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Millions have been affected by the massive seven point one earthquake that hit Mexico City on the nineteenth of September. Over the weekend, two other quakes were experienced even as Mexico continues to search for survivors. So far the death toll has risen to three hundred and twenty persons and many more are believed dead, […]
Written on September 25, 2017 | Posted in
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There is a disturbing report of rape of a minor by a man three times her senior. Thirty-nine-year-old Charles Alexander Brown of Madam Liz Avenue, Belize City is remanded to Central Prison tonight after being charged with the rape of a child. On September eighteenth, a thirteen-year-old female minor told police that while at home […]
Written on September 25, 2017 | Posted in
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Member of the Senate Special Select Committee, business community Senator Mark Lizarraga, was a guest of Channel Five’s Open Your Eyes this morning. The Committee has been meeting since last November and called at least thirty witnesses to address various aspects of operations at the embattled Immigration Department between 2011 and 2013. But there is […]
Written on September 25, 2017 | Posted in
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There is an outbreak of pink eye that is spreading quickly across the region. While the rash of conjunctivitis has taken hold in neighboring Mexico, dozens of cases are also being reported in Belize daily. In three weeks, there have been over one thousand cases reported at health facilities across the country and that number […]
Written on September 25, 2017 | Posted in
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Health officials believe that they are dealing with a viral case of pink eye, which proliferates quicker than a bacterial outbreak. Dr. Gough says that samples will be sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency in Trinidad in the days ahead. Dr. Ethan Gough, Epidemiologist “Last week we had eight hundred and seventy cases. […]
Written on September 25, 2017 | Posted in
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World Pharmacist Day was celebrated in every corner of the globe today. The day is set aside to expose the work of pharmacists in improving health care to all. There was not much fanfare in Belize, but persons are being encouraged to deposit those expired medications in medicine cabinets at a number of pharmacies across […]
Written on September 25, 2017 | Posted in
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A fire consumed a property in Burrell Boom, Belize District, early on Sunday morning. The caretaker of the house was not at home when the fire broke and he and his daughters lost all their belongings in the fire. The family of Dyron Hyde believes the fire was deliberately set in the village where well […]
Written on September 25, 2017 | Posted in
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Police are revisiting the recent death of a retiree from the village of Hattieville. The lifeless body of seventy-eight-year-old Karl Leslie was found on September fourteenth on the floor of this bedroom in the East Windmill area. A nurse from the Hattieville Center found no pulse about twenty minutes after the discovery of Leslie and […]
Written on September 25, 2017 | Posted in
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The Eastern Caribbean island nation of Dominica continues to recover from the ravages of Category Five Hurricane Maria which struck a week ago tonight. Its prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, has become the face of his nation’s suffering, openly crying on television as he told of his witness of the devastation his island had suffered. Taking […]
Written on September 25, 2017 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
Written on September 25, 2017 | Posted in
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Independence Day in Belmopan was full of invective from both sides of the political spectrum, and there is a major announcement on Petrocaribe to report tonight. But we begin with breaking news affecting gas prices, which trickles down to all levels of society. Just under forty-eight hours after massive increases for regular and diesel fuel, […]
At news time, the Opposition People’s United Party has sent a release calling for Government to immediately reduce taxes on fuel, to alleviate the recent increases in fuel prices. The P.U.P. says that even with the cost of crude oil around fifty dollars per barrel, pump prices are among the highest in Belizean history, with […]
Written on September 22, 2017 | Posted in
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Now to Independence Day…independent now for thirty-six years, is Belize any better off? According to the Prime Minister, the country appears to be shaking off the malaise of recent years economically. But tempers are badly frayed in the social sector, with crime resurging and opponents in various sectors regularly at each other’s throats, egged on […]
Written on September 22, 2017 | Posted in
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“Petrocaribe will roll it once more,” Prime Minister Dean Barrow confirmed Thursday morning during his Independence Day address. This follows a meeting with a delegation of Venezuelan officials who arrived in country Monday morning and left by Tuesday afternoon. On September fourteenth, the Government had announced an immediate suspension of fuel importation under the Petrocaribe program. […]
Written on September 22, 2017 | Posted in
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The Government faces no end of scandal in many of its Ministries, from Immigration to Health, Education to Works to Finance. But the hot button issue of the moment is what Prime Minister Dean Barrow himself has called “the hotbed of corruption” – the Lands Department. Former deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega oversaw a veritable […]
On Wednesday, the Integrity Commission announced that it forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecution the list of persons in public life who failed to submit their declaration of assets, income and liabilities to the Commission by the required time. As also required by law, the names of those not in compliance is published in […]
Written on September 22, 2017 | Posted in
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It’s a rare occasion for an accused murderer to be granted bail by the Supreme Court; in fact, it has only happened three times before. But tonight, twenty-eight-year-old Nelson Henry is on temporary release from custody. After six years in pretrial detention, Henry, accused of the sensational killing of well-known street figure Edward Lord Junior […]
Written on September 22, 2017 | Posted in
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Eighteen-year-old Moses Anthony Babb has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned earlier today on a slew of charges resulting from a near fatal shooting on Sunday. Babb was indicted in the courtroom of Magistrate Aretha Ford for attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and kept unlicensed firearm, following an […]
Written on September 22, 2017 | Posted in
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Cowpen is a small village located in the heart of the banana belt in southern Belize. It is populated by workers of the industry, who toil the fields or package the fruit. While the export of bananas, primarily to the European Union, contributes significantly to the economy as one of the top agricultural exports, the […]
Written on September 22, 2017 | Posted in
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Just before nine o’clock on Thursday night, as many Belizeans were returning home from the carnival road march in Orange Walk, a fatal road traffic accident occurred around mile twenty-six on the Philip Goldson Highway. Two vehicles, a Mazda pickup from Dangriga and a Toyota corolla car from Belize City flipped multiples times before coming […]
Written on September 22, 2017 | Posted in
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Meanwhile another staff member is the victim of a hit and run in the city. Master Control Operator Alvin usher and his daughter Brianna are lucky to be alive after they were knocked off their scooter around eight o’clock on Wednesday night. The father and daughter were riding on Coney Drive when upon reaching near […]
Written on September 22, 2017 | Posted in
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A forty-five-year-old single mother of Belize City is tonight recovering from multiple stab wounds to the neck following a home invasion at her La Croix Boulevard house in Lake Independence. Sometime after three o’clock this morning, Romie Anthony was asleep in her room to the rear of the building and when she got up to […]
Written on September 22, 2017 | Posted in
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The family of twenty-four-year-old Daniel Leal is seeking public assistance in locating their loved one who has been reported missing since September nineteenth. According to Martha Leal, a teacher of Belama Phase One, her son left home for a walk around seven a.m. and has not returned since. She told police that Daniel has been […]
Written on September 22, 2017 | Posted in
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A suspected drug trafficker is recovering at the Southern Regional Hospital from a gunshot wound to the leg. Adolpho Nunez, also known as Sand, was in the vicinity of Rear Pine Street and Castillo’s Alley in Dangriga when police on mobile patrol intercepted him. Upon sighting the officers, Nunez took off running. One of the […]
Written on September 22, 2017 | Posted in
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The Governor General has received the instrument of appointment for Jamaican-American attorney Franz Parke to the Belize Court of Appeal for a five-year term beginning in October. Parke was previously nominated in 2015 and from what we know; he sat on one case only to concur with the ruling of the court. Prime Minister Dean […]
Written on September 22, 2017 | Posted in
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