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Tonight, businessman Bradley Roe and Music Ambassador Shyne Barrow are making headlines, following an incident on the night of May eleventh during which Shyne was physically assaulted by the Ladyville resident. According to a statement recorded at Precinct Four, following the altercation, Shyne reported that he was approached by Roe inside an establishment at the […]
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Two U.S. nationals were rescued on Thursday night after their forty foot sailboat “Shambella” grounded on the Belize Barrier Reef. At around eighty thirty pm, the Belize Coast Guard received a distress signal from Shambella in the Sapodilla Caye Marine Reserve. A team from the Forward Operating Base at Hunting Caye was immediately deployed for […]
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According to Lieutenant Soberanis, the couple was making their way from Cuba to Rio Dulce in Guatemala. Soberanis says that the captain of the vessel is currently detained at Hunting Caye until an in-depth assessment of the extent of the damage to the reef is concluded. Lt. Gregory Soberanis, Belize National Coast Guard “D.O.E. […]
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A Belize City woman was robbed at gunpoint at around eight o’clock on Thursday night. Thirty-year-old Rachel Wallace was riding her bicycle near the Lord Ridge Cemetery when she was attacked by two men, one of whom was armed with a pistol. The men grabbed Wallace and pulled her off her bicycle and dragged her […]
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A female tourist was robbed and sexually assaulted while in the Village of Seine Bight in Southern Belize. Reports are that the tourist was jogging when she came under attack by a young man. Her attacker reportedly dragged her into the bushes and attempted to rape her. Fortunately, she managed to fight off her attacker […]
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A seventeen-year-old minor and two adults have been freed of conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting death of Lynford Baldwin. The trio appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser and saw the case dismissed due to lack of evidence against them. On May twentieth, eighteen-year-old Denver Bevans, twenty-two-year-old Joshua Gillett and the minor were arraigned […]
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A brazen attempt was made on the life of Guatemalan national Edin Perez on Tuesday night in Armenia Village. The twenty-year-old was shot multiple times when a group of men showed up at his residence and asked for him by name. When Perez came outside to see who was calling him, he was met with […]
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The B.T.I.A. unveiled to its stakeholders and partner agencies a three-year plan for sustainable tourism in Belize. The objective of the symposium was to share details on how the association will assist its members in the transition to environmental friendly practices in an effort to maintain the vibrancy of the local tourism industry. As News […]
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The University of Belize and the National Oceanography Centre in the U.K. signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday to advance marine science research in Belize. Both entities recognize the crucial role marine science plays in the sustainable use of clean energy, minerals and other resources and the signing formalises an already positive and productive […]
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The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season begins on Saturday and will run through to November thirtieth. The forecast for this year suggests that tropical cyclone activity will be near normal in the Atlantic Basin which comprises the North Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. It is predicted that there will be anywhere […]
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Lieutenant Gregory Soberanis of the Belize Coast Guard led an informational session to discuss the Coast Guard’s state of readiness for the 2019 Atlantic Basin hurricane season. Lt. Gregory Soberanis, Belize National Coast Guard “One of the first things that we do is to activate what we call the recall system where we h […]
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One hundred and sixty-eight boys and girls are forming this year’s intake for the third annual Police Youth Mentorship Programme. The program which starts tomorrow and concludes in the next six months was launched today in Belize City. Participants will embark on a journey, led by their mentors, with the aim to be molded in […]
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The month of Ramadan has come to an end. It is a month-long period of fasting for persons of Islamic faith. To celebrate the passing of Ramadan, the Ahmadiyah Muslim Jamaat is inviting everyone to attend its annual Iftar dinner to be held at the Gateway Youth Center on Saturday evening. It is an opportunity, […]
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And on Sunday, the Ahmadiyah Basketball League concludes a season of basketball tournaments with a marathon at the Swift Hall where teams from across Belize City and as far away as Orange Walk will be competing in various age groups. Imam Naveed Mangla, Ahmadiyah Muslim Jamaat “The Ahmadiyah Basketball League has been running for […]
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Chefs from across the country took part in sixteen hours of intense training spread across four days this week, to learn professional standards of food handling, as well as the importance of food safety in the domestic and tourism industries. The workshop concluded today at the ITVET in Belize City. News Five’s Isani Cayetano has […]
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The Chan family in San Narciso Village is tonight making final preparations to put to rest two of its most senior members. Married for more than fifty years, on Wednesday afternoon Audomaro and Ramona Chan were killed after a Freightliner truck crashed into them as they were crossing the Philip Goldson Highway in their white […]
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Sixty-seven-year-old Frank Arnold is fighting for his life at the K.H.M.H., after he was stabbed multiple times by Ronald Flowers, who is known in the neighbourhood to be suffering from a mental health condition. The elderly man was exiting an unnamed alley off Neal’s Penn Road Extension in Belize City when he was attacked. Today, […]
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Also in the courts today, PC Leon Bradley was freed from the charge of harm. This was after his estranged girlfriend twenty-year-old Ashley Pate told the court that she does not want to proceed with legal actions against the twenty-four-year-old police officer. In April, PC Bradley was arraigned before Magistrate Emmerson Banner after he was […]
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Who wants Guatemalan national Edin Garcia Perez dead and why, is still up in the air tonight as police officers continue to investigate a shooting incident that occurred on Tuesday night Armenia Village, Cayo. Perez remains hospitalized after he was shot multiple times by a gunman. Around eight-thirty p.m., four persons arrived at Perez’s home […]
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Earlier this week, we reported on a shooting incident in Placencia in which Francis Eiley was shot in the leg during an altercation with his neighbour. Initial reports were that the two had a dispute over land and it came to a head on Monday night in the village. Today, police confirmed that Terrence Lopez […]
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On Wednesday night, we showed you surveillance footage that captured the armed robbery of a store on Zericote Street, in the Louisiana area of Orange Walk Town. Just after seven p.m. on Tuesday night, a pair of thieves targeted Sun Luck Store and rode off with nine hundred dollars, but not before pistol whipping the […]
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Meanwhile, in the south, police have detained one of three persons reportedly involved in an armed robbery. Also on Tuesday, Punta Gorda Police responded to a report of a robbery at the Cattle Landing Palace in Cattle Landing. The thieves, who wielded firearms, stole an undisclosed amount of money before firing a single shot inside […]
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The 2019 Atlantic Hurricane Season begins on Saturday and for the next six months the City Emergency Management Organization will remain on standby should a storm head towards the Old Capital. This morning, the Belize City Council officially opened the hurricane season with a press conference during which the public was updated on the existing […]
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Is central government playing party politics with a donation of exercise equipment gifted by the Taiwanese Embassy earlier this week? According to Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner, the mayors of three municipalities controlled by the People’s United Party were intentionally left out of the distribution of the equipment, despite the Mayors Association having signed on […]
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The Ministry of Health is warning the public to be cautious of medicines which are not officially recognized and registered by the ministry. Several brands and types of these medicines which are being sold to the public pose a health risk. In a press statement, the ministry says that two recent inspections resulted in the […]
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