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And in Guyana a severe drought continues to threaten that nation’s agricultural sector, particularly the growing of rice. The C.B.U.’s Barry Collymore has more. Rice farmers in Guyana could lose as much as twelve million United States dollars if the current dry spell affecting the country continues for much longer. This assessment was given today […]
Written on February 10, 1998 | Posted in
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Over the last several months News Five’s Patrick Jones has become something of an expert on secondary school sports…but on Friday he covered an event, the likes of which Belize has seldom witnessed. They may be more at ease on a basketball court, or a softball diamond, but these days high school boys and girls […]
Written on February 10, 1998 | Posted in
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There’s disaster aplenty tonight, and while there are few scenes more dramatic than a downtown fire, it was a single shot from a policeman’s revolver in the Belmopan suburb of Salvapan that dominates the weekend’s tragic news. Like last week’s senseless gunplay by a cop doing special duty, Saturday night’s shooting took place at a […]
Written on February 9, 1998 | Posted in
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It was a familiar story. The peace and quiet of a Sunday night in Belize City shattered by the electric news of a downtown fire. But this time the outcome was anything but familiar… as skill, circumstances and good fortune combined to keep the old capital out of serious trouble. It had all the ingredients […]
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On Sunday morning five residents of Belize City were on their way to Hattieville in a pickup when they suffered a blowout in their left rear tire between miles four and five. The vehicle went out of control and suddenly veered off the road where it clipped a tree stump and flipped over, coming to […]
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In a similar accident on Sunday afternoon on the Hummingbird Highway no less than eight of twelve occupants of a pickup truck were injured when a blowout sent their vehicle overturning and off the road. The driver of the 1997 Ford pickup was Pastor Luis Alberto Larrias of San Ignacio. The accident occurred while Larrias […]
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Good evening. I?m James Adderley and welcome to this new portion of Sports Monday. League leading Acros of Belize City headed West to the Norman Broaster Stadium yesterday in an effort to confirm a birth in the B.F.L. 3 game Championship series while for Real Verdes yesterday?s match up was all about respect. We join […]
Written on February 9, 1998 | Posted in
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It is rare in Belize — or most other places for that matter — that one person will make a totally unprovoked deadly attack on another. But according to Martin Martinez, a B.E.L. employee who lives in the village of Double Head Cabbage, that’s exactly what happened to him and his wife as they slumbered […]
Written on February 6, 1998 | Posted in
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One man and two minors have been charged in the attempted armed robbery of a Chinese shop on Tuesday night in Belize City. Eighteen year old Kenrick Johnson of Kraal Road and two fourteen year olds have been charged in Magistrate’s Court with three counts of attempted murder and deadly means of harm as well […]
Written on February 6, 1998 | Posted in
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Another Chinese owned establishment was hit by robbers this week, this time in Dangriga. Thirty seven year old Xing Xing Huang told police that just before midnight on Thursday night two dark skinned men, about five feet, four inches in height and wearing masks entered his restaurant, the “Sea Swallow”. One carried a sawed off […]
Written on February 6, 1998 | Posted in
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On Saturday the Belize Defense Force celebrates its twentieth anniversary. Ceremonies to mark the occasion begin at eight in the morning, and include the passing out parade of recruit intake number thirty nine. The program will also feature the official handing over of command from General Earl Arthurs to Colonel Robert Garcia. The actual changeover […]
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He leaves on Monday but before heading off to his next post in Babbados, British High Commissioner Gordon Baker today presented the Archives Department with a collection of historical maps and drawings. The documents were purchased personally by Baker and his wife Sheila from an antique dealer in London, and include a survey plan of […]
Written on February 6, 1998 | Posted in
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It arrives every year around this time, the gleaming color cover so pretty that you want to mount it on the wall instead of lay it on a table or desk. But usually by the ninth of March the once new phone book is already showing signs of wear, with stray messages scrawled across the […]
Written on February 6, 1998 | Posted in
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He’s been wounded in the battle of the sexes and gone up against such touchy topics as the cruise ship, family court and National Anthem. Tonight G. Michael Reid just tries to follow the bouncing ball. Although only recently accepted as a legitimate sport in America, football or soccer as they call it over there, […]
Written on February 6, 1998 | Posted in
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A twenty two member delegation from the Republic of China on Taiwan may be touring the country to promote investment, but while the high powered visitors are being wined and dined in fancy hotels and restaurants, their less well connected brethren continue to take their licks on the mean streets of Belize City. Today, members […]
Written on February 5, 1998 | Posted in
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While would be robbers may have been shooting up a Belize City shop Tuesday night, the tables were turned in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. When Mark Lizarraga, 36 year old proprietor of Southside Meat Shop on Albert Street, heard a suspicious noise on his verandah, he emerged to find a burglary in progress. […]
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Tonight the family of Mark Martinez in Double Head Cabbage remains in shock after an escaped prisoner entered their home and attacked them with a knife. While at this time reports are sketchy, the police say Peter Augustine, who was serving a five year jail term at Hattieville Prison, was one of the inmates taken […]
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The 1998 National Secondary School Softball Tournament opens Friday afternoon in the nation’s capital. Eight teams, four male and four female, will make the journey to the Dora Beaton Stadium in Belmopan to compete in the knockout tournament being held under the patronage of the Principals Association and Texaco Belize Limited. Independence High’s boys and […]
Written on February 5, 1998 | Posted in
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A new artist is displaying his works at the Belisle Art Gallery in Belize City. Patrick Jones stopped by for a look. They are the work of an up and coming artist … and what they lack in color the paintings of Omar Sanchez-Rivera, make up for in originality. Omar Sánchez-Rivera, Artist “The messages are […]
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In an age when computers automatically correct our printed words, it’s an art that seems almost archaic. But if you’ve ever received a hand or typewritten letter from a person who cannot spell, you know just how painful such communication can be. So how do we promote such skills in our children? There’s nothing like […]
Written on February 5, 1998 | Posted in
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In terms of financial aid there is no country more important to Belize at this point in our history than the Republic of China on Taiwan. The Government of that industrious island has loaned and granted funds for everything from housing to farming and even fronted us cash to help balance our beleaguered budget. Today […]
Written on February 4, 1998 | Posted in
Foreign Affairs |
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In local crime news the police say that there is nothing of note to report but in Trinidad and Tobago the nation is reeling from a double suicide that is straight out of “Romeo and Juliet”. When two teenaged lovers did not receive the blessing of their parents they decided that life was no longer […]
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In case you were wondering, the dates have now been set for the National Agriculture and Trade Show. The two day affair in Belmopan, which takes place every two years, will be held on May sixteenth and seventeenth. The theme, which seems to grow longer every time, is “Revitalizing Belizean Agriculture for Diversification and Competitiveness […]
Written on February 4, 1998 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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And speaking of special events, the Ministry of Human Resources has appointed the September Celebrations Committee, whose job it will be to come up with a big bash for the bicentennial of the Battle of Saint George’s Caye. The committee is chaired by Janine Sylvester while Ewart Robateau is the first deputy. If the Government […]
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Social Issues |
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For students of hospitality management at the Center for Employment Training one of the prequalifying requirements for on- the-job-training is a presentation that simulates a sit down dinner at a fancy hotel or restaurant. While the exercise may have been a test, the food was quite real… and News Five’s Patrick Jones was only too […]
Written on February 4, 1998 | Posted in
Education |
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