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On Monday nights, our newscast usually opens with the worst of the weekend crime. But lately the situation has gotten so bad, every night is beginning to feel like a Monday. So today, we’re starting out with how one sector of the community is expressing its frustration. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
Written on February 18, 2002 | Posted in
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But as the business community gears up for a shut down, one of their own is still trying to ascertain the damage to their pockets. Romac’s supermarket on Albert Street was closed for a short time this morning after an overnight burglary left the store in disarray. Up to newstime tonight, the store’s management say […]
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In other crime news, a Belize City man is recovering from gunshot wounds tonight after he was shot over the weekend. According to police, around 3:30 on Sunday afternoon, police were alerted to the K.H.M.H. where they found Kenneth Flowers, also known as Big Tom, suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. Big Tom […]
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Prison officials need your help tonight in locating two escaped convicts still on the loose. The department has joined forces with police and launched an all out manhunt for twenty-three year old Peter Augustine, a convicted rapist with two aggravated burglary charges, and twenty-seven year old Ernesto Cervera, who was serving five years for robbery. […]
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Police are also investigating two robbery reports in Belize City. According to thirty-two year old teacher Diedre Faux, around 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, she was near the Queen Square Market when two young men on bicycles rode up to her. Faux says one of the men put a gun to her head and demanded her […]
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After all those crime stories, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the business community aren’t the only ones frustrated with the situation. And while the move of a nation-wide shutdown of businesses isn’t political, it’s certainly designed to get the attention of government. At a recent school opening, the Prime Minister took the opportunity to address […]
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But while the P.M. is angry and businesses are frustrated, the police are working overtime to crack cases. Tonight, we can report that they have made arrests in two murders. According to police, twenty-one year old Clifford Hyde and a sixteen-year-old minor have been charged with the murder of Derry Bennett. Hyde also faces charges […]
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A traffic accident on the Southern Highway has claimed the life of a teenager. According to police, twenty-two year old Bruce Martinez was driving his Honda Civic near the intersection at the Southern Highway and the Stann Creek Valley Road when he lost control of the vehicle and ended up in a ditch. Martinez and […]
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A U.B. student is the youngest Belizean ever to win the lotto jackpot. On Saturday night, twenty year old Susan Ferguson was the lucky person with the right combination to claim a sixty-seven thousand dollar cash prize. An elated Ferguson told News 5 this afternoon that she never dreamed that one of the two tickets […]
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With the wave of violence plaguing city streets, several organisations are trying to come up with ideas to get the Belizean youths to do something constructive. This week, the Scout Association of Belize, is inviting young persons to join their movement and become part of the solution. The action is just one of many planned […]
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In news from the Cayo District, late last week we were reminded that overcrowded classrooms are not just a city phenomena. On Friday afternoon, Prime Minister Said Musa officially inaugurated a new school building for The United Pentecostal School in San Antonio Village. As the students introduced the P.M. to their new classrooms, area representative […]
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For many of us, it would be easy to throw away the key after we’ve locked the bad guys behind bars. But rehabilitation is part of the solution, and for the next two weeks officials from the Police Department, the prison and the judiciary, will be meeting to discuss ways of helping drug addicts become […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve landed aboard this fanciful flight of Sports Monday. The mad rush to make the Regent Cup Football playoffs found the defending champion Kulture Yabra at Dangriga in action against league leading Griga United yesterday as week sixteen rolled in. It was a ballgame you shouldn’t have missed. But […]
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