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A Belizean police officer and a member of the Coast Guard are two of four men who remain in detention in Livingston, Guatemala. The four Belizeans: thirty-three-year-old police officer, Fabian Laurie, twenty-five-year-old Coast Guard officer Pedro Colomer, thirty-four-year-old Kevin Edwin Hernandez, and twenty-eight-year-old Jerille Jerome Laurie were detained on Saturday night. The National Civil Police […]
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Twelve Guatemalan nationals were released last weekend, soon after they were detained with a huge amount of U.S. dollars. The group was in a vessel near Moho Caye in the southern waters when they were intercepted by the coastguard and handed over to the Belize Police Department. Their release has come under scrutiny for various […]
In the aftermath of a red alert by the International Criminal Police Organization for Alberto Samid, the seventy-one-year-old was detained in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. Samid, who is wanted in Argentina for tax evasion, reportedly made his way to Belize after he escaped his country through Paraguay. Samid, who goes by the name “King of […]
But is the shooting of Warrior connected to another that occurred around this morning at a barracks located at the corner of Sarstoon and Ebony Streets? Around eight-thirty a.m., a gunman fired a single shot at a group of persons standing in the area. The men scattered for their lives, but unfortunately Keith Courtenay Junior […]
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There was gun violence over the weekend in Belize City, both incidents in proximity of each other and in a well-known gang territory. It started as early as Friday night on Sarstoon Street; a Carmelita resident remains in critical condition tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot to the face. Why […]
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Over seven thousand students across the country sat part one of the Primary School Examinations today. Of that number, one hundred and sixty-five students were provided with special arrangements to sit the exam. The students took the English and Science exams today which included multiple choice questions and two writing components. We stopped by some […]
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A Belize City construction worker is in a critical condition after he was brutally beaten in Crooked Tree Village over the weekend. According to Elton Baiza’s family, he went to Crooked Tree for work and on Saturday night he was socializing during festivities in the village. But sometime between one and four-thirty on Sunday morning, […]
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There is official word on the death of Rudy Morales of San Ignacio. The nineteen-year-old had been reported missing for two days, and last Tuesday, his body was found floating in the Mopan River in Benque Viejo Del Carmen. Morales was last seen alive by relatives when he left home on March twenty-ninth and on […]
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Are the human remains found in the dried up lagoon behind the Los Lagos community that of eighty-three-year-old Hubert Richards? On April fourth, just before one p.m., human bones of an elder person were discovered scattered in a twenty feet diameter. Police also discovered a denture, a pair of black silk socks, and a gray […]
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A huge sum of money was stolen on Saturday afternoon from A.C. Construction on San Pedro. Around three p.m., the manager, Carlos Jex, was targeted by armed thieves while inside his office in the San Pablo area of the island town. With their faces covered, one of thieves robbed Jex of twenty thousand Belize dollars, […]
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An outing in Santa Elena Town on Friday night turned violent. Two friends were out drinking, when around ten p.m., their celebration became violent and within minutes one of them was chopped multiples times in the head with a machete. Daniel Castellanos was viciously injured and rushed to the San Ignacio Hospital where he remains […]
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Belize and Cuba want to find out more about their historical connections. And to do this, they signed a Memorandum of Understanding today that will see intensive research, cross cultural exchange and other collaborations of similar interests through workshops and projects over a four-year period. NICH and the Cuban Embassy in Belize held a short […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
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On Monday, the Government of Belize and the Opposition Party will go to legal war at both the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal is scheduled to hear government’s application to have the Supreme Court injunction lifted. If the Court of Appeal rules in favour of G.O.B., this will allow the […]
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The Opposition Party has until Saturday evening to file skeletal arguments after which the hearing will be held on Monday. For the government, it is a race against time and Peyrefitte is accusing the P.U.P. of purposely delaying the legal proceedings. Michael Peyrefitte, Attorney General “The People’s United Party does not want this matter […]
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As you heard, attorneys for P.U.P. parliamentarians and the Government went before the Court of Appeal this afternoon for case management ahead of arguments on Monday. To put things in perspective, News Five’s Isani Cayetano looks back at the interim injunction granted on Wednesday by the Chief Justice which has triggered another round of legal […]
So what is happening at City Hall? P.U.P. Belize City Councillor Ryan Elijio caused quite a stir on Thursday night after a post on his personal Facebook profile alluded to him resigning from the council. Posted on Elijio’s Facebook was “I work too hard for my name and I will never need it up for […]
The remains of an elderly man were found today near the Los Lagos community, Ladyville. It has been determined so far that the bones are that of an elderly man, but there are still many unanswered questions and his identity has not been confirmed. Not far away, police also found clothing items and a denture. […]
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Barranco in is one of the smallest villages in the country. The quiet community is located in a remote area of southern Belize and overtime, it has generally kept away from the news. The iconic Andy Palacio is a son of the village, he died years ago and generally, the population has been shrinking so […]
Belize is among five countries that have been named as “drug transit” countries by the U.S. government in the latest International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. The other four countries are: the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. The report states that Belize was also named a transit country for illicit drugs destined for the […]
The Belize Electricity Limited has asked the Public Utilities Commission to maintain the mean electricity rate of forty-one cents per kilowatt-hour from July of this year through to June of next year. After an increase in January, it was expected that another increase would have followed in June, but according to B.E.L., the current rates […]
There was a fire this evening just before five on Freetown Road in Belize City. The fire was seen coming out of the upper flat of a concrete building with a sign “P & S Security Ltd.” Quick action by fire-fighters put out the flames before it spread to the rest of the building and […]
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Family and friends of Percival Flowers Junior are grieving his untimely death. The experienced swimmer perished in the Belize River a few days ago when he flipped from a tree into the river. But something went awfully wrong and Flowers Junior never resurfaced. Hours later, his body was pulled out of the river by his […]
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Interpol says Argentinean fugitive, seventy-one-year-old Alberto Samid is hiding in Belize. International Criminal Police Organization issued a red alert for the Samid who is wanted in Argentina for tax evasion. Investigators believe that Samid escaped the country through Paraguay, later flew to Panama before making his way to Belize which does not share an extradition […]
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A forty-six-year-old father of Belize City will stand trial in the June session of the Supreme Court for incest of his thirteen-year-old daughter. He is accused of the sexual abuse of the minor in December 2017. When the P.I. kicked off before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford, the father told the magistrate that he was under […]
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