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Local bus companies running excursions to Chetumal, Cancun and other destinations within the state of Quintana Roo are required to purchase vehicle insurance in order for them to traverse carriageways in neighboring Mexico. The new condition came into effect earlier this month after a yearlong delay by Mexican authorities. While the municipal government of Chetumal […]
Written on August 24, 2018 | Posted in
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According to Castro, if Belizean auto dealers are required to purchase insurance when traversing from Texas to Mexico, then it is only fair that bus owners and drivers purchase insurance to move around in Chetumal. On the Phone: Edmond ‘Clear the Land’ Castro, Minister of Transport “We must respect the law of the land […]
Written on August 24, 2018 | Posted in
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On Saturday night at the Biltmore Plaza in Belize City, eleven delegates will vie for the title of Miss Universe Belize in hopes to represent the Jewel at the Miss Universe Pageant later this year in Thailand. The pageant will air live on this station starting at six-thirty p.m. Dangriga’s Rebecca Rath last represented the […]
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There is an increased police presence in the Port Loyola neighborhood tonight. Shortly after six o’clock this evening, police were summoned to an area on Trinity Street following reports of gunfire. Fortunately, there were no injuries. Moments later, gunfire once again erupted, this time in the vicinity of Jane Usher Boulevard. Again, there are no […]
Written on August 24, 2018 | Posted in
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Port Loyola area representative Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez gave a fiery response to the media when he was pressed about the third piece of missing equipment which belongs to the City Council. Earlier in the month, an audit of the Works Department at the council revealed that three heavy duty equipment, a Caterpillar Bulldozer, an eighteen-foot […]
Written on August 24, 2018 | Posted in
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The media also asked Minister Martinez about Dean Samuels, the former Belize City Councilor, who is contesting the U.D.P. Convention in the Port Loyola Constituency. Samuels publicly announced his candidacy after Martinez got on national television to publicly endorsed Michael Peyrefitte. Samuels told the media then that his was and will always be Martinez’s first […]
Written on August 24, 2018 | Posted in
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The Solid Waste Management Two Project, valued at ten point two million dollars funded by the Inter-American Development Bank, is being rolled out across the country since 2016. The project will see the closure of six dumpsites and the construction of six transfer stations. A component of the project, however, focuses on citizenry involvement for […]
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The results for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate, better known as CXC, have not been officially released to the media and the public as yet. But some schools in southern Belize and elsewhere have received their grades in the exams taken earlier this year. So how did Belize fair off in the exams, given a […]
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At a meeting of the national executive of the People’s United Party on Wednesday, Rene Skeen, a well-known resident of Ladyville, was also rejected from running in Belize Rural Central. According to Skeen, former P.U.P. area rep, Dolores Balderamos-Garcia will be endorsed as standard bearer for that division. He says that he has been on […]
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Belize Telemedia launched a campaign to reinvent itself under one brand which is designed to attract and appeal to new customers. The services and products offered by the telecom will be bundled under the ‘Digi’ brand. The roll out of the rebranded services starts on Monday with the renaming of the B.T.L. Park to the […]
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With the upgrade of its infrastructure and network, B.T.L. is also looking at becoming a cable service provider. Cable Television is a system that will allow for television programmes to be transmitted to the sets of subscribers by cable rather than by a broadcast signal. That industry is not available in Belize; but the company […]
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NICH President, Sapna Budhrani, has come under fire for her performance, or lack of it, at the job she took over in April. Earlier today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Patrick Faber held a press conference to discuss the future of the Municipal Fair on September Tenth. We’ll share that with you later […]
Written on August 23, 2018 | Posted in
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But has the musical ambassador lost his place in challenging the appointment of Budhrani by the DPM, who is a senior member of the United Democratic Party, which he wants to represent in Mesopotamia? Faber points out that Shyne too was appointed as musical ambassador, but that he doesn’t work in his ministry. Patrick […]
Written on August 23, 2018 | Posted in
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The Regional Anti-Doping Organization has suspended Belize’s National Anti-Doping Organization. This happened on August fourteenth, following another absence by Belize’s rep Doctor Michael Pitts at a meeting of the Advisory Board in Cuba. According to the official letter that was copied to Minister of Sports Patrick Faber, this is the third consecutive time that Doctor […]
Written on August 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Minister of Education Patrick Faber confirmed today that a number of teachers will not be returning to the classrooms at Gwen Lizarraga High School. That high school, which falls within his constituency, has been consistently plagued by internal problems and the enrolment numbers have plunged; so much so that only three hundred and thirty students […]
Written on August 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Gwen Lizarraga High School remains in disarray, despite a new school year kicking off on Monday. That disorganized state is due in part to a protracted issue involving Principal Lorna McKay who has been benched while the Teaching Services Commission adjudicates a matter brought against her. Doctor McKay refutes allegations of financial misappropriation during her […]
Written on August 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Turning to crime…a twenty-four-year-old woman is the latest victim of an aggravated burglary which happened during the predawn hours of this morning. The young lady, a legal assistant employed by a well-known P.U.P. area representative, reported to police that she awakened by a strange noise inside her apartment shortly after three o’clock. When she got […]
Written on August 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Investigators have not recovered any of the money stolen from seventy-nine-year-old Harold Williams at his home on Monday afternoon. They have, nonetheless, made significant inroads in catching up with one man whom they believe was the mastermind behind the robbery of the elderly Kings Park resident. Forty-one-year-old Eugene Tillett has been arrested and charged with […]
Written on August 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Seine Bight police shot a mentally challenged, machete-wielding man this morning after he turned his cutlass on an arresting officer. Zebedee Morter was shot in the right forearm after he chopped a special constable in the back of the head. According to police, they were responding to information that a villager had been observed swinging […]
Written on August 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Taiwan’s rice donation on Wednesday has some local rice producers up in arms. This is according to the P.U.P.’s Orange Walk South Area Representative, Jose Abelardo Mai. Mai says he was shocked when he learnt on the news of Taiwan’s ten thousand bags of rice donation to the Ministry of Human Development which falls under […]
Written on August 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Defending Taiwan’s rice donation was Minister Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez. The Minister says that anyone would prefer cash donation but in this case, the ten thousand bags of rice was donated due to the surplus of the grain in Taiwan. It’s part of the “Taiwan Rice Donation for Humanitarian Relief” project which according to Martinez, the […]
Junior Triminio was laid to rest on Wednesday in his hometown of Orange Walk. His memorial service and funeral procession was attended by family and friends, including close associates who are also members of the Back-a-Town Crips, a local street gang which Triminio headed. Since his execution, police have been on high alert in anticipation […]
Written on August 23, 2018 | Posted in
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A trio of suspected burglars is on the lam tonight, having escaped from lawful custody on Wednesday in Independence Village. Selvin Linares, Gregory Flowers and Kendale Flores absconded during a thunderstorm sometime between eight and nine p.m. by damaging the lock to their holding cell. A fourth prisoner who was in the lockup for a […]
Written on August 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Police Constable Godfrey Moreira is facing internal discipline after being fined a hefty sum by the Customs Department for a stash of contraband beer found in his possession on August twelfth. PC Moreira was busted in Succotz driving a white pickup truck laden with fifteen cases of illegal booze. Moreira, who is attached to the […]
Written on August 23, 2018 | Posted in
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The Municipal Fair is back on the list of events for the September Celebrations Calendar following a meeting between Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber and Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner. On August fourteenth, CitCo announced that due to a cut of twenty percent in the subvention for the activities, the council was unable to organize […]
Written on August 23, 2018 | Posted in
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