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The People’s United Party is energized tonight. In the thousands, supporters came from the villages, towns, cayes, and from the two cities in what looked like the greatest show of anti-corruption. They marched from Faber’s Road through the streets all the way to the Battlefield Park in the heart of the city. A long list […]
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The People’s United Party’s massive demonstration on Sunday culminated at Battlefield Park in downtown Belize City hours after its start. The crowd flooded the area of the Supreme Court spilling into Albert and Regent Streets. There, thousands were addressed by leaders of the party. The fiery messages focused on corruption in the U.D.P. government, change, […]
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The People’s United Party’s demonstration was announced two weeks ago when Leader John Briceño released the party’s proposed agenda on campaign financing, making five demands on the government. Briceño is calling for the appointment of an independent commission of inquiry chaired by an international Commonwealth jurist to inquire into the unlawful and unconstitutional spending of […]
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The demonstration and rally went without a hitch on Sunday. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and his team kept law and order as demonstrators marched through the streets of the Old Capital and collected at Battlefield Park. Commissioner Williams was on the ground where he spoke to News Five about his estimated numbers of participants which, we […]
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Shane Budram was shot and killed near his house on Wagner’s Lane in Belize City and tonight police are looking for his nephew, Raheem Budram, as the suspect in his murder. He is the sixth family member to lose his life due to gun violence. On Friday night, the uncle and nephew were hanging at […]
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Twenty-four hours later, there was another murder in Belize City. Shortly after ten o’clock on Saturday night, Ezekiel Usher, an employee of Transparent B.P.O., was gunned down across the street from where he lived on Faber’s Road. One of two men who drove up on a motorcycle unleashed a volley of bullets that ultimately took […]
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Police are also investigating the suspected murder of a Canadian national who was reported missing on Friday, after a friend was unable to make contact with him. Just before eleven a.m., James Slemp was found dead in the lagoon on the Hopkins Road. The seventy-nine-year-old man was living in the Fresh Water area on the […]
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A sixty-year-old Canadian retiree was robbed on February fifth in San Pedro Town. The Canadian national visited our studios to share his story. According to the victim, he befriended a Belizean woman in her early twenties a month ago. He gave her access to his apartment where she stayed for few weeks. But according to […]
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According to the Canadian national, the investigation into the robbery has not advanced since the incident two weeks ago. He wants the full force of the law on the woman. Voice of: Canadian National “I don’t believe that the investigation is going very well at all.” Hipolito Novelo “What do you mean?” […]
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Twenty-four year-old Darwin Prado, charged with the double murder of Casey Lozano and Marlon Spain, remains behind bars after being denied bail by Supreme Court Justice, Antoinette Moore on Friday. Lozano and Spain were socializing along with others on Marage Road, in the Japan area of Ladyville, in January of 2018 when two armed men […]
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In the court today, street figure Michael Arnold, aka “Teetie,” a Pickstock resident, was found guilty of robbery. Arnold was given a non custodial sentence and was fined two thousand dollars. In 2016, he robbed Maria Pou, the owner of the popular Pou Meat Pie located on New Road. Pou was collecting rent from a […]
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Former National Security Minister, John Saldivar has been on the airwaves extolling his innocence after he was named in a court in Utah for taking money from the accused fraudster, Lev Dermen. According to messages revealed during the trial, Saldivar refused a wire transfer of the money and traveled to Miami to pick-up fifty thousand […]
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After denying that he received monies from fraudster Lev Dermen, John Saldivar later admitted that he received fifty thousand U.S. dollars from Dermen during a trip to Miami in 2014. Saldivar first said the monies were used for campaign financing, but later said it was used to buy sports equipment. The trade unions and opposition […]
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There are three disturbing reports of rape from the west in our newscast tonight. We start with the case of a woman in Benque Viejo Del Carmen, who claims that she was sexually assaulted by a man, believed to be a B.D.F. soldier posted at the Arenal checkpoint in that western community. The woman says […]
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There is another case of sexual assault of a woman in Cotton Tree Village. The victim is recovering at the Western Regional Hospital after she was raped at knifepoint by her Salvadoran common-law husband. According to police, on Friday night, a domestic dispute between the couple over the woman’s social media account sent her common-law-husband […]
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In Camalote Village, Cayo District, there are varying versions of a report of the sexual assault of a fourteen-year-old female minor. Police say that while a medical exam conducted on the minor has revealed that she was carnally known, the circumstances under which she claims she was raped are not too certain. The minor claims […]
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A family lost everything when a fire swept through their house on Raleigh Street, Belize City. Tonight, they are appealing for assistance to rebuild their lives. Two children and their grandmother were inside when the blaze erupted in one the bedrooms of the wooden structure. It quickly engulfed the entire flat leaving only rubble behind. […]
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A man, who was involved in a fender bender about a month ago, says that the person responsible doesn’t want to own up to his responsibility. Dennis Wright says he was behind the wheel of his van in Belize City when another van rear-ended him. He visited our studios today to say that he has […]
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The Coastal Highway Upgrading Project was formally launched in La Democracia today with attendance from representatives of the governments of Belize and the United Kingdom, as well as the Caribbean Development Bank. When the contract, worth one hundred and thirty million dollars, was awarded to Government’s favourite contractor, Imer Hernandez, it caused the Opposition to […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend in Sports…]
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