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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams has come forward to dismiss conjecture surrounding the incident on January fourteenth during which former Assistant Commissioner of Police Marco Vidal visited a small business in the Maya Mopan area of Belmopan, requesting surveillance footage from that premises. In the wake of surveillance footage being released of the brief encounter, […]
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With respect of the audio recording that was presented by Marco Vidal and Senior Counsel Godfrey Smith to Belmopan police on Thursday, ComPol Williams told the media that he has had an opportunity to listen to the copy. Notwithstanding the fact that the recording doesn’t show former ACP Vidal saying or doing anything illegal, the […]
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With the passing of Vivian Ramnarace, a third victim in the fatal December thirty-first attack, many are questioning the strength of the witness statement that was given to investigators prior to her death last Sunday. According to ComPol Williams, the police department remains committed to working the case with a view to successfully prosecute the […]
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A police officer who was on interdiction and a former policeman have been charged jointly for the murder of forty-three-year-old Elvis Polanco. The San Pedro businessman was robbed, before being shot and killed allegedly by the two men who are now in custody. Today, Edward Moraga and Winfield Mortis were arrested and charged for the […]
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Saint Catherine Academy has been serving in Belize’s education sector for the past one hundred and forty years. The all-girl catholic institution was established in Belize on January twentieth, 1883, when a group of missionaries from the Sisters of Mercy Convent travelled from New Orleans to provide quality education in Belize. S.C.A. has remained committed […]
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The San Jose Government School in Orange Walk District will be benefiting from a new classroom building for the upcoming school year, in September. As construction being carried out by the U.S. Southern Command team continues, today, Ministry of Education officials and U.S. Ambassador to Belize Michelle Kwan made a site visit to see the […]
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Consultations have been ongoing on the new national competency-based curriculum as it is being piloted during this transition year. Just last week, a delegation of education stakeholders, led by Minister of State Doctor Louis Zabaneh, visited with teachers and principals in the Corozal District. It was an opportunity for them to express concerns and ideas […]
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This morning at the ITVET in Belize City, a cohort of fifty young women from across the country began a training organized by Peacework Belize, a non-profit organization led by Doctor Carol Babb. Empowered Resilient Women is a program that will assist these women with entrepreneurship, as well as financial literacy and emotional intelligence. The […]
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Since the start of the year, we have been reporting on the Prime Minister’s decision to move Minister of State Ramon “Monchi” Cervantes from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration over to the Ministry of Sustainable Development. Following the move there were questions about why Prime Minister John Briceño made that decision. […]
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On Thursday, a ceremony was held in Belmopan to transfer the pro tempore presidency of the Coordinacion Educativa y Cultural Centroamericana for the Central American Integration System (SICA) to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology. It’s a unique position that the country assumes as it continues to serve as a bridge between Central […]
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The Belize Fisheries Department received satellite equipment and tracking monitoring systems from the Republic of China, Taiwan on Thursday. The donation comes by way of the Integration of the Value Chain in Fisheries and Aquaculture project, an initiative established in March of 2019 to strengthen regional governance of marine resources across the region. The satellite […]
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Oftentimes, development brings problems, especially when there’s miscommunication involved and it leads to actions that need to be corrected. Such is the case in Alta Vista Village, Stann Creek. It happened when workmen for an investor in the village dug out an area on a hill so close to a dam that when it rains, […]
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The Belize City Council’s ‘Mek Wi Plant’ Urban Garden on Police Street Extension has been showing great success. Since the inception of the project in early 2022, the garden has yielded more than a hundred pounds of green and yellow bell peppers, over three harvests. The program has created employment for several residents on Police […]
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Tonight, two Scratch and Win customers from the north are celebrating. Rangel, a resident of Corozal won ten thousand dollars on a single ticket, while Feliciano won five thousand dollars on a single ticket. These men have big plans for their winnings and today they stopped by our office to tell us all about it. […]
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It’s been a little over two and a half months since Hurricane Lisa, a category one storm, made landfall in Belize, affecting approximately five thousand households across the country. And while majority have received some level of assistance, there are some families that have still not recovered and remain displaced. On Thursday, Panama Ambassador to […]
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This week, we take you to San Antonio, Cayo District, where Sabreena met Frank Tzib. Frank is on a mission to preserve his native language and inscription through the ancient Maya writing of hieroglyphics. Sabreena found out just how he plans to do that in this week’s look on the bright side. Frank Tzib, […]
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