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There was a murder on Thursday night in Belize City. Twenty-seven-year-old Kevin Gillett and forty-two-year-old Glenford Soberanis were with a group of men near the corners of Alrington Drive and [...]
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Another man was shot dead shortly before four-thirty this evening in Belize City. He is thirty-six-year-old Jarett Crawford. Crawford was apparently inside his house when someone ambushed him and shot [...]
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In an update to the triple fatality on Tuesday that claimed the lives of three men, police have formally arrested and charged Joel Disus for three counts of manslaughter by [...]
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The 2022 Ocean Heroes Award ceremony was held virtually on Thursday night. And, in its tradition of honoring those who have been serving as champions in marine conservation, advocacy and [...]
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Belize Telemedia Limited hosted its sixteenth annual general meeting this morning. The A.G.M., held virtually by means of Microsoft Teams, was used to announce the company’s profits over the past [...]
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In breaking down the company’s financial performance, Chief Executive Officer Ivan Tesucum acknowledged that there is a growing shift away from established services such as the use of a regular [...]
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C.E.O. Jose Urbina, a member of B.T.L.’s board of directors, himself a telecommunications expert, spoke about the future of the service provider in the context of embracing greater digitization in [...]
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The Minimum Wage Task Force is currently conducting public consultations to get feedback from the general public on the proposed five dollar minimum wage increase. To date, meetings have been [...]
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During the Prime Minister’s Independence Day speech, he noted that the five dollar minimum wage will be implemented in January 2023. But, do the next three months give the Minimum [...]
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For the past fourteen years, the Belize Central Prison has not had a Visiting Justice Program to take concerns or complaints from inmates, but today, that program was reintroduced at [...]
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Chief Magistrate, Sharon Fraser explained that since magistrates are responsible for sending people to the Central Prison, they have a duty to ensure that the inmates are being held in [...]
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Customs brokers and clerks from countries that make up CARICOM are in Belize for their first ever Caribbean Association of Customs Brokers Conference. The event will take place on Saturday [...]
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The Mental Health Association of Belize commends the Belize Defence Force for displaying a change of the overall attitude in effectively dealing with suicide prevention within its ranks. In a [...]
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Minister of Blue Economy and Civil Aviation, Andre Perez is heading a delegation from his ministry to the Forty-First International Civil Aviation Organization Assembly in Montreal, Canada. Minister Perez and [...]
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At the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, the Belize Red Cross is preparing its volunteers for emergency response. Over the last month, the Belize Red Cross has been hosting [...]
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Belize High School was established in 2010 and since then has been leading the charge in robotics, as its students have been representing Belize internationally at a host of international [...]
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This week, Sabreena wraps up her look on the bright side through patriotism. She met a young, aspiring wrestler that’s making waves in her discipline as young as eleven years [...]
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An ex-policeman turned taxi driver was murdered and his vehicle stolen on Wednesday evening in the Corozal District. The incident happened in the Dominguez Residential Layout shortly after six p.m. [...]
Written on September 29, 2022 | Posted in
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Five murders have been reported in the last ten days, a concerning increase for the Belize Police Department and the Ministry of Home Affairs. Today, we caught up with Minister [...]
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And with the latest increase in murders, the Opposition continues to demand the removal of Kareem Musa from his position as Minister of Home Affairs. In a Facebook post earlier [...]
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As we reported, police arrested and charged thirty-three-year-old Nimrod Catzim for the murder of Belize City resident Bernard Timmons on Independence Day. Catzim is no stranger to the law, as [...]
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court returned a decision in a protracted lawsuit filed against the Government of Belize, following the passage of legislation that prohibited gas companies from importing butane [...]
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The Government of Belize has retained the services of Senior Counsel Andrew Marshalleck in a civil case being brought against the Commissioner of Police, the Attorney General, and the Belize [...]
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John Briceño Minister Musa also responded to questions about the Prime Minister’s comments to the United Nations General Assembly regarding homicides in Belize. Prime Minister Briceño told the U.N. General [...]
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The Prime Minister’s recent speech that was delivered at the Seventy-Seventh United Nations General Assembly in New York drew commendation from quite a few people. P.M. John Briceño spoke on [...]
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