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It’s Belize’s largest single industry, biggest foreign exchange earner and foremost employer … so when the government body in charge of tourism speaks, we better listen. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports on the latest plans announced by the B.T.B. Kendra Griffith, Reporting This morning the Belize Tourism Board hosted its ninth annual industry presentation to […]
Written on April 25, 2007 | Posted in
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Anyone who owns a motor vehicle knows that a good mechanic is worth his weight in gold. But does a mechanic always have to be a him? The Department of Women’s Affairs is betting that fixing a car is not dependant on whether you carry an X or Y chromosome. They’re offering a special course […]
Written on April 25, 2007 | Posted in
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She’s one of our favourite animals and today April the tapir celebrated her twenty-fourth birthday. As is customary, this morning students sang Happy Birthday and presented April with her cake, made of dissolved dog food and topped with kumquats and carrots. Yummy. The special event for the beloved specimen of our national animal is hosted […]
Written on April 20, 2007 | Posted in
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Miss Belize Maria Jeffery continues to pound the pavement tonight trying to round up support for her participation in the Miss Universe competition scheduled for May twenty-eighth in Mexico City. Following a fundraising radioathon in San Pedro last weekend, Jeffery has been able to pay the ten thousand dollar entrance fee that will guarantee her […]
Written on April 19, 2007 | Posted in
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Three police officers whose quick action resulted in the apprehension of a pair of robbers earlier this month were honoured today in a short ceremony in Belize City. Corporals Lenox Broaster, Basil Reyes and Glen Caliz of the Anti-Drug Unit each received a letter of commendation and two hundred dollars cash from Police Commissioner Gerald […]
Written on April 18, 2007 | Posted in
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For the last seven days, a Corozal man has been sitting on a pile of money. On April eleventh, Florencio Catzim held the winning ticket for the sixty thousand dollar Lotto jackpot and this afternoon, he walked into Tropical Gaming Company to claim his prize. Florencio Catzim, Lotto Winner “Just say well I glad I […]
Written on April 18, 2007 | Posted in
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While residents of Crooked Tree were wondering whether a U.S. researcher was killing their fish, another group of gringos was busy on a number of public service projects that will be remembered long after the fish problem is forgotten. Kendra Griffith, Reporting For the next two weeks, thirty-two medical professionals from the U.S. Air Force […]
Written on April 18, 2007 | Posted in
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The waltz bears about as much resemblance to the dances done in Belizean clubs as a tuxedo does to a baggy shirt and sagging jeans. And that’s just the point of the latest fundraising event for Palloti High: something dignified and different. Janelle Chanona reports from the dance floor. Janelle Chanona, Reporting On Saturday night, […]
Written on April 17, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight, prison authorities and police are searching for a former inmate following a daring escape around eight this morning from the vicinity of Magistrates’ Court. Details are sketchy at this time, but reports are that well-known burglar Dennis Quilter apparently was taken by bus from Hattieville prison to court in Belize City to stand trail. […]
Written on April 16, 2007 | Posted in
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And lest we think that all police news this weekend was about crime, we are happy to report that over four hundred youths from around the country gathered Thursday through Saturday for three days of friendly sports competition as part of the Police Youth Cadet Corps annual camp. For the second time, the Dangriga contingent […]
Written on April 16, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight we note the death of Ismael Gomez Senior. Gomez, one of Belize’s pioneering business figures, died early this morning at his Belize City home following a three-month battle with cancer. Gomez was a senator and president of the Chamber of Commerce and in 1974 he established Belize Flour Mills Ltd., the country’s first flour […]
Written on April 16, 2007 | Posted in
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Since March, customers buying fuel at the fifteen Shell gas stations across the country have received raffle tickets for every fifty dollars spent. Today all those tickets went into a barrel and one lucky couple drove way in their new 2007 Suzuki Vitara. Kendra Griffith, Reporting This morning, last minute gas buyers hurried to get […]
Written on April 13, 2007 | Posted in
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For more than three decades Belize has been sending young women to participate in the Miss Universe Pageant. But the closest any of our contestants have come to winning the popular event was in 1974. That was the year Sarita Acosta made it to the top ten. Thirty years later the country has yet to […]
Written on April 13, 2007 | Posted in
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In other news from the labour front, the Belize Communication Workers Union has issued a press release condemning the decision by Belize Telecommunications Limited to refuse Christine Perriott access to any of their offices. The release asserts that B.T.L. is ignoring a direct court order to quote “restore Perriott to her position at the Internet […]
Written on April 12, 2007 | Posted in
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The post mortem conducted on the body of eighteen year old Romero Logan has determined that he drowned. Forensic pathologist Hugh Sanchez certified cause of death as asphyxia due to drowning, ruling out any possibility of foul play. But despite that fact, today the victim’s family continues to dispute the finding. Stephanie Smith, Victim’s Mother […]
Written on April 11, 2007 | Posted in
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In unrelated news regarding the telecommunications company, today B.T.L. officially launched its telephone directory for 2007. The book is being hailed as a major milestone for the company because it was produced in-house. Previously, publication of the directory was outsourced, but when that contract came to an end last year, B.T.L. created a new department, […]
Written on April 11, 2007 | Posted in
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There will be no newscast on Friday and Monday due to the Easter holidays. The next news broadcast is on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007.
Written on April 5, 2007 | Posted in
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It has been a busy session for the civil side of the Supreme Court and earlier this week another important suit was filed, this time against a proposed tourism development near Placencia called Ara Macao. On Tuesday, attorney Antoinette Moore, on behalf of the Peninsula Citizens for Sustainable Development, filed an application for permission to […]
Written on April 5, 2007 | Posted in
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You might not have realised it, but April first marked the beginning of Poetry Month in Belize. The event is the brainchild of the Belizean Poets Society and is being celebrated under the theme: Emancipation XP, in honour of the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. B.P.S. executives Jahseed X and Ritamae Hyde stopped by […]
Written on April 5, 2007 | Posted in
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In December, B.T.L. launched its voice over internet protocol programme called Webtalk, with which people living in Belize can make cheaper calls to places all over the world using their computer. This week the company took it a step further, launching an international version targeting local travellers and persons living abroad. And according to the […]
Written on April 5, 2007 | Posted in
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Those Belizeans who will be working over the next four days -particularly in the medical field – will face a double burden. Not only are they deprived of a long holiday at a nice time of year, but invariably, with so many people on the move, serious accidents are inevitable. Today I found out that […]
Written on April 5, 2007 | Posted in
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it’s a time of the year when fair weather and four days of holiday make for fun all across the nation. And to make sure we don’t return on Tuesday to a newscast full of bad news, Belize’s law enforcement authorities today announced some ambitious plans for Easter. Gerald Westby, Police Commissioner “It was emphasized […]
Written on April 4, 2007 | Posted in
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In December 2006, the Belize Bank launched its new debit card as a form of payment for its more than forty thousand clients countrywide. As a promotion, cardholders had the chance of winning thousands of dollars in a raffle. Today the lucky names were drawn at the Belize Bank headquarters in downtown Belize City. According […]
Written on March 30, 2007 | Posted in
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If making money was easy, we’d all be rich. For those of us not born with the Midas touch, one initiative in Belize is hoping to teach young people how to move up the economic ladder. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Thirty-three year old Stephanie Smith is one of the eighty young entrepreneurs the Youth Business Trust […]
Written on March 28, 2007 | Posted in
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This morning, the sixth annual book fair was launched at the Leo Bradley Library in Belize City. This year’s event is being held under the theme “Reading Develops the Mind.” According to Coordinator Raymond Bradley, the fair and open day included a read aloud and story telling competition as well as other opportunities to instil […]
Written on March 28, 2007 | Posted in
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