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A thirty-six-year-old Georgeville mother was held in police custody overnight, following a deadly road traffic accident out west. According to police, Erika Trapp was driving her two daughters and two of the neighbor’s children to school when she ran off the George Price Highway and crashed into a roadside drain. The accident claimed the life […]
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Accused of killing a reputed gang member in January 2015, Troy Hyde has walked free from a murder charge that was brought against him in the wake of a deadly shooting on Central American Boulevard. This morning, Hyde, who has been out on bail since July 2018, appeared before Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft in the […]
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Another suspect, accused of the murder of seventeen-year-old Cameron Hernandez in November 2021, has been freed of the charge after spending eleven months at the Belize Central Prison on pretrial detention. Shaquille Perrera appeared unrepresented before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser this morning, where he was informed that the charge had been withdrawn on the instruction […]
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Today, police formally arrested and charged two Roaring Creek men for the crimes of robbery and aggravated assault. Nineteen-year-old Jahirm Thomas and twenty-two-year-old Derry Bennett were slapped with two counts of robbery and a single charge of aggravated assault on forty-four-year-old Jose Arnoldo Garcia, a Belizean Farmer of Armenia Village, Cayo District. The charges stem […]
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The exclusion of the National Kriol Council from the People’s Constitution Commission has raised the ire of the organization that represents the Creole community in Belize. Despite publicly announcing that the representative body would have a seat at the table, the news is tonight that they have been left out. This, notwithstanding the submission of […]
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A group of youth leaders from Korea, who engage in mind education, is currently in Belize for a forum with the Minister of Youth. The forum follows an invitation extended to Minister of Youth, Rodwell Ferguson to attend an international youth conference in Korea in August that looked at transforming the mindset of young people. […]
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Pastor Jermaine Garvey explained that the manner in which people have been approaching youths to discourage them from negative behaviour is the wrong way. He shared how he thinks we should be engaging youths to get them into more positive activities. Pastor Jermaine Garvey, Dir. International Youth Fellowship, Belize “The approach that people have […]
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In November 2021, the Government of Belize and The Nature Conservancy brokered a deal that helped to reduce Belize’s international debt, better known as the Super Bond. That debt conversion will generate the country an estimated three hundred and sixty million dollars which would be invested in long-term ocean conservation – ergo the Blue Bond. […]
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So what is the Belize Sustainable Ocean Plan costing the country? Well, within the Blue Bond agreement, there is a conservation fund to provide financing for processes like these. TNC Program Director Julie Robinson explains that four million U.S. dollars will be available yearly. Julie Robinson, Program Director, TNC “We have also established the […]
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The oceans have been identified as one of the key solutions to climate change globally, because the ocean absorbs far more carbon than terrestrial environments. The process allows the country to tackle climate change directly and indirectly. Minister of Blue Economy, Andre Perez says that while the plan does not focus specifically on the impacts […]
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A series of consultations conducted by the Ministry of Public Utilities and Energy pertaining to the generation of renewable energy using heat and power culminated with a training today on the use of organic waste as a source for renewable energy. Present at the session was Minister of Public Utilities, Energy, Logistics and e-Governance Michel […]
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A small wooden house in Dangriga was gutted by fire on Tuesday night. Police say they were summoned to the area on George Price Drive around eight that night where they saw a one-bedroom measuring about twelve by twenty 20 feet engulfed in flames. Occupants, Shamel Ogaldez and Denson Flores reported that they were not […]
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Police have taken another illegal weapon off the streets, this time in Placencia Village. Police say that on Tuesday they searched an abandoned lot near the airstrip and found the Mossberg brand shotgun. No one was in the area at the time of the discovery, so labelled the firearm as found property.
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Back in September, we told you that the Belize Jaguars Football Team has been preparing to play against Ghana’s top football club. Well, the Ghanaian team has confirmed that they will arrive in Belize on November fifteenth. The team plans to be here for ten days, not only to compete in the highly anticipated match, […]
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