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Following the discovering of a large quantity of prohibited ammunition at a home in Corozal, one man has been charged while investigators look for two others. Forty-two year old Hector Itzab was the only person at the Flamboyant Street residence when a police search turned up two hundred and seventy rounds of AK47 ammunition and […]
Written on February 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Speed is often a factor of traffic accidents in Belize but one heavy footed driver seems to have defied the laws of physics with his stunt on Saturday. According to eyewitnesses, around ten that night, a Mitsubishi SUV was spotted barreling down Princess Margaret Drive. The driver switched lanes near Baymen Avenue and collided head […]
Written on February 25, 2008 | Posted in
Auto Accidents |
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She’s one of Belize’s oldest citizens and today Viola Myles celebrated her one hundred and fifth birthday. Myles has been a resident of the Sr. Cecilia Home for the Elderly since mid 2007 and today the institution stuck to tradition and held a party for their most famous resident. Myles told us she feels as […]
Written on February 25, 2008 | Posted in
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It’s one of many little Belize City bars but lately Putt-Putt has been the source of big controversy. First it was over the sale of the land it occupies, then it was the shootout that claimed the life of nineteen year old bartender Deandra Zetina. And as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, tonight Putt-Putt is […]
Written on February 25, 2008 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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Good evening I’m James Adderley with yet another delivery of Sports Monday. Week two of the B.P.F.L. playoffs brought the two Belize City teams to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday with both F.C. Belize and the Belize Defence Force coming off wins on the opening schedule of the double round robin format featuring four ballclubs. We […]
Written on February 25, 2008 | Posted in
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After weeks of speculation, three candidates have been nominated to succeed Said Musa as leader of the People’s United Party. They are deputy leader Johnny Briceño, party chairman Francis Fonseca and Albert representative Mark Espat. While Fonseca was unavailable for comment this evening, Briceño and Espat have already started to campaign. Mark Espat, Candidate for […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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And while the P.U.P. gets its house in order, tonight there are new accusations against the Musa administration regarding those housing loans. When the program was launched in January, Belizeans were told that the Venezuelans had sent nine million U.S. dollars to assist low income families repair or construct homes. An additional million was stipulated […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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A police raid at a Corozal home has resulted in the seizure of drugs and prohibited ammunition. According to police, around seven-thirty on Thursday night their search of the home of James and Jason Quan on Flamboyant Street turned up a cassette pouch with marijuana seeds, weed, three nine millimetre bullets, a sixteen gauge cartridge […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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Orange Walk police have made some inroads into last week’s double murder of Jose Ricalde and Nazim Romero. Investigators had initially fingered eighteen year old Luis Cardenas as a prime suspect but at a press conference this afternoon, Senior Superintendent Robert Mariano says new evidence is now pointing in an entirely different direction. Sr. Supt. […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, Corozal police have charged a Belize City man with that district’s first murder for the year. Nineteen year old Ian Haylock of Water Lane in Belize City is accused of shooting fifty year old taxi driver Eduardo Samos to death and then stealing his taxi and cellular phone. Police believe Haylock travelled to Corozal […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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Sexual crimes against the country’s children continue unabated and tonight a police officer has been added to the list of accused offenders. According to investigators in San Ignacio, on Wednesday a fourteen year old reported that last September she was at the home of Police Corporal Joel Grinage when he asked her to iron one […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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On Saturday, two Belizean officer cadets of the Belize Defence Force will leave the country bound for Taiwan. Twenty-one year old Chantel Castillo and twenty year old Hugo Rosa received scholarships from the Ministry of National Defence of Taiwan to study medicine at the National Defence Medical Centre. The program is for seven and a […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
Education |
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In December of last year, the Belize National Coast Guard broke ground for the construction of a forward operational base on Calabash Caye. According to Commandant of the Coast Guard, Cedric Borland the base should result in faster response to illegal activity in the area. Today, as part of his familiarization tour of the portfolio, […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
Defense |
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In news from the City Council, plans to pave Albert and Regents have been postponed until further notice. According to a press release issued this afternoon, the delay is to “allow the utility companies to conduct preparatory works needed to facilitate the uninterrupted paving” of the downtown area. The announcement was made following discussions today […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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On Saturday, chess players will participate in the first ever international tournament. Chief Tournament Director of the Belize Chess Federation, Glen Reneau says “Candidate Games” is designed to take the sport to another level. Glen Reneau, Chief Tournament Director, Belize Chess Federation “Belizean chess players for the first time will receive an international rating. An […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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As parades go it will never be confused with the ones on September tenth or the twenty-first, let alone the big jump up of carnival. But this morning the village of Blue Creek in the Orange Walk district kicked off its celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Mennonites’ arrival in Belize with its own […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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Even by today’s violent standards the four murders occurring on the night of June eighteenth 2002 remain one of the most wanton slaughters in Belize’s history. Two men, Leslie Pipersburgh and Patrick Robateau were detained in Mexico, returned to Belize, and found guilty of the crimes in 2004. A year later, those convictions were upheld […]
Written on February 21, 2008 | Posted in
Trials |
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It’s been talked about for years by politicians of every party persuasion … but come a week from Monday, residents of Belize City—particularly it’s motorists—should wake up to a new look on two of downtown’s busiest streets. News Five’s Marion Ali hit the pavement this afternoon. Marion Ali, Reporting The deteriorating state of Albert and […]
Written on February 21, 2008 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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Fifty year old Alejandro Ical of Forest Home, Punta Gorda, who was charged with murder, was acquitted by a jury of five men and seven women today in Dangriga Supreme Court. The jury deliberated for about three hours. Ical was represented by attorney Antonette Moore and Crown Counsel Nadine Palacio presented the case for the […]
Written on February 21, 2008 | Posted in
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A Belize City man accused of burglary was convicted in Magistrate’s Court today but his sentence was an exercise in leniency. When nineteen year old Sheffield Ysaguirre appeared before Magistrate Sharon Fraser he pleaded guilty to breaking into Prosser Fertilizer’s North Front Street office and to handling goods stolen from Juanita’s and Caribbean Treasures. But […]
Written on February 21, 2008 | Posted in
Trials |
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A police constable from the Traffic Section has been interdicted from duty and placed on half pay following a charge of Prejudice to Good Order and Discipline. The case against P.C. Elroy Sanchez is in connection with a complaint by a motorcyclist who reported to the Internal Affairs Unit that last week Sanchez solicited one […]
Written on February 21, 2008 | Posted in
Crime |
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A week ago the Ministry of Natural Resources announced a moratorium on the registration of all land transfers until March fourteenth, pending a review of transactions suspected of being tainted by politically induced irregularities. That suspension has now been modified and all private transfers may now proceed. The only exception is those transfers that involved […]
Written on February 21, 2008 | Posted in
Politics |
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Among the transactions specifically cited and placed under official caution were those involving a subdivision in the affluent Caribbean Shores constituency that was spearheaded by the then area representative Joe Coye. Today Coye reacted to the aspersions cast on his project, calling it the “continuation of a malicious and vindictive political attack”. He explained to […]
Written on February 21, 2008 | Posted in
Politics |
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In other political news, representatives of the P.U.P. reform wing are claiming that five more constituencies—Port Loyola, Collet, Caribbean Shores, Cayo North East and Belize Rural South —have committed to request the changes in convention rules proposed by Mark Espat, Cordel Hyde and Johnny Briceño. That makes a total of fourteen divisions seeking an increase […]
Written on February 21, 2008 | Posted in
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With the blue skies and steady breezes that mark the onset of the dry season, the thoughts of most Belizeans are hardly focused on hurricanes. But that’s exactly what officials of the National Emergency Management Organization are thinking about this week. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has the story. Kendra Griffith On Wednesday, Minister of National […]
Written on February 21, 2008 | Posted in
Disasters |
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