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The Transport Minister also responded to the issuance of a contract for the manufacture of license plates. It was among the first things flagged by his new C.E.O. Adele Catzim-Sanchez. The contract is for over two hundred thousand dollars and according to the C.E.O., it did not follow proper procedures in its award. Back then, […]
Written on July 20, 2023 | Posted in
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There’s an outbreak of the New World screwworm in Central America again and the folks at the Belize Agricultural Health Authority, BAHA, are informing farmers and others who have pets close to the border areas to be vigilant. They are also advising people who cross into Belize with farm animals to adhere to the measures […]
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Since Sunday, the U-nineteen Female Central American Volleyball Championship has been raging at the Belize City Civic Center. Team Belize has been performing well, but on Monday lost to the formidable Costa Rican team. And then on Wednesday, our girls pummelled Honduras. Tonight, the team takes on Nicaragua and then on Friday, they go head-to-head […]
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A delegation of technical staff from a football club in Spain is in country carrying out a series of football clinics for female and male football players. They arrived in Belize on Wednesday through a partnership with the National Sports Council and the Football Federation of Belize. Today, the media was introduced to the program […]
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…from volleyball and football to basketball. For the first time in Belize’s history, FIBA U-seventeen Centrobasket Championship 2023 will be held in Belize. The junior regional basketball team competition takes place at the Belize City Civic Center from July twenty-fourth to the thirtieth. When we spoke to President of the Belize Basketball Federation Jacob Leslie […]
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It is one of the worst tragedies a family can endure – a combustion that kills two of their children, leaving all the other siblings, and their parents with varying degrees of burn injuries. That is what happened on Tuesday night in the peaceful and remote Mennonite village of Neuland in Corozal. The village has […]
Written on July 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Belize City police have ramped up their presence in the Plues Street area, following the deadly predawn shooting of Jasmine Domingo and her four-year-old daughter. The incident, according to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, may have been precipitated by an internal feud within the George Street gang. Officers have been on patrol in the vicinity […]
Written on July 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Nineteen-year-old Kijahe Molina, charged with wounding twenty-eight-year-old Zani Savala, a police constable, was today offered bail of a thousand dollars when he appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court to face the charge. Molina gave his occupation as a call center agent of Elston Kerr Street, Belize City. That is just two blocks from where […]
Written on July 19, 2023 | Posted in
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An accused burglar escaped from lawful custody earlier today after feigning ill during his court appearance in Corozal Town. The suspect told the magistrate that he was not feeling well and when a police officer was ordered to escort him to the hospital, he took off running. The officer quickly set chase, ran a short […]
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The family of Karen and Teena Skeen, as well as Robert Vellos Senior is demanding justice, ten years after their loved ones were brutally murdered, allegedly at the hands of a son. Jared Ranguy is believed to be the person who viciously dispatched his mother, sister and stepfather inside their home in Ladyville back in […]
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On Tuesday, the Belize Electricity Limited held a press conference to provide details on the company’s recent encounter with hackers and the large quantity of data leaked from its information technology system. At the end of June, B.E.L. representatives received an email from a random, unknown address with information that the company’s network has a […]
Written on July 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Sean Fuller, the General Manager of Finance and Business Support at B.E.L., went on to explain all the additional measures the company is putting in place in an attempt to ensure that any further cyber attacks does not result in a data leak. Sean Fuller, General Manager, Finance & Business Support, B.E.L. “We are […]
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There have been several persons reporting of their emails having been hacked; they’ve been locked out and security barriers put in place preventing them from regaining access. One such case is that of PlusTV in Belmopan. Its managing director, Louis Wade Junior says that since three p.m. on Tuesday, he lost control of the company’s […]
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Louis Wade Junior says that the media house has been decentralizing apps attached to that Gmail account, but it has affected the company significantly because there were several other activities connected to that account. Wade cannot confirm that it is directly linked to B.E.L.’s ransomware incident; however, the email in question was used as part […]
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As of this past Saturday, July fifteenth, the data for 2023 is showing the Orange Walk and Cayo Districts recording the highest number of lab confirmed and clinical cases of dengue; these figures are two hundred and twenty-three and three hundred and twenty-seven, respectively. Ironically, Belize District, which has ordinarily recorded highest numbers, is next […]
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The United Democratic Party has issued a three-page release in which it expresses growing concern about the economic viability of the current proposals, as well as the detrimental environmental impact of the proposed Port of Magical Belize project. The release points to the project’s proposed clearance of almost four hundred hectares of mangroves, despite the […]
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Over the weekend, Prime Minister John Briceño travelled to Brussels, Belgium to attend the European Union – Community of Latin American and Caribbean States Summit 2023. The two-day event saw heads of state and government convene for the first time in eight years. Coming out of the summit was a joint declaration on digital alliance, […]
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A team of power lifting athletes departs for the Cayman Islands on August sixth, where members will participate in various categories of competition as they represent the Jewel. Earlier today, the National Sports Council handed over official tracksuits to be worn by the team during the event. Present were Power Lifting Association President Khalid Usher […]
Written on July 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Coding or computer programming is the skill utilized to tell a machine which actions to perform and how to complete a task. In San Ignacio, a group of primary school students is spending the summer learning how to code. They have been sacrificing time away from their electronic devices at home and playing with friends […]
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We begin tonight’s newscast with a fire in the Shipyard community in the north. Social media has been buzzing with a live video that captured this huge fire at a lumber yard in that Mennonite community. The blaze could be seen from a distance and there were several explosions from nearby gas tanks that came […]
Written on July 18, 2023 | Posted in
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It’s been thirty-nine hours since the grisly murder of a single mother in Belize City and an arrest is yet to be made. While police believe that the motive for the murder is gang-related, they are still investigating the homicide to determine who may have been the triggerman in the deadly early morning attack on […]
Written on July 18, 2023 | Posted in
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A policeman suffered a stab wound while he was on duty at a grocery store in Belize City on Monday night. Reports are that twenty-eight-year-old Zani Savala, was doing duties at Good Will Store on Central American Boulevard just around closing time at nine p.m., when a young man arrived and wanted to enter the […]
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Nineteen-year-old Felipe Cesar Sanchez, a fisherman of Guerrero Street in the Yabra area of Belize City, is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was charged for being a member of a gang. The Guerrero Street resident appeared unrepresented in the lower courts earlier today where he was read a single charge related […]
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Tonight, a well-known street figure is back behind bars after he was accused of neglecting a judicial order. It is alleged that Ulide Allen, who was granted bail by the High Court for the offense of being a member of a gang and escaping from lawful custody, failed to abide by an order of the […]
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The management of the Belize Electricity Limited held a press conference today to provide the media with a high-level overview on the infiltration of its information technology network by cyber criminals. John Mencias, the Chief Executive Officer at B.E.L., explained that the company carries out its operations on two separate systems. The company’s IT system […]
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