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The Christian anti-gay movement has gone on tour of the country to promote the message that persons who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender should not enjoy the same rights as heterosexual men and women. The movement gained some momentum when LGBT poster boy Caleb Orozco took on the Attorney-General in a legal battle to […]
On the economic front, the Statistical Institute of Belize (S.I.B.) is reporting that Belize’s economy grew by two point four percent in the third quarter of 2012 when compared to the corresponding period in 2011. That places the growth rate for the first nine months of 2012 at five point eight percent. The biggest improvement […]
Written on July 3, 2013 | Posted in
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The Orange Walk Town Council is preparing to take contractor Imer Hernandez to court. Hernandez is the nephew of Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega, who was paid by the government to pave San Antonio Road. It did not happen. And when queries were presented to the Ministry of Works, there was a media blackout and […]
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Wouldn’t the 2008 elections have been a very dynamic time if the candidates did not give handouts and wear their colors and found a meaningful way to encourage citizens to vote? Perhaps a debate between the politicians would have shown what they really knew about issues that the country is facing. Currently on a visit […]
Written on July 3, 2013 | Posted in
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It was a violent weekend in the Cayo and Belize districts. We start with this story of two cousins from Santa Elena in the Cayo District who were shot and killed on Saturday night during a failed attempt to rob a Chinese supermarket. Police say the men approached a security guard stationed outside the store, […]
Written on July 1, 2013 | Posted in
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In Belize City, just before nine o’clock on Friday night, a Belize City man was shot and killed on Neal’s Penn Road, not far from where Michael Bucknor was killed about twenty four hours earlier. Twenty-five year old Ashli Garnet died on the spot from gunshots that hit him on the forehead and abdomen. The […]
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But while police are still looking for one person known to them in connection with the murder of Garnet, another has been charged for the murder of sixty-one year old Michael Bucknor. His nephew, twenty year old Sydney Bucknor Junior, was arraigned in court late this evening. Bucknor was shot once to the back of […]
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There is other crime news from the Cayo district. A U.S Missionary is in coma tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after a armed attack on Saturday night. Vicky Weaver and her husband were returning to the Valley of Peace over the weekend when armed men fired at their vehicle. Pastor Dan Weaver was […]
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Tonight, there are persistent, but unofficial reports that planes believed to be Mexican military aircrafts were in Belizean airspace on Sunday. News Five has been told that the planes were picked up by radar, but the pilots refused to respond to communications and requests for identification. Today, News Five contacted the control tower and were […]
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Prime Minister Dean Barrow is winding down what he has dubbed his quasi-official visit to London, which included an audience with the Queen and Prince Charles and meetings with high level government and business officials. Barrow’s visit, even if quasi-official, also attracted the attention of the media and the Prime Minister had a sit-down with […]
The Belize Jaguars is in its final preparations for football matches to be played against the national teams for the United States, Cuba and Costa Rica. The three games will be played in Portland, Oregon; Salt Lake City, Utah and Hartford, Connecticut. The team leaves the country at the end of the week and it […]
There was an execution style murder early on Thursday night in Belize City. Michael Bucknor, the manager of Bingo King Apartments, was shot and killed on Fabers Road as he was conversing with a female friend. The bullet penetrated the back of his head, exited through the right eye and grazed the woman. Bucknor, who […]
Written on June 28, 2013 | Posted in
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This morning, the Belize Court of Appeal handed down a judgment in favour of media personality, Glenn Tillett. Viewers may recall that in 2011, Tillett had claimed declarations against Lois Young, Net Vasquez and the Belize Social Security Board (S.S.B.) that the decision of the S.S.B. to purchase fifty million dollars of B.T.L. shares from […]
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The Pan American Health Organization’s report on the bacterial outbreak in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has laid out pages of inefficiencies and areas where the nation’s referral hospital can improve. The Belize Medical and Dental Union (B.M.D.U.) is now sharing its views on the K.H.M.H. According to the […]
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There is word that a Guatemalan national who was shot by B.D.F. personnel in the Caballo Camp area of the Chiquibul is tonight at the KHMH being treated for a serious infection. The official report at the time of the shooting, on June third, was that Edgar Alexander Alveno allegedly fired on a B.D.F. patrol. […]
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Prime Minister Dean Barrow is winding down an official one week visit to the United Kingdom. PM Barrow’s itinerary included an audience with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles. He addressed trade and investment with financiers and had meetings with the Mayor of London, Alderman Roger Gifford, as well with the UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague. […]
New Horizons is a project first brought to Belize by the US Southern Command in 2001 and again in 2007 and now in 2013. It involves soldiers from SouthCom and the Belize Defense Force coordinating in a joint exercise which combines training with infrastructure projects and education, health and humanitarian works carried out in different […]
The European Union, along with the Pan American Health Organization, has teamed up with the Ministry of Health to provide infrastructure and training that would improve maternal as well as neonatal health. Reducing neonatal mortality is a current national concern since the May deaths of thirteen newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit of the […]
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In early May, just prior to the village council elections, the historic Mayan monument, Noh Mul was grazed to the ground for road fill. But it was not until today that following up on directives from the Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl-Lynn Vidal that four persons were arraigned in court. Denny Grijalva and his wife, […]
Written on June 27, 2013 | Posted in
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Charges associated with the destruction of Noh Mul have been brought against several employees of DeMar’s Stone Company in the Corozal Magistrate’s Court. While the men, including proprietor Denny Grijalva and his wife, were being arraigned this morning, Director of the Institute of Archaeology, Doctor Jaime Awe, was guest speaker at an Annual General Meeting […]
Written on June 27, 2013 | Posted in
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An investigation by the Pan American Health Organization carried out by high level experts into the deaths of thirteen neonates at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is in short, damning of the national referral hospital. It confirms that the Infection Control Committee of the K.H.M.H. was not functioning and that in fact the infection was […]
Written on June 27, 2013 | Posted in
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And our question for tonight is: Even after the damning PAHO report, are you satisfied that no one is yet being held responsible for the neonatal deaths at the K.H.M.H.? Yes or no. Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also […]
Written on June 27, 2013 | Posted in
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Village council elections have concluded across the country following an entirely politicized process in which voters were made a number of promises by its respective candidates. In Caye Caulker, residents were made the proverbial offer of land in return for their votes. And instead of receiving their prescribed parcels, locals on the island are tonight […]
On Wednesday, we reported that the European Union and the Canadian Government donated global positioning systems to the Belize Defense Force and the Guatemalan military. B.D.F. Commander, Lieutenant Colonel David Jones and his Guatemalan counterpart were on hand to receive the donation. The equipment will be used for accurate border patrols. But in the wake […]
Written on June 27, 2013 | Posted in
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The 2013 Gold Cup Games are quickly approaching. The Jaguars are set to leave for the United States on July fifth for the first of three games against the United States, Costa Rica and Cuba. As the team trains at camp, the Football Federation of Belize is also on a drive to raise additional funds […]
