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While the National Fire Service continues to take heat for its delayed response to the Prince Street blaze, tonight the department also has to fend off flak for a traffic accident involving one of its drivers and a pedestrian. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Fifty year old Michael Young better known “Indio” told News Five today that […]
Written on July 13, 2007 | Posted in
Auto Accidents |
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A Belize City hotelier and D.J. has been arrested and charged with rape following the report of a female tourist. According to the eighteen year old American, on Tuesday night she and her sister checked into the Red Hut Inn in Bella Vista. But after getting settled, the victim says she and her sibling started […]
Written on July 13, 2007 | Posted in
Crime |
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It’s been out of the headlines for months, but tonight the Commission of Inquiry investigating the financial affairs of the Development Finance Corporation is back in the spotlight as the Musa administration is demanding a final report. Two weeks ago, Cabinet Secretary Robert Leslie wrote to the Commission’s secretariat informing co-chairs Merlene Bailey Martinez and […]
Written on July 13, 2007 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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The proposed boardwalk along the northern bank of the Haulover Creek has created its fair share of legal controversy. Tonight News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports on the latest case against the infrastructural development. Charles Heusner, Chair, National Fishermen Cooperative “Finally our members are earning a decent living, you know. We are up to a certain […]
Written on July 13, 2007 | Posted in
Trials |
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Tonight a retired school teacher is asking for the public’s assistance. According to forty six year old Carla Slusher, in 2005 she was forced to quit her twenty-seven year career because of her worsening diabetes. But earlier this year the mother of five took another medical hit when she was diagnosed with coronary artery disease, […]
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Health |
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Two weeks ago Belizeans were introduced to the Bahamas National Children’s Choir … and now local audiences will be treated to the vocal talents of Trinidad and Tobago’s Suite Chorale. Approximately thirty members of the group arrived in the country today for a series of fundraising performances for the Anglican Diocese. According to Choir Director […]
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Uncategorized |
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Summer camps are in full swing across the country … many are athletic, some are artistic, and others are academic. But as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, one highly technical session ended today at Price Barracks. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Having one hundred kids in a classroom is bound to be chaotic, but since Monday these […]
Written on July 13, 2007 | Posted in
Education |
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The buildings were old and the boards were dry, so when fire broke out this afternoon in a congested Belize City neighbourhood, it didn’t take long to become a major inferno. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Thick black smoke billowed forth over East Canal on the south side Belize City as a raging fire broke out on […]
Written on July 12, 2007 | Posted in
Disasters |
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Credit Unions may be known as the poor man’s bank, but when you add up their collective resources they are a major factor in Belize’s economy … and that influence is likely to grow. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Today, the Belize Credit Union League has reason to celebrate, because after almost two decades the country’s largest […]
Written on July 12, 2007 | Posted in
Economy |
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Today twenty primary school children were each awarded three hundred dollars to help pay for their school tuition and other supplies. The donation is the second of its kind under the auspices of the Scotiabank Education Fund. This year a total of sixty-five grants will be awarded to students countrywide. Filomena Castillo, Bank Manager, Belize […]
Written on July 12, 2007 | Posted in
Education |
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Pursuing a doctorate is the ultimate in higher education, but for Belizeans, attaining this lofty goal has traditionally meant spending large amounts of time and money abroad, along with the serious disruption of career and family commitments. Today a programme was inaugurated that will allow Belizeans to obtain a doctorate in the field of education […]
Written on July 12, 2007 | Posted in
Education |
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In sporting news the Belize Cycling Association has a new president. In elections held last night Gerald Garbutt defeated incumbent Melvin Torres by a large margin, with a record number of members showing up to vote. Rounding out the executive is Ryan Garbutt as Vice President, John Swift is secretary, and Marco Reyes, treasurer. Committee […]
Written on July 12, 2007 | Posted in
Sports |
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We’ve followed them deep into the Chiquibul Forest and to the top of Baldy Beacon. Today, although the surroundings were less exotic, the B.D.F. volunteers were no less enthusiastic. Kendra Griffith, Reporting “Dispersed across the Santa Cruz Lodge here in the Corozal District are some four hundred members of the volunteer element of the Belize […]
Written on July 12, 2007 | Posted in
Defense |
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There was a time when any news coming from the western border meant trouble, be it military or diplomatic. But as we have reported, in recent years intense scrutiny along the frontier has highlighted the fact that while negotiations to settle Guatemala’s territorial claim to Belize continue in the corridors of power, for the most […]
Written on July 12, 2007 | Posted in
Education |
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Could six of the city’s top employees come together and submit a joint letter of resignation … without the mayor having a clue that anything was wrong? That’s the question tonight as Mayor Zenaida Moya tries to deal with the biggest challenge of her sometimes controversial term of office. She spoke late this evening to […]
Written on July 11, 2007 | Posted in
Politics |
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Yesterday it was free fill in Port Loyola; today’s pre-election bonus is a big break on your mortgage. According to a release from Cabinet, that body has decided to subsidise all those people paying D.F.C. housing loans of less than thirty-five thousand dollars. That subsidy will be one hundred dollars per month. According to the […]
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Economy |
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Another tourist has drowned while enjoying the waters of Belize. Police report that around two-thirty this afternoon the body of twenty-seven year old Canadian Steve Bourgeois was found floating near Tobacco Caye in the Stann Creek District. Bourgeois was a guest at Tobacco Caye Lodge and had apparently gone for a swim on his own. […]
Written on July 11, 2007 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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A shooting incident last night has left a Belize City man hospitalised. Twenty-four year old Emilio Rivera told police he was about to enter his home on Queen Charlotte Street in Port Loyola around ten p.m. when a man, who was apparently waiting for him, approached firing several shots. Rivera was hit in the face […]
Written on July 11, 2007 | Posted in
Crime |
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The Dangriga woman accused of stabbing her common-law husband has been charged. Twenty-seven year old Lydia Guzman of Supa G Martinez Street has been charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm, and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. It is alleged that around three Monday morning Guzman was arguing with forty year old Honduran Emilio Castillo […]
Written on July 11, 2007 | Posted in
Crime |
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In many parts of the world you join the army because you can’t find a job anywhere else. In Belize, however, the B.D.F. is rapidly becoming the employer of choice for those seeking a first class education. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports from Price Barracks. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For the next three weeks, twenty officer […]
Written on July 11, 2007 | Posted in
Defense |
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Prison is not a nice place … but it’s a whole lot nicer than it used to be. Today I visited the facility at Hattieville and found that in addition to improving rehabilitation efforts behind the walls, officials are looking at life on the outside. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting The Kolbe Foundation estimates that of the […]
Written on July 11, 2007 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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Reforming prisoners is one thing, but preventing young people from becoming criminals in the first place is a whole lot more effective. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports on one initiative by the Police Department that seems to be paying dividends. Kendra Griffith, Reporting “Do the Right Thing”: it’s what the Police Department has been telling […]
Written on July 11, 2007 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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The latest controversy in the transport industry has climaxed with one bus company assuming management of an upstart cooperative. According to David Novelo, on Friday evening and in coordination with the Department of Transport, his company, National Transport Limited, repossessed the dozen vehicles that had been leased to the members and started running all the […]
Written on July 10, 2007 | Posted in
Travel |
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With less than eight months to go before general elections it would be extremely surprising if the government in power did not initiate capital projects designed to influence as many votes as possible … and it would be equally shocking if the party out of power did not complain of the underhanded and unfair use […]
Written on July 10, 2007 | Posted in
Politics |
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It is with great regret that we report the death of Paz Cervantes. Paz, as many of us will recall, served two separate terms as cultural attaché at the Mexican Embassy including the period immediately following independence in the early 1980’s. Paz made numerous friends in Belize and was instrumental in fostering the close relationship […]
Written on July 10, 2007 | Posted in
Foreign Affairs |
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