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Between 2011 and 2016, some five point eight million Euros were given out to two hundred and eighty-two companies in the region through a programme called the Direct Assistance Grant. It is an initiative executed by Caribbean Export that provides capital for businesses that are either exporting or building capacity to export. In the last […]
Written on April 25, 2018 | Posted in
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A new facility was inaugurated this morning in the Port Loyola community in Belize City. It was funded by the OPEC Fund for International Development, OFID whose Vienna based Director, Suleiman Jasir Al-Herbish, flew into Belize for the event. OFID, he said, wants to reduce poverty in all sectors so that the centre will be […]
Written on April 25, 2018 | Posted in
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The sixth suspected drug place since the start of the year landed in a remote area off the San Estevan/Progresso Road in the Orange Walk District and like in the past cases, there is little information as to how the drug planes keep landing in Belize undetected. This morning, according to residents in the area, […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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A horrific execution occurred while some students were enjoying recess at a Dangriga school leaving both teachers and pupils traumatized. A gunman emerged from the bushes near the Gulisi Primary School and unleashed a volley of bullets on Jamaican national Patrick Crossdale who was riding past on motorcycle heading to his house. Fifty-five-year-old Crossdale was […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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Police have quickly cracked the mysterious murder of twenty-seven-year-old Albert Johnson, originally from Punta Gorda Town. Today, West Canal resident Marlon Everett, a twenty-eight-year-old construction worker, was read a murder charge before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford. According to police, a trio ambushed Johnson on Rectory Lane as he was walking from Southern Foreshore to Regent […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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The alleged shooter of Jason James Belencio was this evening charged with murder. The sixteen-year-old was arraigned at the Belize Family Court late in the evening under tight security. He is reported to be an associate of the George Street Gang and several members of that group appeared at the Magistrate’s Court and then at […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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Gas is going up again! For the third time this year, there are increases to report at the pumps – and an erroneous release from the Bureau of Standards actually misstated the level of increases reported. Still, the corrected press release shows an uptick of thirty-nine cents for regular gasoline, which pushes it past the […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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It may be one of the most-recognized and well-known villages in Belize and particularly the Garifuna community. But the southern community of Barranco is fighting a tough battle to get in touch with the times, in the area of economic development. Barranco residents have been forced to look on as outsiders acquire licenses to log […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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The November agreement was approved by a supermajority of attendees at a meeting in Toledo. Among other things, it called for the Barranco village council to be fully involved in the decision-making process for logging concessions and activity in the village. But according to Fabian Cayetano, it has been so heavily flouted as to prove […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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A total of ten applications have been received – five from Barranco residents and five from persons outside the village. Apart from the disallowed concession application of Colon and Rash, there is no indication that any of the other applications are for overlapped areas. The size of the logged area is especially huge – eight […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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Bulgarian national forty-one-year-old Vasil Stoyanov Kadalov was charged with two counts of theft in connection with the reported stealing of two thousand dollars from a Caye Caulker resident’s bank account. Kadalov appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford and pleaded not guilty through a translator. He was denied bail because he is considered a flight risk, […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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The popular Plaza de las Americas, in the northwest corner of Chetumal, is a favorite of Belizeans for some of the best deals in the trendy shopping destination. On Monday, it was the scene of a successful robbery. Chetumal media reports say the popular Bizarro Jewelry Shop was hit around two in the afternoon, where […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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Haven House is a non-profit domestic violence shelter. Since 1993, it has been providing support and intervention services for women in crisis and their children. Haven House offers shelter, counseling, court advocacy, referrals and transitional living opportunities to battered women. While the non-profit gets a small subvention from government, it has to generate more funds […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte is off to Taiwan for a three-day international conference on anti-corruption in the Republic of China (Taiwan), representing Belize as focal point for the United Nations Convention against Corruption. He joins colleagues from Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Other meetings are planned with counterparts from the Taiwanese Justice Department, […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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The Ariel Rosado Foundation held its annual ride along the George Price Highway this past Saturday. The riders traveled from Galen University Campus in Central Farm and ended at the Hour Bar Field in Belize City. The ride is used to generate funds for scholarships for at least forty students for the upcoming school year. […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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Belize’s Under-eighteen Boys Basketball team left the country today to compete in a tournament in Akron, Ohio. The Dru Joyce Classic runs from the twenty-seventh to the twenty-ninth of April and the all-star team is hoping to be scouted by college coaches so that they can get athletic scholarships. The last time Belize participated in […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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There was a brazen midday murder in the City today. A well-known elderly businessman who had been targeted twice before unfortunately did not survive the latest attack on his life. Before one-o’clock today, Oscar Rosado Senior was shot and killed at his business, Rosado’s Construction Supply located on Cemetery Road. His wife says that a […]
Written on April 23, 2018 | Posted in
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A Punta Gorda resident also lost his life in an execution style murder just before midnight on Friday. Twenty-five-year-old Albert Johnson was attacked by a trio of men as he made his way on foot toward Regent Street. He was walking from Southern Foreshore unto Rectory Lane when he was fired upon twice. Those rounds […]
Written on April 23, 2018 | Posted in
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The body of thirty-year-old mechanic Leonel Velasquez, from Paraiso Village, Corozal District, was found on Saturday. He had been reported missing at sea since last week Wednesday. Police have confirmed that the Coast Guard found the body of Velasquez between Middle Caye and Alligator Caye. A post-mortem examination found that he drowned. The Turneffe Island […]
Written on April 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Already facing charges of murder in the Supreme Court, the notorious William “Danny” Mason and five co-accused could face a separate trial for kidnapping in two weeks. Mason; Ashton Vanegas of Camalote Village; brothers: Keiron Fernandez and Terrence Fernandez, as well as Ernest Henry Castillo, all of Roaring Creek Village, this morning appeared in the […]
Written on April 23, 2018 | Posted in
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On Friday a Belizean in the United States was found guilty of a most heinous crime after a re-trial. Six jurors in Lee County, Florida, needed three hours to find twenty-two year old Brian Hyde guilty of killing his cousin Michael Kelly, Kelly’s girlfriend Starlette Pitts, seventeen; his aunt Dorla, thirty-seven, and the unborn child […]
Written on April 23, 2018 | Posted in
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A young resident of Orange Walk lost his life in a road traffic accident around three o’clock on Saturday morning. Daniel Urbina, the son of Rosendo Urbina Junior and his wife Becky of A&R store and a friend had left the City and were heading home to Orange Walk Town when his truck crashed into […]
Written on April 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Twenty-seven-year-old Christian Charles was knocked down a week ago and left for dead near the Burrell Boom Bridge in rural Belize District. Swanka, as he is affectionately known, valiantly fought for his life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Sadly, he lost that fight earlier today. Police still have not been able to catch up […]
Written on April 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Aside from the two deadly traffic accidents, there were two other traffic incidents. In the early hours of Sunday morning in Maskall Village, Transport Officer Roderick Jones was crushed between a concrete house post and a bicycle by a vehicle driven by businesswoman Paula Chen. The incident happened outside of C&R’s shop where Jones was […]
Written on April 23, 2018 | Posted in
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A pair of families in San Jose, Toledo District lost everything to a house fire this afternoon at around two-thirty. Wilfredo Coc, along with his wife Gabriela and six children, including twenty-three-year-old Venusiano Coc are tonight seeking public assistance after an inferno gutted three properties. Of the six children, Venusiano was occupying one of the […]
Written on April 23, 2018 | Posted in
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