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A young man from Trial Farm, Orange Walk District is dead and an investigation is underway to determine whether the circumstances that led to his demise were intentional or accidental. [...]
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A deadly head-on collision has claimed the life of a taxi driver in Cayo District. The accident happened on Sunday night just before curfew. Alberto Jimenez was driving his cab [...]
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There is a sad end to a missing person’s story from last week. This evening, police have confirmed that the burnt remains found on a farm in Esperanza Village last [...]
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Two weeks after he was shot dead in San Pedro Town, forty-two-year-old Superintendent of police Henry Jemmott was laid to rest in his hometown, Dangriga. He was given all the [...]
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Both the funeral and the wake for Superintendent Henry Jemmott were well attended by hundreds of people. While they all came out to pay their respects to the senior officer, [...]
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Today, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams officially announced that Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood is now the Director of Communications in his office and will be the point man to liaise [...]
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But was Yearwood’s shift to Communications Director of the Belize Police Department a political move to muzzle the ComPol Chester Williams and his office? There is speculation from various quarters [...]
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The Government of Mexico has donated one hundred thousand doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Belize. A small ceremony was held at the Phillip Goldson International Airport on Sunday where [...]
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With the donation, Belize now has approximately one hundred and fifteen thousand doses of COVID-19 vaccines in county. But while the COVID-19 vaccines keeps coming in, the reality is that [...]
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An additional batch of COVID-19 vaccine will arrive next week through the COVAX facility. To date, more than seventy thousand Belizeans have received their first shot. Dr. Natalia Largaespada [...]
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Of the seventy-two thousand Belizeans who have already received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, up to sixteen thousand have received their second and final shot. Doctor Beer says vaccination [...]
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Teachers and government officers across the country will begin to see ten percent less of their salaries starting this month since G.O.B.’s 2021 reduction in public service emoluments and allowances [...]
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The United Nation’s Children Fund, the UN Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration have signed the first joint work plan for migrant and refugees in Belize. According to [...]
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The Supreme Court has refused an application filed by the Belize Fishermen Cooperative Association for leave to apply for judicial review. The claim was filed on behalf of the association, [...]
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The Ministry of Youth has embarked on an ambitious exercise that they say is the first of its kind. This week they officially kicked off a national survey which will [...]
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One of the new support services the Department of Youth has already rolled out is a counseling and wellness service. Director of the DYS Kevin Cadle says this is crucial, [...]
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Over a month ago we told you how the Ministry of Youth, through its Department of Youth Services, has amalgamated youth services providers under one umbrella program called the National [...]
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