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"Not always, we were looking for that. It is not a clear significant trend so many of them are but it is not a significant correlation. It is not a good report card. If my kids came home with that they would be grounded and the TV taken away because it means we have to do something We can't keep going business as usual. Some of these problems with the reef have, regarding climate change and hurricanes and storms...
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"We are concerned because we have been hearing this, almost like football being played, a political football over the months. But as we've always said, us from our side of this House we have to ensure that all citizens are tried equally and fairly and that everyone should be deemed innocent until proven guilty."...
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"The Council feels that in order for the Garifuna culture to be taken into the future that it has to be done with our children. We have to train our children from young to appreciate the Garifuna culture and so they need to be included in all the activities that happen for the 19th celebration...
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What we would like to achieve that we have not done, well there wasn’t any need for it is that unlike other years when we just take toys around the country, we would like to take food stuff with us as well, especially in trying to reach some of those who were devastated by the flood....
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Most of us are percussion students at the university of Veracruz. And the important role of percussion music is that it’s real basic; you can make music with only your body and from that point on to all the percussion instruments we brought with us. We are going to play...
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Latest Regional Headlines
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World
Tibetan Exiles Ponder Fate at India Conference
Tibetans from around the world are gathering in the Indian hill station of Dharamsala for their largest political conference in nearly 60 years. The Dalai Lama called the six-day meeting, which begins Monday, after failing to make progress in negotiations with China on the fate of Tibet. But the Tibetan
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General
SUV with four women flips in highway accident
At news time three women are hospitalised at the K.H.M.H. following an accident at approximately eleven-thirty this morning between miles fifteen and sixteen in the area of Tropical Park on the Western highway. It involved two trucks, an eighteen wheeler and a ten wheeler, that were reportedly racing towards Belize
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Crime
Another Grenade Explodes in Belize City
At 7:00 on Friday night, those living near the corner of Caesar Ridge and Faber’s Road in the Yabra Area heard a loud explosion. It sounded too thunderous to have been dynamite, and it shook the ground too soundly to have been a gunshot. It was what all Belize City
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Business
Belize Barrier Reef in Major Distress
We always boast of having the second longest barrier reef in the world but many of us may not be aware that this World Heritage Site is in major distress. In fact a recent study revealed that only three percent of the one hundred and forty coral reef systems examined
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Politics
P.U.P. condemns firing of BAHA employees
This morning in Belmopan, dismissed BAHA workers protested in front of their former workplace alongside sympathizers and members of the People’s United Party. According to the protestors, which included party leader John Briceño and Lake I area rep Cordel Hyde, they are voicing their displeasure at the actions of the
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Sports
B.B.F. conducting tryouts for under twelve team
The Belize Basketball Federation is well underway in selecting a team of twelve to participate in the Central American Basketball Tournament hosted by neighbouring Guatemala. Over the past two weeks, the federation has been holding tryouts to select under-twelve male players to compete in the regional tournament in December. Belize
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Education
As Pickstock representative, Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington teamed up with Telemedia to repair and renovate the Lloyd Coffin Preschool on Mahogany Street. On Saturday, staff members of the Telemedia and the Pickstock community including the Pickstock Development Committee convened at the school to begin the work. The two groups worked hand
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Entertainment
Melodyman Escobar releases new CD
We first heard of Melodyman when he sang as a guest artist on Ras Indio’s Belizean Girls. Four years in the making, Melodyman Escobar has finally finished recording his debut album called Belizean Artists. The album was released on the fourteenth and is available in stores countrywide. Melodyman dropped by
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Weather
| Belize City | 
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Weather Forecast | | Belmopan | | 79°F |
| | Corozal | | 80°F |
| | Dangriga | | 77°F |
| | Orange Walk | | 77°F |
| | Benque Viejo del Carmen | | 79°F |
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