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BELTRAIDE, through its Small Business Development Center Unit, with funding support from a regional organization that assists micro, small and medium enterprises and United States of America, is implementing a project entitled ‘Regional Training and Certification Program for S.B.D.C.s in Central America’. The three-day training workshop is being held under a component of the project […]
Written on June 26, 2018 | Posted in
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Gather up the family and stay tuned to Channel Five because coming up at eight-thirty tonight is the premier of this season’s audition show of your all-time favourite KTV the Remix. Beloved judge, Jenny “I Love It” Lovell and the no-nonsense Rhojani Perriott are back this season. They will be joined by the well-known music […]
Written on June 26, 2018 | Posted in
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A Salvadoran national was murdered in Frank’s Eddy Village, Cayo District in the early hours of Sunday morning. Santos Guerra Dominguez was reportedly in Belize visiting his son for the past month and was considering relocating from El Salvador. But he met a cruel death, chopped to the face and head with a machete, after […]
Written on June 25, 2018 | Posted in
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A two-year-old boy is in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight, after being mauled by a pit bull inside his yard over the weekend. Baby Kyle Carter had just returned home from the store with his mother on Saturday night when she set him down inside their yard on Raccoon Street Extension. […]
During this morning’s press brief, Assistant Superintendent Alejandro Cowo revisited details of the incident that was shared by the toddler’s family in a police report. ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize City “On Saturday, June 23rd, 2018, sometime just after seven, a female had just entered her residence at Raccoon Street Extension, number 168, […]
Written on June 25, 2018 | Posted in
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Another business has been hit by robbers. Since the beginning of the month, we have been reporting on a considerable spike in the number of armed robberies which have seemingly moved from Belize City to its surrounding communities. This morning in Ladyville, an armed robber targeted the Moneygram office at Ramon’s Plaza and relieved the […]
Written on June 25, 2018 | Posted in
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From crime to the questionable land deals at the Ministry of Natural Resources. Following the airing of a story last Friday, a full-fledged internal war within the U.D.P. has broken out on social media. Leila Peyrefitte and Rommel Berges are two Freetown constituents whose land documents were leaked after they were granted prime real estate […]
On the eve of a protest in Belmopan, the artistic community, headed by Yasser Musa, is making a call to all Belizeans to join in and be heard on Tuesday. The group is taking a firm stand against a visit and training of the police department to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the state of […]
At a press briefing this afternoon, the organizers were asked to comment about naysayers who have taken to social media expressing disapproval about the protest against the Israelis? Artists Gilvano Swasey and Katie Usher say that Belizeans need to react to the constant bad decisions being taken by government that are not in the best […]
Opposition to the training is picking up momentum. Today, the National Trade Union Congress condemned the decision by the government to allow for the “Police Community” programme. The N.T.U.C.B. says it strongly objects to the abhorrent act which is likely to endanger the human rights record of Belize. The N.T.U.C.B. cites numerous reasons why the […]
Written on June 25, 2018 | Posted in
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Thirty-year-old Rene Godoy was beaten to death by a group of villagers in Silk Grass in the wee early hours of June twenty-first. The Salvadoran national was allegedly involved in a number of chopping incidents in that southern community prior to being attacked by an angry mob which took justice into its own hands. Godoy […]
Written on June 25, 2018 | Posted in
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The badly decomposed remains of a Caucasian woman, believed to be a visitor, was found along a stretch of sandy beach on the south end of Hopkins Village on Friday morning. The body of Jane Doe was discovered after it had washed up on shore sometime earlier. An autopsy later determined that the unidentified woman […]
Written on June 25, 2018 | Posted in
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A farmhand is lucky to have escaped grave injury after being shot in the chest on Sunday in Camalote Village. Jose Gonzalez had been working on a property belonging to the deceased Russell Hyde Senior when he was shot once to the right upper chest. According to the shooting victim, he and a friend of […]
Written on June 25, 2018 | Posted in
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Omero Campos, the San Narciso businessman, who was abducted from his farm near San Victor, remains missing since June seventeenth. Soon after, his kidnappers via a phone call from a Mexican cell number, demanded from the Campos’ family a million dollar ransom which they were unable to raise. The family has spoken to Campos once […]
Written on June 25, 2018 | Posted in
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Fifty-six-year-old Lindberg Anthony took his own life on Saturday night by reportedly hanging himself while in detention inside a holding cell in Crooked Tree Village. But his family is crying foul. Police say that the officer in charge of the substation picked up the intoxicated mechanic after a report was made against him by other […]
Written on June 25, 2018 | Posted in
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The People’s United Party continued with the election of standard bearers, who will be on the party’s slate for the next national elections. In the south on Sunday, a convention was held to elect a candidate for the Dangriga constituency which also includes Sarawee and Hope Creek. Close to one thousand two hundred electors cast […]
Written on June 25, 2018 | Posted in
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On the other side of the political arena, Orson “OJ” Elrington has confirmed he will be seeking election for the U.D.P. in the Freetown area. The other known contender is Senator Carla Barnett, who was trounced in the last election by Area Representative, Francis Fonseca. Freetown has remained a stronghold of the People’s United Party […]
Written on June 25, 2018 | Posted in
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Belize joined the rest of the world in the celebration of the Day of the Seafarers. To mark the occasion, a tour was conducted aboard the Century Royal Panama, a sugar vessel anchored in Belize’s Harbour. The Belize Port Authority as well as IMMARBE is organizing a series of activities to pay homage to seafarers. […]
Written on June 25, 2018 | Posted in
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One last piece of information from the police….Businesswoman Bibiana Kus reported to police that two armed men stormed her property in Saint Matthew Village on Saturday night after nine and stole an assortment of jewelry and her vehicle. Quick police action led to the recovery of the vehicle but the trove of stolen jewelry is […]
Written on June 25, 2018 | Posted in
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Earlier this month, the Belize Red Cross launched its appeal for financial donations to assist victims of Volcan del Fuego that caused the unfortunate loss of life of over a hundred persons in Guatemala as well as tremendous destruction to property. That appeal has been growing and today got a huge boost from Belize Telemedia […]
Written on June 25, 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 June 25, 2018 | Posted in
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A trove of documents has been made available to News Five that show that it was business as usual at the Ministry of Natural Resources, famously known as the ‘hot bed of corruption.’ Since her abrupt removal—whether at her request or not—there have been more questions than answers as to why Senator Carla Barnett was […]
The body of a visitor to the village of Hopkins was found on the beach this morning. There is no identification nor was she a guest at any hotel in the village, so police are working to determine who Jane Doe is. A diver found her remains just after six a.m. and by this evening, […]
Written on June 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Another deadly collision, this time in the Spanish Lookout community, has claimed the lives of one more pair of motorists. It is the second fatal pileup within forty-eight hours, involving persons on motorcycles. Shortly before midday, twenty-year-old Roland Dyck slammed head-on into seventeen-year-old Franz Marten, a welder of Spanish Lookout. The impact of the collision […]
Written on June 22, 2018 | Posted in
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On Tuesday afternoon, a brazen robber was caught while attempting to flee from the scene of a jacking at DK Supermarket. The culprit made off with a bottle of top-shelf liquor, abandoning his bicycle near the entrance of the store. But he didn’t get quite far before being captured by Belama police and members of […]
Written on June 22, 2018 | Posted in
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