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Tonight, most Belizeans are still coming to terms with the graphic images captured on video depicting over a hundred Benqueños clashing violently with police on Wednesday. Two people remain hospitalised after they were shot during the riot. While Amalio Gamez is being treated in a Guatemalan medical centre, according to doctors at the Belmopan Hospital, […]
Written on April 25, 2002 | Posted in
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While the police officers on the ground in Benque maintain that they made every effort to end the confrontation peacefully, exercised extreme patience and only took action when it was absolutely necessary, the department has come under fire for their response to the rioters in Benque. This morning, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods spoke with Police […]
Written on April 25, 2002 | Posted in
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A man from Ladyville is tonight bemoaning the loss of several of his personal items after his home was burglarised on Wednesday. Jim Duncan, a resident of Vista del Mar, says that sometime between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., a thief or thieves broke into his house and stole clothes, jewelry and other articles valued […]
Written on April 25, 2002 | Posted in
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Attention Belize City shoppers: if you were planning to pick up a few groceries at the Romac’s supermarket today, you might have noticed that the doors were inexplicably closed. It turns out that over the weekend, the store hired a fumigator to relieve their warehouse of unwanted tenants and something went very wrong. On Tuesday, […]
Written on April 25, 2002 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, the Holy Redeemer Credit Union held its fifty-eighth annual general meeting…and as usual, the nation’s most widely owned financial institution is doing remarkably well. H.R.C.U. reports a seventeen percent increase in assets, eighteen percent increase in savings and a net profit of twelve point six million dollars. The result for shareholders is that […]
Written on April 25, 2002 | Posted in
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Tomorrow, Belize will join one hundred and twenty countries in celebrating Global Youth Service Day under the theme: Develop a Youth. The day is a first for Belize and has the support of the Youth Department, National Committee for Families and Children and the YMCA According to executive director of the YMCA, Carolyn Genitty, the […]
Written on April 25, 2002 | Posted in
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It seems like only yesterday that the first Miss Y strutted across the stage and into the hearts of Belizeans. In fact, it was ten years ago…and as this year’s contestants make their final preparations for stardom, News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams checked them out. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting What started out as a fundraising effort in […]
Written on April 25, 2002 | Posted in
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It seemed eerily similar to last year’s riot at the Tower Hill Bridge: protestors throwing rocks, police responding with teargas and bullets and amidst the confusion, the original purpose of the demonstration all but forgotten. Tonight News 5 has assembled video shot by our cameraman Brent Toombs, supplemented by footage from Cayo Cable Vision’s Kent […]
Written on April 24, 2002 | Posted in
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Janelle Chanona “Now late this evening the government has appointed Chief of Staff Francis Fonseca to be their spokesperson on this incident and this evening he stopped by to give government’s position.” Francis Fonseca, Chief of Staff, P.M.’s Office “First of all Stewart, let me say that the Government of Belize fully respects and supports […]
Written on April 24, 2002 | Posted in
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He was detained shortly after the shooting death of Mark Henry on Saturday. Today, twenty-three year old Jason “Soup” Williams was charged with the crime of murder. Henry was shot twice on Waight Street in the Yabra area of Belize City.
Written on April 24, 2002 | Posted in
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The National Fire Service has concluded its investigation into the problems the San Pedro Fire Department experienced when it responded to Saturday’s early morning fire on the island. Fire Chief Henry Baizar says all the equipment on the truck was working when the team arrived at the location, but that the troubles began after they […]
Written on April 24, 2002 | Posted in
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Belize’s banana growers will benefit from a six million dollar grant provided by the European Union. The money, part of a larger aid package to A.C.P. banana producers, will be used to improve drainage and irrigation in order to increase yields. With its traditional preferential tariffs ruled illegal by the World Trade Organisation, the E.U. […]
Written on April 24, 2002 | Posted in
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Its policies in defence of banana giants like Chiquita and Dole may have put Belize’s banana industry on its knees, but the United States government is apparently trying to compensate in other ways. From May sixth to sixteenth, U.S. Army medical teams will be holding free clinics in Pomona, Silk Grass, Sittee River and Dangriga. […]
Written on April 24, 2002 | Posted in
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The stage is now set for the next round of Karaoke Television as last night at Club Calypso the competition’s tenth semi-finalist was chosen. Here’s how it went. Williams Neal, KTV Host “The winner is contestants number four…Dennis Peyrefitte.” Dennis sings “Purple Rain” by Prince Dennis Peyrefitte joins Adilean Coffin, Osvaldo Perez, Dale Turner, Joseph […]
Written on April 24, 2002 | Posted in
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Education in Belize is becoming more competitive, and secondary schools are reaching out to standard six students and selling their institutions with increasing vigour. Today, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited E.P. Yorke High in Belize City and found things looking up. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting If you happened to look up to the sky shortly after […]
Written on April 24, 2002 | Posted in
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They’ve been banging heads for the better part of a week, but tonight bus owners and the government have reached a compromise on the issue of new fares. News 5’s Stewart Krohn is just off the phone with Minister of Transport Henry Canton. Here’s a tape of that conversation. Stewart Krohn “Minister could you fill […]
Written on April 23, 2002 | Posted in
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The saga of the Corozal credit union continues tonight as more details of Sunday’s general meeting emerge. News 5 has been reliably informed that in addition to reinstating general manager Vicente Canul of the St. Francis Xavier Credit Union, two other members of staff, David Vela and Rafael Dominguez, have also been asked to come […]
Written on April 23, 2002 | Posted in
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Two people have died in separate drowning incidents over the weekend. In Cotton Tree, thirteen-year-old Jose Victor Aldana was swimming in the Belize River around noon on Sunday when he suddenly went underwater and did not come up. His body was found later in the day and a post-mortem indicated that he had drowned. In […]
Written on April 23, 2002 | Posted in
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A Guatemalan woman has died as the result of a traffic accident on the Western Highway. Filbertha Madrid-Suchite was dead on arrival at Belmopan Hospital after the car in which she was riding went out of control on the curve near the Hector Silva Airstrip and crashed into an oncoming bus. The car belonged to […]
Written on April 23, 2002 | Posted in
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The proprietor of a Belmopan fried chicken emporium is recovering from a knock to the head after he tried to resist an armed robbery. Forty year old Jang Shi-fa told police that around 9:00 Sunday night, four men came into his establishment on Hummingbird Avenue and place their orders. One of them soon produced a […]
Written on April 23, 2002 | Posted in
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It took a licking from Hurricane Iris, not to mention a storm of protest over the Chalillo hydro project, but in the end, 2001 was not such a bad year for B.E.L. The company, which holds its tenth annual general meeting tonight at the Princess Hotel, will report to shareholders a respectable increase in revenues, […]
Written on April 23, 2002 | Posted in
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When she married a man from Tobago and relocated there six years ago, it was our loss and that island’s gain. But artist Rachael Heusner Superville has not abandoned Belize entirely. Her latest show opened last night at St. John’s College and yesterday News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams took a sneak preview. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Rachael […]
Written on April 23, 2002 | Posted in
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The literacy rate may not be what it once was in Belize, but judging from events at the library, books are more popular than ever. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting There were a variety of books on display, and the children exhibited a keen interest. The activity commemorated World Book Day, held each year […]
Written on April 23, 2002 | Posted in
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The town of San Pedro is no stranger to misfortune, but most of the community’s disasters are of the natural variety, namely hurricanes. But the storm which struck Ambergris Caye in the wee hours of Saturday morning was made of fire, and the evidence indicated that the conflagration may have been manmade. News 5’s Jacqueline […]
Written on April 22, 2002 | Posted in
Disasters |
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Owners of Belize’s bus lines and government officials remain closeted in Belmopan tonight, as yet unable to break the stalemate over bus fares. A protest in Benque Viejo this morning resulted in eleven people being issued summons for illegal assembly, after commuters refused to pay newly increased fares. The transport operators, led by mega-line Novelo’s, […]
Written on April 22, 2002 | Posted in
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