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Separate traffic accidents over the weekend in the Stann Creek and Belize districts have left three people dead. The first occurred late Friday night near mile seventeen on the Southern Highway. Police reports are that twenty-three year old Ryan Valerio and thirty year old Tyrone Flores were heading to Dangriga when their car broadsided a […]
Written on April 10, 2006 | Posted in
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He has been linked to several major crimes in the past, but tonight twenty-six year old Aniver Palacio is in the news as the victim of a shooting. Authorities say around seven on Sunday night Palacio was shot at least six times, including one shot at close range to the head, as he sat on […]
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A life sentence has been handed down to the convicted killer of a Belize City businessman. During proceedings in the Supreme Court this morning, Justice Troadio Gonzalez told twenty-one year old Jermaine Pascascio and the rest of the court “I have considered all the mitigating factors put before the court that the accused was sorry, […]
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The Musa family is tonight in mourning following the death of the Prime Minister’s mother, Aurora Augustina Musa nee Gibbs. “Granny Musa” as she was affectionately known to loved ones, passed away at her home in King’s Park on Saturday afternoon from what is believed to be cancer complications. A mass celebrating her life was […]
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Over the next few days more Belizeans will take to the cayes, rivers and roadways than at any other time of the year. Most will be conscious of the need for safety and security while a small minority will simply be out to make trouble. Today the Police Department and Belize Port Authority held a […]
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In the capitalist world in which we live, every holiday has its corresponding commercial items … Halloween with its sweets and scary masks; Valentine’s Day with its flowers and chocolate; and of course Easter with its bunny rabbits and sugary treats. As every parent knows, trying to give your children some holiday happiness can easily […]
Written on April 10, 2006 | Posted in
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You might have noticed that over the last five months, there have been a few name changes here at Channel Five and tonight we thought we’d explain why. At four-thirty last Friday afternoon, after three years of courtship, our very own Jacqueline Woods officially became Mrs. Murray Anthony Godwin following a brief ceremony at the […]
Written on April 10, 2006 | Posted in
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Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this week?s serving of Sports Monday. The future of Belizean cycling was on display yesterday with the presentation of the Junior Cross Country Classic which left San Ignacio for the sixty-six mile ride to the Leslie?s Imports at the entrance of Belize City. Some thirty-one hopefuls, including the reigning […]
Written on April 10, 2006 | Posted in
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The medical partnership programme with the Cuban Government may have offset the impact of an alarming deficiency in healthcare providers in Belize, but tonight local authorities maintain that the issue still requires urgent attention. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Officials hope that by the year 2015, a healthy number of doctors, nurses, and other care providers fill […]
Written on April 7, 2006 | Posted in
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A convicted killer will have to wait two more days to hear his fate after sentencing was delayed today in the Belize City Supreme Court. Twenty-one year old Jermaine Pascascio was found guilty of the murder of Inez “Blankie” Leal in early February and was scheduled to be sentenced today. However, following mitigation pleas by […]
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It’s a scenario that plays out daily in offices across Belize … grown men and women begging for a handout. But in Magistrate’s court today, one such hustler found himself on the wrong side of the law after he jacked a woman’s purse. Reports are that nineteen year old Akeem Tillett had routinely gone into […]
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Belize’s reputation as a connoisseur of exotic delicacies is well known … with the royal rat story at the top of the list. But tonight News Five takes a look at another popular local dish: the iguana, also known as bamboo chicken. The reptile is plentiful this time of the year, but conservationists worry that […]
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Just in time for the Easter celebrations, today local concert organisers welcomed a Caribbean gospel group to Belize. News Five’s Karla Vernon was part of the reception committee in Ladyville. Karla Vernon This afternoon the Grace Thrillers Gospel Band arrived at the P.G.I.A. for a one night concert at the Belize City Centre this Saturday. […]
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From the established to the aspiring, today the members of the Backyawd Crew visited our studios to promote their attempt to break onto the Belizean music scene. Here are the highlights of their CD: Ancient of Days. Shane Espat ?That just mek I feel good because then this da weh I want shub through inna […]
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They are a relatively new company, but Ready Call Centre is fast developing a reputation as being controversial. Sources inside the company tell News Five that after a company meeting on Thursday night, a manager and at least two senior supervisors resigned in protest of a managerial decision to fire a number of agents. Today […]
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Tired but happy to be home, today Belize’s young football stars returned to familiar soil. Following a two-nil surprise victory over El Salvador on Sunday in Dangriga the nation’s football hopes were riding with the Belize squad when they entered Cuscutlan Stadium last night in San Salvador for the return match. Unfortunately they found themselves […]
Written on April 6, 2006 | Posted in
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A traffic accident in the Corozal district has left a police officer dead. Reports are that around nine thirty on Wednesday night, Corporal Raul Magana and his family were heading to their home in San Joaquin Village when their car became involved in a three car pileup. Officers say when they arrived at the scene, […]
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Tonight hundreds of parents in Stann Creek West have one less thing to worry about as the HANDS Belize Foundation picked up the tab for their children’s school fees. On Wednesday HANDS officials presented cheques totalling one hundred and eighty thousand dollars to the principals of the twenty primary and secondary schools in the constituency. […]
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Belize’s health care system has come a long way over the last few decades and while most of us are aware of the improved services–both public and private–we may not have noticed that the medical field today offers a wide range of rewarding employment opportunities. Janelle Chanona, Reporting As part of activities leading up to […]
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Health |
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On Friday, fifteen poets will be joining musicians, dancers and dramatists from across the country in the first ever Lik It Festival. The show, which takes centre stage at the Bliss, is part of a fundraising drive for The Belizean Poets Society. According to B.P.S. Interim president Adele RamosBDaly, the response has been strong and […]
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If the story you are about to watch looks familiar, that’s because it is. In fact almost every year at this time since 1992 we’ve had a red carpet view of one of the nation’s biggest bashments. Kendra Griffith, the latest in a long line of News Five reporters to draw the big assignment, reports […]
Written on April 6, 2006 | Posted in
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School’s nearly out for the Easter holidays, the weather is perfect and thousands of Belizean families will be looking for places to have some good clean fun. This morning I discovered one such destination … virtually in my own backyard. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It is one of the largest swimming pools in Belize and is […]
Written on April 6, 2006 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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Five weeks after his party suffered a blistering defeat at the municipal polls, today Prime Minister Said Musa confirmed rumours out of Belmopan of an impending Cabinet shuffle. This afternoon Musa told the press that he will make changes in the executive, because with a shift in policies must come a change in administrative methods. […]
Written on April 5, 2006 | Posted in
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Sticking to politics, today the P.M. also vented his feelings on what he called the systematic laying off party supporters in just about every municipality. P.M. Musa says he had feared jobs would be cut, but denies that municipal payrolls were used as a dumping ground for party hacks. Said Musa, Prime Minister ?It?s very […]
Written on April 5, 2006 | Posted in
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Shifting from the political to the economical, today the Prime Minister also commented on his administration’s ongoing negotiations with Belize Natural Energy and the recent oil find. Musa says his team is working on a formula that will see a fifty-fifty spilt of the profits. Said Musa, Prime Minister ?The briefing I?ve received from the […]
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Economy |
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