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Prime Minister Said Musa has suspended Toledo West representative Marcial Mes from his duties as Minister of State in the Ministry of National Development. Mes, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, knocked down two pedestrians Sunday night as he drove through Forest Home Village on the Southern Highway. According to a government press release, “the […]
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The Prime Minister’s office has also released a letter sent yesterday to Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya confirming the city’s one U.S. dollar cut of the cruise ship head tax. Although the letter assured Moya that the new subvention takes effect on February first, it does not address the issue of the three hundred and […]
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Politics |
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The passport scandal: it was big news back in 2002 when it was shown that hundreds, perhaps over a thousand Belize passports had been illegally sold on the global market by unscrupulous private sector agents in collusion with even more unscrupulous public officers and politicians. And while former immigration minister Max Samuels lost his seat […]
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Trials |
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A man accused of murder has pled guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. According to court reports, shortly after a jury was empanelled to hear the case against Alexander Palacio, attorney for the accused, Hubert Elrington informed prosecutor Tracy Sosa that the defence would plead guilty to manslaughter. Sosa accepted the plea and Justice […]
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Their names were in the headlines as victims of urban violence, but while dozens of young corpses fill our cemeteries each year, the family members left behind are not grieving alone. On Sunday they gathered to make a statement in the hope that others may be spared their torment. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting They came to […]
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Social Issues |
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A tour of Altun Ha has ended in tragedy for a cruise ship tourist. According to a police press release, around midday seventy-one year old Michael Lucas, a resident of Rhode Island in the United States, was with his wife and a group of visitors at the ancient Maya site when Lucas reportedly began to […]
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Crime |
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Public hearings by the commission of Inquiry into the operations of the Development Finance Corporation will continue on Thursday and Friday of this week. According to a commission release, the public hearings, held at the Belize Institute of Management in Belize City, will also convene those same two days of the following week; that is […]
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Economy |
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The collection of garbage–or more precisely, the lack of it–is a growing issue in Belize City politics. Today some residents on the edge of downtown asked us to take a look at their predicament and News Five’s Kendra Griffith, with some company, responded. Wayne Usher, Deputy Mayor, Belize City Council “We have only one designated […]
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Miscellaneous |
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If you’ve been following the U.S. newscasts you’ll know that a horse named Barbaro, winner of the Kentucky Derby, was injured in a subsequent race and had to be put down by its owners. Well, the injured horse found wandering on the Western Highway this morning may not have been a thoroughbred, but the humans […]
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Social Issues |
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The U.S. military may be bogged down in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it has not abdicated its humanitarian role in the rest of the world as Janelle Chanona found out yesterday in the Toledo District. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For the next two weeks, hundreds of men, women, children, and even pets will gather […]
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Health |
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