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Following a press release earlier this week by the People’s United Party calling for the resignation of David Price from the D.F.C.’s Commission of Inquiry, tonight Belize?s labour movement has responded with a release of their own. The N.T.U.C.B. says it “expresses deep disappointment and disgust at the P.U.P. release … which attempts to politicize […]
Written on August 4, 2006 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, the Princess Hotel and Casino Belize announced it was cutting eight-one jobs at the Corozal Free Zone, but tonight the company says it has also decided to lay-off a hundred workers from its operations in the old capital. The break down is fifty workers from the casino and fifty others from the hotel. […]
Written on August 4, 2006 | Posted in
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The Belize City Council is taking heat again tonight after failing to make payments to its contracted clean up crews. According to the management of Sanitation Enterprises Limited, S.E.L. the future of the company is uncertain tonight because it has been unable to pay more than two hundred and forty employees their salaries. And they […]
Written on August 4, 2006 | Posted in
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It was a tough decision but tonight Miss Honduras is la Reina de la Costa Maya. During the annual pageant on Thursday night, twenty-three year old Lissa Saenz was selected as the overall winner. Cindy Cajuste, Miss Mexico was first runner up while Miss Nicaragua Anahir Rocha had the best cultural costume. Activities continue tonight […]
Written on August 4, 2006 | Posted in
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Every summer, teachers across the country return to the classroom as students. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports on the latest efforts by educators to make the grade. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For the past week, thousands of Belizean teachers have participated in training workshops across the country. According to officials from the Belize District, such education […]
Written on August 4, 2006 | Posted in
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For the past two years, the summer camp schedule has included learning chess, and this week organisers are reminding parents that it’s not too late to sign up. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For Belize City resident Glen Reneau, chess is not just a game. Glen Reneau, Chess Teacher ?Even though other sports develop and build self-esteem […]
Written on August 4, 2006 | Posted in
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In every part of society, there are stories of families coming together to overcome the biggest of obstacles. But tonight we profile the story of a single mother and her young son, who after years of quietly shouldering their burden are now in need of your help. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Fifty-one year old Socorro Castillo […]
Written on August 4, 2006 | Posted in
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When future historians interpret the period from 1998 to 2008 they will no doubt have a lot to say about the man at the top. And while they may disagree over how to weigh the hope of the early years against the scandals and financial problems that followed, all will be forced to agree that […]
Written on August 3, 2006 | Posted in
Economy |
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As if dealing with a bunch of angry bondholders was not enough, the Prime Minister has become embroiled in an increasingly bitter campaign by his party to remove David Price from the chair of the Commission of Inquiry now investigating the emasculated Development Finance Corporation. Responding to a question from Channel Seven’s Jules Vasquez, the […]
Written on August 3, 2006 | Posted in
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It may have temporarily replaced the daytime novelas and soap operas usually aired by this station, but the public hearings by the D.F.C. Commission of Inquiry broadcast live every Tuesday and Thursday are not devoid of drama. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports from the Belize Institute of Management. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Day two of the […]
Written on August 3, 2006 | Posted in
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If your only knowledge of life in Belize came from the news media and our crime coverage you would probably come to the conclusion that Belize is a sick society. And, sad as it seems, that conclusion might not be far off the mark. It is bolstered today by two separate incidents of forcible rape, […]
Written on August 3, 2006 | Posted in
Crime |
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Police have arrested and charged six teens accused of stealing over twenty thousand dollars worth of items from a house in Ladyville. This morning sixteen year olds Eldon Thompson and Dwayne Young, fifteen year old Tyler Garbutt, nineteen year old Ernett Broaster, and eighteen year olds Albert Perez and Horace Adolphus all appeared before Magistrate […]
Written on August 3, 2006 | Posted in
Trials |
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He was accused of defrauding over two hundred thousand dollars from the K.H.M.H. in 2002, but today Robertino Oprescu was acquitted of all charges. This afternoon a jury found Oprescu not guilty of nine counts of Forgery and nine charges of Claiming Upon a False Document. While that should have made Oprescu a free man, […]
Written on August 3, 2006 | Posted in
Trials |
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During the summer holidays, thousands of Belizean children participate in camps across the country. Today, News Five’s Alyssa Noble caught up with a couple kids hard at work on the Western Highway. Alyssa Noble, Reporting This month, Youth for the Future and the National Youth Cadet Service Corp are hosting a summer camp for kids […]
Written on August 3, 2006 | Posted in
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The crime of rape, as noted earlier in this newscast, is not exactly uncommon in Belize. But carnal assaults are not the only category of crimes involving sex. According to officials in the tourism industry, a new and particularly exploitive type of prostitution is rearing its ugly head in areas frequented by visitors. Andrew Godoy, […]
Written on August 3, 2006 | Posted in
Defense |
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On Tuesday, the first public hearings of the Commission of Inquiry into the Development Finance Corporation made for hours of must see tv … but tonight critics in Belmopan are trying to pull the plug on the whole affair … or at least its chairman. A press release issued by the People’s United Party secretariat […]
Written on August 2, 2006 | Posted in
Politics |
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That Belize is in a whole heap of financial trouble is hardly news … but when Belmopan issues a press release admitting that it cannot pay its debts and will go hat in hand to its creditors … well, we better sit up and listen. Today’s release from the Ministry of Finance comes on the […]
Written on August 2, 2006 | Posted in
Economy |
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There is good news tonight for students at the University of Belize. According to a release from the U.B. Board of Trustees, government has heeded the request of student leaders and will make up the financial shortfall that required the school’s administration to raise a number of fees for the upcoming academic year. The release […]
Written on August 2, 2006 | Posted in
Education |
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Eighty-one employees of the Princess casinos at the Corozal Free Zone are out of a job tonight. A release from the company cites, (quote) “a dramatic increase in the costs of doing business,” as the primary reason for the lay offs, referring specifically to higher utility bills, an increase in casino license fees and business […]
Written on August 2, 2006 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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Another fugitive from U.S. Justice has been captured in Belize and put on an airplane back to the States. Fifty-nine year old Roger Huskey was wanted by the D.E.A. and U.S. Marshals Service for Conspiracy to Distribute Marijuana as well as Bank Fraud. It is alleged that he operated a major weed distribution ring in […]
Written on August 2, 2006 | Posted in
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Just a reminder: Tonight’s Lotto jackpot has reached a record of one hundred seventy-two thousand five hundred dollars. Buyers have been lining up for tickets all afternoon. You can watch your number play tonight at nine, right here on Channel Five.
Written on August 2, 2006 | Posted in
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A total of twenty-eight students from all over the country have been chosen to receive high school, sixth form, and university scholarships from the Belize Social Security Board. The recipients, who were chosen based on financial need, academic performance and successful entry to the institution of their choice, received their awards at a ceremony held […]
Written on August 2, 2006 | Posted in
Education |
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The traditional stalwarts of Belize’s overnight tourism industry for many years looked askance at their more recently endowed colleagues catering to cruise ships, saying that cruising cheapened what should be a high end destination and in any case left Belize with little more than the crumbs from the megaships’ table. Today a new report commissioned […]
Written on August 2, 2006 | Posted in
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A few years ago there was a popular song called “Too Many Guns in this Town.” Well, the passage of time has only made those words more appropriate: so much so that a campaign is being started to get rid of not only real weapons, but toy guns as well. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. […]
Written on August 2, 2006 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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Five people are dead and two have been seriously injured in a traffic accident on the Western Highway. According to witnesses, around nine this morning an Isuzu pick-up travelling at high speed went out of control and skidded into a group of passengers, who had gathered on the side of the road after their bus […]
Written on August 1, 2006 | Posted in
Auto Accidents |
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