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The Belize Biltmore Plaza was packed today as over four hundred fifty people attended the first day of the National Symposium on the State of the Environment. The two-day event includes presentations on a wide range of issues from waste management to aquaculture to population growth. Various NGOs also mounted displays on their organizations. While […]
Written on January 13, 2000 | Posted in
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Over the next five months a total of four thousand Louisiana National Guard personnel and military reservists from fourteen states and Puerto Rico will be rotating in and out of Belize as part of the New Horizons 2000 mission. These “citizen soldiers,” college students or working professionals who devote themselves to the US military on […]
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Three referees and five assistant refs have been approved by the International Football Federation, FIFA. The Belize National Football Association presented the official FIFA badges yesterday at a brief ceremony. B.N.F.A. President Dr. Bertie Chimilio advised the referees and assistants to not allow anyone to intimidate them or hinder them from the execution of their […]
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The Department of Immigration and Nationality Services received a donation of ten computers today from the government of Canada. The computers will be used to link the department into a regional communication network and give them access to migration data. The presentation was made by Nesa Scott a counselor with the Embassy of Canada in […]
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A husband and wife who are both doctors are in Belize as part of the Omni Med Medical education program which is entering its second year. Dr. Michael Morley, an ophthalmologist, and Dr. Katherine Morrow, an emergency physician, are the sixth and seventh medical professionals to take part in the Belize Cooperative Health Education Program. […]
Written on January 13, 2000 | Posted in
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They decided not to recommend replacing the Queen as the Head of State; they don’t feel it’s time to remove the Governor General, nor do they believe electing a president would be a change for the better. But while the Political Reform Commission appointed a year ago by the Prime Minister appears to have taken […]
Written on January 12, 2000 | Posted in
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Turning to crime, a young man in Belize City says he was shot after accidentally knocking into another man with his bicycle. Twenty-one year old David Williams says he was riding his bike on Rhaburn’s Alley Tuesday night when he bumped into another young man. Williams says when they met again later, before he had […]
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Shortly after David Williams was shot, police received another call, this time from Kiss Restaurant on the corner of Mapp Street and Freetown Road. According to reports, just after nine Tuesday night, the security guard for the restaurant, twenty-five year old Oscar Campos, was on patrol when two Creole men attacked him and tried to […]
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In every workplace, employers and employees may not get along all the time, but what happens when a disagreement gets physical? According to Guy Tillett, an employee for over eighteen years at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, right after he signed in to work this morning, he and his immediate supervisor got into a verbal […]
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A young man from San Pedro is looking for his little sister and her friend who ran away, saying they are on their way to Canada. According to Abel Santos, on Monday morning his fifteen-year-old sister, Leora Marleny Santos and her friend, fourteen-year-old Carla Elizabeth Sealey left the Santos’ home on Angel Coral Street in […]
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In Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting Ministers came one step closer to making the proposed University of Belize a reality by agreeing on its legal framework. The ministers also considered an act to provide for the establishment, management and development of the national university, which will be tabled at the next meeting of the House of Representatives. […]
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The Family Services Division has a new home. This arm of the Ministry of Human Development and Women is now located on the second floor of the Commercial Center. At ceremonies this afternoon Minister of Human Development Dolores Balderamos Garcia commented that since legislation was passed making it mandatory to report child abuse, such reports […]
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Ever since the days when St. John’s Anglican Primary School was St. Michael’s College the rainy season has meant students have had to wade through mud and water to get to their classes. But now, thanks to the help of landscape architects from Virginia Tech University, the students and teachers will have sidewalks right up […]
Written on January 12, 2000 | Posted in
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They are professionals in their own country, but they will spend the next two years working in Belize as part of a technical assistance program. This morning fourteen Nigerian doctors, nurses and medical specialists arrived at the Philip S.W. Goldson International. They were escorted by Abdu Ado and Mathias I Dogo-Isonagie of the Nigeria High […]
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Every once in a while Belizeans are saddened to learn that a manatee has been accidentally killed. But the incidents of intentional slaughter also seem to be on the rise. The problem is compounded by the fact that foreigners may be responsible. On Friday I was in Toledo for yet another gruesome discovery. In the […]
Written on January 11, 2000 | Posted in
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On a bright note for tourism, a production team will be visiting various points of interest in Belize this week in order to make several commercials that will be aired later this year in the United States. Belize Tourism Board Director Tracy Taegar says the television ads are the next phase of an aggressive marketing […]
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Fortunes appear to be changing for Belize’s pride of the CARICOM Games Milton Palacio and his NBA team the Vancouver Grizzlies. In mid December the Grizzlies had only four wins and a staggering eighteen losses when the decision was made to fire head coach Brian Hill. Since Lionel Hollins took over as coach two things […]
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While getting a good education is generally viewed as the best way to break the cycle of poverty, the poorest among us often have the hardest time staying in school. To find out what the greatest obstacles to academic achievement are for socially and economically disadvantaged families, a team from the Ministry of Education is […]
Written on January 11, 2000 | Posted in
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The Political Reform Commission will present its final report to the Prime Minister Said Musa tonight in Belize City. The fourteen-member commission, headed by Dylan Vernon, was appointed by the P.M. in January of 1999, and asked to examine all areas of governance in Belize and make recommendations for improvements. The commission’s work included holding […]
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If political reform is not your area of interest, tonight the Belize Audubon Society invites you to a presentation on an issue of environmental concern: Tilapia. According to presenter Peter Esselman this fish, which originated in Africa, poses a major threat to Belize’s fresh waterways. Esselman says the fish is popular with commercial growers because […]
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Travel agents make their money from the commission they get for every ticket they sell. For the past twenty-five years, Belizean travel agencies have been getting a nine percent commission from the airlines that fly into Belize. But in December, American Airlines, Grupo TACA and Continental each wrote to the travel agents telling them that […]
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A pedestrian has reported to police that after almost being knocked down by a car, the driver then got out and tried to shoot him. Twenty-three year old Epitacio Navarro told police that around four thirty a.m. on Sunday he and three of his friends were walking on Newtown Barracks heading towards Cinderella Plaza to […]
Written on January 10, 2000 | Posted in
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Police are investigating the apparent suicide of a tourist at Caye Caulker. Tom Young Jr., owner of Tom’s Hotel on Caye Caulker, told News Five that around ten forty-five this morning, he discovered the body of Gordon James Higton, from the United Kingdom, hanging by what appeared to be a bag strap in the room’s […]
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The occupants of a house which burned down on Nurse Seay Street on January seventh have been charged with arson. Rudolf Lopez Wade and his common law wife Marsha Cattouse reportedly got into an argument around two fifteen a.m. and knocked over a candle setting the house on fire. Police picked up Wade and Cattouse […]
Written on January 10, 2000 | Posted in
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Police are still trying to determine who was at fault in an accident on Friday night between miles six and seven on the Northern Highway. One of the drivers received a broken leg. Reports are that thirty-year-old Stanley Banks of Euphrates Avenue was heading towards Ladyville when he collided into a truck driven by Philberto […]
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