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Under heavy police guard earlier today, Elmer Nah, the man accused of the heinous triple murder in Belmopan on New’s Year’s Eve, appeared unrepresented before Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman in Belize City. Along with his common-law wife Epiphania Caliz and his brother-in-law Police Constable Manuel Caliz, Nah is on trial for two counts of kept […]
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Forty-year-old Arthur Higgs, his common-law wife Tamara Cooper and forty-five-year-old Michelle Higgs, all residents of seventh Street in Kings Park, were arraigned before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson earlier today on charges of drug trafficking. The trio was arrested after being found in possession of a little over two hundred grams of cannabis. While Cooper pleaded […]
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Closing arguments in the manslaughter trial of Kareem Martinez, a former Corporal of Police charged for the shooting death of fourteen-year-old Laddie Gillett, will be heard on Thursday before Justice Antoinette Moore in the Dangriga Supreme Court. This follows today’s session that occurred inside, as well as outside of the courtroom when the judge, along […]
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There is a disturbing allegation that has surfaced about a teacher at one of Belize City’s high schools. A parent has come forward to say that a male teacher at Canaan Seventh day Adventist high school sent his teenage daughter, who was a student at the high school up until today, a series of indecent […]
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The Maya Leaders Alliance has responded to offensive statements made by Toledo East Area Representative Mike Espat during the annual P.G. Day celebration on January twenty-eighth. The comments were made by the senior politician in respect of the Maya land rights issue and construed it as a matter of the Maya people against other ethnic […]
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This morning, Prime Minister John Briceño, Minister of Infrastructure Development and Housing Julius Espat and a handful of government ministers and C.E.O.’s were on hand for the unveiling of Blackberry Ridge Estate, the latest housing initiative to be undertaken by his administration. The site is a few minutes outside of Burrell Boom Village and is […]
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Attorney for Ritchie’s Bus Line, Orson Elrington, has written to the Department of Transport, demanding that the bus line be given a renewal of the road service permit that it has held since 2008. In a letter addressed to the department and copied to the Chief Transport Officer, Dian Vasquez Garbutt and to the Attorney […]
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The Dominican Republic has officially handed over the chairmanship of the Council of Foreign Ministers of Central American Integration System (SICA) to Belize. Roberto Alvarez, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Dominican Republic and Werner Vargas, the Secretary General of SICA, arrived in Belize on Tuesday on an official visit. During their two-day stay, […]
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And, given the Dominican Republic’s geographic location to Haiti, we asked Foreign Minister Alvarez about the migration challenges his country is facing. The migration flow out of a severely impoverished Haiti has become a growing regional issue. Minister Alvarez offered some insight into how other Central American and Caribbean can address this issue, given his […]
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Today marked the start of the Bowen and Bowen National Spelling Bee competition among primary school students. The event, now in its twenty-sixth year, started today throughout the country in what is called zone eliminations. The Belize Brewing Company’s Coca Cola Brand Coordinator, Vanessa Bowman told News Five today that the preparations started soon after […]
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The fiercely competitive contest has seen thousands of schoolchildren spell their way to the final rounds, where reserved and extra reserved lists of words are then used in the competition. Bowman explains how the list of words is selected. Vanessa Bowman, Coca Cola Brand Coordinator, Belize Brewing Company Ltd. “We have a group that […]
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The Benny’s Belize Hurricanes held a press conference this afternoon at the Belize City Civic Center to introduce its star-studded line up of players ahead of Friday’s matchup against the San Pedro Tiger Sharks. Last night, we showed you interviews with players from the team during their practice on Monday night. We were also at […]
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And, it is not often that we hear about controversy within the realm of local basketball. But, as the stakes increase within the B.E.B.L. there is bound to be disagreements and disputes. And, such is the case with the signing of Kirk Smith Junior to the Benny’s Belize Hurricanes. If the name Kirk Smith sounds […]
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