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In 2005, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust introduced the PACT Challenge with a memorable trek through the majestic jungles and caves of the Chiquibul. For the next edition in 2007, PACT is looking out to sea with a competitive tour of Belize’s three atolls. According to communications officer Arreini Palacio Morgan, the new format will […]
Written on September 14, 2006 | Posted in
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Two Belizeans have been selected to pursue graduate studies at top universities in the United Kingdom, courtesy of the British High Commission under the Chevening Scholarship programme. This year’s recipients are Melanie Gideon Vernon who will pursue a Masters of Science in Industrial Strategy and Trade Policy at Manchester University and Alyssa Noble who will […]
Written on September 14, 2006 | Posted in
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On August fourteenth we ran a touching story on the struggle of an ailing Belize City mother and her dedicated eleven year old son. Since that time, thanks to a generous public, the family’s prognosis has improved. Here’s an update. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Fifty-one year old Soccoro Castillo still struggles with Multiple Sclerosis but at […]
Written on September 14, 2006 | Posted in
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He’s one of Belize’s most illustrious musicians and to help celebrate the country’s twenty-fifth birthday, Francis Reneau is treating Belizeans young and old to his latest original production, “We Are Belize”, which he says, is as diverse as the country it represents. Francis Reneau, Composer, We Are Belize ?It has to two parts. The first […]
Written on September 14, 2006 | Posted in
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He will be giving a major address tonight at the Bliss before being honoured with the Order of Belize. But this afternoon News Five’s Stewart Krohn sat down with former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson for an extensive interview to be aired in the Caribbean. Among the many topics discussed was the implementation of the […]
Written on September 14, 2006 | Posted in
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On September twenty-first, 1981, Percival Noel James Patterson, only recently defeated in the 1980 Jamaican general elections, stood proudly as a special guest of the Belize Government as the Belize flag was raised for the first time. As Foreign Minister under Michael Manley he had been a strident advocate for Belizean Independence and as a […]
Written on September 13, 2006 | Posted in
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The tourism project at the top of the Placencia Peninsula known as Ara Macao is the most recent in a string of controversial proposals that have pitted the desire for economic development against the need to protect Belize’s environment. What makes the Ara Macao dispute different is that in addition to a vocal citizens group […]
Written on September 13, 2006 | Posted in
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A newspaper report out of Grenada claims that the next chief justice of the O.E.C.S. Supreme Court may be none other than Belize’s Denys Barrow. Citing a “well placed legal source” the September ninth edition of Grenada Today indicates that previous front runner for the post, acting Chief Justice Brian Alleyne of Dominica, has failed […]
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Another report of sexual abuse against a minor has been reported to the authorities. According to the fourteen year old victim, on August twenty-sixth, forty-five year old security guard Owen Smith had sex with her against her will. Following police investigations, Smith was arrested and charged with rape and unlawful carnal knowledge. In court today, […]
Written on September 13, 2006 | Posted in
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In August, thieves hit the Belize City PASMO office with a vengeance, stealing everything from condoms to computers in just one weekend. But in Magistrate’s court today, one man accused of the crime was arraigned on charges of Burglary and Handling Stolen Goods. Nineteen year old Alex Olivera pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Margaret Gabb […]
Written on September 13, 2006 | Posted in
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In the Supreme Court today, a Belize City man who shot his pregnant wife in the chest two years ago has pleaded guilty to causing death by careless conduct. With his attorney at his side, this morning thirty-one year old Lloyd Brakeman appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas and formally entered a guilty plea. According to […]
Written on September 13, 2006 | Posted in
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Hit and run is getting to be a sad fact of life on Belize’s highways … but the victims are not always two legged pedestrians. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting This tapir, believed to be a four to five year old male weighing over four hundred pounds was knocked down and killed at mile eight and a […]
Written on September 13, 2006 | Posted in
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It’s an event at which Belize’s tourism product puts its best foot forward for an audience of visiting travel professionals. News Five’s Alyssa Noble has more. Alyssa Noble, reporting It?s Marketplace Day One at the 2006 Belize Tourism Expo, and this morning organizers held a press conference at the Princess Hotel and Casino to welcome […]
Written on September 13, 2006 | Posted in
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The Belize National Library Service today hosted its fifth annual Book Fair and Open Day at the Leo Bradley Library under the theme: “Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader”. According to Shanna Rowland, Library Assistant at Leo Bradley, students and visitors got a chance to do more than just bury their heads in dusty pages. […]
Written on September 13, 2006 | Posted in
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With the development of the arts so evident over the last quarter century, no twenty-fifth anniversary celebration would be complete without a good show. Today one opened at the Image Factory in Belize City. News Five’s Janelle Chanona offers a tour. Gilvano Swasey, Curator, We are Belize ?It?s just a way to see how people […]
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Jealousy: It’s an emotion that all of us feel at various times in our life. Sometime jealousy turns to anger, even to the point of violence. And once in a while that violence turns fatal, as it did over the weekend in Belize City. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Following a six year stormy relationship forty-three year […]
Written on September 12, 2006 | Posted in
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A B.D.F. Corporal and a Dangriga resident are tonight charged with murder following the death of forty-three year Clifford Weller. Around seven thirty on Friday night police found Weller lying unconscious at a home in Dangriga’s Benguche area. Weller was lying on a verandah with an injury to the forehead and badly swollen right foot. […]
Written on September 12, 2006 | Posted in
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On Monday night residents in the St. Martin De Porres area of Belize City were jarred by the sounds of gunshots. According to residents, around eight forty a blue van drove up in front of this house on Perwinkle Street. Two men got out and fired as many as eight shots into the wooden building. […]
Written on September 12, 2006 | Posted in
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Meanwhile police in the north were busy over the holiday weekend as three men were sent to the hospital suffering from gunshot and machete wounds following what they believe was a drunken brawl in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Authorities say the victims, identified as twenty-two year old Pablo Mendez, twenty-eight year old Cliff […]
Written on September 12, 2006 | Posted in
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A well-known paediatrician seriously injured in a traffic accident on August twenty-eighth is now on the road recovery. That’s the word out of Universal Health Services tonight on Dr. Miguel Rosado. Rosado was listed in critical condition after his Toyota 4Runner ran off of the Western Highway and flipped several times, killing passenger Michelle Leslie […]
Written on September 12, 2006 | Posted in
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A Belmopan family is tonight asking for your help in finding their missing loved one. According to Barbara Zelaya, in late July her brother Glenn, also known as “Limpo”, walked away from the Rockview Hospital and has not been seen or heard from since. This afternoon she told us that the family’s countrywide search has […]
Written on September 12, 2006 | Posted in
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It’s a major cash investment in a key Belizean industry … but in the business of growing and processing citrus, no matter how sweet the fruit, somebody always seems to swallow a mouthful of seeds. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports from the Stann Creek Valley. Bridget Cullerton, C.E.O., Citrus Growers Assoc. ?My hope and belief […]
Written on September 12, 2006 | Posted in
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The benefits Belize receives from its relationship with the Republic of China on Taiwan range from healthy helpings of cash to hands on advice on agriculture. Today, at an exhibition timed for our September celebrations, Belizeans got a look at the high tech side of our Asian ally. News Five’s Alyssa Noble reports. Alyssa Noble, […]
Written on September 12, 2006 | Posted in
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Good evening. I?m James Adderley and we?ve got this week?s stash of Sports Monday rolling live into your living rooms. Even the tenth of September celebrations couldn?t hold back week five of the R.F.G. Insurance Co. so we accompanied Acros of Belize City as it headed west to face Belmopan Bandits inside the Isidoro Stadium, […]
Written on September 12, 2006 | Posted in
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A Belize City man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder following a stabbing incident last Sunday. According to police, twenty-one year old Israel Sanchez was formally arraigned for the crimes of Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm following an incident on Freetown Road. The victim, thirty year old […]
Written on September 8, 2006 | Posted in
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