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The Protected Areas Conservation Trust, PACT, has awarded six point seven million dollars in conservation investments to protected areas. The investments will be made through six local conservation organizations that collectively co-manage twelve protected areas. The monies will be disbursed through the following N.G.O.s: Ya’axché Conservation Trust will receive one million dollars to be invested […]
Written on December 28, 2018 | Posted in
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2018 is winding down and most Belizeans, like the rest of the world, are planning that special moment—who they will spend the countdown to the new year with or what fun party treats they can pull out. From New Year’s Eve bashes to family gatherings, a glass of champagne or sparkling wine would do the […]
Written on December 28, 2018 | Posted in
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The New Year is just around the corner which means that thousands of Belizeans will be celebrating this joyous holiday. And to bring in 2019, the celebration starts on New Year’s Eve. During the time of such festivities, there are increased dangers that adults and children alike are exposed to. So, the National Fire Service […]
Written on December 28, 2018 | Posted in
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A Belize City fisherman was shot and killed on Wednesday and police strongly suspect that the homicide may have been the result of a longstanding feud between two families. Daniel Hughes Senior is dead and his in-laws say that his murder is not related to the ongoing beef. Earlier this year, however, around mid-March, three […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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Police in Orange Walk are trying to stem the bloodbath in an ongoing gang feud which left two persons injured on Christmas Day. Twenty-eight-year-old Llamont Wade and twenty-one-year-old Pablo Reyes were exiting Reyes’ home on Muffles Street when they came under gunfire at around seven o’clock on Christmas morning. Both men survived the attempt on […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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Twenty-five-year-old Police Constable Keenon Bennett is tonight at the K.H.M.H. recuperating after he was knocked down on Wednesday night. Bennett, a member of the Special Patrol Unit, was on duty, patrolling Saint Martin’s Area on a motorcycle. When PC Bennett was at the corner of Mahogany and Santa Barbara Streets, he was hit from the […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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The cost of electricity is set to go up yet again, for a second time in 2018. This follows a formal request by Belize Electricity Limited to the Public Utilities Commission to recover monies that the company has been spending out of pocket to purchase energy from Mexico. The submission from B.E.L. is seeking an […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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The commission, in its decision, has approved a Mean Electricity Rate of point four-two cents per kilowatt hour. According to Avery, BEL has had to incur an increase in the cost of purchasing energy from Mexico and therefore is simply looking to recoup its funds. John Avery, Chairman, Public Utilities Commission “We expect prices […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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Director of Energy Ambrose Tillett also says that the rate increase being proposed is both wise and acceptable for the supply of service to consumers. Ambrose Tillett, Director of Energy, P.U.C. “The reason why we have to approve this increase is because a lot of these increases are actually locked in already. Pretty much, […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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On Christmas Day, gas prices at the pumps dropped for a second time in forty-eight hours. The cost of premium gasoline reduced by eighty-five cents to ten dollars and forty-seven cents per gallon, while the price of diesel which went down by ninety-two cents to nine dollars and eighty-three cents per gallon. According to a […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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On Friday, the Belize National Teachers’ Union came out swinging at some school managements, calling them the Grinch that stole Christmas. That’s because certain school managements decided to dock the salaries of the teachers who participated in the November seventh demonstration in Belmopan. More than a thousand teachers participated in the demonstration, forcing the Ministry […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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According to President Elena Smith, the docking of teachers’ salaries is not only seen as ‘downright mean-spirited,’ but also as a form of union busting. Senator Elena Smith, National President, B.N.T.U. “It has to be looked at seriously because we do know that when our members lose salaries or when any person loses salary […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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Within the past week, there have been several fires across the country. The first fire happened in Burrell Boom Village in the Belize District. Two wooden homes were destroyed by fire on Friday, December twenty-first. The two homes were owned by a pair of sisters who lived next door to each other – and when […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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On Monday, we told you about a fire along the Stann Creek Valley Roadthat left a family of eight homeless. Sometime after ten a.m. last Saturday, a fire completely destroyed a wooden home in Steadfast Village. The owners of the property were not at home when the blaze started, but were alerted shortly afterwards. The […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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And on Christmas Day a family was left homeless when a fire broke out inside their home around ten in the morning. It happened on Marina Drive in the DFC area in San Pedro Town. The family of six lost everything and one person was injured. The National Fire Service tells us more about the […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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On Boxing Day there were two separate fires one in Orange Walk Town and the other in Belize City. The fire in Orange Walk happened around one-thirty in the morning. Flames were seen inside a business place, but quick action contained the blaze. The National Fire Service says that its investigation shows that the fire […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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The second fire on Boxing Day happened right here in Belize City. The National Fire Service says that around six-thirty that evening flames were spotted inside a wooden home on Tibruce Street. But police officers who were nearby quickly extinguished the blaze. The house, according to fire officials, was occupied by one person. Here’s more […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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On Christmas morning, most of us spent the day at home with our families or out celebrating with friends. For B.E.L employees, it was a morning to keep with the tradition of preparing and serving breakfast to the homeless and shut-ins in Belize City. This holiday season marks the twentieth year since the utility company […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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U.D.P. Standard Bearer for Port Loyola, Philip Willoughby is organizing a first-of-its-kind football tournament on New Year’s Day. Dubbed the Philip Willoughby Seven-a-Side Football Marathon, it is open to the entire public, but particularly those football enthusiasts in the area to come out and participate. Football teams are invited to come out and register on […]
Written on December 27, 2018 | Posted in
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Commander of Eastern Division South Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett would normally appear on the news for the community policing work he continues to do, but tonight the senior police officer is in the hot seat, facing tremendous scrutiny. Gillett was involved in a road traffic accident over the weekend. The incident occurred in the wee […]
Written on December 24, 2018 | Posted in
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Two officers have been suspended pending further investigation into a suspected drug plane in southern Belize. Police Constables Peter Graham and John Ordonez are in trouble with the law tonight because of their alleged involvement in the illegal landing of a single engine aircraft in Barranco Village, Toledo District. During today’s police press brief, Deputy […]
Written on December 24, 2018 | Posted in
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News Five has been reliably informed that the aircraft was not making a drop, but was in fact carrying out a pickup. As has been seen in previous suspected drug plane landings, the aircrafts are normally gutted to make space for the illicit cargo. But this case was different. As the evidence has shown thus […]
Written on December 24, 2018 | Posted in
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A joint operation on Saturday resulted in police discovering more than seventy pounds of marijuana. Police say that the operation was conducted near the Casa Maya Road of the Shawville area of San Ignacio Town. The operation led to the discovery of seventy-one point seven-five pounds of marijuana. ASP Alejandro Cowo shared more details. […]
Written on December 24, 2018 | Posted in
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Police are investigating the savage beating and stabbing of Paul Moro. Moro and his wife were at a wedding on Saturday in Burrell Boom Village when he got into an altercation with another person. As the couple left the event, a group of men attacked and stabbed Moro. Police shared more details. ASP Alejandro […]
Written on December 24, 2018 | Posted in
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Thirty-six-year-old Ernie Miranda was fatally stabbed on Thursday night sometime before twelve a.m. His lifeless body was not discovered until Friday morning by sanitation workers collecting garbage on Morning Glory Street in the vicinity of Sadie Vernon High School. But the man we’ve all reported on as Ernie Miranda is actually Earl Abraham Hyatt. That’s […]
Written on December 24, 2018 | Posted in
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