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The sun was hot, the breeze was strong, and the crowd was large. That’s the environment entered by dozens of tired paddlers on the last day of Belize’s great canoe race. News Five’s Janelle Chanona and Stewart Krohn–with a little help from Love FM’s Patrick Jones–combined for the coverage. Stewart Krohn, Reporting The tenth annual […]
Written on March 13, 2007 | Posted in
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James Adderley Good evening I’m James Adderley and here’s your weekly dish of Sports Monday. We kick off with week three of the RFG Cup Tournament as F.C. Belize of the metropolis hosts Wagiya of Dangriga inside the M.C.C. Grounds Sunday evening. We’re some ten minutes into the action when Wagiya tries to grab the […]
Written on March 13, 2007 | Posted in
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Due to a public and bank holiday on Monday in celebration of Baron Bliss Day, there will be no newscast. The next news broadcast will be on Tuesday, March twelfth, 2007.
Written on March 9, 2007 | Posted in
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Like one of those hyped up heavyweight fights on pay-per-view, the long awaited showdown between D.F.C. Commission of Inquiry Co-chair Merlene Bailey Martinez and former Minister of Finance Ralph Fonseca could never have lived up to its advance billing. To the disappointment of many, there was no knockout, knockdown, or even a solidly landed blow […]
Written on March 9, 2007 | Posted in
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Two days ago, the murder case against a Belize City man came to an abrupt end when the main witness changed his testimony on the stand. But tonight that witness is himself charged with the crime. According to court reports, this morning the capital offence of murder was levied against thirty year old Bruce Willacey […]
Written on March 9, 2007 | Posted in
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Belize City police are asking anyone with information on a shooting that occurred this morning to call them or Crime Stoppers. At this time, authorities say they do not know who shot forty-two year old Orlando Novelo, but investigations reveal that the incident may be the result of a robbery gone awry. According to reports, […]
Written on March 9, 2007 | Posted in
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A Burrell Boom family’s quest to seek medical treatment for their young daughter has been greatly aided by a contribution from Courts Belize. According to the furniture and appliance emporium, when staff members heard the story of little Errollynn Tillett, the two year afflicted by a severe intestinal disorder, they took up a collection and […]
Written on March 9, 2007 | Posted in
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Before the latest controversy over teachers doing poorly on tests meant for their students, the major debate surrounding the P.S.E. was why so many standard six students were failing. And to address that problem, one group of educators has been working on a unique solution. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting One goal of the Belize District Association […]
Written on March 9, 2007 | Posted in
Education |
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And while on the subject of improving P.S.E. scores, I asked Sanchez to comment on the issue of teachers being tested–and having the less-than-impressive results made public. Jacqueline Godwin “What do they see wrong in having the results publicised, the same way how the students’ results are publicised?” Delarai Sanchez “Listen, it’s a breakdown in […]
Written on March 9, 2007 | Posted in
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The publicity says that it’s more than just a race … and that may be true. But as News 5’s Kendra Griffith reports from the banks of the Macal and Belize Rivers, this morning in Cayo, competition was king. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Race enthusiasts gathered on the Hawkesworth Bridge and banks of the Macal River […]
Written on March 9, 2007 | Posted in
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The unions are threatening to strike, a powerful minister prepares to testify at the D.F.C. hearings, and Belizean women gather for a summit focussed on the pressing issue of domestic violence. But this afternoon the nation paused to remember a man whose influence will be felt long after those other events are forgotten. Janelle Chanona […]
Written on March 8, 2007 | Posted in
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Today is being observed globally as International Women’s Day … and if this year’s observance seems a little more important than in year’s past, it’s because in recent months the issue of violence against women has hit Belize like a shotgun blast. In late 2006 and early 2007, no less than three women were brutally […]
Written on March 8, 2007 | Posted in
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And on Monday while Belizeans were marking the opening of Women’s Week, a female resident of San Pedro was feeling the pain of a violent attack. According to police, sixty year old Phillipa Rosalez reported to authorities that on Monday evening her common-law husband, fifty-two year old David Cruz, came home drunk. Something apparently displeased […]
Written on March 8, 2007 | Posted in
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Following a guilty verdict in the Supreme Court last Thursday, today a convicted killer was sentenced to life behind bars. Justice Adolph Lucas handed down that fate to twenty year old Michael Fox just before three this afternoon. Fox had been found culpable of the fatal shooting of twenty one year old Sydney Bradley, which […]
Written on March 8, 2007 | Posted in
Trials |
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They may be bogged down in a debilitating war in Iraq and an increasingly dangerous situation in Afghanistan but that has not stopped the United States military from carrying out its humanitarian commitments in other parts of the world … like Belize. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting In three months, these Belize Defence Force Soldiers and United […]
Written on March 8, 2007 | Posted in
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His offer to help Christine Perriott was emphatically spurned by the unions and his entreaties to B.T.L.’s management were dismissed as political grandstanding. That makes Labour Minister Francis Fonseca very much a man in the middle, a veritable U.N. peacekeeper standing between Hezbollah and the Israeli army. Today Fonseca told reporters that the N.T.U.C.B. is […]
Written on March 8, 2007 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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The minister, who also holds the portfolio for education, took the opportunity to soothe ruffled feathers in the teaching community. For the last two weeks Fonseca and education officials had been feeling the backlash from primary school teachers who feel they were “set-up” by being asked to take–and do poorly–on the P.S.E. Francis Fonseca, Minister […]
Written on March 8, 2007 | Posted in
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It started as an almost routine union protest over the dismissal of three employees at Belize Telecommunications Limited. Over a month after those initial firings the growing intensity of the controversy makes it look like a train wreck just waiting to happen. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the latest from the union camp. Rene Gomez, […]
Written on March 7, 2007 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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They keep the peace in the majority of Belizean households and there’s no reason to doubt that they can do the same thing on the nation’s streets. I’m talking about women as cops. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Corporal Sharmaine Robateau is just one of the one hundred and fifty police female officers on staff who help […]
Written on March 7, 2007 | Posted in
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In November 2004, a uniformed police officer walking alone at night was executed by a single gunshot to the head. In the days that followed the disturbing crime, his colleagues arrested a young man and charged him with the murder based on an eyewitness=s account of the incident. But when the case finally landed before […]
Written on March 7, 2007 | Posted in
Trials |
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You can argue that it is the people who pull the trigger that do the killing, but you can’t dispute that the abundant presence of guns sure helps. Today a large number of those deadly weapons were put out of commission. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting The six hundred and eleven guns that were destroyed represent only […]
Written on March 7, 2007 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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During brief handing over ceremonies today, Scotiabank contributed some much needed money to two organisations that promote women’s well-being. According to the bank’s Country Manager, Pat Andrews, earlier this year his staff petitioned the institution’s head office in Toronto for the funds. This morning, Andrews had the honour of handing over the cheques for two […]
Written on March 7, 2007 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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Today the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has dramatically increased its range of services due to a gift of thirty wheelchairs. The donation comes courtesy of the Tubal Trade and Vocational Institute whose students assembled the special set of wheels after receiving the parts from an international group with contacts in China. These wheelchairs may not […]
Written on March 7, 2007 | Posted in
Health |
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In academic jargon it is referred to as the art and science of mixology. We call it bartending…and as anyone who’s ever spent a full night serving drinks can tell you, it’s a demanding job that requires a full measure of physical and mental skills. Today one institution with mixology in its curriculum received a […]
Written on March 7, 2007 | Posted in
Education |
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The growing dispute between labour and management over the firing of four B.T.L. employees is heading for a showdown. “Our demands were not met,” says a release from the National Trade Union Congress of Belize, which has scheduled a press conference for Wednesday to announce their next course of action. Those demands, issued Friday to […]
Written on March 6, 2007 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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