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The New Year has been greeted with protests in Mexico against a government price deregulation that sent the price of fuel there up by as much as twenty percent over the weekend. The Mexican government said the deregulation had long been planned, but unfortunately coincided with rising world oil prices. While prices are still relatively […]
Tonight there is a report of a despicable act upon an elderly man in Hattieville. It happened at a time when seventy-eight year old Clinton Belisle was grieving the death of his brother hours earlier on Thursday. He was inside his home at mile seventeen on the George Price Highway when around midnight, four masked […]
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After spending two nights on remand at the Belize Central Prison, Japanese national, Asako Solis, who has been living in Belize for over ten years is home tonight. The thirty-eight-year old mother of two children is facing two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm upon her Belizean husband, Elvis Solis. Her husband alleges that […]
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The Prime Minister is forced to make good on his promise and a thirteenth senator is nigh. This Tuesday, twenty-eight non-governmental organizations will elect the long anticipated thirteenth senator who is expected to bring meaningful debate and assist in changing the status quo in the Senate, where government appoints six, opposition three and the civil […]
Along with a shortlist of nominees who had been chosen to vie for the senatorial post came information that Froyla Tzalam, executive director of SATIIM, had declined her appointment. Tzalam, who also sits on the Thirteenth Senator Steering Committee as media relations officer, turned down the candidacy because her commitment to the organization is pressing. […]
Following the appointment of the thirteenth senator by the N.G.O.s, the Office of the Integrity Commission will swear in its new members at its first meeting next Thursday, January twelfth, in Belmopan. The Prime Minister recommended the names of attorney Marilyn Williams for Chairman; Armead Gabourel; Lisbeth Delgado; Wilmot Simmons, and Nestor Vasquez; while the […]
Students were away from the classrooms this week and so were teachers and other members of the Belize National Teachers Union. They are expected back in school next Monday as scheduled, long before a dispute between the B.N.T.U. and the Ministry of Education would come to boiling point. This latest salvo in an ongoing dispute […]
Police have re-captured thirty-nine-year old Eugene Bailey, who fled the long arms of law at the Queen Street police station at around noon today. Bailey had been taken to the station after he was sentenced to two-five year prison terms for firearm and ammunition offenses earlier in the morning. It is reported that he disappeared […]
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Earlier this week we shared with you a wrap-up of the year in terms of crime statistics from the western-most part of Belize, Benque Viejo del Carmen Town. While that area is mostly quiet, about fifty miles east, the capital, Belmopan, sits at the center of one of the largest police jurisdictions countrywide, covering at […]
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The Central Health Region has released the second part of its bi-annual health bulletin for the Belize District for 2016. The data, which is pulled from the Belize Health Information System, shows that communicable diseases have, for the most part, remained the same when compared with data from 2015. There are, however, some conditions that […]
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The Central Health Region also released the latest data on the infant mortality rate for the Belize District in 2016 and there is some good news to report. In 2015, the infant mortality rate was at twenty four per thousand live births, but by 2016 that number had almost halved and now stands at fourteen […]
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Another key set of numbers released for the Belize District are the numbers for the vector borne diseases. The Environmental Health Unit at Central Health Region continues to monitor the cases of these diseases – malaria, dengue, and Zika. Spraying and fogging have been ongoing in areas mostly affected by Dengue and Zika. Classic dengue […]
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A new national team has been selected to represent Belize in the 2017 UNCAF Copa Centro Americana Games scheduled to begin on January thirteenth through to January twenty-second. The team is made up some familiar faces, including striker Deon McCaulay, midfielders Ian Gaynair and goalkeepers Woodrow West and Shane Orio. The Copa Centro Americana tournament […]
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Belizean recording artist Dan Marcus is in Belize working on a new project. Marcus will be releasing a short film with two music videos as well as an EP that will be available online. These will all be available for purchase later this month across digital music platforms. Today, we spoke with Marcus who tells […]
In tonight’s newscast, we feature Kendis Gibson; he is a Belizean American who currently works at the ABC News network. Gibson relocated to the U.S. at the age of ten and has been described as a “talented journalist with wide-ranging experience.” He joined the ABC team back in 2014 as a correspondent. In this feature […]
