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It didn’t exactly come as a shock but today the International Association of Athletics Federations voted to erase all of Marion Jones’ IAAF results dating back to September of 2000. The lost titles include her Olympic medals and World Championship titles and the annulment also applies to her teammates in various relays. In addition to […]
Written on November 23, 2007 | Posted in
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The lighting of the torch and a display by members of the Youth Cadet Service Corps this afternoon marked the start of Youth Week. This time around, officials at the helm say the focus is on substance. Kevin Cadle, National Youth Coordinator “We cannot give young people jobs but we could give them the employment […]
Written on November 23, 2007 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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As Belize gets ready to fight its uphill battle in the eliminations leading to the 2010 World Cup, one of the embarrassments we face is the sad state of our football fields. When he briefed us on Wednesday, President of the Football Federation of Belize, Doctor Bertie Chimilio, said that for years it has been […]
Written on November 23, 2007 | Posted in
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We spend a lot of news time covering various conferences. Usually we’ll catch the opening and a bit of the first day’s agenda before moving on to more pressing stories. But the gathering that took place earlier this week on gender disparity in education is important enough to merit a second look. Rana Flowers, UNICEF […]
Written on November 23, 2007 | Posted in
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Last year a number of organisations, including Youth for the Future, launched a campaign against the sale of toy guns in Belize. The feeling was that the providing of such toys to children helped perpetuate a growing culture of violence. The realistic looking imitations also gave robbers one more way to ply their trade on […]
Written on November 23, 2007 | Posted in
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A little less than a year ago Belize was rocked by a string of murders committed by jealous men against women they ostensibly loved. Today history repeated itself on the lonely road between Hattieville and Burrell Boom. News Five’s Marion Ali has the tragic story. Marion Ali, Reporting Police have another brutal murder upon their […]
Written on November 22, 2007 | Posted in
Crime |
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Ever think about what it would be like to catch a burglar in the act? A Burrell Boom man not only caught a thief in his house, but he also subdued him with a well-placed stroke of the machete. Thirty-four year old Derrick Davis told police that around two-thirty on the morning of November eighteenth […]
Written on November 22, 2007 | Posted in
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Richard Swift’s body was found on Glover’s Reef on November tenth. He is the only one of seven friends who went out fishing on November fourth to be accounted for. Today he was remembered by those he worked with. Kendra Griffith, Reporting This morning the family of Richard Swift gathered alongside members of the legal […]
Written on November 22, 2007 | Posted in
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This Saturday Nigerian culture will be on display at the Princess Hotel in Belize City for the launch of the Belize chapter of the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation, NIDO. According to public relations officer Chinonye Achilefu, the group has several purposes, all with the goal of helping their fellow citizens. Chinonye Achilefu, P.R. Officer, NIDO […]
Written on November 22, 2007 | Posted in
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No matter where you look around Belize it’s hard not to notice the vastly increased number of vehicles on our streets, roads and highways. And while there’s a fair share of rustbuckets and junkers in the mix, there’s also a surprising number of gleaming new pickups and SUVs fresh off the boat from Japan, Korea […]
Written on November 22, 2007 | Posted in
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We’ve already announced their names and today some of Belize’s top performing students received their official recognition. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story. Marion Ali, Reporting It was a packed audience this morning at the St. John’s College Gymnasium as family and friends of Belize’s top secondary and tertiary level students received awards they […]
Written on November 22, 2007 | Posted in
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You don’t have to go to the University of Belize to know that the higher one climbs on the educational ladder, the greater the preponderance of females. Combine that trend with our daily crime reports, featuring almost entirely young males, and you realise that Belize is faced with a major challenge. And we’re not the […]
Written on November 21, 2007 | Posted in
Education |
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A body has been found in Belmopan and police need your help to solve the mystery of how it got there. The corpse, identified as thirty-three year old Guatemalan Hugo Lionel Ramirez, was discovered lying in the middle of the Hummingbird Highway near the Agriculture Show grounds around ten Tuesday night. The dead man displayed […]
Written on November 21, 2007 | Posted in
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When the butane dealers went on strike she was forced to close her restaurant because the gas ran out. Today the popular fried chicken emporium Li Chee is again shut tight … only this time it’s because proprietor Yanli Tan was raided by immigration officers and charged with employing five foreign workers without obtaining work […]
Written on November 21, 2007 | Posted in
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With yesterday’s O.A.S. recommendation that the Guatemalan claim to Belize would best be resolved by the International Court of Justice, Belizeans learned that they would soon be faced with some tough decisions; namely, whether to approve the submission of the case to a process that would be binding on both parties. Today we asked one […]
Written on November 21, 2007 | Posted in
Foreign Affairs |
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It’s almost a predetermined occurrence—each time our local football boys take the field against their regional or international counterparts, the end result is a merciless beating. But football officials want to turn that around by the next World Cup scheduled for South Africa in 2010. To reach that goal, Belize will have to make it […]
Written on November 21, 2007 | Posted in
Sports |
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Today Central American representatives in the field of renewable energy gathered to review their progress and look at future ways of enhancing the industry. The discussions are part of the Energy and Environment Partnership with Central America’s Tenth Regional Forum on the topic. Both local and regional experts believe that renewable energy has tremendous potential, […]
Written on November 21, 2007 | Posted in
Environment |
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I will introduce the following story with a disclaimer that the statistics cited may not be very accurate … which only serves to illustrate the point of the story: that even though cancer is a major killer of Belizeans we have very little information on the disease. That situation, however, as News Five’s Marion Ali […]
Written on November 21, 2007 | Posted in
Health |
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Although it has been hinted at for months, the Organization of American States has made it official. That is, with negotiations unable to resolve the Guatemalan claim to Belize, the O.A.S. Secretary General is recommending that the dispute be settled by the International Court of Justice. In a statement dated November thirteenth but not released […]
Written on November 20, 2007 | Posted in
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In other news out of Belmopan, the Prime Minister left the country today en route to Kampala, Uganda for a meeting of Commonwealth Heads of Government. The fifty-three member grouping of former British colonies includes countries as large as India and as technologically advanced as the U.K., Canada, and Australia. The commonwealth has traditionally been […]
Written on November 20, 2007 | Posted in
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Police have charged two teenagers from San Joaquin, Corozal, with the savage murder of a fellow villager. When they were summoned to the scene at the home of forty-seven year old Gregorio Tzul around six on Sunday morning, police made the gruesome discovery. They found the partially nude body of his brother, forty-nine year old […]
Written on November 20, 2007 | Posted in
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Although there were no signs of violence on the body of a man from San Jose Succotz, tonight Cayo police are not ruling out that foul play may have been involved in his death. That’s because the post-mortem on the body of thirty-two year old Rudy Alfredo Bautista was inconclusive due to the advanced state […]
Written on November 20, 2007 | Posted in
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The manager of a Belize City gas station was wounded in a robbery attempt on Saturday morning. Cops were called out to the Buca Shell Service Station at mile two and a half on the Northern Highway where they found thirty-three year old Herbert Parham lying on the floor outside the back door of his […]
Written on November 20, 2007 | Posted in
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Thirty-six year-old Alexander “Lexus” Tesecum was remanded to prison today for allegedly pointing a pistol at a police constable. Tesecum was charged with Aggravated Assault on P.C. James Jones when he appeared before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez. He was remanded into custody until December twenty-first. The incident occurred about two forty-five a.m. on November second, but […]
Written on November 20, 2007 | Posted in
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Belize’s two local airlines are feeling the pinch following the banning of Belizean commercial flights into Guatemala. According to spokespersons for Tropic and Maya Island Air, the ban, which was instituted on November fifteenth, involves the upgrading of Guatemala’s civil aviation standards: specifically their requirement that all airlines flying to the country have a valid […]
Written on November 20, 2007 | Posted in
Travel |
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