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Twenty-three-year-old Shania Dominguez, a recruit with the Belize Police Department, has been charged under the Cyber Crime Act. It is alleged that the resident of Biscayne Village, who appeared unrepresented in Court Number Six, used a computer system to transmit data that is obscene and vulgar. The intent was purportedly to humiliate, harass and cause […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Members of rival Belize City gangs called a truce in court earlier today after they chose not to proceed with criminal charges against each other. Esmir Garrido, a convicted member of the Rocky Road Bloods, is accused of attacking and stabbing thirty-five-year-old Hilberto Ruiz on Wednesday morning in the vicinity of Krooman Lagoon. The incident […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Remember Derrick Uh? He is the twenty-year-old Cristo Rey villager who died inside the back of a police prisoner van in Corozal back in August of last year. There was an outcry about the use of the vans and at the time, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams had committed to replacing the vans. Today, when […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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On Monday, two families in Seine Bight Village lost everything they owned when a fire mysteriously started in a bedroom of one of the houses and spread quickly through the yard. In the process, two other houses were also damaged. One of the fire victims told us that because the village does not have its […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Coconut water, it’s the latest craze in the local beverage industry. Referred to as Mother Nature’s Gatorade, coconut water contains a variety of nutrients that provide a number of health benefits. And in Belize, the market for coconut water is growing rapidly. Street side vendors have found that selling coconut water is a profitable venture. […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Vegetable producers from across the country met this morning in Belmopan for the National Vegetable Stakeholders Meeting. The annual session addressed the current status of the national vegetable crop production season 2022-2023. Present at the meeting were farmers, personnel from the Belize Agriculture Health Authority, the Belize Marketing and Development Cooperation, as well as extension […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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The role of the Belize Marketing and Development Corporation is to assist farmers with promoting and selling their produce. Participating in this dialogue allows BMDC to understand what quantities of local produce are on the market, so as to prevent the importation of those vegetables. Edgar Fuentes has been a farmer for the last twenty-five […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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In Belize, there are approximately fifty forensic practitioners. In the forensic lab there are fifteen, five in the medical examiner’s office and in the scenes of crime unit, there are thirty-five crime scene technicians. Today, new laboratory spaces for the National Forensic Science Service were officially inaugurated at its Ladyville headquarters. Over three years in […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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The Department of Local Government is resuming activities to complete a municipal boundaries delineation exercise that began in 2012. According to a government release, seven of the nine municipalities are currently engaged in a process for the re-delineation of their respective municipal jurisdictions. The release says that clearly defining the boundaries of each municipality is […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Across the country, consumers experienced an inflation rate of six point seven percent on the cost of goods and services in December 2022. That is according to the All-items Consumer Price Index which summarizes price levels for all categories of consumer goods and services. Inflation was mostly felt in the category of food and non-alcoholic […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre today launched a campaign for students in Belmopan on climate change and how it impacts health. The campaign, which will involve a variety of competitions, aims to capture their attention on this most important issue and how it will impact future generations if decisive action is not taken immediately […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Microbial disease – it’s not something we hear of every day if you’re a lay person, but it is a very real health issue that can affect us all. So the Pan American Health Organization, PAHO held an anti-microbial competition in two categories last November to get the participants to help educate the community on […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier, we heard how much climate change can impact the health of our people if we keep emitting greenhouse gases that are depleting our ozone layer. Belize is among the one hundred and ninety-three countries that attend the Conference of the Parties, or COP, that focuses on climate change. And we are among the ones […]
Written on January 26, 2023 | Posted in
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This morning, Belizeans woke up to the shocking news of the untimely passing of William Dawson, the chairman of the Leadership Intervention Unit. His contributions to crime fighting, particularly throughout the gang-ridden streets of Belize City, are unmatched. He dedicated the last two years of his life breaking bread with the most vulnerable in society, […]
Written on January 25, 2023 | Posted in
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And, as you heard in the interviews with those impacted by the life of William Dawson, he is irreplaceable. But, someone will have to be chosen to take up the mantle as chair of the Leadership Intervention Unit, to carry on Dawson’s legacy. And, as the community members of Lake Independence told us, that person […]
Written on January 25, 2023 | Posted in
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When we caught up with Minister Musa earlier today, he was also asked for his take on the Marco Vidal surveillance footage. As we have reported, Vidal was caught on camera questioning a shopkeeper near the scene of the New Year’s Eve triple murder in which his nephew, Elmer Nah, has been implicated. And, Musa […]
Written on January 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Several members of the Garbutt family are tonight without a roof over their heads after a fire consumed a pair of structures within the family yard on Gentle Avenue. Most of the family was not at home, except for Errol Garbutt. The fire broke out inside his home before spreading quickly to the adjacent two-storey […]
Written on January 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Ten persons, including three children, are displaced, following a fire in the Vietnam area of Seine Bight Village on Monday morning. The blaze swept through a yard that had four houses. Two of those structures were gutted while the other two received varying degrees of damage. News Five’s Marion Ali has that story in the […]
Written on January 25, 2023 | Posted in
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While the fire victims are going to need all the help they can get to start over, the big question is what caused the fire that set them back. Today, Kenneth Mortis, Station Supervisor with the National Fire Service, told the media that the investigation may never determine the exact cause, but electrical faultiness and […]
Written on January 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Tasha Anderson lived literally just a few feet away from Macaria Arzu’s house that was completely destroyed. Anderson told us that she suffered very minor losses but her house is still habitable. But fire victim, Rosendo Requeña told us that the distance the fire trucks have to travel from Placencia to Seine Bight to extinguish […]
Written on January 25, 2023 | Posted in
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The urgent need for campaign financing reform is an issue of national importance that continues to be treated as a political football. Both major parties have raised the subject and the People’s United Party even went as far as including it in the Plan Belize manifesto ahead of the general elections in 2020. Most recently, […]
Written on January 25, 2023 | Posted in
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According to Marcelo Blake, president of the B.C.C.I., the preliminary version of the proposed legislation requires the input of a legal drafter to formally craft the language of the bill. Marcelo Blake, President, B.C.C.I. “It’s a draft so we will still need to take it to the draftspersons who have the better experience in […]
Written on January 25, 2023 | Posted in
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When we caught up with Minister Musa today we also asked him for an update on the proposed cannabis referendum. As we have said, the cannabis legislation was shelved back in 2022, due to the expenses attached to a referendum. Minister Musa was hopeful that the referendum could be held in the first quarter of […]
Written on January 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Data from the Belize Crime Observatory shows the number of reported cases of gender-based violence increased by twenty-five percent between 2021 and 2022. It remains a key pillar in the National Gender Policy that seeks to end violence against women and girls. Today, the National Women’s Commission launched a communication campaign strategy that it plans […]
Written on January 25, 2023 | Posted in
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The Belize Red Cross has come to be known as the humanitarian organization that is on the ground, supporting the government with relief to those affected during times of natural disasters. But outside of providing items such as tarps and mattresses, blankets and other supplies, it has been transitioning to also providing financial support via […]
Written on January 25, 2023 | Posted in
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