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Belize City police will no longer work their beats solely on foot as they’ve stepped up their patrols to include two wheels. It’s all part of a new initiative called precinct policing. Today News Five spoke with officer commanding Eastern Division, Assistant Superintendent Allen Whylie, at the handing over ceremony. Asst. ComPol Allen Whylie, O.C., […]
Written on May 30, 2008 | Posted in
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Belize has long been regarded as home to the region’s largest population of those curious creatures known as manatees. And while many scientists have documented that prolific presence, the public does not always gain access to that information. Today marine scientist Caryn Self-Sullivan shared her years of research on manatees in the waters surrounding Swallow […]
Written on May 30, 2008 | Posted in
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Conspiracy theorists will tell you the separate nationwide blackouts that occurred over the long weekend were messages from Belize Electricity Limited to the Public Utilities Commission. But according to a press release from the power company, the outages were the result of trips on the Mexican transmission line. BEL maintains that Monday’s outage was due […]
Written on May 27, 2008 | Posted in
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The heat wave gripping Belize has most of us seeing red but tonight a Corozal farmer is seeing green after he hit last Wednesday’s Lotto jackpot. According to Santa Clara villager Miguel Angel Sanchez, he’s been an avid player for years and could hardly believe his good luck when he realized he’d won one hundred […]
Written on May 27, 2008 | Posted in
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Due to the Commonwealth Day holiday, the next news broadcast will be on Tuesday, May twenty-seventh.
Written on May 23, 2008 | Posted in
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The post mortem on B.D.F. Lance Corporal Warren Cho reveals that he died from “acute pulmonary oedema due to paradigm bleeding of the right lung due to abdominal trauma and laceration”. In layman terms this means he died when his lungs filled with fluid after he went into shock from trauma to the abdomen. As […]
Written on May 22, 2008 | Posted in
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It wasn’t as epic a battle as that described by Hemmingway in “The Old Man and the Sea”, but the catch made this morning by a Belizean fisherman caused quite a stir at the Vernon Street Fish Market. The attraction was an over three hundred pound Jew Fish caught by veteran angler, Ruben Hughes. According […]
Written on May 22, 2008 | Posted in
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In case you haven’t noticed, the heat is on. And while that’s not necessarily the reason why News Five’s Marion Ali spent this morning at a swimming pool, it wasn’t a bad assignment. Marion Ali, Reporting While these students may appear to be banging hooky, they are in fact studying hard. For the past nine […]
Written on May 22, 2008 | Posted in
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A young man from the Corozal District has died, apparently of drowning. Police report that seventeen year old Hilmar Lino of Progresso Village and four others went fishing Tuesday evening in Progresso Lagoon. Their canoe capsized, however, and all five were thrown into the water. While four of the men, including two of Hilmar’s brothers […]
Written on May 21, 2008 | Posted in
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Every year or so the police publicly dispose of all the crime related firearms they have confiscated in the course of their work. And while criminals don’t seem to have much trouble finding equally lethal replacements, the annual exercise at least gives us an indication of what kind of weaponry is out there. News Five’s […]
Written on May 21, 2008 | Posted in
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As I speak, insurance companies and agents are gathering at the Belize Biltmore Plaza. The occasion is the launch of their newest body, The Insurance Institute of Belize. This afternoon Chair of the institute’s Steering Committee, Sandra McKay, told News Five why it’s important. Sandra McKay, Chair, IIBZ Steering Committee “We already have an Organization […]
Written on May 21, 2008 | Posted in
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It never reached the media through police or military channels but tonight the family of a B.D.F soldier, Lance Corporal Warren Cho, have doubts about his sudden death after he was found floating barely alive in the Macal River last Friday morning. Cho died last night at Universal Health Services and is due to undergo […]
Written on May 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Belize Electricity Limited, one of the nation’s largest corporations, is tonight holding its annual general meeting. Despite the company’s current wrangle with the P.U.C. over a requested increase in rates, B.E.L. will report record profits of twenty-nine point nine million dollars on revenues of one hundred and fifty-nine point six million. Sales in 2007 grew […]
Written on May 20, 2008 | Posted in
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It was Bob Marley who said, “When the music hits you, you feel no pain”. The spirit of that quote is being promoted by the Belize Choral Society, who on the occasion of their thirty-fifth birthday, is calling on Belizeans to appreciate the power of music. News Five’s Marion Ali reports. Rose Musa, Founding member, […]
Written on May 16, 2008 | Posted in
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The body of a man who reportedly fell out of a boat and drowned has been recovered. Police report that around eleven-thirty Wednesday morning the corpse of twenty-six year old Gabriel Perez of August Pine Ridge Village was pulled out of the New River Lagoon. He and a friend, Eduardo Murillo, had been riding in […]
Written on May 15, 2008 | Posted in
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The communications technology exhibition at the Belize City Centre today was held under the banner “Connecting Persons with Disabilities: I.C.T. Opportunities for All”. And something for everyone was exactly what News Five’s Marion Ali found. Marion Ali, Reporting In keeping with this year’s theme for World Telecommunications Day, B.T.L. is stressing the need to keep […]
Written on May 14, 2008 | Posted in
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A man from the village of Chan Pine Ridge is believed to have drowned in the New River Lagoon. According to police, on Sunday evening twenty-six year old Gabriel Perez and Eduardo Murillo were riding in a skiff in the New River Lagoon when Perez, who was driving, swerved suddenly and fell out of the […]
Written on May 13, 2008 | Posted in
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Today is International Nurses Day and the senior staff at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, in the company of Minister of Health Pablo Marin, held a special luncheon to pay homage to the over one hundred and eighty nurses at the hospital. According to Director of Nursing at the K.H.M.H., Mavis Palacio, the profession sometimes […]
Written on May 12, 2008 | Posted in
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They are always one of the first organisations to respond in times of disaster and on Thursday the millions of volunteers that are the backbone of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies celebrated the birthday of their founder Henry Dunant, who established the organisation in 1863. The movement, which has been operating in […]
Written on May 9, 2008 | Posted in
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She’s one of the hardest working women in show business and this weekend Millie Jackson will star in a special Mother’s Day concert in Belize City. News Five’s Kendra Griffith sat down with the international singer this morning for a preview. Kendra Griffith, Reporting In the over forty years that Millie Jackson has been on […]
Written on May 9, 2008 | Posted in
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It’s the part of police work that you don’t see every night on the news. Kendra Griffith reports that—like much of society—law enforcement is joining the information revolution. Kendra Griffith, Reporting This morning the Police Information Technology Unit unveiled its latest project, an official department website accessible by the general public. Insp. Mario Alcoser, Manager, […]
Written on May 6, 2008 | Posted in
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While their music may not be the stuff of world tours, the rotating band of artists that dropped by our studios this afternoon believes that their work can still have a major impact right here at home. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has the story. Robert Sampson, Bass, Singers and Players of Instruments “Music is the […]
Written on May 6, 2008 | Posted in
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It’s a game that’s been around over a thousand years, and in Belize its roots likely go back as far as the Baymen. But in more recent times chess has toiled in relative obscurity in our country, with no formal organisation and no figures to indicate just how many people were playing the game. But […]
Written on May 6, 2008 | Posted in
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Bright and early on Saturday morning chess players and fans from across the country will gather in Belmopan to participate in the first annual Belize Chess Olympiad. According to organizer Ian Anderson, the event is being coordinated through the Belize National Youth Chess Foundation to highlight the game as a fun and intellectually stimulating activity. […]
Written on May 2, 2008 | Posted in
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Over the years we have consistently received comments from viewers/readers expressing their difficulty with our transcriptions of certain quotes in stories in which the speakers use Kriol. The common complaint is that such transcriptions are difficult—if not impossible—to read. The other side is that putting broad Kriol into proper English destroys all the flavour of […]
Written on May 2, 2008 | Posted in
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