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Thankfully there are no murders to report tonight, but police did hold a news conference today to update the public on what it is doing curb the violence. Although no arrests have been made in recent homicides, some people will feel relieved to learn that several high powered weapons have been seized. Assistant Commissioner of […]
Written on March 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Last Friday we reported of the clever scheme one prisoner carried out for what turned out to be a brief moment of freedom. Kevin Dawson, also known as Possum, was caught last Thursday in Corozal after he swapped identities with another prisoner to trick the court into thinking he was someone else. But while in […]
Written on March 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Today there was a shooting but its victim was lucky to escape death. Twenty-two year old Delroy Matura underwent surgery this afternoon after he was shot several times this morning on Neal’s Pen Road. His cousin, who did not want to appear on camera, told us what she knows of the attack. Police said they […]
Written on March 19, 2008 | Posted in
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If you have been watching U.S. television news you would have noticed that Americans, long bedeviled by a seemingly endless war in Iraq, having something else worry about: the economy. And rightly so. With the dollar at an all time low against the Euro and other currencies, the price of oil at an all time […]
Written on March 19, 2008 | Posted in
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For the fourth time in six years it was a Belizean who walked up to the podium in Bridgetown Barbados to receive the Unsung Heroes award from FirstCaribbean International Bank. On Monday the husband and wife team of Lyndon and Laverne Bailey were honoured for their remarkable record of community service in establishing the Tubal […]
Written on March 19, 2008 | Posted in
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In case you’re busy packing for the long weekend holiday, it might be a good idea to reflect on the reason you’re getting those days off in the first place—as News Five’s Ann-Marie Williams did today. Ann-Marie Williams Holy week is the last week of lent when we last follow Jesus from his triumphal entry […]
Written on March 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Politics, corruption and missing money may be foremost on the nation’s consciousness these last few weeks, but if the epidemic of senseless homicides now gripping the nation is allowed to continue, there may one day be nobody left to care about those weighty matters of state. News Five’s Marion Ali reports that the latest murder […]
Written on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
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Punta Gorda police have arrested and charged a teacher for engaging in sex with a student. A thirteen year old girl from Dolores village has accused twenty-two year old Marcos Chub of taking her into a classroom and sexually assaulting her. As a result of their investigation, on Saturday police charged Chub with one count […]
Written on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
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One rapist who cannot even pretend to be innocent was today sentenced for his crime. Mark Cardinez, convicted two weeks ago of rape in the Supreme Court, will spend the next eighteen years behind bars. This morning Justice Michelle Arana heard mitigation pleas from Cardinez’ wife, a friend, and his lawyer, Ernest Staine. She also […]
Written on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
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A ten thousand dollar reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of Gregory Casildo. Casildo is wanted for the February fourteenth murder of Shannon “Shaggy” Henderson and is also a suspect in last Friday’s killing of restaurant owner Samuel Ortiz. Both homicides occurred in Placencia Village. Casildo is thirty years old, five […]
Written on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
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When we last visited the case of the missing money there was a standoff between the governor of the Central Bank—who told the Belize Bank, under threat of criminal sanctions, to hand over the Venezuelan U.S. ten million—and the Belize Bank, which said the Central Bank’s directive was unlawful and void. For the last two […]
Written on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
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And speaking of political effect, you’d think the Peoples’ United Party would be happy that Mark Espat dropped out of the race for leader, setting the stage for the happy convention of Francis Fonseca on March thirtieth. And while there may be some smiles on North Front Street and Meighan Avenue, it did not stop […]
Written on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
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Crooked Tree, a village best known for its cashew and increasingly for its fishing, is this Easter weekend staging the second of its kind Tilapia Festival. Village Chairman George Guest says the Saturday and Sunday event promises to be grander than the first fest in 2006. George Guest, Chairman, Crooked Tree Village “We’re having the […]
Written on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
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As part of its sixtieth anniversary celebration, the University of the West Indies School of Continuing Studies, in conjunction with the Hugh Shearer Institute, this morning held a lecture in honour of women in the Caribbean Trade Union movement. Entitled “Forever Indebted to Women: In Spite of the Difference”, the lecture series was presented by […]
Written on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
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Belizeans now have greater access to tertiary level education without leaving home … thanks to a virtual campus established by the University of the West Indies. This fourth campus joins Mona in Jamaica, Cave Hill in Barbados and St. Augustine in Trinidad in providing a series of degree programmes along with technical and professional certification […]
Written on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
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It was a hit last week at the Bliss and tonight courtesy of the National Institute of Culture and History, we’ll let viewer savour what parents and family friends got to enjoy at the Pre-school Festival of Arts. [Clips pre-school performances] Again, thanks to NICH for sharing that footage.
Written on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
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He is intimately tied to the discredited acts of the defeated administration but it is now certain that on March thirtieth Francis Fonseca will be elected as the new leader of the People’s United Party. Fonseca’s ascension was made inevitable today with the announcement by Albert representative Mark Espat that he has decided to pull […]
Written on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
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The latest episode of the missing money scandal has the Central Bank officially doing what Prime Minister Dean Barrow promised to do last week: that is demanding the return of ten million U.S. dollars from the Belize Bank. According to a press release from the Central Bank, it has issued two directives to the Belize […]
Written on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
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It’s the same story…gunshots, another man dead and grieving relatives begging for justice. And as News Five’s Marion Ali reports again, even the police are stumped for clues to the shooter. Marion Ali, Reporting The year’s twenty-first murder occurred in front of one of Belize City’s oldest night spots on Regent Street West. Just after […]
Written on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
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An Orange Walk community is in mourning tonight following the tragic death of a toddler. According to San Felipe villager Isabel Cowo, on Saturday morning her two year old son Eliseo Cowo went outside to play. But the mother says when she went to check on the child around eleven that morning, he was nowhere […]
Written on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
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Isabel Cowo isn’t the only Orange Walk mother to have lost a son over the weekend as on Saturday afternoon a family outing to the New River ended in tragedy. According to thirty-seven year old Palmar villager Martha Casares, she and her three children were swimming in the Rio Aventura area. But she says when […]
Written on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
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Alcohol is believed to have played a role in a police shooting in Belmopan over the weekend. According to the officers involved, at midnight on Saturday they were on mobile patrol in Las Flores but as they neared La Cabana Restaurant and Bar, they spotted a disturbance at the corner. Police say subsequent investigations have […]
Written on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
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While the attacks on local business houses continue unabated, it’s no surprise that citizens are starting to fight back. That’s what a trio of thieves figured out the hard way on Saturday night when they held up the Galaxy Supermarket on Gwen Lizarraga Street in Belama Phase Two. According to Guihe Denge, he was at […]
Written on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
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While that shooter is still at large, two thieves who targeted a home off Coney Drive have been arrested and charged with the crime. According to forty-one year old Rosinele Craig, she left her Park Avenue home at nine fifty-five and was gone for less than an hour but that’s all the time it took […]
Written on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
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A Dangriga resident has been charged with attempted murder after he assaulted a shop owner in a drunken rage. According to twenty-two year old Frank Lui, at nine on Friday night, he was closing his store on Pen Road when his neighbour, thirty-two year old Francis Sampson showed up wanting to buy brandy. But Lui […]
Written on March 17, 2008 | Posted in
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