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It is beginning to resemble a battle of the press releases. First the Chamber of Commerce used the printed word to lambast the United States Government for its alleged attempts to kill off the Caribbean Banana Industry in favor of its own giant multinational corporations. The U.S. Embassy then fired back a salvo of its […]
Written on November 25, 1998 | Posted in
Agriculture |
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While the fate of Belize’s banana industry may depend on which side of the Atlantic wins the trade war, one group of Belizeans is taking its economic future into its own hands, with a venture into the world of international finance. On Thursday night Provident Bank and Trust, Belize’s first offshore bank, will be officially […]
Written on November 25, 1998 | Posted in
Economy |
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Today the Women’s Deparment celebrated International Day to end Violence Against Women and this afternoon students filled St. Mary’s Parish Hall to hear more about domestic violence in Belize. Acting Departmental Director, Brenda Garbutt, told News Five about the need for men and women to work together to combat violence in the home, while some […]
Written on November 25, 1998 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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While almost all of us have an opinion on the subject of domestic violence, most of our knowledge on the subject comes either from our own experience or what we hear from our friends. This morning, however, I had the chance to find out just how big a problem we may be facing. There have […]
Written on November 25, 1998 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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Since 1993 they have become Belize’s biggest benefactor and indications are that the government of Taiwan shows no signs of slowing down. While the latest donation is barely chump change compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars in balance of payments support, infrastructure projects and housing funds, the two hundred thousand dollars presented Monday […]
Written on November 24, 1998 | Posted in
Disasters |
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On the local charity scene Courts has come forward with a unique plan to aid victims of Hurricane Mitch in the neighboring countries of Central America. The furniture and appliance emporium will donate two dollars to the Belize Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund for every purchase made between now and Christmas. The commitment applies at […]
Written on November 24, 1998 | Posted in
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In case you haven’t noticed, this is Police Week… and while the press/police relationship is not always a love affair this morning the positive vibrations extended to journalists and the public as well. The occasion was a P.R. visit to some of the city’s more notorious neighborhoods. News Five’s Hyacinth Latchman went along for the […]
Written on November 24, 1998 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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It will be one month and two weeks that nine year old Jay Karen Blades, a student of Lake Independence Methodist School, has been missing. According to the family, Blades left home on the morning of October seventh to go to school, but never did show up for classes. Blades, who had been having problems […]
Written on November 24, 1998 | Posted in
Crime |
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The government has announced that the Small Farmers and Business Bank, an institution whose establishment was promised in the P.U.P. manifesto, has been created and will open its doors on December first. The bank, which will provide loans for farmers and small businesses, will specifically target women. The bank’s office is on Constitution Drive in […]
Written on November 24, 1998 | Posted in
Economy |
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In more news from Belmopan the Belize Enterprise for Sustained Technology, BEST, today signed an agreement with government to manage the Terra Nova Forest Reserve in the Cayo District. What makes this deal unique is that the six thousand acres of Terra Nova are being set aside for the sustainable use of medicinal plants. BEST […]
Written on November 24, 1998 | Posted in
Environment |
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In the days following Hurricane Mitch I reported from San Pedro on the damage that community suffered and the drama its residents endured. Tonight I’m back from a trip to an island far more isolated than Ambergris and one which came a whole lot closer to the threat of total devastation. On Monday morning, October […]
Written on November 24, 1998 | Posted in
Disasters |
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Stories about deteriorating conditions at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital are nothing new, as this station has, from virtually the day it opened, chronicled everything from shortages of critical supplies and use of outdated medicines… to the building’s leaking roof and peeling tiles. Tonight our look at K.H.M.H. is more serious as the family of a […]
Written on November 23, 1998 | Posted in
Health |
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Today, six crew members off a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter may be thinking that they were probably much safer patrolling the high seas for drug traffickers than facing a bunch of robbers that came at them on Wednesday night in Belize City. According to police reports, The men had been socializing at the W.B. Bar […]
Written on November 23, 1998 | Posted in
Crime |
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When things are slow in the hard news department we can usually depend on our stalwart viewers to provide us with good filler in the form of a wild animal story. This morning was no exception as residents of Albert Street West in the Yabra area reported that a six-foot crocodile, known locally as “haligata,” […]
Written on November 23, 1998 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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We had almost forgotten about the nearly century and a half old Anglo Guatemalan dispute over Belize but today we are informed by the Foreign Ministry that on Friday representatives of Belize and Guatemala met in Miami to continue what are termed “technical discussions”. A release states that the Guatemalans proposed that differences over territory […]
Written on November 23, 1998 | Posted in
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In other diplomatic news a delegation from the People’s Republic of China is in Belize looking for opportunities in trade and investment. Viewers should note that these visitors are not from Taiwan, which is known formally as the Republic of China, but from the communist state on the mainland. Belize and the P.R.C. established relations […]
Written on November 23, 1998 | Posted in
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The first completed section of the Southern Highway was officially opened this morning. The thirty kilometer stretch between Cattle Landing and Big Falls was paved at a cost of almost twenty million dollars. Present at the opening ceremonies were the Director General of the Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development Bader M-Al-Humaidhi, Minister of Works, […]
Written on November 23, 1998 | Posted in
Economy |
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In other development news from the south the Toledo Institute for Development and the Environment, “TIDE,” has signed an agreement with the Interamerican Development Bank for community based environmental monitoring of the district’s coastline. The I.D.B. will provide TIDE with one hundred thousand U.S. dollars to establish a monitoring system to analyze coastal changes as […]
Written on November 23, 1998 | Posted in
Environment |
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As foreign aid goes it is not in the same league as the Southern Highway or even Coastal Zone Project in Toledo… but don’t tell that to the seventeen farmers who will benefit from a project to be undertaken by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. The Tele Food Micro Project launched this […]
Written on November 23, 1998 | Posted in
Agriculture |
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to another dose of Sports Monday. We start this session by taking you out to City Center for the high school basketball clash between St. John’s College and E.P. Yorke High School. As usual the St. John’s team comes out very organized as demonstrated here by perfect ball […]
Written on November 23, 1998 | Posted in
Sports |
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No doubt reacting to sharp criticism from the Belize Chamber of Commerce and an uncharacteristically harsh denunciation by the usually pro U.S. Reporter newspaper, the U.S. Embassy today issued a release defending its position on the banana controversy. Caribbean producers, including Belize, have increased the tempo of their attacks on U.S. policy, which has been […]
Written on November 20, 1998 | Posted in
Economy |
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On Monday we reported on the arrest of two errant fishermen for the possession of a boatload of undersized lobster tails. Four days later, two other anglers have been charged, this time, not for the size of the catch but for the way the fish were caught. Setting of nets near a river mouth is […]
Written on November 20, 1998 | Posted in
Crime |
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This Sunday marks the beginning of Youth Week, which will be held under the theme, “Breaking the silence: creating change through healthy lifestyles.” Acting Director of the Youth Department, Sherlyn O’Brien, explains why the emphasis on health. Sherlyn O’Brien, Acting Director, Youth Department “We know we have young people facing a lot of dilemmas such […]
Written on November 20, 1998 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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Their paintings are among the most sought after of any Belizean artists… and this month the public gets a chance to see their works together. Earlier this week News Five’s Stewart Krohn had the rare opportunity to see the art… and speak to the artists. They are about as different as two painters can be […]
Written on November 20, 1998 | Posted in
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News Five commentator G. Michael Reid has spent a good part of his life away from home, and it turns out that an appreciation of the nineteenth of November was something which had eluded him… until yesterday that is… “In 1941 and after years of dogged effort, the man whose bust sits custodial at the […]
Written on November 20, 1998 | Posted in
Commentary |
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