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The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System is finally off the List of World Heritage in Danger. The precious ecosystem was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1996, but in 2009, it was placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger due to the destruction of mangroves and marine ecosystems, offshore oil exploration and […]
Taking in the announcement, Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber reminded the international community that Belize’s ecosystems are under attack due to continued incursions, including illegal fishing and the pillaging of the forests by Guatemalans. As soon as the DPM concluded his statement, the Guatemalan head of delegation raised his flag to counter the statement by […]
Artists converged in Belmopan today for a protest against the state of Israel. It was prompted by the decision of the government to allow for the Israeli police to offer training to the local police department. First a letter was delivered to the office of the Prime Minister explaining why the training ought not to […]
Just before the protest got underway, the National Evangelical Association of Belize offered its support. NEAB went on the offensive to say that Palestinians, funded and backed by terrorists, recently attempted a massive attack on Israel but met firm resistance. According to a NEAB release, Israel warns civilians before making military strikes and its security […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice today heard arguments concerning a judge in the Belize judiciary. In 2012, Dean Boyce and the British Caribbean Bank Limited, as well as Lord Michael Ashcroft, challenged the lawfulness of a decision made by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission. That autonomous, body which recommends the hiring of judges and […]
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Given the evidence that is presently before the court, as well as the Judicial and Legal Services Commission, Courtenay says that an investigation should be undertaken to determine whether Justice Awich can remain on the Court of Appeal’s bench. Eamon Courtenay, Attorney for Belize Bank Ltd. “The point we make in relation to the […]
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Attorney Leona Duncan, who appeared on behalf of the Solicitor General’s Office, submitted that the decision by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission not to forward the complaint against Justice Awich was the right decision. The basis for her argument is that there are separate provisions under the constitution through which a Justice of the […]
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The Caribbean Court of Justice also heard from Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl Lyn Vidal. The D.P.P. is seeking the CCJ to re-instate an oral ruling delivered on twenty-second March 2017 in the case of Gilbert Henry. Henry was found guilty of dangerous harm and sent to jail for five years in 2012. When the […]
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Belmopan Police have arrested and charged a man and a woman in the brutal chopping death of fifty-two-year-old Santos Guerra Dominguez. Guatemalan nationals’ forty-year-old Arnulfo Nunez Gonzalez and thirty-nine-year-old Hilcia Cano Arevalo, both of Franks Eddy Village, were jointly charged with the murder of Guerra Dominguez. Sometime around four on Sunday morning, the Salvadoran national […]
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While residents of Corozal Town were in deep slumber, a fire erupted in the Rainbow Town area. Sometime before three this morning, the fire engulfed an abandoned building located across from the Rainbow Park. Reports are that the building once housed the Kingdom Hall of the Jehova Witnesses, but more recently was occupied by a […]
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Just before the close of business on Monday night, a robbery occurred in the heart of Corozal Town on Fifth Avenue. Shan He, the proprietor of Mo’s Supermarket, was targeted by a pair of armed robbers. According to the Chinese businessman, the two men entered his store with their faces covered; one was armed with […]
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Also up north, a nine-year-old student from Halls Layout drowned after a swim at the beach in Corozal Bay. Around midday on Monday, thirty-year-old Hector Kelly took his son, Mathew Andrew Gonzales to the beach for a swim and an hour later, saw Mathew floating unconsciously in the water. He was rushed to the Corozal […]
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Police made a bust today in Belmopan in which two men were arrested. During a joint operation before three o’clock this afternoon, a vehicle was searched between miles forty-eight and forty-nine on the George Price Highway. Forty-year-old taxi driver of Belama Phase One in Belize City, Deon Flowers was driving the vehicle and travelling with […]
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On Monday, we reported that one of our viewers from Hopkins in southern Belize reached out to our newsroom saying that she recognized Jane Doe, a Caucasian woman, whose body washed up on shore in the coastal village. She sent pictures of the person, who has since been identified as Leanne Gagliardi. According to police, […]
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The GREAT programme of the Police Department has been going on for some time involving youths from primary schools who are encouraged to participate to keep them away from the hands of the gangs. Today, however, the first group of youths already at the Wagner’s Youth Facility, for a range of criminal offenses including murder, […]
The price for diesel decreased by twenty-two cents per gallon at the pump in Belize City and is selling at ten dollars and seventy-five cents. A release from the government says that the price decrease follows a fall in the price of regular gasoline which took effect on June eighteenth, 2018. It is expected that […]
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Michael Holsten, known on social media across the world as the Real Tarzan, is in Belize for a five-day tour of the country. The twenty-four-year-old is an exotic animal specialist, zoologist, biologist and animal science behavior. In his first visit to Belize, organized by Dah Belize World Class, Holsten will be visiting the Baboon Sanctuary […]
BELTRAIDE, through its Small Business Development Center Unit, with funding support from a regional organization that assists micro, small and medium enterprises and United States of America, is implementing a project entitled ‘Regional Training and Certification Program for S.B.D.C.s in Central America’. The three-day training workshop is being held under a component of the project […]
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Gather up the family and stay tuned to Channel Five because coming up at eight-thirty tonight is the premier of this season’s audition show of your all-time favourite KTV the Remix. Beloved judge, Jenny “I Love It” Lovell and the no-nonsense Rhojani Perriott are back this season. They will be joined by the well-known music […]
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