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A man was shot to death and his wife chopped with a machete in their shop on Monday night. Today police made several arrests and say they are bent on dismantling a ring of criminals which planned and executed the terror on Jasmin Street. Ashton Belgrave, Arrested “They put me against him innocently. I no […]
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Shortly around six this morning Ruben Crawford a tour guide of Crooked Tree Village made a gruesome discovery. He found a partially decomposed body of a man floating in the Crooked Tree Lagoon. The man, who is of a dark complexion, has been identified as one Melvin “Bogo” Rhaburn, a fisherman of Carmelita Village. According […]
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Another man has been arrested and remanded to Hattieville Prison after he allegedly molested two minors in his neighborhood on Monday March twenty ninth. This time the children were only five and seven years old. Thirty eight year old Michael Reneau of number forty Plues Street in Belize City was picked up by police on […]
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Two days after the police detained Michael Williams for a second time in connection with the brutal rape and murder of twelve year old Jackie Fern Malic, the police have still been unable to make an arrest. And in fact, police are now saying that due to the extremely sensitive nature of the case no […]
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A man whose name is well known to basketball fans has been arrested for drug trafficking. Clinton “Pulu” Lightburn was taken into custody after he reportedly attempted to evade a B.D.F./police checkpoint at the junction of the Burrell Boom Road and the Northern Highway Wednesday night. Police say Lightburn’s red Isuzu Trooper was observed coming […]
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What if every store was having a sale but no one knew about it? Well, there is a sale of sorts on that you may not have noticed in your rush to buy your supplies for the long weekend. But after the holidays you may want to take a stroll down the aisles of your […]
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There are those who head for Miami, for Cancun, for San Pedro or Dangriga and P.G. but there are also those who head for the Western Highway. Every Easter Belize’s cyclists forego the pleasures of foreign or domestic travel to carry on a revered sporting tradition: the Holy Saturday Cross Country Classic. This year the […]
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Channel 5 is looking for a cameraman/editor to work in our news/production departments. Must have experience in a broadcast environment. Reply to personnel director at gbtv@btl.net.
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