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The body of Oscar Cornel, a councillor with the Trial Farm Village Council in Orange Walk, was discovered floating after midday today. Cornel was missing at sea since Thursday evening after a small boat he was travelling in, namely Baby Giselle, collided with a bigger boat, Sir Alex several miles west of the island of […]
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Cornel’s sister, Marillin Cornel told News Five that Oscar was with her common-law-husband, Mario Rosales, who captained the small boat. Marillin says she became worried when hours had passed and Rosales did not contact her. It wasn’t until around ten p.m. that Rosales was found near a pier at Cayo Rosario; he had been swimming […]
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A marine casualty investigation team is on the ground to determine what transpired in the fatal collision at sea. But even as that investigation is ongoing, Operations Officer at the Belize Coast Guard, Lieutenant Roque Canul says that there are concerns about risky practices by tour companies. Lt. Roque Canul, Operations Officer, Belize Coast […]
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There was an officer-involved shooting in Belize City on Christmas Day which resulted in two sixteen-year-old boys receiving varying degrees of injuries to their lower extremities. Lionel Gordon and Denver Domingo live a stone’s throw away from where they were caught inside a Chinese business. When police met the duo, along with a third unidentified […]
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Twenty-three-year-old Daniel Bennett was also injured on Christmas Day around midday. The resident of Ramos Street was shot in the left side of the mouth while socializing on Mopan Street. Following the incident, he showed up at the Vernon Street Vehicle Checkpoint where he was bleeding profusely from the injury. Supt. Alejandro Cowo, O.C., […]
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Just after midnight on Thursday, Belize City police were called to a bar on Newtown Barracks where they met forty-two-year-old Darrell Ramclam who reported that he was shot at. According to Ramclam, he was walking along Newtown Barracks when a male individual approached him, produced a firearm and fired several bullets in his direction. Ramclam […]
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Fifty-seven-year-old Anthony Edward Brown was found murdered inside his home in Eldridgeville, Toledo on Monday. He was stabbed to death the day prior. Investigators have so far uncovered that Brown was at home, near the outskirts of town, when he was attacked by two men who bound his feet and hands before stabbing him multiple […]
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Fifty-four-year-old Ricardo Oh lost his life on Christmas Eve while riding his bicycle near mile twenty-five on the Hummingbird Highway. At around six o’clock in the evening, Oh was hit by a white Chevrolet cargo truck that was being driven at the time by thirty-one-year-old Alexander Swift of Dangriga Town. When police arrived on the scene […]
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Thirty-seven-year-old Leon Soberanis is no stranger to the law. This morning, the Belize City resident he found himself yet again before the lower court. While he was granted bail for a drug possession charge, he needs to cover a minimum of five hundred dollars in previous fines which amount to over one thousand dollars, before […]
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Tragedy struck two families over the Christmas holidays in Orange Walk and Dangriga when their homes were destroyed by fire. Just before nine p.m. on Christmas Day, police responded to a report of a fire on Santa Familia Street in Orange Walk Town where a wooden house was engulfed in flames. Daniel Novelo reportedly left […]
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The annual Belize Literary Prize is a writing competition that is open for Belizeans living at home and abroad. The winners are subsequently published in the Belize Literary Prize Series, in partnership with Cubola Publishers. The initiative is the brainchild of the Belize Book Industry Association. This year, the genre of choice for the competition […]
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There will be no adjustments to the electricity rate as had been requested by Belize Electricity Limited. The announcement was made on Tuesday by the Public Utilities Commission which said that it had reviewed the Final Draft for Belize Electricity Limited’s 2019 Annual Review Proceeding Final Decision Amendment. According to the P.U.C., B.E.L. submitted no […]
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