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Tonight, we begin our newscast with the murder of a twenty-five-year-old Guinea Grass resident. Lisandro Martinez was shot and killed on Wednesday night as he headed to Boston Village in [...]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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In the wee hours of March fourteenth, 2016, Edwin Ixpatac was beaten to death while in police custody in San Pedro Town. In the wake of the incident, three police [...]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Last week, a group of social partner senators came forward in the media when their call for a meeting of the Joint Public Accounts Committee went unanswered. At the time, [...]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Blue Economy and Civil Aviation is proposing what is known as an Aviation Hub City for Belize. The idea, according to Minister Andre Perez, is to prioritize [...]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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According to the Minister of Civil Aviation, to every dollar that is made from employment in the aviation industry, five dollars is generated. Andre Perez, Minister of Civil Aviation [...]
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Embassy and the Government of Belize met to reaffirm the U.S.-Belize security partnership. The bi-annual bilateral meeting between the United States and Belize is to strengthen [...]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Statistical Institute of Belize, S.I.B., reports that Belize’s debt-to-G.D.P. ratio has made a forty-five percent fall from a hundred and thirty-three percent in 2020 to eighty-eight percent, where it [...]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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But while C.E.O. Martinez and the S.I.B. statistics present one figure, Economist, Carlos Magana raises questions as to whether that percentage was arrived at perhaps because some elements were eliminated. [...]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier this week, we reported on the twenty-million-dollar loan that the Social Security Board is providing to the Development Finance Corporation to be used on its mortgage program, as well [...]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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As the whole discussion of climate change and carbon credits takes shape, Belize being under-developed, as it were, is an advantage for us in the greater scheme of things. That’s [...]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Concerns have been raised about the illegal occupation of private lands north of Caye Caulker Village. News Five understands that several persons have erected dwellings in an area on the [...]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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A recent Sustainable Energy for All report by the United Nations indicates that countries across the Caribbean are unable to meet their energy demands. CARICOM’s Regional Organization for Standards and [...]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Lait Up Belize Project, an initiative of the European Union, is providing the financial support needed for the Belize Bureau of Standards to develop its energy efficient labeling framework. [...]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The second of two U.S. Air Force flights that were scheduled to transport emergency response vehicles to Belize in July, arrived today carrying two ambulances, two support trucks, and medical [...]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize International Music and Food Festival is less than two weeks away, and while the performing artists are fine-tuning their sets, the San Pedro Town Council and Area Representative [...]
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