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A private university in the Cayo District? That’s right, this afternoon during brief ceremonies at Central Farm off the Western Highway, ambitious plans for Galen University were unveiled. Founders of the institution say the idea has been in the works for years and if everything goes right, classes should start this September. According to one […]
Written on February 26, 2003 | Posted in
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Almost one week before the polls open for nationwide general and municipal elections, the big news is that…there is no big news. Going into the home stretch leading up to the March fifth balloting, each party strongly hinted that there would be political bombshells bursting like fireworks on News Year’s eve. Instead, those in charge […]
Written on February 25, 2003 | Posted in
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Police were up early this morning in the Stann Creek Valley, not picking oranges, but investigating a dead body found in an orchard. The corpse of an unidentified man was discovered around five a.m. at a farm off the Melinda Road. The body, believed to be that of a Hispanic male, was in the early […]
Written on February 25, 2003 | Posted in
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Today, her family made the painful decision to remove twenty-four year old Tanya Lamb from a machine that was keeping her alive at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Lamb, the mother of a two-year-old girl, suffered severe head and body injuries following a traffic accident that occurred around 5:30 Sunday evening in Belize City. According […]
Written on February 25, 2003 | Posted in
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A Dangriga man has died, presumably of drowning. The body of thirty-five year old Robert Matthew Leslie of an Isla Road address was discovered Monday evening floating in the river near that town’s main bridge. Leslie was taken to the Southern Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Police say that there were […]
Written on February 25, 2003 | Posted in
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Another sudden death, this time in Corozal, is being classified by police as a tragic accident. Forty-four year old Roberto Correa of San Roman Village died early this morning from a shotgun blast to his chest. According to police, Correa, a truck driver, arrived home from his farm around five-thirty this morning. His family heard […]
Written on February 25, 2003 | Posted in
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Tired of all those political ads on your local television newscast? No comment here, but if I asked you to name your favourite spot, which one would you choose? I put that question to my colleague, Jacqueline Woods, and have to say that I agree. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The first election he’ll be able to […]
Written on February 25, 2003 | Posted in
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Sunday has been declared by government as a National Day of Prayer. On that day we are being asked to attend our usual place of worship and to specifically pray for a peaceful electoral process on March fifth. The Belize Council of Churches has echoed that sentiment in a letter circulated today, which calls on […]
Written on February 25, 2003 | Posted in
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The administration, staff and students of Bethel Assembly Primary are counting their blessings tonight after government announced its decision to repair the school in the wake of last week’s fire. A press release issued today indicated that the Ministry of Education has presented a grant for almost nineteen thousand dollars to Reverend Lloyd Wright, the […]
Written on February 25, 2003 | Posted in
Education |
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If you’ve walked along Belize City’s Southern Foreshore recently, you will have noticed that something’s not quite right. That’s what Jacqueline Woods did, but upon closer inspection she discovered that while things may look topsy-turvy, all the commotion is for a worthy cause. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It took about three and a half years to […]
Written on February 25, 2003 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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We try not to copy the mass feeding frenzy of the U.S. media, but sometimes events up north can’t help but get us thinking. That’s what I did following recent tragedies in Chicago and Rhode Island…and after speaking to the Fire Chief this afternoon my worst fears for Belize have been confirmed. Janelle Chanona, Reporting […]
Written on February 25, 2003 | Posted in
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It was looking like another unusually quiet weekend in Belize City, but in the wee hours of this morning the deadly thrust of a knife added one more digit to the nation’s murder tally…and left a grieving family to ask why. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Andrea Arnold, Girlfriend of the Deceased “I tell Tonios […]
Written on February 24, 2003 | Posted in
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The national malady of death by motor vehicle continued to rage out of control over the weekend with three killed in two separate incidents. We’ll begin closest to the city where a dangerous curve, a dark night and some risky behaviour ended the life of a Belize City man. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Olivera family […]
Written on February 24, 2003 | Posted in
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On Friday night two men died in the Stann Creek District when their vehicle barrelled through an intersection and ran off the road. Twenty-six year old Peter Ciego and forty-year-old Edward Nicassio, both of Dangriga, were travelling west on the Hopkins Village entrance road. But when they reached the T-shaped intersection with the Southern Highway, […]
Written on February 24, 2003 | Posted in
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It is his first election campaign as an incumbent Prime Minister, and coming off a twenty-six to three margin in the House of Representatives you would think Said Musa is coasting. But the Belizean electorate is a fickle one and since independence in 1981 no government has ever been elected to a second consecutive term. […]
Written on February 24, 2003 | Posted in
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In his interview this morning, Prime Minister Said Musa spoke at length about corruption in government, including measures his party would take to curb the practice if given another five years in power. Musa questioned the credibility of the Opposition’s zero tolerance platform, but it is a position that United Democratic Party Leader Dean Barrow […]
Written on February 24, 2003 | Posted in
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A dramatic river rescue by a joint British/Belizean team in the Cayo District over the weekend saved a U.S. student from the jaws of death. News 5 understands that just after one p.m. on Friday, twenty-two year old Daniel Brown, a student doing environmental course work in Belize, was swimming in the Macal River when […]
Written on February 24, 2003 | Posted in
Disasters |
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Saturday marked the official close of Scout Week, and on that night a fundraiser was held to enlarge the Scout endowment fund. The interest earned from that fund is used to finance specific projects of the association. Over forty-five thousand dollars was raised through generous donations from members of the business community and it is […]
Written on February 24, 2003 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve just logged on to this fresh delivery of Sports Monday. After some eight months and a starting total of eight teams, the B.P.F.L. football season reached an abrupt ending Saturday night inside the Isidoro Beaton Stadium when the host Builder’s Hardware Bandits of Belmopan were hoping to force […]
Written on February 24, 2003 | Posted in
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It was a traffic accident that shocked and saddened two nations. Now, several days after the death of a Cuban volunteer doctor, the man driving her on that fateful morning is telling his story to News 5… And what he has to say totally contradicts the truck driver on the other side of the collision. […]
Written on February 21, 2003 | Posted in
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He was a police officer in the wrong place at the wrong time…and paid the ultimate price. Today, the widow of Corporal Fernando Rosado, killed in the line of duty in December 2001, received a cheque for over two thousand, five hundred dollars to help her cope with the loss. The money was presented by […]
Written on February 21, 2003 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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While News 5 was visiting the Ombudsman’s office, we took the opportunity to ask Rodriguez to assess his experience after nearly four years of service. Paul Rodriguez “I think it has been largely a very positive experience for me. I would do it over again the same way. There are very few things that I […]
Written on February 21, 2003 | Posted in
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Thanks to millions of dollars of investment and a resurgence of civic pride over the last decade or so, Belize City is finally beginning to lose its image as a ramshackle hotbed of crime and urban decay. Today the City Council sought to accelerate that process by involving more of the community’s young people. Jacqueline […]
Written on February 21, 2003 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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For all those beleaguered Belizean computer users still waiting for their dial up connection to connect, tonight there is one more reason to be jealous. The students of San Luis Rey Primary School in San Antonio, Toledo, today inaugurated their high speed satellite internet service. In ceremonies held this morning, Prime Minister Said Musa opened […]
Written on February 21, 2003 | Posted in
Education |
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Yesterday, in the wake of the discovery of a dead manatee north of Belize City, officials issued a warning to boaters to drive carefully along the coast. Apparently that warning came too late, as just before we went on the air last night another manatee corpse was washing up near the Princess Hotel. Today, that […]
Written on February 21, 2003 | Posted in
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