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It’s been almost a week since a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) reported “lost” in Trinidad and Tobago in November 2014. The submersible was found last Wednesday in the waters off San Pedro on the Belize Barrier Reef in an area called Mexico Rocks. Measuring approximately twelve feet in length and six point six feet […]
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A community-based project that looks at the impact of climate change on the ecosystem from a development standpoint was launched today by the Fisheries Department. The marine Conservation and Climate Adaptation project, also referred to as MCCAP, seeks to ensure the sustainable development and the viability of the fishing industry, while creating awareness on the […]
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The YWCA is celebrating a milestone in Belize- its fifty-ninth anniversary. Fulfilling a threefold mission since it started, the Belize Chapter of the Y offers instructional and training programmes that promote education, income generation for women and girls, physical development and other creative activities for healthy living. The YWCA has long been known to offer […]
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Vehicle vendors in Orange Walk are up in arms after the Orange Walk Town Council moved forcefully to remove them from where they are parked near the Central Park. It’s not a new problem, and dates back to 2012, but while the vendors have played hard-ball, the Council hasn’t – until now, that is. Today […]
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The Belize Cancer Society is the recipient of a nine thousand five hundred U.S. dollar grant that was awarded by the Healthy Caribbean Coalition with funding from the American Cancer Society. Heather Reneau of the Belize Cancer Society says the grant will be used to screen over a thousand at risk women for cervical cancer. […]
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There is a report tonight that fuel stocks are running low at gas depots countrywide. As a result, the main fuel importer, Puma Energy, has been rationing stocks, in particular for diesel which is retailing at seven dollars and ninety-seven cents per gallon. The cutback to consumers has been caused by a huge increase in […]
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A Mahogany Heights resident is tonight fortunate to be alive after he was stabbed to the chest on Friday afternoon in what has been described as a domestic dispute. Forty-two year old Earlin Butler was stabbed around two p.m. on Friday by a woman, who lives three houses away from his in the village. Just […]
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According to Hattieville Police, under whose jurisdiction the Mahogany Heights Community falls, they were called out sometime around two-thirty on Friday afternoon. By that time, Butler had already been rushed to the K.H.M.H., while his attacker, twenty-four year old Hattieville resident, Shannon Smith, was at a house in the community. Police would not speculate as […]
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There has not been a guilty conviction for murder since the beginning of the year and in fact, as recent as last Thursday, three men walked free of the charge. Well, just after midday, a jury of eight men and four women stepped into the deliberating room to decide the fate of thirty-one year old […]
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A bloodbath on Mayflower Street on the night of March fourth ended in the death of a Belize City resident, left another man injured and the alleged assailant under police guard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. That is after thirty-three-year-old Jervis Valencia was shot by police responding to the scene of the deadly incident. […]
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Livestock farmers in Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary have been losing their cattle, but it is not to rustlers. For some time now, farmers have lost thousands of dollars because jaguars have been on the prowl in the area. The issue is that the jaguar population is under protection by law, and the only reason to […]
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A Mexican national was hacked to death in the Corozal District on March first. The body of a man identified as Sergio Martinez was discovered in his bungalow with multiple chop wounds to the face and head. Police have been unable to properly identify the man and he has since been buried as a “John […]
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On Saturday afternoon, Lenard Logan found his grandfather, George Trapp, dead. Trapp’s body was found behind his house in some bush. He was fully dressed, wearing slippers, with his glasses beside him and a flash light in his hand. Corozal Police say they do not suspect foul play. Via Phone: Supt. Andrew Ramirez, O.C., […]
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There were a number of road traffic accidents across the country over the weekend and finally, there was one arrest for a fatal road traffic accident that occurred two years ago. Police have nailed an alleged hit and run driver and charged him several years after being on the lam. Humberto Novelo has been arraigned […]
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Belize City police are also reporting a shooting incident that occurred on Saturday night in the Old Capital. Just after eight p.m., twenty year old Conrad Pitts was at the Fred Westby Park on Albert Street when a lone gunman approached and fired several shots. Pitts despite efforts to evade the bullets, he was hit […]
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Prime Minister Dean Barrow presented the 2015-2016 Budget on Friday, and it will be debated in the next two weeks. While he hasn’t officially dubbed it a budget of plenty, it’s clear from the goodies thrown in that it’s far from an austerity budget, all due to Petrocaribe money. Where there’s an apparent downside like […]
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As he has alluded to with some regularity, the Prime Minister has ramped up the allocation to capital two and three projects this year to one hundred and ninety-five million – to finance ongoing projects and new projects coming on stream. Those works, he says, will span the length and breadth of the country. […]
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Even in the face of increased spending in every sector, the PM boasts that the government has done it all, and continues to do it, without any increase in taxes. In fact, he says, they haven’t raised taxes once in the past five years. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “We are once more presenting a […]
A submersible was found last Wednesday in the waters off San Pedro on the Belize Barrier Reef in an area called Mexico Rocks. It has been determined that the object measures almost twelve feet in length by six point six feet in width and includes four propellers topside, another two in the front and two […]
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The Daily Mail, an online newspaper out of the UK, has resurrected what it calls an exclusive story; the content which has already been reported sometime in Belize. It involves the white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan, which is one of three individual organizations in the United States emphasizing racism and demanding purification of […]
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And while the story of Bill Wilkinson has re-surfaced, there is another story that has been attracting attention in Belize. John McAfee, whom you will recall, was wanted locally as a person of interest in the murder of his neighbor, Gregory Faull in San Pedro in January 2013. Following the murder, NBC aired a series […]
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Belize Electricity Limited is currently hosting the Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation’s 2015 Human Resources and Public Relations Conference in Belize City. The conference and others held frequently across the Caribbean are part of CARILEC’s ongoing initiative to network regional electricity suppliers and affiliated entities. Under the theme “Achieving the Synergies – Corporate Leadership, PR […]
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An anticipated item on the calendar of school activities is the Festival of Arts involving pre-scholars. This morning the festival opened at the Bliss; teachers and proud parents were on hand for the event. For the little ones there was excitement at the chance of being on stage and perhaps a little nervousness. News Five’s […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Saturday night inside the Isidoro Beaton Stadium saw a crucial matchup as undefeated Belize Defense Force was hosted by the Belmopan Bandits in a ballgame that could well be a preview of the 2 finalist in the 9 team PLB Closing Season. The host […]
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Today’s sitting of the House of Representatives was reserved for the presentation of the 2015-2016 Budget, the eighth of the Barrow administration. Later in our newscast we’ll have an extensive look at that, but first we deal with another matter which dominated the political scene inside and outside the House today. We refer, of course, […]
