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Teacher results caused controversy in February and prompted calls for a boycott, but tonight it appears that the 2007 Primary School Examination went off without a hitch. This afternoon News Five’s Kendra Griffith gauged the student reaction to the test. Kendra Griffith, Reporting According to the Examination Unit, six thousand, two hundred and eighty-six students […]
Written on March 26, 2007 | Posted in
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Good evening I’m James Adderley and here’s this week’s issue of Sports Monday. This was the scene that greeted us on Saturday morning when we pulled up in front of the Football Federation of Belize compound at Belmopan to witness the vote for the executive positions in the FIFA affiliated body which comes up every […]
Written on March 26, 2007 | Posted in
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A Belizean drug trafficker has been sentenced to spend the next three decades behind bars in the United States. According to international news reports, on Thursday, New York district court judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ordered that thirty-six year old Robert Hertular be locked up for the next thirty-three years and four months and pay a […]
Written on March 23, 2007 | Posted in
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Thursday morning’s shooting is officially a murder investigation as the critically wounded victim succumbed to his injuries earlier today. According to doctors at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, around three forty-five this morning twenty year old Sherwin Locke died as a result of his gunshot wounds. Locke had been rushed to the emergency room just […]
Written on March 23, 2007 | Posted in
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Two men who pled guilty to ripping off Courts Belize have been fined and released. According to warehouse manager Roleto Ortiz, sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning he discovered that a flat screen computer monitor, C.P.U., speakers, and several other items, valued at more than two thousand four hundred dollars, were missing. Ortiz’s own […]
Written on March 23, 2007 | Posted in
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Between June to November, meteorologists–both local and international–become household names, but outside the hurricane season, interest in the daily weather report wanes considerably. But what Belizeans may not realise is that climate conditions on the other side of the world can affect our environment here in Belize just as our everyday habits can have long […]
Written on March 23, 2007 | Posted in
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Mudslinging, accusations of victimisation, alleged bribery, and calls for transparency … you probably think I’m talking about national politics right? Well politics might be involved but what I’m actually referring to is the run up to the election of a new President of the Football Federation of Belize. The new body will be in charge […]
Written on March 23, 2007 | Posted in
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While the weather experts were celebrating World Meteorological Day, their counterparts in medicine today marked World Tuberculosis Day. According to Director of the National T.B. Programme, Dr. Ines Moguel, tuberculosis is both preventable and curable, but new cases of the disease continue to be diagnosed every year. Moguel maintains that given Belize’s high HIV prevalence, […]
Written on March 23, 2007 | Posted in
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During the second annual Early Childhood Educators’ Award ceremony on Thursday night, nineteen teachers were honoured for their contribution to education. Recipients were chosen for their years of dedicated service as well as their efforts to develop and improve early childhood education programs. This year’s awardees include Wilfredo Alamilla of ABC Preschool, Gwendolyn Jones from […]
Written on March 23, 2007 | Posted in
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In related news, today the Ministry of Education issued a press release asserting that all the teachers who participated in last Friday’s protest in Belmopan will lose a day’s pay. The Ministry maintains, “While teachers…have the right to take a stand on any issue…such rights must not be done at the expense of our children’s […]
Written on March 23, 2007 | Posted in
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For many students, Math is a difficult subject, evidenced by poor grades countrywide. In an effort to change that reality, over the last four weeks the Social Security Board hosted the Math Olympiad, a student competition designed make math more user friendly. After winning the regional finals, this morning twelve students representing Julian Cho Technical […]
Written on March 23, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight a young man hovers on the edge of life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the victim of a late morning shooting near Mahogany Street. The victim has been identified as twenty year old Sherwin Locke. According to an eyewitness, around eleven this morning, Locke emerged from this path and ran onto Electric Avenue […]
Written on March 22, 2007 | Posted in
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Doing a news story on a long time colleague–who is also a business competitor–is not an easy task. The story in question focuses on Rene Villanueva, the veteran broadcaster, who today launched his new book. I received my start in broadcasting under Rene at Radio Belize and because of that relationship, was too close to […]
Written on March 22, 2007 | Posted in
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Quick police work has led to the arrest of two men following a jewellery heist in Independence Village. According to the victim, Walter Panting, sometime between six on Wednesday night and seven on Thursday morning, a thief or thieves broke into his store and stole more than ten thousand dollars worth of chains, bracelets, earrings […]
Written on March 22, 2007 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, persistent efforts by Belize City police have resulted in the arrest of the second suspect in a burglary that occurred in February. According to court reports, on Wednesday morning investigators tracked down Jason Clark near his Frederick Street home and immediately detained him. Clark appeared before Magistrate Sharon Fraser this morning where he pled […]
Written on March 22, 2007 | Posted in
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It was a good day for police all around today as officers in Belmopan are also reporting that they have arrested seven people in connection with separate crimes. In the first incident, Evergreen Primary School principal Pamela Neal reported to police that over the weekend, three computers were stolen from the institution’s computer lab. Police […]
Written on March 22, 2007 | Posted in
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HIV/AIDS … it’s been around for over two decades and the way the situation looks, it’ll be with us for quite a while. According to UNAIDS statistics, at the end of 2006 there were thirty-nine point five million people worldwide infected with HIV and seventeen point seven million of them are women … which is […]
Written on March 22, 2007 | Posted in
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The much anticipated Southside Poverty Alleviation Project is about to take on a visible presence in the old capital. On Wednesday, four contracts were signed for infrastructural improvements in the Collet, Port Loyola, and Lake Independence areas of the city. The work will include the paving and upgrading of roads and sidewalks, improved drainage, and […]
Written on March 22, 2007 | Posted in
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Meanwhile in Hopkins, that village’s water system will be upgraded through an increasingly popular model involving a partnership between the local water board and a private developer. The one hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollar project will refurbish an existing well, construct two new wells, install pumps, and lay over two miles of PVC pipe. The […]
Written on March 22, 2007 | Posted in
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We say it every year when World Water Day rolls around. That is, Belizeans are blessed with some of the planet’s most abundant water resources. Yet, we always have to remind ourselves that we can’t take that blessing for granted. Rudolph Williams, Hydrologist “When it comes to this region, Belize has the highest per capita […]
Written on March 22, 2007 | Posted in
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At sixty-one million U.S. dollars it’s the largest single private sector investment in the nation’s history … and today Belize Sugar Industries announced that its power generation project is fully financed and ready to break ground. According to a press release from Belize Cogeneration Energy Limited, known as BELCOGEN, the final financial arrangements have been […]
Written on March 21, 2007 | Posted in
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Normally meetings of the Senate do not make headlines, but tonight a number of appointed legislators are claiming they were robbed of their right to debate the 2007-2008 Budget. This afternoon, our canvass of Government, Private Sector, and Opposition senators revealed that Leader of Government Business Richard Dickie Bradley did present the motion properly but […]
Written on March 21, 2007 | Posted in
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The results of the latest public opinion poll conducted by the University of Belize have created quite a stir on the local political scene. On one hand the United Democratic Party has endorsed the survey which produced statistics largely in their favour. But members of the People’s United Party have dismissed the facts and figures […]
Written on March 21, 2007 | Posted in
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In news from the labour front, today the Belize Communication Workers Union issued a press release complaining that despite plans for the scheduled arbitration to proceed on Monday morning, they have yet to receive the necessary terms of reference. According to the release, the union has appointed a former Labour Commissioner, Winston Carr, as their […]
Written on March 21, 2007 | Posted in
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A former police officer convicted of manslaughter has been sentenced to ten years behind bars. On January twenty-ninth, a jury found then police constable Burton Caliz guilty in the shooting death of Leroy Pilgrim. This morning, the defendant’s primary school teacher, Pamela Bodden and Inspector Dinsdale Thompson, chaplain of the Police Department, spoke on his […]
Written on March 21, 2007 | Posted in
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