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Sheldon Burgess, the man police believe held up a delivery truck in Dangriga on Saturday, is tonight behind bars. The twenty-one year old resident of Isla Road in that Southern town turned himself in to police Tuesday evening in the company of his attorney, Antoinette Moore. Burgess had been identified when one of the victims […]
Written on April 18, 2007 | Posted in
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A taxi driver out on a very early run on Monday morning is lucky to be alive after being held up at gunpoint and taken hostage. Police say that according to Luis Navarro, around two-thirty on Monday morning he had just finished a job and was heading back to his base. But at the corner […]
Written on April 18, 2007 | Posted in
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Three police officers whose quick action resulted in the apprehension of a pair of robbers earlier this month were honoured today in a short ceremony in Belize City. Corporals Lenox Broaster, Basil Reyes and Glen Caliz of the Anti-Drug Unit each received a letter of commendation and two hundred dollars cash from Police Commissioner Gerald […]
Written on April 18, 2007 | Posted in
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The United Democratic Party has weighed in on the issue of government’s possible sale of its ten percent stake in the Spanish Lookout oil field. And while the U.D.P. position is supportive of the Belizean public owning shares, the party is adamant that all proceeds from any sale go into the newly created Petroleum Fund–and […]
Written on April 18, 2007 | Posted in
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For the last seven days, a Corozal man has been sitting on a pile of money. On April eleventh, Florencio Catzim held the winning ticket for the sixty thousand dollar Lotto jackpot and this afternoon, he walked into Tropical Gaming Company to claim his prize. Florencio Catzim, Lotto Winner “Just say well I glad I […]
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Today the NICH parking lot was the venue of Health Expo 2007. Organised by the Public Health Department and the Belize City Council, the event included the participation of several service providers including the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and the Belize Red Cross. According to Belize City Councillor Wayne Usher, the expo was designed to […]
Written on April 18, 2007 | Posted in
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Ambitious residents of the Toledo District will soon be able to access new loan funds, thanks to a grant from the European Union. The eight hundred and fifty thousand Belize dollar fund, administered through the Toledo Teachers Credit Union, will be used for micro credit to the district’s small entrepreneurs. The money will become available […]
Written on April 18, 2007 | Posted in
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While residents of Crooked Tree were wondering whether a U.S. researcher was killing their fish, another group of gringos was busy on a number of public service projects that will be remembered long after the fish problem is forgotten. Kendra Griffith, Reporting For the next two weeks, thirty-two medical professionals from the U.S. Air Force […]
Written on April 18, 2007 | Posted in
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We cover a lot of violent crimes and road accidents and it’s not unusual for our news crew to arrive at a scene only to find the flashing lights of an ambulance. And while we know how important their work is, many Belizeans may not be aware that the people who provide those emergency medical […]
Written on April 18, 2007 | Posted in
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As fires go, it was hardly a major blaze … even by the modest standards of the nation’s capital. But for one Belmopan family, the flames that burned down their modest home last night destroyed more than wood and thatch. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Seventy-three year old Francisca Salam, still in a daze, sifts through burnt […]
Written on April 17, 2007 | Posted in
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A violent weekend on the streets of Belize City shows no signs of letting up as the most recent shooting has put three people in the hospital, including a ten year old boy. News 5’s Janelle Chanona has more. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Just after nine last night neighbours twenty-six year old Sigmund Trapp and nineteen […]
Written on April 17, 2007 | Posted in
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A Belize City grandmother convicted of shoplifting from two supermarkets will spend the next two years behind bars. According to court reports, this morning a tearful Shirley Welcome appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers where she pled guilty to two counts of theft. The fifty-four year old was picked up by police on Monday after the […]
Written on April 17, 2007 | Posted in
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Right now it’s not an issue on the front burner of either country but talks continue between Belize and Guatemala over the question of that country’s claim to our territory. A release from the Organization of American States indicates that foreign ministers Eamon Courtenay of Belize and Gert Rosenthal of Guatemala met Monday in Washington […]
Written on April 17, 2007 | Posted in
Foreign Affairs |
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In other news from the world of diplomacy a strange newspaper advertisement has observers wondering whether the seemingly unbreakable ties between Belize and Taiwan may not be under some pressure. The quarter page paid ad in last weekend’s Amandala recounts a visit to Belize made over the Easter holidays by Mr. Chen Jinghua, ambassador of […]
Written on April 17, 2007 | Posted in
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The village of Crooked Tree in the Belize District is best known for its rich natural environment and vibrant Creole culture. But both of those assets have come under threat this week … and the residents are trying to figure out why. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has the story. Denvor Gillett, Co-Owner, Bird’s Eye View […]
Written on April 17, 2007 | Posted in
Environment |
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The waltz bears about as much resemblance to the dances done in Belizean clubs as a tuxedo does to a baggy shirt and sagging jeans. And that’s just the point of the latest fundraising event for Palloti High: something dignified and different. Janelle Chanona reports from the dance floor. Janelle Chanona, Reporting On Saturday night, […]
Written on April 17, 2007 | Posted in
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Belize City lived up to its violent reputation this weekend with two residents dead and another four recovering from stab wounds. The pair of homicides occurred within three hours of each other on Friday night. Ernest Smith, Cousin of Murder Victim “Because my lee cousin he give trouble right, he gives trouble. I noh wah […]
Written on April 16, 2007 | Posted in
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It was a busy weekend at the K.H.M.H. emergency room as four persons were hospitalised with stab wounds that occurred in two separate incidents on Friday night and early Saturday morning. In the first, sixteen year old Christen Usher and thirty year old Henry Flowers were involved in an altercation around ten and by the […]
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An armed robber in Dangriga managed to jack a delivery truck for over three thousand dollars in cash but not without being identified. According to police, on Saturday morning someone called in an order to Quality Poultry’s Dangriga branch for a delivery of two hundred chickens to an address near the town’s airstrip. When driver […]
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Tonight, prison authorities and police are searching for a former inmate following a daring escape around eight this morning from the vicinity of Magistrates’ Court. Details are sketchy at this time, but reports are that well-known burglar Dennis Quilter apparently was taken by bus from Hattieville prison to court in Belize City to stand trail. […]
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And lest we think that all police news this weekend was about crime, we are happy to report that over four hundred youths from around the country gathered Thursday through Saturday for three days of friendly sports competition as part of the Police Youth Cadet Corps annual camp. For the second time, the Dangriga contingent […]
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After a break for Easter, Village Council elections were back on the menu this Sunday in forty-two rural locations. This time around, the People’s United Party claims twenty-two wins, gives fourteen to the U.D.P., and lists four as won by independents. According to the P.U.P., its big victories were in the Belize District where they […]
Written on April 16, 2007 | Posted in
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In news from Belmopan, the Musa administration is maintaining its silence regarding its latest offer to the Belize Bank as negotiations continue over settlement of the Government guaranteed multi-million dollar debt owed by Universal Health Services. In a release issued by the Press Office this afternoon, the Office of the Prime Minister categorically denied that […]
Written on April 16, 2007 | Posted in
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Leaders of Toledo’s Maya population continue to press their claims for a larger say in their future. For the second time this month a delegation visited the city, this time meeting for a roundtable discussion with the press. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Panellist #1 “We can all be Belizeans but we don’t all have […]
Written on April 16, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight we note the death of Ismael Gomez Senior. Gomez, one of Belize’s pioneering business figures, died early this morning at his Belize City home following a three-month battle with cancer. Gomez was a senator and president of the Chamber of Commerce and in 1974 he established Belize Flour Mills Ltd., the country’s first flour […]
Written on April 16, 2007 | Posted in
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