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As commuters and other drivers who frequent the Northern and Western Highways can tell you, this week getting outside of the city took a little longer than usual. Twenty-four hour checkpoints have been established on both major highways in an attempt to make the public feel safe. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on the success […]
Written on February 22, 2002 | Posted in
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Tonight police are asking for the community’s assistance after the body of man was found this morning in the Orange Walk District. The body of a Hispanic male believed to be in his late fifties was discovered just before 11:00 this morning at mile three on the Yo Creek road. A bicycle was also found […]
Written on February 21, 2002 | Posted in
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Their recent relief efforts for Hurricane Iris were so seamless that you’d think the Red Cross had previously staged a full dress rehearsal. Of course, they had…in the form of Hurricane Keith. Today the organisation met to take stock of how they performed. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Belize Red Cross was one of the first […]
Written on February 21, 2002 | Posted in
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Crime is one of those unique evils that everybody deplores, but no two people seem to agree on its solution. That dilemma was apparent today as a hastily organised protest by the Chamber of Commerce proved enormously successful. Shops were shuttered nationwide and earnest citizens of all ages and economic status stood together to voice […]
Written on February 20, 2002 | Posted in
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The first show in the 2002 season of Karaoke Television got underway last night at the Princess Hotel’s Club Calypso. While the venue may have been new, the competition was vintage KTV: excruciatingly close, with just one point separating the top two contestants. In the end, it was left to host William Neal to announce […]
Written on February 20, 2002 | Posted in
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How much is not exactly clear, but a significant portion of Belize’s business community will close down on Wednesday to demonstrate their exasperation at a crime situation that is widely perceived to be out of control. The dominant feeling among merchants was summed up by Albert Street’s Beulah Sikaffy, herself a victim of a violent […]
Written on February 19, 2002 | Posted in
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Another Belize City resident is counting herself lucky tonight after a stray gunshot threatened the life of herself and her children. According to Cafara Bennett of number six Mayflower Street, around 4:30 this morning, a bullet slammed through the back wall of her home, bounced off a bedroom wall, went through to the bathroom, broke […]
Written on February 19, 2002 | Posted in
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It was last year’s surprise hit, capturing the attention of a viewing public hungry for local entertainment. And with the peculiar institution known as karaoke still as popular as ever, Karaoke Television is back for an encore. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Tonight, KTV 2002 starts on Channel 5. Over the next thirteen weeks, sixty contestants will […]
Written on February 19, 2002 | Posted in
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On Monday nights, our newscast usually opens with the worst of the weekend crime. But lately the situation has gotten so bad, every night is beginning to feel like a Monday. So today, we’re starting out with how one sector of the community is expressing its frustration. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
Written on February 18, 2002 | Posted in
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With the wave of violence plaguing city streets, several organisations are trying to come up with ideas to get the Belizean youths to do something constructive. This week, the Scout Association of Belize, is inviting young persons to join their movement and become part of the solution. The action is just one of many planned […]
Written on February 18, 2002 | Posted in
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For many of us, it would be easy to throw away the key after we’ve locked the bad guys behind bars. But rehabilitation is part of the solution, and for the next two weeks officials from the Police Department, the prison and the judiciary, will be meeting to discuss ways of helping drug addicts become […]
Written on February 18, 2002 | Posted in
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This afternoon the business community was saddened to hear about the sudden and tragic death of thirty-eight year old Mark Gallaty. Gallaty, a partner in his family’s business, Nemwil Insurance on Freetown Road, was found dead in the company warehouse. The police say their investigations have revealed that Gallaty committed suicide by shooting himself in […]
Written on February 15, 2002 | Posted in
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The Belize Advisory Council, the court of last appeal in Belize, this morning swore in its new members for the year 2002. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams was on hand at the Chateau Caribbean Hotel for the ceremony. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting All seven members, five men and two women, took their oath of allegiance, which was […]
Written on February 15, 2002 | Posted in
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Last year a section of the Port Loyola Division was flooded when water overflowed into people’s land due to dredging in the area. This time around, it’s not water that has area representative, Dolores Balderamos Garcia up in arms, but garbage. A number of persons have been illegally dumping garbage in the area and the […]
Written on February 15, 2002 | Posted in
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After Chief Justice Conteh yesterday issued an order restraining Public Utilities Minister Ralph Fonseca from taking any other action on B.T.L. rates until the court has heard B.T.L.’s judicial review, CAPU is not pleased. In a telephone interview with Senator Margaret Ventura, she said that even though the court decided to put a stay on […]
Written on February 13, 2002 | Posted in
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On Tuesday afternoon, two men were clearing trees on Indian Creek Road in the Orange Walk District when tragedy struck. Thirty-two year old William Braun and twenty-three year old John Peters, two Mennonite men from Indian Creek Village, were on a tractor towing a tree when it accidentally hit an apparently rotten tree. The tree […]
Written on February 13, 2002 | Posted in
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Four months after the passage of Hurricane Iris, the rebuilding work continues in Southern Belize. During Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, it was reported that over five hundred houses have been built in the Toledo District, while another three hundred and ninety-two shelter homes have been constructed in both the Toledo and Stann Creek districts. These homes, […]
Written on February 13, 2002 | Posted in
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If you’re standing up, it might be a good time to sit down, because the following news may take a bit of concentration. When we last left the controversy between B.T.L. and government, government lawyers had succeeded in convincing the Supreme Court that a stop order issued by Minister of Public Utilities Ralph Fonseca was […]
Written on February 12, 2002 | Posted in
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The Lovindeer dance is not the only event happening this Valentine’s weekend. If you like steel band music, “Pan Night” just might interest you. Deputy Mayor Yasmin Shoman says the concert is the city’s way of giving back to the residents. Yasmin Shoman, Deputy Mayor, Belize City “We’re gonna have the Grace Primary Steel Band, […]
Written on February 12, 2002 | Posted in
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It’s only been a decade, but sometimes ten years can seem like a lifetime. In January of 1992, the name Hattieville was synonymous with a hurricane, not a prison, and those Belizeans who resided behind bars did so on an appropriately named street called Gaol Lane. In those days, as reported by a rookie journalist […]
Written on February 12, 2002 | Posted in
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Late this evening, Mayor David Fonseca met with representatives of Novelo’s Bus Terminal Taxi Association to try and resolve issues that had developed between the drivers, the Traffic Department and the management of Novelo’s Bus Company. According to the drivers, they were told to move because their vehicles were creating congestion in front of the […]
Written on February 11, 2002 | Posted in
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After much hemming, hawing and delayed promises, government has announced that the sale of Belizean passports has finally come to an end. The death of the latest version of the money-raising scheme, known as the Belize Economic Citizenship Investment Programme, was made possible by the passage of a constitutional amendment on January fifteenth. According to […]
Written on February 11, 2002 | Posted in
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It is a major thoroughfare on the north side of Belize City, and while most residents could readily identify it as Princess Margaret Drive, few will recall the woman whose 1958 visit gave the road its name. Princess Margaret died over the weekend and News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams takes a brief look back at her […]
Written on February 11, 2002 | Posted in
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As police continue to post an all-points bulletin for double trouble duo Jermaine Fuentes and Ian Sutherland, we couldn’t help but be reminded of what happened to the last wanted pair: Kirk “Psycho” Thompson and Edmund Velasquez. Even after their deaths were attributed to drowning, the widespread public perception was that the police had a […]
Written on February 8, 2002 | Posted in
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This weekend, over forty medical staff from the United States will arrive in the country to deliver health care to Belizeans in the Toledo District. According to a release from the U.S. Embassy, the three doctors, seven nurses, dentist, eye doctor and other medical personnel, will be conducting a medical readiness training exercise in the […]
Written on February 8, 2002 | Posted in
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