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Twenty-two-year-old construction worker, Steve Kent Crawford of Belize City has been charged with two counts each of Attempted Murder, Deadly Means of Harm and Dangerous Harm. Crawford is believed to have been the shooter who aimed and shot siblings Everal Neal and Jermaine Garbutt on September nineteenth. The siblings were on Neal Pen Road when […]
Written on September 26, 2018 | Posted in
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Reports of illegal logging have been on the increase. On Tuesday, the Compliance Management Unit of the Forest Department responded to one such report of the illegal activity taking place in the Maya Mountain Foreign Reserve north of the Red Bank Village in the Stann Creek District. The Unit successfully detained a resident of Red […]
The Orange Walk Police have picked up a high-powered rifle, described as a Rockriver arms with serial number C.M. one-seven-six-five-eight. The firearm was found during a search at a cane field about two miles west of the northern road airstrip and ten yards from the roadside. Police also found five rounds of ammunition. The firearm […]
Written on September 26, 2018 | Posted in
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On Monday, we reported on twenty-two-year-old Nishal Sankat, the son of the University of Belize President Clement Sankat, who was detained in Orlando, Florida. Late last week, the young man attempted to steal a commercial plane at that Orlando Melbourne International Airport. He was denied bail on Friday because he is considered a flight risk […]
Written on September 26, 2018 | Posted in
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A candlelight vigil was held on Monday night at the Petillo’s residence in Orange Walk in memory of the four family members who perished on Sunday in an early morning fire. Town residents came out in numbers in support of the Petillo family. In an attempt to save two of his daughters and stepson, thirty-five-year-old […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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Two young students from Santa Elena, Cayo were manhandled by the police; the images were caught on cell phone camera and posted on social media. The incident was witnessed by a number of students and has caused uproar in the west and elsewhere. The duo has been released by the cops without charges and an […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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Twenty-six-year-old Kenrick Longsworth Hendy handed himself over to police this afternoon. Longsworth was wanted for allegedly shooting at police officers on Saturday morning near the Swing Bridge in downtown Belize City. The official police report states that forty-seven-year-old police officer Glenn Caliz was on Hydes Lane in a police mobile when he received information of […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Dean Barrow left Belize weeks ago for Cuba where he underwent spinal surgery on September fourth for a back condition that plagued him for years. There is word from his office that the PM will return to Belize this Thursday. According to the very brief release, the Prime Minister is recovering on schedule […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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A Belizean-American soldier has died in South Korea. Twenty-two-year-old Private First Class Adrienne Barillas of Woodlands, Texas, was found unresponsive at Camp Humphreys on Sunday. There are not many details known about the soldier’s death except that it is being investigated by the Criminal Investigation Command. The Second Infantry Division soldier had been assigned to […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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The top brass at the Ministry of National Security has publicly come out in support of a ‘YES’ vote to take the Guatemalan claim to the International Court of Justice. The ministry’s C.E.O. Felix Enriquez, Deputy ComPol Chester Williams, Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Borland and B.D.F. Commander Steven Ortega did so in Open Your […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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Taking such a public position is unprecedented because the I.C.J. vote is a controversial and emotional issue with political implications. The position of the top brass of the security forces begs many questions: what if the officers and rank and file feel differently? Have the security forces taken a political position, and given up their […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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End-stage kidney disease, or renal failure, continues to be a life-threatening affliction that many Belizeans grapple with. Treatment of chronic disease includes hemodialysis, which uses a machine to filter blood outside the body, replacing the function of the kidneys. Locally, the provision of that medical care is extremely costly and many lives have been lost […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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A twenty-year-old young woman of Saint Margaret Village, Cayo says that she was raped by two men, known to her husband on September fifteenth. According to the victim, the men visited their house around ten that night and raped her. Police say a Guatemalan national of Esperanza Village has since been charged and they are […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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On Saturday, Punta Gorda police executed a search at the residence of special constable of police, Devin Trapp, a twenty-year-old resident of Orio Street in that southern municipality. The search led to the discovery of six police uniform pants, a south-side strike team and a Special Patrol Unit outfit. The news of the bust spread […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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The Global Climate Action Summit was held in San Francisco, California on September twelfth to the fourteenth. It is an event that brought leaders and people together from around the world to “Take Ambition to the Next Level,” where climate action achievements were celebrated and deeper worldwide commitments were made. The Earth Journalism Network, with […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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As the I.C.J. Referendum campaign intensifies, the Belize Network of N.G.O.’s launched an online I.C.J. survey last week Thursday. The aim of the survey according to N.G.O. Senator Osmany Salas is to gather data on the perspectives of Belizeans on Guatemala’s claim to Belize. The survey primarily targets the online Belizean community with twelve short […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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The general debate of the United Nations opened this morning at the UN headquarters in New York. The Guatemalan President, Jimmy Morales was among the speakers on the first day of the debate. Morales spoke at length about the CICIG, which is the UN anti-corruption agency in Guatemala that is investigating acts of corruption which […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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As of Saturday, September twenty-second, one hundred and twenty-four thousand, four hundred and sixteen re-registration applications have been received by the Elections and Boundaries Department. Between September sixteen and twenty-second, one thousand and twenty-six applications were received, one of the lowest turnout for the mass re-registration exercise. This is the final week of the re-registration […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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The Technical Advisor for the Maternal and Child Health Unit of the Ministry of Health, Doctor Natalia Largaespada Beer, was conferred with the 2018 Pan American Health Organization Award for Health Service Management and Leadership at the fifty-sixth PAHO Directing Council Meeting in Washington, D.C. The PAHO Award Committee selected Doctor Beer from a group of […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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The Belize National Teachers Union issued a strong release today saying it is disgusted at the way the Ministry of Education shared a “finalized” listing of re-categorised schools to managements, principals and teachers. The B.N.T.U. says that over the summer its President Elena Smith was a part of a sub-committee that reviewed and revised the […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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An empowerment conference for pastors and their spouses kicked off today in Belize City. The two-day event features international speakers and will include worship and transformational sessions. The aim is to equip the church leaders with skills, resources and knowledge on how to better serve their communities. Andrea Polanco stopped in at today’s session and […]
Written on September 25, 2018 | Posted in
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There has been another tragic fire which has resulted in loss of life of several family members. In June, four members of the Nunez family perished in a fire in the Escalante subdivision of San Pedro. Today, the community in Orange Walk Town is reeling from a devastating fire in which a father and three […]
Written on September 24, 2018 | Posted in
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The fire at the corner of Progress and Cinderella Streets in Orange Walk has caused emotional distress. Five adults and seven children survived and have been left displaced. Today, counselors from the Belize Community Counselling Center were at the family’s home meeting with affected family members, helping them get through this difficult time. The Ministry […]
Written on September 24, 2018 | Posted in
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Here in Belize City, a fire wiped out a family home in Belize City on Jane Usher Boulevard, but fortunately there was no loss of life. The family of four, however, lost everything in the blaze which erupted sometime between midnight and one o’clock this morning. The family says that the fire started in a […]
Written on September 24, 2018 | Posted in
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Almost two weeks after he disappeared, the decomposing body of Miguel Arroyo was discovered on an island near San Pedro. The twenty-three-year-old San Pedro fisherman headed to a store on the island and that was the last time his family had contact with him. Despite joint searches by family and police, it was not until […]
Written on September 24, 2018 | Posted in
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