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Belize proudly received the body of its first Governor General this afternoon when it arrived at the P.G.I.A. It was draped in the Belizean flag and met by a detail of Belize Defense Force soldiers who carried with much pomp and circumstance. Government officials, including Prime Minister John Briceño, were on hand to witness the […]
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The Public Utilities Commission bought the old Mirab building on North Front Street for ten point three million dollars in December 2019. But since the purchase, the P.U.C. remains at its Gabourel Lane address, paying about twelve thousand dollars in monthly rent. The details of the sale were revealed by the new chairman of the […]
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Two former employees of the Ministry of Labour, Local Government and Rural Transformation were slapped with fifteen charges of theft for reportedly misappropriating more than thirty-five thousand dollars from government funds. Clerks Emany Sanchez and Steve Murray Junior were both arrested and charged over the weekend. ACP Joseph Myvett says that the investigation continues into […]
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There are two murders to report tonight. The first occurred on Sunday afternoon on the south side of Belize City. Malique Green has had several run-ins with the law, and just before two, as he headed to a shop, he was executed – one shot to the head. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane […]
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A family dispute ended with fatal consequences for a family in San Martin Belmopan on Sunday. Walter Axcel Gonzalez was at home when his step-father arrived and got into an argument with his mother. Gonzalez intervened, and the two men, who were reportedly under the influence, got into a physical fight. The family says the […]
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Today, police shared the official details of what the investigation has uncovered about this fatal stabbing. At the time of this interview with ACP Joseph Myvett, Walter Gonzalez was still alive. As we told you just now, he died later this evening from the injuries he sustained. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation […]
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A new year is underway on the legal calendar, commencing on a somber note as the judiciary laments the dire straits in which it finds itself once again. With a bottleneck of undelivered decisions and pending cases brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, the budget set aside for the work of the third […]
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The court’s virtual opening is a testament to the changing work environments due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since December twentieth, the country has been under stricter movement regulations to reduce the virus’ spread. But is it working? Over the extended weekend up to today, the Ministry of Health and Wellness recorded one hundred and thirty-six […]
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A new statutory instrument, S.I. number two of 2021, came into effect on January fourteenth. This S.I. addresses the importation of COVID-19 tests into the country. The Ministry of Health and Wellness now has the sole responsibility to approve the importation of COVID tests. It also gives the ministry the sole authority to approve any […]
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On March third, voters head back to the polls for the municipal elections. The two major political parties are readying their slates as there are a total of sixty-seven seats up for grabs. Public Service Minister Henry Charles Usher, under whose ministry elections and boundaries fall, says that preparations are well underway for the municipal […]
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On Sunday, the United Democratic Party announced that it had held a virtual convention to determine its city council slate for Old Capital. Very few details about the process were revealed except that there were four mayoral and twenty-four councilor hopefuls. Media personality, Orson Picart was selected as the mayoral candidate for Belize City in […]
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Meanwhile, the P.U.P. National Executive is expected to meet this week, where its nine municipal slates will be approved for the upcoming elections. The process was different this year, and conventions were not held due to COVID-19. Henry Charles Usher – in his capacity as P.U.P. Chairman – says that after the December eighteenth deadline […]
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Corozal Mayor Rigoberto Vellos says that he and his slate have been readying for a second term in office. The P.U.P. Mayor says that there are three new candidates on his slate, and they have already hit the ground running. Rigoberto Vellos, Mayor, Corozal Town “We already going on the ground, a slate is […]
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Public Service Minister Henry Charles Usher chimed in on what he referred to as the insolence of Estevan Perera, who has refused to resign from the appointment as chair of the Elections and Boundaries Commission. In July 2020, just four months before the general elections, the former U.D.P. administration gave Perera the appointment. Last week, […]
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On Friday, as Belize commemorated the first George Price Day – now a National Public and Bank Holiday – People’s United Party officials along with family members of the late Father of the Nation gathered for a wreath-laying ceremony. Every January fifteenth, since his passing, the tradition has been held to celebrate the birth of […]
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Police Officer Rosendo Joel Cantun was busted with thirteen kilos of weed last Thursday. Police say that cops were conducting vehicle checks at the Tower Hill Bridge in Orange Walk just before midday when they stopped Cantun. The officers searched his vehicle and that is when they found a black plastic bag with twenty-four parcels […]
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Police also took a weapon and some more drugs off the streets of Orange Walk. This time, the discovery was made by the Mobile Interdiction Team. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “The mobile interdiction team which operates along the border was in Orange Walk yesterday sometime around eleven-thirty a.m., where they […]
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Last Wednesday, police carried out a search at the home of a well-known drug operative in the north. There, cops and the K9 unit sniffed out four packets of cocaine that weighed zero point two six ounces. ACP Myvett provided the details. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Police executed a search […]
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Another motorcycle rider wasn’t as lucky. A man died as a result of a crash on the Southern Highway over the weekend. Police say that the Elridgeville resident Joshua Briceño was driving his motorcycle through Forest Home Village when he slammed into the back of a pickup truck parked on the side of the highway. […]
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It’s less than three weeks into the new year, and four manatees have been killed; the two most recent happened over the weekend. Today, manatee conservationist Jamal Galvez of the Clear Water Aquarium Research Institute in Belize called us out to Seashore Drive in Belize City, where another corpse was found. Galvez says that they […]
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Two fire trucks were delivered today to the Placencia Fire Station, courtesy of the Joanna Volunteer Fire Department and Cross Hill Fire Department of South Carolina. The fire trucks landed at the P.G.I.A. in a U.S. Air Force C5 today. The delivery of the trucks was facilitated by the U.S. Embassy in Belize with the […]
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