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Belize gave a fond farewell this afternoon to first Belizean-born Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Belize, the Most Reverend Osmond Peter Martin. The eighty-six-year-old Bishop Emeritus was memorialized in Catholic masses in his hometown Dangriga on Sunday morning and in Belize City this morning, but this afternoon’s funeral service was an official remembrance […]
A man in the north was stabbed and killed by his cousin over the weekend. Police are still looking for the killer and the family of the deceased believes that he may have crossed the border either in the north or west. The fifty-three-year-old father of eleven children tried to intervene in a domestic dispute, […]
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In the city…a minor is tonight recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital from gunshot wounds to the feet following a shooting on Sunday night in Belize City. Around eleven p.m. on Sunday, shots rang out on Antelope Street. Residents say up to six blasts were heard and at least five bullets penetrated the wooden […]
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The first stage of an application by the Belize Bank Limited, supported by Caribbean Investment Holdings Limited, to discharge an injunction granted by Justice Michelle Arana restraining the company from enforcing a more than fifty-two million Belize dollars arbitral award and U.S. District Court judgment against the Government came up in the Supreme Court today. […]
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As previously reported, Caribbean Investment Holdings Limited has filed a Constitutional claim challenging the validity of the Central Bank (International Immunities) Act and the Crown Proceedings (Amendment) Act. Those matters are coming up in March. As for the arbitration award for Belize Social Development Limited, which are the former shareholders of Belize Telemedia Limited seeking […]
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Tragedy struck on Sunday night in Belize City when a six-year-old girl was knocked down and killed sometime before seven o’clock. Ashanti Pollard and her mother Dawn Swasey were walking on Fabers Road Extension when a car travelling at high speed hit Pollard. The child received massive head and body injuries and died within less […]
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Senior Counsel Denys Barrow is a few months away from becoming Belize’s highest ranked appointed judge regionally. He will join the bench of the Caribbean Court of Justice in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in June, leaving behind a lucrative career as top pick for the Government of Belize to litigate cases in the local and […]
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Veteran labour officer, human resources manager and labour and industrial relations expert Dale Trujeque now heads the Christian Workers’ Union. Elections took place at the annual general meeting over the weekend at the UWI Open Campus Auditorium in Belize City. Trujeque defeated Wilmore Staine in a balloting and succeeds attorney Audrey Matura after a three-year […]
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This afternoon at two o’clock, three judges of the Court of Appeal handed down a written judgment in favour of convicted prisoner, Artie Myers. The Gales Point Manatee resident was charged in November 2012 with the carnal knowledge of a young child and convicted in October 2015. Today, Justices Sir Manuel Sosa along with Christopher […]
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Belmopan police are reporting the apparent escape of a prisoner from the Central Prison at Hattieville sometime over the weekend. The escapee has been identified as one Jonathan Trigeros Galan. The twenty-seven-year old Salvadoran national was incarcerated for a drug trafficking conviction. Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett, in a communication with the media, indicated that he […]
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A fire in Dangriga has completely destroyed a house and partially destroyed another. Sometime around one-thirty this afternoon, a two-storey wooden house and its contents were gutted by the blaze, leaving one family without a roof over its head. According to reports from that southern municipality, the fire appeared to have started in the lower […]
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The seventh edition of the anticipated Street Art Festival took place over the weekend in the downtown area of Belize City. The arts were in full display, from paintings to music and fashion. But one activity that had a strong following was the impressive sidewalk chalk competition. News Five’s Duane Moody was there and has […]
The C.W.U.’s membership is at about nine hundred and stretches across the country from north to south and east to west: Belize City Council and Central Bank to Saint Martin’s Credit Union to Citrus Products of Belize Limited. But it is safe to say that the humble stevedores working at the Port of Belize Limited […]
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The National Beach Soccer Team of Belize returned to the country today following its participation in the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship 2017 held in the Bahamas. Team Belize won four out of the six games they played and placed thirteenth out of the sixteen teams that participated in the tournament. Their biggest win was in […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Feature on weekend sporting highlights….]
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