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Football fans didn’t even have time to start missing their favourite players as this weekend turf action kicks off once again on fields across the country. Today we caught up with tournament coordinator Ruperto Vicente who explained how this year’s season will play out. Ruperto Vicente, Tournament Coordinator ?Football has become more exciting as a […]
Written on February 24, 2006 | Posted in
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When we last spoke to Viola Myles, the one hundred and two year old had just fought off an armed intruder at her home on Allenby Street. But tonight the unexpected heroine is in the news for an entirely different reason. Tomorrow Miss Myles will celebrate one hundred and three years of life. This afternoon […]
Written on February 24, 2006 | Posted in
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In the capital city today, residents participated in a new initiative designed to combat the negative effects of squatting. According to a press release issued by the Belmopan City Council, the idea is to sub-divide two pieces of land, one in the Maya Mopan/Salvapan community and a second in the Maya Mopan/U.B. area. The programmes […]
Written on February 24, 2006 | Posted in
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It was designed as a creative way of teaching civics to young Belizeans … but today school officials in Cayo found themselves at the centre of a political scenario that just might have significant implications. At St. Ignatius High School in Santa Elena this afternoon, all four candidates contesting the San Ignacio, Santa Elena Town […]
Written on February 24, 2006 | Posted in
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Around this time every election year, the integrity of Belize’s voting process comes under intense scrutiny. Leading the accusations this March are claims that voters can be traced back to ballot papers by political operatives working inside polling and counting stations on election day. To combat the rumour mill, today the Elections and Boundaries Department […]
Written on February 23, 2006 | Posted in
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The official coroner’s inquest into the February 2005 death of twenty-one year old Leslie Rogers Junior began today at the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. A panel of seven jurors: two women and five men have been selected to “seek, clarify, and certify the cause of the person’s death.” Rogers was shot once in the head […]
Written on February 23, 2006 | Posted in
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A traffic accident on the Western Highway has left a resident of Esperanza Village fighting for her life. Police reports are that around six-thirty on Tuesday, thirty-two year old Ann Marie Thompson was knocked down by a Land Rover, driven at the time by sixty-eight year old Henry Lisbey. Thompson was rushed to the nearest […]
Written on February 23, 2006 | Posted in
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Belmopan police are looking for three suspects who held up a video store at knife point. According to employees of Celia’s Video Rental and Gift Store, just after two on Wednesday afternoon three young, unmasked men with knives entered the establishment and held up the sales clerk. Once inside, the thieves locked the door, blindfolded […]
Written on February 23, 2006 | Posted in
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A young man is in police custody tonight after the woman he tried to rob made sure he got exactly what he deserved … a good beating. According to thirty-one year old Rebecca Emmanuel, she had just turned the corner at Dolphin Street and Cemetery Road when a young man on a bicycle grabbed her […]
Written on February 23, 2006 | Posted in
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An American man trying to cheat the system is tonight lamenting his empty pockets after he was conned out of more than a thousand dollars by a local “whappist”. According to forty-seven year old Ray Michael Wheeler, in September he met a woman who claimed to be a government employee. The woman convinced Wheeler she […]
Written on February 23, 2006 | Posted in
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Officials of the Belize Defence Force and the U.S. Embassy met at Price Barracks in Ladyville this morning for brief handing over ceremonies of surplus supplies to our boys in green. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods explains. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thanks to a close working relationship between the United States Government and the Government of Belize, […]
Written on February 23, 2006 | Posted in
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It’s called Operation Positive Reinforcement … the latest attempt to curb violence and risky sexual behaviour in Belize City’s youth. Command central is the Youth for the Future office near the Bel-China Bridge. Today Y.F.F. officially opened the doors to its drop-in centre for teens. The idea is to encourage youths already attending personal development […]
Written on February 23, 2006 | Posted in
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Earlier this month Belizean musicians travelled to San Jose, Costa Rica, where they joined artists from throughout Central America for the first ever Papaya Music Festival. Team Belize was represented by Punta rocker Mohobub Flores who opened the four-day event with his turtle shells, and poet Leroy “Grandmaster” Young who stole the show with his […]
Written on February 23, 2006 | Posted in
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Every March, sports fans turn their attention to the water … some to the Baron Bliss Harbour Regatta, but most to the La Ruta Maya River Challenge. Tonight we take a look at the race that will break backs in the name of bragging rights. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For the past seven years, everyone from […]
Written on February 23, 2006 | Posted in
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After months of stagnation, a thirty-five million dollar loan has been approved by the Social Security Board for the purchase of majority shares in Belize Water Services Limited by its management and staff. On Tuesday, after months of negotiation, the S.S.B. investment committee finalised an agreement with executives of the Belize Water Services Workers Union […]
Written on February 22, 2006 | Posted in
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Tonight three young children are motherless after an apparent crime of passion in the Pomona Valley. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has the disturbing details. Coreth Bowden, Cousin of the Deceased ?I think he should mi think about the pickney them weh left behind if he really do that. Cause he use to tell her that […]
Written on February 22, 2006 | Posted in
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A police officer has been convicted of the rape of a twelve year old girl. At three this afternoon a jury of his peers declared by unanimous verdict that forty-nine year old Evan Reynolds is guilty of two counts of rape. Following the foreman’s announcement, Justice Adolph Lucas told Reynolds, “The jury as a body […]
Written on February 22, 2006 | Posted in
Trials |
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A shopkeeper has been arraigned in Belize City Magistrate’s Court on a charge of indecent assault. According to police reports, forty-five year old Mario Ayuso was arrested after an eleven year old student reported to police that he fondled her buttocks and called her “sweetheart.” The girl says she had gone into the Ayuso’s shop […]
Written on February 22, 2006 | Posted in
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Police have arrested and charged three men in connection with the robbery of thousands of dollars from the Princess Hotel and Casino. This afternoon former Princess employee twenty-two year Alfred Conorquie, along with twenty-one year old Leon Rodriguez and twenty-four year old Callum Sutherland, was escorted to Magistrate’s Court and arraigned for robbery and conspiracy […]
Written on February 22, 2006 | Posted in
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Following allegations of physical abuse at the hands of prison officials on Tuesday’s newscast, today Chief Executive Officer Marlon Skeen has denied the report. According to Skeen, the Kolbe Foundation does not use any kind of electrical device to reprimand prisoners. Skeen went on to contend that the marks on former inmate Lisa Lauriano’s body […]
Written on February 22, 2006 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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Tourism: it’s been growing by leaps and bounds, with massive yearly increases in cruise passengers and record annual arrivals in overnight visitors. But all that progress has brought problems of sustainability and resource management. However, as government officials and industry partners met this morning for an annual presentation on the state of tourism in Belize, […]
Written on February 22, 2006 | Posted in
Economy |
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In news from the oil front, today the Government of Belize has announced the appointment of a petroleum advisory board. Members are: Ismael Fabro, Dr. Carla Barnett, Hugh O’Brien, Cresencio Sosa, Andre Cho, Andrew Marshalleck, George Sosa, Eamon Courtenay, Lennox Neal and international oil expert Dr. Ram Ramanathan. According to a government release, the first […]
Written on February 22, 2006 | Posted in
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And while tourism officials met at the Princess, producers and processors gathered across town to discuss the country’s favourite bird: the chicken. News Five’s Karla Vernon has more. Karla Vernon, Reporting Whether they came from Spanish Lookout, Shipyard, or Little Belize these poultry producers want the same things: to process more chicken and turkey products, […]
Written on February 22, 2006 | Posted in
Agriculture |
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As the 2006 municipal campaign enters its last lap, both political parties appear poised to go for the jugular. Whether the most blood spilled will be red or blue is still anybody’s guess … but nowhere are the knives as sharp as in the race for the Belize City Council Zenaida Moya, U.D.P. Mayoral Candidate […]
Written on February 21, 2006 | Posted in
Politics |
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A young mother from the Stann Creek Valley has been found dead and her common-law husband remains the prime suspect in what appears to be a murder. The body of twenty-six year old Lydia Smith, a resident of the Pomona New Site, was found around seven this morning lying face down on her bed. Authorities […]
Written on February 21, 2006 | Posted in
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