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The Miss Belize Beach Beauty and Top Fashion Model Competitions were held this past weekend at the Princess Hotel and although nine ladies competed, only two could walk away as winners. At the end of an evening filled with countless runway struts and numerous outfit changes, twenty-four year old Maria Jeffrey was declared the first […]
Written on July 27, 2006 | Posted in
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It may not be one of Belize’s best known protected areas but for conservationists in the know, Five Blues Lake National Park has always been considered a rare gem. Unfortunately, over the last week Five Blues has achieved a different kind of notoriety. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Wilber Sabido, Chief Forest Officer ?It is […]
Written on July 27, 2006 | Posted in
Environment |
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At a press conference called yesterday by the United Democratic Party, Opposition Leader Dean Barrow painted a grim picture of government’s financial position, going as far as to suggest that a selective default on certain foreign debts might be in the offing. Tonight, Minister Jose Coye, G.O.B.’s point man on financial matters since the isolation […]
Written on July 26, 2006 | Posted in
Economy |
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Benque police are once again joining forces with Guatemalan law enforcement … this time to investigate a murder. Around seven o’clock this morning, Belize police were contacted by Guatemalan authorities who informed them that the body of a young woman, believed to be a Belizean, was discovered in Melchor de Mencos. The corpse displayed two […]
Written on July 26, 2006 | Posted in
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San Ignacio police are looking for two men they believe are responsible for shooting a seventeen year old Belize City resident. According to a police press release, sometime around eight last night Zuahn Stewart was walking along Coconut Street in Santa Elena Town when he was approached by two men on bicycles, one of whom […]
Written on July 26, 2006 | Posted in
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Following a drive-by shooting over the weekend, police have arrested and charged a Belize City resident of the crime. This morning twenty-two year old Robert Jones appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb were he was arraigned on the charges of Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm, and Use of Deadly Means of Harm against Leon Garcia. According to […]
Written on July 26, 2006 | Posted in
Trials |
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A case of carnal knowledge has ended in the Belize City Supreme Court with a hung jury. Around eleven-thirty this morning a jury of five women and four men began their deliberation in the case of thirty-five year old Michael Woods. But when they returned from the jury room some three hours later, it was […]
Written on July 26, 2006 | Posted in
Trials |
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We’re not sure if it’s because of a commonly perceived “man shortage” or a result of more equality between the sexes … but it seems that we are seeing an increase in woman on woman violence. The latest case involves an incident that occurred shortly after midnight on July twenty-first. According to court reports, Woman […]
Written on July 26, 2006 | Posted in
Trials |
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It’s an intersection that’s seen more crushed metal than an eighties rock band, and today the crossroads of St. Thomas Street and Princess Margaret Drive saw yet another mishap. According to Emir Perez, driver of the black Isuzu Rodeo, he was heading down Princess Margaret Drive toward the Barracks when a Chevy S10, coming from […]
Written on July 26, 2006 | Posted in
Auto Accidents |
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Earlier this month, Alberto Vellos, the regional representative of the Commonwealth Youth Programme, was looking for a few good men and women willing to give of their time for its summer volunteering programme, entitled Volunteers ‘R Us. And from the looks of things, it seems that he’s found them. Kendra Vernon, Volunteer, Volunteers R? Us […]
Written on July 26, 2006 | Posted in
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Over the last fifty years the worldwide sport of tennis has undergone a radical transformation from being a pastime for the elite to a passion for people of all classes. And while that egalitarian shift has not been fully felt in Belize, tennis here has come a long way from the days when the Pickwick […]
Written on July 26, 2006 | Posted in
Sports |
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When you think about those institutions in society that are leading the fight against HIV and AIDS, the church is not likely to be the first one to come to mind. But things are not always what they seem, as News Five’s Kendra Griffith discovered this morning. Canon Leroy Flowers, Pres., Belize Council of Churches […]
Written on July 26, 2006 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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Police say all they have to go on are tattoos to identify a body found floating face down in the Belize River. The discovery was made in an area near Young’s Bank not far from Belmopan. Authorities say when the corpse was retrieved from the waters around nine on Monday night it was badly decomposed […]
Written on July 25, 2006 | Posted in
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With the People’s United Party well on the road to mass suicide the opposition U.D.P. needs to do little more than occasionally stir the pitcher of Kool-Aid. And that’s what it did today at a briefing called to criticise the government’s miscues already so amply chronicled by the media. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle […]
Written on July 25, 2006 | Posted in
Politics |
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In reaction to a sharp increase in school fees, today students from the University of Belize held a press conference in Belize City to launch a plan of action against the price hikes. According to student activist Moses Sulph, the centre piece of their campaign will be the truth. Moses Sulph, Student Activist ?Our leverage […]
Written on July 25, 2006 | Posted in
Education |
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After weeks of declining requests for interviews, former Social Security C.E.O. Narda Garcia has finally made a public statement … albeit in the form of an email. In her three paragraph release addressed to the media, Garcia rejects the findings of the Senate Special Select Committee, maintaining that (quote) “I do not accept that there […]
Written on July 25, 2006 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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A Belize City cable company has been touched for seven thousand dollars … but the jacking may not be all that it seems. A spokesperson for Baymen Cable told News Five that they strongly believe a Monday night robbery at their Baymen Avenue Headquarters was the result of an inside job. According to the spokesperson, […]
Written on July 25, 2006 | Posted in
Crime |
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People residing in the Stann Creek District are being asked to be careful not to buy stolen goods. In this case, a fully equipped computer system, that was taken from the Seine Bight Health Centre. Authorities believe the burglary occurred sometime between Saturday night and early Sunday morning. The rural nurse, Jacqueline Nembhard, told police […]
Written on July 25, 2006 | Posted in
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One down and two to go as one of the suspects believed to be responsible for the hold-up of M and M’s Boutique on Euphrates Avenue has been arrested. Twenty year old Brandon Taylor appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord, where he was charged for attempted robbery, damage to property and two counts of […]
Written on July 25, 2006 | Posted in
Trials |
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Partners of the Americas is a network of volunteer organizations in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean. For forty years Belize has partnered with the U.S. State of Michigan. It is this joint venture that is responsible for the establishment of the 4-H Centre in Belmopan and a series of service oriented projects […]
Written on July 25, 2006 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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There was a time not that long ago when Belizean exports could be summed up in one word: sugar. But while today’s economy is far more diversified, as News Five’s Alyssa Noble discovered, you can never have too many baskets for those precious exported eggs. Alyssa Noble, Reporting Whether its sugar, citrus or bananas, agriculture […]
Written on July 25, 2006 | Posted in
Agriculture |
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For the last decade or so she’s lived on the idyllic island of Tobago … but rather than lament Rachel Heusner’s departure we prefer to treasure her regular visits back home. Today Kendra Griffith took a sneak peak at her latest show. Kendra Griffith, Reporting ?An Exhibition of Art? is Rachel Heusner?s latest creative offering. […]
Written on July 25, 2006 | Posted in
Uncategorized |
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Life is cheap in Belize–at least that’s the way it seemed this weekend–as no less than four people found themselves on the wrong end of fatal violence. The most gruesome killings occurred in the Stann Creek District where a father and son were brutally butchered. A.S.P. Russell Blackett, O.C. Dangriga Police Station ?To tell you […]
Written on July 24, 2006 | Posted in
Crime |
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The weekend’s third homicide occurred on Saturday night in Ladyville. News Five’s Alyssa Noble reports. Alyssa Noble, Reporting Police, tonight, are still investigating a shooting that has left thirty-nine year old Emerson Elijio of Ladyville, dead. I.S.P. Chris Noble, Ladyville Police Department ?The information that we have is that Saturday sometime after eight p.m., there […]
Written on July 24, 2006 | Posted in
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And in Roaring Creek police are investigating what appears to be a case of murder in which the victim was beaten to death. The fatal assault took place Saturday night at a tire shop in that roadside village near Belmopan. The dead man has been identified as forty-four year old Hollis Alexander Lopez. One suspect […]
Written on July 24, 2006 | Posted in
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