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On Friday, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust held ceremonies at the University of Belize in Belmopan where it awarded eleven Belizean students with scholarships for graduate and undergraduate studies at home and abroad. According to PACT training officer, Nikki Tillett, the programme is an effort to ensure the continued protection of Belize’s environment. Nikki Tillett, […]
Written on August 10, 2005 | Posted in
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It’s a report out of the Cayo District that is in the process of making the transition from local rumour to international news story. Here’s what we actually know. Three British teenagers on a class trip to Belize from their school outside London have filed a report with police that they were sexually assaulted, allegedly […]
Written on August 9, 2005 | Posted in
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A notorious burglary suspect has been nabbed by authorities in the southern town of Punta Gorda after police caught him red-handed with several stolen items. According to investigating officers, residents of P.G. and surrounding villages have been the victims of numerous burglaries, but they were unable to pin the crime on their main suspect. The […]
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Police investigations into a hit and run incident on the Northern Highway have resulted in charges being levied against a Corozal man. According to authorities, forty-three year old Rafael Alonzo Lanza of Libertad has been arrested and faces the offences of causing death by careless conduct, failure to report an accident, driving without due care […]
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A Belize City businessman is lucky to be alive tonight after narrowly dodging a gunman’s bullet. According to fifty-four year old Modesto Madrill, he was manning the counter of his Magazine Road shop around nine Monday night when a man on a bicycle rode up to him. But instead of looking into the eyes of […]
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Another businessman wasn’t so lucky though as an attack on his establishment has netted the culprits some fourteen thousand dollars in cash. According to reports, around one yesterday afternoon, seventy-four year old Ramon Gongora, owner of Ramon’s Esso on the Northern Highway, had just left the gas station and was about to turn onto Coney […]
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Six weeks after a fatal boat collision in the Placencia lagoon, the Belize Ports Authority has concluded its investigation. According to maritime officials, a team headed by Operations Manager Gilbert Swazo conducted an intensive inquiry into the accident and has made a number of determinations regarding the cause of the crash. This afternoon Ports Commissioner […]
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In related news, local and international marine experts continue to scratch their heads trying to figure out how to remove the wayward vessel “Transfer” from its perch atop a section of Lighthouse Reef atoll. While officials had hoped to dislodge the wreck during a salvage operation earlier this month, reports to News Five indicate that […]
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It may still be several weeks away, but the Kriol Council is now extending an open invitation to anyone who would like to be a part of this year’s Kriol Festival. According to National Kriol Council President Myrna Manzanares, the festival is especially for those who may believe that the Kriol “noh gat no kulcha.” […]
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Once synonymous with efficiency, profitability and reliable service, the name B.T.L. is today more likely to elicit images of corporate controversy. But while Jeffrey Prosser, Michael Ashcroft, Said Musa and their supporting players make the lawyers rich and Belizeans poor, the telecommunications company itself, like a good old Timex watch, just keeps on ticking… while […]
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Over two and a half days after his body was discovered, police still have no idea who knocked down and killed fifty-nine year old William Smith, a gardener from Lord’s Bank Village. Around four on Saturday morning Ladyville police received a call that led them to the roadside between miles seven and eight on the […]
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It brought to mind that old physics scenario of what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object. But what happened around noon Saturday between miles two and three on the Northern Highway was more than just a theoretical exercise. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting When our cameraman arrived […]
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The extradition case against Andrew and Floyd Brown, wanted in the U.S. on drug related charges, continued today in the court of Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord. The latest development involves the revelation by the prosecutor, Solicitor General Elson Kaseke, that the only witness scheduled to testify to the court, Head of C.I.B., Assistant Superintendent of […]
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A Belize City fight that ended in gunfire has put one man in the hospital and the other behind bars. Mark Godoy, a twenty-one year old prison officer will be spending some time at a familiar location, having been remanded on charges of attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, and wounding. It is […]
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A Belize City man, previously charged on a number of occasions, has finally been convicted of theft. Twenty-nine year old Rudolph Smith, A.K.A. “Tuba” was charged for ripping a gold chain off an eleven year old girl on March fifth at a shop at the corner of King Street and Amara Avenue in Belize City. […]
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Almost every day we refer citizens disgruntled at the police or government officials to the Ombudsman’s office for mediation. But who do you turn to when you have a complaint against the Ombudsman or in this case, his deputy? That’s the predicament faced tonight by thirty-five year old Jorge Estrada, a resident of Pelican Street […]
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The United Democratic Party continues its nationwide effort to select candidates for the next general election, firm in its belief that the poll will take place well before the expected date of March 2008. This weekend, two more standard bearers were chosen at conventions in the Belize Rural North and Toledo East constituencies. In Belize […]
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It was busy busy at the airport this afternoon as two distinct but important groups of visitors landed in Belize, while a number of excited Belizean youths prepared to take off on their first trip to Europe. First to arrive in the V.I.P. lounge of the Philip Goldson International Airport was the official delegation of […]
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As attention shifts to Belize’s own international performances, dismal in most cases, this afternoon local organisers maintained that initiatives to step up our athletic success are already in the works. Yolanda Fonseca, Bz. Chief of Mission, Belize Commonwealth Games The National Olympic Association has a plan whereby we are looking at a quadrennial programme to […]
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Arriving on the same plane as the Queen’s Baton were a group of young women from all over the Caribbean who will participate in a series of discussions designed to help Belizean women have a greater say in their reproductive health. According to Jackie Guzman from the Pacific Institute of Women’s Health, based in Los […]
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And then there were eighty. That’s right, this afternoon eighty Belizeans left the country bound for Cologne, Germany and World Youth Day 2005. According to one of the organisers, Sister Marilyn Panton, the event was one of the last acts sanctioned by the late Pope John Paul the second and includes the latest information and […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley stepping up with this fresh dish of Sports Monday. Recreational cycling has gripped Belize by a storm and even threatens to overtake the very highest levels inside the sport as far as popularity goes. Over the weekend the Santino’s Bike Club presented the King of the Hills Cycle Classic for […]
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Four days after twenty-two year old Edwin Javier Vanegas made a break for freedom, the prisoner is still at large. Police say they have no idea where Vanegas may be hiding, but are hoping that over the weekend he will be recaptured. On Thursday, authorities reported that the fugitive might have been making efforts to […]
Written on August 5, 2005 | Posted in
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The goods he stole was worth six hundred and thirty-five dollars, but twenty-two year old Christian Eck may very well spend the next five years in jail wondering if his actions were worth all that time. Eck appeared before Magistrate Earl Jones this morning, to answer charges that he burglarized a home on Cemetery Road […]
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Meanwhile, a robbery in the Toledo District resulted in the guilty party being sent to jail for eight years. Twenty-six year old Pedro Botz of Jacinto Village admitted in court to stealing a total of twenty-two thousand dollars from businessman, Victor Hernandez. According to Hernandez, sometime on July thirty-first someone broke into his home and […]
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