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Despite concerns over an approaching hurricane, today a Jamaican musician arrived undaunted in Belize. Saying whatever happens happens, Capleton intends to share good thoughts with Belize’s young people on Saturday night. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning international reggae superstar ?The Prophet Capleton? arrived at the Philip Goldson International Airport to rock the Belize City Centre […]
Written on July 15, 2005 | Posted in
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There is crime news, including a murder and armed robbery… political developments in the form of a Cabinet shuffle, and new management at D.F.C…. but we’ll lead tonight’s broadcast with the story that is likely to make this weekend a time of stress for most Belizeans: Hurricane Emily. With that storm now at category three […]
Written on July 14, 2005 | Posted in
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Belize City police still do not have a motive for the city’s latest murder but sources tell News Five that it appears to have been a combination of drugs and robbery that caused the shooting death of twenty six year old Trevor Smith. It is reported that around ten on Wednesday night Smith went to […]
Written on July 14, 2005 | Posted in
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Anyone who has watched the news over the last fifteen years knows by now that there is no such thing as a criminal with a heart. But yesterday afternoon, that lack of compassion hit a new low when two Belize City women with a combined age of one hundred and eighty years were subjected to […]
Written on July 14, 2005 | Posted in
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A Cabinet shuffle has been widely anticipated for a number of weeks, and while today’s new alignment–announced first in the Belize Times–was not as radical as expected, there are a few interesting changes. Let’s begin with the losers. Servulo Baeza has been stripped of the little he had–housing–but remains in Cabinet as a minister without […]
Written on July 14, 2005 | Posted in
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If you’ve had a love affair with the automobile every since you were a kid, or just want to show your own kids the latest wheels, then take a ride to Old Belize this Sunday. Antique and specialty cars from all over the country will be on display to help raise funds for the Rotary […]
Written on July 14, 2005 | Posted in
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You’d think Belizean teachers would run and hide during the summer holidays, but this week dedicated educators from all over the country participated in a creative dance workshop designed to help students gain more confidence to take on life’s challenges. Visiting facilitator Hilary Murray is a clinical social worker specializing in psychotherapy. Using her formal […]
Written on July 14, 2005 | Posted in
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This weekend eight courageous women are expected to hit the hills and valleys of the Stann Creek and Cayo districts in the Belize Cycling Association’s annual Queen of the Hills competition. The country’s top female riders such as Fiona Humes Gonzalez, Marinette Flowers, Gina and Gabriel Lovell, and this year’s Cross Country Champion Anthea Sutherland, […]
Written on July 14, 2005 | Posted in
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The Development Finance Corporation: it’s an institution that is at the centre of all that is allegedly wrong with government’s management of the nation’s money. A half decade of over-borrowing, loose lending, and poor oversight have turned the once proud D.F.C. into an economic basket case… with more than one international expert recommending that it […]
Written on July 14, 2005 | Posted in
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An early morning accident on the Western Highway has claimed the life of a young woman from Belmopan. Twenty-seven year old Elizabeth Heusner, an employee of the Belize Bank, was a passenger in a Geo Tracker driven by thirty-two year old Rhondine Twist. The pair were heading east toward Belize City around six-thirty when, between […]
Written on July 13, 2005 | Posted in
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Tonight more details are emerging from a brazen daylight bank robbery that netted the bad guys more than a hundred thousand dollars in cash and left one man recovering from gunshot wounds. According to twenty-six year old Marlon Ramos, an employee of Courts Dangriga branch, just after one p.m. while he was arranging a delivery […]
Written on July 13, 2005 | Posted in
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Mark Anthony Jones, the young man accused of shooting up a Guatemalan Embassy vehicle, was formally arraigned today, having confirmed that he is indeed seventeen years old. That puts his case behind the closed doors of the Family Court, where we are informed that a total of eleven charges were read. These include three counts […]
Written on July 13, 2005 | Posted in
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Shane Espinosa, a twenty-nine year old labourer of Mahogany Street in Belize City is behind bars tonight after allegedly pulling a fast one on popular Albert Street taxi driver Darwin McKenzie. Espinosa appeared before Magistrate Earl Jones, where he pleaded not guilty to robbery and was remanded to custody until August twelfth. McKenzie reported to […]
Written on July 13, 2005 | Posted in
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It was big news two years ago: the alleged gang rape of a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in the St. Martin’s area of Belize City. Today, the six men accused of that crime are free as the prosecution admitted that the testimony of its witnesses and signed statements were not consistent. Deon Ferguson, Joseph Myers, Joseph Logan, […]
Written on July 13, 2005 | Posted in
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Tonight there is a disturbing allegation of police brutality emerging from the Stann Creek District, which has left one man missing an eye. According to twenty-three year old store clerk Marcelino Chun, on the evening of Saturday July second, he was walking along the Stann Creek Valley Road towards his home in Hope Creek Village […]
Written on July 13, 2005 | Posted in
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It’s a growing trend all over the world: the reclamation, restoration, and preservation of historical sites for the benefit of future generations. But when physical structures are destroyed by natural or man made disasters, local researchers are determined to chronicle the past through literature. This morning during brief ceremonies at the House of Culture, the […]
Written on July 13, 2005 | Posted in
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Terrorism is a subject that seems very remote in out-of-the-way Belize, but with bombs going off from London to Port of Spain, you can never be too sure. Today officials gathered to talk about public safety, not from bombs but from someone tampering with our food supply. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, […]
Written on July 13, 2005 | Posted in
Agriculture |
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A CAT scan performed on six-year-old Skylar Sanchez shows that the little girl displays only partial brain activity. Mother Floreth Requeña says she was hoping that the examination would have shown some signs of improvement, but it has only confirmed her worst fears that her daughter, who is suffering from paralysis on the right side […]
Written on July 13, 2005 | Posted in
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We don’t know whether to classify tonight’s lead story as crime, politics, or international relations… but whatever you call it, be sure that something very fishy went on Monday evening on the southside of Belize City. The barebones story, as released by police is that around six in the evening a vehicle with three occupants […]
Written on July 12, 2005 | Posted in
Crime |
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Details remain sketchy, but the buzz this afternoon was all about a big bank robbery in Dangriga. Between one-thirty and two, a group of armed thieves entered the Bank of Nova Scotia and left with what unconfirmed reports say may have been over a hundred thousand dollars. Eyewitness accounts differ, but people say the robbers […]
Written on July 12, 2005 | Posted in
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Cops in Cayo have their hands full with a murder and attempted murder that occurred Monday night in San Ignacio. The body of eighteen-year-old Quinn Waight of Santa Elena was found at dawn this morning in the Macal River Park with bullet wounds to the head, chest, and arm. Last night, thirty-year-old Jonathan Smith told […]
Written on July 12, 2005 | Posted in
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He came in the same police car as Mark Jones, and like his seat-mate, twenty-one year old Russel Dougal is also charged in connection with a shooting; that of Cyril Jones on July eighth on Kraal Road. Dougal has been charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm, and use of deadly means of harm. Jones lies […]
Written on July 12, 2005 | Posted in
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He has successfully defended some of the baddest of Belize’s criminals, but early this morning well known attorney Simeon Sampson himself became a victim of crime. According to police, Sampson was fast asleep at his home on Allenby Street in Belize City when around two this morning he was awakened by something pressing down on […]
Written on July 12, 2005 | Posted in
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Following industry protests against the Belize City Council over parking fees for taxi drivers in the old capital, on Monday the unions, associations, and their attorney Michael Peyrefitte met with Mayor David Fonseca in an attempt to reach a compromise. According to the City Council, the implementation of fees for the preferential parking spots had […]
Written on July 12, 2005 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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The recent decision by the European Union to cut prices paid for sugar sold to E.U. member states by thirty-nine percent over four years will not only cause Belize to lose millions of dollars, but other African, Caribbean and Pacific countries will also be hard hit. Today representatives from the sugar industries of ten countries […]
Written on July 12, 2005 | Posted in
Economy |
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