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Various agreements were reached today between Belize and Cuba that will further assist Belizeans to access opportunities in health, education, sports and agriculture. A new area, in which both countries agreed to cooperate, deals with issues that affect municipalities. The two countries wrapped up today the eleventh Mixed Commission which is the mechanism that reviews […]
Written on July 23, 2008 | Posted in
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The Belize Tourism Industry Association kicked off its biennial Tourism Expo with a pre-event meeting that attracted both local and international stakeholders. This morning’s event was held at the Belize Biltmore Plaza, where the participants discussed what will make this year’s trade show a hit and how it will provide a more exciting and adventurous […]
Written on July 23, 2008 | Posted in
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Little has been heard of this organization, and today Belize became the newest member of the Caribbean M.O.U. Port State Control Committee, which deals with issues pertaining to inspections of vessels entering Belizean waters. The Committee has been meeting over the past twelve years and this week they are in Belize. And what exactly does […]
Written on July 23, 2008 | Posted in
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It is big news in financial circles and today Glen Smith, Country Manager of FirstCaribbean International Bank, appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie to answer to one hundred and thirteen offences against the bank for failure to report suspicious money transactions between the period of 2001 and 2005. The bank was charged earlier this month […]
Written on July 22, 2008 | Posted in
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The relatively short lull in gun violence in Belize City’s streets was broken Monday morning with the murder of twenty-four year old Robert Jones. Add to that the last night’s shooting of Leon Garcia and police’s worst fears for a resurgence of street warfare have been confirmed. As Marion Ali reports, while police could not […]
Written on July 22, 2008 | Posted in
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In a crime of a different nature, a Punta Gorda man took his own life over the weekend after he was literally caught with his pants down. The man, Pablo Ack, a laborer from the village of San Miguel, died after he consumed a quantity of the herbicide called gramaxzone. Ack lived long enough to […]
Written on July 22, 2008 | Posted in
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A bus driver from the village of Cristo Rey in the Corozal District, appeared in Magistrates’ Court this morning and was charged with Uncustomed Goods for vegetables found in his vehicle. He is twenty year old Jose Quintero who was slapped with the charge of reckless possession of eleven thousand, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars […]
Written on July 22, 2008 | Posted in
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In other news from Magistrates’ Court, a woman is facing a charge of Arson after allegedly setting fire to a plywood house. Thirty-two year old Hilda Locario, a resident of Tibruce Street, is accused of torching the house belonging to her ex common-law husband, twenty-three year old Herbert Bodden. In court this morning, the woman […]
Written on July 22, 2008 | Posted in
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Thirty-five year old Calvin Bailey appeared in the Magistrates’ court this morning to answer a lesser charge of burglary. He is accused as one of two culprits involved in a burglary on East Collet Canal on July sixteenth. The complainant, thirty year old Maria Teresa Lara reported to the police that she was alone in […]
Written on July 22, 2008 | Posted in
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In a clarification to a news report last night involving Jiovanni Lauriano, the photograph shown as Lauriano was in fact Giovanni Saldano.
Written on July 22, 2008 | Posted in
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They are recognised for their excellent health care system and education in this hemisphere and true to this, in Belize their doctors and nurses have been toiling in villages, towns and cities across the country. This week, a Cuban delegation is in Belize to move the relations forward. The meeting of the eleventh session of […]
Written on July 22, 2008 | Posted in
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There is a changing of the guard at the Belize Central Prison in Hattieville. Kolbe Foundation, which has been administering the prison, announced today that Chief Executive Officer, Marlon Skeen, has resigned his post to pursue other interests. In bidding farewell to Skeen, Kolbe recalled Skeen’s years of service and his positive influence on the […]
Written on July 22, 2008 | Posted in
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A major music concert is soon to take place in Pasadena, California that will be televised on CBS and two Belizean artists have been invited to take part in the event by internationally renown producer, Kashif. Accompanied by Jamaican producer Charles Mclean, the two Belizeans stopped by our studio to tell us about the concert […]
Written on July 22, 2008 | Posted in
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The Salvation Army today honored one of its most dedicated members for his years of good service to the organisation and for his positive contributions to the community. He is Edgar “Bally” Gegg, a prominent businessman and the former proprietor of Vogue Store which subsequently evolved into Marelco. News Five spoke to both Gegg and […]
Written on July 22, 2008 | Posted in
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Last week we reported of disruptions to traffic on certain sections of Albert Street, while there is little sign of improvement, the Belize City Council today informs of further closures on both Albert and Regent Streets. According to the City Council, both arteries in the downtown area will be closed again to vehicular traffic beginning […]
Written on July 22, 2008 | Posted in
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Two months ago he was charged with Attempted Murder and Use of Deadly Means of Harm for shooting twenty-two year old Darrel Jones on Youth for the Future Drive near the Belchina Bridge. But today when shots rang out it was the accused, twenty-four year old Robert Jones, also known as “Black” who fell victim […]
Written on July 21, 2008 | Posted in
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Twenty-two year old Armick Escobar left his Cleghorn Street home last week Tuesday evening to socialise with two friends and according to his family, has not been seen since. Police reports are that around six-thirty last Tuesday evening, two of Escobar’s friends, Julian Barrow and Paul Gibson went to pick him up at his home […]
Written on July 21, 2008 | Posted in
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A routine patrol conducted by the Transport Department stumbled on an unexpected find in southern Belize last Friday evening. Chief Transport Officer, John Briggs, reports that while he was on a patrol in the Seine Bight Village, he spotted a brown vehicle with no license plates. The transport officer caught up with the vehicle and […]
Written on July 21, 2008 | Posted in
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Twenty-five year old Austin Stevens of Jane Usher Boulevard has reported that his life was threatened by two men who called him a snitch. Police say they are investigating the incident which occurred on Friday when Stevens was on his way home and was confronted by two armed men, identified as Kevin Hendy and Keith […]
Written on July 21, 2008 | Posted in
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Today, thirty year old Jiovanni Lauriano, appeared before the Magistrates Court and was charged with Unlawful Carnal Knowledge for allegedly having sex with a fifteen year old girl who is reportedly his girlfriend. The teenager claims that on the eleventh of July, she went to a house on Mahogany street extension where she had sex […]
Written on July 21, 2008 | Posted in
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In news from Magistrates’ Court, twenty-three year old Giovanni Saldano, a former warehouse clerk for Madisco, was charged with the theft of twenty-five boxes of assorted cigarettes valuing fifty-six thousand dollars when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie today. Saldano pleaded not guilty to the charge and the prosecution objected to bail on the […]
Written on July 21, 2008 | Posted in
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Casino owner John Hardie Jr., and Belizeans Martin Miller, David Gomez and Curlin Thompson begin tonight a second week of imprisonment at the Centro de Redeaptacion Social in Chetumal, Quintana Roo. The four are facing charges of attempted murder of Mexican National Edwin Jesús Navarro Meneses for a shooting that occurred on Belizean territory near […]
Written on July 21, 2008 | Posted in
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There is a reaction to the increased acts of violence and the recent spate of murders in the city and western Belize that has the potential to adversely affect tourist arrivals. The U.S. Embassy has issued a travel advisory to its citizens cautioning travel to Belize, and encouraging them to register at the nearest diplomatic […]
Written on July 21, 2008 | Posted in
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He was known for his use of colourful and often blunt language on both newspaper and radio, and today News Five records the death of “Smokey Joe” as he was popularly known. He wrote for the Amandala for long years and more recently, this eighty-eight year old man whose real name was Selvin Wade, was […]
Written on July 21, 2008 | Posted in
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There is more talk about taxes tonight coming close on the heels last week’s budget presentation, and that is because the 20th General Assembly of the Caribbean Organization of Tax Administrators (COTA) convenes in Belize this week for a four day conference. Belize and sixteen other Caribbean countries are sharing ideas on how to develop […]
Written on July 21, 2008 | Posted in
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