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An ex-policeman turned taxi driver was murdered and his vehicle stolen on Wednesday evening in the Corozal District. The incident happened in the Dominguez Residential Layout shortly after six p.m. and the victim is fifty-seven-year-old Norris Albert Flowers, who lived in the Hermelinda Layout area. Flowers was reportedly parked in front of the Corozal Town […]
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Five murders have been reported in the last ten days, a concerning increase for the Belize Police Department and the Ministry of Home Affairs. Today, we caught up with Minister Kareem Musa in Belize City, where we asked him about the recent spike in violent crimes and what the police are doing to mitigate these […]
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And with the latest increase in murders, the Opposition continues to demand the removal of Kareem Musa from his position as Minister of Home Affairs. In a Facebook post earlier this week, Leader of the Opposition Shyne Barrow said “ if he can’t do the job of keeping our country safe, he should resign and […]
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As we reported, police arrested and charged thirty-three-year-old Nimrod Catzim for the murder of Belize City resident Bernard Timmons on Independence Day. Catzim is no stranger to the law, as he had been to court twice before on separate charges of murder. Yet and still, he was roaming the streets as a free man up […]
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court returned a decision in a protracted lawsuit filed against the Government of Belize, following the passage of legislation that prohibited gas companies from importing butane into the country. The National Liquefied Petroleum Gas Project Act essentially enabled the National Gas Company by restricting other established concerns from bringing in and […]
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The Government of Belize has retained the services of Senior Counsel Andrew Marshalleck in a civil case being brought against the Commissioner of Police, the Attorney General, and the Belize Police Department by Police Constable Alicia Trapp. As we have reported, attorney Orson “OJ” Elrington sued all three parties on behalf of his client, after […]
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John Briceño Minister Musa also responded to questions about the Prime Minister’s comments to the United Nations General Assembly regarding homicides in Belize. Prime Minister Briceño told the U.N. General Assembly that homicides are on the rise in Belize. The comment stands out, because records suggest that the homicide rate to date, for 2022, is […]
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The Prime Minister’s recent speech that was delivered at the Seventy-Seventh United Nations General Assembly in New York drew commendation from quite a few people. P.M. John Briceño spoke on issues such as the war between Russia and Ukraine, the rise in global poverty rates, among other topics. But while the P.M. was lauded for […]
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Today, the People’s United Party is celebrating seventy-two years as a political organization in Belize. In a Facebook post, Prime Minister John Briceño reflected on the P.U.P.’s history saying “Our P.U.P. journey started people and nation focused. Father of the Nation, Right Honorable George Cadle Price’s life was committed to service, self-determination and the development […]
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Technology is ever changing and the threats surrounding these technologies are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Our increasing dependency on internet-based platforms has opened doors to vulnerabilities and increased cyber threats. While the growth in modern technology has brought about a number of opportunities, those cyber threats have evolved over recent years. This has created the need […]
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Twenty-four-year-old Erson Castaneda, a fisherman of Boca del Rio, San Pedro, has been arrested and charged for burglary after reportedly breaking into a business in San Pedrito on Monday night. According to forty-eight-year-old Mayna Liseth Simal, she secured her establishment at around five p.m. on September twenty-sixth and went home. When she returned around nine […]
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The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry today awarded its Belize Expo 2022 winners. Numerous awards were given in various categories, including best female entrepreneur, best overall booth, most creative booth, most professional booth, most innovative booth, and best male entrepreneur. We spoke with the President of B.C.C.I., Marcelo Blake, as well as the winner […]
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The Caribbean Development Bank has issued a six million dollar loan to the Government of Belize for a student loan program that will assist as many as eight hundred learners, including financially disadvantaged persons, pursuing post-secondary and tertiary level studies. Funds for the initiative will be made available through the Development Finance Corporation. The loan […]
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Today in the conference room at the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, public and private sector stakeholders, including representatives from non-government organizations, and other associations gathered for a climate change write shop. The two-day session, which commenced today, is the first of three. But what is a write shop? Basically, […]
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This year’s United Nation’s Climate Change Conference, better known as COP27, is taking place in Egypt from November eighth to the eighteenth. A delegation from Belize will be heading for the conference, which will focus primarily on climate finance and, more specifically, loss and damage. Chief Climate Change Officer Doctor Lennox Gladden told News Five […]
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Meet Dorian Enriquez… he is a 2021 graduate of the Natural Resource Management Program at the University of Belize. But even before he completed the bachelor’s program at the university, he began losing his eyesight. Now, he cannot walk and has difficulty speaking. Enriquez has an undiagnosed, degenerative condition of his nervous system that is […]
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“A Call for Help” is shared on Emelita Pineda Enriquez’s Facebook page; that’s his mother. In the post, Dorian chronicles how his hands and arms tremble uncontrollably, that he is legally blind and relies on a built-in magnifier app to use his computer. He has a speech impediment, but Dorian nevertheless spoke to the media […]
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