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Last week, the Belize Bus Association raised issue over what it said was the practice of buses from neighbouring countries running through Belize and picking up other passengers along the same route, which affects their business. These buses were running routes through Belize with specific destinations prior to the COVID pandemic. But the runs have […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Since the land borders and sea ports reopened in February, there has been a significant number of irregular migrations into Mexico, prompting Mexican authorities to quickly step in and repatriate illegal migrants back to Belize. Ambassador Arnold says that sometimes minors are caught up in these circumstances because of the decisions of their parents or […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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When Mexican President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador visited Belize in May, it opened the way for greater trade relations to occur between our two countries. Soon after Obrador returned to Mexico, he signed a document that allows for Belizean agricultural producers to export their products to Mexico tax-free. Ambassador Arnold shared that that has piqued […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Eleven years ago on September twenty-first, 2011, Joshua Abraham, a nine-year-old student was fatally shot on Victoria Street in Belize City. In the wake of his senseless killing, his mother Marcia Argalles worked to revitalise a neighbourhood park on North Front Street, which had been left abandoned. Multiple attempts were made, but today, the Victoria […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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When you hear Coconu Bwai, it’s usually associated with a makeshift weapon used by the Baymen in the battle against the Spaniards on St. Georges Caye. But these days it’s associated with a household bruk-down artist. This week Sabreena Daly had a sit down well well-known calypsonian, Coconu Bwai. Sabreena Daly, Reporting Since 2014, […]
Written on September 23, 2022 | Posted in
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There were three murders reported since our break on Tuesday night. Two of them occurred after the Independence Day festivities and the victims in both cases were men from Belize City. We turn first to Orange Walk Town where a carnival parade had also just ended and people were still gathered on the streets celebrating. […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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There was a murder in San Ignacio at around seven p.m. on Wednesday. According to police, they received information of a male person seen on the ground with multiple stab wounds to the upper part of his body, near the Macal River Park Area. The individual, later identified as twenty-nine-year-old, Matthew Smith, was rushed to […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Twenty-nine-year-old Stephen Barrington Flowers, a resident of Majestic Alley, has been charged with aggravated burglary, following an incident at the home of Basil Gordon on Saint Thomas Street on Sunday. Flowers is accused of participating in a home invasion that netted thieves almost four thousand dollars in cash and several other personal items belonging to […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Carlos Jose Martinez, a Honduran national, has been living in Belize illegally for almost a year before he was caught by immigration officials earlier this week. According to Martinez, he fled his home country in October 2021 when he, along with his wife and daughter, was reportedly threatened by gang members. He is now seeking […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The forty-first anniversary of Belize’s independence was celebrated in grand fashion on Wednesday, with an official ceremony being held in Belmopan. It was full pomp and circumstance, as the prime minister, government officials, and other dignitaries were in attendance. As is customary, we took a closer look at the speeches that were presented by Prime […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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In San Ignacio, politics was put aside on Independence Day. Mayor Earl Trapp and Belmopan Mayor Sharon Palacio joined each other on stage to dance to a Punta song, much to the delight of onlookers. When we caught up with Mayor Trapp today in San Ignacio, we asked him about that moment and the overall […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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If you have been monitoring the weather reports over the past few days, you would notice that there is quite a bit of activity in the Atlantic. While Hurricane Fiona is in a north-northeast trajectory to the U.S., Belize’s National Met Service has been monitoring a low pressure system that has formed in the south-eastern […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, the Ministry of Agriculture held a press conference to provide an update on the avian influenza that was detected in chicken farms up north in Orange Walk. C.E.O. Servulo Baeza began by prefacing that it was not the virus, but antibodies of a bird flu that was discovered in several samples taken from farms […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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So what will happen with these farms? So far, over twenty-eight thousand birds have been killed. Manager of the Belize Poultry Association, Armando Cowo says that a proposal has been issued to the Ministry of Agriculture and BAHA on a way forward. Dr. Miguel Depaz, Director of Animal Health Department, BAHA “We have depopulated […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Health and Wellness, which sits on the taskforce that has been put together to address the issue, confirmed today that the virus cannot be transmitted to humans and that the chicken is safe for consumption. Principal Public Health Inspector John Bodden explains. John Bodden, Principal Public Health Inspector, M.O.H.W. “The infection […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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On Tuesday, the Belize Poultry Association and other stakeholders in the agriculture industry met and several decisions were made. Chief among those was that the plant in Blue Creek will be shut down for three weeks in November. While Belize Poultry Association Manager Armando Cowo says that the producer in Spanish Lookout has the capacity […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Public officers are leading the way towards digital transformation within the public sector. Today, an award ceremony was held for the second cohort of the Digital Transformation in Belize Course. These public officers were engaged in the training for the past four weeks. It focused on equipping them with the necessary tools to understand and […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize Bus Association appeared on the news last week to raise concerns they have with the current public transportation revamping and the demands that the Department of Transport is placing at their feet to upgrade their fleet of buses, as well as the service they provide to Belizean commuters. The B.B.A. has questions over […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Floralia has been given consideration to also conduct runs in the north and west of the country, which the B.B.A officers say they will also challenge should Floralia get runs that compromise their members’ economic stability. At the centre of the conflict is the Minister of Transport, Rodwell Ferguson, who has been giving the bus […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, at the House of Culture in Belize City, a book that chronicles the life of one of Belize’s national heroes was officially launched. Commissioned back in 2016 by the National Institute of Culture and History, the publication is entitled “The Time to Save Your Country: Philip S.W. Goldson, Biography of a National Hero.” Its […]
Written on September 22, 2022 | Posted in
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A brazen attempt at burglarizing the nation’s largest credit union was thwarted by an alarm system. On Monday morning, two men created an opening in the concrete wall at the rear of the Holy Redeemer Credit Union building in Belize City. They then entered the financial institution but no sooner beat a hasty retreat, after […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The lifeless body of fifty-five-year-old Phillip Palma was discovered in a shallow grave on an island off the coast of Belize City over the weekend. Palma was reported missing by a relative on Wednesday, September fourteenth, after the family received alarming reports that he had been kidnapped. Since then, his family and police officers have […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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According to Jose Espat, the leader of the Palma family search team, they were refused assistance from the local authorities because police officers had reportedly conducted a search on the island the day before. Espat asserts that he made several observations on the island, including the discovery of footprints belonging to persons that were walking […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Police are refuting a number of the claims being made by Espat. According to ASP Yearwood, police were in contact with a family member during the entire search. Yearwood contends that he was in contact with a family member while Espat was live on social media. Reporter “Reports are that police refused to join […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Two arsons were reported over the weekend – one in Belize City, which involved a vehicle being set ablaze and the other, a structural fire in Biscayne Village. The latter was a domestic dispute that ended with the home of Dione Requeña being set on fire. On Saturday morning, Dione was at her home, off […]
Written on September 20, 2022 | Posted in
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