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Works on the Marshelleck Stadium in Benque Viejo del Carmen has slowed and the community is taking notice. Repairs were being done under the Belize Infrastructure Limited but there is an issue with finances and the scope of the project. Minister of Sports, Patrick Faber sits on the board of BIL as Co-Chair and explained […]
Written on August 23, 2019 | Posted in
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The Operation Support Team and other Units of the Police Department made a number of busts in the past two days. The Operations team got a firearm off the streets following an operation at an airline at the Belize Municipal Airstrip on Thursday afternoon. They retrieved a box containing a nine milimetre Glock seventeen pistol […]
Written on August 23, 2019 | Posted in
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A fight between a pair of siblings over property ended violently and tonight, thirty-eight year old Mark Anthony Ferguson is on remand accused of attempting to kill his brother, forty-four-year old Oliver Peters. Ferguson was arraigned on Thursday evening for the attempted murder of Peters. The incident took place on August seventeenth in Belize City. […]
Written on August 23, 2019 | Posted in
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A first conference for tourism stakeholders took place today in Belize City. It was organized by the Belize Tourism Board to encourage those in the industry to become more competitive and maintain the edge on cruise ship tourism. Tourist arrivals have been on the increase but other destinations have been upping their services. The Belize […]
Written on August 23, 2019 | Posted in
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Tonight, representatives of the Department of the Environment are holding a public meeting at Orange Walk Town to address concerns on the deteriorating health of the New River. For several months now, the condition of the river has declined and it has turned into a milky green hue and a foul stench is emanating from […]
Written on August 23, 2019 | Posted in
Environment |
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At the crack of dawn this morning, there was a shooting in Dangriga. Twenty-one year old Darrel Smith was shot in the upper leg and transported to the Southern Regional Hospital where he is in a stable condition. The mechanic of Rivas Estate was in the vicinity of a bar in the town when he […]
Written on August 23, 2019 | Posted in
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On Thursday morning, a patrol mounted by the Operation Support Team of the Police conducted a search on a Silver Ford Edge S.U.V., at Miles seventeen in Hattieville, Belize District. Twenty-one- year old Patrick Dean Tillett of a George Price Highway address was behind the steering wheel of the vehicle. Inside police found two sacks […]
Written on August 23, 2019 | Posted in
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The Made in Belize Catalogue was launched this morning by the trade and investment arm of the government. The magazine is a comprehensive directory of fifty local businesses and provides insight on a wide range of local goods. The publication is key in exposing businesses preparing to enter their products in the competitive regional and […]
Written on August 23, 2019 | Posted in
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Belize has been spared of hurricanes in the recent past, but the National Emergency Management Organization, NEMO is not letting its guard down. NEMO is strongly advising government line ministries and its emergency committees to convene meetings and identify necessary logistics in their plans as the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea are now showing signs […]
Written on August 23, 2019 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Health hopes to put in place a plan to monitor the use, effectiveness and safety of medications in Belize. This initiative is the first of its kind in the country and the Ministry has engaged the help of the Pan American Health Organization and the Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Authority of […]
Written on August 23, 2019 | Posted in
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A sixty-five-year-old woman is attacked by her own grandson while she is resting inside her house in the village of Trinidad, Orange Walk. Fernanda Garcia has lived alongside her husband in a small house at the entrance of the village for decades. She lost her sight over twenty years ago and in the village; she […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
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Featured |
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The police today provided updates on a number of recent crimes. Police say that they are looking for two Hispanic men who were in the area of the bus shed in Hattieville, Belize District, who they believe pulled the trigger that ended the life of forty-seven-year-old security guard, Kevin Hyde. Hyde was waiting for a […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
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While police could not confirm whether the killing of Kevin Hyde is a case of mistaken identity, investigators say that Belize City resident, Brindel Munnings was the intended target in a near fatal shooting on Sunday night. The forty-four-year-old is clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital since then. Munnings was targeted as […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
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Police are also searching for Anthony Williams; he is the main suspect in the attempted murder of Brian Chavarria in Belmopan. On Monday night around eight o’clock, Chavarria was conversing with a group of men, including Williams, in front of his mechanic shop on Sinsonte Street in the Capital City. An altercation, allegedly over putting […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
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The deadly drought in northern Belize is crippling farmers and by extension certain sectors of the agriculture industry. Corn farmers and soybeans producers in Blue Creek Village in the Orange Walk District are feeling the financial pinch; they stand to lose over two million Belize dollars. Farmers who would usually harvest hundreds of acres of […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
Agriculture,
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According to C.E.O. Jose Alpuche, not much can be done to assist farmers who have lost their investment in their corn plantations. He says that after the assessment, farmers will be identified and assistance will be facilitated through their lending institution. On the Phone: Jose Alpuche, C.E.O., Ministry of Agriculture “Unfortunately those that have […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
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There is good news for commuters tonight as a fee of one-dollar to have been imposed on passengers travelling on water taxis has been withdrawn. The fee should have kicked in on September first, but the Commissioner of Ports, Marlene Bailey, has advised that it will no longer take effect. Water taxi operators were advised […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
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Miscellaneous,
People & Places |
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The Belize City Council is moving City Hall and its operations to the Commercial Center at Market Square, a year and a half into the term of Mayor Bernard Wagner and the People’s United Party municipal government. The quiet transition began a few weeks ago and is set to be completed this weekend. Despite the […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
Miscellaneous,
People & Places |
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Relocating to Market Square will also inconvenience motorists in the downtown area for the next two weeks, beginning on August twenty-fifth. The Belize City Council has announced that as of this Sunday, the stretch of road from Belize Bank to the foot of the Swing Bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic. That’s because there […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
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People & Places |
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With the historic Swing Bridge under repair and Regent Street soon to be resurfaced, is it the opportune time for these works to be carried out, and is the schedule based on the least amount of time necessary for the works to be completed? CitCo says it’s trying its best to expedite the project in […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
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People & Places |
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There has been a breakthrough in the stabbing case of Oliver Peters, which occurred over the weekend. While the weapon used to inflict the wounds has not been recovered, Superintendent Alejandro Cowo says that the main suspect has been detained. On August seventeenth, Peters was viciously stabbed during a family dispute on Arlington Drive and […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
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He is well-known to the law, and on Tuesday afternoon around three o’clock, Lloyd Faber was targeted by a gunman on Amara Avenue, Belize City. Faber was socializing with a friend when a gunman drove up in a vehicle and opened fire at him. He was later seen ailing on the pavement and within minutes […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
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Even as the law allows for a person to be in possession of up to ten grams of weed, a group of nine persons, including a theologist, were before the court on a drug trafficking charge for eighty-nine grams of cannabis. Victor Lara and his wife Brea Stanke, along with Alex Salazar, Sebastian Young, Marcus […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
Crime,
Trials |
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The UN General Assembly proclaimed 2015-2024 as the International Decade for People of African Descent citing the need to the full enjoyment of rights such as economic, social and political and their full and equal participation in all aspects of society. In the region, the Central American Black Organization, CABO, through the larger body SICA, […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
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Chairperson of the United Black Association for Development, Yaya Marin Coleman today protested the two-day conference saying that the discussions held do not truly represent the interest of the black community in Belize. Coleman stood alone at the Biltmore where the conference was held for nine hours in protest of the meeting. She says she is […]
Written on August 22, 2019 | Posted in
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People & Places |
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