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NICH President, Sapna Budhrani, has come under fire for her performance, or lack of it, at the job she took over in April. Earlier today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Patrick Faber held a press conference to discuss the future of the Municipal Fair on September Tenth. We’ll share that with you later […]
But has the musical ambassador lost his place in challenging the appointment of Budhrani by the DPM, who is a senior member of the United Democratic Party, which he wants to represent in Mesopotamia? Faber points out that Shyne too was appointed as musical ambassador, but that he doesn’t work in his ministry. Patrick […]
The Regional Anti-Doping Organization has suspended Belize’s National Anti-Doping Organization. This happened on August fourteenth, following another absence by Belize’s rep Doctor Michael Pitts at a meeting of the Advisory Board in Cuba. According to the official letter that was copied to Minister of Sports Patrick Faber, this is the third consecutive time that Doctor […]
Gwen Lizarraga High School remains in disarray, despite a new school year kicking off on Monday. That disorganized state is due in part to a protracted issue involving Principal Lorna McKay who has been benched while the Teaching Services Commission adjudicates a matter brought against her. Doctor McKay refutes allegations of financial misappropriation during her […]
Turning to crime…a twenty-four-year-old woman is the latest victim of an aggravated burglary which happened during the predawn hours of this morning. The young lady, a legal assistant employed by a well-known P.U.P. area representative, reported to police that she awakened by a strange noise inside her apartment shortly after three o’clock. When she got […]
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Investigators have not recovered any of the money stolen from seventy-nine-year-old Harold Williams at his home on Monday afternoon. They have, nonetheless, made significant inroads in catching up with one man whom they believe was the mastermind behind the robbery of the elderly Kings Park resident. Forty-one-year-old Eugene Tillett has been arrested and charged with […]
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Seine Bight police shot a mentally challenged, machete-wielding man this morning after he turned his cutlass on an arresting officer. Zebedee Morter was shot in the right forearm after he chopped a special constable in the back of the head. According to police, they were responding to information that a villager had been observed swinging […]
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Taiwan’s rice donation on Wednesday has some local rice producers up in arms. This is according to the P.U.P.’s Orange Walk South Area Representative, Jose Abelardo Mai. Mai says he was shocked when he learnt on the news of Taiwan’s ten thousand bags of rice donation to the Ministry of Human Development which falls under […]
Defending Taiwan’s rice donation was Minister Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez. The Minister says that anyone would prefer cash donation but in this case, the ten thousand bags of rice was donated due to the surplus of the grain in Taiwan. It’s part of the “Taiwan Rice Donation for Humanitarian Relief” project which according to Martinez, the […]
Junior Triminio was laid to rest on Wednesday in his hometown of Orange Walk. His memorial service and funeral procession was attended by family and friends, including close associates who are also members of the Back-a-Town Crips, a local street gang which Triminio headed. Since his execution, police have been on high alert in anticipation […]
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A trio of suspected burglars is on the lam tonight, having escaped from lawful custody on Wednesday in Independence Village. Selvin Linares, Gregory Flowers and Kendale Flores absconded during a thunderstorm sometime between eight and nine p.m. by damaging the lock to their holding cell. A fourth prisoner who was in the lockup for a […]
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Police Constable Godfrey Moreira is facing internal discipline after being fined a hefty sum by the Customs Department for a stash of contraband beer found in his possession on August twelfth. PC Moreira was busted in Succotz driving a white pickup truck laden with fifteen cases of illegal booze. Moreira, who is attached to the […]
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The Municipal Fair is back on the list of events for the September Celebrations Calendar following a meeting between Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber and Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner. On August fourteenth, CitCo announced that due to a cut of twenty percent in the subvention for the activities, the council was unable to organize […]
There’s a perception that the United Democratic Party focuses on the tenth, while the People’s United Party concentrates on independence. So was that political divide at play between the Belize City Council and central government over the bram? Patrick Faber, Chair, September Celebrations Committee “It is unfortunate that there might have been some indication […]
The Belize Solid Waste Management Authority made its annual donation to about twenty-two recyclers. In the small token of appreciation, each recycler received one school-bag with supplies. While gifting a single school bag may not seem like much; to the recyclers, it is a big help for a child in school and takes some strain […]
Summer is winding down and parents have begun making all preparations to fully equip their children for the new school year. For some parents, this is a challenge given their financial constraints and this is why Central TV and Internet Belize and Eastern Division, Region One partnered up to distributed five hundred school bags to […]
Today, the Mexican Embassy in Belize signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Belize Tourism Industry Association to cooperate on training local hospitality workers to offer better services in the tourism industry. The programme will see all levels of service providers from the B.T.I.A. membership and wider public get opportunities to learn from our Mexican […]
If you’re expecting or a new mom, you may have noticed that breastfeeding – specifically exclusive breastfeeding – is being promoted all over. Celebrities, health officials, all the baby sites you subscribe to, even the public hospitals and a few clinics here in Belize are highlighting the benefits of breastfeeding. But six months of being […]
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