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Police were once again on the offensive today following a serious eruption of armed robberies and assaults in Belize City. This morning I was on the scene as officers collared two men and a weapon they believe figure prominently in the recent crime wave. Two more suspects in the recent robberies against Chinese establishments were […]
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It just wouldn’t be another news day in paradise if we didn’t report on the armed robbery of a Chinese owned shop. The latest outrage occurred Tuesday at Sunlight Grocery on Queen Charlotte Street. According to police reports two dark complexioned men wearing masks and wielding guns walked into the store and confronted forty-two year […]
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Ministers of Defence from Belize and Guatemala will meet for the first time this week in an effort to ease tensions between the two nations. The talks, to be held in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, will take place on Friday and Saturday. They form part of the negotiating process initiated last month in Washington D.C. […]
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The “slow” season for Belizean tourism has been anything but, as July airport arrivals show a twenty percent increase over last year. Ten thousand, nine hundred and thirty-eight tourists arrived at the PGIA in July compared to nine thousand, one hundred and thirteen in July of 1999. According to the Belize Tourism Board, it is […]
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Another citrus waste contamination of the North Stann Creek River has occurred as a result of heavy rains in the Stann Creek Valley. The leachate ponds of Del Oro Limited overflowed their banks around 10:00 on Tuesday morning. The citrus company alerted the Water and Sewerage Authority about the situation and WASA immediately switched Dangriga’s […]
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They returned to Belize on Tuesday and today members of Belize’s National Volleyball Team showed off their silver medals. Volleyball Association President Allan Sharp says that strong corporate support has been helpful, but it was the team chemistry which put Belize into the finals in El Salvador. Allan Sharp, Vice President, BVA “The team has […]
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It is customary when a television station broadcasts a programme containing potentially offensive scenes depicting nudity, violence or foul language, that an advance warning be given to viewers. While our next story is neither lewd, violent or foul, we’ll still issue a caution: the following story is about snakes and News Five will not be […]
Written on August 9, 2000 | Posted in
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An acute crime wave, like the one being experienced by Belize City and other urban areas, at some point will prompt an equally acute official response. That happened this morning when law enforcement officers were out in force. When our news team caught up with them during a raid on one southside neighbourhood…the reception was […]
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It seems that almost every night a local Chinese owned store is subjected to criminal attack. So it should come as no surprise that “Everyday” grocery shop on Euphrates Avenue was finally robbed on Monday. Cao Chao Qee, proprietor of “Everyday”, was standing in front of his store around 9:30 p.m. when two men, armed […]
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The suspect detained by police in the killing of security guard Kingsford Obeng has been charged with murder. Glenford Logan was formally arraigned today in Belize City Magistrate’s Court and remanded to Hattieville until a hearing on September eighth. Obeng, who was guarding a grocery store on Saturday night, was attacked by a man who […]
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Ask the people who should know and they will tell you that on the streets of Belize City good marijuana is as scarce as a blue note on the night before payday. While the reason for the shortage cannot be exactly determined, some large-scale busts of major plantations may have something to do with it. […]
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A British initiative to help eradicate poverty in Belize has resulted in a major grant to government. It was announced today that Acting British High Commissioner Martin Fidler has signed an agreement with Prime Minster Said Musa, under which the UK will provide almost 5.7 million Belize dollars to fund projects to assist low income […]
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If you’ve ever seen an infomercial on television promising to show you how to better your life for an expensive price, you probably changed the channel. But this time, the self-help is not on video and it won’t cost you a penny. It turns out that Stephen Okeke, master sculptor and budding inventor, is also […]
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It may not have been gold, but the silver medal brought back from El Salvador by Belize’s National Volleyball Team in the Central American Senior Championships, looks pretty good. Today News Five caught up with the team’s high flying opposite hitter Joseph Enriquez. Joseph Enriquez, Belize National Volleyball Team “On the first night of competition […]
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It’s not an unusual occurrence, as torrential rains can be counted on to inundate the country at least two or three times each year. But just because it happens regularly doesn’t mean that bad weather isn’t news. This morning, just after I had sloshed my way into work, I was sent back out again to […]
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We’ve come a long way from the days when people would wait for hours at public standpipes and water pressure in Belize City’s municipal system was measured by ounces per square inch rather than pounds. But the rapid expansion of the city and its satellite communities has outstripped the Water and Sewage Authority’s ability to […]
Written on August 7, 2000 | Posted in
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A Chinese owned shop may be a typical target for robbery, but the wanton destruction caused by Belize City’s young thugs is spreading far beyond the barred windows and locked cash drawers of the corner grocery. The latest fatality in the city’s crime spree is not an immigrant from Asia, but from the continent of […]
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The killing of a security guard from Ghana has brought to light the little known fact that an increasing number of African immigrants are beginning to call Belize home. While some Africans in Belize, such as U.B. professor Dr. Joseph Iyo and sculptor Stephen Okeke, have achieved widespread notoriety, most labour in more commonplace occupations, […]
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The killing Friday night was not the only crime to occur at a Chinese establishment on Central American Boulevard this weekend. Police report that on Friday night shortly after 10:00, four masked men, two of whom were armed with handguns, held up a shop only a few hundred yards south of Sonny’s. Proprietor Lu He […]
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Belize City police are not the only ones dealing with violent crimes. On Sunday a man was found dead in the village of San Lazaro in the Orange Walk District. The lifeless body of thirty-five year old Guatemalan Augustine Castellanos was discovered by a fellow villager lying in the middle of the road just after […]
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A twenty-three year old San Ignacio man is lucky to be alive after the vehicle he was traveling in slipped off the town’s temporary wooden bridge and overturned. According to witnesses, around 2:30 Sunday afternoon, Alejandro Rodriguez was making his way alone across the low wooden span when the accident occurred. It is not known […]
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Good evening I’m James Adderly and you’re on board for another flight of Sports Monday. The National Guinness Eight Ball Billiard Tournament kicked off the Belize District round of the event Friday night. Catt’s Place comes into its first confrontation as the host team against Bismark Club and are up two matches to nil when […]
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It can be argued that the heart and soul of Belize lies not in its cities and towns, but in the villages. Yet these communities, accounting for nearly half of the nation’s population, have had little overt impact on national policy making. But that may soon be changing. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Eight months after the […]
Written on August 4, 2000 | Posted in
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A security guard lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot in the back on Thursday night. Thirty-nine year old Edgar Juarez, a Guatemalan, who works for AAA Security Company, was on duty at Superstore on Cemetery Road. According to police reports, the guard saw two men walk into the store. Juarez […]
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Another Chinese owned business in Belize City has been hit by hoodlums. Wu Dongsi, the proprietor of Coa Kauy shop on Ebony Street, told police he was robbed around 8:30 on Thursday night. Two dark skinned men entered the store armed with a gun and a knife. One of them held the firearm close to […]
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