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Stakeholders from the public and private sectors are drafting a strategy which they will present to government to ensure the national security and defense of the country. The document focuses on the traditional sense of security, but also the integration of best practices for the economy, health and education. Today, a second round of consultation […]
Written on November 29, 2016 | Posted in
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On Monday night, we told you that four persons of interest in Nelson Zelaya’s murder were in police custody. Today, two of those men were charged for the Gardenia resident’s killing. Brothers Lenford Samuel Harris Junior and Camron Douglas Harris were each charged with a single count of murder. On Thursday, twenty-seven-year-old Zelaya was in […]
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A forty three year old Gales Point man is missing. On November twentieth, Delbert Delroy Andrewin is said to have left his home that morning in Gales Point and headed to his family farm on the Coastal Road. But since then Andrewin has not been seen or heard from. His family is very worried and […]
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As you may have heard before, IMPACT Justice is a Canadian Government-funded project that is being implemented from the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies in Barbados. The main component of the project is the drafting of legislation that can be ratified by CARICOM states to tackle injustices that persons within […]
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Regional Project Director, Professor Velma Newton proposes a process similar to mediation by the courts. In this case, however, it is the Commissioner of Police who is to formalize the process. Newton says that ComPol Allen Whylie, who attended the opening ceremony on Monday, supports the training for officers attached to the Police Training Academy […]
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IMPACT Justice is also targeting other social groups, specifically the education sector where counselors and teachers are trained to resolve conflict between students. Three weeks ago, the IMPACT Justice Project partnered with the Ministry of Education to engage teachers as well as parents on how they can move the process along. Prof. Velma Newton, […]
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This week is disability awareness week. It is being observed from the twenty seventh of November to the third of December. The week includes the United Nations sanctioned international day of people with disability held each year on December third. The week is used to educate people regarding disabilities and giving people the knowledge required to […]
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UNICEF assists countries to collect and analyze data to fill gaps in the monitoring of the situation of children and women through its international household survey called the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey or commonly known as MICS. Every five years, it undertakes the survey in over five thousand households across Belize and then the data […]
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On Sunday afternoon at the Biltmore Plaza in Belize City, two souls became one as the bonds of marriage between Nissi Arzu and Elmer Figueroa were celebrated. Partnering with Confetti, this station followed the couple from engagement to the fulfillment of a dream wedding. It was part of our programming to mark our twenty-fifth anniversary […]
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One of the oldest buildings in the Old Capital was consumed by fire on Sunday morning. Thick smoke billowed into the sky and was visible from a distance away as residents came out in numbers and watched in disbelief as a fire swept through the wooden structure of the historic colonial building. Hours later, only […]
Written on November 28, 2016 | Posted in
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Destruction by fire in the city was not only limited to the Chateau Caribbean. Just under seven hours before, Police also reported a house fire at a residence on West Collet Canal where the upper flat of a two storey wooden building was destroyed. The homeowner insists she left nothing open that would have caused […]
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There was a third fire which caused a family of five to spend the weekend with relatives in Ladyville. The place they called home went up in flames just after six o’clock on Friday night. Delvorine Reyes and her four children were not at home and they lost everything in the blaze. News Five’s Duane […]
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A consignment of a little over fifty thousand pounds of green ham, uncured meat, that was reportedly brought in from Miami after being rejected in Ecuador is sitting at the western border tonight. The shipment is under quarantine by the Belize Agricultural and Health Authority. The name of the importer is unconfirmed, but we know […]
Since the Supreme Court decision in favor of the Belize National Teachers Union last Monday, the Ministry of Education has been silent about the processing of salaries for the month of November. Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin ruled that government cannot dock the wages of teachers who participated in an eleven-day strike in October, until the […]
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Comandante Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution in the 1950’s, who became the longest-serving leader with unbroken service in the Americas, died late Friday at the age of ninety. An immediate cause of death was not released with the official announcement by President Raul Castro, but Fidel had been in poor health since 2008. Described […]
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Prime Minister of Belize Dean Barrow has penned official condolences to the President of Cuba, Raul Castro Ruz, on the passing of his brother, Comandante Fidel Castro. World leaders will be attending a tribute ceremony in Havana on Tuesday. Belize will be represented by Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred […]
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After receiving treatment in Mexico for a month, Coastguard Petty Officer Daniel Arzu Junior returned to Belize today via a Mexican military aircraft. Arzu Junior was shot to the head when he was visiting his child at an apartment on Neal Penn Road in Belize City. Both his family and the coastguard believe that he […]
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Well-known criminal figure, Basil Willis recently beat the offense of committing an unnatural crime when the case was thrown out but today he was back in court accused of burglarizing a school. Sometime between November twenty-third and twenty-fourth, the Grace Primary School kitchen located on Amara Avenue in Belize City was burglarized. Stolen […]
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Twenty-nine year old Gilbert Craig and thirty-one year old Theodore Andrews were tried for murder by Justice Troadio Gonzalez this morning in the Supreme Court. But the two men accused of the murder of twenty-three year old Troy Bowen on August thirty-first, 2011, were quickly released after prosecutor Kileru Awich decided to throw in the […]
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“So You Want to Be “STEM-tastic!” It’s my idea for introducing primary schoolers to Caribbean heroes in the STEM subjects. It won top prize in the first-ever Compete Caribbean mediathon in Barbados held last week. Thirty Caribbean media professionals over a day and a half were challenged to come up with an idea using communication […]
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Friday’s final in the History and Social Studies Quiz presented by the Belize City House of Culture and Downtown Rejuvenation Project is one in a series of intended projects to help promote the main project, which includes making the Old Capital’s history come alive. The project includes renovations to the old Government House to make […]
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Four persons, including two minors from the neighboring village of Biscayne are tonight in police custody as the investigation continues into the midday shooting and subsequent murder of Nelson Zelaya. The twenty-seven-year-old was shot at close range, by someone he reportedly knew, as he made his way to his wife and kids who were at […]
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A third person has been detained and is expected to be charged for the brazen robbery of “T” Supermarket in Lord’s Bank Village last Monday. The proprietor Jing Xiao Tan reported to police that he was robbed at gunpoint on Monday night of three thousand, two hundred dollars in cash, and his licensed nine millimeter […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Two bitter rivals came into week 16 looking to secure a berth in the advent of the 4-team playoffs of the PLB Opening Tournament at the MCC Grounds as the Belize Defense Force and FC Belize clashed in a major showdown. Some ten minutes […]
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The Barrow Administration has agreed to reduce the referendum threshold from sixty percent to fifty percent plus one, by amending the existing Referendum Act. That decision comes ahead of a Senate meeting to be held next Wednesday during which upper parliament is expected to endorse the special agreement on taking the Guatemalan claim to the […]
Written on November 25, 2016 | Posted in
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