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While diplomats on both sides concentrate on taking the Guatemalan dispute to the International Court of Justice, encroachments in Belizean territory by Guatemalans continue to grow by leaps and bounds [...]
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An international conman who is wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States was caught in Belize on Monday. The police department took several days to release [...]
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There is information tonight that the Orange Walk Forest office on Liberty Avenue today seized logs from two trucks believed to have been illegally felled from a protected area near [...]
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B.E.L. made a surprise announcement today that will be good news to consumers if agreed to by the P.U.C. This comes on the heels of an injunction granted by the [...]
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The Hicatee is considered a delicacy and while it is not illegal to hunt the turtles for personal consumption, it is an offence to hunt them for commercial purposes. Today, [...]
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A fire in the wee hours of this morning left a minor with first and second degree burns. Around three-thirty a.m., twenty-eight year old Kimberly Trapp and her eight year [...]
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After four this evening an accident occurred at mile four on the Northern Highway. It involved a Ford 250 pickup truck belonging to Bowen and Bowen Limited and Daihatsu Delta [...]
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On March fourth, an elderly resident of Chan Pine Ridge in the Orange Walk District was brutally attacked outside his home. Eighty year old Jose Caal, a father of sixteen [...]
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A mechanic of Hattieville is spending his first night behind bars at Hattieville tonight after he was remanded for having sexual intercourse with a thirteen year old girl. Fifty-one year [...]
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Also in Magistrates’ Court, twenty-four year old Harold Mutrie pleaded guilty to Possession of Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition and was sentenced to two years in prison. Mutrie was one of [...]
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A mother almost joined her son at the Hattieville facilities as a prison inmate for using indecent words to a police constable. The woman, thirty-four year old Lavern Longsworth, appeared [...]
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The highly publicized extradition appeal by Rhett Fuller has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal and Fuller is behind bars pending a bail application. His attorney, Eamon Courtenay, is [...]
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Lola Delgado’s Art and Idiocy exhibition opened Wednesday night at the House of Culture, and tonight there is another exhibit that art connoisseurs can’t miss. It is entitled “Roots Life’’ [...]
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It may be a work day but there’s no reason why you can’t pop in at the Anglican Cathedral College‘s fair on Friday. Organizers have been planning since the end [...]
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Available information indicates that hypertension is affecting a large segment of the population and most of time the causes are unknown. Healthy Living this week looks at the symptoms of [...]
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