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According to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, “the ever-expanding and constantly upgrading national road network is literally paving the way for accelerated growth.” Many more major road works are expected to materialize through international funding. While that is good news, those who depend on the public transport system, have to do so grudgingly because it is […]
Written on February 22, 2019 | Posted in
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There was a double murder on Wednesday night in the city in which the life of a twelve-year-old student was abruptly cut short on Pregnant Alley in the Mesopotamia Division. David Morrison, the Queen Street Baptist student was simply at the wrong place along with his mother and about to head home to Ladyville when […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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The gun violence was not contained to Pregnant Alley. Two more city residents were injured in a shooting in the Lake Independence area. Emerson Garnett and Houston Apolonio were on Police Street when they came under fire. Apolonio was grazed on the shoulder, but Garnett was hit multiple times and is in critical condition at […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Police are tonight investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Orange Walk Town earlier today. It is alleged that an individual identified as forty-six-year-old Ariel Audinette was severely beaten by a team of men dressed in camouflage uniforms. It is not clear at this time whether the group is in fact part […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Back to the city where even as police were processing the crime scene at Pregnant Alley, a fire broke just off Hyde’s Lane in the city. It started at a wooden house and quickly spread to another building before the Fire Department could contain the blaze. While Yolanda Ramos and Michael Rosado were not at […]
Caribbean Shores area representative Kareem Musa, and fellow attorney and member of the National Sports Council Orson J. Elrington, are front and center of an odd dispute over the basketball court at the Buttonwood Bay Park. Musa claims that the Belize City Council has neglected the park for years and he put in several thousand […]
More details of an arrest made by Guatemalan soldiers in Belizean territory are emerging, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that they were not approached for assistance. The soldiers, as shown in amateur video, were taking away the alleged suspect, a Guatemalan, in the robbery of a Guatemalan moneychanger in Belize over the […]
The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Authority will be looking for a new C.E.O. due to the resignation of Doctor Adrian Coye. According to a release, Coye handed in his resignation with three months notice on Wednesday ending his C.E.O. tenure on May twenty-first. Coye became the C.E.O. of the K.H.M.H. in October 2014. Coye is […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Turning to the courts…Caye Caulker resident Jermaine Grant is accused of attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and dangerous harm against Jamal Bennett following a stabbing incident on the island on Monday. After receiving medical treatment for an unrelated stomach ailment, he appeared in court to be read his charges, for which no […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Attorney Andrew Bennett, accused by U.S. authorities of money laundering in Puerto Rico, was due back in court for the continuation of his extradition hearing. A D.E.A. agent alleges that he had face to face and telephone conversations with Bennett which forms the basis for the extradition request based on prior information that high level […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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There is a significant development tonight after months of silence concerning the infamous Haulover Bridge land compensation case which exploded in 2016, costing former Minister of Natural Resources Gaspar Vega his job. Sharon Pitts’ case with the government over improper compensation for a land purchase is headed to mediation. Solicitor General Nigel Hawke says Government […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Also before the Caribbean Court of Justice is Titan International Securities, which is suing the Government in respect of a raid of their Matalon Business Center offices on Coney Drive in 2014. Business owners, Bahamian nationals Kelvin Leach and Rohn Knowles, won judgment in the Supreme Court for nearly nine million dollars but at the […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Coming off from a massive national convention and Wednesday’s successful nomination of mayor and councilor candidates, the People United Party launched the Belize City manifesto today. The event took place in the south side where the P.U.P. is devoting time and energy. The team is attempting to break the U.D.P. twelve-year run at City Hall. […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Fresh from being nominated, Belize City’s four mayoral candidates attended a special forum organized by the University of Belize on Wednesday evening at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. Even with months of campaigning behind them, there are still two weeks to go, and residents are speaking up about how the Council constituted on […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Education and UNICEF collaborated for the Out of School Children Initiative. The aim is to improve the analysis of factors affecting the exclusion of children from education, leading to effective policies and programmatic changes. The study looked at children of different age groups who are not in school and students who are […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Solicitor General Nigel Hawke was a busy man at the court’s environs today, with cases before the Caribbean Court of Justice and Magistrate’s Court. The latter is the aborted return of Andrew Bennett to face extradition proceedings which was adjourned and which we will tell you more about shortly. But upstairs in the C.C.J., there […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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But is three years too long to still not have implemented the Consent Order, especially for Maya communities that have waited nearly a generation? Hawke told us the Court understands that it is going to take some time because of all the intricacies involved. But he added that the Government is moving will all deliberate […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has apologized to the Maya communities of the south for an alleged breach of privacy committed by self-avowed agents of the Government. The Maya Leaders Alliance and Toledo Alcaldes Association complained that house-to-house visitors in recent weeks were taking personal information along with views of the Guatemalan dispute and potential […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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At its executive meeting on Wednesday night, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl-Lynn Vidal moved up as new the president of the association where she was serving as VP. From our records, it is first time that we see a D.P.P. take up the mantle as Bar President. It is bound to be an interesting […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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This afternoon there was a closing ceremony for a three-day Treaty Body Capacity Building Program for state officials which began on Tuesday. Later this year, Belize is internationally obliged to submit reports on International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the International Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of […]
Participants received their certificates from C.E.O. in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pat Andrews, who stood in for Minister Wilfred Elrington. He told News Five that the government is taking seriously the process of making national reports and also keeping local stakeholders up to date. Pat Andrews, C.E.O., Ministry of Foreign Affairs “Execution, execution. […]
Not because Valentine’s Day is over means that all the talk about your heart should stop. In fact, it is always a good time to talk about the health of the heart. In Belize, heart disease continues to be one of our leading causes of death. There are a number of factors that may put […]
Written on February 22, 2018 | Posted in
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