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After another night of fine performances on Friday, the Belize District Children’s Festival of Arts tonight begins its week of Golden Nights. Tonight a number of participants will receive awards including Outstanding Dance Student, Nicole Betson of All Saints Primary, Outstanding Primary School Choreographer Diane Garcia of Belize Elementary and Joseph Stamp, voted Best Secondary […]
Written on May 28, 2002 | Posted in
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He returned to the United States on Monday, but during his four-day visit to Belize, Milton Palacio demonstrated that his Belizean instincts are as sharp as his jump shot. After speaking at the Youth for the Future rally on Friday in Belize City, the NBA player headed south. On Saturday he received a hero’s welcome […]
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Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re boxed into this special delivery of Sports Monday. Ma Cour Productions has been doing a lot of work in sports of late and this weekend they made their debut into boxing promotion and it certainly went well. So we go to the Belize Pickwick Club and the man […]
Written on May 28, 2002 | Posted in
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Everyone agrees on the nature of the problem: disaffected youths with too few marketable skills and too much temptation. A sure-fire recipe for a fatal subculture of crime, drugs and poverty. The hard part is finding the elusive answers. This afternoon government launched a new effort to provide some. And although the project started with […]
Written on May 24, 2002 | Posted in
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In recent days security guards have become a preferred target of thieves looking to rob them of their firearms. Last night another guard was attacked…and is now in the hospital with a gunshot wound. Peter Scott, a thirty-six year old Jamaican employed as security for Bowen and Bowen on King Street, told police that around […]
Written on May 24, 2002 | Posted in
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Burglars were also out in force this week, striking in four far-flung parts of the country. A marina in Sittee River was broken into and goods valued at over thirteen thousand dollars were taken. One suspect has been detained and another is being pursued. In Orange Walk, police are still investigating the theft of five […]
Written on May 24, 2002 | Posted in
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This morning the trial of accused drug traffickers Jorge Moreno, Oscar Aguirre, Victor Carrasco and Zulema Molina got off to a late start and adjourned early. That left only an hour or so of court time, not enough for prosecution witness ASP David Henderson to be cross-examined. Henderson’s testimony revolved around the identification of the […]
Written on May 24, 2002 | Posted in
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It doesn’t support the traffic of O’Hare in Chicago, J.F.K. in New York or London’s fabled Heathrow. In fact, the total number of passengers landing at Belmopan’s Hector Silva airstrip in a year would be hard pressed to fill a single 747. But numbers are always relative and in an emergency the lone runway in […]
Written on May 24, 2002 | Posted in
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Today they are pushing sixty and considering retirement from distinguished careers in business, the professions or government service. But back in 1952 they were scared kids about to take their first tentative steps into the world of secondary education. This morning News 5’s Janelle Chanona listened attentively as a special group of old friends got […]
Written on May 24, 2002 | Posted in
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It requires months of work by students, teachers and organisers…and in the end it all boils down to the spelling of one obscure word. Jacqueline Woods reports from the City Centre. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting In the well organised eight years that the Coca-Cola Spelling Bee has been held, the event has become immensely popular. Today, […]
Written on May 24, 2002 | Posted in
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Tonight’s newscast has focussed on Belize’s young people…and we’ll finish it on the same theme, with a review of last night’s performances in the Belize District Children’s Festival of Arts. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting One of the eleven silver performances of the night was done by Biscayne Government School, a familiar folk song. (Biscayne choir sings […]
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There will be no newscast on Monday May 27th, 2002 due to the observance of Commonwealth Day. The next newscast will be on Tuesday, May 28th, 2002.
Written on May 24, 2002 | Posted in
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Although he has been described in the local media as an “NBA superstar” Milton Palacio would be the first to disagree with the hype. In three years of professional basketball, Palacio has displayed his solid and occasionally spectacular talents at Vancouver, Boston and now Phoenix. Prior to that he led the Belize National Team to […]
Written on May 23, 2002 | Posted in
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That initiative cannot get underway too soon as Belizean youths continue to attack each other on a daily basis. This morning in Belize City a driveby shooting left one man injured and another detained pending charges. James Swan Junior is in police custody after he was identified by shooting victim Alfred Conorquie as the man […]
Written on May 23, 2002 | Posted in
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As long as there are guns, there will be shootings…and today one more firearm is in criminal circulation. According to police reports, twenty-year-old security guard David Baptist was on duty Wednesday night at Belize Water Services when four armed men put a revolver to his head and relieved him of his Taurus brand nine millimetre […]
Written on May 23, 2002 | Posted in
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Mayflower Street is back in the news tonight…and not because of a politician’s visit or community cleanup campaign. It’s the vicinity where police this morning apprehended one of their most wanted, Kevin Dawson. Dawson, better known as “Possum” is the prime suspect in the shooting death of nineteen-year-old Eurdene Sterling. Sterling and another man were […]
Written on May 23, 2002 | Posted in
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And a correction to a story we ran last night… The names of the four defendants in last year’s three thousand pound cocaine bust, the biggest drug trafficking case in Belizean history, were inaccurately reported. The correct names are Jorge Moreno, Oscar Aguirre, Victor Carrasco and Zulema Molina. All are Mexican nationals. Their trial resumes […]
Written on May 23, 2002 | Posted in
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They say that all good things must come to an end, but this ending was a happy one–at least for one man who this afternoon cashed in a record lotto ticket. Ann-Marie reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Lady luck smiled on Orange Walk Town when Edward McKoy, a fifty-two year old employee of B.S.I., won the […]
Written on May 23, 2002 | Posted in
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Their first concert here was ten years ago, and a decade later the group known a Fiddlers on the Reef is still going strong. The classical musicians from several California orchestras will be holding concerts and coaching music students from various parts of the country, including the Cayo, Stann Creek, Toledo and Belize Districts. The […]
Written on May 23, 2002 | Posted in
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There are days when the evening news seems like nothing more than a long litany of shootings, stabbings and horrific automobile accidents. And while most of these events end sadly at the morgue or cemetery, every once in a while a victim who is marked for death manages to cheat the grim reaper. News 5’s […]
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The fun at the Festival of Arts continued last night at Belize City’s Holy Redeemer Parish Hall. Judging from the stylish moves on stage, the local entertainment industry is poised for a major expansion. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting It was another night when a number of young Belizean stars took centre stage at the Children’s Festival […]
Written on May 23, 2002 | Posted in
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The story was all over the media yesterday, but today the United Democratic party made it official: Diane Haylock will be the party’s standard bearer in Pickstock. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting No one knows for certain when national elections will be called. However, everyone now knows that the Opposition United Democratic Party has finally added a […]
Written on May 22, 2002 | Posted in
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And when that campaign comes, it is not certain whether it will turn on the particular circumstances in each of the twenty-nine constituencies or revolve around issues of national importance. One man looking to create a broad based buzz is UDP leader Dean Barrow and today he took aim at government’s policy of privatisation, particularly […]
Written on May 22, 2002 | Posted in
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In crime news police are looking for a suspect in what appears to be a case of arson. Evan Castellanos, a resident of Santa Elena, Cayo was living in a house owned by his sister, Jean Castellanos. She told police that she asked her brother to leave the premises, but he became angry and threatened […]
Written on May 22, 2002 | Posted in
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Also in the twin towns, San Ignacio police have arrested a suspect whom they believe beat and robbed a man early Monday morning. Around 2:00 a.m. twenty year old Richard Contreras allegedly approached thirty-six year old Mario Perez outside the Shining Star Bar in San Ignacio and hit him across the head with a bottle, […]
Written on May 22, 2002 | Posted in
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