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Good evening I’m James Adderley and up jumps another serving of Sports Monday. With maximum co-operation from Raymond Waters, the Regent Insurance Cup Playoffs finally took off over the weekend. Saturday night at the Michael Ashcroft Stadium the number two seed faced the number three seed as defending champion Sagitun hosted the Builder’s Hardware Bandits […]
Written on October 27, 2003 | Posted in
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It created quite a stir back in April when accused drug runners George Herbert and Liston McCord were led up the steps of a U.S. Government jet and flown off to a future that would likely include a long stretch in Federal Prison. But if the D.E.A.’s snatching of two suspected criminals raised eyebrows, the […]
Written on October 24, 2003 | Posted in
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Earlier this week we reported on the discovery of a few counterfeit hundred dollar notes, which has been successfully passed to business houses in Belize City and Dangriga. Now it seems that police have found the mother load–along with three suspected counterfeiters. Eighteen-year-old Devin Simmons, nineteen year old Darryl Gideon and eighteen year old Levon […]
Written on October 24, 2003 | Posted in
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The epicentre of Garifuna culture may be located in Dangriga and villages to the south, but as the nation’s largest municipality, Belize City boasts a growing and increasingly vibrant Garifuna community. Next weekend that community will demonstrate its strength at an annual pageant. Patrick Jones has a preview. Patrick Jones, Reporting The five young ladies […]
Written on October 24, 2003 | Posted in
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It’s modelled after the highly successful Coca-Cola spelling bee…but while the format may be familiar, the National Nutrition Quiz sponsored by Belize Mills has the nation’s high schools digging deep, not for the right letter, but for solutions to a growing problem: poor nutrition. Emcee “We have third place going to Belize Adventist…we have second […]
Written on October 24, 2003 | Posted in
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The sun had not yet reached the blue horizon this morning when La Isla Bonita was transformed into El Cayo en Fuego. San Pedro’s largest food emporium was on fire and when News 5’s Patrick Jones reached the scene around ten, the building was still belching thick black clouds. Patrick Jones, Reporting Smoke still poured […]
Written on October 23, 2003 | Posted in
Disasters |
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Police are still looking for their third suspect in the case of alleged large-scale abuse of children in Punta Gorda. U.S. citizen Harry Lee Jones, wanted by the cops on a charge of human trafficking, has not yet been found and chances are that he is no longer in the country, as reports to News […]
Written on October 23, 2003 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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A U.S. tourist has died after SCUBA diving. On Wednesday fifty-five year old Kenneth Goth was diving near the reef at Gallows Point, eight miles east of Belize City, when according to his wife, he began to experience problems breathing. He surfaced and those with him administered C.P.R., but those efforts failed. Goth’s body awaits […]
Written on October 23, 2003 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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Police report that a series of jackings were committed in Belize City on Wednesday, all of which appear remarkably similar in nature. At around six-thirty p.m. on Gibnut Street an eighteen-year-old woman was accosted by two men, with one of them grabbing her neck while the other took away her cell phone. On Water Lane […]
Written on October 23, 2003 | Posted in
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The following story combines two problems that we’ve covered many times before. The first is illegal squatters who build makeshift houses on land that isn’t theirs, while the second is the propensity for certain newly developed areas of Port Loyola to retain large amounts of water following heavy rains. It’s hard to tell which of […]
Written on October 23, 2003 | Posted in
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He was detained last week in Punta Gorda at the same time as accused paedophiles Dennis Bruce and Amos Capps, but Harry Lee Jones was release by police after seventy-two hours when they could not assemble sufficient evidence against him. Now the cops say they are ready…but Jones is nowhere to be found. An all […]
Written on October 22, 2003 | Posted in
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Two men have been detained for questioning following the discovery of a body in the Stann Creek District. On Tuesday morning police were called to Banana farm number fifteen where they found the badly decomposed corpse, which displayed chop wounds to the neck, face and hands. It was later identified as fifty-year-old Domingo Ordoñez, a […]
Written on October 22, 2003 | Posted in
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In more positive police news, high ranking members of the department and residents of the Newtown Barracks area gathered this morning for the inauguration of a permanent police presence in the high profile neighbourhood. Jason Musa, Manager, Belize Marina Towers “This particular area has become kind of a hotspot on weekends, night life, discos, casinos, […]
Written on October 22, 2003 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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It was Belize’s third attempt to access this particular source of funding and the successful effort came just in time. With an estimated two percent of the adult population believed to be infected with HIV, and new cases running at more than one a day, the battle against AIDS needs all the firepower it can […]
Written on October 22, 2003 | Posted in
Health |
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Children who are afflicted with physical disabilities have a difficult time trying to live a normal life in Belize, and one reason is the lack of rehabilitation services. It’s one problem that CARE-Belize, a new non-governmental organisation, hopes to address. CARE stands for Community Agency for Rehabilitation and Education for persons with disabilities, and today […]
Written on October 22, 2003 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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It’s a nation that is virtually unknown to Belizeans and most other Central Americans…but Finland may figure prominently in the region’s future. That’s the word emerging from a two-day forum on renewable energy that has attracted an impressive collection of participants. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting The Central American technocrats gathered at the Radisson […]
Written on October 22, 2003 | Posted in
Environment |
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Troubles continue to mount for two U.S. citizens accused of the sexual exploitation of children in Punta Gorda. Not content with charges of unlawful carnal knowledge and two counts of indecent assault against Dennis Bruce and a single charge of indecent assault against Amos Capps, authorities have dug deep into their quiver of prosecutorial arrows […]
Written on October 21, 2003 | Posted in
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In other police news, two armed robbers have absconded with over a thousand dollars from a Cayo tourist resort. Around six Monday evening the pair, armed with a shotgun and handgun, entered Maya Mountain Lodge on the Cristo Rey Road and ordered employee Melvin Ayala to lie on the ground, while they ran off with […]
Written on October 21, 2003 | Posted in
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It may not be the most serious of crimes, but don’t tell that to the folks at Port Loyola Preschool, who since the opening of the academic year have been plagued by burglars. And that plague has struck yet again, only this time with a somewhat different outcome. Gwendolyn Jones, Principal, Port Loyola Preschool “We […]
Written on October 21, 2003 | Posted in
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It happened without so much as a peep, but motorists who pulled up to gas stations this morning were greeted with the news that fuel prices had actually gone down. As of midnight last night, the pump price for a gallon of premium gasoline fell by twelve cents to seven dollars and twenty-five cents. Regular […]
Written on October 21, 2003 | Posted in
Economy |
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The flight originated in Vera Cruz, Mexico and was headed to La Ceiba, Honduras with a refuelling stop in Belize. But that stop turned to disaster Monday evening when just before five the pilot radioed the control tower at the P.G.I.A. that he was going down. This afternoon I visited the scene of the accident […]
Written on October 21, 2003 | Posted in
Disasters |
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People all over Belize have been receiving form letters from the United States concerning a legal case involving claims against Western Union, the money transfer company. It seems that over a number of years the company was overcharging for its services and a successful class action lawsuit has resulted in a proposed settlement under which […]
Written on October 21, 2003 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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The admonition to stay away from drugs is a pretty straightforward one. But never underestimate the creativity and dedication of the students and faculty of Wesley College when it comes to getting the message out. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting They’re only play-acting…but the message is right on target. Drugs hurt, and they kill. […]
Written on October 21, 2003 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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Three days after the tragedy, there are more questions than answers surrounding the shooting death of nineteen-year-old Albert Hoy The Third. On Friday evening the S.J.C. Junior College student’s body was found lying in the corridor of his house at the corner of Slaughter House Road and Cleghorn Street in Belize City. Hoy had suffered […]
Written on October 20, 2003 | Posted in
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By all accounts it was a pretty fierce beating, and after spending three days in the hospital, the victim is talking to the press. Jennifer Phill today told News 5’s Jacqueline Woods that she didn’t deserve what she got. Jennifer Phill, Stabbing Victim “I need justice, I need real justice for this because I noh […]
Written on October 20, 2003 | Posted in
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