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As Belize City police look for suspects in the latest killing, the police departments of Guatemala and Belize are working together to solve a murder that took place about a quarter mile inside Belizean territory. According to police, around 9:30 on Tuesday morning, a contingent of Belize and Melchor police visited the area. There, they […]
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Bernard Smith, an inmate at the Hattieville Correctional Facility, was shot in the leg by prison officers after he allegedly tried to escape. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Smith, who was inside his cell at the isolation section of the institution, was engaged in a fistfight with fellow prisoner, Keith Sambula. When the […]
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The big news from the south tonight is that the Citrus Growers Association has completed the deal to buy out processing company, Del Oro. The exact figures and terms of the take over will be revealed at the C.G.A.’s annual general meeting on the nineteenth of October. Speaking with Chief Executive Officer of the C.G.A., […]
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In news from Cabinet, that executive body has announced its intention to upgrade the quality of the nation’s shipping registry through the enactment of new legislation. The High Seas Fishing Compliance Bill will require Belize flagged vessels fishing on the high seas to operate under much stricter guidelines. Those guidelines, developed by the Ministry of […]
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A new Board will be named shortly for the Development Finance Corporation. D.F.C. Chairman Glen Godfrey confirmed to News 5 today that three members, himself included, have asked that they not be reappointed following the expiration of their two year term on September ninth. Godfrey says his appointment at the end of August as Honorary […]
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The cleaning of debris from the Paslow building fire is being completed and it is expected that Queen Street will be opened to traffic as early as Thursday. No decision has been made on the building’s rehabilitation, but we were informed today that the scorched safe belonging to Magistrate’s Court has been opened. The good […]
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With all the hullabaloo surrounding B.T.L.’s corporate clashes, we haven’t heard much from approaching rival INTELCO. Today that company officially inaugurated its computer centre at Saint Ignatius primary school in Belize City. The programme, which is slated to put five thousand computers in schools nationwide, is well behind its original schedule and we are told […]
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More international airlines flying into Belize is good news, right? Well, yes, but as News 5’s Janelle Chanona discovered, there’s a potential downside as well. Janelle Chanona, Reporting With both U.S. Air and Air Jamaica expected to begin service in Belize in November of this year, and existing carriers American and Continental adding more flights, […]
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Good news from the tourism industry dominates our broadcast tonight…and that is the impending arrival of Air Jamaica. This afternoon a high powered delegation from the land of reggae gave a presentation on why the aggressive airline will soon be making big waves in the small pond called Belize. News 5’s Stewart Krohn reports. Stewart […]
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Almost one month after twenty-three year old Tanya Smart was left in a coma following a traffic accident on the Northern Highway; tonight we regret to report that she has died. Smart succumbed to her injuries over the weekend while undergoing treatment in Merida. On September eighth, Smart was travelling home to Lord’s Bank Village […]
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Gallon for gallon, Belize’s fuel prices have been rising at an alarming rate, largely the result of international forces. For Belizean service station operators, the price formula is such that they get six percent of the retail price, a figure the association wants to change. On Friday, the dealers representing the country’s thirty-six gas vendors […]
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For a hungry fisherman, the sight of a Nassau Grouper sitting fat and pretty beneath a coral head is about as good as it gets. But that sight is rarely seen these days. What to do about the situation, as News 5’s Janelle Chanona reports, is the subject of some debate. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For […]
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He became something of a celebrity in the last few years, after toiling anonymously for a much longer time as a passionate advocate for the planting of trees–particularly mahogany. But only four years from his hundredth birthday, old age finally caught up with Henry Fairweather and he died Monday at the K.H.M.H. In February of […]
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Until she made up her mind as to where she was going, Hurricane Iris had Belizeans from San Pedro to Barranco saying their prayers and packing their bags. And when her one hundred and fifty mile per hour winds finally tore a swath of destruction across southern Belize, thousands of people discovered that our conventional […]
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One week ago city residents watched in disbelief as flames destroyed the top floor of the Paslow building at the corner of Queen and North Front streets. Within hours, the fire department managed to contain the blaze and since then, have been sifting through the charred, waterlogged debris for clues as to what started it […]
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Tonight, Corozal police are investigating an early morning shooting that has left one man dead. According to the authorities, just after 1:00 this morning, residents living in the South End area of Corozal town heard the blast of gunshots and called the cops. When the police patrolled the vicinity they found a man lying on […]
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A Belize City man is lucky to be alive tonight after he was shot point-blank in the face. Reports are that on Saturday night, twenty-two year old Renicle Hemmans was at the corner of Raccoon and Sea Gull Streets when a man on a beach cruiser bicycle rode up to him, pulled out a small […]
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Meanwhile in the west, a woman who caught a thief in the act remains in serious condition after the man shot her. Police say that on Saturday morning, forty-nine year old Lynn Routhe arrived at her house in the Pilgrim Valley Community of the Cayo District only to find someone she knew trying to break […]
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Another team from the Organization of American States arrived in Belize today to further investigate the group of people that have taken up lodging just outside the Belizean town of Benque Viejo del Carmen. According to Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, David Gibson, O.A.S. official Sergio Caramagna and Chris Hernandez Roy, […]
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At the time, it was a cocaine bust that shocked the nation and ranked third on the list of major drug seizures: two thousand, five hundred and fifty-four pounds of the white lady. More than a year later, two brothers charged with drug trafficking for the possession of more than twelve hundred pounds of the […]
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The exposure of the passport sandal may have put a dent in the illicit trade in Belizean nationality, but it appears that some people just don’t seem to get the message. An advertisement in the September twenty-eighth issue of the Economist magazine seems to tell readers that they can obtain a Belize passport, but the […]
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Belize’s heavily burdened police investigators will get a little help this week in the form of training, courtesy of the U.S. embassy. Thirty-five officers will participate all this week in a course on crime scene management and evidence handling, to be held in Belize City. Taught by instructors from the F.B.I., the classes will deal […]
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It is an organization among the first to respond in times of disaster, but this year, the Belize Red Cross Society is taking on a different kind of adversity: money troubles. This morning, the society got some relief as the Chinese community in Belize handed over a cheque for five thousand dollars, the result of […]
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What do you get when you add zero plus zero plus zero? According to art guru Yasser Musa, the biggest zero yet. That’s right, the Belizean art show known as “Zero” is nearing the end of its world tour. After being hosted in museums from Havana to Barcelona, this month the exhibit makes its final […]
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Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The heavy rains over the weekend forced the postponement of yesterday’s match between defending semi-pro champion Kulture Yabra of Belize City, and former champion, Juventus of Orange Walk at the M.C.C. Grounds, which obviously left us bereft of footage. Nevertheless, we can tell you San […]
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