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Belize Electricity Limited, one of the nation’s largest corporations, is tonight holding its annual general meeting. Despite the company’s current wrangle with the P.U.C. over a requested increase in rates, B.E.L. will report record profits of twenty-nine point nine million dollars on revenues of one hundred and fifty-nine point six million. Sales in 2007 grew […]
Written on May 20, 2008 | Posted in
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The island and its neighbours are perhaps best known for their political significance, as they have more than once figured prominently in various proposals to the Guatemalan claim to Belize. But anyone who has ever had the privilege to visit Hunting Caye knows it’s a special place … and not because of politics. Kendra Griffith, […]
Written on May 20, 2008 | Posted in
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With the athletic feats of Marion Jones erased from the record books and only a token team headed to China this summer, the Belize Olympics will be a non-event in terms of Belizean National pride. But as our top runners and jumpers suffer from lack of resources and motivation, another group of hard working athletes […]
Written on May 20, 2008 | Posted in
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And we’ll close out tonight’s broadcast with more highlights from the Belize District Primary School Festival of Arts. [Performances from the Primary School Festival of Arts]
Written on May 20, 2008 | Posted in
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We’re not really sure how or why Belize changed from a relatively peaceful place into an extremely violent one, but when that history is written the events of Sunday night in Belize City may be cited as a watershed occurrence: when the staccato crackle of handguns was overshadowed by the thunder of a hand grenade. […]
Written on May 19, 2008 | Posted in
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For the second time in as many weeks, an infant has died from apparent abuse by a caregiver. The baby, two year old Vernice Rodriguez, was reportedly left in the care of a full time babysitter—twenty year old Danna Banner—who lived at this house behind the basketball court on Marage Road in Ladyville along with […]
Written on May 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Police had their hands full over the weekend, responding to four separate robberies in Belize City. The first victim was Pinks Alley grocer Jui-Liang Huang. Just after seven on Friday night, Jui was tending to a customer at Sen Sen Store when another man walked in and asked the customer for a beer. He got […]
Written on May 19, 2008 | Posted in
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A Good Samaritan who came to the aid of a robbery victim last Thursday morning turned out instead to be bad to the bone. Thirty year old security guard, Abner Najera, reported to police that he was walking on Orange Street around two a.m. when he was suddenly jumped by five men. During the attack, […]
Written on May 19, 2008 | Posted in
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A resident of Middlesex Village is tonight recuperating from chop wounds as a result of a robbery. According to Felipe Vicente, he was at home when Noe Cruz, showed up and demanded money. A fight ensued in which Vicente says Cruz chopped him in the head and right hand before making off with fifteen hundred […]
Written on May 19, 2008 | Posted in
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A business in the Commercial Free Zone suffered a double whammy when two burglars not only robbed it, but accidentally set it on fire. Just after four a.m. police were responding to a fire at Kali International at Toucan Plaza in the zone when they spotted Antonio Palma and Samir Vivas walking towards Corozal town […]
Written on May 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Separate weekend accidents in Cayo and Corozal have caused a death and left three persons injured. Around two-fifty on Sunday morning police received a call that an injured man was lying along the Bullet Tree Road. When they arrived on the scene, police found fifty year old Gustavo Manzanero suffering from injuries to the head […]
Written on May 19, 2008 | Posted in
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We didn’t need news of an earthquake in China or cyclone in Myanmar to understand the importance of disaster preparedness. But those two events offer a sobering reminder of the need for planning and training at all levels and across all borders. Janelle Chanona reports on one such important initiative taking place in southern Belize. […]
Written on May 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re certainly happy that you could join us for this cut of Sports Monday. We take you out immediately to the Norman Broaster Stadium in Cayo for week three of the Female Football League competition where Gentle Touch of Esperanza played host to Hidden Treasures of Pomona. We pick […]
Written on May 19, 2008 | Posted in
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A Belize City mother accused of beating her two year-old baby girl to death was formally charged with the crime in Magistrate’s Court this morning. Twenty-one year old Shian Whyte, a food vendor of Zacaranda Street, Belize City, was silent during her arraignment for Manslaughter before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers. Because the matter is an indictable […]
Written on May 16, 2008 | Posted in
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He was only fifteen years old when he killed another teenager but today a Cayo youth was sentenced to spend fifteen years behind bars for the crime. Eighteen year old Steven Manzanero was found guilty of Manslaughter last week in connection to the March 2005 death of Levi Quewell. In court today, his attorney Hubert […]
Written on May 16, 2008 | Posted in
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A Belize City taxi driver accused of raping a nine year old has been slapped with drug trafficking charges following the search of his home. According to police, during their investigations into a report of sodomy against fifty-three year old Belizean Jamaican Eric Mills, they conducted a search of his Freetown Road home where they […]
Written on May 16, 2008 | Posted in
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Following a technicality on Monday morning, the case against the Belize Bank and its president Philip Johnson on seventy-nine counts of failing to report a suspicious transaction had been adjourned until Friday. Or at least that’s what Magistrate Sharon Fraser thought. It turns out that even though Fraser had scheduled the case on her calendar […]
Written on May 16, 2008 | Posted in
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The world price of petroleum went up again today, to one hundred and twenty-seven U.S. dollars a barrel. That means of course, that acquisition costs will go up yet again and push the pump prices of fuel even higher. While most Belizeans have endeavored to absorb the shock, tonight News Five’s Janelle Chanona introduces us […]
Written on May 16, 2008 | Posted in
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On Thursday’s newscast we told Belizean consumers to brace themselves for a rise in the price of rice. The increase in the basic commodity is just another bitter reminder of the new reality in the cost of living. But if that wasn’t tough enough to bear, there are more than a handful of business houses […]
Written on May 16, 2008 | Posted in
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A local religious group marked an important milestone today and News Five’s Kendra Griffith was on hand for the celebrations. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Amidst singing and prayers this morning Islamic Mission of Belize officially inaugurated its newly constructed Masjid or Place of Worship. Imam Kaleem El-Amin, Amir, Islamic Mission of Belize “The whole world we […]
Written on May 16, 2008 | Posted in
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It was Bob Marley who said, “When the music hits you, you feel no pain”. The spirit of that quote is being promoted by the Belize Choral Society, who on the occasion of their thirty-fifth birthday, is calling on Belizeans to appreciate the power of music. News Five’s Marion Ali reports. Rose Musa, Founding member, […]
Written on May 16, 2008 | Posted in
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The details of how the abuse occurred are far from settled and likely be dealt with in a court of law. But justice will come too late for a little girl named Delcy White. Delcy, who would have turned three next Monday, died Tuesday morning at the K.H.M.H. after suffering a fractured skull and severe […]
Written on May 15, 2008 | Posted in
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A report by police constable David Griffith that around nine-thirty Wednesday night he was threatened by another officer, twenty-six year old Delmar Moguel, has resulted in the arrest of Moguel. P.C. Moguel was charged with Threat of Death when he appeared today in Magistrates’ Court. The prosecution objected to bail on the grounds that the […]
Written on May 15, 2008 | Posted in
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A Belize City taxi driver has been detained pending charges in the sexual assault of a nine year old girl. The child told police that after seven on Wednesday morning she was leaving through the front gate of the Special Education Center on Freetown Road when a man pulled her into a nearby house and […]
Written on May 15, 2008 | Posted in
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The body of a man who reportedly fell out of a boat and drowned has been recovered. Police report that around eleven-thirty Wednesday morning the corpse of twenty-six year old Gabriel Perez of August Pine Ridge Village was pulled out of the New River Lagoon. He and a friend, Eduardo Murillo, had been riding in […]
Written on May 15, 2008 | Posted in
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