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The Scouts Association of Belize today received formal approval from the Ministry of Education to pursue its volunteer programme into primary school system. A six point memorandum of understanding signed this afternoon in Belize City officially recognizes the principles of Scouting as a beneficial way of helping young people become positive contributors to their community. […]
Written on February 23, 2005 | Posted in
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Rotarians in Belize today joined their comrades around the world in celebrating one hundred years of volunteerism and service to their community. As part of events here, the Belize Rotary club this evening dedicated a monument at the entrance to Belize City near mile two on the Northern Highway. Centennial President, Alberto Young, says the […]
Written on February 23, 2005 | Posted in
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It’s a familiar song but last night viewers of K.T.V. week six were treated to a rendition of “Greatest Love of All” of which even Whitney Houston could be proud. William Neal, Host, KTV ?And tonight?s Karaoke winner is contestant…number…five Reecie Pollard.? Final auditions for the last four weeks of K.T.V.’s first round competition will […]
Written on February 23, 2005 | Posted in
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Not a week goes by that we do not receive a notice from the Police Department concerning a missing person. Usually the subject in question is a teenaged girl, either fed up with an abusive home or infatuated with Mr. Right. But sometimes the report does not fit the familiar pattern and that’s the disturbing […]
Written on February 22, 2005 | Posted in
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Police in Independence have arrested and charged a resident of that village in connection with the sexual assault of a fourteen year old girl. Twenty-seven year old Rolando Hernandez Andrade is accused of raping the child late on Saturday night. The girl told police that she was home alone, when someone she knew well raped […]
Written on February 22, 2005 | Posted in
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In Belmopan, an overnight robbery has left a Chinese businessman short of thousands of dollars and the culprits dodging the cops. According to thirty-two year old Charlie Cao of Everyday Supermarket in Belmopan, around nine on Monday night he was collecting the day’s Boledo sales from a number of vendors when two men, one armed […]
Written on February 22, 2005 | Posted in
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Belize’s banana growers may face the prospect of lower prices from the European Union but the E.U. is trying to make up for that cut in subsidies by offering technical assistance. Yesterday in Belmopan Prime Minister Said Musa and the European Commission’s Gerd Jarchow signed an agreement that will make available seven point five million […]
Written on February 22, 2005 | Posted in
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Inspiration to put pen to paper or in this digital age, put fingers to the keypad, can come from a wide range of emotions: anger, fear, happiness or love. For journalist Adele Ramos, a tumultuous break-up drove her to sit down at a computer and when she got up, the core of Phases: A Love […]
Written on February 22, 2005 | Posted in
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Long before the advent of high calibre printing presses, cameras and computers, the art of reproducing pretty pictures had to be done by hand, using what would be considered by today’s standards, primitive tools. But the art of zincography, or engraving images onto metal sheets, then using acid to corrode untreated areas of the surface, […]
Written on February 22, 2005 | Posted in
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It’s a well established programme that has been around for some time, an honest attempt to implement the popular notion of community policing. But relations between the police and many Belize City neighbourhoods are not what they should be. Today Jacqueline Woods sat in on a training session that seeks to make one group of […]
Written on February 22, 2005 | Posted in
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He’s a cane farmer from Orange Walk…a father of eight…and now, one of two winners of Saturday’s Lotto jackpot. Fifty-one year old Belarmino Rodriguez from San Estevan Village this afternoon travelled to the lotto office on Queen Street, accompanied by one of his daughters and his comadre to claim his half of the one hundred […]
Written on February 22, 2005 | Posted in
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After enduring six months of attacks from within and without, the Peoples United Party finally received a much needed boost this weekend. It took the form of a national convention that was noteworthy for both its size and ability to avoid internal acrimony. Official estimates were not available but the sea of blue and white […]
Written on February 21, 2005 | Posted in
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Progress, as we know, can bring problems and one deadly example of this adage occurred on Saturday afternoon in the Belize River Valley. Ever since a beautifully paved highway replaced the old washboard sand and gravel road, drivers have taken the opportunity to shorten their travel time…and in this case shorten two lives. News 5’s […]
Written on February 21, 2005 | Posted in
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Imagine going away for ten days only to return home to find that someone had broken into your residence and stolen sixteen thousand dollars worth of household items. Well that’s exactly what happened to Glenstine Martinez of Central American Boulevard in Belize City. Martinez says he has been working hard on his dream house and […]
Written on February 21, 2005 | Posted in
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While the leadership of the Peoples United Party could bask in a rare weekend of unity and adulation, come this morning they were back to facing the reality of a financial problem that requires cash–not “Que Vivas”–to solve. The particular situation at hand was the need to borrow more money to pay off old debts. […]
Written on February 21, 2005 | Posted in
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James Adderley, Reporting Good evening I?m James Adderley with this fat dish of Sports Monday. The Belize National Football team is currently participating in UNCAF?s Nation?s Cup Tournament and in their first appearance Saturday night, they were matched up against the host team Guatemala. And yes, the pre-game pomp and circumstances did pay lead to […]
Written on February 21, 2005 | Posted in
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It’s a big weekend for the ruling Peoples United Party with its national convention on Sunday in Santa Elena, Cayo, and perhaps a more important meeting of the National Party Council on Saturday in Belize City. At stake are the two co-equal posts of deputy leader and–by extention–the future top spot in the party hierarchy. […]
Written on February 18, 2005 | Posted in
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In addition to the competition for the two deputy party leader positions, nominations have also been received for deputy national Campaign Manager and Chairman of the PR Committee. Francis Fonseca, the PUP Party Chairman, told news five today that while the National Council is expected to make the selections for these posts on Saturday, if […]
Written on February 18, 2005 | Posted in
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The Virgin Islands Daily News is reporting today that Innovative Communications Corporation, ICC is taking the Belizean Government to court. A U.S. District Court in Miami has granted ICC’s subsidiary Belize Telecom Limited a hearing on the Belize government’s seizure of the telephone company last week following ICC’s refusal to pay the government fifty-seven million […]
Written on February 18, 2005 | Posted in
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For a lot of older people, the fear of falling and breaking a hip, or losing use of a knee due to arthritis or injury is a real concern, especially when they know that surgery that could restore their mobility is generally not available in Belize. But that could be changing thanks to the efforts […]
Written on February 18, 2005 | Posted in
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It used to be enough to go to the photo shop to get your picture taken for your new passport. But these days heightened security measures around the world mean immigration officers need a little bit more proof the man or woman using your name is really you. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting The […]
Written on February 18, 2005 | Posted in
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The Belize Red Cross reports that to date it has contributed almost fifty thousand dollars to the Asian Tsunami Relief Appeal and that the donations are still coming in. The Red Cross says the Belizean public has “displayed remarkable generosity” in coming forward to assist those affected by the disaster which has claimed two hundred […]
Written on February 18, 2005 | Posted in
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We all know there is a lot of crime in Belize, but do we really understand the causes? Or why our young people join gangs, or engage in other criminal activity? Recently UNICEF and the Human Development Department’s Community Rehabilitation Department surveyed children and teens from all over Belize. What they found may, or may […]
Written on February 18, 2005 | Posted in
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An elderly woman crosses a dimly lit major highway on a dark night. An oncoming vehicle sees her but it’s too late. Moving metal meets frail flesh. You know the rest. It’s a tragic event that happens more often than we’d like. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on how it played out last night on […]
Written on February 17, 2005 | Posted in
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Two men from the capital city have been charged with murder following the death of a Salvapan resident. According to police, twenty-nine year old David Aguilar, involved in an altercation outside a bar on Saturday night, succumbed to his injuries at the Western Regional Hospital on Wednesday night. Aguilar had been recovering from chop wounds […]
Written on February 17, 2005 | Posted in
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