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For the past four years, the Government of Belize through the Ministry of Agriculture has been working on expanding the sheep farming industry in Belize. The aim of the project is for local farmers to satisfy the demand of the multimillion-dollar market in the Caribbean and Central America. But in order to meet the required […]
Written on August 12, 2019 | Posted in
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The three-day sheep management workshop will also feature a day of leather tanning. Many may not know, but there is a leather cooperative out west. Its members, who are primarily farmers, are making use of the skin from cattle to generate additional income. It’s a process that takes up to eight days, but can significantly […]
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Over the weekend, journalists from the country gathered for a two-day training facilitated by the Earth Journalism Network, a global community of over eight thousand reporters who cover environmental topics. As part of the training, reporters were taken to Sergeant’s Caye and Goff’s Caye where topics such as climate change, the importance of the barrier reef and […]
Written on August 12, 2019 | Posted in
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A day before the trip, Belizean reporters gathered in Belize City where they participated in a lively discussion with professionals. The discussion focused primarily on environmental issues including climate change, biodiversity, water, environmental health, and oceans and coastal resources. The Earth Journalism Network assists journalists through workshops and development of training materials, fellowship programs, support […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend in sports…]
Written on August 12, 2019 | Posted in
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He is no stranger to the cops and has been charged multiple times in the past for drug related incidents, but on Thursday night, Carlos Lopez was murdered inside his home in Lord’s Bank Village. Around eight p.m., Lopez and his niece had just arrived home when within minutes the blast of gunshots echoed in […]
Written on August 9, 2019 | Posted in
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Tonight, two police officers are in detention, Derrick Ramirez remains missing and Oscar Williams, the main suspect believed to be responsible for his disappearance, allegedly escaped at the hands of the two very same police officers in question. It is a complex story with lots of grey areas which Commissioner of Police Chester Williams recognizes. […]
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From there, the plot takes a very sinister twist because, as Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett explained, members of the Belize Coast Guard arrested three men; including main suspect Oscar Williams, for the disappearance of Derrick Ramirez at Cross Caye. But Williams was removed from detention by Inspector Kevin Hernandez and another officer and […]
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Investigators have forty-eight hours to gather enough evidence and criminally charge the two police officers. The police constable has already been slapped with the disciplinary charges of allowing a prisoner to escape from lawful custody and bringing the police department into disrepute. According to Commissioner Williams, the constable, along with the inspector, has been placed […]
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Fifty-year-old Teakettle villager, Margarito “Pulu” Vanegas was struck by oncoming traffic on Thursday morning. A cargo truck was traveling on the George Price Highway, through Teakettle Village, when Vanegas was hit. Vanegas, who was reportedly consuming alcohol before the incident, was attempting to cross the highway when the truck which was travelling in a westerly […]
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Police in the west are also investigating the circumstances leading to the death of an unidentified young man in Saint Margaret’s Village. The body of John Doe was found late on Thursday evening at a farm behind the village. He was found with a large cut wound on the leg. Belmopan police are treating the […]
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A trio of Mexicans caught stealing money from an ATM in Orange Walk and Corozal in January of last year has been acquitted of the charges of theft after spending seventeen months at the Belize Central Prison. Joscan Jafet Uriostequi, Belen Isai Uriostequi and her common-law husband Leonel Peralta Rodriguez appeared in court this morning […]
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The Coalition for Sustainable Fisheries is championing a move to ban the use of gillnets countrywide. Gillnets are indiscriminate and as such are depleting fish stocks. This morning, a news team set out to see where they visited a remote area about twenty miles north where fishermen are harvesting tons of fish using gillnets. Isani […]
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Digi held its scholarship reception programme this morning in Belize City. Twenty-five students from around the country were all recipients this year. The full scholarships are awarded for the four years of high school. Digi boasts of a high success rate in their program. The telecom provider says that many past scholars work in management […]
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Breast is best. It’s a slogan we have heard for years and the Ministry of Health wants Belize to take it seriously. According to PAHO, breastfeeding is vital to a child’s lifelong health and it also reduces costs for health care systems. Infants are at greater risk of death due to diarrhea and other infections […]
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ComPol Chester Williams recently returned to Belize after spending a week in London for the 2019 Jalsa Salama, an annual gathering of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The event brings together thirty thousand participants from more than ninety countries to promote religious knowledge and promote a sense of peace in society. Williams participated after he was […]
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A thirty-two-year-old stevedore of Belize City was executed on Wednesday night. Brian Armstrong spent most of his adult life in prison and according to his family, he had been attempting to reform. On Wednesday night, however, a second attempt ended the life of the father of one. Armstrong was gunned down in the Gungulung area […]
Written on August 8, 2019 | Posted in
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When police responded to the call of a barrage of shots being fired in the CET Site area, they found no one in the immediate vicinity, save for Armstrong’s motionless body. Despite having canvassed the neighborhood in the wake of the shooting there are very few details that have led to a suspect thus far. […]
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In the peninsula, police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a Santa Cruz resident. The forty-four-year-old was at the Placencia Hotel and Casino along with two of his brothers when he was stabbed. An argument started inside the casino and escalated when the men went outside the premises. Twenty-four-year-old Everaldo Samayoa was stabbed and died, […]
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A Ladyville resident left work, but never made it home. Forty-six-year-old Jordy Bainton was riding his bicycle on Chetumal Street when he was run over and crushed by a heavy duty truck near the roundabout on the Philip Goldson Highway. The traffic fatality happened just after five in the evening at the heavily trafficked roundabout. […]
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The family told News Five that the injuries they saw on Jordy Bainton’s body suggest that he had been dragged by the truck before it came to a stop on the roundabout. While his name has not been disclosed, the driver of the Mack Truck was initially detained, but later released. He has also been […]
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Dangriga native Derrick Ramirez has been reported missing, but family members have a strong suspicion that he has been killed. Ramirez was last seen on August fourth at around two o’clock in the afternoon. He was in the company of his brother, Kevin Hernandez, who filed the missing person report, and brother-in-law, Joseph Coleman. The […]
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Guillermo says that he attempted to locate Hernandez several times after Ramirez’s disappearance but has not been able to locate him. Guillermo is seeking answers to many questions that Hernandez left him with. In fact, Guillermo asserts that his son was lured to his death. Guillermo Ramirez, Father of Derrick Ramirez “He said that […]
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Guillermo is asking for Dangriga police to increase their efforts in locating Ramirez. In Belmopan today, Head of the National Crimes Investigation Branch Joseph Myvett told the media that law enforcement agencies have been deployed in search of Ramirez. Myvett says that Ramirez, at this moment, is presumed ‘missing’ and not dead. ACP Joseph […]
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There is a murder conviction to report tonight. Twenty-seven-year-old Ibrahim Smith remains behind bars awaiting sentencing for the November 2012 murder of twenty-two-year-old William Francis. Francis was gunned down inside his home and perished in the living room. He was shot as many as six times to the upper left side of the body. In trial, […]
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