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A celebration of a son being recruited into the Belize Coast Guard has ended in tragedy for one Belmopan family and several others are mourning the loss of their loved ones, following a massive road traffic accident this afternoon along the George Price Highway which claimed multiple lives. The collision of a sports utility vehicle […]
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A construction worker of Ordonez Street is tonight in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. after an attempt was made on his life overnight. Richard O’Neil was reportedly kidnapped from Belize City and taken to an area along the Boom/Hattieville Road where he was shot multiple times. But he survived the attack and managed to […]
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There were several burglaries reported in the Belama area over the past twenty-four hours, but on Tuesday afternoon around 1:15, an elderly woman was assaulted during a home invasion on Samuel Haynes Street in the Belama Phase One area of Belize City. Sandhill villager Alma Rodriguez told police that around midday, while babysitting a two-year-old, […]
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The search for three Belize City youths who set out to sea last Friday has since become a recovery operation as personnel from the Belize Coast Guard are now focused on finding the bodies of Sheldon Gibson, Elijah Usher Jr. and fourteen-year-old Kevin Roches. The trio left en route to Mapp Caye on November twenty-second […]
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Turning to the courts…Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser committed Salvadoran national Efrain Martinez to stand trial for the January 2019 murder of Guatemalan national Elmer Salazar. The fifty-four-year-old former employee of Belize Marine and Mooring Services will appear in the January 2020 session of the Supreme Court. After a preliminary inquiry, Chief Magistrate Fraser determined that […]
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Glenford Diego is spending his first night on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford for a robbery charge. He is accused of robbing Dollar Grocery Store on Water Lane in Belize City. He pleaded not guilty to the charge and was remanded to the Kolbe Foundation until […]
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This morning at the Coast Guard Headquarters in Belize City, eighty-seven new recruits were officially welcomed into the maritime law enforcement agency. While these men and women were formally inducted into the organization, they will be led by a new officer in charge. This morning at the passing out ceremony, Captain Elton Bennett was recognized […]
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The largest intake of coast guard recruits to date passed out this morning and will be deployed to active duty forthwith. It is part of an organizational strategy to grow the numbers of the Belize Coast Guard. Notwithstanding the addition of more men and women to the ranks of the agency, there is a need […]
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The Statistical Institute of Belize says that the Gross Domestic Product for the last quarter grew by one point eight percent. Some of the factors that affected production levels for goods and services included climate conditions and world market prices, as well as consumer demand. If you felt that some vegetables were more expensive than […]
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Belize’s population as of September of this year is four hundred and ten thousand, six hundred and ninety-five persons. Of that number, two hundred and seventy-one thousand, six hundred and fifty-one persons are of working age and the remaining persons are under fourteen years old. About seventy percent of the population represents persons of the […]
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According to the S.I.B., while the labor force grew at a faster rate than which jobs were being created, there was an increase of women in the labour force. Benavides explains that this is a record growth in recent years. Wendy Benavides, Statistician II, S.I.B. “The number of females in the labour force has […]
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Officials from the Ministry of Education convened a meeting this afternoon at the Gateway Youth Centre in Belize City. Present were the parents of some thirty-plus students from the Pine Street Community Preschool. Last Friday, the proprietors of the school closed down the facilities after the ministry put in place a new principal and teaching […]
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The Belize Seaweed Mariculture Project was launched today in Placencia. The project is a joint venture between the Belize Trade and Investment Development Service, BELTRAIDE, and the Nature Conservancy Belize, TNC, with financial support from Compete Caribbean, through the Inter-American Development Bank. The project aims to support increased fisheries productivity for traditional fisher-folks in Belize, […]
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Earlier this week, the Women’s Department in collaboration with its partner agencies launched the 2019 Sixteen Days of Activism to highlight the issue of gender-based violence. A number of activities will be held during that time. But today at the Leo Bradley Library in Belize City, Belizean American author Tricia Logan launched her book, Love […]
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