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On Tuesday, Smart announced that it had fully restored its international and roaming services, through another source, and not through Telemedia which last Friday pulled the plug on the company stranding ninety thousand subscribers. Word to News Five is that the situation got physical this afternoon when Smart made adjustments to its external equipment, which […]
Written on November 25, 2009 | Posted in
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Another issue that has now been settled is the squabble between Ministers Michael Finnegan and Carlos Perdomo. That was over a parcel of land being purchased by one of Finnegan’s Constituents, Dawn Jorguenson, and which was being taken away by Perdomo back in October. But after a public tongue lashing from Finnegan, he and the […]
Written on November 25, 2009 | Posted in
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He was born four years ago with a rare skin condition and since then the brave young boy has been fighting the odds. But Tarell Sutherland needs your help and urgently so. He is only the second person in Belize to carry this disease. His mother, Nicole McDougal, says that Tarell has a congenital skin […]
Written on November 25, 2009 | Posted in
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The garbage problem remains unresolved in the old capital. City Hall once more breached its most recent agreement with the Belize Maintenance Limited when it could not meet last Friday’s part payment of ten thousand dollars. As a result, BML could not pay its staff and has had to send home about a hundred of […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
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But if the City Council can’t meet even one seventh of its contractual agreement, then how will it meet the full arrangement of seventy thousand dollars a week? There doesn’t seem to be an answer in sight and as they say while the grass grows, the horse starves. We found one of those workers at […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
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But while Ellis looks to the Council to pay up, Councillor responsible for Sanitation, Phillip Willoughby, says the problem is also the citizens’ fault. Philip Willoughby, Councillor responsible for Sanitation “Then I say if in fact that is the case, then we turn around and say to the residents of the city and to the […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
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A Belize city resident whose home was burnt to the ground in April, is still having difficulties getting his life back on track. On April fifth of this year, twenty five year old Fredrick Olivera watched as the home he built with his own hands went up in smoke. Before the fire, Olivera was threatened […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
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Over a thousand residents on a stretch of the Western Highway experienced a dry spell today. According to Belize Water Services Limited consumers from about three hundred and thirty homes were without water during the day. The problem stems from an operation at the Burton Canal Bridge at about mile six on the Western Highway. […]
Written on November 23, 2009 | Posted in
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Telephone users, ninety thousand of them who are subscribers of SMART may find that from early this morning they can’t make international phone calls. That’s because Belize Telemedia Limited has disconnected Smart from its international circuits. BTL has accused SMART of being the beneficiary of a sweetheart deal signed in 2004. SpeedNet Communications Limited, the […]
Written on November 20, 2009 | Posted in
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Back in June of this year, The Liberty Foundation in Ladyville faced certain closure rendering some forty-seven children, who have suffered other major setbacks in life, homeless. Fact is the worldwide recession slowed financial support from local and international donors, thus strapping/crippling the organization. As a result, employees were working four weeks without pay and […]
Written on November 20, 2009 | Posted in
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There is one more allegation to add to a long and growing list of charges of negligence in the national health system. This latest claim comes from a popular local performer who finds himself recuperating at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after his transfer from the Southern Regional Hospital. Twenty-seven year old Albert Tillett Junior, […]
Written on November 18, 2009 | Posted in
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The Flores Bus Line that runs the Ladyville/Lords Bank route already has a legal matter with the Transport Department before the courts. The injunction came after the Department suspended Flores Bus Line from operating for a month, during which his permit would have expired. So Flores, through Attorney Hubert Elrington, sought the court’s intercession on […]
Written on November 18, 2009 | Posted in
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But this afternoon, Minister of Transport, Melvin Hulse, said the problem lies with the same ring of bus owners who keep breaking the regulations and the schedules. Melvin Hulse, Minister of Transport “Anytime yoh hear people noh get something yoh hear all kinda mada rugu bout it. We need to go beyond dis. People need […]
Written on November 18, 2009 | Posted in
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There is one more allegation to add to a long and growing list of charges of negligence in the national health system. This latest claim comes from a popular local performer who finds himself recuperating at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after his transfer from the Southern Regional Hospital. Twenty-seven year old Albert Tillett Junior, […]
Written on November 18, 2009 | Posted in
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The Flores Bus Line that runs the Ladyville/Lords Bank route already has a legal matter with the Transport Department before the courts. The injunction came after the Department suspended Flores Bus Line from operating for a month, during which his permit would have expired. So Flores, through Attorney Hubert Elrington, sought the court’s intercession on […]
Written on November 18, 2009 | Posted in
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But this afternoon, Minister of Transport, Melvin Hulse, said the problem lies with the same ring of bus owners who keep breaking the regulations and the schedules. Melvin Hulse, Minister of Transport “Anytime yoh hear people noh get something yoh hear all kinda mada rugu bout it. We need to go beyond dis. People need […]
Written on November 18, 2009 | Posted in
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He is known as “Clear the Land,” that’s Minister of State Edmund Castro who is the area representative for Belize Rural North. And true to his name, one family that has been residing in Sandhill, is claiming the minister is attempting to do just that, clear their land to give to his constituents. In this […]
Written on November 17, 2009 | Posted in
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On Thursday in Crooked Tree, the family of Jossiah Adolphus rounded up their neighbours in protest against the family of Muriel Tillett that is claiming one point five acres of the land they believe is rightfully theirs. News Five followed up today with the attorney for the Tillett family to get the story over their […]
Written on November 13, 2009 | Posted in
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Richard and Gesenia Cook are still legally married, but they are involved in a battle over custody of their child. In 2005, media houses in Belize and the United States picked up the story when Gesenia said that Richard returned to live in the United States with their daughter Zoe. Richard took the five year […]
Written on November 13, 2009 | Posted in
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Two years ago News Five ran the story of Gesenia Cook, a Belizean mother who was pleading for information on the whereabouts of her then five year old daughter Zoe Kathryn. Zoe’s father, U.S. citizen Donald Richard Cook, had taken the girl to the United States without the consent of his wife. Gesenia did not […]
Written on November 12, 2009 | Posted in
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Emotions were running high in the village of Crooked Tree today after a single mother was evicted from her home. That’s only a part of the story because it involves a parcel of land that was purchased back in 1937 by Jossiah Adolphus from Ann Henrietta Gillett. Delahnie Bain headed to Crooked Tree where she […]
Written on November 12, 2009 | Posted in
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Marisol Elizabeth Perez died one hour after she was born on Sunday and her parents attribute the tragedy to hospital negligence. It is not an unfamiliar allegation and a check of our archives shows that Marisol was the seventh child to pass away under suspicious circumstances in this year alone. The incidents come from the […]
Written on November 10, 2009 | Posted in
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There was a huge cry from City residents last year for the City Council to do something about the deplorable conditions of Albert and Regent Streets in downtown Belize City. The main thoroughfares were a nightmare to drive on. Finally, this year in January, the two streets were paved by the Ministry of Works and […]
Written on November 10, 2009 | Posted in
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A baby girl was born at two o’clock on Sunday afternoon at the San Ignacio hospital. One hour later, she died and the parents are alleging that it’s hospital negligence. The young woman is a first time mother from San Ignacio and her husband claims he was kept away from his wife during the ordeal. […]
Written on November 9, 2009 | Posted in
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Last week Thursday we reported on the sudden death of five day old Alexander Russel Faber. The parents, Rudy and Judith Faber say their realized that Alexander had shortness of breath two days after his birth. And three days later he passed away at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. An autopsy began today but the […]
Written on November 9, 2009 | Posted in
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