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Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into another serving of Sports Monday. Week 2 of the Regent’s Cup playoffs found the defending semi-pro football champion in action against football champion as Kulture Yabra hosted Builder’s Hardware Bandits. Only one would leave the Barracks undefeated. In a stadium filled with playoff tension, Raul Celiz […]
Written on March 18, 2002 | Posted in
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In a document called a New Time for Belize, Prime Minister Said Musa today presented the budget for the fiscal year 2002/03 to the House of Representatives. While the speech highlighted the adverse economic impact of hurricanes and terrorism, according to the government, G.D.P. still managed to grow by more than four and a half […]
Written on March 15, 2002 | Posted in
Economy |
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One of the most anticipated aspects of the budget was the future of National Health Insurance. While the Prime Minister has always been N.H.I.’s greatest champion, his two-year attempt at radical health care reform fared no better than Hillary Clinton’s. Despite this morning’s rhetoric, it now seems that N.H.I. is dead on arrival. Prime Minister […]
Written on March 15, 2002 | Posted in
Health |
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For Belizean health care providers, today’s announcement that N.H.I. will be put into a coma, is a serious blow. Many doctors-turned-businessmen borrowed large amounts of money to expand their facilities and services, in anticipation of the countrywide health care plan. But according to Dr. Victor Lizarraga of Universal Health Services, the real losers will be […]
Written on March 15, 2002 | Posted in
Health |
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Two Chinese women were beaten and robbed this morning in what has become an all too familiar scenario in the city. The latest incident took place around 11:45 at Shung Loong, a grocery shop at eighty-seven Vernon Street. The women, twenty-two year old Su Nong Chen and fifty-five year old Tang Gin Lan, told police […]
Written on March 15, 2002 | Posted in
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Tonight a resident of the Hattieville Prison lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was stabbed by a fellow inmate. Police say they were told that around 1:15 this afternoon, prisoner Alfred Billary was on the compound between maximum and medium security talking to a friend when one Jeffrey Flowers simply walked up […]
Written on March 15, 2002 | Posted in
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A student has drowned while swimming in Corozal Bay. According to police, around eleven a.m. on Thursday seventeen year old Elden Butler of Calcutta Village was bathing near the area known as Miami Beach. Witnesses say he was seen to go under the water and not resurface. Butler was pronounced dead on arrival at Corozal […]
Written on March 15, 2002 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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Thirteen witnesses have testified since the Commission of Inquiry investigating the shooting deaths of three Guatemalans began its work on Tuesday. This morning the officer in charge of the eight B.D.F. soldiers sent to San Vicente Village in November of last year took the stand. The statement he gave the police a day after the […]
Written on March 15, 2002 | Posted in
Trials |
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Those who are incarcerated have plenty of time to think about what they did wrong and how they will set things right when they are released. Today News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand to observe a programme that hopes to make life better, both for the newly freed inmates…and their families. Jacqueline Woods “How […]
Written on March 15, 2002 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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Various players in the drama called N.H.I. continue to press their case on the eve of government’s annual budget presentation. Edgy over rumours in the media that government was looking to finance the National Health Insurance scheme through an increase in sales and business taxes, the Chamber of Commerce today weighed in with a concerned […]
Written on March 14, 2002 | Posted in
Health |
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Meeting today in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, were the top military leaders of Belize and Guatemala. Hosting the one-day talks was Minister of Defence George Price who welcomed his Guatemalan counterpart, Brigadier General Alvaro Mendez Estrada. The meeting, held under the framework of the O.A.S. facilitation process, focussed on confidence building measures and the co-ordination […]
Written on March 14, 2002 | Posted in
Defense |
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While the generals try to avoid confrontation along the border, a Commission of Inquiry is trying to unravel a deadly showdown that occurred last year. Two B.D.F. privates and one police superintendent took the stand today to testify before the panel charged to investigate the shooting deaths of three Guatemalans, which occurred in November in […]
Written on March 14, 2002 | Posted in
Trials |
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Bloodstains still mark the spot where one of two young men fell after they were shot this afternoon. According to police, the youths, identified as twenty-two year old Trevor Smith and nineteen year old Eugene Sterling, were standing in front of Julie’s store on Sarstoon Street when they were shot by two gunmen on bicycles. […]
Written on March 14, 2002 | Posted in
Crime |
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The Basic Needs Trust Fund doesn’t receive a lot of publicity, but it is a major source of funding for crucial infrastructure across the nation. Today, government and the Caribbean Development Bank signed an agreement for a three point two-five million U.S. dollar grant, which will continue the programme, which is aimed largely at rural […]
Written on March 14, 2002 | Posted in
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Courts Belize Limited made good on its promises and today handed over twenty-five thousand dollars worth of classroom furniture to administrators of a number of southern schools hit hard by Hurricane Iris. The two hundred and thirty-one student chair/desks and fifteen sets of teachers’ desks and chairs will be used in schools in Medina Bank, […]
Written on March 14, 2002 | Posted in
Education |
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If you’re looking for something different to do this weekend, this year’s auto show might be the answer. On Saturday and Sunday, Belize’s four main auto dealerships will be profiling their latest sets of wheels and accessories at the Belize Tourism Village. According to Damian Gough of the Belize Chamber of Commerce, the show is […]
Written on March 14, 2002 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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Several decades ago, it was the crown jewel of Belize’s barely discovered inland tourist attractions, but as other areas opened up in the burgeoning hospitality industry, there was less dependence on the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve. That development proved to be a fortunate one, as last year an explosion in the area’s insect population […]
Written on March 14, 2002 | Posted in
Environment |
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On Tuesday, officials from the Public Service Union dropped a bombshell by announcing that according to their sources, the National Health Insurance scheme will be implemented as early as April first. But tonight, government officials tell News 5 that’s not so. According to Cabinet Secretary Robert Leslie, government is still in the process of analysing […]
Written on March 13, 2002 | Posted in
Health |
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A recent ruling by the Privy Council has had the effect of eliminating the death penalty in Belize and a number of other Caribbean nations. Today in its regular press briefing, Cabinet announced that it has asked the Attorney General to look into the legal implication of removing the Privy Council’s jurisdiction as the final […]
Written on March 13, 2002 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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Four witnesses testified today before the Commission of Inquiry established to investigate the shooting death of three Guatemalans near the border in Toledo last year. The first witness to take the stand today was Assistant Inspector of Police and Officer in Charge of Toledo, Cardinal Smith. Smith gave his account of the day in question […]
Written on March 13, 2002 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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A forty-one year old bicyclist has died after being knocked down on the Western Highway. On Tuesday, Carlos Humberto Carcamo of La Democracia Village, was riding his bike between miles thirty-one and thirty-two when he was struck by a Toyota van. The vehicle’s driver has been detained as part of the police investigation.
Written on March 13, 2002 | Posted in
Auto Accidents |
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Representatives of indigenous groups from around the Americas are meeting at the OAS in Washington to draft a declaration of rights. The working group, which includes member country delegations, will attempt to create a draft document, which covers cultural development, as well as social, economic and political rights for descendants of the region’s earliest inhabitants. […]
Written on March 13, 2002 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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Returning from a major international conference were Minister of Human Development Dolores Balderamos Garcia and Martha Carrillo of the National AIDS Commission. The two women attended a special forum on AIDS sponsored by the Interamerican Development bank held in Fortaleza, Brazil. Recognising the immense threat of the disease to the region’s development, Garcia and Carillo […]
Written on March 13, 2002 | Posted in
Health |
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One hundred and forty unemployed youths will soon get a chance to learn some marketable skills. This is thanks to an arrangement by the Ministry of Education to provide scholarships for apprenticeship training at a private facility in Ladyville. According to a ministry press release, the Tubal Training Institute at mile ten on the Northern […]
Written on March 13, 2002 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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A fisherman from the Corozal District is tonight over eighty-two thousand dollars richer. Alberto Palmero, originally from Sarteneja but now living in Georgeville, told News 5 he was more than surprised when a quick pick ticket bought over the weekend won him a whole lotta cash. Alberto Palmero, Lotto Winner “I see my wife they […]
Written on March 13, 2002 | Posted in
Uncategorized |
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