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As a politician, community activist, and radio personality she has never shied away from controversy…and tonight former Belize City Councillor Lillette Barkley-Waite is once again in the thick of it–this time for being on the wrong end of a pot bust. Lillette Barkley-Waite, Charged with Drug Trafficking “I am not guilty of drug trafficking, I […]
Written on December 31, 2003 | Posted in
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Four ounces of Belize Breeze is hardly what you’d call a major drug bust, but nearly four pounds of Colombian cocaine is cause for concern. That’s the amount police discovered on Tuesday after they searched a vehicle at the corner of Curassow and Gibnut streets in Belize City. Arrested and charged with drug trafficking were […]
Written on December 31, 2003 | Posted in
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Belize has finally succumbed to U.S. diplomatic pressure and signed an agreement to exempt that country’s military and civilian employees from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. Under U.S. law, had Belize not agreed to the exemption, we would have become ineligible for U.S. military assistance. Belize follows Guyana and Antigua as the third […]
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He is no stranger to the spotlight, and his public battles in the cruise tourism sector have earned him a fair share of friends and enemies, but President of the Belize Cruise Ship Industry Association Tom Greenwood is fast gaining notoriety in another area: winning big prizes in raffles at the Princess Hotel and Casino. […]
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And speaking of winnings, this morning a very jubilant Maria Perez, accompanied by her husband and two daughters, went to Atlantic Bank to claim her grand prize, a 2004 Toyota Hilux pickup. Perez won the new vehicle after her ticket was picked from among one hundred thousand coupons in Tuesday’s draw at the bank’s headquarters […]
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And speaking of vehicles, Belizean motorists will wake up on Thursday morning with a bigger goma than usual–thanks to some new legislation designed to make our highways safer. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting The beefed up traffic laws will usher in the new year with stiffer penalties for drivers who fail to measure up. […]
Written on December 31, 2003 | Posted in
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Due to the New Year’s Day holiday, the next newscast will be on Friday, January 2nd.
Written on December 31, 2003 | Posted in
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Precise details have been difficult to come by, but sources have confirmed to News 5 that both police and the Roman Catholic Church are investigating an incident in which one priest chopped another priest, leaving him seriously injured. Reports are that sometime last week, Father Santos Sol became embroiled in an argument with a fellow […]
Written on December 30, 2003 | Posted in
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Reports of accidental deaths over the long holiday weekend continue to trickle in to police. The latest fatality involves a Belize City construction worker. Seventeen-year-old Wilmer Alvarado, a Honduran of a Douglas Jones Street address, lost his life when on December twenty-third he fell from the second floor of the new building for the Wesley […]
Written on December 30, 2003 | Posted in
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Also on Christmas Day, a young man from the Cayo District lost his life, this time by drowning. According to friends, twenty-three year old Vincent Price of Santa Elena, along with two other men, jumped into the Mopan River from the hammock bridge near Branch Mouth. Price began to have trouble swimming and apparently went […]
Written on December 30, 2003 | Posted in
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As crimes go, vandalizing a vehicle is not in the same league with murder, rape or robbery…but for one Belize City woman, the heartless acts of an unknown antagonist have driven her to the point of desperation. Olga Jones, Victim “This Christmas somebody just broke my heart. I nice to everybody that come around, I […]
Written on December 30, 2003 | Posted in
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Connoisseurs of imported steaks will have to sharpen their teeth and settle for the local variety…at least for the near future. In the wake of the discovery of Mad Cow disease in the United States, officials of the Belize Agricultural Health Authority have, since December twenty-fourth, instituted a temporary ban on imports of U.S. beef. […]
Written on December 30, 2003 | Posted in
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Even though we’ve been conditioned to expect nothing but good news from Belize’s booming tourism industry, the latest statistics are still pretty mind-boggling. For the first eleven months of the year, tourist arrivals at the Philip Goldson International Airport, the nation’s primary port of entry, are up an astounding eighteen point one percent over 2002. […]
Written on December 30, 2003 | Posted in
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It’s the season of raffles, and it is a rare Belizean that does not have at least one crumpled ticket stub occupying a hopeful place on the dining room table. This afternoon I was on hand for one major draw right here in the city. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting As with all raffles, Atlantic Bank Limited […]
Written on December 30, 2003 | Posted in
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While many of Belize’s ardent cycling fans will watch the action without the benefit of a night’s sleep, the riders will have to do their celebrating after the race. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports on the first big event of 2004. Patrick Jones, Reporting Over ninety cyclists will take to the Northern Highway on January […]
Written on December 30, 2003 | Posted in
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It was a long holiday weekend, and that normally means at least a few grizzly murders, but this extended Christmas was blessedly free of fatal violence. It was not for lack of trying, however. In two unrelated incidents that can only be described as bizarre, one policeman was severely wounded by a machete and a […]
Written on December 29, 2003 | Posted in
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In the second incident involving law enforcement authorities, a police special constable is clinging to life tonight at the K.H.M.H. after he was shot by a fellow member of the security forces. Police report that shortly after noon on Christmas Day special constable Bill Arana was shot in the right leg and chest following an […]
Written on December 29, 2003 | Posted in
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It was not reported on any police press release, but more than a week after a major hold-up and robbery at Jaguar Paw Resort on December twenty-first, News 5 was today informed about the drama via an email from one of the victims. Belmopan police have confirmed that around three-thirty that evening, three armed masked […]
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It’s a seldom-discussed benefit of the radical rise in cruise ship arrivals. That is the business of selling cocaine. On Christmas Day, however, that business turned sour for one dealer as a tip-off by security personnel aboard one ship of the Norwegian Caribbean Line led police to bust a crew member as he was about […]
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Traffic accidents on the Western and Northern Highways over the holidays have left two people dead and several others with varying degrees of injuries. On Wednesday evening, a Ford Ranger pickup truck with six passengers in the pan overturned between miles thirty-seven and thirty-eight on the Western Highway. The driver of the vehicle, Edward Gonzalez, […]
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And in a final bit of police news, the cops were out in force today following up a lead in none other than the now infamous immigration scandal. Based on a tip that there were computer records of illegal passport sales, police searched the home of immigration agent Jose Shoman on the Northern Highway. The […]
Written on December 29, 2003 | Posted in
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Around five-thirty on Friday evening, a pilot from the Mennonite community of Blue Creek took off on his last flight in a day of pleasure flying. But as the aircraft, a single engine V-max piloted by twenty-five year old Norman Rempel, circled at one hundred feet, something went terribly wrong. As those on the ground […]
Written on December 29, 2003 | Posted in
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It was not a particularly well-kept secret, but today government announced the identities of those concerns who will be taking over control of the Philip Goldson International Airport. The investment consortium is comprised of three local groups and two from abroad. The Belizeans are the Mena group based in Belmopan, the Roe group, and a […]
Written on December 29, 2003 | Posted in
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He’s a successful Businessman and former Mayor of Guatemala City. And today Oscar Berger has one more achievement to add to his resume: President of Guatemala. Berger won the run-off in Guatemala’s presidential election on Sunday by capturing fifty-four percent of the vote. His rival, Alvaro Colom, was left with the remaining forty-six percent of […]
Written on December 29, 2003 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into another delivery of Sports Monday. Week four of the B.P.F.L.’s B League saw Rural All Stars host Delta Sport of Corozal at the Sandhill field yesterday. And it’s the All Stars looking for the early lead when Tyrone Muschamp tries for the near corner against Robel […]
Written on December 29, 2003 | Posted in
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