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The shooting death of fourteen-year-old Laddie Gillett in Placencia on Wednesday has sent shock waves across the nation. Tonight, we bring you an exclusive eye-witness report from nineteen-year-old Thomas Palacio, [...]
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As Thomas Palacio and the friends and family of Laddie Gillett try to come to terms with his death, today the officer allegedly involved in the shooting was arraigned in [...]
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From the courthouse in Belmopan, Paul Lopez visited with Laddie’s football coaches at Youth for the Mission, and one person who has been around Laddie over the past decade and [...]
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The biological uncle of fourteen-year-old Laddie Gillett, Henry “Pulu Musa” Gillett says the family is beside themselves over the manslaughter charge that has been filed against his accused killer, Police [...]
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While there is proven scientific documentation on the efficacy of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine in fighting the COVID-19 virus, data on just how long this vaccine can be effective in the human [...]
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Currently in Belize from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas is Dr Kristy Murray, a medical professor who has been collaborating with the Ministry of Health since 2017 on a [...]
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The lockdown continues in the villages of Conejo, Midway, and Barranco in the Toledo District. The S.I. makes provisions for the extension of the lockdown through to the end of [...]
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Chairman Ico is now appealing to the authorities to relax some of the restrictions on the village. He says that they are in need of some basic necessities: Via [...]
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Belize’s Foreign Minister Eamon Courtenay made a virtual presentation to the United Nations today at a high political forum in Sustainable Development. The event observes the Seventy-fifth anniversary of the [...]
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On Thursday, new justices for the Court of Appeal were sworn in by Governor General Froyla Tzalam. They are Justice Marguerite Woodstock Riley, Q.C.; Justice Sandra Minott-Phillips, Q.C.; and Justice [...]
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The controversial Eleventh Amendment is drafted from similar laws that were passed in the United Kingdom back in the eighties. The Representation of the People Act 1981 disqualifies anyone who [...]
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A criminal investigation is underway by the Belize Police Department to determine whether anyone is legally responsible for the misappropriation of public funds from the Labor Department. Those monies were [...]
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Tensions are brewing in Indian Creek Village in Toledo between Mayan residents and agents for the private landowners. You’ll recall that back in February the Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs [...]
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So, as you heard just now, Cristina Coc says that tensions are brewing between the villager and the representatives for the private property owner. And now the Toledo Alcalde Association [...]
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The Belize Defense Force has issued a statement on a video in wide circulation on social media which purports to show a soldier being possessed by a spirit. Described as [...]
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The Ministry of Education inaugurated several pre-schools and primary schools in the last couple of weeks. Those inaugurations continued on Thursday in the south and west of the country. The [...]
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When COVID-19 hit, many industries were hit hard and continue to suffer as a result of the economic shock and the health restrictions. One of those industries is the entertainment [...]
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In news from around the region, over one hundred and forty people were either arrested or reported missing in Cuba as the government cracked down on protests last Sunday and [...]
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Today, U.D.P. area rep Tracy Panton posted on social media the words of her eighty-one-year-old mother on the proposed eleventh amendment bill. It says, “I do not agree with everything [...]
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