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A group of Guatemalan officials spent more than two hours today at the Hattieville Prison. And while visits from embassy officials to check up on the condition of jailed Guatemalans are routine, today’s twelve-member delegation included representatives of Guatemala’s Human Rights Commission and press corps. Prison officials tell News 5 that originally the group had […]
Written on April 20, 2004 | Posted in
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In police news, a weekend swim in the Mopan River on Sunday claimed the life of a nineteen year old Benque Viejo man. Police say Kelvin Mis went swimming around six o’clock on Sunday evening during which he disappeared under the water. Mis body was retrieved from the river on Monday morning. Police say it […]
Written on April 20, 2004 | Posted in
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In Belize City police have made an arrest in connection with a murder that took place earlier this year on Central American Boulevard. Nineteen year old Maurice Felix has been charged with murder in connection with the death of Levi Slusher which occurred in the early morning of January third. While cops in the City […]
Written on April 20, 2004 | Posted in
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This year Courts Belize Limited is inviting members of the public to live their dreams through its latest game promotion “Gold Rush,” in which customers have a chance to win cash prizes up to two hundred thousand dollars. This morning the promotion was launched and it included the first draw. Marketing coordinator Parveen Hamilton offered […]
Written on April 20, 2004 | Posted in
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His powerful but mellow voice has been entertaining Belizeans since the mid 90’s…and who–no matter which party you voted for–could forget the haunting anthem of the P.U.P.’s successful 2003 election campaign. Well, the man with those well tuned vocal chords–Super G–has a new CD out…and today he stopped by for some P.R. Super G, Recording […]
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We began tonight’s newscast on the subject of water…and it is on that note we will end. This water, however, is not the kind you drink; it’s the equally precious liquid used to put out fires. And according to city fire service officials, it’s becoming dangerously scarce. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting When firemen […]
Written on April 20, 2004 | Posted in
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The violence in Belize City continues with two more young men killed over the weekend. The first murder took place on Johnson Street early Sunday morning. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Less than forty-eight hours after an attempted murder charge was dropped against twenty three year old Dalton Douglas Reneau, he himself was gunned down and killed […]
Written on April 19, 2004 | Posted in
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In another incident, also in Belize City, on Sunday a youth was killed around eight p.m. as he headed to a neighbourhood shop. News 5 spoke with his mother today. Irene Wallace, Mother of Deceased “It was pretty close range, pretty close range cause like nobody expect that.” Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Irene Wallace remains in […]
Written on April 19, 2004 | Posted in
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A man who attacked and attempted to kidnap a fourteen year old girl in Caye Caulker is being sought by police. The girl arrived at the Caye Caulker clinic early Sunday morning and reported that she was home sleeping when a man she knows, but whose name is being withheld by police, woke her up […]
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The Police Department has issued a statement regarding an incident at a checkpoint involving a bus carrying Kulture Yabra football players and fans to a game in Cayo on Saturday. According to police, an officer at a checkpoint near Red Creek Village boarded the bus with the intention of carrying out a routine inspection. However, […]
Written on April 19, 2004 | Posted in
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The Public Utilities Commission today announced its final decision regarding Belize Water Services’ application for a rate increase. And while it is not the thirty-two percent rate hike that B.W.S.L. wanted, consumers, with a few exceptions, will now have to pay more every time they turn on the faucet. According to the P.U.C., effective April […]
Written on April 19, 2004 | Posted in
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And while the water rate was the prime focus of the Public Utilities Commission?s press conference, Chairman Dr. Gilbert Canton took time out to address issues affecting the telecommunications sector. According to Canton, it is the view of the P.U.C. that B.T.L. continues to charge illegal rates to consumers, but a recent court ruling dismissing […]
Written on April 19, 2004 | Posted in
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The eyes of the softball world were fixed on Rogers Stadium this weekend as teams from El Salvador and Jamaica rolled into town to challenge the Belize National Team in two days of thrills and excitement on the diamond. Good Evening and welcome to Sports Monday, I am Patrick Jones, in tonight for James Adderley. […]
Written on April 19, 2004 | Posted in
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The International Monetary Fund today released the public information notice, a bulletin that goes along with the report on the country’s Article Four consultation. While it wasn’t exactly a glowing assessment of the country’s fiscal health, the government?s spin-doctors and officials of the Ministry of Finance and Central Bank worked overtime this afternoon to gain […]
Written on April 16, 2004 | Posted in
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On Saturday, the first set of students in a Master’s Degree programme in public health will graduate during a ceremony at the Radisson Fort George. The programme, which started in 2002, is aimed at preparing experienced health professionals to assume leadership roles as members of multi disciplinary teams which will develop public health projects. The […]
Written on April 16, 2004 | Posted in
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A man from San Jose Succotz has been arrested for shooting his two sons. Diego Cocom Sr. reportedly went home drunk on Thursday evening and got into an argument with his two sons, aged twenty-three and sixteen. According to witnesses, Cocom picked up a sixteen gauge shotgun and threatened to kill them both. When they […]
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Some four hundred and fifty children who belong to the Police Youth Cadet Corps are spending the last few days of their Easter vacation attending the Police Department’s annual sports camp. The event was opened on Thursday evening at the Michael Ashcroft Stadium in Independence with a lively ceremony. The young people range in age […]
Written on April 16, 2004 | Posted in
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The National Drug Abuse Control Council, NDACC, has released the results of the latest survey of Belizean high school students… and the news is not good. A sample of second and fourth year students revealed that a startling twenty-five percent of those surveyed, or one in four of the students, reported consuming more than six […]
Written on April 16, 2004 | Posted in
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Most of us think of libraries as just places that house collections of books. But that perception is changing… and today one Belize City library opened a special exhibition that the staff is hoping will not only be educational, but enjoyable as well. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Turton Library on North Front Street not only […]
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Anyone interested in the history of the Belize-Guatemala territorial dispute will welcome a new publication by former Ambassador James Murphy. “The Guatemalan Claim to Belize: A Handbook on the Negotiations” gives a concise account of the efforts to end the claim in simplified language. Murphy spent the last year and a half researching archival material […]
Written on April 16, 2004 | Posted in
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If you listened last night on this broadcast to the Minister of Finance, you’d think that the action by consumers to collect millions of dollars in allegedly illegal overcharges by B.T.L. was a dead issue. And as far as the Supreme Court is concerned, it is…but one man who is not about to give up […]
Written on April 15, 2004 | Posted in
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He has been a fixture on the local cycling scene for a quarter of a century. But this week, Santino Castillo, sponsor of the sport’s biggest team, announced that he’s bowing out…at least for the next year. In a letter sent to president of the Belize Cycling Association, Gerald Garbutt, Castillo cites family commitments as […]
Written on April 15, 2004 | Posted in
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Two years after Care-Belize was launched, the non-governmental organization now has a permanent headquarters from where it will be able to better provide rehabilitation services for persons with physical disabilities. The office is located on Gabourel Lane and that is where News 5 caught up with Care Belize field officer, Roxanne Jones and volunteer physical […]
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“You don’t seem to miss it until it’s gone”, and while that statement can apply to everything from love to gasoline, tonight we’ll apply the notion to that crucial commodity: dog food. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting On April first, with the Mad Cow disease scare winding down, The Belize Agricultural Health Authority lifted the temporary ban […]
Written on April 15, 2004 | Posted in
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Long before there was a Marion Jones to look up to there was another young Belizean woman who dominated the local sports pages. Margaret Usher was her name, and while she was only one member of an immensely talented group dubbed “The Golden Girls”, Margaret stood out for her single-minded dedication to the game of […]
Written on April 15, 2004 | Posted in
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