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Belmopan City Councilor, Nikki Augustine, is organizing an event that she believes will help teenagers process some of the modern personal challenges they face in everyday life. TAG Teen Summit 2022 is being described as an event where teens from across the country will be able to gather, learn from each other, exchange shared experiences, […]
Written on July 12, 2022 | Posted in
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KTV the Remix is back by popular demand. Season four of the live shows kicks off tonight inside the Bliss Center for Performing Arts. Twelve competitors will take the stage. In the end, there can only be one KTV champion. The winner will walk away with the grand prize. News Five’ Paul Lopez takes a […]
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In May, it was discovered that someone had gotten possession of a bottle of pesticide and emptied it in a water reservoir in San Vicente Village, Toledo District. The incident sent at least six of the villagers to the P.G. Hospital seeking medical attention after they became ill from consuming the tainted water. C.E.O. in […]
Written on July 11, 2022 | Posted in
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If you have empty pesticide containers, the advice from the Pesticides Control Board is that you store them and take them to the nearest collection outlet in your zone. The Department of the Environment and the Pesticides Control Board are working jointly on a national empty pesticide containers management plan. When the plan is implemented, […]
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It’s been around for decades, providing full residential services to Belize’s neediest elderly citizens whose families have no means of taking them in or those who have no relatives in Belize to care for them. But the elderly home needs your help if it is to keep its services running. And today, the staff of […]
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Now that the COVID pandemic has somewhat waned, the Sister Cecelia Home for the Elderly is slowly reintroducing the programs it once had before the virus put everything on halt. But now the facility wants to do more than it used to. It also wants to add activities such as a physical therapy exercise to […]
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The National Trade Union Congress of Belize today commemorated its fifty-sixth year of representing and protecting workers and their rights. The N.T.U.C.B. is a federation of trade unions made up of thirteen local unions. It is also an affiliate of the International Trade Union Confederation, and the Caribbean Congress of Labor. To mark its fifty […]
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Doctor Theodore Aranda, the former United Democratic Party leader, has passed away. Doctor Ted Aranda, as he was affectionately known, died on Sunday, July tenth at the age of eighty-eight. Doctor Aranda’s political career began in 1974 under the United Democratic Party. His career in politics ended in 2003 as a member of the People’s […]
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Team Belize is ready to compete in the nineteenth U-twenty-one Female Central American Volleyball Championship which will be hosted from July twelfth to the sixteenth at the Belize City Civic Center. Belize has always done well in the sport, winning silver in the women’s category back in 2018, then the under-twenty-three and under-eighteen in 2019. […]
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From as early as Friday, the team from El Salvador was already in country and over the weekend, the others arrived, except for Panama and Costa Rica who will not participate this year. President of the Belize Volleyball Association Allan Sharp says the five teams competing are all formidable. Allan Sharp, President, Belize Volleyball […]
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The appointment of Senator Collet Montejo as Field Supervisor for the pending re-districting exercise has been rife with controversy. From the onset, the opposition has been against the Deputy Secretary General of the People’s United Party being selected to serve in that capacity on the Re-division Task Force. On Thursday, U.D.P. Chairman Michael Peyrefitte wrote […]
Written on July 8, 2022 | Posted in
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Chairman Peyrefitte’s letter to the Governor General seeking Senator Montejo’s removal is the second request being made for action to be taken by the Crown’s representative in Belize. It follows a previous letter written to G.G. Tzalam requesting the disclosure of an agreement between the Briceño administration and the law firm of CourtenayCoye L.L.P. The […]
Written on July 8, 2022 | Posted in
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The United Democratic Party joined forces with the Belize Coalition of Churches several weeks ago during a countrywide campaign by the religious community to garner the necessary number of signatures by eligible voters to trigger a referendum on the legalization of cannabis. During the third term of the Barrow administration, cannabis was decriminalized. Individuals were […]
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A Dangriga resident has been charged for the murder of Emerson Nunez. Earlier today, police formally arrested and charged thirty-three-year-old Kenrick Wade for the murder which occurred in the wee hours of July fourth in that southern municipality. Police believe that Wade was the gunman who opened fire on Nunez around one a.m. on Gadsby […]
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A police officer is accused of physically abusing his girlfriend in an act of jealous rage. The girlfriend reported to police that following the attack he returned a second day to use a taser on her and continue his physical assault. The cop, identified as twenty-four-year-old Police Constable Harold Thompson, appeared before Senior Magistrate, Tricia […]
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Today at the University of the West Indies Open Campus in Belize City, the Alumni Association bestowed the Professional Excellence Apex Award on Doctor Adrian Coye, a former graduate of the institution. It is issued annually by the association to an alumnus who is recognized for his or her professionalism and excellence – in Doctor […]
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Last October, the Cabinet decided to take a multi-sectoral approach to help to fight crime when the Ministry of Home Affairs, through the Department of Youth Services. D.Y.S. enlisted over seven hundred youths in three different programs and today, those students graduated from their courses and have options to either return to take another course […]
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Electric vehicles are becoming the transportation of choice across the world. E.V.s are considered to be more cost efficient and environmentally friendly than fuel powered vehicles. And, with the increasing cost of fuel, making the switch is almost a no-brainer. In Belize, Ruth Esquivel is among the first to own an electric vehicle. Esquivel purchased […]
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Tropigas has found a new home at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Mahogany Street in Belize City. The grand opening and relocation was marked by a brief ceremony this morning at the new retail space. The investment was strategic as the company brings itself closer to its clientele and is also providing employment […]
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“Bruk life have to guh”. That’s the message that Belizean Artist Trevor “T-Unknown” Yarde is spreading in his latest single entitled ‘Bruk Life”. T-Unknown released the visuals for his single today. We spoke with him about the song and the positive message behind it. Here is that interview. Trevor “T-Unknown” Yarde, Belizean Artist “Bruk […]
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“Elder abuse” or “abuse of older people” is defined as a single or repeated act or lack of appropriate action occurring within any relationship in which there is expectation of trust that causes harm or distress to an older person. That’s according to the World Health Organization and today, at the Biltmore Plaza in Belize […]
Written on July 7, 2022 | Posted in
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Sixteen young Belizean football players were awarded scholarships to attend university in the United States. The combined value of the scholarships amount to over eight hundred thousand Belize dollars. Of the sixteen athletes, four were awarded scholarships to pursue their master’s degree, six were awarded scholarships to pursue their bachelor’s degree, and the remaining six […]
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When we caught up with the Minister of Education today in Belize City we got an opportunity to ask him about his ministry’s summer initiatives to bridge the learning gap caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Minister Fonseca spoke with us about the “Let’s Catch Up Summer Camp”, a program that is being carried on radio, […]
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The COVID pandemic brought the cruise tourism industry to a screeching halt in 2020. To secure the health of the country, Belize implemented strict protocols and we were able to see a few port calls being made. Fast-forward to 2022 and calls to port in the city and southern Belize are up. The number of […]
Written on July 6, 2022 | Posted in
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Speaking about airlifts into Belize, airline companies have resumed their routes to the Jewel; Air Alaska recently announced increasing their capacity into Belize and there have been up to twenty-seven flights into the Philip Goldson International Airport on Saturdays. Minister Mahler says that along with the Belize Tourism Board, they are trying to improve ease […]
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