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Over the weekend, a track and field coach from Virginia spent time in Belize scouting young talents. Former world champion sprinter turned coach, Andre Cason, spent Saturday and Sunday at the Belize Athletic Association’s National Track and Field Championships where he was able to witness some of Belize’s most promising athletes in action. The good […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Members of the House of Shotokan won big over the weekend at the Wu Shu Kung Fu Martial Arts Championship. The competition was held on Saturday in El Paso, Texas and students from the karate academy won awards in form, fighting and martial arts weapons categories. Among the winners is Ampree Swasey, who won first […]
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Belize’s National Football A team will receive much-needed support through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding today, ahead of preparations to play upcoming games. The Belize Tourism Board and the Football Federation of Belize agreed that, under this arrangement, the B.T.B. as the main corporate sponsor of the Belize National Team Program, will provide […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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A team of law enforcement officers, as well as personnel from the National Forensics Science Services, is on the ground in southern Belize tonight. After a week of searching, including aerial surveys of a far-flung location in Toledo District, the party, led by members of the Belize Police Department, discovered the burnt vestiges of an […]
Written on April 17, 2023 | Posted in
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A pair of Belize City men, believed to be among three persons who robbed and fatally shot a vegetable vendor last Wednesday, appeared before the new Chief Magistrate earlier today. Twenty-three-year-old Milton Nunez, a resident of mile two and a half on the George Price Highway and twenty-one-year-old Emerson Elijio, a car washer of a […]
Written on April 17, 2023 | Posted in
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Two Belize City men who are part of the Leadership Intervention Unit were shot while socializing over the weekend on Amara Street. Ronlee Petillo and Alyon Domingo were at a yard on Amara Avenue on Saturday evening when shots rang out and the two sustained gunshot wounds. According to the Belize Police Department’s Regional Commander […]
Written on April 17, 2023 | Posted in
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A family is mourning the loss of their loved one who died in a traffic accident early this morning on the Philip Goldson Highway. It happened between miles thirteen and fourteen in the wee hours today, and claimed the life of thirty-two-year-old Leonel Cabanas, a resident of Sand Hill Village. The father of four had […]
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On Saturday night, a fire broke inside a concrete structure in the Saint Martin de Porres area of Belize City. It was reportedly home to Glenford Webster, a person, residents, say who has a mental condition and lived in the house alone. The structure had no electricity and the fire is believed to have been […]
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The National Fire Service today provided official details on a fire that destroyed four houses and left fifteen persons displaced. The mid-afternoon inferno occurred last Friday and investigation reveals that the fire started in the one of the structures at the rear of the property. It was a massive loss because nothing could have been […]
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We’ve been reporting on an increasing number of bush fires popping up across Belize District. It’s a perennial issue that presents itself during the dry season and this year, reports are that about twelve structures have been destroyed by these fires. But Station Supervisor of the National Fire Service Kenneth Mortis told the media today […]
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And, while a below average hurricane season may come as some good news; Belizeans are being advised to prepare for the passage of Sahara dust over our country. According to Gordon, plumes of Sahara dust are currently moving across the Atlantic Ocean. Those clouds are heading this way. Ronald Gordon, Chief Meteorologist “There are […]
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On Sunday morning, the Belize Coast Guard successfully conducted a search and rescue operation about three nautical miles from Sarteneja Village in the Corozal District. Several employees from Crimson Inn in Chunox Village were onboard a boat heading to San Pedro when the vessel began taking in water. The captain of the boat managed to […]
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Twenty-year-old Kamaron Williams is on remand at the Belize Central Prison on charges of kept unlicensed firearm and kept unlicensed ammunition. On April sixth, the Police Street resident was found in possession of a nine millimeter pistol loaded with nine rounds of Aguila brand ammunition. He appeared unrepresented before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford where he […]
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A homeless man was acquitted of two counts of burglary when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman today. Forty-nine-year-old Denroy Wagner was accused of burglarizing It Store’s warehouse twice in June 2022. Wagner who has been on remand since June twenty-first of last year, was taken to court this morning where the operations manager […]
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The Women in Renewable Energy (W.I.R.E.) Network today launched a chapter in Belize. WIRE was founded six years ago through the Clinton Foundation in the U.S. The WIRE network is a community that focuses on the increase in gender equality across the energy sector. In 2022, the WIRE Network joined the Rocky Mountain Institute (R.M.I.), […]
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On Friday, members of the Briceño administration, including the prime minister and other government officials, as well as the diplomatic corps, joined the United Nations in launching a U.N. common premises in Belize. The inauguration took place in Belmopan where the second floor of the David McKoy Building has been dedicated to a number of […]
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In December 2018, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD launched the Resilient Rural Belize program, providing financing of around sixteen million dollars to contribute to the government’s goal of increasing resilience in rural areas that need the assistance. The U.N-designated body works to address poverty in rural areas of developing countries, such as Belize and […]
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Goodnight and welcome to another edition of Sports Monday where we bring you the best stats and highlights from sporting events across the country, I am Paul Lopez. Over the weekend, the Belize Athletics Association breathed life into the often dormant Marion Jones Sporting Complex, with its National Track and Field Championship. Athletes from across […]
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A Belize Defense Force soldier lost his life in a hit and run on the Phillip Goldson Highway in Ladyville. Reports are that just before ten p.m. on Thursday, thirty-eight-year-old Hector Cho was lying on the highway motionless when a concerned motorist stopped and exited his vehicle to inform another motorist of a body on […]
Written on April 14, 2023 | Posted in
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The controversy surrounding a recent cabinet decision to put in place specific measures for visitors arriving from Haiti and Jamaica continues. The move by the Briceño administration to invoke a particular article within the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas has been met with strong criticism from the opposition which cites a 2013 decision by the Caribbean […]
Written on April 14, 2023 | Posted in
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Minister of Human Development, Dolores Balderamos-Garcia also chimed in on the implementation of a visa requirement for Haitian nationals. The Briceño administration has reported that there is a trend which indicates that persons are transiting through Belize to the United States and that government is invoking a clause within the Treaty of Chaguaramas to impose […]
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The steep increase in the cost of the new e-passport is also point of contention for the opposition which has, in a release issued on April thirteenth, disapproved of the sudden price hike. According to Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow, the Briceño administration is tone deaf and is out of touch with the economic realities of […]
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In a cabinet brief issued earlier this week, it was announced that the task force headed by the Minister of Agriculture to address the rampant issue of price gouging, will be meeting with importers within the Indian community. This comes after a recent sit down with business owners within the Chinese community who engage in […]
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Earlier today, Opposition Leader Barrow also took aim at Prime Minister John Briceño. According to Shyne, little has been done by the People’s United Party government to address the real problem behind price gouging. Barrow maintains that the exorbitant cost of fuel is what is what continues to encourage price gouging. This, he said, comes […]
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Ruth Shoman is the new president for the Belize National Teachers Union. The president-elect was chosen during the fifty-third national convention under the theme, “B.N.T.U. – One Union, One Mission, One Voice.” The former national secretary campaigned against two other candidates. Six hundred and sixty-two votes were cast by the teachers to determine the next […]
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