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It’s a familiar scene to drivers who travel on roads leading to garbage dumps. Follow a truck carrying refuse and you frequently find yourself dodging the debris that flies off the back. Jacqueline Woods did some following of her own this morning and found authorities taking action. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today, drivers who were transporting […]
Written on January 15, 2002 | Posted in
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The artists featured in the following story are not wannabe rappers, DJ’s or Belize-Americans trying to launch a CD they recorded in a L.A. garage. These guys, as Ann-Marie discovered, actually play instruments and make sounds that really sound like music. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting In an age where school bands are a rarity, it’s nice […]
Written on January 15, 2002 | Posted in
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A shooting incident over the weekend has resulted in a Belize City man being injured. According to police reports, forty-two year old Albert Myers of Neal Penn Road was shot in his lower back on Saturday night. Myers told police that he was in the vicinity of the Bismarck Club around 9:00 p.m. on Saturday […]
Written on January 14, 2002 | Posted in
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Three Guatemalans are tonight charged with drug trafficking after police busted them with almost thirty pounds of weed. According to officers on mobile patrol in Orange Walk, on Friday they spotted three men walking down the street carrying backpacks and acting highly suspicious. Police stopped and searched the men and found fifteen point eight pounds […]
Written on January 14, 2002 | Posted in
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Life may be returning to normal in southern Belize following the passage of Hurricane Iris almost three months ago, but there are many people, especially in the Toledo District, who are still in need of supplies. Today, one Belize City couple demonstrated that it is never too late to reach out and give a helping […]
Written on January 14, 2002 | Posted in
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Politics in Trinidad and Tobago have yet to settle down after that country’s last general election ended in a tie in early December. The Trinidadian press is reporting that one of the latest points of contention between current Prime Minister Patrick Manning and former P.M. Basdeo Panday is the People’s National Movement’s new pension scheme. […]
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It is a sad, painful fact that while many children go home to parents that love and care for them, there are three times as many, who go home to an environment where they are mistreated, abused and neglected. Too many Belizean children are victims of this practice, evidenced by the number of them being […]
Written on January 14, 2002 | Posted in
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It might be “mawga” season for the rest of us, but one Orange Walk man is tonight seventy-five thousand dollars richer. Oscar Garcia, a sales supervisor of Bowen and Bowen Limited in Orange Walk won Saturday night’s lotto jackpot and after taxes will take home close to sixty-four thousand dollars. An elated Garcia told News […]
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If you happened to be on Freetown Road this afternoon and wondered why there was a slow-down in traffic, don’t worry it wasn’t an accident. Earlier today, Caribbean Shores Area Rep Jose Coye opened a drop-in centre and clinic. The facility will be managed by a steering neighbourhood committee with assistance from NDACC. It is […]
Written on January 14, 2002 | Posted in
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As one of the oldest religions to take root in Belizean society, it’s not too surprising that this year the Roman Catholic Church is celebrating its sesquicentennial anniversary. Bishop O.P. Martin says the year long celebration is being held under the theme: “Celebrating the past, serving the present, embracing the future.” Bishop O.P. Martin, Roman […]
Written on January 14, 2002 | Posted in
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Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re in tuned with this latest serving of Sports Monday. Week eleven of this Regent’s Cup Tournament found Acros Brown Bombers in defence of the barracks here in Belize City against who else, Acros Real Verdes of San Ignacio. Okay, we’ll call it the battle of stoves, but there […]
Written on January 14, 2002 | Posted in
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Two days after the bodies of Kirk “Psycho” Thompson and Edmund Velasquez were retrieved from the Old Northern River in Maskall, just how these two young men died is still a matter of contention. But despite the number of conspiracy theories in circulation and the serious aspersions being cast on the Belize Police Department, it […]
Written on January 11, 2002 | Posted in
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Since this story broke on Wednesday night, the Police Department has asked the public to believe it is entirely plausible that two young men drowned simultaneously in a practically stagnant river that isn’t very deep and is dotted with trees. Whether cramps were the culprits or not, a double drowning is certainly a rare event, […]
Written on January 11, 2002 | Posted in
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Kirk Thompson and Edmund Velasquez will never see the inside of a courtroom, but the street verdict is already in. Ann-Marie took a walk downtown today to find out how some of you feel about this dramatic story. Citizen #1 “I would have wanted him to come in alive. With me fair is fair, and […]
Written on January 11, 2002 | Posted in
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Even though the Police Department maintains that no officer came in contact with either Kirk Thompson or Edmund Velasquez, prior to discovering their bodies in the Maskall River on Wednesday, they were definitely in the area earlier in the week. On that same day, two residents of Lucky Strike Village, located just a few miles […]
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A traffic accident on the Northern Highway has left a woman dead. According to police, thirty-nine year old Jason Guerrero, a music conductor of Belize City, was driving his Isuzu truck from Belize City towards Ladyville around 8:30 p.m. on Thursday. Reports are that Guerrero was between miles seven and eight, near Raul’s Rose Garden, […]
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On Thursday members of the local press dropped a bombshell on news listeners that as many as fifteen prisoners had escaped from the confines of the Hattieville prison and weapons, money and a cell phone had been found on another prisoner. Tonight the superintendent says it’s simply not true. According to Major Errol Gentle, neither […]
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The Government of Belize has confirmed today that the management of the post office, in addition to the Prison Department, will be privatised. The government is trying to conclude negotiations with the present Board of Governors and its chairman John Woods, who has expressed an interest to manage the institution. According to Minster of Housing […]
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With the number of aspiring artists hoping to make it big on the local scene, exposure is crucial. One musician, already part of a popular group, is hoping to cash in on his solo performances. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jcaqueline Woods, Reporting He’s no stranger to the music scene, however, when he entertains, Kenneth Gladden is […]
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In a decade of chronicling the ups and downs of life in the sometimes tarnished jewel we call Belize, it stands out as one of the strangest and most disturbing stories this news organisation has ever covered. Disturbing because three people are dead who shouldn’t be; an unarmed policeman and two men who are suspected […]
Written on January 10, 2002 | Posted in
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A butane-fuelled fire this morning in the Corozal District has destroyed a family’s home and two vehicles. According to Corozal fire station supervisor Wayne Armstrong, the call from San Joaquin Village came in around 7:50 a.m. and when fire-fighters responded a few minutes later, they found a small butane delivery truck, a Dodge van and […]
Written on January 10, 2002 | Posted in
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It was hyped as the first official forum at which irate consumers could lay out a detailed case against B.T.L. and its newly imposed rate structure. And while it delivered somewhat less than expected, the public is now on record to lawmakers in its opposition to the current state of the telecommunications environment. Janelle Chanona […]
Written on January 10, 2002 | Posted in
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If Belmopan is already enshrined in the record books as the world’s smallest capital, what do you say about a community that counts itself as a suburb of the mini-city? News 5’s Jacqueline Woods gives it a try. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It looks like a typical village you’d find in the most remote parts of […]
Written on January 10, 2002 | Posted in
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In late breaking news, rumours were rife this afternoon that a dead body discovered today near the village of Maskall was that of Kirk “Psycho” Thompson. News 5’s Ann-Marie is in Maskall and while she is still not in clear cell-phone range, she has confirmed that police in Maskall have concluded that a body found […]
Written on January 9, 2002 | Posted in
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It has all the earmarks of reinventing the wheel, but Cabinet this week finally decided that fighting crime is so important that the Prime Minister will personally spearhead a set of initiatives to fight it. P.M. Said Musa will chair a ministerial committee consisting of Dolores Balderamos Garcia, Dickie Bradley, Mark Espat and Maxwell Samuels. […]
Written on January 9, 2002 | Posted in
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