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A Santa Familia woman is tonight twenty-five thousand dollars richer after her participation in a prize promotion by local furniture retailer, Courts. Daria Vallecillo spun to win twenty-five thousand dollars in the “Grand Prize Suprize Draw” during brief ceremonies at the Courts headquarters on the Northern Highway. All taxes on Vallecillo’s monies will be paid […]
Written on January 6, 2006 | Posted in
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Every year there are hundreds of allegations of police brutality…but of late, there has also been an increase in the number of officers accused of a wide range of crimes. Only today, Belize City authorities arrested police Sergeant Clement Cacho and charged him with driving without due care and attention, failure to stay on the […]
Written on January 6, 2006 | Posted in
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While international experts may determine that far too many Belizeans are living in poverty, there is no denying that as a people, we lead very rich lives that span a wide cross-section of experiences. One man has put pen to paper to document his life stories in the hope that readers will be entertained and […]
Written on January 6, 2006 | Posted in
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The Public Utilities Commission held a press briefing at the its Mahogany Street office this afternoon to explain the method behind the madness of a second price hike in six months for Belize Electricity Limited. While the P.U.C. pushed the usual arguments of fuel costs and more expensive Mexican power, chair Gilbert Canton asserted that […]
Written on January 5, 2006 | Posted in
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Belize’s biggest industry–tourism–is reacting negatively to the newly passed General Sales Tax. In a press release today, the Belize Tourism Industry Association, speaking in support of the hotel sector, said it did not accept the classification of exempt status under the G.S.T. legislation. Exempt status means that while hotel accommodations will not draw the ten […]
Written on January 5, 2006 | Posted in
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Police have made another arrest following the execution style murders of two brothers over the Christmas holidays. Thirty-six year old Levi Jackson of Hattieville was today arraigned on two counts of murder before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers. Jackson was employed as a security guard at Belize Refrigeration on the Western Highway on the night of December […]
Written on January 5, 2006 | Posted in
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A security guard who reported his gun stolen was today himself charged with the theft. David Meighan, an employee of J & B’s Security Service was arraigned before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers. According to the owner of J & B’s, Joseph Meighan, a thirty-eight calibre revolver was issued to David Meighan on January second and he […]
Written on January 5, 2006 | Posted in
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A missing laptop has been recovered and a nineteen year old youth from Belize City has been charged with handling stolen goods. The Dell computer worth over five thousand dollars and belonging to Frederick Sandiford was jacked during a break-in at a house in Buttonwood Bay sometime between December twenty-third and twenty-fourth. Subsequent investigations into […]
Written on January 5, 2006 | Posted in
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Tonight political pundits across the country are strategising their next moves in the bid to contest the March municipal elections. But politics aside, there is a technical aspect to the showdown that will prove crucial to the success of the day itself…that is, the organisation of voting, the counting, and of course the accurate reporting […]
Written on January 5, 2006 | Posted in
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This morning, more than thirty teachers gathered in Belize City for a professional development conference designed specifically to share creative ways of making reading fun. The local initiative will include primary school teachers countrywide. News Five’s Karla Heusner was on hand this morning as officials shared the results of the pilot phase conducted in schools […]
Written on January 5, 2006 | Posted in
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One hundred and eight thousand dollars. That’s the amount of money taken by a lone gunman this morning from Save-U Supermarket, one of Belize City’s major shopping emporiums. The jacking occurred around nine this morning as a Save-U employee, Patrick Roches, was carrying the company’s deposit bag from the store to the branch of FirstCaribbean […]
Written on January 4, 2006 | Posted in
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He is accused of leading a Boxing Day shooting spree in Gales Point and today twenty-five year old Elvis Myers was formally arraigned for murder and a number of other crimes. The murder rap stems from the death of Winfield Slusher Junior at a village bram on the night of December twenty-sixth. Myers is also […]
Written on January 4, 2006 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, two men convicted of manslaughter will have to wait a little bit longer to learn their fate. Clifford and Russel Hyde, convicted on December twenty-first in connection with the June 2004 killing of Allison Castillo, appeared for sentencing in the courtroom of Justice Troadio Gonzalez this morning, but attorney Ellis Arnold asked the judge […]
Written on January 4, 2006 | Posted in
Trials |
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The hype surrounding the upcoming city and town council elections cooled off over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, but with politics as something of a national sport, it will not take long for things to heat up between now and March first. Today, the UDP candidates in Belize City fired the year’s first electoral […]
Written on January 4, 2006 | Posted in
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From a pool of more than ninety thousand entries, this morning Courts customer Daria Vallecillo’s ticket was pulled from the Surprize Draw barrel, giving the resident of Santa Familia, Cayo the chance to win up to seventy-five thousand tax free dollars. Our camera was on hand as officials called Vallecillo on her cell phone with […]
Written on January 4, 2006 | Posted in
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He dropped the bombshell of a request for increased electricity rates back on November fifteenth… and today it was formally announced by the Public Utilities Commission that B.E.L. Chief Executive Lynn Young got his New Year’s wish. The new prices, effective January first, average thirteen percent. And while Young has successfully cited the company’s increased […]
Written on January 3, 2006 | Posted in
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The avalanche of violence that ended 2005 has continued in the new year. Two murders at opposite ends of the country have already marked the first week of 2006. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports on one homicide investigated this morning on Belize City’s north side. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Belize City police say they do not […]
Written on January 3, 2006 | Posted in
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It’s been a busy holiday season for the nation’s police officers and it doesn’t look like they’ll get some rest any time soon. Today the high command shared their burdens with the press. A.C.P. Crispin Jeffries, O.C. Eastern Division ?The media and the police have a lot to do in relation to what happens in […]
Written on January 3, 2006 | Posted in
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It’s not certain whether he was the year’s first or second murder victim, but that matters little to the family of forty-seven year old Ortencio Quintero of Benque Viejo del Carmen. Quintero was found unconscious around three a.m. on New Year’s morning lying on the roadside in that westernmost town. He was taken by police […]
Written on January 3, 2006 | Posted in
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One man who has been charged in connection with a fatality is twenty year old Lazaro Murillo of Mahogany Street in Belize City. Murillo turned himself in to police, identifying himself as the driver who knocked down a bicyclist on December twenty-eighth near the Mahogany Street complex and then fled the scene. That cyclist, fifty-two […]
Written on January 3, 2006 | Posted in
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Also turning himself in to police today was Alex Myers, the suspect sought in connection with the fatal shooting of Winfield Slusher and wounding of Constable Keith Cruz on Boxing Day in Gales Point Village. Myers was accompanied by his lawyer, Michael Peyrefitte.
Written on January 3, 2006 | Posted in
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With our news and production departments closed down last week for long overdue digital upgrades, we missed an important story out of Cayo. It involved a terrible tragedy and equally heroic act of courage by a young girl. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Just one hour into Christmas Day, disaster struck at the Garcia home on the […]
Written on January 3, 2006 | Posted in
Disasters |
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Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we feel privileged to have you aboard for this New Year?s issue of the ride we call Sports Monday. Of course we?ve got to start by wishing all Belizean the very best in the year 2006 and our hope remains that good will overcome evil. In the meantime, let?s […]
Written on January 3, 2006 | Posted in
Sports |
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