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A fatal road traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway has left a sixth form student dead and as many as eleven persons with multiple degrees of injuries. According to police, twenty-one-year-old Jorge Vargas was traveling in a taxi van along with six other passengers when the vehicle collided head-on into a Toyota Land Cruiser […]
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The family of Aaliyah Marokin, one of the surviving students in Tuesday evening’s tragic accident on the Philip Goldson Highway, is seeking answers from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital as to why the Corozal resident was placed on a waiting list. According to one spokesperson for the family who chose to remain anonymous for fear […]
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Over the extended weekend, twenty-year-old Gerson Cardova was knocked down in San Lazaro Village in a hit-and-run incident involving a police officer who was fleeing from a traffic checkpoint in Orange Walk District. The officer who is being placed on interdiction, is believed to have committed a traffic offense prior to knocking down Cardova. Assistant […]
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The vehicular checkpoint near the entrance to Hattieville has been done away with following a directive from Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. The decision was taken on the heels of recent allegations that officers assigned to the post had been extorting motorists. Last week, two persons came forward accusing an officer of shaking them down […]
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Today, the Minister of Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management joined a team from the National Emergency Management Organization on a flyover to observe the areas that are currently affected by severe flooding. The team included personnel from the Hydrology Unit, the Engineering Department and the ministries of Infrastructure Development and House and Agriculture. The […]
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As of now, it is difficult to assess the financial damages. When the water subsides, a better assessment of the damages can be carried out. The flyover also took the team into the Mountain Pine Ridge area where the dams are spilling. Minister Orlando Habet says that as a country, we must learn from natural […]
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News Five’s Duane Moody took a trip to the Belize River Valley area where the Belize River is already swelling and the banks being taken in by the rising water level. The entrance to Gracie Rock Village off the George Price Highway is under about a foot of water and continues to rise. This morning, […]
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New controlled prices for butane came into effect today. A release issued by the Supplies Control Unit in the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise indicates that the changes reflect the sale by wholesale volume and retail sale by volume in urban, as well as rural parts of the country. In all six districts, […]
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The Public Service Union has come out strongly against the Office of the Prime Minister for failing to appoint a new chairman, as well as members of the Public Services Commission. In a statement issued by the labor organization, its offices have been flooded with phone calls from retired public officers who have exhausted their […]
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The internal row within the United Democratic Party continues to see members of the opposition stooping to their lowest. On Monday, a clip from a purported political ad was posted on Facebook. The brief video extract shows Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber in what appears to be another physical altercation with a woman in the […]
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The Department of Transport in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank is seeking to modernize the country’s public transportation system. Currently, the program is in its information dissemination phase. Members of the technical support team made an appearance on Open Your Eyes this morning to detail the phased approach to the modernization undertaking. Eric […]
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According to Trudy Joseph, the Administration and Procurement Officer, the modernization program will be rolled out in phased. She noted that significant these significant changes to the transport system will be realized in 2024. Trudy Joseph, Administration and Procurement Officer, Department of Transport “We want to do a phased approach. So, we are grateful […]
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Today, in the village of Lord’s Bank, the British Army Training Support Unit, BATSUB, officially inaugurated a bridge in the community that provides access to the Belize River. The project which is valued at twelve thousand U.S. dollars saw a troop of engineers who recently arrived in the country demolish an unserviceable small bridge in […]
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The bridge will provide access to an area for riverine and jungle exercises by both military forces. Lt. Col. Jermaine Burns, Acting Chief of Staff, B.D.F. “We had come at the back here along with our British partners to look at a way that we could bridge the gap between riverine training all the […]
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A donation of over four hundred thousand dollars in digital equipment was handed over to the courts this morning by the U.S. Embassy. As part of an initiative known as the Backlog Reduction Program, the governments of Belize and the United States have been working closely to moderate the number of surfeit cases in the […]
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