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A brazen attempt at burglarizing the nation’s largest credit union was thwarted by an alarm system. On Monday morning, two men created an opening in the concrete wall at the rear of the Holy Redeemer Credit Union building in Belize City. They then entered the financial institution but no sooner beat a hasty retreat, after […]
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The lifeless body of fifty-five-year-old Phillip Palma was discovered in a shallow grave on an island off the coast of Belize City over the weekend. Palma was reported missing by a relative on Wednesday, September fourteenth, after the family received alarming reports that he had been kidnapped. Since then, his family and police officers have […]
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According to Jose Espat, the leader of the Palma family search team, they were refused assistance from the local authorities because police officers had reportedly conducted a search on the island the day before. Espat asserts that he made several observations on the island, including the discovery of footprints belonging to persons that were walking […]
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Police are refuting a number of the claims being made by Espat. According to ASP Yearwood, police were in contact with a family member during the entire search. Yearwood contends that he was in contact with a family member while Espat was live on social media. Reporter “Reports are that police refused to join […]
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Two arsons were reported over the weekend – one in Belize City, which involved a vehicle being set ablaze and the other, a structural fire in Biscayne Village. The latter was a domestic dispute that ended with the home of Dione Requeña being set on fire. On Saturday morning, Dione was at her home, off […]
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Earlier that same day, there was another case of arson, this time on Antelope Street in Belize City. Just before five a.m., police responded to a report of a vehicle on fire. There they found a silver, 2003 Toyota Sequoia, the property of Paul Gamboa, engulfed in flames. Fire personnel managed to extinguish the fire, […]
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A Belize City resident was the victim of a shooting on Friday night. Edward Hall was socialising at the corner of George Street and Rocky Road when two men on a motorcycle rode up and fired three shots in the yard. Hall was struck to the leg and taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. […]
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A fishing trip went wrong over the weekend in southern Belize and ended with the death of a young dancer. Twenty-four-year-old Jamire Borland was out with his brother and another friend on a makeshift raft off the coast of Cattle Landing when the vessel capsized. Borland’s brother and friend were able to make it to […]
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A resident of Bella Vista Village in southern Belize lost her life during a road traffic accident on Saturday night. Around seven-thirty, Jose Hernandez was behind the wheel of a Mitsubishi pickup truck travelling in the same direction as Elsa Payaz who was on a Meilun motorcycle. As they approached mile fifty, on the Southern […]
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He is called the Father of the Nation for all that he did in his life to defy colonialism and fight for Belize’s political Independence. The late George Price, one of the founders of the ruling People’s United Party is remembered each year on September nineteenth, the date when he died eleven years ago in […]
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For the past few years, we haven’t heard of any confrontations between Belizean civilian excursions to Sarstoon Island and the Guatemalan Armed Forced. But on Sunday, when the Belize Territorial Volunteers took an excursion of Belizeans, including a number of scouts to Sarstoon Island, they were met with stark resistance by a patrol of five […]
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News Five attempted to get a comment from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from the Ministry of Defence and Border Security, but that was not forthcoming. The Ministry of Defence and Border Security issued an official press release about Sunday’s incident, in which it states that a joint B.D.F/Coastguard patrol was deployed to the […]
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But Maheia describes the ministry’s response as weak and said we should be demanding the Guatemalan military boats to return the flags that they removed from Sarstoon Island. In addition, Neville Smith, whose boat managed to get past the Guatemalan military boats, told the media that as a contractor, he thinks the B.D.F. should still […]
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In July, Prime Minister John Briceño had identified Moises Cal as his pick for the chairperson of the Public Services Commission. But soon after that proposal, the Opposition objected to Cal on grounds that he has a questionable history dating back to 2007 when he was caught with a large sum of money in Panama […]
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Earlier we brought you the memorial held at the gravesite of the late George Price in recognition of his contributions to Belize. Coincidentally, September nineteenth was also the date when Queen Elizabeth the Second was being laid to rest in the United Kingdom. They were two leaders who held firmly to their philosophies, and while […]
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Twenty-two distinguished Belizeans were honoured at this year’s Tribute to Belizean Patriots ceremony held at the Battle Field Park in Belize City. One Belizean was awarded an Order of Distinction for her contributions to community service. The remaining awardees were bestowed Meritorious Service Awards. Here is a brief look at the event that took place […]
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The illegal influx of Cuban migrants into Belize has been persistent since the beginning of the year, arriving into the country from various points of entry. Over the extended weekend, a group of Cuban nationals was busted in the vicinity of El Pilar, near the Belize-Guatemala border in the west. According to the spokesperson for […]
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Today was celebrated as Maya Mopan Cultural Consciousness Day at the National Library Service. This morning, several classrooms of primary school students from across the city visited the Leo Bradley Library where they were given a brief social studies lesson on the traditions, as well as the food, language and culture of the Mopan Maya. […]
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A six point nine magnitude earthquake shook most of Taiwan on Saturday evening, leaving at least one person confirmed dead, buildings toppled, trains derailed, and persons trapped for hours. Reports are that the six point nine magnitude earthquake was the strongest of seventy-five quakes that shook the island’s south-eastern coast between Saturday evening and Sunday […]
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A magnitude seven point six earthquake rocked western Mexico on Monday, killing two persons. The earthquake occurred on the same date as two previous temblors in Mexico – one in 1985 and the other in 2017. This is a country where an estimated six thousand Belizeans call home. Luckily, there have been no reports of […]
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