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Three divers who endured two and a half days bobbing in the deep blue sea are gradually returning to health. In fact, fifty year old John Bain of Wisconsin was discharged from the Universal Health Services hospital today and was last seen heading south in a rental vehicle. Nancy Masters of Oregon and Yutaka Maeda, […]
Written on October 26, 2005 | Posted in
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Tonight Belize City police continue to look for a man who held up a family by their vending stand and stole their day’s sales. Santos Zabaleta told police that around four on Tuesday evening she was along with her husband Fermin Zabaleta and other family members at the Queen Square Market when a man approached […]
Written on October 26, 2005 | Posted in
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Small marijuana busts are hardly big news in Belize, but you’ve got to wonder about the two guys caught Tuesday at Hattieville Prison. Thirty year old Dorian Michael and thirty-two year old Max Williams were arraigned today for drug trafficking after they allegedly tried to smuggle around four ounces of the herb into the facility […]
Written on October 26, 2005 | Posted in
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Hit and run: it’s a crime that leaves its victim dead or injured and invariably leaves family and friends crying out for justice… and closure. The latest outrage on the road occurred in the Toledo District. Felicia Ramclam, Sister of Accident Victim ?We need to work this out you know. It?s not like we will […]
Written on October 26, 2005 | Posted in
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The blockade of Cuba. It’s been a fact of life in U.S. politics for four decades… but for the people of Cuba it is literally a matter of life and death. Today the Cuban Embassy in Belize held a press conference to seek support for an end to the economic sanctions and lobby for a […]
Written on October 26, 2005 | Posted in
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This morning, the Young Women’s Christian Association officially opened its latest programme to the public: a beauty salon. The new service not only promises to assist students at the Y but Belizeans now have the opportunity to be pampered at very affordable prices. Peace Corp Volunteer Beth Preston, who was one of the first customers, […]
Written on October 26, 2005 | Posted in
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This afternoon, FirstCaribbean International Bank announced the names of this year’s National Unsung Heroes during brief ceremonies at their Albert Street headquarters in Belize City. They are Gloria Edwards and Sebastian Cayetano. Edwards served as an educator for forty-one years. During her tenure, she rose to the post of principal of Grace Chapel Primary School […]
Written on October 26, 2005 | Posted in
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When we signed off on this broadcast last night it was with the news that the four divers missing at sea since Saturday had been spotted by a B.D.F. aircraft. Tonight we can report that three of them have survived and are recovering at a Belize City hospital. Although the survivors have yet to tell […]
Written on October 25, 2005 | Posted in
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It once seemed that Minister of Tourism, Foreign Affairs and Information Godfrey Smith, had a skin of Teflon. He shrugged off a minor scandal involving the awarding of a contract to his brother, emerged unscathed from the G-Seven rebellion and was riding a wave of prime ministerial support that earned him the post of deputy […]
Written on October 25, 2005 | Posted in
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It was a serious burglary… but the story has a happy ending as city police recovered the goods…and made a collar. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Chester Williams, Officer Commanding, C.I.B. ?From our investigation, the burglars gained entry into the store by breaking the locks off the shutters and that is how they entered […]
Written on October 25, 2005 | Posted in
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In these interesting times there has been no shortage of news involving Belize Telecommunications Limited. But while most of the headlines have dealt with the legal dispute over the company’s ownership, its forays into the foreign exchange market or the bungled sale of its shares to the public, we sometimes forget that B.T.L. is a […]
Written on October 25, 2005 | Posted in
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We cannot say with absolute certainty that they are the only ones who will be rewarded for the capture of U.S. fugitive Niles Scott, but today two alert Belizean women took off on their dream trip to Chicago where they will receive their accolades–and cheques. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports from the P.G.I.A. Jacqueline Woods, […]
Written on October 25, 2005 | Posted in
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The scenario brings to mind the tragic images of the movie “Open Water”…four SCUBA divers missing at sea since Saturday, presumably still bobbing somewhere on the deep blue sea outside the Barrier Reef. At news time there were reports of what may have been an aerial sighting some twenty miles east of Glover’s Reef, with […]
Written on October 24, 2005 | Posted in
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The result may not have come as much of a surprise, but Zenaida Moya’s resounding victory in Sunday’s U.D.P. Belize City mayoral convention, coupled with the massive turnout left no doubt that the Opposition will pose a serious threat to P.U.P. rule in the old capital. Karla Heusner reports from the grounds of the Anglican […]
Written on October 24, 2005 | Posted in
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A young woman from Orange Walk was killed on Saturday when her vehicle rolled over on the road near Flower’s Bank Village. Nineteen year old Reina Mendoza was driving her Honda Accord from Burrell Boom towards Bermudian Landing when a dump truck driven by Kirk Bood tried to overtake her car, but touched the bumper. […]
Written on October 24, 2005 | Posted in
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A traffic accident on the Western Highway on Sunday night has left four persons in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to Cayo police, initial investigations reveal that around eight p.m. forty six year old Dennis Murray was driving a bus transporting football players from a game in San Ignacio back to their home base […]
Written on October 24, 2005 | Posted in
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A Belize City businessman has been convicted of rape. Forty-eight year old Dennis Gabourel was found guilty on a single count of rape plus a charge of aggravated assault by a jury on Friday evening following three hours of deliberations. The charges arose out of events occurring on September nineteenth 2003, when Gabourel’s ex-common-law wife […]
Written on October 24, 2005 | Posted in
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Three men have been charged in connection with the robbery of a Corozal money changer last week. Eric Savery, Keith Nunez, and Edward Gonzalez have all been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, while Savery and Nunez have been additionally charged with robbery. Jorge Margarito Sima reported the men robbed him of fifty thousand dollars […]
Written on October 24, 2005 | Posted in
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He was missing in action at his first hearing, but when he showed up in court today, the man accused of shooting at a cop learned that justice can be swift. Thirty-one year old Lincoln Robinson pleaded guilty to four charges resulting from an exchange of gunfire near Queen’s Square Anglican School a year ago. […]
Written on October 24, 2005 | Posted in
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Have you ever imagined what your life would be like raising a child with a disability? Where would you get information, or support? Well up to now, the one hundred and sixty members of the Parents Association for Children with Special Needs had to try and share their experience and knowledge as best they could. […]
Written on October 24, 2005 | Posted in
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Good evening, I?m James Adderley with today?s dish of Sports Monday. Week seven of the RFG Cup Tournament found Kremandala inside the M.C.C. Grounds in action against the Placencia Pirates, with the city team still looking for its first home win of the season. As a result, they opt for the fast start with Ernest […]
Written on October 24, 2005 | Posted in
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The man who posted a surety for Supreme Court no-show Hassan El-Sayed, has lost his two hundred thousand dollars. Today, Justice Adolph Lucas ordered Haisan El-Batihish to immediately forfeit and turn over possession of the property located in Buttonwood Bay, when El-Sayed once again failed to appear. El-Sayed, along with Gabby Affif, has been accused […]
Written on October 21, 2005 | Posted in
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Tonight there are far more questions than answers surrounding the death of fifty-two year old Juan Dorado. Police strongly suspect Dorado killed his girlfriend, thirty-two year old Delia Cruz on October tenth, but what happened next is what authorities are trying to determine. Initial reports are that after Dorado shot Cruz, he then turned the […]
Written on October 21, 2005 | Posted in
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Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord today ruled that four police constables accused of robbery and aggravated assault do have a case to answer with respect to the robbery charge and that the trial will continue. As for the charges of aggravated assault brought by Goldburn Adolphus, the Chief Magistrate agreed with defence attorney Simeon Sampson that […]
Written on October 21, 2005 | Posted in
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He’s been bailed twice and tried three times, but today Mark Gardiner was acquitted of manslaughter charges by a jury in the Supreme Court. The four men, three women jury deliberated for a little over three hours, and came up seven to two for acquittal. Gardiner was accused of the shooting death of Gregory Batty […]
Written on October 21, 2005 | Posted in
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