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Belize may be in the final stretch of a crucial election campaign, the National Assembly is poised to pass a radical new tax bill and at least one — and perhaps two — gangs of heavily armed killers are roaming the countryside. But all those events, normally the bread and butter of broadcast news, have […]
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There is very little in the way of new information to report tonight on Monday’s shooting in Spanish Lookout. Police continue to comb the hills out west for a group of gunmen who terrorized three Mennonite girls and left one wounded. According to the officer in charge of the San Ignacio police station, three people […]
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In political news, the House of Representatives meets tomorrow in Belmopan, and while the government will no doubt push through its new tax proposals, the opposition People’s United Party will not be a part of the debate. Instead the P.U.P. will hold a press conference Friday morning in Belize City at which leader Said Musa […]
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Politicians may be slugging it out in the war of words, but others are fighting for real. Not all the action will be on the basketball court, fists and feet will be flying at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall, as Belizean karate students, some as young as five years old, will be battling against the […]
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While things appear to be going well for the Belize Team on the court, the overall organization of the CARICOM Basketball Championships reminds us that… well… this is the Caribbean. Case in point: the Jamaican National Teams. Both the men’s and women’s squads are defending champions but thus far they’ve been defending no-shows. Scheduled to […]
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