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Written on January 28, 2021 | Posted in Economy,Featured,People & Places,Travel | Comments Off

Dennis Robinson Police are investigating the murder of 23-year-old Dennis Robinson which took place on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 in Dangriga Town, Stann Creek. There were reports of shots being fired near the Monument Site area in the town at around 6:45 that evening and when police responded, they discovered Robinson’s lifeless body in an area off the road. The victim, who had dreadlocks, was dressed in a blue T-shirt and white pants and had four apparent gunshot wounds to the back, hand, ...

Jan 26, 2021 Female Manatee Freed from Fishing Gear The Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute Belize rescued a manatee that was entangled in fishing gear. The manatee was first spotted dragging a boat bumper off the coast of Dangriga on January eighteenth. After a week of searching for the animal, it was located just north of the mouth of the Sittee River on Monday.  Manatee Conservationist Jamal Galvez of the Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute and a team successful...

Jan 25, 2021 Dozens Gather Outside of Lands Dept. in Belize City This morning in Belize City, many persons gathered at the office of the Lands Department near the Cemetery Road roundabout. News Five understands that those individuals were all applicants for first-time land ownership. The gathering outside of the building drew the attention of passersby, and the police were called in to enforce the COVID-19 regulations.  It seems that with the implementation of a new application system...

Written on January 21, 2021 | Posted in Featured,Health,People & Places,Politics | Comments Off

This George Price Day will be a memorable one for many Belizeans. For some Belizeans those memories will be pleasant ones. However, some 80 plus Belizeans will be remembering it as the day when they were fired from their jobs by a cold-hearted vindictive government. Those 80 perople include 80 people who were working in various positions at the Bus Terminals across the county as a part of the Terminal Management Units. Their positions ranged from Janitors to Terminal Managers. It appears that t...

Most who come to Belize are a little surprised to see so many tiny children teaming everywhere dressed immaculately in school uniforms. I’ll never know how those kids who seem too small to be able to walk keep those bright uniforms clean while ambling home on the dusty country roads around Cayo and Corozal. For my first 10 years in Belize I never really gave much thought to the quality of the school system. It was when my roaring 20s turned into my supposedly more respectable 30s and I found ...

Jan 14, 2021 Prime Minister John Brice ñ o left the country on Tuesday and is to return on January seventeenth.  During his absence, the Minister of Natural Resources, Petroleum, and Mining is acting as Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economic Development.  But those additional duties did not prevent Minister Hyde from a scheduled visit to Dangriga, where the first of a series of consultations is taking place. It’ s an effort being undertaken by the Lands Department to ...

  Malcolm Shaw “Simply because it is an authentic hand-made, home-made ice cream and it taste a bit better than the mass produced ice cream; a bit more novel.”   Belinda Lacquisiere “I am enjoying Nice Cream since they have opened. My favourite one is the vanilla; the toasted coconut and rum and raisin. It is different; for me it is nicer; creamy; different flavour.”   Damian Grieco, Customer, Nice Cream “I’ve been coming here since they opened. I think it is a couple years now....

  Matthew Gomez Sr. “I nuh think suh, mien, my lee bwai ina wah different world. My son and deh play football and deh thing but I nuh know my son to know of any disappearance of anybody and thing. My son nuh hang out with dah crowd to that extent and thing. They dah brethren and thing and once upon a time deh dah mi thugs but of late my son nuh hang out with dah crowd none at all. There will be a lot of speculations and thing yuh know. But if wah person want go go and join police, deh nuh in...