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It’s not often that we report on crimes in the north, but on Saturday night, a man was murdered in Yo Creek Village, in Orange Walk District. Eufemio Garcia was among four persons that got shot while in front of a store in the village. Garcia died on the spot while three others were rushed […]
Written on January 23, 2023 | Posted in
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A man reportedly killed himself inside the San Pedro cellblock in the wee hours of Sunday, just minutes after he was detained for a domestic incident with his common-law-wife that morning. The police say they were alerted of the incident by other inmates in the cellblock. But while police are saying it was suicide, the […]
Written on January 23, 2023 | Posted in
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A road traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway has claimed the life on an elderly man. Eighty-year-old Augusto Acosta was riding his bicycle between mile seventy-six and seventy-seven on the highway when a motorcycle collided into him. He received extensive bodily injuries and died while undergoing treatment. The driver of the motorbike, thirty-two-year-old Misael […]
Written on January 23, 2023 | Posted in
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In another fatal accident, this time on the Southern Highway, a man was flung from the back of a pickup truck. According to police, Luis Constante was travelling in the pan of a Nissan Frontier pickup when it collided into a Nissan Rogue. Constante’s injuries were fatal. ASP Yearwood tells us more. ASP Fitzroy […]
Written on January 23, 2023 | Posted in
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Last Friday, seventy-six-year-old Joy Quale, a Belizean-American retiree fell to her death at the Serenity Shores Resort in San Pedro. It happened when the hoist she was using to move from the fourth to the first floor gave way and went crashing to the ground with the woman inside, leaving her severely injured. Security and […]
Written on January 23, 2023 | Posted in
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This morning at the Biltmore, the government of Prime Minister John Briceño unveiled a medium term development strategy that will carry through to 2026. The approach draws heavily from the People’s United Party’s Plan Belize manifesto which was introduced back in 2020. The Briceño administration, with input and guidance from the ministries of Economic Development […]
Written on January 23, 2023 | Posted in
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On Saturday at the Radisson, a Youth for Change Symposium was successfully organized by the Justice for Laddie Foundation. Family and friends, as well as persons concerned about killings at the hands of law enforcement officers, gathered for the forum. There was space provided for persons to express their grief and to determine the way […]
Written on January 23, 2023 | Posted in
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There is reportedly a move afoot to redefine the municipal borders of Benque Viejo del Carmen and San Jose Succotz Village. The issue dates back to more than three decades ago when the village’s borders were redefined to expand the neighboring town. At the time there were protests from villagers, but the new borderline was […]
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This afternoon police were summoned to an area behind the Customs and Excise Department on Caesar Ridge Road where they recovered what appeared to be the remains of a man. Police did not indicate whether there were any identifying objects, such as clothing found at the scene, but informed that the remains were transported to […]
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On Saturday, police cadets engaged in a cleanup campaign across Belize City. It included the planting of trees in select neighbourhoods such as the Yarborough and Pickstock areas and the Lopez Mateo Park. The objective is to use community service as a means for young people to give back to their communities and make a […]
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Those poorly ventilated police vans, one of which claimed the life of twenty-year-old Derrick Uh in August 2022, are still in operation. In fact, only recently, accused murderer Elmer Nah was transported to the Belmopan Magistrates Court inside one of those vans. But, the Commissioner of Police had committed to replacing those vans following Uh’s […]
Written on January 23, 2023 | Posted in
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Welcome back to a new year of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. We remain committed to bringing you the best stats and highlights in various sporting disciplines from across the country for 2023. This year, we will bedelving into much more stories of triumphs and defeats from some of your favorite athletes, while breaking […]
Written on January 23, 2023 | Posted in
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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams has come forward to dismiss conjecture surrounding the incident on January fourteenth during which former Assistant Commissioner of Police Marco Vidal visited a small business in the Maya Mopan area of Belmopan, requesting surveillance footage from that premises. In the wake of surveillance footage being released of the brief encounter, […]
Written on January 20, 2023 | Posted in
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With respect of the audio recording that was presented by Marco Vidal and Senior Counsel Godfrey Smith to Belmopan police on Thursday, ComPol Williams told the media that he has had an opportunity to listen to the copy. Notwithstanding the fact that the recording doesn’t show former ACP Vidal saying or doing anything illegal, the […]
Written on January 20, 2023 | Posted in
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With the passing of Vivian Ramnarace, a third victim in the fatal December thirty-first attack, many are questioning the strength of the witness statement that was given to investigators prior to her death last Sunday. According to ComPol Williams, the police department remains committed to working the case with a view to successfully prosecute the […]
Written on January 20, 2023 | Posted in
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A police officer who was on interdiction and a former policeman have been charged jointly for the murder of forty-three-year-old Elvis Polanco. The San Pedro businessman was robbed, before being shot and killed allegedly by the two men who are now in custody. Today, Edward Moraga and Winfield Mortis were arrested and charged for the […]
Written on January 20, 2023 | Posted in
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Saint Catherine Academy has been serving in Belize’s education sector for the past one hundred and forty years. The all-girl catholic institution was established in Belize on January twentieth, 1883, when a group of missionaries from the Sisters of Mercy Convent travelled from New Orleans to provide quality education in Belize. S.C.A. has remained committed […]
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The San Jose Government School in Orange Walk District will be benefiting from a new classroom building for the upcoming school year, in September. As construction being carried out by the U.S. Southern Command team continues, today, Ministry of Education officials and U.S. Ambassador to Belize Michelle Kwan made a site visit to see the […]
Written on January 20, 2023 | Posted in
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Consultations have been ongoing on the new national competency-based curriculum as it is being piloted during this transition year. Just last week, a delegation of education stakeholders, led by Minister of State Doctor Louis Zabaneh, visited with teachers and principals in the Corozal District. It was an opportunity for them to express concerns and ideas […]
Written on January 20, 2023 | Posted in
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This morning at the ITVET in Belize City, a cohort of fifty young women from across the country began a training organized by Peacework Belize, a non-profit organization led by Doctor Carol Babb. Empowered Resilient Women is a program that will assist these women with entrepreneurship, as well as financial literacy and emotional intelligence. The […]
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Since the start of the year, we have been reporting on the Prime Minister’s decision to move Minister of State Ramon “Monchi” Cervantes from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration over to the Ministry of Sustainable Development. Following the move there were questions about why Prime Minister John Briceño made that decision. […]
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On Thursday, a ceremony was held in Belmopan to transfer the pro tempore presidency of the Coordinacion Educativa y Cultural Centroamericana for the Central American Integration System (SICA) to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology. It’s a unique position that the country assumes as it continues to serve as a bridge between Central […]
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The Belize Fisheries Department received satellite equipment and tracking monitoring systems from the Republic of China, Taiwan on Thursday. The donation comes by way of the Integration of the Value Chain in Fisheries and Aquaculture project, an initiative established in March of 2019 to strengthen regional governance of marine resources across the region. The satellite […]
Written on January 20, 2023 | Posted in
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Oftentimes, development brings problems, especially when there’s miscommunication involved and it leads to actions that need to be corrected. Such is the case in Alta Vista Village, Stann Creek. It happened when workmen for an investor in the village dug out an area on a hill so close to a dam that when it rains, […]
Written on January 20, 2023 | Posted in
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The Belize City Council’s ‘Mek Wi Plant’ Urban Garden on Police Street Extension has been showing great success. Since the inception of the project in early 2022, the garden has yielded more than a hundred pounds of green and yellow bell peppers, over three harvests. The program has created employment for several residents on Police […]
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