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The “imminent” paving of Albert and Regent Streets is not so imminent after all. A release from the Belize City Council indicates that following discussions with the utility companies responsible for telecommunications, water and electricity, a further two months will be needed to upgrade their underground installations. During that time the National Fire Service will […]
Written on March 12, 2008 | Posted in
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You’re never too young to display your patriotism and today three Belize City Anglican institutions put their students front and center. The principals and teachers of Pickstock, Anglican Diocesan and Ethel Vargas Pre-schools armed their children with flags and took them marching around town. Principal of Anglican Diocesan Pre-school, Joy Ross, reported that while today […]
Written on March 12, 2008 | Posted in
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Belize has no shortage of children in need of care; what is in short supply is the means of helping them. One relatively new source of refuge and renewal can be found in Ladyville … and today the press—including News Five’s Marion Ali—was given a tour. Marion Ali, Reporting After almost three years of operation, […]
Written on March 12, 2008 | Posted in
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The good news out of Costa Rica continues as today the University of Belize won its third game without a loss, defeating Panama. That means the Black Jaguars will now enter the final four of the Central American University Tournament.
Written on March 12, 2008 | Posted in
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A Belize City man who came to the aid of a neighbour in trouble has been rewarded with a bullet to the head. News Five’s Marion Ali reports on the nation’s latest homicide. Marion Ali, Reporting As if the January murder of her brother, Norman Reyes Junior, was not bad enough, two months later a […]
Written on March 11, 2008 | Posted in
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In other crime news, two young men—one a teenaged bystander—were injured in a shooting in Belize City over the weekend. According to police, around nine on Monday night the intended victim, twenty-five year old Denver Skeet, was hanging out at the corner of Logwood and Lake View Streets when two armed men on bicycles pulled […]
Written on March 11, 2008 | Posted in
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A man from the Stann Creek District has been arrested for the rape of his eight year old daughter. On March eighth the child and her mother reported to Independence police that on February twenty-seventh the father took the girl into a bushy area near a farm where he forcibly had sex with her. A […]
Written on March 11, 2008 | Posted in
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Over the holiday weekend following the dramatic landing of a drug plane on the Northern Highway, police have arrested eight men and are looking for three others. According to investigators, Orange Walk residents forty-four year old Anthony Thurton, fifty year old Ricardo Rivera, twenty-two year old Luis Novelo, eighteen year old Irvin Cantun, nineteen year […]
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It may not have blossomed into a major public controversy, but to the business people who have invested millions at the mouth of the Haulover Creek, the issue of the wall could not be bigger. Today the Supreme Court made its ruling in the civil suit, saying the obstructions must go. News Five’s Janelle Chanona […]
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Bad weather over the weekend made for slick road conditions which produced a number of minor traffic accidents … but one stood out. This was the scene Sunday morning between mile forty-four and forty-five near Cotton Tree village on the Western Highway. According to the driver, Belmopan resident Godfrey Ramos, he and his wife were […]
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This morning it was not business as usual for some taxi drivers at Terminal Four at the Fort Street Tourism Village. They claim they were being kept from making their living because of favouritism and unreasonable treatment from the Belize City Council. But that opinion was not shared by the City Council or the other […]
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Roughly seventy-five students from the Collet constituency capitalized on Sunday’s strong winds by participating in a kite flying contest. The event was organised by the Poor and Famous Culture Club and while the sponsors provided the kites, the children also received paper and materials to build their own. Kirk and Corey Howard built the largest […]
Written on March 11, 2008 | Posted in
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For over a decade the Belize Cancer Society has been fighting a war on this notorious killer. This morning they got some ammunition from Scotiabank in the form of five thousand Canadian dollars: that’s over ten thousand Belize. Cancer Society President, Dr. Alba Mendez Sosa, says the funds will go towards pushing the message of […]
Written on March 11, 2008 | Posted in
Health |
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March is observed as Child Stimulation Month, a time when the need for preschool education is emphasized and the students’ skills highlighted. Last year, as a means of showcasing the creativity of the three and four year olds, the Preschool Children’s Festival of Arts was added to the list of activities. This morning, the 2008 […]
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Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re certainly glad you could join us for this delivery of Sports Monday. The twenty-sixth Annual Cititrust Belmopan Cycle Classic reigned supreme on the Western Highway Sunday, ninth March Baron Bliss Day as some seventy-nine riders featuring twelve teams and five foreigners opted to be the best in a […]
Written on March 11, 2008 | Posted in
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When it comes to the transshipment of drugs, “wet drops” are traditionally the transportation mode of choice in Belize. But as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, traffickers will risk life, limb and a million dollar plane in their bid to get their product north. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This was the scene between miles forty and […]
Written on March 7, 2008 | Posted in
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The fallout over the ten million U.S. dollars from Venezuela that the public never knew about continued today with another member of the People’s United Party distancing himself from the deal. In an eight point press release by Francis Fonseca today, the candidate for P.U.P. leadership maintained that he found out about the additional money […]
Written on March 7, 2008 | Posted in
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An accused bomb maker living in the Stann Creek district has been deported to the United States. According to police, fifty year old Dean De Marks was put on TACA’s ten-fifteen flight to Houston where he was handed over to U.S. Marshals. De Marks is an insurance agent in New Jersey and was looking to […]
Written on March 7, 2008 | Posted in
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A former police constable who was serving ten years for manslaughter is out on bail tonight after the Court of Appeal ordered he be retried for the crime. Burton Caliz was convicted of manslaughter for the February 2004 shooting death of Leroy “Dan” Pilgrim in San Pedro Town. But according to the judges in the […]
Written on March 7, 2008 | Posted in
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Sixteen days after their loved one went missing, tonight a Belize City family is once again appealing to the public for information. According to the family of seventeen year old Anthony Roches, their reward of a thousand dollars stands even though they believe he is dead and his body has been hidden somewhere off the […]
Written on March 7, 2008 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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In January, the LifeLine Foundation donated almost ten thousand dollars to two needy organisations but today the tables were turned on the charity group as a local bank stepped up to assist their fundraising efforts. During a brief handing over ceremony this morning, Scotia Bank contributed two thousand dollars to LifeLine representatives. According to Director […]
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On Monday, Belizeans will get the day off to commemorate the death of one of the country’s greatest benefactors, Baron Henry Edward Ernest Victor Bliss. In his will Baron Bliss asked that every year a harbour regatta be held in his memory. The tradition began in 1927 and continues this Sunday, March ninth in the […]
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While no one can dispute the remarkable accomplishments of Belizean women, all interested parties agree that we still have a long way to go. That issue was just one topic up for discussion today at the annual Women’s Summit. Ann-Marie Williams reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Today two hundred women from across the country gathered at […]
Written on March 7, 2008 | Posted in
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While most of us will spend the long weekend relaxing, more than two hundred and fifty people will spend the holiday paddling from San Ignacio to Belize City. I can sit here and say that matter of factly but as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, it’s called the Ruta Maya River Challenge for a very […]
Written on March 7, 2008 | Posted in
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Since the middle of 2004 Belizeans have watched a series of events unfold that can only be described as scandalous. They involved financial improprieties associated with publicly owned institutions like the Social Security Board and Development Finance Corporation and stained the reputations of government officials ranging all the way up to then Prime Minister Said […]
Written on March 6, 2008 | Posted in
Politics |
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