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Nineteen year old Percival Torres will be taken to Magistrate’s Court tomorrow to answer to a charge of indecent assault. According to the police the twelve year old revealed to them that she had been having sexual intercourse with Torres since 1998. Her last sexual encounter with him was on April first. Police say that […]
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Charges of indecent assault were dismissed against forty year old Mike Williams who was accused of fondling a twelve year old girl in January. Williams’ attorney Kirk Anderson tells News Five Magistrate Dorothy Flowers upheld their “no case” submission this morning in Magistrate’s Court. The girl had reported to police that Williams reached over and […]
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Police say they need the public’s help in locating sixty-two year old Fredrick Hopkins, a retired U.S. army veteran who has been residing in Belize. Police report that Hopkins left his home on April first and has not been seen since. However, his vehicle was found April seventh in the Mosul Creek area near Bermudian […]
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The attorney for Rhett Fuller Eamon Courtenay this morning made an application to Justice George Meerabux that he “recuse” himself from hearing their application of Habeas Corpus. In layman’s terms, Senior Counsel Courtenay and attorney Kirk Anderson are asking that another judge hear their Supreme Court application for Fuller’s right to come before the court […]
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To encourage literacy in the language most of us use but few can read, the Bileez Kriol Projek has released its second book in Creole. “Kenti an ih Pa mek wahn Doary” is the story of a little boy who learns to build a dorey. According to the Kriol Projek the story is suitable for […]
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As children return to school after the Easter vacation they have to get back to work in reading, writing, English and Math. For the next four days regional educators will be examining ways to improve children’s performance in these areas at a workshop sponsored by the CARICOM Secretariat and the Ministry of Education. News Five […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we’re back with this new portion of Sports Monday. Acros of Belize City went into yesterday’s international showdown at Norman Broaster Stadium still looking for number 1 this year’s CONCACAF football tournament. We’re about to find out if the fourth try worked like a charm. It was the Guatemalan […]
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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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It was a suggestion made over and over at the Children’s Summit and an action already adopted by concerned citizens in Dangriga. Today the Minister of Human Development and Youth signed a statutory instrument instituting a curfew for Belize City and Dangriga. When it takes effect in the next few days children 16 and under […]
Written on April 9, 1999 | Posted in
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Enforcing the new curfew will take more than just police muscle. Success rests on the cooperative shoulders of the adults in the community. News Five got a sampling of public opinion today. Those we spoke to, including a few children, felt the move by government was the right one. Rather than seeing the curfew as […]
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Seventeen year old Andres Moreno was today charged with two counts of unlawful carnal knowledge and indecent assault of a twelve year old girl. According to police the minor reported that whilst at her sister’s house on March twenty-third at mile fourteen on the Northern Highway Moreno had sexual intercourse with her against her will. […]
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A man is in police custody after he assaulted a young woman yesterday. Police say that twenty-six year old Lyndon Dawson had a misunderstanding with Perline Williams on Faber’s Road. As a result Dawson picked up a piece of board and hit Williams in her head. She was admitted to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital […]
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Last year soldiers from all over the Caribbean tested their mettle in Belize’s jungles during Operation Tradewinds. This year, members of the B.D.F. are venturing further afield to Guyana and the Dominican Republic. Eight sailors from the Maritime Wing, including one woman, left this afternoon for the Dominican Republic where they will spend the next […]
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It was described by many as a case of “Good Cops Gone Bad”. In June of 1997 police claimed that two police officers posted in Corozal ran a road block in Ladyville and tossed five kilos of cocaine and 34 thousand dollars in U.S. currency out of their pickup truck. The truck was later found […]
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The death of a child is never easy to bear, and if that child was plucked from her family in a brutal, inexplicable way, the sorrow is even greater. But the relatives of young Jackie Fern Malic whose story by now is familiar to everyone are not only dealing with her death, but the widespread […]
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Tonight G. Michael Reid says patriotism is fine, but it shouldn’t overshadow a sporting event which offers great possibilities for putting Belize on the athletic map. “The 71st annual Cross Country Cycling Classic is history and in many ways, it was historic. This year marked the final running of this classic for these thousand years […]
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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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There’s more in the case of William Willitts, the naturalized Belizean doctor who was allegedly kidnapped last Thursday by local police and unceremoniously put on a plane to Miami. In a press release the Ministry of National Security has announced that Willitts was in fact a Belizean citizen and should not have been deported. The […]
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The eighth man wanted in connection with the shooting death of businessman Lee Yun Chong on Jasmin Street has been caught. Twenty year old Kenrick Reneau was sitting behind a house in the Junn’s Ville area when police detectives picked him up this morning. Police told News Five that they were conducting raids at various […]
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The Police Youth Corps is holding two days of sporting events at the M.C.C. Grounds. The event has the participation of children and instructors from all districts. Superintendent Yolanda Murray told News Five why they brought all the youth corps members together. Supt. Yolanda Murray “For the youth corps to get to know one another. […]
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What do you do with a bunch of healthy young men with a lot of time on their hands? Put them to work of course. The Department of Corrections is hoping their plan to take some of their more trustworthy prisoners off the compound and into the world of work will pay off. Not only […]
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It took our reporter a month of working out to get in shape for the climb, five days to get up to the top and back down, two days to write the script and eight hours to edit it into a presentable story. The result is fifteen minutes of video, which according to the cameraman, […]
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Although efforts continue to find suitably qualified people to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court, today the Solicitor General Gian Ghandi announced that two Belizeans have been appointed as acting justices to assist with the April Criminal Session. They are retired Chief Justice Sir George Brown and Senior Counsel Wilfred Elrington. The Solicitor General […]
Written on April 7, 1999 | Posted in
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Yesterday police announced at their press conference into the murder of twelve year old Jackie Malic that they are now investigating attorney Kirk Anderson for possible obstruction of justice. Police claim Julie Staine, the girlfriend of the man accused of the murder has alleged she was instructed by Anderson to dispose of some clothing Mike […]
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