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And in a much bigger drug case closer to home, four Belizeans and a Honduran remain in custody in Cozumel, Mexico tonight after they were caught in a boat with nearly three thousand pounds of cocaine. According to reports from the Mexican press, special agents of the anti-drug squad arrived in Cozumel from Mexico City […]
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A resident of San Jose is dead following a bar fight in that Orange Walk village. According to police, twenty-five year old Dalito Herrera bled to death Friday night after a pint bottle thrown in his direction broke against a wall and a piece ricocheted and cut him severely. Herrera was taken to the Northern […]
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A fifth suspect has been charged with murder in the kidnapping and death of Celestino Zetina. He is nineteen-year-old Daniel Anderson of Sixth Street in Belize City. Zetina’s body was found just off the Western Highway outside Belize City on July nineteenth.
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He moves only with the aid of a walker, but that did not stop police from arresting a Belize City invalid in connection with the sexual assault of an eleven-year-old girl. Fifty-six year old Gerald Bahadur of Police Street was arraigned on four counts of carnal knowledge in the court of Magistrate Dorothy Flowers this […]
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This past weekend was deadly on our highways as three persons lost their lives in three separate incidents. The first call came in around two on Saturday afternoon and led Orange Walk police to mile fifty-eight on the Northern Highway. There, authorities observed a blue Geo Prism extensively damaged on the side of the road. […]
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The contingent is nowhere near the thousand men who safeguarded Belize’s sovereignty with Harrier jets, armoured vehicles and artillery… but while the British military presence in Belize has lost some muscle over the last thirty years, it is no less fit and ready. Today the media was allowed a brief look at what goes on […]
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Classes may be out for the summer and the University of Belize’s central campus in Belmopan may seem empty indeed, but this did not stop the kick-off of a month of celebrations for the University of Belize’s fifth anniversary. The Chairman of the Board and the President took the opportunity to examine just how far […]
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While Mayor Anthony Chanona was helping to salute U.B. and Belmopan today, he also confirmed to News Five that he will not run for mayor of Belmopan again. But has he decided to quit politics entirely? Doubtful. Anthony Chanona, Belmopan Mayor ?I have decided not to contest a third term in municipal office… public life […]
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Good evening, I?m James Adderley and here comes Sports Monday. The Queens of the Hill Cycling Classic was staged Saturday and Sunday over the weekend featuring two stages on the more hilly terrain inside this beautiful jewel. At the start of stage one of this event on Saturday, Shalini Zabaneh, Anthea Sutherland, Gina Lovell, Alicia […]
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