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The first public hearing on the alleged mismanagement at the Social Security Board will take place on December fifteenth. That’s the word from the Senate Select Committee formed to investigate the SSB. According to the committee’s latest press release, they have completed an on-site inspection of various pieces of land put up as collateral by […]
Written on December 3, 2004 | Posted in
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And while we are not sure exactly which of the properties in the Data Pro compound are held as collateral, it is apparently not all of them. A release today from Belize Medical College, the U.S. run offshore med school located at Data Pro, indicates that they have recently purchased a second building and lot […]
Written on December 3, 2004 | Posted in
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The manhunt for accused cop killer Earl Young is officially over and the twenty-four year old suspect is tonight in lockdown at the Queen Street police station. How did it happen? A short while ago News 5’s Patrick Jones got the details from Commissioner of Police Carmen Zetina via telephone from his Belmopan Office. Carmen […]
Written on December 2, 2004 | Posted in
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Twenty-four hours after thieves stole thousands of dollars from Belize Water Services in a daring mid afternoon hold up in the nation’s capital, Belmopan police say they have detained two suspects and recovered eighty-five percent of the money. On Wednesday afternoon, three men, two of whom carried guns, walked into the B.W.S. office on Cardinal […]
Written on December 2, 2004 | Posted in
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Another daylight-jacking while not as dramatic as the Belmopan heist, has left a woman shaken, and a teenage boy in lock down. According to police, twenty-seven year old Shirlene Casimiro was standing in front of the Supreme Court around midday on Wednesday when a thirteen year old boy walked up to her, grabbed two chains […]
Written on December 2, 2004 | Posted in
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In a follow up to a report of a stabbing incident earlier this week, police have arrested and charged a seventeen-year-old Belize City man. He is Nelson Diaz of a North Creek Road address and he has been charged with the crimes of attempted murder, causing dangerous harm and the use of deadly means of […]
Written on December 2, 2004 | Posted in
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A fire this morning in Santa Elena Town has left one family homeless. Around ten thirty this morning a passerby noticed smoke coming from the upstairs of a house at number eighty nine George Price Avenue and alerted one of the occupants, police constable Jose Sierra Junior, who was downstairs. According to fire service officer […]
Written on December 2, 2004 | Posted in
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With demand for electricity increasing between seven and ten percent a year any new sources of power are welcome…and today Belize Electricity Limited and Belize Sugar Industries announced that they have struck a deal. The agreement calls for a company owned by B.S.I., BELCOGEN, to build a cogeneration plant at its Tower Hill factory in […]
Written on December 2, 2004 | Posted in
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For his part BEL chief Lynn Young says that with oil prices heading in only one direction, the alternative energy can’t come soon enough. Lynn Young, President/CEO, BEL ?We are getting about fifty percent of our power from Mexico right now and we get about twenty/twenty-five percent from the Mollejon Plant, the rest comes from […]
Written on December 2, 2004 | Posted in
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While the energy sector is showing promise, developments in the retailing across the Atlantic are causing a few jitters here. Courts PLC, the parent company of Courts Belize Limited, has put itself into administration, a form of bankruptcy, saying basically that its bankers have pulled the plug on its eighty-nine stores in the United Kingdom […]
Written on December 2, 2004 | Posted in
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Battlefield Park in Belize City is perhaps one of the most historic pieces of real estate in the downtown area. But the ambience of this public park has often left something to be desired. But a new organisation called the Belize Tourism Association is teaming up with local artists and the private sector to change […]
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By now you’ve seen the Salvation Army Kettles around town–and hopefully gave your share of cash. But money isn’t the only thing being collected this Christmas…as I found out this morning. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting On Wednesday the Rotary Club dropped off Christmas bins at three main locations in Belize City. The idea is to collect […]
Written on December 2, 2004 | Posted in
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It seems like whenever you buy lotto these days, your chances of winning are pretty good. For the second time in a row, we are pleased to announce that yet another person is receiving a big cheque–but we still don’t know who. According to the Tropical Gaming Company, their computer has confirmed to them that […]
Written on December 2, 2004 | Posted in
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Police Constable Uwin Armstrong was laid to rest this afternoon in Hattieville at a funeral attended by hundred of friends, family members and colleagues. And while the nation mourned the senseless execution style killing, police believe they have identified the murderer. Police Commissioner Carmen Zetina told News 5 that they think he’s heading North. Carmen […]
Written on December 1, 2004 | Posted in
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Details are sketchy but reports to News 5 indicate that an armed robbery took place this afternoon at the office of Belize Water Services in Belmopan. It is alleged that three men, armed with a handgun and sawed off shotgun, entered the building on Cardinal Avenue, tied up the employees with duct tape and escaped […]
Written on December 1, 2004 | Posted in
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It’s not as dramatic a crime as an armed robbery but a series of burglaries at a Belize City school has left teachers and administrators disheartened and demoralized. News 5’s Patrick Jones has more. Patrick Jones, Reporting Tuesday night?s burglary of the Ephesus Seventh Day Adventist primary school is the latest setback for the educational […]
Written on December 1, 2004 | Posted in
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Today is World Aids Day and Belize, with one of the most serious rates of infection in the Caribbean and Central America, is not taking the observance lightly. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports on one event in Belize City that hopes to keep the problem in the public eye. Patrick Jones, Reporting The annual AIDS […]
Written on December 1, 2004 | Posted in
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Several organisations that work with people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS are this week receiving assistance from the Rotary Club of Belize to continue their community awareness programmes. One such group is Alliance Against AIDS which was presented with a copy of the movie “Risking It All,” which AAA’s Executive Director Rodel Beltran Perera says […]
Written on December 1, 2004 | Posted in
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Here’s a good Belize Trivia question: What’s the most popular single tourist destination in Belize? Give up? It’s the archaeological reserve on the Cave’s Branch River near Frank’s Eddy Village. This year over one hundred and twenty-five thousand visitors, mostly from cruise ships, are expected to go cave tubing, hiking and enjoy other activities at […]
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To most people the numbers 9, 10, 11, 15 and 20 might not mean much. But to retired school teacher Charles Woods they represent a massive windfall on the eve of the Christmas holidays. You guessed it: seventy-four year old Woods hit the ninety seven thousand five hundred dollar jackpot drawn on Saturday. It was […]
Written on December 1, 2004 | Posted in
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