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The Community-Oriented Policing Unit awarded eight scholarships to high school students selected from across Belize City today. The unit chose students who reside in single-parent homes. The recipients are attending high schools that are not part of the Ministry of Education’s Education Upliftment Pilot Project. The ceremony was held this afternoon inside the Yarborough Community […]
Written on July 27, 2023 | Posted in
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And while York Street residents are relieved to have a new thoroughfare, the residents of Fort George will have a new receptacle to better manage their garbage problem. That comes after the Belize City Council, which is responsible for garbage collection, handed over a check to Fort George Area Representative, Henry Charles Usher today. Mayor […]
Written on July 27, 2023 | Posted in
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As the campaign season draws nearer, leading up to municipal elections next year, insiders from both political mass parties have started to position themselves to have their names appear on the ballot on election day. Belize City Mayor, Bernard Wagner has made it abundantly clear that he wants a third go as mayor, but that […]
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Earlier today, a Data Needs Workshop was held leading up to the seventh round of government’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. It’s called MICS and the last round was conducted in 2015, and should happen every five years. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the survey was not conducted. Nonetheless, the various ministries that are […]
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The second annual Belize International Music and Food Fest is less than two days away and artists from across the Caribbean are pouring in to perform during this weekend’s mega event in Belize City. The stage is set for a deep lineup of Belizean and regional musicians, as well as local chefs from across the […]
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The International Basketball Federation’s Under-Seventeen Centrobasket Tournament is currently underway inside the Belize City Civic Center. On Wednesday night, Belize played its first match of the tournament against Panama. After four quarters of play time, Belize came out of the match on top, winning the game with seventy-eight baskets to Panama’s sixty-seven baskets. Number twenty-four […]
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In Belize, mangroves play a crucial role in providing a safe home for endangered Antillean manatees and their young calves. However, these coastal ecosystems are under constant threat from development, leading to a decline in mangrove cover and subsequently impacting the manatee population. Mangroves are not only vital for marine biodiversity but also hold economic […]
Written on July 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Two murders were recorded in approximately six hours – one in Belize City and the other in Belmopan. We’ll have official details from the execution of Steven Moss later, but we begin tonight’s newscast with the shooting death of Brodam Santos in the Cohune Walk area of the capital. The thirty-year-old was shot multiple times […]
Written on July 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Our headline story on Tuesday evening was the gangland execution of Steven Moss, by a pair of gunmen who hopped out of a vehicle on Caesar Ridge Road and opened fire on him multiple times. The twenty-nine-year-old died on the scene of the shooting and the men who accosted him made good their escape in […]
Written on July 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-one-year-old Alexander Underwood was remanded to the Belize Central Prison on Tuesday after being arraigned for the offence of being a member of a gang. It is the second time he has been brought up on that charge before the lower courts. In Underwood’s defense, his loved ones argue that he has reformed and is […]
Written on July 26, 2023 | Posted in
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The badly decomposed remains of an individual believed to be twenty-three-year-old Phozaun Lewis, was discovered in the Maxboro neighborhood of Sand Hill Village on July twenty-first. The body was found behind the steering wheel of a BMW vehicle. But who would have killed Phozaun and why? Police say that his murder may have been the […]
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Going back to the work of the Leadership Intervention Unit, ComPol Williams reiterated that the individuals, who are mixed up in the rash of gun violence in Belize City lately, are not members of the L.I.U. In fact, he’s gone a step further to say that even if they were, those persons aren’t above the […]
Written on July 26, 2023 | Posted in
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What about a State of Emergency, is it an option that law enforcement is contemplating? According to Commissioner of Police, it is not a solution favored by the present administration. The preferred approach, he says, is to identify and pursue individual perpetrators of crime and violence. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “The law does […]
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Experts from the TYPSA Group, as well as the Maritime and Logistics Consulting Group from Panama are in Belize to conduct a study of the economics of the country’s port system. During this time, the consultants will collect data and develop a model that will be used to measure the impact of the port on […]
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Rikki Lambey, who is the Port’s Research and Training Manager, told News Five that this type of review is important because it has never been done before to capture the economic and social impacts of port activities. She adds that the findings will be shared with the government to implement necessary changes. Rikki Lambey, […]
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Located on Regent Street in Belize City, the Belize Medical Associates Southside facility is also an N.H.I. Clinic that offers primary healthcare to residents. Since 2001, the clinic has been working in that area of Belize City, providing affordable services at a high standard, set by the National Health Insurance Program. Over twelve thousand persons […]
Written on July 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Belize Electricity Limited issued a press release this afternoon to clarify a recent statement that the company’ executive made during a press conference on the recent cyber attack. The company’s executive initially stated that B.E.L. does not store customer’s credit and debit card information. Today the company’s release stated that it “wishes to clarify that […]
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A large portion of our lives are spent acquiring knowledge and developing skills through education. At the foundation of our academic pursuit is a curriculum. According to the Belize Education Sector Plan, on the surface, a curriculum is compromised of a list of topics, objectives and strategies that are used by teachers to develop content. […]
Written on July 26, 2023 | Posted in
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A treasury clerk is tonight in hot water after being charged with three counts of theft. A police investigation into forty-three-year-old Rona “Ronnie” Ireland revealed that she allegedly misappropriated a total of four thousand, five hundred and one dollars from the Treasury Department. According to police, Ireland dishonestly appropriated nine hundred and ninety-three dollars on […]
Written on July 26, 2023 | Posted in
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This morning, Belama resident Elmer Martinez, who also goes by the name Jovanni Bardalez, appeared before a Senior Magistrate in Belize City and was read a single charge of theft. It is the third strike for the thirty-one-year-old Dolphin Drive resident, who is accused of dishonestly appropriating a black trek brand bicycle on July seventeenth […]
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Regenerative farming – it’s the alternative method of farming to the conventional type of farming like what most of us are accustomed to. Regenerative farming is defined as carbon farming, which transforms greenhouse gasses into beneficial carbon and stores it in the soil, also known as carbon sequestration. The University of Washington reported on February 24, […]
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Grammy-winning Jamaican Reggae Band, Morgan Heritage arrived in Belize today ahead of the scheduled performance at the Belize International Music and Food Festival this weekend. The last time the band was in Belize was back in 2001, when the group performed at the then Novelo’s Convention Center in San Ignacio. The band’s music catalogue is […]
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Four Belize City residents have been murdered in the last nine days. The latest victim to lose his life is twenty-nine-year-old Steven Moss, a resident of Queen Charlotte Street. If the name sounds familiar that is because Moss was charged in connection with a murder in 2017, in front of what is now Club Bizzo. […]
Written on July 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Today, thirty-one-year-old Alexander Underwood was arraigned inside the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on a single charge of being a member of a gang. Allegations against Underwood are that he is a member of the Southside Gang (SSG) and has engaged in committing serious offenses. Underwood appeared before a Senior Magistrate where he pled not guilty. […]
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Brothers Delson and Tionne Paguada were convicted of the murder of Paul Jex in the High Court on Monday. Another suspect, Timothy Carcamo, was set free because he could not have been positively identified as the third person at the scene of the deadly shooting in San Pedro on the evening of January twenty-third, 2018. […]
Written on July 25, 2023 | Posted in
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