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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 […]
Written on February 18, 2002 | Posted in
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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 […]
Written on February 18, 2002 | Posted in
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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 […]
Written on February 18, 2002 | Posted in
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After being left for dead near Belizean Beach with a gunshot wound to the head administered by a man he thought was one of his best friends, it’s amazing that Joel Waight is alive today. What is equally amazing, in this age where everyone seems to be too afraid to share information they have about […]
Written on February 15, 2002 | Posted in
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When George Street residents got up this morning, a number of them could not go to work in their vehicles. No, there was not a traffic jam in the area and the cars were not experiencing any mechanical problems, instead, someone had taken a sharp object and slashed the vehicles’ tyres. When News 5 arrived […]
Written on February 15, 2002 | Posted in
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A Santa Elena man is dead after being beaten several times in the head with a steel bar. He is twenty-seven year old Jose Nelson Hernandez. Around 2:30 this morning, Byron Castellanos and Hernandez were at home in Caye Caulker sleeping, when two other apparently drunken men came to the house. Castellanos told police that […]
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This afternoon the business community was saddened to hear about the sudden and tragic death of thirty-eight year old Mark Gallaty. Gallaty, a partner in his family’s business, Nemwil Insurance on Freetown Road, was found dead in the company warehouse. The police say their investigations have revealed that Gallaty committed suicide by shooting himself in […]
Written on February 15, 2002 | Posted in
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The Belize Advisory Council, the court of last appeal in Belize, this morning swore in its new members for the year 2002. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams was on hand at the Chateau Caribbean Hotel for the ceremony. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting All seven members, five men and two women, took their oath of allegiance, which was […]
Written on February 15, 2002 | Posted in
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Police are on the lookout for two prisoners who escaped from the Hattieville Prison. They are twenty-three year old Peter Augustine a convicted rapist and burglar, and twenty-seven year old Ernesto Cevera who was doing five years for robbery. Around 1:00 p.m. today the men were working on the compound, and no one noticed when […]
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Last year a section of the Port Loyola Division was flooded when water overflowed into people’s land due to dredging in the area. This time around, it’s not water that has area representative, Dolores Balderamos Garcia up in arms, but garbage. A number of persons have been illegally dumping garbage in the area and the […]
Written on February 15, 2002 | Posted in
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If you follow the local news closely, you might have noticed that lately gas stations have become a staple for the criminal element. Unfortunately, that often translates into a loss in money and has left more than one security guard beaten up and even killed. Early this morning, the Freetown Esso Gas Station was the […]
Written on February 14, 2002 | Posted in
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Four days after a well-known Belize City man was gunned down in his own store, his suspected murderer has been charged. This man, twenty-nine year old Erlin White was arraigned in Magistrate’s Court today on the charge of murder and remanded to the Hattieville Prison. White is believed to be the gunman who walked into […]
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Tonight, police need your help in capturing a suspect involved in two separate incidents. Authorities say Herman “Yagga” Morris is wanted in connection with a shooting incident and aggravated burglary that occurred seven days apart. On Wednesday, twenty-year old Mark Saragosa reported to police that around 5:30 that evening, he was at the corner of […]
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Police are looking for three suspects who held up the employees of Belize Western Energy Limited on Central American Boulevard. According to police, around 11:30 this morning, a clear complexioned man walked into the establishment and ordered a tank of gas. As the secretary was doing the paper work, two other men then entered the […]
Written on February 14, 2002 | Posted in
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Five students from southern Belize have been awarded scholarships to study at the University of Belize. On Wednesday, through a special program initiated by Prime Minister Said Musa, the three men and two women will pursue associate degrees at the University of Belize. Rudolfo Shal of Punta Gorda is studying for a degree in social […]
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For many Belizeans, this next story is literally a matter of life or death. When a person’s two kidneys fail, a dialysis machine must cleanse the blood on a regular basis. Belize has never had such a machine, so every week several dangerously ill patients are forced to travel to either Mexico or Guatemala for […]
Written on February 14, 2002 | Posted in
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Valentine’s Day might almost be over, and well if your bouquet of roses or box of chocolates got lost in the rush, don’t worry, your significant other still has time to make it up to you. One local high school teacher has published a book of love poems, and even though it’s called “Broken Hearts”, […]
Written on February 14, 2002 | Posted in
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His birth defect has not allowed him to fully participate in school activities or even play with friends. But Noel Young of Amara Avenue in Belize City has reasons to celebrate. Later this month, he will be leaving the country to receive medical care that will allow him for the very first time to do […]
Written on February 14, 2002 | Posted in
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After Chief Justice Conteh yesterday issued an order restraining Public Utilities Minister Ralph Fonseca from taking any other action on B.T.L. rates until the court has heard B.T.L.’s judicial review, CAPU is not pleased. In a telephone interview with Senator Margaret Ventura, she said that even though the court decided to put a stay on […]
Written on February 13, 2002 | Posted in
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A swearing in ceremony for the president of the Senate and eleven Senators took place today at the National Assembly Room in Belmopan. The ceremony marked the official opening of the sitting of the first session of the ninth Senate. Sworn in at the opening session are: President Sylvia Flores, Vice President Clara Zetina, along […]
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Police have arrested a man for the murder of well-known Belizean cyclist and proprietor of Electrical Zone Rebuilders, Dwayne Arnold. He is twenty-nine year old Erlin White. White was picked up last night in Orange Walk and was today charged with Arnold’s murder after he was positively identified in an ID parade. It is alleged […]
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On Tuesday afternoon, two men were clearing trees on Indian Creek Road in the Orange Walk District when tragedy struck. Thirty-two year old William Braun and twenty-three year old John Peters, two Mennonite men from Indian Creek Village, were on a tractor towing a tree when it accidentally hit an apparently rotten tree. The tree […]
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Four months after the passage of Hurricane Iris, the rebuilding work continues in Southern Belize. During Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, it was reported that over five hundred houses have been built in the Toledo District, while another three hundred and ninety-two shelter homes have been constructed in both the Toledo and Stann Creek districts. These homes, […]
Written on February 13, 2002 | Posted in
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“There is no doubt that the situation with respect to crime and violence is today the worst it has ever been in our society.” Those were words delivered by Opposition Leader, Dean Barrow at a press conference this afternoon hosted by the United Democratic Party. Barrow, who first read from a prepared statement called on […]
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Barrow also announced that the party has replaced two of the standard bearers, citing personal commitment as the reasons why they will not be able to contest the upcoming general elections. Mario Galvez of Lake I, has been replaced by Louis Leslie, who ran an unsuccessful convention in the Port Loyola Division, and Colin Gillett […]
Written on February 13, 2002 | Posted in
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