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Written on March 28, 2002 | Posted in Social Issues | No comment
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U.S. sailor missing at sea
Yesterday we reported on the happy ending to the harrowing ordeal of two men from Dangriga who spent four days lost at sea. Tonight we have news of another missing seaman–but the circumstances leave much less room for optimism. Forty-four year old U.S. National Robert O’Neil left Hopkins Village on March sixth in his thirty-five […]
Written on March 28, 2002 | Posted in Social Issues | No comment
Tourist injured in boating mishap
In another maritime tragedy, a U.S. tourist was injured when he was hit by a motorboat. Fifty-one year old Larry Kelly of the state of Oregon was among a group of six people learning how to dive Wednesday afternoon in the waters off San Pedro when a skiff entered the area and ran him over. […]
Written on March 28, 2002 | Posted in Crime | No comment
Dangriga man killed in traffic accident
The Stann Creek Valley Road has once again been the scene of a fatal traffic accident. On Wednesday night sixty-four year old Phillip Benguche was killed when a car crashed into him as he stood on the roadside talking to a friend in a parked vehicle. Driver of the moving vehicle, twenty year old Clinton […]
Written on March 28, 2002 | Posted in Auto Accidents | No comment
Cayo teen dies 5 days after car wreck
Meanwhile, a Cayo teenager has succumbed to injuries sustained in a traffic mishap that occurred last Friday. Nineteen year old Gaylene Bahadur of Santa Elena died Wednesday at the K.H.M.H. She was one of five students of Mount Carmel High in Benque Viejo injured when their car ran head on to an oncoming pickup. According […]
Written on March 28, 2002 | Posted in Auto Accidents | No comment
Belize joins regional tourism campaign
Belize is among the participants in an ambitious international marketing project to boost Caribbean tourist arrivals in the wake of September eleventh. The Regional Tourism Emergency Programme, budgeted at over eighteen million U.S. dollars, will use television advertising, public relations and promotional activities to stimulate demand for travel from Europe and North America. The Caribbean […]
Written on March 28, 2002 | Posted in Travel | No comment
Health authorities target tuberculosis
Today is World Tuberculosis Day, and it brings into focus a country like Belize where the high rate of TB is of growing concern. Since 1995 we’ve had an average of ninety to one hundred cases per year, mostly in adults over fifty years old, with malnutrition, chronic respiratory conditions or HIV. According to the […]
Written on March 28, 2002 | Posted in Health | No comment
Belizeans head out for holiday weekend
Traffic in town was at a standstill, the bus stations packed, airstrips crowded and marine terminal ram jam with Belizeans and tourists alike. It’s all part of this year’s Easter exodus. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods, who unfortunately had to work all day, has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Transportation services were working overtime today in […]
Written on March 28, 2002 | Posted in Travel | No comment
Cyclists ready for annual Cross Country
They are a fraternity of superb athletes who compete throughout the year in a series of punishing races, leading up to the granddaddy of them all. Ann-Marie reports on the upcoming Cross Country Classic. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting The 74th Annual Cross Country Cycling Classic rides out of Belize City at 6:00 on Holy Saturday morning. […]
Written on March 28, 2002 | Posted in Sports | No comment
Differences submerged, B.W.S. & P.M. open water plant
The new owners of the Water and Sewerage Authority, renamed Belize Water Services Limited, have been alternately hailed as farsighted strategic investors and vilified as rapacious international scavengers. Today those extreme descriptions were set aside as B.W.S. and government put their differences behind them and looked toward a better future. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon, […]
Written on March 27, 2002 | Posted in Social Issues | No comment
Four days missing at sea, 2 men rescued
The sweet water may have been flowing this afternoon at Double Run, but two men lost at sea since Friday night would have given almost anything for a single gallon. Gerald Thomas Junior and his cousin Gregory Martinez were found safe and sound Tuesday evening in the Gulf of Honduras. The pair, who departed Glover’s […]
Written on March 27, 2002 | Posted in Social Issues | No comment
N.H.I. pilot will continue in reduced form
The murky future of National Health Insurance is beginning to clear up. A release by the Social Security Board indicates that the N.H.I. southside pilot project has been extended through September. However, due to cost considerations it will be modified. While basic primary care will remain free of charge, other hospital and pharmaceutical services will […]
Written on March 27, 2002 | Posted in Health | No comment
Guatemalan wounded in border shooting
A confrontation between police and two armed Guatemalans near the Benque Viejo border has resulted in the wounding of one of the visitors. According to police reports, a patrol operating about five hundred yards on the Belize side of the frontier encountered the two men, nineteen year old Jorge Gonzales Salazar and twenty-two year old […]
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Decomposed body of P.G. man found in Bz. City
The decomposed body of a man found in the Port Loyola area of Belize City has been identified. Thirty-year-old Ains Gutierrez of Punta Gorda was found Tuesday evening in the mangroves near the Esso Terminal. The body was removed this morning, but due to the advanced state of decomposition, a post-mortem could not determine the […]
Written on March 27, 2002 | Posted in Crime | No comment
baby in dump was full term murder victim
On Tuesday’s newscast, we reported on the discovery of a human foetus in the Cayo garbage dump. Today, following a post-mortem examination, we are informed that the body is in fact that of a full-term baby boy who was killed after birth. According to police, the cause of death was strangulation and the age of […]
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Shooter sought in robbery attempt
Police are asking the public for help in finding a suspect in an armed robbery. Herman Morris, better known as Yaga, has been identified as one of three men who tried to hold up a shop Tuesday on Lakeview Street in Belize City. According to the proprietor, the robbers became frustrated when they could not […]
Written on March 27, 2002 | Posted in Crime | No comment
Marathon man is latest karaoke winner
Week six of Karaoke Television has produced another winner. This time a man known for his fast feet has earned recognition for his golden voice. William Neal, Host, KTV “The winner for tonight is…Joseph Carr.” (Carr sings “Incomplete” by Sisqo) Carr joins Adilean Coffin, Osvaldo Perez, Rohjani Perriott, Dale Turner and Cherrymae Flowers in the […]
Written on March 27, 2002 | Posted in Miscellaneous | No comment
San Pedro ready for ram jam weekend
Year round, it is Belize’s number one tourist destination and come this weekend the town of San Pedro and Ambergris Caye will be rocking like never before. This morning we sent News 5’s Jacqueline Woods on a scouting trip…and she didn’t want to come back. Patty Arceo, Area Rep, Belize Rural South “We would like […]
Written on March 27, 2002 | Posted in Travel | No comment
Bz-Guat. settlement proposals unveil next month
The O.A.S. sponsored effort to resolve the Guatemalan claim to Belize continues to move toward what is hoped will be a successful conclusion. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today announced that on April twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth the two facilitators in the process will make their proposals to representatives of both nations in Washington D.C. Those […]
Written on March 26, 2002 | Posted in Social Issues | No comment
Two Dangriga men missing at sea
Two young men from Dangriga tonight remain missing at sea. On Friday afternoon twenty-six year old Gerald Thomas Junior and his cousin, thirty-six year old Gregory Martinez, also known as Gregory Flores, were hired to transport several tourists from Dangriga to a resort on North East Caye in the remote Glover’s Reef Atoll. The group […]
Written on March 26, 2002 | Posted in Social Issues | No comment
Truckers protest at Shell
When a tanker ship bringing petroleum products to Belize fails to make port in time, the resulting fuel shortage creates panic at the pumps. But what would happen if the trucks that carry the gasoline and diesel from the port to the pumps fail to arrive? That’s just the prospect that faced the management of […]
Written on March 26, 2002 | Posted in Social Issues | No comment
Milkman stabbed in robbery
A businessman from Spanish Lookout is in serious condition tonight after he was stabbed Monday morning during an armed robbery. According to police, thirty-five year old Aaron Fehr, an employee of Western Dairies, was making a delivery on Jane Usher Boulevard around 10:30. But as he did so, a man walked up to him, stabbed […]
Written on March 26, 2002 | Posted in Crime | No comment
Foetus found in Cayo
The body of a human foetus was found this morning in the garbage dump off the Western Highway in Cayo. Around three this afternoon an attendant at the dump, located between San Ignacio and Benque Viejo, discovered the premature baby as a bulldozer was levelling a load of refuse. The lifeless foetus, believed to be […]
Written on March 26, 2002 | Posted in Crime | No comment
Wounded policeman tells his story
He was stabbed on Saturday night by a man he had once arrested and today P.C. Nelson Nunez is slowly recovering from his injuries. Nunez had been waiting at the bus stop at the corner of Cemetery Road and Central American Boulevard to get a ride home to Roaring Creek, when a teenager he had […]
Written on March 26, 2002 | Posted in Crime | No comment
Kirk Anderson will be new D.P.P.
Local attorney Kirk Anderson has been appointed as Belize’s new Director of Public Prosecutions. Anderson will assume the high-pressure post come May first. In a brief telephone interview with News 5, the attorney says as soon as he takes over, he will be meeting with the staff to outline his plans for the department. He […]
Written on March 26, 2002 | Posted in Social Issues | No comment
