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Hurricane Julia did not hit Belize directly, but the torrential rains that accompanied the category one hurricane caused severe flooding across Central America. Those flood waters are still affecting portions of Belize and during the house meeting, Prime Minister John Briceño shared his view that Belize can learn from the landslides that occurred in neighboring […]
Written on October 18, 2022 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management through the National Climate Change Office and the Department of Environment is hosting a regional training course on energy data collection, analysis and integrated assessment of climate, land, energy and water. The week-long training commenced on Monday and is being funded through the International […]
Written on October 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Returning home today, after capturing gold at the Annual Global Challenge in Switzerland, was a group of students from the Belize High School in Belize City. Their achievement was the building of a robot so sophisticated that it captured the judges’ hearts in the contest which bore the theme “Ocean Opportunities.” This was Belize’s second […]
Written on October 18, 2022 | Posted in
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There was a fatal shooting in Burrell Boom Village on Sunday night that left one man dead and three others injured. But at this time, it is not being categorised as a murder, but rather a death investigation because the deceased, a father of three from Reggae Street, is believed to have been the gunman […]
Written on October 17, 2022 | Posted in
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On Sunday morning, Police Constable Lorray Arzu succumbed to injuries she received during a shooting incident in Dangriga a few days earlier. The twenty-seven-year-old officer had been placed on life support inside the Intensive Care Unit at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital since being transported from the Southern Regional Hospital on Wednesday night. It’s a […]
Written on October 17, 2022 | Posted in
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This morning, Assistant Superintendent of Police Fitzroy Yearwood, as well as Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa spoke fondly of the fallen constable. In an appearance on Open Your Eyes earlier, Musa recalled PC Arzu being a member of the very first intake since he took over as Minister of Home Affairs. ASP Fitzroy […]
Written on October 17, 2022 | Posted in
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A resident of Antelope Street Extension has been charged in connection with a near fatal chopping incident in Scotland Halfmoon on Saturday afternoon. Just before four o’clock today, Roberto Arana was reportedly attacked by a group of men and brutally chopped multiple times to the head and body. He remains hospitalised at this time in […]
Written on October 17, 2022 | Posted in
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Thirty-one-year-old Nicholi Rhys beat a murder charge in court earlier today, after spending almost four years on pretrial detention at the Belize Central Prison. Rhys was accused of the shooting death of Jose Moh, a cab driver who was killed near the Eight Mile community. Represented by attorney Leeroy Banner, a no case submission was […]
Written on October 17, 2022 | Posted in
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The House of Representatives met today in ordinary session where the issue of crime also became a matter for debate. The Leader of the Opposition, Shyne Barrow chastised the government over the current murder rate. But Minister of Home Affairs, Kareem Musa explained that fixing the crime rate is not an overnight job. Shyne […]
Written on October 17, 2022 | Posted in
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The Orange Walk Magistrate Court is hearing an application for further retention of funds by the Financial Intelligence Unit. The F.I.U. has applied to have the court grant permission for them to keep in their possession, for an additional three months, over three million dollars seized from the Caribbean International Brewery Company Limited’s compound on […]
Written on October 17, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier this week, we told you about the multi-agency operation at Caribbean International Brewery Limited that yielded three point one million dollars in cash. The raid on the premises just outside of Carmelita Village also led to the detention of several Asian nationals for alleged immigration offenses. Since then, the Financial Investigation Unit has filed […]
Written on October 14, 2022 | Posted in
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Inspector Gian Young, a member of the Belize Police Department’s Anti Trafficking in Persons Unit was the first witness to take the stand. According to Young’s testimony, on October sixth, the joint agency taskforce comprised of immigration officers, labor personnel, and members of the Belize Police Department, conducted a search on the company’s administration building […]
Written on October 14, 2022 | Posted in
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Senior Counsel Barrow raised a preliminary objection to the application brought forth by the F.I.U. He contended that the F.I.U. is not entitled to make an application under the Money Laundering and Terrorism Prevention Act, an objection which Magistrate Debbie Rogers did not uphold. Here is Barrow’s response to Magistrate Roger’s ruling. Dean Barrow, […]
Written on October 14, 2022 | Posted in
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A young man was killed in a tragic road traffic accident around one this morning and police have detained his close friend pending investigations. The incident happened between miles twelve and thirteen on the Philip Goldson Highway and the victim is nineteen-year-old Daniel Thompson, a driver/deliveryman for Triple L Construction and Supplies in that community. […]
Written on October 14, 2022 | Posted in
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Police Constable Lorray Arzu remains at the K.H.M.H. as investigators try to close in on the gunman who shot her and Leonel Rowland. While she has undergone brain surgery at the K.H.M.H. and transported to the Belize Medical Associates for a CT-scan, word is that her condition remains unchanged since Thursday – that is that […]
Written on October 14, 2022 | Posted in
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Twenty-year-old Jahiem Joseph has been arrested and charged for a murder that took place in Hopkins Village on September thirtieth. The unemployed resident of Ladyville is alleged to have inflicted fatal stab wounds on Norman Castillo following an altercation at his residence in Hopkins. Castillo was injured in the chest and died a short while […]
Written on October 14, 2022 | Posted in
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A five-member panel has been established by the Ministry of Labor to provide a fair and impartial appeal process arising from complaints of unfair dismissal or wrongful termination. The Labor Complaints Tribunal was appointed by Minister of Labor Oscar Requeña in accordance with Section Two Hundred of the Labor Act. It is historic, as it […]
Written on October 14, 2022 | Posted in
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A police constable is hanging on to life after she and a man were shot in Dangriga last evening. PC Lorray Arzu and forty-four-year-old Leonel Rowland were sitting in a truck on Bishop Martin Street sometime around six p.m., when they became a gunman’s target. Both victims have been transferred to the K.H.M.H. for treatment. […]
Written on October 13, 2022 | Posted in
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We heard Commissioner of Police Chester Williams share that the police department would consult with Doctor Pedro Arriaga on whether it would be possible to transport PC Lorray Arzu to the Belize Medical Associates where she’d receive better round-the-clock care. Williams said that a doctor at the K.H.M.H. who performed a brain surgery on the […]
Written on October 13, 2022 | Posted in
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Gunshots rang out in Teakettle Village in the early hours of Thursday when someone discharged a firearm not far from where a police officer was waiting to be picked up by his colleagues. It is not clear whether the officer was the intended target of the shooting, but what is known is that he returned […]
Written on October 13, 2022 | Posted in
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The deadly accident that claimed the life of twenty-one-year-old Jorge Vargas near Ranchito Village on Tuesday remains an open investigation, as the Belize Police Department continues to gather information on what transpired that resulted in the fatal RTA on the Philip Goldson Highway. The head-on collision between a taxi van and an ambulance also injured […]
Written on October 13, 2022 | Posted in
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On Wednesday night we showed you an interview with a relative of Aaliyah Marokin, the twenty-year-old Corozal student who was involved in a tragic road traffic accident on Tuesday evening. In that interview, the relative informed us that Marokin was rushed from the Northern Regional Hospital and then to the K.H.M.H. in a critical condition. […]
Written on October 13, 2022 | Posted in
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Tonight, there is still no appointee to the post of Chairman of the Public Service Commission, that’s because the prime minister’s pick for presiding officer of that working group has withdrawn his name due to illness. Cresencio Sosa Sr. is the second person to have his name removed from the likely candidates to fill the […]
Written on October 13, 2022 | Posted in
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According to Flowers, the protracted delay continues to threaten the financial stability of families whose breadwinners were public officers who gave of themselves and their service to the Government of Belize for over thirty years. On the Phone: Dean Flowers, President, P.S.U. “Now the impact of this politicization of the commission has now reached […]
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Flood waters flowing from the Mopan River are moving down stream faster than what has been recorded in previous flooding, according to the National Hydrological Service. Principal Hydrologist Tennielle Hendy says that as recent as Wednesday, the hydrological station in Benque Viejo del Carmen recorded flood waters moving at very high velocities from neighboring Guatemala […]
Written on October 13, 2022 | Posted in
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