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The Belize Unit Trust on Central American Boulevard was the target of thieves during an afternoon hold-up on Tuesday. Around two-thirty, three youths armed with guns and one wearing a mask, entered the business and held the security guard, two tellers, and nine customers at gunpoint. The men then went behind the counter and cleaned […]
Written on March 26, 2008 | Posted in
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While police try to track down the thieves of Tuesday’s heist, today the justice system started proceedings against two others. Since March sixteenth, eighteen year old Cardinal Welch Myvette has been admitted to the K.H.M.H. recovering from a gunshot wound to the leg, but today he was well enough to face the music for his […]
Written on March 26, 2008 | Posted in
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The Social Security Investment Committee is the body responsible for managing the investment portfolio of the Social Security Board and tonight it has four new members. The committee will now be chaired by Nestor Vasquez. The other appointees are Winston Michael, Lorelei Westby representing the National Trade Union Congress of Belize, and Emile Mena on […]
Written on March 26, 2008 | Posted in
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From north to south, Belizean musicians keep cranking out the music … tonight News Five’s Marion Ali profiles one island group claiming to be the Kings of Belizean Reggaeton. Marion Ali, Reporting Three years ago these childhood friends got together and formed a Reggaeton recording group called D.N.A. using the initials of their first names. […]
Written on March 26, 2008 | Posted in
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Covering the activities of Trekforce volunteers is nothing new for this newscast as we’ve been chronicling their adventures for years. But their latest project, as News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports, was more than just a walk in the park. Kendra Griffith, Reporting With the slash of a machete, Trekforce, along with Friends for Conservation and […]
Written on March 26, 2008 | Posted in
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There is good news coming out of St. Kitts tonight as reports are that Belize’s national football team has drawn in its second World Cup qualifying match against that country’s team. At the forty-third minute Belize’s Elroy Smith scored a goal putting the jewel on top. But in the second half St. Kitts only managed […]
Written on March 26, 2008 | Posted in
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Just when you thought that this Sunday’s P.U.P. convention was going to be a boring coronation of Francis Fonseca, along comes a suddenly awakened Johnny Briceño to rekindle his campaign for party leader. News Five’s Stewart Krohn was on hand for the re-launching in Orange Walk. John Briceño, Re-launches Candidacy “Ladies and gentlemen, I am […]
Written on March 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Considering that it was a four day holiday weekend and that we are in the midst of an epidemic of fatal violence, the fact that there is only one murder to report tonight can almost be considered good news. That’s how bad things are. The fact is that every homicide brings more than its share […]
Written on March 25, 2008 | Posted in
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The weekend’s second reported shooting occurred in Independence Village about three hours later. This time, it would leave a man in critical condition with gunshot wounds to the right side of the chest and abdomen. Twenty-two year old Nicholas Swazo told police that someone inside a green Ford Ranger pickup shot him as he walked […]
Written on March 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Orange Walk police have two cases of sexual assault on their hands. In the first case, the twenty-five year old victim said she awoke around two-thirty on Saturday morning to find a man in front of her bed. The woman reported to police that the man muffled her screams for help with a blanket then […]
Written on March 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Reports from Ambergris Caye indicate that another boatload of Cubans washed ashore over the weekend. This photo of the group was taken in San Pedro on Saturday evening. Details could not be confirmed but it is believed their boat experienced engine problems. They are currently in the custody of the Immigration Department. Other boat people […]
Written on March 25, 2008 | Posted in
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The new Prime Minister may have pledged to bring down the cost of fuel but, as many politicians have learned the hard way, talk is cheaper than petroleum. Saying that government is absorbing half the latest increase in acquisition costs, a press office release has announced that effective Sunday premium gasoline rose to nine ninety-five […]
Written on March 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we certainly hope you had a wonderful Easter Holiday and it is indeed our pleasure to bring you this portion of Sports Monday. A grand total of one hundred and seventeen athletes, featuring eighteen teams and including twenty-five foreign cyclists from as far North as the United States and […]
Written on March 25, 2008 | Posted in
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The effort by leaders of the Peoples’ United Party to expel Mark Espat has met with resistance, both at the grass roots level and among Espat’s colleagues in the House. Today Johnny Briceño, former deputy prime minister and current representative for the Orange Walk Central Division, released a strong statement in support of Espat which […]
Written on March 20, 2008 | Posted in
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While his opponents engage in the political equivalent of gang warfare, Prime Minister Dean Barrow was in Washington today for a meeting with U.S. President George Bush. Along with his fellow Caribbean Prime Ministers Hubert Ingraham of the Bahamas and David Thompson of Barbados, the three leaders engaged Bush on issues of trade, tourism and […]
Written on March 20, 2008 | Posted in
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A seventy-three year old man was targeted as he arrived home Tuesday night and beaten by two men as he entered his yard on Bradley’s Crescent in the Belama Phase Two area. The owner of Subway, Ron Boetel, recounted how it happened. Ron Boetel, Beaten and Robbed at Home “I got home about seven-fifteen and […]
Written on March 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Police have also made arrests in the Saturday night robbery of Galaxy Supermarket in Belama Phase Two. Twenty-six year old Deon Lord and twenty-two year old Clifton Flores were today charged in Magistrates’ Court with two counts of Robbery and Conspiracy to Commit Robbery. A third man, Cardinal Welch Myvette, who was detained at the […]
Written on March 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Two police constables accused of beating a prisoner were formally arraigned today. Alister Casey and John Myvette were charged with Wounding. They pled not guilty and were released on one thousand dollars bail. They will reappear on May seventh. The two cops are accused of beating Kevin “Possum” Dawson with clubs while he was being […]
Written on March 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Tourists from the cruise ship Norwegian Spirit experienced an unexpected Belizean adventure today when the bus they were traveling in ran into a pickup on the Western Highway. Around nine-thirty this morning Trans Tours was taking a number of passengers by bus to a cave tubing site when upon reaching mile two they collided into […]
Written on March 20, 2008 | Posted in
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The rain fell steadily this morning, but that did not hamper residents and tourists alike from getting an early start on the Easter vacation. When we dropped in at the marine terminal on North Front Street this morning, business was brisk and the Caye Caulker Water Taxi Association says their entire fleet of twenty-seven boats […]
Written on March 20, 2008 | Posted in
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While many Belize City residents are on the move this weekend, there is plenty going on right here in the old capital. News Five’s Marion Ali reports on one programme for kids now underway at the Bird’s Isle. Marion Ali, Reporting Today over twenty youths decided to face off in Belize City … on the […]
Written on March 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Fish on Good Friday. It’s a tradition that many Belizeans find hard to break … even when the prices go sky high. News Five’s Ann-Marie Williams went shopping Wednesday evening and found the capitalist system fully functioning. Carl Staine, Fishmonger “You noh si deh hard breeze yah? You know di licking man di tek out […]
Written on March 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Despite a cycling calendar that grows more crowded each year, this weekend’s race remains king, not only of cycling but all Belizean sporting events. News Five’s Janelle Chanona takes a look at its past and future. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Bright and early on Holy Saturday morning, the eightieth running of the Cross Country Cycling Classic […]
Written on March 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Due to the Easter holiday, there will be no newscast on Friday and Monday. The next news broadcast will be on Tuesday, March twenty-fifth.
Written on March 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Said Musa and the ruling faction of the Peoples’ United Party raised the stakes dramatically today with an unprecedented attempt to expel Albert Representative Mark Espat from the party. The move came in the form of a letter from Leader Emeritus George Price, in his capacity as chairman of the party’s Order of Distinguished Service, […]
Written on March 19, 2008 | Posted in
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