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The new government of Prime Minister Said Musa has moved swiftly to name a Cabinet. After meeting in Belmopan this morning with his twenty-five fellow P.U.P. representatives, the Prime Minister announced the names of fifteen men and one woman who will chart the course of the new administration. News Five’s Stewart Krohn has the details. […]
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While the P.U.P. representatives were forming a Cabinet in Belmopan, what was left of the Opposition gathered at the Biltmore Plaza in Belize City to make some news of their own. After twenty-five years as a founding member, chairman and finally leader of the United Democratic Party, former Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel called it quits. […]
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In crime news police have still not cracked last week’s brutal murder of a British volunteer in the Toledo District. The body of twenty-seven year old Anna Lightfoot, a project leader for Raleigh International, was discovered Thursday near San Pablo Village with stab wounds to her chest, neck, arm, back and thighs. The location of […]
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It’s been a while since we’ve had the displeasure of reporting the discovery of dead manatees on Belize’s coastline; but it doesn’t mean that the poachers have given up their habit. News has been received of the death of not one, but at least three of the aquatic mammals in southern Belize, and at least […]
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A household in Belize City can be considered lucky even though tonight they are sleeping much closer to the ground than they’d prefer. The Smith family of number seventeen Kut Avenue in Belize City is literally trying to pick up the pieces after their formerly two-storey house was transformed into a broken bungalow. The crash, […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is the post-election serving of Sports Monday. The cycling community continues to prepare itself for the Santino’s Cycling Classic set for 6th September with weekly outings on the Princess Margaret Drive in Belize City. Yesterday’s card was a monster. We pick up the action in the ladies 8 […]
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