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A headline story in today’s Guardian, citing evidence from an electronics manufacturer, claims that a newly formed telecommunications company plans to begin serving Belize in the new year. The opposition newspaper quotes the website of the Korean company LG Electronics that it has signed a contract to supply a twenty-million dollar communications system to the […]
Written on December 22, 2000 | Posted in
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More experts continue to confirm the devastating news that the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve will soon be little more than a desolate wasteland. At a meeting in Belmopan to update officials on the situation, Chief Forest Officer Oswaldo Sabido reported that the Southern Pine Beetle currently infests sixty percent of the reserve’s one hundred […]
Written on December 22, 2000 | Posted in
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The grey and rainy weather, which has plagued the country for the last week and much of the year, has not put all Belizeans in a somber mood. All that water from the sky has produced abundant flows for the Mollejon Hydroelectric Plant and by extension its owners, BECOL, and sole customer, BEL. Officials at […]
Written on December 22, 2000 | Posted in
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One man who’s got a lot to be thankful for this Christmas is Belizean-American Milton Palacio. Only recently signed by the Boston Celtics, Palacio got his first starting assignment last night against the New York Knicks on national TV. from Madison Square Garden. It was a rough night for the second year guard as he […]
Written on December 22, 2000 | Posted in
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In other sports news it has been confirmed that Belizean-American track superstar Marion Jones, will be visiting Belize early in the new year. The National Sports Council is putting finishing touches on an itinerary that will have her working with youths across the nation. Jones, who was named Belize’s ambassador of sports shortly after her […]
Written on December 22, 2000 | Posted in
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Residents of Good Samaritan Homeless Shelter in Belize City stand to enjoy improved living conditions thanks to a donation of home furnishings from the Inter-American Development Bank. The gift forms part of a series of donations the Bank will be making to five institutions in the city. Human Development Minister Dolores Balderamos Garcia accepted the […]
Written on December 22, 2000 | Posted in
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It just wouldn’t be Christmas without the Salvation Army’s annual Christmas party and this year the community opened its heart…and purse…even wider than usual. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Close to six hundred children from across the city crowded the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall as special guests of the Salvation Army. The boys and girls received a […]
Written on December 22, 2000 | Posted in
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Trying to choose a Christmas gift is difficult enough, but trying to do it amidst the worst traffic jams in Belize City history is a special challenge. Jacqueline Woods took a walk downtown to see just how bad things were. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It’s probably one of the best times of year to parked your […]
Written on December 22, 2000 | Posted in
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After a number of false starts a contract has finally been signed for the establishment of a tourism village at Belize City’s Fort Point. The agreement between the government, Tourism Board and a private group headed by businessman Mike Feinstein, was delayed by six months of wrangling over details, but construction is now slated to […]
Written on December 21, 2000 | Posted in
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The Inter-American Development Bank has decided that Christmas is an appropriate time to reach out to the community. As part of IDB’s technical cooperation programme, five social institutions in the city will be refurbished: the Sister Cecilia Home, Raymond Parks Night Shelter, Dorothy Menzies Child Care Centre, Ganns Rest House and Good Samaritan Centre. The […]
Written on December 21, 2000 | Posted in
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Belize has officially become a full member of the Central American Integration System, SICA. At a brief ceremony earlier this month at SICA headquarters in El Salvador, Belize was welcomed into the organisation, at which it previously had only observer status. The other members of SICA include Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and […]
Written on December 21, 2000 | Posted in
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This Sunday, a group of Belizeans associated with a number of churches in Belize will be hosting a first of its kind birthday bashment. The party, of course, will be held to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. Kent Clare, an organizer of the event, says as we busily go about doing our holiday shopping […]
Written on December 21, 2000 | Posted in
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There are three more days to go before Christmas and if you are still not sure what gifts to buy you might want to consider a book. Belizean authors and publishers have been putting out a steady stream of literature for several decades now and the selection is better than ever. Alberto Young, Public Relations, […]
Written on December 21, 2000 | Posted in
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There is one Belizean family that will have no problem listing the blessings to be thankful for this Christmas. Jose Sanchez, reports. Maxine Gault, Belize Cancer Society of New York “Clarissa is a very pretty little girl, when she first came to us she was very shy, but she is a bright child. She has […]
Written on December 21, 2000 | Posted in
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Once upon a time, if two Belizeans met in December in the supermarket, chances are it was San Francisco de Assis. And while plenty of our people can still be found stretching their dollars in Chetumal, a whole lot more Mexicans are depositing their pesos south the Hondo. Ann-Marie reports from that rough and tumble […]
Written on December 21, 2000 | Posted in
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Football fans will have plenty to cheer about this weekend as intervention by the Minister of Sports has resulted in an agreement to resume play in the BFL. The decision by the Belize National Football Association and Belize Football League came as the result of a meeting convened by Minister Cordel Hyde between BNFA president […]
Written on December 20, 2000 | Posted in
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Melvin Sebastian Nunez, aka “Sabe” is behind bars tonight, having been charged with theft. The twenty-seven year old was picked up in connection with an incident on Friday on Barrack Road in which Blue Creek businessman David Weiber had over fifteen thousand dollars in cash and cheques plucked from his shirt pocket.
Written on December 20, 2000 | Posted in
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A Belize City man lost his life in a motorcycle accident shortly after 10 this morning. Jason Hemsley, nineteen, an employee of Texaco Belize Ltd. lost control of a Honda 90 cc motorcycle he was riding on Newtown Barracks and slammed into the M.C.C. Grounds fence. The impact threw him off the cycle and as […]
Written on December 20, 2000 | Posted in
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On November seventh, the taxi men operating out of the Venus Bus terminal received notice that the stand had been sold and they needed to vacate immediately. However, the drivers said they had not received sufficient notice and would not move their vehicles. The police were called in to ease tensions and eventually an uneasy […]
Written on December 20, 2000 | Posted in
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For today at least, it seems that Santa Claus has replaced his elves and reindeers with the staff and vehicles of Belize Electricity Limited. In all the districts, BEL employees accompanied by St. Nick have been helping families by supplying them with hampers filled with food and other goodies. We caught up with the jolly […]
Written on December 20, 2000 | Posted in
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The spirit of Christmas did not occur only on the south side of Belize City. It travelled to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where the Glenn Godfrey group of companies accompanied by Ozzie the clown and Santa treated some sick kids to dinner, gifts and lots of laughs. News 5 was on hand for the […]
Written on December 20, 2000 | Posted in
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To help fill the air with holiday cheer the Belize City Council has several events planned for this weekend. The mayor, councilors and staff go caroling on Thursday evening and On Friday night, it’s the annual concert in front of the Commercial Centre. The council’s public relation’s manager Paco Smith says a festive time awaits […]
Written on December 20, 2000 | Posted in
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Beginning next month an environmental group based in San Pedro will conduct detailed research on the Nassau Grouper. The study by Green Reef has become necessary due to the steady depletion of this particularly tasty and vulnerable specie throughout the Caribbean. Today, Green Reef received a cheque for over fifty-six thousand dollars from the Global […]
Written on December 20, 2000 | Posted in
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People who want to experience nature usually have to leave Belize City, but it doesn’t have to be that way anymore. Just a few hundred yards beyond the Faber’s Road Extension lies a beautiful lagoon, surrounded by mangrove that has somehow survived amidst the hustle and bustle of urban life. The Belize City Council has […]
Written on December 20, 2000 | Posted in
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The horror of Hurricane Keith has largely receded in the frantic preparation for the holidays, but as Christmas approaches we decided to take one last look at how things are going on the two islands that bore the brunt of Keith’s fury. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting When we visited the island of Caye Caulker, most of […]
Written on December 20, 2000 | Posted in
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