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Based on their past public opinion polls, the results were not exactly unexpected, and SPEAR’s latest research, conducted less than a month before the election, predicts victory for the opposition United Democratic Party. But, as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, the numbers don’t stop there. Janelle Chanona Between January eighteenth and the twenty-first SPEAR pollsters […]
Written on January 24, 2008 | Posted in
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A Cayo teen has died as a result of a traffic accident. Police reports are that on Wednesday, sixteen year old Thomasita de Jesus Martinez of Central Farm was attempting to cross the Western Highway when she was hit by a pick-up truck. The sixteen year old was pronounced dead on arrival at the San […]
Written on January 24, 2008 | Posted in
Auto Accidents |
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Police have arrested and charged a Ladyville resident with Burglary. This morning nineteen year old Giovanni Mejia appeared in Magistrates’ Court where he pled not guilty and was offered bail of three thousand dollars. On Monday, thirty-one year old Luciano Choc reported to police that his home at the corner of Parrot and Yellowtail streets […]
Written on January 24, 2008 | Posted in
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He was charged with two counts each of Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm in 2007, but today Ashley Zuniga is a free man. Upon instruction from the office of the D.P.P. that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute, this morning Magistrate Dorothy Flowers withdrew the charges against the nineteen […]
Written on January 24, 2008 | Posted in
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An accused child molester today walked out of the Supreme Court a free man. Thirty year old Mark Anthony Copius was charged with carnal knowledge of a child in 2006 after a child reported that two years earlier, when she was seven years old, Copius engaged in sex with her. The girl, who testified in […]
Written on January 24, 2008 | Posted in
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Ceremonies were held last night for the inauguration of the Airport Development Project at the Philip Goldson International Airport. The project, begun in 2004, involves a two thousand, six hundred foot extension of the runway to a length of nine thousand, nine hundred feet, expansion of the apron, enlargement of arrival and departure halls and […]
Written on January 24, 2008 | Posted in
Economy |
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The man who will drive the effort to attract new airlines and the expansion of existing routes is Martin Copeland. Copeland, a Canadian based consultant with long experience in the airline industry, believes that despite the tight conditions faced by airlines around the world, Belize has the attractions to get their attention. Martin Copeland, Aviation […]
Written on January 24, 2008 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Said Musa took time off the campaign trail this afternoon to participate in the official ground breaking ceremony for a new radar and infrastructural upgrade to the National Meteorological Service. According to the Met Service, a state of the art Doppler Weather Radar will be installed in Ladyville by June and in operation […]
Written on January 24, 2008 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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With its own healthy revenues from hotel taxes and little official oversight, the Belize Tourism Board is the envy of many less well endowed government institutions. Today the B.T.B. invited the public to see how it was spending some of that money. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. This afternoon the Belize Tourism Board officially inaugurated […]
Written on January 24, 2008 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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