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But when the House of Representatives resumed debate of the budget this morning, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilfred Elrington, was the first to rise to conclude his presentation that was interrupted when the debate was adjourned yesterday. Elrington’s opening salvo was not about the budget, but about an explosive article in today’s edition of […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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In an update to a story in our newscast last night about a shipment of medicine that was jacked at Mile forty-two, police have detained customs officer, Julio Martinez, who Customs officials claim failed to abide by the new standard operating procedures applied when medicines are imported into Belize. This new procedure, according to the […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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For the third time this week gun violence exploded in the southside of Belize City. At around seven last night, nineteen year old Kenroy Humes, also known as “Beelie” was hanging out with friends at the residence of Darren Banks on Oleander Street when the shots rang out. Humes, who was inside the yard, was […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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An inspector employed at the Belize Agricultural Health Authority is dead following a traffic accident on the Southern Highway. The fatal accident occurred around six-thirty on Thursday evening between miles forty-six and forty-seven near the Swasey Bridge. Police say the inspector, forty year old Barrington Johnson, was driving a blue Toyota 4-Runner heading to Punta […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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This afternoon NBA star Kenyon Martin of the Denver Nuggets and his girlfriend Trina, the famous rap artist, arrived at the Phillip Goldson International Airport at the invitation of Youth for the Future for a double event on Saturday. Tomorrow morning at ten, Martin and Trina will be at the Belize City Center for a […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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In news from the Magistrates’ Court, two men were slapped with offenses of a sexual nature. The first is thirty four-year old Guatemalan, Jose Ramos, who was charged with unlawful carnal knowledge of a fifteen year old girl. The girl reported to police that Ramos had sex with her at a security booth at the […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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It was a terrorizing moment for forty-five year old Herman Reyes when early this morning, a man entered his premises on West Canal, inflicted three cuts on him, including one to his throat and stole his money and cell phone. Bleeding and in terror, Reyes escaped from his assailant by running through the corridor of […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Police have their hands full with the recent spate of shootings, but tonight they have two burglaries to solve. Seventy-seven year old Nigel Price, a British National who resides on Gabourel Lane in Belize City, told police that someone broke into his house between five Wednesday evening and seven-thirty Thursday morning. The thief helped himself […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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The B.D.F. has been busy; it’s in charge of Belize’s defense, and this summer it has been engaging young people in a wide range of innovative activities. There have been football camps, jungle survival exercises, basic first aid training, rappelling, chess in a cave games, and today it was all about art. Jose Sanchez took […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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With HIV/AIDS reaching epidemic proportions, the Alliance Against AIDS has been working around the clock to promote awareness. One organisation that is doing its share to keep the disease under raps is Maya Women’s Council from Toledo, the district that has the lowest percentage of the deadly disease. The group, led by Senator Pulcheria Teul, […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Hey! I’m Saffiyah and this is your weekly edition of what’s happening Belize. Last week I got so excited telling you about the huge Benque festival that the crew and I just had to make a trip up there ourselves. There was definitely a little something for everyone; a wide variety of food, cold drinks, […]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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The House of Representatives convened in Belmopan today to debate the eight hundred and twenty-five million dollar Budget for 2008-2009 presented on July fourteenth by Prime Minister Dean Barrow. At news time when the debate wound up, most of the Opposition had taken the floor except for the former prime minister Said Musa. Francis Fonseca […]
Written on July 24, 2008 | Posted in
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When the P.U.P. Party Leader concluded his contribution to the debate, the floodgates opened and the debate got fiery. The first U.D.P. member to rebut Briceño was Belmopan’s area representative John Saldivar, who took issue with the P.U.P. claiming credit for Capital two projects. Saldivar was followed by Lake I Representative Cordel Hyde who had […]
Written on July 24, 2008 | Posted in
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While his opponent was in the House of Representatives, former P.U.P. Minister, Jose Coye, was relieved of charges of Theft and Obtaining Property through Deception. The withdrawal of the charges was long coming and there had been reports to this effect for weeks, but it was only today that Coye was freed of the charges. […]
Written on July 24, 2008 | Posted in
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It has been targeted by robbers five times in one month and in two instances thieves managed to gain access to the accounting firm of Castillo, Sanchez and Burrell on Central American Boulevard. And to ward off any further robbery attempts, the firm has undergone renovations to secure the building. Shawn Mahler, Audit Manager, Castillo […]
Written on July 24, 2008 | Posted in
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But while thieves targeted the accounting firm on the southside, another culprit had his eyes on a business establishment on the northside. For the third time in recent memory, the Esso New Road Gas Station was jacked of the day’s proceeds shortly before eight last night. Police say that a young man wearing a mask […]
Written on July 24, 2008 | Posted in
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Tonight Customs and police authorities have joined forces in investigating another hijacked shipment of goods destined for Guatemala. Comptroller of Customs, Gregory Gibson, and Officer Commanding the CIB Eastern Division, Assistant Superintendent Julio Valdez, confirmed this evening to News Five that the goods labeled as “cough suppressants” arrived from Panama earlier this week. The shipment […]
Written on July 24, 2008 | Posted in
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Today there are press reports from neighbouring Chetumal that three Mexican nationals are in police custody for allegedly importing cocaine into Mexico, originating from Belize. The trio was arrested after midnight on Wednesday at the military checkpoint just past the customs point at the Mexican side of the border. The three have been identified as […]
Written on July 24, 2008 | Posted in
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And we end tonight’s newscast with reports of two violent incidents in the west. The first victim is a man from Santa Elena, Floyd Flowers, who was shot in the left leg and is hospitalised for treatment. Flowers told police that he was at the residence of Markis Pandy when he heard noises emanating from […]
Written on July 24, 2008 | Posted in
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Marion Ali is back in our news room from Lucky Strike, a rural community twenty-nine miles away from Belize City on the old Northern Highway. It is known for farming and logging, but today the village comes to national prominence for a case that ended in the murder and suicide of two love sick men […]
Written on July 23, 2008 | Posted in
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And the sexual abuse of Belize’s children continues unabated and tonight there are two more incidents to report. On Tuesday, a seventeen year old from Punta Gorda reported to Dangriga police that her father has been having sex with her for three years. According to the teen, the latest incident occurred on June twenty-ninth at […]
Written on July 23, 2008 | Posted in
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A family in Corozal Town is traumatized after their home was invaded on Tuesday night. Forty-six year old Femoli Correa reported to police that around nine o’clock she was at her Third Street South home with her mother and three children when two men entered the premises. According to Correa, the men were armed with […]
Written on July 23, 2008 | Posted in
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Government faces another threat of a sizeable damages award against it; this time in a U.S. District court in Miami, Florida where proceedings are currently taking place. Jeffery Prosser, who temporarily owned B.T.L., is suing the Government for substantial damages on the grounds that he was wrongfully deprived of two directorships in B.T.L., an issue […]
Written on July 23, 2008 | Posted in
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When Hurricane Dean hit northern Belize in August of last year, one of the industries that suffered a big hit was papaya. Tonight the storm’s after effects are having some serious financial implications for an Orange Walk company and hundreds of workers. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Since Monday an eerie silence […]
Written on July 23, 2008 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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There is new development in the ongoing turf war between the water taxi associations as just when it seemed that the matter had been resolved, a new snag has re-ignited the flames of this raging battle that just won’t go away. Jose Sanchez has the story from the Swing Bridge. Jose Sanchez, Reporting It appeared […]
Written on July 23, 2008 | Posted in
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