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It is by no means certain that we will ever know exactly what or who started Sunday’s calamitous blaze in the Paslow building, but before the embers even cooled, investigators from the fire department were looking for clues. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has an update. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It has still not yet been determined […]
Written on October 4, 2002 | Posted in
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The Paslow fire may or may not have been the product of a criminal act…but there is no uncertainty surrounding another less famous building in Belize City. On Thursday police entered an abandoned house on Jane Usher Boulevard which was known as a hot spot for drug dealing. What the cops found, however, was a […]
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Residents of Belize City, particularly during the rainy season, are no strangers to getting their feet wet. But while most of the old capital’s flooding is the result of heavy rainfall, the water which greeted citizens as they woke this morning came up from the ground and not the sky. Like many Belizeans, we tried […]
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Members of the Citrus Growers Association are being reminded not to miss the organisation’s annual general meeting on October nineteenth… and it appears that when they gather, it will be to hear some long awaited news. Industry sources tell News 5 that negotiations for the C.G.A.’s buyout of the sole citrus processor, Del Oro, are […]
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On Sunday, the Faith and Justice Commission of the Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church invites you to participate in a three mile walk dubbed, A March for Prayer. The symbolic action, which takes place in the Cayo District, is to raise awareness regarding the increase of violence against women, particularly incidents of rape. This […]
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Between the recent rash of road accidents and gang inspired shootings, there is no shortage in Belize of parents who have performed the painful task of burying their children. On May fourteenth, Carolyn Westby lost her twenty-six year old son, Wayne Westby, after his motorcycle crashed into a car on the Northern Highway. But instead […]
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It’s a crime that until recently was covered by a curtain of silence, but rape in Belize has become too common and too big a problem to be hidden or ignored. Yesterday afternoon three fourteen year old boys became the latest to answer for their alleged transgressions as they were charged with rape in San […]
Written on October 3, 2002 | Posted in
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The luxurious live-aboard dive boat capsized on the night of October eighth, 2001, as Hurricane Iris lashed the southern port of Big Creek. By the time the wind subsided, the Wavedancer’s dead numbered twenty, including two Belizean crewmembers: Brenda Wade and Eloisa Johnson. Tonight word from Miami is that a lawsuit filed by the twenty […]
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Her name, along with that of hospital C.E.O. Alvaro Rosado, was forged on a number of cheques that added up to the massive theft of over two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars from the K.H.M.H.. At the time the scam was made public, Joan Anderson-Lord, the hospital’s former accountant, was no longer living in Belize. […]
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Colombian cocaine may be the international drug runner’s narcotic of choice, but that hasn’t discouraged Belize’s law enforcement authorities from busting an occasional marijuana plantation. On Wednesday a police operation in the Stann Creek District resulted in the discovery of a pot patch two miles south of Red Bank Village. Don’t ask us how they […]
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Over the next few years it is expected to overtake citrus as Belize’s largest export. Earlier this week News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited a shrimp farm near Ladyville where the latest harvest was being processed for shipment. What she discovered was that not only is production growing, but that the market is becoming more diversified. […]
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The field of medicine has made tremendous strides in recent decades, and Belizeans benefit everyday from those advances. But many treatments that are routine in North America and Europe are still not available in Belize. And that gap sometimes results in painful choices. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Seventeen-year-old Kenisha Usher is critically ill at the Karl […]
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As senior citizens continue to enjoy their week of special recognition, we at News 5 pay our own tribute to those Belizeans whose accomplishments and contributions lasted well into their later years. Although no longer with us today, when News 5 met him in 1994, Michael Nembhard was still amazingly active. Rudy Castillo, Narrator He […]
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It may not have required the services of the fire department’s now famous ladder truck, but a blaze in a Belize City neighbourhood early this morning kept fire fighters more than busy. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Fire fighters were back at the scene sifting through the debris to try and determine […]
Written on October 2, 2002 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Said Musa today flew to Santo Domingo where he began the final leg of an extended trip, which has already taken him to London and Washington, D.C. Over the next several days in the Dominican Republic Musa will open a cultural exhibition and meet with President Hipolito Mejia and other government officials. According […]
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released the text of a letter written by facilitators Sir Shridath Ramphal and Paul Reichler to O.A.S. Secretary General Cesar Gaviria, which–if nothing else– demonstrates that they are attempting to resolve the problem of a Guatemalan housing estate that has spilled over across the Belize border. The letter refers […]
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In crime news, a man detained by police for the alleged rape of a fifteen year old Belize City girl has been charged with that crime. He is twenty-six year old Rudolph Smith of West Street in Hattieville. The girl told police that early Monday morning a man she knew as a friend of her […]
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A Corozal man, twenty-six year old Pedro Gongora, accused of abducting his former girlfriend, has been charged with kidnapping and rape. Also charged, for harbouring a criminal, were Oscar Briceño, Elena Briceño, Waldo Tapia and Claridalma Narvaez, all of Corozal Town, while Tapia and Narvaez were additionally charged with abetment to kidnapping. The kidnap victim […]
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There is good news for air travellers tonight, as it has been confirmed that on November twenty-first, Air Jamaica will commence scheduled flights to Belize. The four-times-per-week service, utilizing Airbus 320 jets, will fly on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Details of the arrival and departure times have not been released, but the route through […]
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Senior citizens week marched on today–and I mean those words quite literally. Jacqueline Woods explains. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The senior citizens, ninety-nine years old and younger, did not seem to be bothered by the warm weather and briskly hit the pavement of the city streets to commemorate their week. Jacqueline Woods “Did you enjoy the […]
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The making of traditional handicrafts is a skill that these days must compete with the mastering of computers and the internet. But with the rapid rise of cruise tourism and its accompanying demand for authentic souvenirs, handicraft is making a comeback. That development had not yet blossomed in 1994 when we featured Jane Williams as […]
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Yesterday evening Belize Telecommunications Limited held its annual general meeting, the last before its fifteen year monopoly ends on the first of January. If that date marks the beginning of a new era for B.T.L., at least the old one ended with a bang. Revenues rose ten point six percent to a record one hundred […]
Written on October 1, 2002 | Posted in
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Toledo’s indigenous community has reacted to Friday’s violent incident in which two men were killed and three wounded in a confrontation with police. In a letter to Prime Minister Said Musa and copied to the press, the Maya Leaders Alliance has called upon the P.M. to establish a commission of inquiry into the killing of […]
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If there is any silver lining to the clouds of damage surrounding Sunday’s fire in downtown Belize City, it is the knowledge that a new truck recently purchased by the fire department probably paid for itself several times over in one day of work. This afternoon News 5’s Jacqueline Woods took a closer look at […]
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In crime news a fifteen-year-old Belize City girl has reported that she was raped. The minor told police that around 6:00 Monday morning she was sleeping at home when she was woken up by a man she recognized as a friend of her step-father. He allegedly put a knife to her neck and forced her […]
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