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African and Mayan studies: Since last year it’s been a reality for older primary school students. Today I looked in on a session that’s charting a course for teaching the new curriculum to younger students. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For the past three days, education officials from all over the country have been involved in strategy […]
Written on July 20, 2005 | Posted in
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You don’t need to watch the news every night to know that it’s not easy being a young woman in Belize these days. High on their list of challenges is sexual abuse… and today, as News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports, talking is the first step in fighting this growing menace. Shanice Seguro, 12 years old […]
Written on July 20, 2005 | Posted in
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The discovery of the body did not come as a surprise, but it did not make the notion of murder any more acceptable. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports on an abduction that has now become a case of homicide. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The body of thirty-three year old Celestino Zetina was found in some bushes […]
Written on July 19, 2005 | Posted in
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A Belize City man has died after being knocked off his bicycle by a truck. According to police, fifty-year old Hubert Sterling of Nurse Findley Crescent was riding down Vernon Street toward Central American Boulevard around seven Monday night when he was apparently hit by a truck travelling in the same direction in the process […]
Written on July 19, 2005 | Posted in
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Today in Magistrate’s Court Andrew “Papa” Brown came one step closer to a stateside jail cell as Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord ruled that the request for extradition by the U.S. government, supported by Belizean authorities, has now been properly placed before him. Brown will reappear on Thursday when it is expected that he will seek […]
Written on July 19, 2005 | Posted in
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Investigations into a boat collision earlier this month in the waters between Belize City and San Pedro have resulted in the suspension of the two captains involved, one of them, indefinitely. According to president of the Caye Caulker Water Taxi Association, Ramon Reyes Junior, following internal inquiries into the crash between “Big Al” and “Tsunami” […]
Written on July 19, 2005 | Posted in
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For the past two days, residents of the Princess Royal Youth Hostel have braved the hot sun to make a difference in the lives of the students of the Stella Maris School in Belize City. When we visited the boys just before noon today, they were hard at work painting the play area of the […]
Written on July 19, 2005 | Posted in
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On Saturday, fifty-three year old Mirta Blanco, a resident of Sarteneja Village in the Corozal District, became the latest Lotto winner. Blanco, who has been playing the game since it started, says she never thought that one day her numbers would bring her so much cash, in this case, seventy-two thousand five hundred dollars. This […]
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This afternoon in a brief ceremony at the K.H.M.H., the Hospital Auxiliary donated more than twenty ceiling fans, a number of wash basins, and material for curtains and screens to the general surgical ward of the facility. According to Edith Lizama, unit manager of the ward, today’s contribution will make a big difference to her […]
Written on July 19, 2005 | Posted in
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This month a local service organisation and one of its members have received international acclaim for their contributions to Belizean society. Word from Lions International is that the San Pedro Lions Club has been selected as this year’s regional winner in the organisation’s annual international academy awards. Region in this case refers to South America, […]
Written on July 19, 2005 | Posted in
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The timing could not have been better. Less than two days after Belize experienced a near miss from Hurricane Emily, a seminar, previously scheduled by the B.T.I.A., opened today in Belize City. The subject: insuring your property against disaster. Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This most active 2005 hurricane season has already […]
Written on July 19, 2005 | Posted in
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His name has long been associated with Belize’s criminal underworld, and tonight, thanks to the long reach of U.S. law enforcement, the future freedom of Andrew “Papa” Brown is very much in doubt. This afternoon Andrew and his brother Floyd appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord following the presentation of diplomatic notes for their extradition […]
Written on July 18, 2005 | Posted in
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A Belmopan man has been charged with kidnapping in the case of a missing Belize City resident. Twenty-nine year old James Hyde was arraigned today before Magistrate Earl Jones for the kidnapping of Celestino Zetina. Zetina was reported missing from July tenth and was last seen on Vernon Street being forced into a car at […]
Written on July 18, 2005 | Posted in
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A Belize City man has been charged with a number of crimes in connection with the sexual assault of a fourteen-year-old girl. Thirty-seven year old Michael Woods appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers to face two counts of carnal knowledge, one count of aggravated assault, and one count of grievous harm. The girl has reported to […]
Written on July 18, 2005 | Posted in
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A suspected robber is tonight nursing his wounds and facing some jail time… all because he may have chosen the wrong victim. According to police, shortly after midnight Saturday, thirty-two year old Reynaldo Verde stopped at the corner of Freetown Road and Victoria Street to assist two acquaintances who were having problems with their vehicle. […]
Written on July 18, 2005 | Posted in
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A traffic accident Friday afternoon in the Orange Walk District has left a man dead. Forty-year-old Heinrich Guenther Jr. of Indian Creek was riding in the pan of a Chevy pickup travelling on the Guinea Grass Road when it collided into a Nissan car coming from the opposite direction. The pickup rolled over several times […]
Written on July 18, 2005 | Posted in
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For a while she had Belizeans in a state of serious agitation… but fortunately the track of Hurricane Emily did not deviate from the path chartered by meteorologists and missed us by a good several hundred miles. The risk was real, however, and nowhere as threatening as in San Pedro and the whole of Ambergris […]
Written on July 18, 2005 | Posted in
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Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?re riding this fresh wave of Sports Monday. Not surprisingly folks, Emily the Hurricane put quite a damper on things here in Belize over the weekend, except for the Benque Fiesta which provided for us Belizeans, most of the non-Emily excitement over the past two days. The blast of […]
Written on July 18, 2005 | Posted in
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This evening the Prime Minister and the National Emergency Management Committee, NEMO, declared the preliminary phase of Belize’s Hurricane Plan effective as of six p.m. This means that all those living at the cayes are asked to move to the mainland on Saturday and anyone living along low-lying coastal areas should start preparing and also […]
Written on July 15, 2005 | Posted in
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Details are sketchy, but reports reaching News Five are that an armed robbery has taken place late this evening at the Income Tax Department office at the Mahogany Street complex building. News Five understands that a lone gunman, pretending to be a customer, held up a female clerk and made off with fourteen thousand dollars […]
Written on July 15, 2005 | Posted in
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In his first trial there was a hung jury, but today a jury of nine unanimously found Police Constable Sherwood Wade guilty of manslaughter by negligence in the 2003 death of Darnell McDonald. The jury determined he was not guilty of manslaughter, a more serious charge. There was only one witness in the case, Darnell’s […]
Written on July 15, 2005 | Posted in
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An American who says he has “fallen in love” with Belize and is refusing to leave was denied bail again today and sent back to Hattieville prison. Steven Griffith, who has been living in Belize illegally since 1996, was picked up by immigration officials in March and was to be deported back to the United […]
Written on July 15, 2005 | Posted in
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Today the family of Trevor Smith stopped by our studios to categorically deny that their brother was killed because of robbery or drugs. Smith’s sister, Stacey Martinez says while she does not know why her brother was killed, she is trying to find out why anyone would want him dead. Stacey Martinez, Sister of the […]
Written on July 15, 2005 | Posted in
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This weekend, more than a hundred young Belizeans are expected to gather in the old capital as part of the seventh annual National Garifuna Council Youth Arm convention. According to organizers, topics on the table will include HIV/AIDS awareness, Garifuna spirituality, and career development. Belize City branch president Carmichael Polonio told News Five the yearly […]
Written on July 15, 2005 | Posted in
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Although pretty much everyone in Belize had at least one eye on Hurricane Emily, today members of the media kept a pre-storm commitment to participate in a forum on human rights. Issues such as freedom of expression and access to information topped the discussion list, with panellists including representatives of print, electronic, and broadcast media. […]
Written on July 15, 2005 | Posted in
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