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A crackdown by as many as two specialized teams of police officers at the home of Brandon and Hubert Baptist on Police Street Extension in Belize City Thursday evening resulted in utter chaos when gunfire erupted inside the property. The Baptist brothers are well-known members of the B.L.C. gang and, notwithstanding their involvement with the […]
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Oceana Vice President Janelle Chanona will succeed parliamentarian Osmany Salas in the upper house as the next N.G.O. Senator. That change will come into effect as early as the next sitting of the house. Senator Salas tendered his resignation recently, prompting the N.G.O. community to seek a replacement. When the call was made for interested […]
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With Chanona’s pending appointment to the upper house, there are now ten women in the National Assembly. Chanona says her selection was not based on gender, but is a welcome addition to the House in terms of women’s representation in national leadership. Janelle Chanona, Senator Designate “Dr. Saunders and I were the two that […]
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Prime Minister, John Briceño was today granted an Honorary Doctorate’s by Kun Shan University in Taiwan, where he is currently wrapping up a state visit. Taiwanese Vice President, Lai Ching-te accompanied PM Briceño and his delegation to Taiwan where he was given the distinction. Earlier this week, PM Briceño was awarded the Order of Propitious […]
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With only a couple of weeks left, the race towards the U.D.P.’s leadership convention, to be held on March twenty-seventh, continues. Leader of the Opposition and U.D.P. Party Leader Candidate Shyne Barrow, declined to comment today, saying he is once more on the campaign trail. On Thursday, he was in Corozal visiting delegates alongside Area […]
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A small Belizean caye has been featured in international news this week. But, not as an eco-destination or playground for the rich and famous. This time it seems a piece of Belize is being touted as the world’s newest nation, complete with a flag, national anthem, national day, and even its own prince and Prime […]
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The global number of Coronavirus cases has gone down significantly over the past month and the severity of the sickness has also. Bloomberg News is reporting that the World Health Organization is exploring how and when to call an end to the global COVID-19 pandemic. W.H.O. has reported that up to Thursday evening, there have […]
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The lifting of many of the COVID restrictions has paved way for another privilege that political supporters enjoyed pre-COVID era. Today the Government’s Press Office announced that one of the public galleries will be reopened, albeit with limited seating capacity when the House meets on Tuesday for the Budget Presentation. Only twenty-four members of the […]
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Seven students from Belize High School are joining their counterparts from around this hemisphere for this year’s HACIA Democracy Summit. HACIA is a youth simulation of the Organization of the American States, O.A.S. The event, founded by Harvard University, gives students the opportunity to discuss real world events and to learn parliamentary procedures. Held virtually […]
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Some Belizeans have reportedly been engaged in wide-scale commercial hunting of iguanas and hicatee, species that are endangered and on the brink of extinction. The Association of Protected Areas Management Organizations announced today it is concerned about this happening, and that some individuals are uploading this to social media. APAMO reminds everyone the closed season […]
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A man is dead after the tractor he was driving fell on top of him. The incident happened on Thursday evening in the Cayo District. Police say that sometime around three-thirty, twenty-seven year-old Alexander Hernandez, a Salvadoran, was driving a tractor down a hill with a trailer in tow on a farm in the Valley […]
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Police have recovered three unlicensed guns stashed away in public spaces, two of them in San Pedro Town. Police conducted searches at around ten on Wednesday in the D.F.C. area and found a loaded nine millimeter pistol. No one was in the area. The next night, police searched an abandoned lot in the San Pedrito […]
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Today, staff members of the Development Finance Corporation used their lunch breaks to stage what appeared to be a protest. Videos sent to News Five from the D.F.C.’s Belize City Branch and Belmopan Branch show employees in front of their respective buildings dressed in black and singing songs of solidarity. The action reportedly stems from […]
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Where the Belize border meets Guatemala, the town of Benque Viejo Del Carmen is using traditional music to create wider inclusion and encourage young women to make their contributions to a previously male dominated performance art. Earlier this week, on International Women’s Day, the Benque House of Culture invited The Bright Side to meet Belize’s […]
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