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Tensions flared up at the western border over the weekend when authorities sought to clear the area to allow for the discharge of construction material. Government has decided to upgrade the perimeter fence to improve the flow of traffic and other activity. Now, Guatemalan taxi drivers are known to operate freely in the adjacency zone, […]
Amid the chaos that ensued at the border on Sunday, the Guatemalan media also reported that students from neighboring Melchor who commute to Benque Viejo daily to attend school, would be refused entry at the border. According to Ambassador Guerra, that was furthest from the truth. He says the rumor was immediately cleared up during […]
An American businessman was murdered in cold blood inside his restaurant in San Pedro Town on Sunday night. Lamont Lipka of Texas, U.S.A was inside his bar and grill on the south end of the island when a man walked inside and fired several shots killing him behind the cash register. Police say they are […]
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More than two weeks after Demetrio Pott and his brother were badly beaten following a traffic accident in Trial Farm, Orange Walk on April twenty-seventh. The forty-seven-year-old succumbed to his injuries this Saturday at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he and his brother were attacked immediately after they had crashed into another vehicle. Late […]
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Richard Hyde is tonight in big trouble with the law after he was charged on Saturday and arraigned today for the murder of Luis Monge, who was killed on Friday morning in Belmopan during a stabbing outside of La Cabana Night Club. Monge and a friend had pursued Hyde who reportedly stole a chain from […]
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A seventeen-year-old minor from Mayflower Street in Belize City was remanded today following a shooting incident on Saturday morning, in which a minor was injured. According to police, just before ten a.m., officers responded to shots fired at the corner of Vernon Street and Central American Boulevard. Upon arrival there, police were informed that a […]
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A first of its kind election petition was heard in the courtroom of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin today between the slates of the two major political parties, who contested the March election in San Pedro Town. It pits United Democratic Party incumbent Daniel Guerrero against his People’s United Party rival Andre Perez, as well as […]
Representing the United Democratic Party seven, Estevan Perrera believes the case is going better for their side than for the P.U.P.’s and that the other side has not done enough to convince the court in his view. He told reporters this evening that the minor miscalculations in the official tally would not be enough to […]
At this morning’s break, U.D.P. Party Chairman Alberto August offered his guarded view of the proceedings. He felt the other side did not look good, but it was still too early to tell the outcome of the case. But he expressed some confidence in a positive outcome. Alberto August, Chair, United Democratic Party “Just […]
The occasion of the court case brought a handful of protestors from the island in blue shirts to the Battlefield Park. Like their political fellows they believe they were given a raw deal in the counting and reconciliation process and are calling out the Election and Boundaries Commission and by extension the government. We hear […]
Former registry employees Alvan Alvarez and Benedict Pascascio are tonight without jobs having been charged for forgery at the Registry of the Supreme Court. The two clerks are accused of forging two certificates last week and the Registrar General called in the police, who took the men into custody. They were formally arrested and charged […]
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Just before ten p.m. on Saturday, a robbery at a restaurant in Belmopan led to a vehicle chase involving police and the robbers. That pursuit quickly escalated to a shootout, but unfortunately the robbers still got away with an undisclosed amount of cash and jewelry. According to police, three men, one wearing a masked entered […]
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Jude Joseph Moody of Sand Hill Village was arraigned for attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and dangerous harm before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford following a chopping incident that occurred on Friday night sometime around eleven o’clock in the village. An argument ensued between a group of persons which ended with twenty-six-year-old Ivan […]
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Corozal fisherman Iginio Canto Bacab is tonight at home with his family in Caledonia, after being held in detention in Livingston, Guatemala for illegally harvesting lobster in its waters. Canto was busted along with Julio Rodriguez Blanco by military personnel in Guatemala on April twentieth. According to Ambassador Said ‘Badi’ Guerra, his mission to ensure […]
Fires have been erupting everywhere; this weekend there were three fires in the Belize District. In Ladyville on Friday afternoon, a fire swept through a wooden house where a family of nine lived. Four children were home when the blaze erupted inside one of the rooms. The siblings were removed from the burning house, but […]
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Less than twenty-four hours later, there was yet another fire in Ladyville, also on Manta Ray Boulevard for which a family of two has been displaced. A single mother and her son occupied the house, but were not at home at the time of the blaze. Orin Smith of the Fire Department confirms that the […]
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The third fire occurred in the Eight Miles Community on the George Price Highway. What residents say was an abandoned wooden house, made from pimenta sticks, went up in flames on Sunday afternoon. The owner has not come forward and the Fire Department says that the structure could not have been saved. Orin Smith, […]
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A former police officer is in trouble with the law again after apparently setting afire goods belonging to a Belize City woman last week. Six years ago the then-police constable, Brandon Hertular, was accused of burglarizing a residence but was convicted on charges of theft of cash and a loaded firearm. Today, he was read […]
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Men and women of God are not usually known for violence, but a pastor of the Burrell Boom area is tonight charged with wounding and harm against two minors. The details of what happened are being kept under wraps by authorities at this time, even the complainant’s ages. All that came out in court is […]
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Teachers’ salaries for March twenty-second will not be docked. That’s the word coming out of the Belize Association for General Managers of pre and primary schools. In a release issued today, the association said that, “as employers of teachers, it is obliged to dock teachers’ salaries for any days that teachers willfully absent themselves from […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
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