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Traffic accidents remain one of the country’s leading causes of death and over the weekend, tragedy struck when four members of one family from Orange Walk District perished in a head-on collision. The mishap occurred on the Yo Creek/San Antonio Road on Saturday night. What’s worse is that the driver of the other vehicle is […]
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The Belize Police Department’s Communications Director, A.S.P Fitzroy Yearwood explained that when investigators arrived at the scene that night, they saw two mangled vehicles and debris strewn everywhere. While the driver of the other pickup truck, Byron Tillett is also hospitalized, he has been served with a Notice of Intended Prosecution, as police continue to […]
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There was another traffic accident up north, this time in the Corozal District. It involved a motorcycle and an S.U.V. As Yearwood explained, the motorcycle driver perished in that collision, after he reportedly veered into the other lane and collided head on with an oncoming vehicle. A.S.P. Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department […]
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The decomposing remains of twenty-one-year-old Freddy Chicas were discovered by a search party on Friday morning, in the vicinity of the Eight Mile Community along the George Price Highway. A missing person’s report had only been issued for the whereabouts of the Hattieville resident the night before; but, according to the family of the young […]
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“Delivering on Plan Belize” is the title that Prime Minister John Briceño gave to his 2023/2024 Budget Speech. In his seventy-seven minutes oration on Friday inside the National Assembly, the PM touched on the external factors affecting Belize’s economy, developments in the financial sector, public debt, his administrator’s performance in 2022 and its projected performance […]
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One of the high priority areas listed in the 2023 budget is land distribution. Prime Minister Briceño says that government is making a significant investment in the surveying of over eleven thousand parcels of land across the country that will be distributed to first-time land owners in 2023. He gave further details during his speech. […]
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Inside the House of Representatives, Prime Minister Briceño also spoke about the thirty million dollars lost in tax revenue from fuel in 2022. Outside of the House, reporters asked P.M. Briceño about his projections for 2023 where fuel is concerned and if Belizeans can expect to see the cost go down. Prime Minister John […]
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A freak accident just off the coast of Caye Caulker on Saturday afternoon has left a well-known fisherman dead. The grieving family is still trying to come to terms with what took place that resulted in Jose Castro’s fatal injuries. While the police department is conducting an investigation of its own, so is the Belize […]
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Thirty-two-year-old Kriston Andre Smith, a former public officer, was arraigned today in connection with the burglary of the magistrate court’s building in the parking lot on Regent Street. The burglar may have been on a spree of break-ins prior to that incident, as he also appeared before the lower court today where he was arraigned […]
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Tonight, a well-known criminal is once again behind bars for allegedly burglarizing All Saints School over the weekend. Forty-eight-year-old Kenroy Coote appeared before Magistrate Khiana Gordon today where he was read a single count of burglary. It is alleged that on Saturday, March tenth, the King’s Park resident broke into one of the school buildings […]
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On Friday, the Registrar of Credit Unions, Central Bank Governor Kareem Michael, announced that career banker Martin Marshalleck has been appointed to oversee the day-to-day operations of Saint Francis Xavier Credit Union in Corozal. The lending institution is the second largest credit union in the country but has been mired in controversy for the better […]
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It’s a long-awaited piece of instrument that was promised by the previous administration. Today, the Government Press Office has reported that the Minister of the Blue Economy and Civil Aviation, Andre Perez has signed an agreement for the acquisition of a new aviation primary radar and for the upgrading of its air traffic control center. […]
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An independent tribunal is being established to hear the Port of Belize’s appeal in the rejection of its Port Expansion Project. The latest development is that persons have already been identified to sit on that tribunal. And, amendments were made to the Environmental Protection Act to exclude the Senator for Business Community from that tribunal. […]
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And, in our final story for tonight on the 2023/2024 budget, Prime Minister Briceño delved deeper into Belize’s economic growth in 2022 while being interviewed outside of the Assembly Building on Friday. And, according to the Prime Minister, Belize’s economic growth is on pace to surpass the performances of 2021 and 2022, with more BPOs […]
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Goodnight and welcome to another exciting edition of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. Here hoping you are having a great start to your week. He is arguably one of the most talked about players in the 2023 Belize Elite Basketball League, Kirk Smith Junior. And, this coming Friday fans will finally get to witness […]
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