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In terms of Belizean municipal geography we have the new capital, the old capital … and the culture capital. And it’s in that southern town where we tonight find News Five’s Ann-Marie Williams on the campaign trail. Cassian Nunez, P.U.P. Candidate, Dangriga “The confidence is there definatley but elections are won on election day as […]
Written on January 29, 2008 | Posted in
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More than two thousand mourners gathered in Barranco Village on Saturday afternoon to pay their last respects to musician, composer and cultural ambassador Andy Palacio. Tonight News Five’s Rick Romero shares the sights and sounds of that sad day. [Shots of funeral procession: singing and dancing] Bishop O.P. Martin “Andy Palacio loved the natural things […]
Written on January 28, 2008 | Posted in
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After three weeks of relative peace on the streets of Belize City, over the weekend, the fourth and fifth murders of 2008 occurred within hours of each other and less than a mile apart. According to police, the first incident occurred around four on Sunday afternoon on Malcolm Street when twenty-one year old Alfred Tillett, […]
Written on January 28, 2008 | Posted in
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The second murder on Sunday occurred just before eleven that night. According toinvestigators, when they arrived at the corner of North Creek and Central American Boulevard, they saw the body of a man lying under a coconut tree with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the neck. The badly bleeding man was rushed […]
Written on January 28, 2008 | Posted in
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Two young children are alive tonight because of their brave big brother who entered a burning building to save them. According to fire officials, around eight on Sunday morning, they received reports that the house at number ten Hibiscus Lane in the Lake Independence area was engulfed in flames. The cause of the blaze is […]
Written on January 28, 2008 | Posted in
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Two Belize City men are behind bars at Hattieville Prison tonight after they were arrested and charged with Drug Trafficking. According to investigators, around four in the afternoon last week Wednesday, officers manning a check point outside Belmopan noticed that a green Camry heading towards Belize City made a quick u-turn when they saw the […]
Written on January 28, 2008 | Posted in
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If you or someone you know was robbed of jewelry in December, investigators are asking you to visit the Queen Street police station to view a number of pieces that were recovered following the arrest of a Belize City man. According to police, when twenty year old Dennis McKoy was detained on Saturday, several gold […]
Written on January 28, 2008 | Posted in
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Today Caribbean and Central American weather experts gathered in Belize City in an effort to ensure that climate change is being effectively monitored in the region. Jointly coordinated by the Secretariat of the Global Climate Observation System and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, over the next three days meteorologists will evaluate existing systems and […]
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On Friday night, more than three hundred members of Belize’s tourism industry participated in the eighth annual National Tourism Awards ceremony. During the event, thirteen awards were distributed. The Inn at Robert’s Grove was recognised as Hotel of the Year and Orange Walk’s Orchid Palm took best small hotel. Placencia’s Joy Tours was named Tour […]
Written on January 28, 2008 | Posted in
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In political news, Belpac, the Orange Walk based non partisan civic group, has announced that the debate scheduled for January thirty-first has been cancelled. According to a press release issued this morning, both the P.U.P. and U.D.P. backed out, saying that they would have had inadequate time to prepare. As recently as last week both […]
Written on January 28, 2008 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re certainly welcomed to this segment we Sports Monday. Week eighteen in the RFG Cup Tournament should have decided who makes the four team post season but week twelve; a full back match fixture of weekend games has yet to be staged. Nevertheless, we are inside the Norman Broaster […]
Written on January 28, 2008 | Posted in
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It’s never easy to say goodbye but today Belizeans mourning the loss of Andy Palacio were comforted by the music, poetry, dance and love that were offered in tribute to the artist. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from the Bliss Centre of Performing Arts. Kendra Griffith, Reporting This morning family, friends, fans from Belize and […]
Written on January 25, 2008 | Posted in
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The fact that Universal Health Services has been sold is now public knowledge but the financial details of the deal remain a mystery. This morning the new owners tried to explain why they’re staying mum to News Five’s Janelle Chanona. Dr. Vinny, Belize Healthcare Partners “I’m an outsider, I’m A-political and all I’m interested in […]
Written on January 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Details are still sketchy but tonight it appears that Sanitation Enterprises Limited and the Belize City Council have parted ways. According to a press release issued this afternoon, city administrators indicated that Belize Maintenance Limited will assume the duties previously carried out by S.E.L. A year and a half ago the City Council was embroiled […]
Written on January 25, 2008 | Posted in
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A Belize City husband who stabbed his wife and her twelve year old son has been sentenced to spend the next eight years behind bars. According to court reports, when thirty-two year Alfred Billary appeared before Justice Troadio Gonzalez this morning he told the court that he had no character witnesses to call and would […]
Written on January 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, a teenager who tried to cop a plea on a lesser charge will go to trial for his crime. In November 2006, seventeen year old Norman Mckenzie was accused of attempted murder after he shot his brother-in-law in the back. He pleaded guilty to Use of Deadly Means of Harm on Monday but Mckenzie […]
Written on January 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Meanwhile another man accused of Attempted Murder was free to leave the court today after the victim asked for the charge to be dropped. According to twenty-eight year old Elton Gordon, he hasn’t been threatened but he is afraid that something will happen to him if he testifies. On April thirteenth, Gordon was walking on […]
Written on January 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Our campaign coverage continues tonight in the Belize Rural South constituency, which is made up of the islands off the Belize district. Ann-Marie Williams reports from the division’s largest community, San Pedro town. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting The election campaign in San Pedro Town is in its homestretch and judging from the amount of red and […]
Written on January 25, 2008 | Posted in
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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
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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
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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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