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If you live on the south side of Belize City be careful who you let in your house tonight and if you’re driving don’t pick up any hitchhikers. The reason? Some dangerous men are on the loose. Sometime around two-thirty this afternoon seven inmates being transported from Belize City to the prison in Hattieville made […]
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There is no shortage of missing persons in Belize, but most eventually find their way home to a concerned family. A tiny minority of the missing, however, are never found–and as we know too well–a tragic few are added to our growing list of murder victims. Fortunately, the missing person described in our next story […]
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In the end, the only damage resulting from a downtown traffic accident this afternoon was to the vehicles. But it could have been much worse. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-six year old taxi driver Charles Perez appeared to be shaken shortly after he crashed into another cab driven by thirty-seven year old Collet Maskall. Perez says […]
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At the end of last week, Tourism Minister Godfrey Smith led a twelve member delegation to Miami for a meeting with the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association. That body, a trade organisation representing fourteen cruise lines operating between the U.S. and Caribbean, was anxious to see where Belize, one of the region’s fastest growing cruise destinations, […]
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Anyone who lives in this part of the world has noticed changes in the frequency and intensity of hurricanes and perhaps even changes in temperature and rainfall. But more often than not, the people of Belize and the wider Caribbean rely on information about the climate issues affecting our lives from outside sources. If our […]
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