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As controversy swirls around Government’s plans to liquidate the Development Finance Corporation there will come the inevitable finger pointing and calls for investigation. How could one of the nation’s premier financial institutions go from powerful engine of economic growth to bankrupt mendicant, bringing down not only itself but crippling the Social Security Board and Government […]
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The application by the Belize Tourism Industry Association for judicial review of the Carnival contract will proceed, despite the recent signing of a “clarification agreement”. That’s the word from the B.T.I.A.’s executive committee following a meeting this morning with their attorney. News 5 understands that the Association believes that even with the additional amendments portions […]
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Police in San Ignacio have charged twenty-seven year old Santa Elena resident Henry Baptist in connection with a double shooting on Sunday morning. Authorities say nineteen year old Kevin Diaz and twenty four year old Victor Olivera were walking on Orange Street in Santa Elena Town around two thirty Sunday morning when they were shot […]
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The M.O. is identical, only the victim’s employer is different. Tonight, following a report of a second armed hold up in seven days, police are investigating the possibility that a duo of criminals is targeting delivery trucks in the Yabra area of Belize City. According to police press officer G. Michael Reid a salesman for […]
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The Protected Areas Conservation Trust has announced the names of those Belizean environmental organisations whose project proposals have been approved for grant funding. According to a release from PACT, more than two hundred thousand dollars will be divided between the University of Belize, the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management, the Rio Blanco Maya Association, […]
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With substandard streets, drainage, electricity and water service, it’s a part of Belize City that has not always been blessed with luck. And that unfortunate trend continued for one Port Loyola family, who has seen their modest home transformed from a two story to a bungalow. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones Reporting The three-bedroom house […]
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Long before the internet or the concept of life in a global village took root, art was the great communicator, breaking the borders of the spoken word and cultural taboos to spread its message. That strength is at the centre of the latest art exhibition to hit the Belizean entertainment scene, courtesy of the Mexican […]
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