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“These things take time”. That’s the word out of Belmopan tonight as questions continue to surround an official letter which indicates that Venezuela gave Belize twenty million US dollars in grant money, and not ten million as the Musa administration had publicized. According to financial secretary Joe Waight, an official inquiry to banking officials in […]
Written on February 29, 2008 | Posted in
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Following nominations from the Government, the Opposition, churches, the unions and the business community, the list of the men and women who will make up the Senate is finally complete. On the advice of the Prime Minister, Doug Singh, Deborah McMillan, Juliet Thimbrel, Pulcheria Teul, Eddie Webster and Roosevelt Blades will represent the Government. Meanwhile, […]
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In other news from Belmopan, the government has announced this week that it would absorb the most recent rise in fuel acquisition costs to keep the pump price the same but today, the world price of oil shot up to one hundred and three dollars a barrel. According to the press release issued this week, […]
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A convicted child molester has been sentenced to spend the next twenty years behind bars. According to court reports, when thirty-two year old Raul Rivero appeared before Justice Herbert Lord today, the judge said he took into account Rivero’s sixteen previous convictions and the fact that he has not shown any remorse for what he […]
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Two men who were charged earlier this week with serious offences have been granted bail in the Dangriga Magistrate’s Court. Fifty year old Dean De Marks, a New Jersey insurance agent planning to construct condominiums in Seine Bight Village, was granted and met bail of ten thousand dollars on charges of possession of C-4 explosives, […]
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Three men have been arrested and charged for firearm offences in separate cases. In Belize City, officers on patrol on Plues Street say around six on Thursday evening, they stopped twenty-one year old Jason Gillett and found a thirty-eight special revolver and four live rounds of accompanying ammunition in the right front pocket of his […]
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A bike jacking is hardly newsworthy these days because it happens so often but when thieves make off with a thirteen thousand dollar machine, it’s big news. According to Marlon Castillo, around seven on Thursday evening he was riding his beach cruiser while pulling his Scott racing bike. But while on George Street, Castillo says […]
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He was the victim of a hit and run driver last summer but tonight a seventy-year old Belize City man is claiming he’s being victimized by the insurance industry. Amos Wright was knocked off his bicycle on Central American Boulevard last July. The driver involved, Dennis Robinson was arrested four months later and pled guilty […]
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Folklore is a common source of inspiration for writers and in Belize, few characters are more popular than Bra Anansi, the mischievous spider who uses his superior intelligence to get what he wants. Today, freelance reporter Roy Davis released a compilation of his stories about the adventures of Anansi and friends under the title, All […]
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For more than a decade, March has been celebrated as Child Stimulation Month. According to organisers, this year’s events will stress the importance of preschool education and parental involvement. Margaret Williams, Early Childhood Educator “We actually have flag day, hug day, and we’re having the pre-school festival of arts this year as well. We did […]
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Last weekend News Five traveled to Blue Creek in the Orange Walk district to chronicle the achievements made by the Mennonites during their fifty years in Belize. Events celebrating the important milestone kicked off in Spanish Lookout today. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Kendra Griffith, Reporting This morning the residents of Spanish Lookout gathered with […]
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The dark hand of homicide has descended on a village not far from the nation’s capital and a tiny baby will now grow up without the love of his mother. News Five’s Marion Ali reports from the scene. Marion Ali, Reporting When forty-eight year old Horacio Sanabria and his family opened their grocery shop yesterday […]
Written on February 28, 2008 | Posted in
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The Belize Council of Churches and Belize Evangelical Association have announced their nominee for appointment to the Senate. He is Henry Gordon. Gordon is no stranger to the world of politics, having served as Cabinet Secretary in the last U.D.P. administration and more recently as an activist for political reform. He will join his fellow […]
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The government Press Office has issued an explosive release stating that former prime minister Said Musa failed to refer the Senate Select Committee’s report on the Social Security Board to the Financial Intelligence Unit … and when questioned about it, lied to the House of Representatives. On closer inspection, however, it appears that the new […]
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He didn’t participate in yesterday’s war of words involving fellow candidates Francis Fonseca and Johnny Briceño, but today Mark Espat weighed in on recent events in the race to be the new leader of the People’s United Party. Espat sent a series of emails to P.U.P. secretary general Henry Charles Usher saying that sixteen of […]
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They began celebrating their hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary in June of last year and this weekend, Wesley College is still commemorating their historic milestone. On Saturday, the school will be hosting its first fair in nineteen years and according to the organisers, it will have been worth the wait. Melvin Hewlett, PR, Wesley Fair “As […]
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Four local organisations have received grants from automobile manufacturers for environmental and cultural conservation projects. According to a release issued today, the winners of the Ford Motor Company Conservation and Environmental Grant Awards Program are the West Landivar Citizens Action Committee, which will receive eleven thousand dollars for their project: Dolphin Park, Green Spaces in […]
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For ten years now La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge has overshadowed the traditional ninth of March harbour regatta, bringing out massive crowds from San Ignacio to Belize City. But one group of sailing enthusiasts has put in hours of practice to ensure that the decades-old regatta will not only stay alive, but attract new […]
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There is no denying the importance of coral reefs: they act as a safe harbour for fish, protect the coast, help to control the amount of carbon dioxide in the water, and they attract foreign tourists and their hard currency revenues. But reefs are also susceptible to many negative impacts, one of them being that […]
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Last week the Belize City Council prepared the public for the imminent paving of Albert and Regent Streets … but it turns out they jumped the gun. Today News Five’s Janelle Chanona found out why. Anthony Michael, Belize City Deputy Mayor “We want to see a transformation where we come to a first class street […]
Written on February 28, 2008 | Posted in
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A man from Dangriga will appear in Magistrates’ Court on Friday after he allegedly robbed a tourist and sodomised him at a residence north of Seine Bight Village. Twenty-three year old Jerris Martinez allegedly held up his victim by surprise with a knife as he was on his verandah using his computer around four-thirty Wednesday […]
Written on February 27, 2008 | Posted in
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While Jerris Martinez was allegedly committing those reprehensible crimes early Monday morning, police were not far away busting a U.S. citizen just down the beach. Fifty year old Dean DeMarks, a New Jersey insurance agent looking to build condominiums in Seine Bight, may have to put his plans on hold, as when police searched his […]
Written on February 27, 2008 | Posted in
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A man posing as a good samaritan is accused of being nothing more than a common thief. Twenty-seven year old prison officer Jonathan Santos has been charged with Theft following a report by a woman involved in a traffic accident on December twenty-sixth. Twenty-nine year old Denise Westby was injured in the collision which occurred […]
Written on February 27, 2008 | Posted in
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According to U.S. media reports a Belizean woman has a lot of explaining to do after she was found carrying over three hundred thousand dollars in cash. The woman, thirty-nine year old Karen Anderson, was driving a 2008 Mustang when she was stopped by Arizona police Sunday near the California state line for having broken […]
Written on February 27, 2008 | Posted in
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A man is dead tonight after he was run over by a citrus trailer on which he was riding on the Hummingbird Highway. Thirty-seven year old Richard Velasquez of Pomona Village was crushed around three-thirty yesterday afternoon just as he had reached his destination. According to twenty year old Gerald Rancharan, driver of the tractor […]
Written on February 27, 2008 | Posted in
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