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The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Britain’s defense department spent the last two days in Belize and is now heading for Guatemala with meetings with the new President Alfonso Portillo. Minister Peter Kilfoyle held a press conference this afternoon at British Army Training Support Unit Belize, BATSUB at Price Barracks this afternoon. He reviewed […]
Written on January 18, 2000 | Posted in
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A two-year-old died in a traffic accident on the Punta Gorda/San Antonio Road on Monday night. Police say a truck carrying cement and driven by Felipe Conrad Munoz of Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala collided with a van driven by William Vellar of Forest Home Village between miles three and four around seven p.m. Two-year-old Darrel […]
Written on January 18, 2000 | Posted in
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Streetside shootings seem to be the headlines again with one over the weekend and another on Monday evening. Coincidentally both were sparked by disputes over women. The latest incident has left twenty-two year old Mark Derrick Banner in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with a bullet wound to the back. Banner was shot around six […]
Written on January 18, 2000 | Posted in
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A resident of King’s Park has been charged with a stabbing at a Belize City nightclub. Thirty-six year old Joseph Robateau of Sixth Street has been charged with dangerous harm after twenty-three year old Jason Adolphus was stabbed in the abdomen during a fight at Miami Nites on Central American Boulevard early Sunday morning.
Written on January 18, 2000 | Posted in
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Here at News Five, we love a good controversy, so when we heard that members of the Toledo Eco Tourism Association and other members of the P.G. tourism industry were getting on a bus and heading for the Belize Biltmore Plaza to stage a “protest” against the Belize Tourism Board we thought there would be […]
Written on January 18, 2000 | Posted in
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If you are a female between the ages of twelve and twenty-five and love to play ball then you might consider becoming a member of the Millennium Female Football Club. According to Adelma Broaster, a footballer and a club member, they want to strengthen female football in Belize. They are looking for females who are […]
Written on January 18, 2000 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Said Musa’s trip to Guatemala City last week to attend the inauguration of the new president marked a chance for a new chapter in Belize Guatemala relations. Since independence in 1981, the issue of the Guatemalan claim to Belize has receded in public mind and in recent years, the issue has arisen only […]
Written on January 18, 2000 | Posted in
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The faces may change from year to year with justices retiring or leaving and their replacements arriving from abroad or stepping up from the local ranks. New attorneys come to the Bar every few months, but the ceremony which opens the first session of the Supreme Court every year remains bound by tradition. This year, […]
Written on January 17, 2000 | Posted in
Trials |
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He was serving time at the Hattieville Prison for the shooting death of a security guard at the Gourmet Restaurant in 1995. Most recently Raymond Flowers was in the news when his presence at a football game in Belize City prompted the so-called “weekend pass” scandal at the Hattieville Prison. But now, Flowers is dead, […]
Written on January 17, 2000 | Posted in
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It was not his first official visit to Guatemala, that distinction having come last year for the Central American Summit with US President Clinton, but it was clearly an important event. A new Guatemalan President was being inaugurated… and with the new man came a new chance to improve a relationship that lately has been […]
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In crime news, a fifteen-year-old Dangriga student has died after being stabbed in the abdomen during a fight on Friday. Police say Godwin Dawson of Yampa Street died this morning after he got into an altercation on Canal Street around eleven thirty Friday night. He was first taken to the Southern Regional Hospital and then […]
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One person has been detained in connection with a stabbing at the Miami Nights Club in Belize City early Sunday morning. Around three a.m. twenty-year-old Jason Adolphus was stabbed in the abdomen during a fight at the club on Central American Boulevard. So far no charges have been filed against the person detained.
Written on January 17, 2000 | Posted in
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In another incident in Belize City, a maintenance worker from Belama Phase One has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly fired three shots at a man walking on Raccoon Street extension early Saturday morning. Egbert Flowers told police around five thirty a.m. a man on a bike road by and shot him in […]
Written on January 17, 2000 | Posted in
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A man from El Salvador has been arrested and charged with rape and unlawful carnal knowledge after two runaway girls returned home. On Wednesday January twelfth, we reported two girls age fifteen and fourteen had gone missing and had told their families they were on their way to Canada. Two days later, however, on the […]
Written on January 17, 2000 | Posted in
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The Fisheries Department would like to remind restaurant owners, shopkeepers and consumers that even though conch season is open, they are checking for undersized conch and making arrests. Last week the department conducted operations in the Belize Harbor, Belize River, Market Square, Stann Creek, Caye Caulker and San Pedro, Ambergris Caye and searched several restaurants. […]
Written on January 17, 2000 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for a fresh slice of Sports Monday. Builders Hardware Bandits of Belmopan had the homefield advantage in their bid for a B.F.L. playoff birth when they hosted league leading San Pedro Dolphins yesterday. A win for the Bandits would make their playoff appearance much closer […]
Written on January 17, 2000 | Posted in
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The father of two children burned to death in a fire Wednesday has been charged with causing death by careless conduct. George Rowland Sr. was charged today after an investigation revealed he left his sons, four-year-old George Rowland Jr. and two-year-old Deon Allen alone in the house on Electric Avenue. Banner told police he went […]
Written on January 14, 2000 | Posted in
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The body of a watchman missing since December twenty-sixth has been found at a cemetery in Hopkins Village. The decayed body was found on Thursday morning wrapped in a blue and white blanket. Police say the remains were identified today as those of Justino Maldonado who disappeared the day after Christmas. Dr. Mario Estradabran performed […]
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Although the inaugural ceremonies were delayed by four hours today in Guatemala City, the new president Alfonso Portillo took the oath of office. News Five’s correspondent Stewart Krohn reports that long discussions in the Guatemalan congress caused the delay, but in his own lengthy speech President Portillo commented that he hoped for strengthened relations between […]
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Beginning February first, Belizeans will have to get a new security card. But it won’t just be for working people, everyone, even children will need one because the card will be used to carry out the new National Health Insurance Scheme. The Social Security Board officially launched the new card Thursday night, saying it represents […]
Written on January 14, 2000 | Posted in
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Today Belizean policy holders of Mutual Life Insurance got assurances from the company which recently bought Mutual Life, Guardian Life Limited, that their coverage would continue uninterrupted. Guardian Life has been managing the life and pension portfolios of the company since August, 1999 and says they are working to make their newly acquired Belizean interest […]
Written on January 14, 2000 | Posted in
Economy |
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Have you been checking out that hot new ride but aren’t really sure what kind of damage it’s going to do to your pocket or how easy it will be to get parts? Well after the four major auto dealers got together last year to display their vehicles and tell customers about the services they […]
Written on January 14, 2000 | Posted in
Economy |
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The third annual Symposium on the State of Belize’s Environment concluded today at the Belize Biltmore Plaza and once again there was a large turnout. By all accounts, the forum, which looked at just about every aspect of Belize’s marine and land resources and how people are using, or misusing them, was a resounding success. […]
Written on January 14, 2000 | Posted in
Environment |
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It has happened again, two more children have burned to death in their home after being left alone. This time however, there were reports to Social Services that the children had been neglected in the past. The report did not come from neighbors, but from staff members at the Karl Heusner Memorial who treated one […]
Written on January 13, 2000 | Posted in
Disasters |
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A Belize City man has been arrested and charged after a shooting on Tuesday. Thirty-year-old Philip Lightburn, an auto dealer on Cemetery Road, has been charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and grievous harm after twenty-one year old David Williams reported to police that Lightburn shot him. According to Williams, he […]
Written on January 13, 2000 | Posted in
Crime |
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