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Guatemalans voted yes to ICJ referendum
No date has been set for Belize’s referendum. The voter turnout in Guatemala was low. GUATEMALA CITY, Mon. Apr. 16, 2018– Voters in Guatemala went to the polls yesterday, Sunday, April 15, to cast ballots in [...]
James Jason Bellencio, 30, murdered on Lovely Lane
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Apr. 16, 2018– The life of Jason James Bellencio, 30, a laborer of Barrack Road, Belize City, was brutally cut short at about 6:30 yesterday evening. Bellencio was walking on Victoria Street towards [...]
Gabriel Escalante, 42, and Mark Seawell, 47, murdered on Caye Lagos
CAYE LAGOS, Belize District, Mon. Apr. 16, 2018– Two friends, Mark Seawell, 47, a boat captain of Pigeon Street, Ladyville, and Gabriel Escalante, 42, a caretaker of Poinsettia Street, Ladyville, who were caretakers of a 3-flat [...]
Prime Minister Barrow leaves for OAS and IMF meetings
Minister of Local Government, Hugo Patt, acts as PM again BELIZE CITY, Mon. Apr. 16, 2018– Prime Minister Dean O. Barrow left the country yesterday, Sunday, April 15, a government press release said today. PM Barrow [...]
UDP bloodletting at PG Town Council
The council says that 10 workers terminated, “to reduce operational expenditure;” one victim says it is because the Council believes that he and others supported the other mayoral candidate in the UDP convention PUNTA GORDA, Thurs. [...]
Marcia Downs, 37, mother of two, gunned down
The cold-hearted gunman shot at her twice — hitting her once in the head BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 12, 2018– Marcia Downs, 37, a mother of two children, 5 and 8, who was an employee at [...]
KHMH administration fires 2 doctors, but refuses to say why
The hospital’s Ad Hoc committee says action is “distasteful and very troubling” BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 12, 2018– Apart from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH)’s structural problem with its roof, which has placed limitations on [...]
UDP “character assassination” agents begin targeting Mayor Wagner
At City Hall, Mayor Bernard Wagner clarifies Council’s position on social assistance. BELIZE CITY, Tues. Apr. 10, 2018– After being on the job for a little over one month since he and his team triumphed at [...]
Belize major illicit drug transshipment point: US
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Apr. 9, 2018– The United States Department of State has just released its 2018 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) and Belize is named in the report as one of the major drug [...]
Evan “Mose” Hyde, Jr. wins 3-way race for CWU president
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Apr. 9, 2018– “Although I have never been a card-carrying union member, I have always, unapologetically, been a unionist at heart. I heartily thank members of the CWU, who through their votes this [...]
