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A young man’s death in Orange Walk has police looking hard for an explanation. The body of eighteen year old Shawn Cal was found hanging from a mango tree on Monday morning in a yard off the San Estevan Road. Reports indicate that Cal and several friends had been drinking heavily into the night on […]
Written on October 12, 2005 | Posted in
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Between U.S. sex offenders and Belizean bail jumpers, there has been no shortage of fugitives in the news these days… and tonight we have an update out of the Cayo District on Aaron Juan. Viewers may recall that Juan is wanted in connection with reports of rape by three British schoolgirls vacationing in Belize on […]
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Four men charged with burglary in connection with the April twentieth looting spree in downtown Belize City walked out of Magistrate’s Court free men Tuesday morning. Brent Gibson, Joel Bishop Jr., Charles Ramsey and Cordell Banks were apprehended by police inside Gaylord’s Store on King Street, but in court the store’s owner, Preeti Sadarangani offered […]
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He was convicted of carnal knowledge in February in the court of Justice Simeon Sampson and sentenced to twelve years in prison. But this week the Court of Appeal quashed that conviction and ordered a retrial for Dario Cal. The Appellate Court agreed with Cal’s attorney, Merlene Moody, that Sampson had usurped the jury’s function […]
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It will not go down in history as one of the U.D.P.’s most dramatic press conferences… but as the atmosphere heats up in advance of the March first nationwide municipal elections, the rules of engagement read no holds barred. Today’s affair at the Radisson featured the defection of Punta Gorda’s deputy mayor, Darlene Parham, from […]
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Two days after ten year old Neville Bermudez was air ambulanced to Tampa, Florida, we are informed that the young patient underwent emergency heart surgery on Tuesday night. That operation appears to have been successful and Bermudez is reportedly doing well. Two weeks ago the boy complained about pain in his hands and an examination […]
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Health |
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When we last heard from Milton Palacio he was coming off a solid season as a backup point guard with the N.B.A.’s Toronto Raptors, averaging almost six points and three and a half assists per game. And while the twenty-seven year old born-in-L.A. Belizean has now moved to Utah–his sixth team in seven years–there is […]
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Belizeans are well acquainted with April, that fine specimen of our national animal that has warmed the hearts of zoo goers for what seems like… decades. But the Belize Zoo has other stars waiting in the wings and today News Five’s Jacqueline Woods got up close and personal with one such emerging performer. Jacqueline Woods, […]
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Environment |
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