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Whether the letter from Belize Bank chairman Phillip Johnson to the Association of Concerned Belizeans was a crude, blatant, and arrogant act of intimidation, or–as Johnson claims–simply a matter of putting things on the record, the move has failed to deter the citizens group. Five minutes before the Registry closed on Wednesday, the A.C.B. officially […]
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Tonight there’s a body in the Belize City morgue and authorities are trying to solve a mystery. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Belize City police need your help in identifying this man found dead early this morning. The corpse, described only as wearing dreadlocks and sporting a gold tooth, was discovered on the Belcan Bridge. The obvious […]
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Less than six weeks after a sanitation worker found the body of a newborn baby boy floating in the North Creek Canal, tonight Belize City police have yet another case of infanticide on their hands. This time, the foetus, believed to be between sixteen and twenty weeks old, was found wrapped in a plastic bag […]
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Her assailant may not have remembered what she looked like, but one Belize City crime victim says she recognised the guy who jacked her chain … and now he’s under arrest. According to police, the young lady was walking down Regent Street on February first when a man of East Indian appearance rode up on […]
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Belize City police came under fire last night after officers asked the driver of a vehicle to stop. The brazen attack unfolded in the Port Loyola Area around ten on Wednesday night. According to authorities, their officers were on mobile patrol when upon reaching an area on Caesar Ridge Road they saw a white Isuzu […]
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A couple of armed burglars may have thought they had picked an easy target, but little did they know their victim was armed and dangerous. According to Belize City police, Jian Zhi Huang was inside his shop at the corner of West Street and Water Lane when around three yesterday afternoon two men walked into […]
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Two defendants left the Supreme Court as convicted felons today, one pleading guilty and the other judged culpable by a jury of his peers. The guilty plea was entered by sixty-three year old Francis Orellano. Orellano, originally charged with murder for the January 2005 killing of Andre Torres on Gibnut Street, this afternoon copped a […]
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The Public Utilities Commission has delivered its initial decision in the Annual Review Proceedings for Belize Electricity Limited. Released this afternoon, a quick perusal of the document indicates that most customers should be pleased. While approving B.E.L.’s Cost of Power, Rate Stabilization Account Balances, and adjustments and mean electricity rates, when it comes to customer […]
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As any businessperson in Belize City can attest, every week–if not everyday–a steady stream of people visit their establishments seeking financial assistance to pay for medical treatment. While there are no doubt a few hustlers in the crowd, most have legitimate and urgent needs. One such case is that of twenty-six year old Orchid Willoughby. […]
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With apologies to Miss Belize and the Queen of the Bay, if there is any event that can be called the mother of all pageants–make that grandmother of all pageants–it’s the Ms. Y. Here’s a preview. Norma Sutherland, 69 years old “Now the bowing was jokes because many of us after two days had pains […]
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Mother’s Day doesn’t roll around until the thirteenth, but a number of mothers and grandmothers–not to mention grandfathers–were celebrating early this year. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the story. Janelle Chanona, Reporting On Wednesday, the Sister Cecelia Home for the Elderly celebrated its eleventh anniversary with a party. In May 1996, the home was converted […]
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As far as public discourse goes, the debate over government’s unlimited guarantee of a private loan to Universal Health Services has been dominated by an aggressive coalition of Opposition politicians, an angry Senator, and civil society groups attacking a hapless government, all the while egged on by some dissident Cabinet ministers and a press corps […]
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With a strong sense of regional cooperation already forged by the hosting of the Cricket World Cup, the integration spotlight this week shifts westward as CARICOM military personnel converge on Belize.
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Eight days ago, he pled guilty to killing an elderly man and today Darwin Soberanis learnt his fate. In handing down sentence, Justice Troadio Gonzalez acknowledged that the accused had not burdened the court with a lengthy murder trial, but emphasized that the crime of manslaughter carries a sentence of life behind bars. Gonzalez then […]
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On Monday, a new warehouse was handed over to the National Emergency Management Organization. Located at the Port of Big Creek in Independence Village, the forty-eight hundred square foot structure was a collaborative effort between the United States Southern Command who contributed three hundred thousand U.S. dollars; G.O.B. which provided road access, electricity, and water; […]
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Around eight on Friday night, U.B.’s first year student nineteen year old Ashley Monima had finished classes in Belmopan and was driving home to Corozal Town when he lost control of his Chevy van and crashed near mile seventy-five on the Northern Highway. Monima, who was wearing his seatbelt at the time, was not thrown […]
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Its scientific name is Tyto Alba, but most people know them simply as barn owls. Over the weekend a woman discovered two of the baby owls, not in her barn, but in her attic. The birds were turned over to the Belize Audubon Society this morning where Publicity Coordinator, Dirk Francisco told us that while […]
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