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The post mortem on B.D.F. Lance Corporal Warren Cho reveals that he died from “acute pulmonary oedema due to paradigm bleeding of the right lung due to abdominal trauma and laceration”. In layman terms this means he died when his lungs filled with fluid after he went into shock from trauma to the abdomen. As […]
Written on May 22, 2008 | Posted in
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A woman from Belize City is dead following a traffic accident early this morning on the Northern Highway. News Five understands that twenty-eight year old Grace Bowen, of Croton Lane in Belize City, was driving to meet a sister in Corozal Town. However, she never made it when shortly after midnight her green Plymouth Voyager […]
Written on May 22, 2008 | Posted in
Auto Accidents |
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Police have arrested and charged a man in connection with a Sunday night attack. This morning twenty-four year old Robert Jones, also known as “Black”, appeared in Magistrates’ Court where he was charged with Attempted Murder and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. Jones is alleged to be one of the men who knocked twenty-two […]
Written on May 22, 2008 | Posted in
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A man accused of rape was acquitted today after his victim refused to testify against him. When the now eighteen year old took the stand this morning she told the court that she wanted no further action in the case. Crown Counsel Tracy Sosa had no other evidence to offer so Justice Herbert Lord instructed […]
Written on May 22, 2008 | Posted in
Trials |
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It wasn’t as epic a battle as that described by Hemmingway in “The Old Man and the Sea”, but the catch made this morning by a Belizean fisherman caused quite a stir at the Vernon Street Fish Market. The attraction was an over three hundred pound Jew Fish caught by veteran angler, Ruben Hughes. According […]
Written on May 22, 2008 | Posted in
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In case you haven’t noticed, the heat is on. And while that’s not necessarily the reason why News Five’s Marion Ali spent this morning at a swimming pool, it wasn’t a bad assignment. Marion Ali, Reporting While these students may appear to be banging hooky, they are in fact studying hard. For the past nine […]
Written on May 22, 2008 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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When you think of music festivals, particularly on a holiday weekend in Belize, the idea of a gospel fest seldom comes to mind. But that’s exactly what All Saint’s Parish on Dunn Street in the city is trying for the second year in a row. The event, which takes place on May twenty-fourth, features an […]
Written on May 22, 2008 | Posted in
Religion |
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The state of Belizean medical care, both public and private, has made great strides over the last decade, but there are some areas of advanced care, like cancer, for which patients must seek help abroad. And while that situation may persist well into the future, News Five’s Kendra Griffith discovered that there are steps we […]
Written on May 22, 2008 | Posted in
Health |
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Experts tell us that the problem of world food shortages has less to do with production than it does with distribution; that is, connecting the existing food with the people who need it. That difficulty is being demonstrated tonight in the Toledo District where entire fields of tasty and nutritious fruit are being left to […]
Written on May 22, 2008 | Posted in
Agriculture |
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Belize Electricity Limited has been making its case for months—first with a special application and shortly afterward under its annual rate review—that skyrocketing oil prices have necessitated an increase in electricity rates. On both occasions the Public Utilities Commission has stood steadfast against the requests. It’s not clear how much of the P.U.C.’s attitude was […]
Written on May 21, 2008 | Posted in
Economy |
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The case of the Financial Intelligence Unit versus the Belize Bank and its President, Philip Johnson, was once again adjourned, this time until the next Director of Public Prosecutions decides exactly where the matter will be tried. The case involves seventy-nine counts allegedly committed by the bank in failing to report what the F.I.U. calls […]
Written on May 21, 2008 | Posted in
Trials |
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A twenty-two year old student will not be able to sit exams because he is recuperating from injuries suffered when he was knocked down and shot. The assault reportedly occurred shortly after seven Sunday night when two men, who were in a white Jeep Cherokee, chased Grant on his bicycle on Vernon Street from Lakeview […]
Written on May 21, 2008 | Posted in
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Police are tonight reporting that they have one person detained for questioning and are looking for another in connection with Sunday night’s grenade attack on Mayflower Street. According to the Crimes Investigation Branch, Kareem Smith was brought in by the C.Y.D.P. on Tuesday and is currently in custody. In the meantime, police are on the […]
Written on May 21, 2008 | Posted in
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A young man from the Corozal District has died, apparently of drowning. Police report that seventeen year old Hilmar Lino of Progresso Village and four others went fishing Tuesday evening in Progresso Lagoon. Their canoe capsized, however, and all five were thrown into the water. While four of the men, including two of Hilmar’s brothers […]
Written on May 21, 2008 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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Every year or so the police publicly dispose of all the crime related firearms they have confiscated in the course of their work. And while criminals don’t seem to have much trouble finding equally lethal replacements, the annual exercise at least gives us an indication of what kind of weaponry is out there. News Five’s […]
Written on May 21, 2008 | Posted in
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Accusations of police brutality are commonplace on this newscast, but tonight there is a particularly serious allegation coming out of Dangriga. Among the list of crimes in this morning’s police blotter was a small paragraph on the arrest of thirty year old taxi driver, Rhold Henry, for the crimes of Aggravated Assault, Threat of Death, […]
Written on May 21, 2008 | Posted in
Crime |
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There are serious doubts regarding his innocence of a major burglary in San Pedro, but there are perhaps more troubling questions over how police handled his detention. In addition to facing criminal charges, twenty-five year old Nigel Peters is also sporting the face of a boxer who went twelve rounds with Mike Tyson. Peters, a […]
Written on May 21, 2008 | Posted in
Crime |
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As I speak, insurance companies and agents are gathering at the Belize Biltmore Plaza. The occasion is the launch of their newest body, The Insurance Institute of Belize. This afternoon Chair of the institute’s Steering Committee, Sandra McKay, told News Five why it’s important. Sandra McKay, Chair, IIBZ Steering Committee “We already have an Organization […]
Written on May 21, 2008 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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The World Food Program estimates that every day around fifty-nine million children go to school hungry. While the increase in the number of feeding programmes in Belize has greatly assisted our own needy students, on Thursday one local organisation will be walking in Belmopan to raise awareness of child hunger around the world. According to […]
Written on May 21, 2008 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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In the aftermath of Sunday’s unprecedented grenade attack, tonight one man has been detained for questioning but up to news time police had yet to make an arrest. According to investigators, the detainee is the third such person to be interviewed but the primary suspect is still at large. Just before ten on Sunday night, […]
Written on May 20, 2008 | Posted in
Crime |
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The post mortem examination conducted on two year old Vernice Rodriguez certified that she died from head trauma caused by a blunt instrument. That injury presumably occurred while the child was under the care of Danna Banner, a resident of Ladyville, who for the past week had been the full-time guardian of baby Vernice. News […]
Written on May 20, 2008 | Posted in
Crime |
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Rodriguez said he had no reason to believe Banner would harm his daughter, but tonight another man who is calling for murder charges to be laid is Bert Ramos, founder of an organisation called Fathers in Solidarity against Child Abuse. Ramos recently spearheaded a demonstration in Dangriga. Hayedon Rodriquez “Her sister work for me and […]
Written on May 20, 2008 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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A security guard is hanging onto life tonight after he was shot on the job at a Belize City supermarket on Monday night. Forty-seven year old Philip Garoy of J.B’s Security was shot in the neck after a struggle with a gunman at Twin Supermarket on Saint Thomas Street. Store owner, thirty-four year old Robert […]
Written on May 20, 2008 | Posted in
Crime |
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It never reached the media through police or military channels but tonight the family of a B.D.F soldier, Lance Corporal Warren Cho, have doubts about his sudden death after he was found floating barely alive in the Macal River last Friday morning. Cho died last night at Universal Health Services and is due to undergo […]
Written on May 20, 2008 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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In political news, sources in the People’s United Party report that the party’s secretary general Henry Charles Usher, will be leaving his post in the very near future. Usher, who was closely aligned with the unsuccessful campaign of Francis Fonseca for the party’s leadership, is believed to be planning a run for the House of […]
Written on May 20, 2008 | Posted in
Politics |
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