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This evening, the Cane Farmers Relations Manager for A.S.R./B.S.I., Olivia Avilez, stopped by News Five to clarify the miller’s position on the matter. She contends that the charge is much ado about nothing. Olivia Avilez, Cane Farmers Relations Manager, B.S.I. “From the F.A.S. we still have to get that sugar to, in this case […]
Written on August 10, 2018 | Posted in
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A number of students today received financial support to fulfil their educational goals. Belize Telemedia Limited issued twenty-five scholarships to students who met the criteria for the awards. Most are moving on to high school, one to Saint John’s College Junior College and another was granted an additional award for further education at the University […]
Written on August 10, 2018 | Posted in
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Over on Queen Street, seven teenagers received full scholarships for one-year of studies courtesy of the Belize Police Department. A short ceremony was held at Precinct Three this afternoon where Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams spoke about why the department saw the need to issue the scholarships. Chester Williams, Deputy Commissioner of Police […]
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The Referee Assistant Program 2018 is being held at the Princess Ramada Hotel Casino. The one-week training is organized by the Football Federation of Belize in collaboration with FIFA. The annual training programme is to enhance the quality of refereeing in Belize and features intense theory and practice sessions. We stopped in at the workshop […]
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A two-week music camp came to an end today at the Bliss Center for Performing Arts. The camp saw the participation of more than fifty music lovers who learned to play different types of instruments such as the violin and the trumpet. The course was made possible by the Music Director for the National Institute […]
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The national volleyball team scored a huge upset this week that brought both pride and glory to the nation. The force behind the team is the incredible Lupita Quan, who has invested her life in the sport. First the girls neatly beat Costa Rica, a team that up until Tuesday had been undefeated for fifteen […]
Written on August 9, 2018 | Posted in
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In football news, the Belize National Under-fifteen Female Selection is presently in Bradenton, Florida where it is representing the Jewel in the CONCACAF Girls Championship. The Baby Jaguars recorded their first victory earlier today against the Virgin Islands with a final score of four-nil. Prior to that match, the team had fallen to Saint Kitts […]
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Robbers jacked a store in Mango Creek, Independence on Wednesday and unknown to them; surveillance camera captured the armed burglary which lasted for just over a minute but likely felt like a lifetime to the victim. Three robbers acting in tandem entered the grocery store named Lisa Store. One held up the cashier at gunpoint […]
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One man has been detained for the fatal stabbing of seventy-four-year-old British filmmaker Richard Foster. Foster’s body was found a day after he was kidnapped from his home at Savanna Guest House on the George Price Highway. His body was found by a resident of the Rivera area of Belmopan on Tuesday night. Today, police […]
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The offices of the Vital Statistics Unit in the city abruptly closed on Wednesday, interrupting the flow of services to persons applying for birth certificates and the registering of other important documents. It is reported that the closure was due to serious internal conflicted within the unit. Today, the People’s United Party commented on the […]
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The Government of Belize is headed to court, following a lawsuit that has since been filed by the now-shuttered Choice Bank Limited. In an application submitted to the Supreme Court on Friday, the defunct lending institution is seeking relief on the grounds that the Central Bank of Belize contravened its statutory duties under the International […]
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A San Ignacio resident was killed in a fatal road traffic accident on the Cahal Pech Road on Wednesday night. Clemente Constancia was found dead on the side of the road around five a.m. this morning, with visible signs of him having been hit by a vehicle hours earlier around eleven-forty-five p.m. But the driver […]
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On Tuesday afternoon around five-thirty, there was a home invasion at an apartment complex on Campus Avenue in the north side of Belize City. Armed burglars gained access to the building through an unlocked burglar bar door and swept through three rooms undetected. When they got to apartment number seven, however, tenant Rosa Soria was […]
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Earlier this week we reported about the attempted robbery of Carlos Ortiz at his fruit shop on Coney Drive for which a man was detained. That suspect, Luis Miguel Beaton, was caught by police onboard a city bus, which is believed to be the means of transport used by the alleged culprit to escape from […]
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Police have yet to detain a suspect in the San Pedro fire that has since been determined to be a case of arson. Several statements have been recorded as the investigation continues into the early morning blaze in the Boca Del Rio area on Saturday. As has been reported, ten houses were gutted and eighty-seven […]
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We are less than a year away from deciding whether or not the take the Belize/Guatemala Dispute to the International Court of Justice for resolution. On April tenth, 2019, the majority of the tens of thousands of eligible voters will either authorize or restrain the Government on taking the territorial, maritime, and insular dispute to […]
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Mike Peyrefitte’s candidacy for standard bearer in Port Loyola has been formally accepted by the United Democratic Party. He is the second applicant to offer himself in a bid to succeed retiring Area Representative Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez in that constituency. While his intra-party opponent Phillip Willoughby enjoys the support of Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber […]
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Late this afternoon, the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management, SATIIM, issued a release critical of the government for being noticeably quiet on the issue of the Maya Lands Registry, as it relates to customary land usage and delineation. In August 2018, the village of Crique Sarco was first to present a map outlining its […]
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An eighty-thousand-dollar Containerized Test Fire Range was today handed over to the National Forensic Science Service. The donation comes courtesy of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament, and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2008 U.N. LIREC undertook a technical mission to Belize to provide training and assistance in the area […]
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The U.S. Senior Advisor for Central America, Todd Robinson, met with Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington on Wednesday to discuss the crisis in Nicaragua, among other regional security issues. Ambassador Robinson’s is on a whirlwind trip of the region seeking support for an O.A.S. resolution that was recently adopted to bring […]
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Between late June and August, hatchlings, the young turtles that just emerged from their shell, are released. It is not very easy to schedule a release because it cannot be predicted exactly when a sea turtle nest will hatch. Like all babies, the hatchlings decide when they are ready. And similarly to a human pregnancy, each […]
Written on August 9, 2018 | Posted in
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This common health problem usually sees an increase in the summertime when the days are hotter. It’s also common in pregnant women and women who use oral contraceptives and affects the young population between the ages of twenty to fifty years. Deep vein thrombosis can sometimes lead to death. We find out more in tonight’s […]
Written on August 9, 2018 | Posted in
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Shockwaves were felt across the conservation and film industry communities after it was learned that the body of seventy-four-year-old Richard Foster was found on Tuesday night. The well known British filmmaker had been brutally stabbed and his body was dumped in the Rivera area of Belmopan. The gruesome discovery was made at around eight o’clock […]
Written on August 8, 2018 | Posted in
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The National Committee for Families and Children has issued a release on the tragic passing of young Antwone Marin who died by suicide inside his parents’ bedroom in Seine Bight Village. The frightening incident happened on Monday evening while his siblings were getting their hair braided by a babysitter in the living room of their […]
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There is a new development in respect of the defunct Choice Bank. The bank’s license was abruptly revoked on June twenty-ninth at the recommendation of the Central Bank of Belize to the Minister of Finance. The Bank is now suing the Minister of Finance, the Central Bank and the Attorney General on the basis that […]
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