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And on the game of political football taking place in the field of telecommunications, I asked the P.M. for an update on how the government facilitated sale of B.T.L. to Innovative Communications was going. Prime Minister Said Musa “The shares are in transition, yes, somewhere between the Carlisle group and I.C.C. And we are now […]
Written on January 21, 2004 | Posted in
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And if it looks like the Prime Minister has his hands full, don’t worry, he’s about to get some very capable help. It was announced today that the Chief Executive Officer in the P.M.’s newly created Ministry of national Development will be none other than Dr. Carla Barnett. Barnett’s resume is as impressive as any […]
Written on January 21, 2004 | Posted in
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It took a few weeks to make the collar, but an Orange Walk man has been arrested for the sexual assault of a thirteen-year-old girl. Thirty-two year old Alejandro Perez has been charged with rape in connection with an incident reported on January second. The minor claims she was walking on the Palmar Road when […]
Written on January 21, 2004 | Posted in
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It took even longer to arrest two cops who allegedly shook down a motorist, but tonight they are behind bars pending charges in court. Police constables twenty-seven year old Andres Hernandez and thirty-three year old Demian Tzul are accused of stopping a motorist at a checkpoint near Corozal Town on August seventh and shaking him […]
Written on January 21, 2004 | Posted in
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And not far away from the scene of the December robbery, this morning an altercation took place that has left one man in the hospital. As usual, News 5’s Patrick Jones discovered that every story has at least two sides. Patrick Jones, Reporting The attack on forty-year-old Manuel de Jesus Varela happened at his stall […]
Written on January 21, 2004 | Posted in
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If you’ve ever gone job-hunting you know that the experience can be a frustrating and demoralizing exercise. Today news 5’s Jacqueline Woods put herself in the shoes of an unemployed person to attend a workshop designed to improve her chances for work. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The last labour force survey conducted by the Central Statistical […]
Written on January 21, 2004 | Posted in
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It happened exactly a year ago, and while that hardly qualifies the event as hot copy, the significance of the massive traffic accident is as fresh as any late breaking news story. Especially significant is that unlike many Belizean tragedies, it appears that this one has galvanized the nation into a collective change in behaviour. […]
Written on January 20, 2004 | Posted in
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Two men have been charged with rape in separate incidents in the Corozal District. Twenty-eight year old Higinio Canto of Caledonia Village was arrested following a report by a fifteen-year-old girl who told police that on Sunday evening a drunken Canto called for her at her house and entered. He then proceeded to tear off […]
Written on January 20, 2004 | Posted in
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We’ll call him the Happy Cow Bandit. Yesterday morning a man walked into a shop on Marage Road in Ladyville, picked up a pack of the popular processed cheese, carried it to the counter, and asked the proprietor for some crackers. When that shopkeeper, Hi Wengin Zheng, informed him that there were no crackers, the […]
Written on January 20, 2004 | Posted in
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A release from the Government Press Office indicates that Great Britain has granted Belize debt relief in the amount of almost one point five million pounds. The funds, amounting to over five point three million Belize dollars, apply to the year running from July 2002 to June 2003. A letter from the British Ministry of […]
Written on January 20, 2004 | Posted in
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It’s a programme initiated by one of the region’s leading banks to recognize those citizens who, without fanfare or publicity, toil daily to make a vital contribution to their communities. Today, after reviewing many nominations from four countries, the judges announced their selections. Patrick Jones, Reporting FirstCaribbean International Bank this afternoon honoured the three finalists: […]
Written on January 20, 2004 | Posted in
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We first told his story last week…and while the critically injured young man is showing some signs of recovery, the case against his assailants is going nowhere. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has an update. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thirty-six year old Maria Cawich has remained vigilant in her fight to help save her son’s life. Sixteen-year-old […]
Written on January 20, 2004 | Posted in
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It’s no secret that family stability in Belize has been on the decline for quite a while. And when those families come apart the end of the road for some children, whose parents and relatives cannot care for them, is custody by the state. But that situation is meant to be temporary and tonight, in […]
Written on January 20, 2004 | Posted in
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It was a pity that there was no cruise ship in port today as the pageantry that took place on Regent Street this morning was definitely several cuts above the usual fire eater or snake man. But while it was the show in front of the Supreme Court that drew a crowd, it was the […]
Written on January 19, 2004 | Posted in
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An attack in the Orange Walk District has left a shopkeeper fighting for her life. According to police, sixty-three year old Catarina Teck was stabbed in the back around 9:30 this morning at her shop in San Jose Village. Police apprehended eighteen-year-old Kevin Rodriguez after villagers responded to Teck’s screams and detained him. He allegedly […]
Written on January 19, 2004 | Posted in
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He was on the run for over three weeks, but eighteen-year old Godfrey Hemsley could not elude the long arm of the law. The teenager has been arrested and charged for the attempted murder and use of deadly means of harm against twenty-three year old Clive Arnold Junior on December twenty-eighth. According to police, Arnold […]
Written on January 19, 2004 | Posted in
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A fifty-five year old Belize City Boledo vendor was robbed at gunpoint on Sunday. Police say Michael Theus was selling lottery tickets at his home on West Street when two young men brandishing handguns entered and held him up. One of the robbers emptied Theus’s pockets of three hundred and thirty-five dollars. Not satisfied, the […]
Written on January 19, 2004 | Posted in
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And in news just in from the police press office, it appears that a pedestrian has been killed in a Cayo traffic accident. The body of twenty-four year old Byron Canto was found on the Cristo Rey Road around three-thirty Sunday morning. Later in the day twenty-year old Carlos Rodriguez reported to police that he […]
Written on January 19, 2004 | Posted in
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On Saturday British Foreign Office Minister responsible for Latin America and the Caribbean, Bill Rammell, presented a cheque for one hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars to finance an international conference on conflict prevention, human rights, and economic integration. The conference, co-hosted by the University of Belize and San Carlos University of Guatemala, is the first […]
Written on January 19, 2004 | Posted in
Education |
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The final instalment of the Courts Megabucks promotion was held over the weekend at the company’s Belize City headquarters. The name of Paula Edwards of Corozal Town had already been selected from the barrel and on Saturday morning she stepped up to the wheel in search of a maximum payday of seventy-five thousand dollars. Emcee, […]
Written on January 19, 2004 | Posted in
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It is the city’s sole public cemetery and with a location that brackets the old capital’s western entrance it’s pretty difficult not to notice what’s going on there. But as Jacqueline Woods discovered, there’s quite a bit happening behind the scenes in the graveyard–and some of it is not pretty. Paul Ferguson, Concerned Citizen “No, […]
Written on January 19, 2004 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve locked into this latest dish of Sports Monday. We take you immediately to the Hattieville field where the Hattieville Sporting Club hosted Kremandala Lake of Belize City yesterday in week seven of the B.P.F.L.’s B League. We’re only seven minutes in when Paul Bradley centres into the danger […]
Written on January 19, 2004 | Posted in
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For the Belizean public in the wake of failure of the facilitation process, the issue of settling the Guatemalan claim isn’t just on the back burner–it’s not even on the stove. As for the Guatemalans, evidence suggests that any serious attempts at a settlement never made it to the kitchen. But you’d never know that […]
Written on January 16, 2004 | Posted in
Foreign Affairs |
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Over the last decade his name has become synonymous with efforts to tame the ever-increasing volume of traffic on our nation’s streets and highways. And today was Martin Yama’s last day on the job. This morning we spoke as he cleaned out his desk. A.S.P. Martin Yama, Retiring Head of Traffic, Bz. City “This is […]
Written on January 16, 2004 | Posted in
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When one person wants to show appreciation to another that gesture often takes the form of gift giving. Some common gifts in our society include flowers, chocolate, jewellery, or even cash. But the gift in our next story is not so common…and neither is the giver. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting He’s best known […]
Written on January 16, 2004 | Posted in
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