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The sport has made a recent resurgence based on some unexpected international success. With the next test for women’s softball taking the form of the region?s juvenile championships, News 5’s Patrick Jones shot and wrote the following scouting report. Patrick Jones, Reporting The distinctive sound of bat and ball making contact at Rogers Stadium on […]
Written on July 27, 2004 | Posted in
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She was reported missing on Sunday night, but indications are that she was missing days earlier. At around eleven this morning, police found the body of seventy-three year old Mary Jane Blondell partially buried in a shallow grave off the Hummingbird Highway near mile twenty-five. Blondell, a naturalized Belizean, was a long-time resident of the […]
Written on July 26, 2004 | Posted in
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It took them almost four months, but police have finally caught up with the man they believe stabbed thirty-three year old William Staine to death back in March of this year. Twenty-two year old Jeffrey Flowers has been charged with murder and remanded to Hattieville Prison. Police say Flowers is also being investigated for a […]
Written on July 26, 2004 | Posted in
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Police over the weekend received two crisp blue notes from business proprietors in Punta Gorda, but the currency was not worth the paper it was printed on. That?s right: more funny money. On Friday night, a P.G businesswoman reported that she sold stouts to a man who paid with a hundred dollar bill. While the […]
Written on July 26, 2004 | Posted in
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Last week it was the obeah man, today San Ignacio police have busted another local businessman on a seldom used charge. Twenty seven year old Amir Frutos, proprietor of Dalia?s store on Hudson Street, was arrested and charged today for the crime of displaying obscene articles. This follows a raid of his used clothing and […]
Written on July 26, 2004 | Posted in
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While Frutos will most likely not spend the night in jail, the same cannot be said about another Santa Elena resident. Twenty-seven year old Nicholas Flores has been charged for several counts of arson and assault, after a dispute with his common-law relatives turned violent. San Ignacio police say that Flores was involved in a […]
Written on July 26, 2004 | Posted in
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It is a relatively small gesture…but sometimes it?s the little things that mean the most. Jacqueline Woods reports from King?s Park. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It did not take long for the children of Dorothy Menzies Child Care Centre to explore and enjoy the multifunctional play set. Previously a swing and an open field where the […]
Written on July 26, 2004 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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In 1998 the Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute was established to implement a five-year project to help preserve our Barrier Reef. Funded largely from the United Nations, with smaller amounts from the European Union and Belize Government, the ten million dollar programme had ambitious goals…but with pressures on the once pristine habitat building and […]
Written on July 26, 2004 | Posted in
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Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we?re rolling out another in the series we call Sports Monday. With Juventus and Sagitun already bound for the three game Regents Cup Championship series–there was little strings remaining as the playoffs round reached its natural culmination over the weekend. Saturday night we caught up with the Builders Hardware […]
Written on July 26, 2004 | Posted in
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Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luigi Enaudi, today left the country after a two-day working visit. In fact, the O.A.S. diplomat spent the last week meeting with Belizean and Guatemalan officials in an attempt to re-start the stalled facilitation process. When Guatemala rejected the set of proposals put forward by facilitators […]
Written on July 23, 2004 | Posted in
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He may have made headline news on television, radio and in the newspapers, but it was not until several hours after Robert Hertular was put on a plane at the Philip Goldson International Airport and flown to the United States, that the media via a press release from the Government Press Office, found out that […]
Written on July 23, 2004 | Posted in
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Another day, another murder to report–this time in the Stann Creek District, and the police need your help in catching the culprit. The victim is a Guatemalan national, identified as Miguel Antonio Gregorio, believed to be in his mid thirties. Gregorio?s body was recovered from the side of the Southern Highway around six-thirty this morning, […]
Written on July 23, 2004 | Posted in
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They are as useful as a cardboard box in a dory race on the Belize River…but fake blue notes continue to make the rounds in Belize City and Orange Walk. While one thousand four hundred dollars in phony Queen Betties were taken out of circulation this week, police have issued a public advisory: be on […]
Written on July 23, 2004 | Posted in
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He is a staple on the Belizean music scene who also has some pretty big shoes to fill. Ras Indio has a new CD coming on the market and he stopped by our studios to talk about it. David Obi 111 a.k.a. Ras Indio “Very hot CD “Free Up My Nation” was the first C.D. […]
Written on July 23, 2004 | Posted in
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For most people, pay day is still a week away, and even if you don?t have the extra cash to spend, a trip to the Princess Hotel this weekend might not be a bad thing after all. As News 5?s Patrick Jones explains, Belize?s productive sector will put its best foot forward in an attempt […]
Written on July 23, 2004 | Posted in
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If you thought that after failing to qualify in the hundred meters and then dropping out of the 200, things couldn’t get any worse for Belizean ambassador and track star Marion Jones…you were wrong. Newspapers in California today reported that C.J. Hunter, the ex-husband of Jones, told federal investigators that Marion Jones used several banned […]
Written on July 23, 2004 | Posted in
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There are only twenty days left before the start of the Summer Olympics in Athens. And while the men and women in our next story may not be on the same level as the athletes who will go for the gold in Greece, the competition will by no means be any less intense. Jacqueline Woods, […]
Written on July 23, 2004 | Posted in
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Pay attention to all the press releases and you know that cruise tourism is the fastest growing economic activity in Belize. What you don’t always hear, however, is that behind the scenes it is an arena of high stakes poker with ever changing rules, shifting alliances and enough backstabbing to fill Lord’s Ridge. Today that […]
Written on July 22, 2004 | Posted in
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When little more than her bones were found on July twelfth just inside Belizean territory near the Guatemalan border, it was assumed that the victim was killed in Guatemala and the body was dumped in Belize, probably to make solution of the crime more difficult. And while that scenario may yet prove true, evidence gathered […]
Written on July 22, 2004 | Posted in
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It may be the biggest radio and telethon ever planned for Belize. “Living With Hope”, scheduled for August twentieth, will be simultaneously broadcast on all major radio and television stations to help raise funds to assist persons affected by HIV and AIDS. While much attention and many resources have been expended on how to prevent […]
Written on July 22, 2004 | Posted in
Health |
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Most media coverage on the subject of health tends to focus on the dramatic: an unexplained death, a sudden epidemic, a scandal at the hospital. But what of the many successes in the world of health? While they may lack headline power, they are no less real–or newsworthy. Today officials gave recognition to one of […]
Written on July 22, 2004 | Posted in
Health |
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If you’ve travelled the Western Highway between Belize City and Hattieville it’s hard to miss. A thatched roof palapa, a roadside canal…and some of the strangest looking boats you’ll ever see. News 5’s Janelle Chanona has more. Janelle Chanona, Reporting From the demand for new and diverse tourist destinations in Belize, emerges this latest attraction […]
Written on July 22, 2004 | Posted in
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He?s wanted by the Feds on serious drug charges and tonight Robert Hertular is one-step closer to taking up residence on Rikers Island. On June fourth, Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord upheld the U.S. extradition request and today Acting Justice Denys Barrow dismissed Hertular?s application for a writ of Habeas Corpus, which alleged that the prisoner?s […]
Written on July 21, 2004 | Posted in
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Another drug case is making headlines tonight although the narcotic in question is not cocaine. Three men are wanted for questioning in connection with thousands of illegal tablets found earlier this month at the Data Pro compound on the Northern Highway. According to official reports issued this morning, police chemists have determined that the substances […]
Written on July 21, 2004 | Posted in
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With a badly needed bond issue still in limbo, Belize?s international credit rating took a hit today, as Standard & Poor?s rating service revised its long term outlook from ?stable? to ?negative?. Reasons given for the caution on Belize?s ?B plus? foreign and ?BB minus? local currency ratings are ?increasing challenges in tightening the government?s […]
Written on July 21, 2004 | Posted in
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