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A routine patrol by rangers of the Southern Environmental Association, better known as SEA, and Belize Coast Guard officers resulted in the arrest of three Honduran fishermen. The patrol near the spawning and aggregation site in the Gladden Spit and Silk Cayes Marine Reserve on Sunday night led to the capture of Henry Castro, Joel […]
Written on March 5, 2018 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Health indicates it will launch another investigation into a British health practitioner reportedly based in Belize. The Daily Mirror in the U.K. has printed an expose naming forty-nine year old Amanda Mary Jewell, who goes by Mary, as a “quack,” giving victims of cancer false hope with bogus treatments using dangerous and banned products. […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
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Just before news time a small protest was held in front of the Queen Street Police Station by persons to condemn the rape of an infant. Police have just now charged for dangerous harm, the stepfather of the child, a twenty- one year old resident from Maskall who was left to care for the child […]
Written on March 2, 2018 | Posted in
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The rape of the seventeen-month-old baby girl has sparked outrage across the country and the National Committee for Families and Children (N.C.F.C.) joined the UNICEF AND B.F.L.A. in condemning this brutal attack on the toddler. The N.C.F.C. says that it, “condemns all sexual explicit acts, especially of this atrocious nature, which continue to breakdown our […]
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Tonight, Minister of Human Development Anthony “Boots” Martinez remains in boiling hot water as scandals continue to erupt around him. New information shows that this week he personally approved almost fifty thousand dollars, processed through the Government’s SmartStream system, as payment for seven individuals. The largest payment was of eight thousand, three hundred dollars. The […]
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Five members of Minister Rene Montero’s family, in 1998, acquired between them eighty-one acres of land in two pristine and remote locations. One was the Privassion Enclave in the Mountain Pine Ridge and the other on northern Ambergris Caye. They paid a total of twenty-four thousand, two hundred and thirty-six dollars. But after the properties […]
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In 2016, the Caribbean Court of Justice ended months of impasse when it ruled that the Public Utilities Commission could not charge excessive spectrum fees to Speednet Communications, parent company of Smart, totaling three million dollars in as many years. Speednet had previously lost in the lower courts. Now, the P.U.C. wants to collect some […]
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With a permanent injunction now in force on the P.U.C. from collecting, might it decide to withdraw the approval and potentially cripple Speednet’s reach across Belize? The company has more than one hundred thousand customers, and Courtenay told us that no court would look favorably on such a mean-spirited move. Eamon Courtenay, Attorney for […]
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The office of the Prime Minister sought to reassure Belizeans that the government will be able to extricate itself from what the Financial Secretary Joseph Waight described as an impending financial crash due to high levels of debt and overspending. Waight wrote to the CEOs asking them not to look for money in their budgets […]
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The scarcity of fuel is plaguing motorists, tonight. This is despite the arrival of a sizeable shipment of oil from Guatemala overland earlier this week. Seventy-two thousand gallons were trucked in but it appears that it is not enough to satisfy demand. At this time the shortage of premium and regular fuel are being reported […]
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The Marion Jones Sporting Complex will boast of a training facility courtesy of our friends from Mexico. The design of the five million Mexico Sports Center was unveiled today in the presence of a visiting Mexican delegation and local Government officials. Mexico also announced it was granting half scholarships and the opening of a high […]
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The visit of the Mexican Vice Minister for Latin America and the Caribbean also include the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Mexican Agency for International Cooperation and Development and the Ministry of Education. The MOU is for twenty-five half-scholarships to be awarded to students of Escuela Secundaria Technica Mexico. On behalf of […]
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As he announced on Monday, Opposition Leader John Briceño met with the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Thursday. The Chamber has complained of being frozen out of discussions with the government as a social partner on the forthcoming Budget. It has raised concerns of how the government will address its economic plans and […]
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From the courts, two brothers are behind bars accused of the attempted murder of Francis Parham on Sunday evening on the George Price Highway. Twenty-two year old Shakeedi Baizar of Western Paradise and Akeem Humes, twenty-eight, of Belize City are also charged with use of deadly means of harm and dangerous harm on Parham. Senior […]
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He was already out on bail for a serious offence of aggravated burglary and unlawful imprisonment. But today Nelson Henry was back in court charged with aggravated assault, this time of a police officer. Twenty-eight year old Henry was acquitted a month ago of a murder charge in the death of Edward Lord. Days later, […]
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He was just granted bail on Thursday on a charge of murder for which he faces re-trial. But twenty-nine-year-old Orel Leslie is behind bars at the Central Prison at this hour, because Supreme Court Justice Denis Hanomansingh found that he had violated a condition of his bail grant. Leslie, among other things, was ordered to […]
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As of December of last year fifteen thousand youths have graduated from the Gang Resistance and Education Training programme of the Police Department. Today another five hundred and eight students received their certificates at the Bliss Institute for Creative Arts. Last year the students participated in a number of activities to help them to make […]
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Following a case management conference last Wednesday, the case of attorney Sharon Pitts concerning compensation of four hundred thousand dollars for land at the Haulover Bridge is headed to mediation in the Supreme Court. Mediation is a closed-door session in which the mediator sits with both parties to work out a satisfactory solution which is […]
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Last week, we showed you the houses that were destroyed by fire on Frederick Street in Belize City. Well, those torched structures have been taken down and the rubble cleared out. Today we found CEMO’s point man Philip Willoughby on site and he tells us that the work fits in with CEMO’s bigger plan to […]
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Last year Gwen Lizarraga High School Principal Doctor Lorna McKay was reportedly pushed out of her school. The chair of the board Roosevelt Blades put McKay on disciplinary leave and ever since then she has been fighting back. Well, it seems that a conclusion is near. We received reports that the Teaching Service Commission has […]
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Operators of the Fort George Tourism Zone are uniting to fight plans by the Belize City Council, Tourism Board and Belize Tourism Village to move occupants of the area to the Memorial Park and their vehicles to the area of the Marion Jones Sporting Complex. The actual implementation has been delayed, but President Albert Alvarez […]
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On Thursday, another pre-election exercise was observed: the meeting hosted by the Election and Boundaries Department and returning officers of the nine municipalities being contested on March Seventh. For two hours at this year’s designated counting station, the ITVET on Freetown Road, returning officer Colin Griffith briefed candidates of both parties and their support machines […]
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Back in 2010, we shared the story of Anicee Lamaroux who was six-years-old at the time and was living with a rare brittle bone disorder called Osteogenesis Imperfecta that left her severely deformed. An American couple who also have the same condition adopted Anicee. Since then she has been living in the U.S and says […]
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We start the news tonight with a sickening report of the rape of a toddler. The seventeen-month old girl is clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The child’s twenty-one year old stepfather from the village of Maskall, Belize District allegedly raped the infant. Because of the sensitivity of the incident few details […]
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