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A robotic coding programming has become a big hit among young tech savvy students. The Belize High School, which has been pioneering the programme, is holding a summer camp that has attracted some forty students from five schools. It exposed them to the fundamentals of programming by applying mathematics and problem solving skills. The aim […]
Written on June 25, 2019 | Posted in
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The fifteenth annual Growing the Future Project takes place next month from July first to the nineteenth in four locations across the country; namely, Belize City, Belmopan, San Ignacio and Dangriga. Over five thousand primary children have successfully completed the summer programme that helps them to transition to the next year of classes in areas […]
Written on June 25, 2019 | Posted in
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The fiftieth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice is being held in Bonn, Germany. The climate change conference kicked off last week where, for the first time in almost fifteen years, delegates gathered for a smaller session in Bonn with only the two bodies convening […]
Written on June 25, 2019 | Posted in
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Going into the weekend, police and the coastguard were on high alert at sea searching for two Belize City youths who could not be located. They were the youngest of five men who went on a fishing trip last Tuesday. On Thursday evening, the lifeless body of Travis Cooke was discovered near Swallow Caye; he […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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San Pedro residents were stunned on Sunday when word of a double murder spread across the island. Police on Ambergris Caye are investigating the deaths of Mario Graniel, a well-known tour guide. Graniel was with Doctor Gary Paul Swank when both men came under gunfire at around ten o’clock that morning. The men were on […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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Investigators are working on establishing a motive. This was not the first time that Graniel came under gunfire. A day before the double murder, shots were fired at Graniel’s apartment in the Boca del Rio area. Graniel was inside his room on the second floor when he heard three gunshots. When he made checks, he […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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A total of seven persons have been murdered at sea in less than five days, including the quintuple murder in the Mapp Caye/Swallow Caye area and the double murder in San Pedro. Today, the Ministry of National Security issued a release, condemning the violence in all forms, assuring the public that no stones will be […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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A construction worker was killed in Corozal Town on Friday night. Police say they don’t know why David Martinez was gunned down and if the bullets were meant for him when he was shot to death at his family’s residence. At this time several persons are in police detention but cops say that they need […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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Residents of Bullet Tree Falls Village were shocked to find out that a murder had taken place in their neck of the woods on Sunday evening, more so that the vicious stabbing involved a love triangle. Yolanda Requeña lost her life this weekend when she was stabbed in the heart by Thelma Warrior, the wife […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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The bloodbath over the weekend has triggered a statement from Leader of the Opposition. John Briceño notes that ten persons lost their lives this past week in a crime spree. In a statement, he holds the Barrow administration responsible for another six months in which the law-abiding citizenry continues to be paralyzed by crime. The P.U.P. […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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The first phase of village council elections was held on Sunday. A total of thirty-five villages in Corozal, Belize, Cayo, Stann Creek and Toledo participated in the first round. The People’s United Party won one hundred and twenty-three seats, while the ruling United Democratic Party won seventy-three seats. Forty-nine seats were garnered by independent candidates. […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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Today, police shared details of the suspected drug plane which was found already burnt in northern Belize. According to the authorities, they were alerted about the remnants of the aircraft last week and when they visited the area they found very few clues that would point to the origin. Police say that no one was […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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Police seized over five thousand grams of weed between Friday and Saturday. The seizures all happened on passenger buses traveling in the north heading in a south bound direction. Police say that they have made some arrests but not all the marijuana packages could be tied to passengers on the buses. Here’s more from ACP […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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A supermarket in the southern community of Trio was hit by armed thieves on Friday night. According to police, four men stormed the business and proceeded to rob the propriety of an undisclosed sum of money before escaping on stolen bicycles. Investigators are trying to ascertain whether the incident was captured on surveillance cameras affixed […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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A fire on Saturday night in Belize City has left an elderly man homeless. The property on George Street contained three wooden structures, two of which were gutted by the inferno. “Pappy Felix” lived in the building at the rear and it is suspected that a mental health patient, who occupied the abandoned property at […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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A young man lost his life over the weekend in Red Bank Village where he had gone swimming with a group of friends in the nearby river. Jamie Cayetano reportedly entered the water ahead of his friends and did not resurface. When they were subsequently able to bring Cayetano to shore and attempt to resuscitate […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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On Friday, the House of Representatives read through the Tax Administration and Procedure Bill 2019 which essentially sees a merger of the Income Tax and General Sales Tax departments. The purpose is to facilitate the official and effective administration and collection of domestic taxes. While the opposition supported the move, concerns were raised in respect […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Barrow responded to those claims as baseless and unsubstantiated, notwithstanding the fact that the opposition supports the idea of streamlining the tax system. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “At least he was good enough to concede that the notion of the amalgamation as an effort to streamline the entire tax system and to […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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On Saturday, the Taiwanese Embassy in Belize celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of established diplomatic ties between Belize and Taiwan. Both countries have cooperation in areas such as education, agriculture, climate change resilience, infrastructural development, as well as culture. News Five’s Duane Moody attended the all day fair that took place on Taiwan Street along the […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Investment and Trade has partnered with the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to facilitate two investment missions to Belize. These missions are to help increase foreign direct investments in prioritized industries in the country. This morning, the Ministry hosted a welcome ceremony for eight Taiwanese delegates for the first mission which kicked […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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The first Society of Women Coders Camp for Girls was launched this morning and the aim is to engage the intellectual curiosity of Belize’s young women and provide an atmosphere for learning a skill which can develop their appetite for information technology. The camp will run for two weeks in Belize and Belmopan and is […]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend in sports…]
Written on June 24, 2019 | Posted in
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There is yet another triple murder in less than three weeks, this time at sea. Three of five fishermen have been murdered, shot to death and their bodies dumped in the Caribbean Sea. Within fifteen hours, the decomposing bodies have been retrieved and immediately following the post-mortem exams, have been buried. The victims include the […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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The police have been working closely with the Belize Coast Guard as investigations continue into this triple homicide at sea. Now there are a number of fishing camps at and around Swallow Caye and off Drown Caye that can be spotted from the Belize City coastline. Fisherfolks from those various camps have been interviewed in […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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A Belizean man was shot multiple times and killed on Wednesday in Barberton, Ohio, U.S.A. He has been identified as forty-one-year-old Shannon Callahan. According to online reports, Barberton Police responded to a 911 call which led them to Callahan’s driveway. There they found him bleeding profusely. He was treated on scene by emergency medical personnel […]
Written on June 21, 2019 | Posted in
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