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We begin tonight’s newscast with a fire in the Shipyard community in the north. Social media has been buzzing with a live video that captured this huge fire at a lumber yard in that Mennonite community. The blaze could be seen from a distance and there were several explosions from nearby gas tanks that came […]
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It’s been thirty-nine hours since the grisly murder of a single mother in Belize City and an arrest is yet to be made. While police believe that the motive for the murder is gang-related, they are still investigating the homicide to determine who may have been the triggerman in the deadly early morning attack on […]
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A policeman suffered a stab wound while he was on duty at a grocery store in Belize City on Monday night. Reports are that twenty-eight-year-old Zani Savala, was doing duties at Good Will Store on Central American Boulevard just around closing time at nine p.m., when a young man arrived and wanted to enter the […]
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Nineteen-year-old Felipe Cesar Sanchez, a fisherman of Guerrero Street in the Yabra area of Belize City, is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was charged for being a member of a gang. The Guerrero Street resident appeared unrepresented in the lower courts earlier today where he was read a single charge related […]
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Tonight, a well-known street figure is back behind bars after he was accused of neglecting a judicial order. It is alleged that Ulide Allen, who was granted bail by the High Court for the offense of being a member of a gang and escaping from lawful custody, failed to abide by an order of the […]
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The management of the Belize Electricity Limited held a press conference today to provide the media with a high-level overview on the infiltration of its information technology network by cyber criminals. John Mencias, the Chief Executive Officer at B.E.L., explained that the company carries out its operations on two separate systems. The company’s IT system […]
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According to C.E.O. Mencias, the company has taken steps to employ further security measures. He emphasized the fact that data such as credit card information was not leaked, because B.E.L. does not store such information on its system. C.E.O. Mencias also extended an apology to the customers, employees and stakeholders affected by the incident. […]
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The Belize Electricity Limited is now working to restore its online services. Following the cyber attack, key pieces of hardware for its online server were damaged. As a result, customers are no longer able to pay their bills online. Additionally, the Belize Water Services Limited has abruptly terminated its Joint-Utility Agreement with B.E.L. As a […]
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The Belize Federation of Fishers has gone public, once again, over its concerns in respect to a report ago that a fishing company has been caught with a sizeable catch of undersized conch. The B.F.F. has expressed further concerns that, from its perspective, the authorities have done nothing so far to penalize the company. In […]
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In its initial press release, the B.F.F. had suggested that the fisheries industry was in crisis, a comment to which the Ministry of the Blue Economy has expressed concern. In that release, the B.F.F stated that a month prior to that, it had partnered with the SUMMIT Foundation of the United States to conduct a […]
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It was the late Leela Vernon who sung the famous lyrics, “Ah wahn noe hu seh Kriol noh ga no kolcha”. In tonight’s Kolcha Tuesday, we take a closer look at the Creole culture through the lens of Eboe Town, a slave community that was established centuries ago in what is now known as downtown […]
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In July 2015, the Board of Directors of La Inmaculada Credit Union in Orange Walk terminated the services of General Manager Yolanda Gomez, after twenty-five years with the lending institution. The decision to fire Gomez followed an investigation that was conducted by the Central Bank of Belize, as well as an external financial auditor, where […]
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Civic pride – it is a virtue that many of us lack, and it shows in the way we manage the garbage that we produce individually. That golden rule to put litter in its proper place seems to have escaped quite a few of us while growing up, so we wantonly toss our refuse on […]
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Week three of KTV the Remix, Season Five begins in a short while and there is still time for you to get dressed and head on over to the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts for that in-person experience. The singers are now down to eight who will take on their karaoke renditions of Reggae/Caribbean […]
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