that Nah’s appearance today was procedural, as […]
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The Ministry of Agriculture and A.S.R./B.S.I. are at odds once again. This time it is over what Agriculture Minister Jose Mai says are existing regulations that are now being “operationalized.” As we reported on Tuesday, the government has proposed the Sugar Industry (License to Import/Export) Regulations for 2023. This gives the Sugar Industry Control Board […]
Written on May 17, 2023 | Posted in
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This afternoon, B.S.I.’s Director of Finance, Shawn Chavarria said that the company’s interpretation of the changes made by Statutory Instrument Sixty-two of 2023 is G.O.B. trying to probe into the private commercial affairs of the company. It compels B.S.I. to collect and disburse Fairtrade premium, is a process that is currently being carried out by […]
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The Sugar Industry Control Board has green-lighted a new set of regulations that will require persons to hold a valid license if they wish to import or export sugar out of Belize. Those new requirements have raised the ire of the miller, as well as caneros in the north. A.S.R./B.S.I. is not required to hold […]
Written on May 16, 2023 | Posted in
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Following B.S.I.’s release, the United Democratic Party issued a statement of its own voicing concerns over the manner in which the new regulations are being brought forward. The U.D.P. says, “laws and regulations should only be implemented after robust consultations with sugar industry stakeholders where consensus is built. This act by the Briceño Government and […]
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The once thriving citrus industry in Belize has been declining over the years and is now hanging by a thin thread. There has been a significant loss of jobs and some farmers are diversifying their investment to other crops. Last week, Prime Minister John Briceño met with stakeholders who are proposing a bamboo industry in […]
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Last night, we told you that thirty-nine-year-old radiologist Desmond Arzu has been charged for the crime of sexual assault. The charge stems from a complaint that was brought against him by a patient back in March. The twenty-three-year-old alleges that while attending clinic in Punta Gorda to undergo an ultrasound, the radiologist sexually assaulted her. […]
Written on May 16, 2023 | Posted in
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It’s been one week since the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Transport has been working under a new Chief Executive Officer and Minister Rodwell Ferguson says that everything is better. Adele Catzim-Sanchez, a former C.E.O. under the Barrow administration, was appointed and took office on May eighth, after Marconi Leal Junior was reassigned as C.E.O. […]
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Tonight, Raheem Reid, a deliveryman of Belize City is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was denied bail on arraignment on a charge of use of deadly means of harm upon Kenroy Elijio with the use of a firearm and for aggravated assault with a firearm upon Raheem Neal, a police officer. […]
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Eighteen Brazilians who were charged with immigration offences appeared in the Magistrate’s Court late Monday. They pleaded guilty and were fined, before being ordered to leave the country upon settling their fines. In the meantime, four of their children have been placed in the custody of the Human Services Department until all of their removal […]
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Two men are lucky to be alive after they were shot and one of them repeatedly struck in the face. The incident happened in the wee hours of Saturday, just after they had left a night spot and arrived at one of their homes on Mahogany Street in Orange Walk town. It followed an altercation […]
Written on May 15, 2023 | Posted in
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