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As of midnight last night motorists are paying more for each mile they drive. Premium gasoline is up eight cents to six eighty-nine per gallon, regular rises ten cents to six sixty-four, while diesel is up two cents at four eighty-eight. The Price of kerosene remains unchanged at four dollars and three cents. According to […]
Written on November 7, 2002 | Posted in
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It has been a fixture on the southern coast of Belize for almost two decades, but today the Voice of America compound south of Punta Gorda was handed back to the Government of Belize. The shortwave facility, which began broadcasting in 1984, ceased operations on September fifteenth. With the end of the Cold War and […]
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Police in Dangriga are investigating a robbery that occurred at a gas station in that town last night. Attendant at the Esso Havana Service Station, twenty-six year old Patricio Teul, says he was waiting for his boss to return sometime around nine o’clock in order to close up shop. He was inside the office along […]
Written on November 7, 2002 | Posted in
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It’s getting to be that time of year when printers both here and abroad are busy producing their 2003 promotional calendars for dozens of Belizean clients. The problem is that more often than not these calendars are full of mistakes when it comes to the date of local holidays. In the hope of avoiding that […]
Written on November 7, 2002 | Posted in
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A primary school teacher from Yo Creek Village in the Orange Walk District will own a home quicker than she had expected. That’s because the twenty-four year old mother of two will use over fourteen thousand dollars she won in Courts most recent “Catch the Cash” promotion to lay the foundation. News 5’s Marion Ali […]
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When they left for Europe last month, the group of local artists and promoters went with high hopes for raising the profile of Belizean music on the international scene. Now that they’ve returned, they’re saying: job done. News 5’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona In October Andy Palacio, Paul Nabor and the other members of […]
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There’s an old adage in the real estate business that the three most important attributes of a property are location, location and location. Well, for the woman featured in our next story…that’s just the problem. Marie Lewis, Area Resident “This is from the city. This is not Miss Marie put this here, I never asked […]
Written on November 7, 2002 | Posted in
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With the clarity of twenty-twenty hindsight, it is painfully obvious that the excitement generated by the presentation and subsequent debate of the proposals to end the Guatemalan claim could never be sustained. Today, almost two months after their unveiling, not only has the excitement subsided, but those proposals are in fact without a discernable pulse–killed […]
Written on November 6, 2002 | Posted in
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It is the kind of justice that has become all too rare in Belize. After all, it’s not every day that less than fifty-four hours after the commission of a crime the culprit is caught, charged, convicted, sentenced and serving time at her majesty’s hotel in Hattieville. On Sunday morning the caretaker of a Caye […]
Written on November 6, 2002 | Posted in
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In case you were wondering whatever happened to all that undersized conch confiscated last month in two busts by the Fisheries Department… wonder no more. As News 5’s Marion Ali found out this morning, it’s all going toward a good cause. Marion Ali, Reporting Today, the fishermen’s loss became a handsome gain for thirty institutions, […]
Written on November 6, 2002 | Posted in
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In another action by fisheries officers, four Hondurans have been arrested in connection with the theft of a boat at Glover’s Reef. Brothers Tony and Selvin Martinez, Herman Chavez and Jeraldo Alvarez, all of Tela, Honduras, are in the Queen Street lockup tonight. They are accused of making off with a twenty-five foot skiff belonging […]
Written on November 6, 2002 | Posted in
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INTELCO, Belize’s new telecommunications company, still has a long way to go before reaching its goal of five thousand computers in schools…but the “to do” list decreased by thirty-seven today as St. Luke’s Methodist and the Y.M.C.A. received their high speed access to the internet. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was at the Y’s headquarters on […]
Written on November 6, 2002 | Posted in
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The story of overcrowded schools is nothing new, but one major secondary institution in Belmopan has decided that, even while waiting for construction of new classrooms, there are still ways to improve the existing situation. News 5’s Janelle Chanona reports from her alma mater. Barrette Belisle, Principal, Bmp. Comprehensive School “It wasn’t conducive to studying […]
Written on November 6, 2002 | Posted in
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Despite all appearances that the Belize Guatemala referendum is struggling in the intensive care unit…this week there were signs of life in Washington, D.C. On Monday, Attorney General Godfrey Smith met with Guatemala’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ramiro Ordonez, O.A.S. Assistant Secretary General Luigi Enaudi and facilitators Sir Shridath Ramphal and Paul Reichler, for […]
Written on November 5, 2002 | Posted in
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In related news, three members of the Belize Police Department travelled yesterday to Poptun, Guatemala, where they got to see a suspect held in connection with last month’s murder of Jalacte Alcalde, Antigonus Garcia. According to police sources, the officers are convinced that the man being held, Edgar Aguilar Lopez, is the same man who […]
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An Orange Walk man is dead as the result of a traffic accident on the Northern Highway. Augustine Castillo was crushed to death when the dump truck in which he was a passenger overturned between mile eighty-two and eighty-three. Castillo and Bartolo Mai were riding in the back of the dump truck, which was loaded […]
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The search is on for a suspect in connection with the death of a Belize City man. Thirty-three year old Luis Alberto Pinelo, of a Northern Highway address, was found badly injured as the result of a fight he was involved in on Baghdad Street at around 6:00 Saturday morning. Pinelo died of his wounds […]
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Meanwhile, a man finds himself in trouble with the law after he allegedly fired shots at his nephew. Fifty-seven year old Elbert Vernon of Belize City has been charged with attempted murder and damage to property. The charges follow a report by his nephew, twenty-two year old Francis Vernon, that in the wee hours of […]
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This Friday students from all the nation’s sixth forms and various U.B. campuses will converge in Belize City for a national youth rally. The topic is the current effort to end the Guatemalan claim. According to one of the organizers, Sandra Perez, the assembly is different from previous ones because it is intended to reflect […]
Written on November 5, 2002 | Posted in
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Puppet shows have been around as a source of entertainment for hundreds of years. But this morning News 5’s Jacqueline Woods found out that they can also teach some important lessons. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It was a special day for Belize City preschoolers. The boys and girls were taken out to B.T.L. Park, not to […]
Written on November 5, 2002 | Posted in
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It’s not a sport that one immediately associates with the rough and tumble nation of Belize… but with the game of golf spreading to virtually every corner of the globe, it was only a matter of time until Belizeans got a chance to experience the frustration of trying to hit a tiny white ball with […]
Written on November 5, 2002 | Posted in
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It was as brutal a murder as the island town of San Pedro has ever seen: sixty-three year old Justo Jairo Perez was found bludgeoned to death around four Saturday morning. Robbery appears to have been the motive as Perez was discovered with his hands and feet tied together and his mouth taped shut. His […]
Written on November 4, 2002 | Posted in
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A suspect has been charged in connection with last week’s murder of a Corozal money changer. Twenty-nine year old Jesus Tun of Patchakan Village has been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery and conspiracy to commit murder. On Wednesday morning thirty-three year old Samuel Sanker of San Antonio Village was shot as he headed home […]
Written on November 4, 2002 | Posted in
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In another crime update, the sideman of a Bowen and Bowen truck has been charged in that truck’s attempted robbery. Twenty-nine year old Edilberto Garcia of Ladyville has been charged with abetment to commit burglary for his role in Thursday’s robbery attempt on the old Northern Highway near Corozalito. When Garcia asked the driver to […]
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The case of the conch and the co-op is apparently back on track. After a few missteps, the case was finally called today before Magistrate Earl Jones. Emile Arguelles will be representing the Northern Fishermen Cooperative, which on October twenty-fourth was found by fisheries officers to be in possession of over eleven hundred undersized conch. […]
Written on November 4, 2002 | Posted in
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