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When most people think about Mayan archaeology they imagine excavations in royal tombs or trenches cut into tree covered mounds. Few of us would expect that a significant find could be made underwater… particularly in a swamp. But Belizean archaeology is a many-faceted field, as the presentations at this year’s Archaeology Symposium, now underway in […]
Written on July 7, 2005 | Posted in
Archaeology |
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Belize is anticipating significant savings on the cost of petroleum under the recently signed agreement between Venezuela and thirteen Caribbean countries. At least that’s the word from Cabinet. In a statement released today and included in the regular press briefing on yesterday’s Cabinet session, government said that as a signatory to the Petrocaribe Energy Cooperation […]
Written on July 6, 2005 | Posted in
Economy |
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In other news from Cabinet, that body has taken a number of policy decisions. Among them are initiatives to better regulate the growing yacht charter industry and promote tourism by private aircraft. The idea is to make entry procedures for private planes more efficient, while at the same time maintaining necessary security measures at the […]
Written on July 6, 2005 | Posted in
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And while that was the extent of revelations from Cabinet, Smith, as has become customary, also took questions from the floor on a wide range of topics. When asked by News Five for the status of the proposed Carnival cruise port in Belize City, the Minister of Tourism was upbeat. Godfrey Smith, Minster of Tourism […]
Written on July 6, 2005 | Posted in
Economy |
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And on recently published speculation that, as part of a Cabinet reshuffle, he might be tapped for the post of Deputy Prime Minister, Smith was as smooth as Teflon. Godfrey Smith ?The statement that I have been lobbying ever since the convention for the post of Deputy Prime Minister is completely untrue. I have not […]
Written on July 6, 2005 | Posted in
Politics |
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The trial of police officer Sherwood Wade got underway today in the Supreme Court…and the prosecution is already having a rough time. Wade, it will be recalled, is charged with manslaughter and manslaughter by negligence in the death of Darnell McDonald. On the night of June fourteenth, 2003, McDonald was killed by a bullet to […]
Written on July 6, 2005 | Posted in
Trials |
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This week Belizean students received another opportunity to earn an international degree…without ever leaving the country. Today officials of Galen University, based at Central Farm in the Cayo District, announced that it has been approved as a regional campus of the University of Indianapolis in the United States. According to Galen’s planning coordinator, Marion Cayetano, […]
Written on July 6, 2005 | Posted in
Education |
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It is no secret that for the last thirty years fishermen from neighbouring Honduras and Guatemala, having emptied their own waters of edible seafood, have been working hard to deplete ours. With enforcement of anti-poaching laws hampered by lack of resources and political will, there is hope that a new strategy, unveiled this morning by […]
Written on July 6, 2005 | Posted in
Environment |
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On Tuesday afternoon ceremonies were held to officially open the Agripino Cawich Bridge over the Belize River near Roaring Creek. In his address, Prime Minister Said Musa pointed out that this important link, like many other valuable infrastructure projects, was once the subject of partisan ridicule. Prime Minister Said Musa ?There have been many who […]
Written on July 6, 2005 | Posted in
Travel |
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It’s bad enough when you’re laid up in the hospital with life threatening injuries. It’s even worse when you don’t know how you got them. Jacqueline Woods reports on a mystery confronting an Orange Walk family. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-three year old Gilberto Pat lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with a brain fracture, […]
Written on July 6, 2005 | Posted in
Health |
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Hit and run: the name of the crime says it all. Tonight a child lies in intensive care at the K.H.M.H. while the coward who knocked her to the pavement is a free man or woman… who may even be watching this newscast. Today I visited the hospital and discovered a family focussed on one […]
Written on July 5, 2005 | Posted in
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They were introduced in 2002 as a way to regularize the free wheeling market in foreign exchange and put pressure on the banks, which previously held a monopoly on legal currency transactions. But most mainstream economists never did like the casas de cambio and saw them merely as legal fig leaf to permit the big […]
Written on July 5, 2005 | Posted in
Economy |
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It was the only real piece of new news to emerge from the visit of Mexican President Vicente Fox; that is the announcement that neighbouring oil giant PEMEX would be opening a gas station in Belize. The move was hailed by the Prime Minister as an important breakthrough, and he held out the prospect that […]
Written on July 5, 2005 | Posted in
Economy |
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Police in San Ignacio have arrested a suspect in a fatal bar stabbing. Twenty-year-old Guatemalan Yanira Escobar, a resident of San Ignacio, has been charged with murder in the killing of twenty-three year old Jessica Saldero. Saldero was stabbed to death at a San Ignacio club on Sunday night. The women were allegedly involved in […]
Written on July 5, 2005 | Posted in
Crime |
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Tonight two people are in police custody for questioning following an armed robbery in Belize City that has left one man suffering from gunshot wounds to the head. According to police, around one this afternoon, sixty-two year old Jose Martinez, a delivery truck driver for Running W Meats, was making a stop at Ying Ying […]
Written on July 5, 2005 | Posted in
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An accused rapist on trial in the Supreme Court this afternoon walked out a free man. According to court reports, twenty-two year old Kareem Witty was arrested and charged with the crime following a report to the police by his ex-girlfriend that on the night of October tenth 2003 he had taken her out dancing […]
Written on July 5, 2005 | Posted in
Trials |
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It’s one of a homeowner’s lingering fears: to be robbed by an employee you trust enough to let into your house. That’s the scenario experienced by one Belize City family as a woman hired as a domestic worker systemically stole several pieces of jewellery valued at over five thousand dollars. According to the victims, Barbara […]
Written on July 5, 2005 | Posted in
Trials |
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Saint John’s College Junior College and Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in networking for the internet, have established a working partnership that has led to the launch of a local Cisco Networking Academy. The programme prepares students for networking and I.T. related careers, as well as for higher education in engineering, computer science, and related […]
Written on July 5, 2005 | Posted in
Education |
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He is one of the most active musicians on the Belizean scene, both in terms of the product he creates and his advocacy for local artists. And this week Ras Indio is out pushing his latest release. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has a preview. Ras Indio, Musician ?Right now, the ?Push Up The Fire Vibes? […]
Written on July 5, 2005 | Posted in
Uncategorized |
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Preliminary arguments in the ongoing legal battle involving Belize Telecommunications Limited were heard today by Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. The claim of Gilbert Smith, representing the B.T.L. Workers Trust versus B.T.L. and the Government of Belize began this morning with attorneys Lois Young-Barrow appearing for Ecom, Michael Peyrefitte for the workers, Michael Young for B.T.L., […]
Written on July 4, 2005 | Posted in
Trials |
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In related news, we have been informed by Jeffrey Prosser’s Innovative Communication Corporation that, in addition to its ongoing lawsuit against the Belize Government in Miami, it has given G.O.B. notice that it will seek binding arbitration in the hope of recovering another two hundred million dollars in damages. The arbitration emerges from the terms […]
Written on July 4, 2005 | Posted in
Economy |
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The embattled, demoralized and–did we forget–bankrupt, Development Finance Corporation finally has a new board of Directors. Leading the attempt to revitalize the government lending institution–or at least give it a decent burial–is highly respected accountant Arsenio Burgos. Burgos, who will also act in an executive capacity, is joined by board members: Kay Menzies, Maurice Underwood, […]
Written on July 4, 2005 | Posted in
Defense |
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They first came to Belize back in 1958… And now almost fifty years later, the first Mennonite Belizean has been nominated by a major political party to run for a seat in the House of Representatives. In a convention on Sunday, Elvin Penner, a businessman from Spanish Lookout, won the U.D.P. nomination in the Cayo […]
Written on July 4, 2005 | Posted in
Politics |
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An alleged drunken brawl has left a twenty-three year old woman dead and another woman behind bars. San Ignacio police report that the killing took place around eleven-thirty on Sunday night at a bar on Domingo Cruz Street. It is there Jessica Saldero, a Guatemalan resident of San Ignacio, reportedly got into an altercation with […]
Written on July 4, 2005 | Posted in
Crime |
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Belize City police are looking for two men who robbed a bar and wounded one of its patrons. The incident occurred around eight on Sunday morning when the suspects entered the River Bottom Bar on Regent Street West, one armed with a handgun and the other a shotgun. Several persons were in the bar drinking […]
Written on July 4, 2005 | Posted in
Crime |
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