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As expected, eighteen-year-old Jeremy Rhaburn has been charged in the shooting of his fifteen year old brother. Rhaburn was arraigned for attempted murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm for the shooting of Edwin Flores, which occurred in Belize City early Sunday morning. He also was charged with handling stolen goods, namely […]
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He resigned from the United Democratic Party prior to the 2003 elections and mounted an independent campaign in the Pickstock Division. While that effort was ultimately unsuccessful, Wilfred Elrington made history by running well ahead of the official U.D.P. candidate. This week Elrington began what he hopes will be a long march to Belmopan as […]
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This morning, the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired saw the light at the end of a very dark tunnel as some much needed funding has come their way. In Belmopan today, Japan’s Ambassador to Belize, His Excellency Mutusyoshi Nishimura, presented a cheque for more than seventy-five thousand U.S. dollars to Prime Minister Said Musa. […]
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It was to be a pivotal moment in the ongoing dispute between the Football Federation of Belize and the National Sports Council …that is the arrival of the General Secretary of CONCACAF Chuck Blazer. But tonight the only direction football is going is nowhere. According to the Belize Premier Football League, they were forced to […]
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Like the Belize-Guatemala border which has somehow been turned into an “adjacency line”, in recent years the Belize Barrier Reef has magically metamorphosed into the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. In both cases the prime mover behind the change in nomenclature has been the lure of international finance. Patrick Jones reports on the latest offshore injection of […]
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Not all the funding to preserve the nation’s world-class natural attractions comes from abroad. Thanks to our own PACT, the world’s biggest fish will be able to call Belize home for a long time to come. It was not the right time of the year, but still we scanned the surface of the deep blue, […]
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Late this evening the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry issued a statement objecting to several of the recent tax amendments passed by the House of Representatives last Friday. The Chamber says it is presently consulting with its members about specific concerns on each of the amendments, but at this time they recognize that the […]
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The Chamber of Commerce is not alone in issuing statements critical of recent government decisions. This evening the Belize National Teacher’s Union, B.N.T.U., says that among the issues raised at a meeting this weekend, was government’s “lack of transparency and full disclosure in its buy-out and impending sale of B.T.L. shares to International Communications Corporation, […]
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The launch of the fifth cycle of the Basic Needs Trust Fund got underway this morning in Belmopan. The programme is intended to allow poverty-stricken communities, especially in the south, to receive financing for upliftment projects. Over twelve million dollars in grants from the Caribbean Development Bank is now available to community groups. Patrick Jones […]
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A fifteen-year-old boy has been hospitalised after he was shot in the chest at a house in Eden’s Alley over the weekend. The incident occurred right behind the Queen’s Street police station just after midnight on Sunday morning. Upon hearing the shot, officers on duty jumped the fence, entered the house, and discovered Edwin Flores […]
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Police are investigating two deaths over the weekend, one in San Pedro and the other in San Narciso in which alcohol consumption may have played a role. On Sunday, San Pedro police pulled the body of forty-year-old Paul Young from the sea. Initial investigations indicate that Young had visited a bar the night before and […]
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A toddler died in a tragic accident in Spanish Lookout this weekend. Thirty-four year old John Thiessen told police he was operating a large tractor in his yard on Saturday when he accidentally ran over his daughter, Chrystifer, crushing her skull. Chrystifer was only fifteen months old.
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Corozal police are investigating an alleged case of suicide in Patchakan Village on Saturday. Veronica Campos told police that she and her husband Humberto were at her father’s home when Humberto put a sixteen gauge shotgun to his chest and pulled the trigger. He was taken to the Corozal Hospital, but pronounced dead on arrival. […]
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It is not certain just how many people in the workforce have HIV and AIDS, but the deadly disease has mainly affected persons in the productive sector: that means young men and women between the ages of fifteen to forty-nine years old. Today, the Ministry of Labour and Local Government launched a workplace HIV/AIDS project […]
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With today’s teens facing dangers in the streets, sexual abuse in many homes, and the widespread availability of drugs and firearms, it may seem like all Belizean youth lead troubled lives. But whenever News 5 is invited to cover events sponsored by our high schools, we realize that there are plenty of good kids out […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve just made that connection with this latest issue of Sports Monday. Week seven of the B.P.F.L.’s B League competition brought Creative Tiles of Ladyville and Lazio of Orange Walk to the Sandhill Field on Sunday in a battle for three points. Folks, we’re just about five minutes in […]
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