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Under heavy police guard earlier today, Elmer Nah, the man accused of the heinous triple murder in Belmopan on New’s Year’s Eve, appeared unrepresented before Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman in [...]
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Forty-year-old Arthur Higgs, his common-law wife Tamara Cooper and forty-five-year-old Michelle Higgs, all residents of seventh Street in Kings Park, were arraigned before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson earlier today on [...]
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Closing arguments in the manslaughter trial of Kareem Martinez, a former Corporal of Police charged for the shooting death of fourteen-year-old Laddie Gillett, will be heard on Thursday before Justice [...]
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There is a disturbing allegation that has surfaced about a teacher at one of Belize City’s high schools. A parent has come forward to say that a male teacher at [...]
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The Maya Leaders Alliance has responded to offensive statements made by Toledo East Area Representative Mike Espat during the annual P.G. Day celebration on January twenty-eighth. The comments were made [...]
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This morning, Prime Minister John Briceño, Minister of Infrastructure Development and Housing Julius Espat and a handful of government ministers and C.E.O.’s were on hand for the unveiling of Blackberry [...]
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Attorney for Ritchie’s Bus Line, Orson Elrington, has written to the Department of Transport, demanding that the bus line be given a renewal of the road service permit that it [...]
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The Dominican Republic has officially handed over the chairmanship of the Council of Foreign Ministers of Central American Integration System (SICA) to Belize. Roberto Alvarez, the Minister of Foreign Affairs [...]
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And, given the Dominican Republic’s geographic location to Haiti, we asked Foreign Minister Alvarez about the migration challenges his country is facing. The migration flow out of a severely impoverished [...]
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Today marked the start of the Bowen and Bowen National Spelling Bee competition among primary school students. The event, now in its twenty-sixth year, started today throughout the country in [...]
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The fiercely competitive contest has seen thousands of schoolchildren spell their way to the final rounds, where reserved and extra reserved lists of words are then used in the competition. [...]
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The Benny’s Belize Hurricanes held a press conference this afternoon at the Belize City Civic Center to introduce its star-studded line up of players ahead of Friday’s matchup against the [...]
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And, it is not often that we hear about controversy within the realm of local basketball. But, as the stakes increase within the B.E.B.L. there is bound to be disagreements [...]
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