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A press conference was held today in Barbados to announce plans for regional radio and television coverage of the Olympic games in Sydney Australia. The Caribbean Broadcasting Union and Caribbean News Agency, through their newly created subsidiary, the Caribbean Media Corporation, have purchased the broadcast rights for the games and plan to mount a strong […]
Written on July 13, 2000 | Posted in
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It used to be called “wife beating” but in the era of gender equality it has taken on the more sanitized and less descriptive name of “domestic violence.” But whatever you call it, the abuse of domestic partners in Belize–usually women–has come out of the closet. Faralee Gabourel, Reporting Whether we whisper about it behind […]
Written on July 13, 2000 | Posted in
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We’re not sure whether it’s the time of year or just a journalistic coincidence, but if you’ve been watching this newscast during the last few weeks you might think that the most common creatures inhabiting the Belizean rainforest are British teenagers. Having talked to the trekkers from Trekforce and eaten with the young cadets of […]
Written on July 13, 2000 | Posted in
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There were persistent rumours of large numbers of Spanish speaking strangers hanging around a quiet Corozal neighborhood. And after several days of surveillance, on Monday police made their move on an abandoned house in Santa Rita. What they found was twenty-eight Salvadorans, all of whom had entered Belize illegally and appeared to be awaiting transport […]
Written on July 12, 2000 | Posted in
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They say that familiarity breeds contempt and in the case of two employees of a Belize City business establishment, it also bred violence. Twenty-seven year old Arton Bowen, a sales representative of Mala’s store on New Road was stabbed with a knife four times by his co-worker. According to sources, Bowen and the messenger, Keon […]
Written on July 12, 2000 | Posted in
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He cried wolf. That’s the story of eighteen-year old Myron Harris who reported to police on Monday that at about 9:20 on Saturday night he was attacked by an unknown individual and innocently stabbed. Harris, a resident of number forty-eight South Street initially told police that he was walking in the Conch Shell Bay area […]
Written on July 12, 2000 | Posted in
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To the younger generation the name Karl Heusner has meaning only as the two words which proceed “Memorial Hospital”. And even that connection may soon be lost as the media prefer the abbreviation KHMH. But to those Belizeans over fifty, Karl Heusner was a real human being, a dedicated physician who for thirty-six years treated […]
Written on July 12, 2000 | Posted in
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Mental health in Belize tends to be equated with wherever the “crazy house” happens to be located at any given time. For many years there was Seaview, a colonial era hell hole on the Barracks. More recently we have Rockview, a somewhat less hellish hole off the Western Highway near Gracy Rock. But mental health […]
Written on July 12, 2000 | Posted in
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A bus and pickup collided today on the Western Highway at Georgeville. Reports are that the four by four pickup was going too fats and lost control when it hit the speed bump in the middle of the village. The pickup rammed head on into the bus. No one on the bus was injured but […]
Written on July 12, 2000 | Posted in
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It is an old and venerable British institution right up there with the Magna Carta and Tower of London. But the elite English boarding school known as Eton is about more than just top hats and tradition. Eton’s students, it seems, also get out and about. Last week I caught up with a special group […]
Written on July 12, 2000 | Posted in
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In the recent history of crime in Belize we have seen people kill for run of the mill reasons like jealousy and rage. We have also chronicled some unusual homicides resulting from quarrels over a bike, fried chicken and even an ideal. Tonight we add a new reason for a victim’s untimely death: the defence […]
Written on July 11, 2000 | Posted in
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On Monday we brought you the story of a Belize City woman who watched in shock as her home and all her belongings were destroyed in a fire on Victoria street. Neither the building nor its contents, with a total value of over a hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, were covered by insurance. Tonight we […]
Written on July 11, 2000 | Posted in
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The tragedy which struck Barry Bowen Monday morning could easily have been repeated last night, as shortly before 10:00 the entire nation was plunged into darkness–at least that part of the nation served by BEL’s national electricity grid. According to BEL, the massive power outage was caused when a large newly commissioned generator in Mexico […]
Written on July 11, 2000 | Posted in
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It was initially reported as a suicide but family members are having second thoughts. Last Thursday, police reported that the lifeless body of thirty-four year old Kevin Coleman was found hanging from a rope in his girlfriend’s house in Forest Home village. A post mortem revealed that Coleman died from asphyxia due to hanging and […]
Written on July 11, 2000 | Posted in
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Today is World Population Day and Belize joined other members of the United Nations to observe the day by taking a special look at the role of women. We caught up with the director of the Women’s Department, Anita Zetina, who reminded us about the significance of protecting women while examining the issue of population. […]
Written on July 11, 2000 | Posted in
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This afternoon several nurses and other health care professionals sat down for a luncheon at the Karl Heusner Memorial hospital conference room. The gathering was not only to socialize but the to officially welcome Lois Krug, a representative of Health Volunteers Overseas and Nurse Anesthetists Overseas. The organizations were invited by the Government of Belize […]
Written on July 11, 2000 | Posted in
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It is not unusual to see Belizean children as the subjects of news stories on television, radio and in newspapers. But the National Committee for Families and Children is going beyond the concept of young people in the media by sponsoring a project which will have the children actually in charge of their own show. […]
Written on July 11, 2000 | Posted in
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Barbadian Commentators “The ball is in the air, he misses. This could be it here. They have the play…from Barbados. Three seconds, two seconds, the clock in running out. The shot is up, it goes and we have extra time here.” But there was to be no extra time for Belize as officials at the […]
Written on July 10, 2000 | Posted in
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For his part, Dwight Myvette, the man who made the dramatic shot, had absolutely no doubt that his short jumper left his hands well before time had expired. Dwight Myvette, Guard, Belize Nat’l Team “Number thirteen for Barbados was fouled. The coach called me to the bench, he was shooting two free throws. The coach […]
Written on July 10, 2000 | Posted in
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It was a big weekend for Belize’s emergency rooms as a number of shootings and stabbings kept doctors and nurses working late into the night. In the most serious incident one Belize City victim is clinging to life with a bullet still stuck inside his skull. Earlier I visited his family at the KHMH. Sixteen-year […]
Written on July 10, 2000 | Posted in
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As the Martinez family pray that their son recovers from his wound, police are looking into several other shooting incidents that took place in Belize City over the weekend. Around 4:00 Saturday morning residents of Nargusta Street were awakened by the sounds of gunshots. When the firing stopped, fifty-five year old Norris Leslie lay wounded […]
Written on July 10, 2000 | Posted in
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A long standing dispute between neighbours has left a mother and son hospitalized in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to San Pedro police, at about 11:00 a.m. on Friday morning, Dolores Uk was having a heated argument with one Michelle Pineda. Uk’s son, Orlando, seeing the dispute taking place apparently intervened but as he […]
Written on July 10, 2000 | Posted in
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She left work after the news Friday night, but what was supposed to be Janelle Chanona’s last day at the job was extended a few hours by a fire not far from her home. She and cameraman Brent Toombs tore themselves away from watching the basketball game to chronicle the tragedy. Tonight’s story was then […]
Written on July 10, 2000 | Posted in
Disasters |
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Good evening I’m James Adderly and you’re just in time for this big time version of Sports Monday. “We were robbed” is the prevailing view of the Belizean public after watching the semifinal showdown between Belize and the host team Barbados Friday night in the 15th CARICOM Basketball Championship. Nevertheless lets take it from the […]
Written on July 10, 2000 | Posted in
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Tensions on the border with Guatemala may be easing in the future, as today, for the first time, military and police officers from the two countries met for official talks. Representatives from the Belize Defence Force and Guatemalan Armed Forces met this morning in Melchor de Mencos at ten and the talks lasted until mid […]
Written on July 7, 2000 | Posted in
Foreign Affairs |
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