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Throughout the year, school officials across the country bemoan a lack of classroom space available to students and teachers. But as News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports, this year, members of the United States Military will bring relief to institutions in the Belize and Orange Walk Districts. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Today four primary school principals received […]
Written on January 19, 2007 | Posted in
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Today seven high schools from across the country faced some tough questions in the annual ADM Belize Mills Nutrition Quiz Competition Finals. At the end of five rounds of questioning, defending champs Stann Creek Ecumenical had garnered enough points for third place, San Pedro High School claimed second … and taking the top honours was […]
Written on January 19, 2007 | Posted in
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In June 2004, News Five’s Janelle Chanona toured the Gulf of Honduras as part of a tri-national alliance by Belizean, Guatemalan and Honduran organizations to highlight the environmental significance of the coastal and marine resources. On Thursday Janelle returned to area, this time to witness the challenges facing Amatique Bay, a small corner of the […]
Written on January 19, 2007 | Posted in
Environment |
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Lois Young versus Andrew Steinhower and the Belize Times. It’s a case that has ramifications for the way both journalism and politics are practiced in Belize. Today arguments in that lawsuit for libel ended in the Supreme Court, with Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh reserving judgement for a future date. Young, herself an attorney, alleged through […]
Written on January 18, 2007 | Posted in
Trials |
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A Belize City man has been charged with a string of robberies that have left five people poorer, and one of them with stab wounds. Twenty-two year old Jarret Crawford, a resident of Raccoon Street, appeared today before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb where the five Robbery and one Wounding counts were read. The four separate […]
Written on January 18, 2007 | Posted in
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No doubt you’ve heard stories about desperate thieves who break into cars and houses and steal expensive jewellery or electronics, only to sell the valuable items at a tiny fraction of their cost. This next story involves a variation on that theme. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Meet seventy year old Erceline Gabourel … the driving force […]
Written on January 18, 2007 | Posted in
Crime |
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A U.S. tourist has died while visiting Half Moon Caye. According to police, on Wednesday seventy year old Cornelius Stewart of the state of Maryland, was exploring the undersea formations with a group of snorkelers when he began to experience difficulties with his breathing. Tour guides removed him from the water and administered C.P.R. but […]
Written on January 18, 2007 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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While most of the public’s road rage has been directed at the perennially bruk-up stretch of the Northern Highway between the flag monument and Haulover Bridge, today a potentially more serious problem arose a few miles north. It seems that the combination of a strong current and weak seawall has washed out the embankment along […]
Written on January 18, 2007 | Posted in
Disasters |
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While the distribution of the proceeds from the Head Tax on cruise passengers is the subject of a boiling political controversy, the locomotive for Belize’s tourism train continues to remain traditional overnight vacationers. And the latest statistics from the Belize Tourism Board show that while current growth rates do not match those of the last […]
Written on January 18, 2007 | Posted in
Economy |
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It’s a recurring story in all parts of the country, where, with precious few exceptions, the notion of zoning is an unknown concept. This time the place is Ladyville and the nuisance is a neighbourhood piggery. Norman Crawford, Area resident “First thing in the morning you smell the pig. Last thing at night you smell […]
Written on January 18, 2007 | Posted in
Health |
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In the world of AIDS prevention, much of the focus these days is on new ways to stop transmission of the virus. Among the scientific initiatives being pursued are microbicides, improved male and female condoms, and even vaccines. But recent research has offered solid evidence that one possible way to slow down the spread of […]
Written on January 18, 2007 | Posted in
Health |
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He is accused of killing his common law wife by stabbing her fifteen times … with two of her children watching. But after fourteen days as Belize’s most wanted fugitive, Louie Ganzie Gentle was this afternoon apprehended by police and charged with murder. Today I watched as he was processed at Queen Street … and […]
Written on January 17, 2007 | Posted in
Crime |
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While it may be too late for Keisha Sutherland, there is help available for abused women who do not want to end up as a statistic on a police report. One of the most important sources of aid is called Haven House, an anonymous home where women who need to leave an unsafe situation can […]
Written on January 17, 2007 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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Two minors charged with a high profile 2005 murder have had their case sent down to Magistrate’s Court where a coroner’s inquest will determine if they will stand trial. The boys, at the time only thirteen years old, are accused of killing four year old Oscar Velasquez and hiding his body in an old refrigerator […]
Written on January 17, 2007 | Posted in
Trials |
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In another case sent from the Supreme Court for a coroner’s inquest, a mother whose year old son dropped off her bike to his death will have her charges reviewed. Twenty year old Vicenta Cuxun was charged with Manslaughter by Negligence and Causing Death by Careless Conduct in March of 2005. The charges arose out […]
Written on January 17, 2007 | Posted in
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Campaign fever may be off to an early start as today the party called Vision Inspired by the People held a press conference in Belize City to announce its electoral plans. The official VIP candidates number only six: Hubert Enriquez, Paul Morgan and Bobby Lopez who will be contesting constituencies in the Cayo district, Patrick […]
Written on January 17, 2007 | Posted in
Politics |
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The good news for minimum wage workers announced last week was confirmed today as officials explained details of the immediate twenty-five percent increase plus future hikes. In May 2006, a nine member council made up of workers, employers and independent partners was commissioned to review and if necessary revise the minimum wage. After seven months […]
Written on January 17, 2007 | Posted in
Economy |
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The Living With Hope Foundation is a three year old charitable organisation that assists people living with HIV and AIDS. To date, eighty-five people have benefited from the service. This morning, the organisation received a donation of five thousand dollars from Bravo Motors, part of the proceeds of the 2006 Nissan Grand Raffle. Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, […]
Written on January 17, 2007 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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It was a special day for the students and staff of Ebenezer Methodist Primary School. Not only was the learning institution visited by a former student but forty six year old Douglas Griffith, who is a computer technician, brought with him a total of ten new fully loaded computers. Griffith and his family, who now […]
Written on January 17, 2007 | Posted in
Education |
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On last night’s newscast we reported the eleventh hour compromise between the Belize City Council and Belize Tourism Board over the City’s demand for a piece of the Head Tax on cruise passengers. Today, while the crisis may have been averted, it is clear that no one is about to kiss and make up. News […]
Written on January 16, 2007 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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While former mayor Jose Coye discussed the City Council’s finances, Health Minister Jose Coye had more current wounds to heal … like government’s proposed takeover of Universal Health Services. According to Coye, the government is now in the process of settling debts and negotiating with the existing shareholders. Jose Coye, Minister of Health
Written on January 16, 2007 | Posted in
Economy |
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What it is that has Belizean men so crazed may never be known but it is with a sense of profound sadness that I must report yet another case of extreme domestic violence. That’s right, tonight one more woman lies hospitalised with stab wounds and her attacker has not yet been apprehended. Ricardo Tzul, Uncle […]
Written on January 16, 2007 | Posted in
Crime |
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Meanwhile in Belize City, a woman who found herself in the middle of a domestic disturbance was unharmed, but the same could not be said for the police officer who came to her aid. On Sunday, a police patrol responded to a call from Diana Trujeque that her common-law husband, Lincoln Green, was intoxicated and […]
Written on January 16, 2007 | Posted in
Trials |
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A Belize City businessman who shot a would be burglar to death over a year ago has failed to show up in court. Thirty-nine year old Ben Bou-Nahra had been charged with manslaughter in the September seventeenth, 2005 killing of Shawn Copius at Bou-Nahra’s Belize City home. Today that charge was supposed to be upped […]
Written on January 16, 2007 | Posted in
Trials |
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In 2005, his murder trial ended in a deadlock and the D.P.P. vowed to re-file the charges … but tonight it looks like Mark Vega will not face a return bout in court; his paperwork, it seems, has gone missing. According to court reports, Vega was supposed to be arraigned today for the 2002 murder […]
Written on January 16, 2007 | Posted in
Trials |
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