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The controversy over exactly who won the first set of Village Council Elections held on March eighteenth remains anything but settled as both major political parties continue to claim victory. According to the United Democratic Party, information from the rural areas indicates that U.D.P. candidates won a majority of seats in thirty-four villages, the P.U.P. […]
Written on March 21, 2007 | Posted in
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It appears that things may finally be working out between the Belize City Council and the Ministry of Works at the garbage dump at mile two and a half on the Western Highway. Not only has M.O.W’s heavy equipment returned to the site, clearing the roadside of all the accumulated debris, but the construction on […]
Written on March 21, 2007 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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There are smiles all around in the Orange Walk district tonight following a two-week humanitarian exercise by the U.S. Army. The kids are happy because their teeth are fixed. And the soldiers? Belize is a whole lot friendlier than Iraq. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting By Friday over five thousand primary school children in the Orange Walk […]
Written on March 21, 2007 | Posted in
Health |
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Pundits have declared the death of Belize’s sugar industry countless times over the last two decades but recent developments indicate that not only is sugar alive and kicking, it is showing signs of prosperity. The most recent good news comes in the form of a permanent increase of almost twenty percent in Belize’s export quota […]
Written on March 20, 2007 | Posted in
Economy |
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We haven’t heard much about the petroleum business lately, but for those viewers concerned about where all those millions of U.S. dollars are going, there’s some good news. Beginning tonight and continuing on Wednesday and Thursday, the Ministry of Natural Resources will be holding a series of public consultations on the establishment of the Petroleum […]
Written on March 20, 2007 | Posted in
Economy |
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The results of a recent public opinion poll, mirroring those conducted over the last few years, are suggesting that Belizeans countrywide are dissatisfied with the Musa administration. The survey “Peoples Perception of Election 2008” was the brainchild of former director of research and present registrar at the University of Belize, Dr. Roy Young, but the […]
Written on March 20, 2007 | Posted in
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An accused bike thief out on bail has been charged once more for a similar crime. According to court reports, this morning thirty year old Welta Usher appeared before Magistrate Aretha Ford where he was arraigned on one count of robbery. Usher was arrested after Andrew Barnett reported to police that around noon on Sunday […]
Written on March 20, 2007 | Posted in
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The Police Department is asking the public’s help tonight, not to catch a criminal, but to locate a crime victim whose court testimony may be crucial in the case against his alleged assailant. In 2004, David Melendez was shot and lost the use of an eye in an attack at his home in Trinidad Village […]
Written on March 20, 2007 | Posted in
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For the next two days, soldiers from the Caribbean, the United States, and the United Kingdom will be in Belize to put the finishing touches on plans for Tradewinds 2007. The annual military exercise is being hosted by the Belize Defence Force and will take place over fourteen days in May. This week local organisers […]
Written on March 20, 2007 | Posted in
Defense |
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This morning ground breaking ceremonies were held at the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan to mark the official start of renovations to the existing facility and the construction of a new surgical wing. According to Health Manager Pearl Ellis, while the fresh paint and electrical improvements will be appreciated, the upgrades to the emergency unit, […]
Written on March 20, 2007 | Posted in
Health |
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The story didn’t make it into Sports Monday but over the weekend students of the University of Belize participated in the twenty-ninth edition of that institution’s annual relathon. For the women, the event started out at Market Square in Belmopan while their male counterparts began their run from in front of the San Ignacio Police […]
Written on March 20, 2007 | Posted in
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Automated airport check in … it’s pretty standard in most major airports in the U.S.A. and Europe, but for Belize and most of the Caribbean and Central America slow lines and old fashioned ticketing procedures have long been a way of life. Until now, that is. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has the latest lesson in […]
Written on March 20, 2007 | Posted in
Travel |
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Residents of the Lord’s Bank community will sleep a little easier tonight knowing that two men have been arrested and charged for the cruel killing of Cruz Sho inside her home last Thursday. But perhaps what is equally disturbing about Sho’s murder is the fact that the accused murderers are teenagers. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Today […]
Written on March 19, 2007 | Posted in
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Homicide detectives in the south are tonight investigating the murder of a banana worker that occurred over the weekend. According to authorities, around ten on Saturday morning, officers were notified that the body of a man had been found near the Placencia junction with the Southern Highway. Multiple chop wounds to the head and body […]
Written on March 19, 2007 | Posted in
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A traffic accident in Belize City has resulted in the death of a young man and tonight his grieving relatives need your help to track down the hit and run driver. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Around one-thirty on Saturday morning, twenty-three year old Jerry Solwin Romero had just taken a friend home on Cemetery Road and […]
Written on March 19, 2007 | Posted in
Auto Accidents |
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Meanwhile Belize City police are also searching for the parents of a baby discovered dead in a canal off Central American Boulevard. According to sixty-three year old sanitation worker Noel Ebanks, around nine-thirty on Saturday morning he was cleaning the side of the North Creek Canal when he spotted the body of a newborn baby […]
Written on March 19, 2007 | Posted in
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A drug bust in the Belize district has resulted in the arrest of two people. According to police, officers from the Crimes Investigation Unit and the Anti-Drug Unit were on patrol in the Vista Del Mar area when they stopped a white four door Crown Victoria. During the subsequent search of the vehicle, the cops […]
Written on March 19, 2007 | Posted in
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It might have gone unnoticed given the protest rally in Belmopan but on Friday, the Minister of Labour was to have been presented with a comprehensive report regarding the firing of Christine Perriott from Belize Telecommunications Limited. The National Trade Union Congress of Belize issued a press release to that effect this morning but our […]
Written on March 19, 2007 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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At their last gathering, shouting matches, fights for the microphone, and mass resignations set the precedent for meetings of the Citrus Growers Association at an all time low. But word out of the south tonight is that Saturday’s Annual General Meeting of the association was the model of discipline and democracy. Of course it helped […]
Written on March 19, 2007 | Posted in
Agriculture |
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On Sunday, residents in forty-seven villages countrywide went to the polls to elect a chairperson and seven councillors. And while the party lines in village elections can sometimes be blurred, in a press release from its secretariat, the United Democratic Party is claiming the lion’s share of the slates, thirty-four in fact, as victories for […]
Written on March 19, 2007 | Posted in
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They’ve got rhythm, they’ve got music and they’ve got dance and starting tonight the participants in the first ever Preschool Festival of Arts will have centre stage at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. This morning I stopped by for a preview of the entertainment. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Over the next four days, students […]
Written on March 19, 2007 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this issue of Sports Monday. We take you immediately to in front of Garbutt’s Texaco Gas Station inside Roaring Creek where the ninety-mile Masters Cross Country Classic is about to take off featuring thirty riders whose classification demands they must be thirty years and over. […]
Written on March 19, 2007 | Posted in
Sports |
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There was no shortage of familiar faces today, both inside and outside the National Assembly in Belmopan. But 2007 was not 2005 and while protesters had no lack of issues, they did not come close to interrupting the completion of the budget debate. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports from the nation’s capital. Janelle Chanona, Reporting […]
Written on March 16, 2007 | Posted in
Economy |
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While teachers spearheaded today’s protests in Belmopan, what was happening in their classrooms? News Five’s Kendra Griffith checked out the schools in Belize City and found varying degrees of attendance. Clement Wade, Manager, Catholic Schools “The schools mostly affected were St. Ignatius and Holy Redeemer. But even in those cases, St. Ignatius had a fairly […]
Written on March 16, 2007 | Posted in
Education |
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It was the kind of murder that is exceedingly rare and particularly disturbing. Not a gangbang, no lover’s quarrel, not even a hold-up in which the victim fights back and the gunman shoots in panic. The killing that took place Thursday afternoon at the Old Well Road in Ladyville was a simple act of unspeakable […]
Written on March 16, 2007 | Posted in
Crime |
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