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A Placencia tour operation, Advanced Diving, has lost its license following the death of a SCUBA diver and three day ordeal at sea for three other divers who survived. According to the Belize Tourism Board, the Tour Operating Licensing Committee met last Friday and not only voted to shut down Advanced Diving, it also recommended […]
Written on October 31, 2005 | Posted in
Disasters |
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Today, near the end of the busiest hurricane season in recorded history, it is only fitting that Belizeans–who were spared this year–pause to remember a night forty-four years ago when we were not so lucky. News Five’s Karla Heusner reports from Lord Ridge Cemetery. Karla Heusner, Reporting On October thirty-first, 1961 Hurricane Hattie levelled Belize […]
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Social Issues |
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Four men have been arrested following a robbery and kidnapping in the Riverwalk area of the Cayo District. The frightening ordeal occurred at the home of sixty-three year old Oscar Chapeau. Chapeau told police that he was drinking at home in the company of his secretary and another man when three armed masked intruders entered […]
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A young man has been detained while Orange Walk police investigate a report that he raped a student on Friday night. According to the sixteen year old girl, she was buying food from a vendor around eleven forty-five that night when she was approached by a man who offered to take her home. The police […]
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The incident occurred over three years ago, but today four law enforcement officers were finally held accountable for their crimes. Police Officer Vladimir Ortega and Special Constables Jesus Dominguez, Filomeno Badillo, and Cornelio Andueza were found guilty of theft and were fined five hundred dollars each by Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord. Whoever cannot pay by […]
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Trials |
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A truck driver whose high speed bumping of a passenger car resulted in the driver’s death has been charged. Nineteen year old Keith Budd of Burrell Boom was today arraigned by Magistrate Dorothy Flowers for the crimes of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, and driving without due care and attention. No plea […]
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Auto Accidents |
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At around a thousand men and women strong the Belize Defence Force is larger than we can afford, but not large enough to defeat an invasion from the west. It’s not a great position to be in, but in life you’ve got to play the cards you’re dealt. And part of that poker game involves […]
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Defense |
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Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?re on board this weekly ride we call Sports Monday. Week eight of the RFG Insurance Cup Tournament brought part two of the Belize City derby to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday. If you remember, in part one F.C. Belize and Kremandala had settled for a 1-1 stalemate, so we […]
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Sports |
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