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In unrelated news regarding the telecommunications company, today B.T.L. officially launched its telephone directory for 2007. The book is being hailed as a major milestone for the company because it was produced in-house. Previously, publication of the directory was outsourced, but when that contract came to an end last year, B.T.L. created a new department, […]
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Following emergency surgery late last week, tonight Catholic Bishop Dorrick Wright is recovering from the procedure to stop a subdural haematoma or bleeding in the brain. While his prognosis is good, the recovery process is expected to take weeks. This afternoon, Bishop Martin explained how the Church is supporting Wright and how his absence will […]
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While efforts to maintain law and order in Belize City were mostly successful, tonight one family continues to mourn the loss of their loved one to deadly violence. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Thirty year old John Williams is the person Belize City police believe killed fifty year old Mauricio Velasquez. According to Carlos Pinto, his brother […]
Written on April 10, 2007 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, authorities in Punta Gorda are asking the public’s help in solving a murder of their own. Just after noon on Easter Sunday, the lifeless body of Tito Alcarez was discovered in a building under construction on Main Middle Street. Investigators immediately observed injuries to the back of the victim’s head and over his left […]
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A similar incident in Benque Viejo has left another man in critical condition. According to cops, around twelve-thirty Friday morning twenty-one year old Succotz villager Oscar Itza was drinking with his friends when a fight broke out. During the melee, two men pulled out machetes and the blades struck Itza in the head and right […]
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While investigators in Succotz are still trying to determine the motive behind the chopping, their counterparts in Dangriga know exactly why a Steadfast villager was stabbed in the wee hours of Holy Saturday. Apparently, twenty-five year old Rosa Requeña and twenty-one year old Isais Larios were at home asleep when Requeña’s common-law husband, and the […]
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In more crime news from the old capital, two men are tonight under guard at the K.H.M.H. following a brazen shootout in front of the police. According to authorities, around three-thirty on Monday morning, police on duty in the Yabra area heard the sound of gunfire and then saw two young men chasing another man. […]
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A teenaged girl has reported being raped in Placencia. The fifteen year old victim told police that around eight-thirty on Saturday night, she was on the beach when a man of East Indian descent attacked her, pulled her into the bush, and had sex with her against her will. A medical check has since confirmed […]
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He was one of the busiest fast food vendors in the city, but tonight Belizean Fry Chicken owner Fred Hornby is thousands of miles away from his business, cooling his heels in an American jail. The U.S. national was picked up by members of the Crime Intelligence Unit bright and early on Monday morning and […]
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Catholic Bishop Dorrick Wright is tonight recovering from brain surgery following a collapse late last week. Wright, a long time diabetic, fell ill following mass on Holy Thursday and had to be rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. After it was determined that he required neurological care, Wright was transferred to Belize Medical Associates. […]
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Separate incidents have claimed the lives of two people who went swimming with friends over the weekend. One of the tragedies occurred around four on Easter Sunday in the Belize district. Stephanie Smith, Mother of the Deceased “When I gone to see him, I just can’t hold it. Dah mi wah shock, a total shock.” […]
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Despite significant advances in medical care in Belize, technology that has become standard in other parts of the world is still out of reach of needy patients. But this week, one group of Belizeans will benefit from a donation that will make life a lot less complicated. Kendra Griffith, Reporting For a number of Belizeans, […]
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On Wednesday night, the first travelling Caribbean Film Showcase will open in Belize City at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. The event is being sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinematographic Industry in collaboration with CARICOM. For the next eight days, more […]
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James Adderley Good evening, I’m James Adderley and it is with great pleasure to welcome you to this splash of Sports Monday. The magic of the annual Cross Country Cycling Classic permeates this Holy Saturday morning. A large multitude has assembled to experience the rush at the start of the seventy-ninth edition. Some one hundred […]
Written on April 10, 2007 | Posted in
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There will be no newscast on Friday and Monday due to the Easter holidays. The next news broadcast is on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007.
Written on April 5, 2007 | Posted in
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B.T.L. has a new employee on the payroll tonight … and her name is Christine Perriott. This morning Supreme Court Justice John Muria agreed with Perriott’s attorney Lois Young, saying that “the power of this court to grant an interim remedy cannot be doubted.” He then approved the order for Christine’s temporary reinstatement to her […]
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In other labour news, it appears that the long delayed arbitration panel established to resolve the original labour dispute at B.T.L., is finally coming together. Sources tell News Five that a preliminary meeting is scheduled for Wednesday to discuss the tribunal’s terms of reference. Government appointees are Gilbert Johnson, Carlos Santos, and Chief Magistrate Margaret […]
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It has been a busy session for the civil side of the Supreme Court and earlier this week another important suit was filed, this time against a proposed tourism development near Placencia called Ara Macao. On Tuesday, attorney Antoinette Moore, on behalf of the Peninsula Citizens for Sustainable Development, filed an application for permission to […]
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You might not have realised it, but April first marked the beginning of Poetry Month in Belize. The event is the brainchild of the Belizean Poets Society and is being celebrated under the theme: Emancipation XP, in honour of the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. B.P.S. executives Jahseed X and Ritamae Hyde stopped by […]
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In December, B.T.L. launched its voice over internet protocol programme called Webtalk, with which people living in Belize can make cheaper calls to places all over the world using their computer. This week the company took it a step further, launching an international version targeting local travellers and persons living abroad. And according to the […]
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Those Belizeans who will be working over the next four days -particularly in the medical field – will face a double burden. Not only are they deprived of a long holiday at a nice time of year, but invariably, with so many people on the move, serious accidents are inevitable. Today I found out that […]
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And in late news, police are reporting a homicide this afternoon in Corozal Town. Eighteen year old Dale Lino was stabbed to death around two this afternoon, allegedly following an altercation with his twenty-one year old sister. The woman has been detained pending charges and the suspected murder weapon–a kitchen knife–has been recovered.
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A little after dawn on Saturday Belize’s most important annual sporting event will kick off for the seventy-ninth time. James Adderley, who has covered this race for what seems like most of those years, has a preview. Today is Wednesday the fourth of April 2007, the time is 5:15 a.m. and the early birds are […]
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They came by the hundreds from Toledo’s villages to express their dissatisfaction with government’s failure to demarcate land for Maya communities. They left behind a pair of constitutional lawsuits in the Supreme Court that seek to compel Belmopan to act. Today, in response, Prime Minister Said Musa told News Five that while government has in […]
Written on April 4, 2007 | Posted in
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And while the Musa administration faces a legal and public relations battle over the Supreme Court action, on the ground in Toledo another group is threatening action to enforce what it claims are its rights over oil exploration in the Sarstoon Temash National Park. According to Maya activist Greg Ch’oc his people will not allow […]
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