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Over the weekend, on May nineteenth at noon, persons from communities and organizations across the country joined hands on beaches, across bridges, in conference rooms and along seawalls and other public areas to celebrate in OCEANA’s 2018 Hands Across the Sand. In its eighth year, the celebration was extra special because Belize recently made the […]
Written on May 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Every two years there is a gathering of Belizeans and international participants making use of geographic information systems technology under the aegis of its world-leading provider, ESRI, and its chief booster in Belize, Total Business Solutions Limited. The ESRI User Conference is intended as an awareness builder of a still developing, though rapidly so, industry […]
Written on May 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Next Friday, June first, marks not only the start of the hurricane season but an important milestone in Belizean history. On that date in 1797, the vote of twelve free black men and two whites residing in the area at a public meeting in Belize Town irreversibly swayed the decision of residents of the Belize […]
Written on May 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett was on hand this afternoon to receive a brand new police booth on the north side. We met Gillett on Barrack Road where the police booth was installed. The purpose is to improve the working conditions for police officers. This is the second booth to be donated to the Belize Police […]
Written on May 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Earlier in the newscast, you heard Commander Howell Gillett speak briefly about the crime in the city. While he has been on the Southside for less than three months, there are some quarters in the Belize Police Department that are critical of his approach to crime. Many feel that while he is doing some good […]
Written on May 23, 2018 | Posted in
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This evening, officers attached to Precinct Two in Belize City took to the streets to meet with residents in the areas of Euphrates and Amara Avenues, as well as nearby George Street. The brief session was part of the department’s weekly outreach where cops learn from the public its concerns regarding safety and citizen security […]
Written on May 23, 2018 | Posted in
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The extended Commonwealth Holiday weekend was an exceptionally violent and bloody one across the country, with murders, disappearances and road traffic accidents being reported as early as Saturday morning. The carnage came to a bitter end on Monday night with the death of a popular taxi man, who was shot and killed while transporting a […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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A hot dog vendor of Belize City was robbed and shot dead in front of his home on Sunday morning. Forty-four-year-old Honduran businessman Juan Angel Vargas, who had lived in Belize for nearly twenty years, had just come home to Tigris Street from a night of vending and playing pool. While he and a co-worker […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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A resident of Santa Elena was killed in the early hours of Monday morning outside a night club in San Ignacio. Contrary to speculations that Kyne Gentle was partying at the club, the family says he was never there to party just to buy a plate of food from street vendors. But shortly after he […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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There is yet another murder case, similar to that in Belmopan last Tuesday in which it is believed that a British national was killed and then his house set on fire to conceal the crime. Over the long weekend in Hopkins, there was a murder inside what used to be Flomon’s Guesthouse on the main […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Tonight, the Conch Shell Bay community is mourning the death of Michelle Anderson, a staple at the nearby fish market whose job was to scrape and clean the day’s catch. Anderson was one of two persons injured during a mid-morning shooting at the Michael Finnegan Market on Monday. She was in the process of preparing […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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A mother of three was knocked off her motorcycle and killed on Friday night as she made her way home from work near Cotton Tree Village. Silvia Zavala was on the George Price Highway when a vehicle slammed into her cycle and fled the scene. Police quickly arrested and charged the driver of Camalote Village. […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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There is also a report of a fatal traffic accident in Silk Grass Village, Stann Creek District. Police say officers responded to an RTA between miles nine and ten on the Southern Highway and upon arrival; they observed the body of thirty-nine-year-old Rosita Requeña with head and body injuries. Requeña’s body was discovered by her […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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A trio of Roaring Creek men is in police custody tonight pending charges of handling stolen goods, after being found in possession of a number of items belonging to Bruce Davidson. The British national has been reported missing, despite charred human remains being found on his property following a fire last Tuesday near the outskirts […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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A twenty-year-old young man from Roaring Creek Village is missing tonight and his family fears the worst. Oswald Arnold was last seen alive around five o’clock on Thursday evening and promised his family he would return the next day from a fishing trip with a group of friends. The friends made it back safely, but […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Tonight a family is worried as their mother and partner has been missing for a week. The last anyone saw of Sharon Ferguson, she had left her home following an argument and has not been heard from since. Ferguson is of Creole descent, has two missing front teeth and stands about five feet six inches […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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A Belize City man accused of robbing his former workplace was given the opportunity to be out on bail in a surprise decision in the Magistrate’s Court. But he is nonetheless behind bars tonight after not having made bail by the close of the court this evening. Eric Jones is accused of four counts of […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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It’s not exactly a glamorous profession, but the Department of General Sales Tax is reporting tonight that there are people out there impersonating officers of the department. All G.S.T. officers must have and present their identification cards identifying themselves as G.S.T. officers when interacting with registered persons. The General Sales Tax Act, Section fifty-four, makes […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Belize’s commuters are already experiencing the growing pains of the infrastructure work taking place across the country. But there is a lot more to come, as in the next two decades current and future governments will be operating under the aegis of a document released today. It is the Comprehensive National Transportation Master Plan, coordinated […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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The National Garifuna Council held its thirty-fourth annual convention in Dangriga Town, Stann Creek District this weekend and elected its new executive. Sandra Miranda was re-elected as President, Vice President, Andrew Castillo; second Vice president, Cynthia Cayetano; Secretary, Sheena Zuniga; Assistant Secretary, Melissa Zuniga; Treasurer, Sharon Castillo and Assistant Treasurer, Aritha Sabal. The theme for […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Earlier in the newscast, we told you about the inferno down south in Hopkins on Sunday morning in which the charred remains of a man were found. That was just one of three fires over the extended weekend. Fortunately, the other two were not fatal and classified as electrical fires. Just before midday on Sunday, […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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The third fire occurred on Saturday night on Caye Caulker. A family of six remains homeless tonight after the wooden structure they called home was completely destroyed by an electrical fire just before nine p.m. Fire Station Manager Smith gives an update. Orin Smith, Station Manager, National Fire Service “At approximately eight-forty-five p.m., the […]
Written on May 22, 2018 | 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 May 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Tonight there is grim news in the offshore industry. Indications are that Choice Bank, an offshore bank operating from Belize City, is winding down due to a cash flow crisis involving the prepaid card component of its international banking business. After ten years in operation, the banks website claims it is the largest international bank […]
Written on May 18, 2018 | Posted in
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A few days ago, the Social Security Board issued a demand note for payment of outstanding contributions to the Belize City Council collected from employees, but not paid by the former Darrell Bradley administration. On May fifteenth, City Hall received the letter from the S.S.B. saying that for the period November to December 2017, an […]
Written on May 18, 2018 | Posted in
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