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If you thought it was over, it is not, and today there has been a flurry of activity in the ongoing dispute over television signals. The dispute erupted on August 1, after Robert Reich’s C.B.C. concluded testing along various villages along the Western and the Southern Highways and subsequently discontinued signals in the area. C.B.C. […]
Written on August 13, 2008 | Posted in
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Belizeans who filled their tanks today got sticker shock, but it wasn’t because of an increase in prices. As of midnight on August twelfth the pump prices for fuel reduced an average of one dollar and fifteen cents. The new prices are as follows: premium gasoline is now ten-forty-one, dropping from eleven-forty-nine; regular decreased one […]
Written on August 13, 2008 | Posted in
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You may have heard of JICA, it is the cooperation arm of the Japanese Government and today the agency announced it was awarding thirteen scholarships to Belizeans, four of which were announced today. Present in Belize since the year 2000 with offices in over one hundred countries, JICA prides itself as an organisation that builds […]
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The September celebrations are just around the corner, and you will know this from the musical explosion that is coming our way… On Tuesday, Reckless stopped by the studio with his latest offering and tonight, Supa G is back in Belize from a successful tour in Chicago to promote his new CD before heading out […]
Written on August 13, 2008 | Posted in
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He is murder victim number sixty-nine for this year, fifteen more than was reported in the same period last year according to our records, and he is the fifth murder victim for the month of August. It happened early last night and the only shot that hit him, took his life on the spot. Marion […]
Written on August 12, 2008 | Posted in
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While police have their hands full with the unprecedented number of murders, there is a major break to report in the shocking case of a Belize City woman who met her death in a most horrific manner early Sunday evening. Thirty-nine year old Sandra Ruiz, a young professional employed by Esso, was robbed, raped and […]
Written on August 12, 2008 | Posted in
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In an update to the fatal shooting of David Burgess that occurred over the weekend, Mark Vernon appeared in court this morning and was charged with manslaughter by negligence. However, the prosecution objected to bail on grounds that the investigation into the case is still ongoing and that the charge could be upgraded to murder. […]
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He spent his first night behind bars on Monday night when Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb remanded him for the possession of an unlicensed bullet and today, Gion Bernard was back in court in connection with the robbery of Doony’s Store on August sixth. But due to an error in his booking, Bernard was taken back […]
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And following a story in our newscast last night, a teacher from River Side Street in Benque Viejo Town is in police custody pending charges in connection with a fatal traffic accident last Thursday morning. Forty-seven year old Ruperto Pinelo was reportedly driving a pick-up truck on the Yalbac Road when his vehicle collided with […]
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A month ago, Cayo’s Police Constable Jose Zetina, was convicted of the gruesome murder of his eighteen year old common-law wife Rosa Mejia and today Zetina was back in court for his sentencing … life imprisonment. Just before pronouncing the sentence, Justice Herbert Lord heard mitigation pleas from Leo Bradley, Zetina’s attorney, as well as […]
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And in the south, a man has been detained pending charges of attempted carnal knowledge against his niece. According to a woman from Hope Creek, on Sunday, she sent her nine year old daughter to her grandmother’s house in the company of her thirty-eight year old brother. They got off the bus at mile nineteen […]
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With new faces at the top in the Tourism Ministry, there are also changes in the marketing strategies of the Tourism Board. B.T.B. revealed today that it has contracted the U.S. based firm of B.V.K. Advertising and Public Relations Firm to market Belize in the United States as a prime tourism destination. B.V.K. takes over […]
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And in other news in the tourism industry, the hoteliers in Belize have released its first Hotel Directory which serves as a comprehensive guide of accommodations in the tourism industry. The publication is an initiative of the Belize Hotel Association and is being made available to major tourist agents abroad in particular in the U.S. […]
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In June, rains from Tropical Storm Arthur had residents in northern and southern Belize fleeing for their lives as rivers overflowed their banks and floods raced through low-lying communities. But tonight there is good news for displaced families from the Melinda Forest Station compound in Hope Creek in the Stann Creek District. On Monday, groundbreaking […]
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Disasters |
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Twenty-one more Belizeans will be studying in Taiwan. According to a press release from the Taiwanese Embassy, the students were awarded scholarships under a cooperation programme between the two countries. Eleven of the Belizeans will pursue two-year Master’s Degrees in programmes such as civil and industrial engineering, environmental science, work force education and information technology. […]
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He is back in the recording studio and he is Punta artist, Reckless, formerly of Punta Rebels and the duo Lloyd and Reckless. For two years now Reckless has been promoting his first solo album entitled “Mek Something Jump” received with much success both locally and internationally. Reckless dropped by our studios today to promote […]
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The process of rehabilitation of inmates is an ongoing task for the Kolbe Foundation which took over the reins of the Central Prison in Hattieville in 2002. Today the institution is home to one thousand three hundred and seventy one prisoners. News Five Jose Sanchez found out that one way of engaging the prisoners in […]
Written on August 12, 2008 | Posted in
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Back in March, the Government of Belize decided to go after the Belize Bank for ten million U.S. dollars granted by Venezuela late last year in December. Well today, after what appeared to be endless litigation, the government received the monies in Round One of the G.O.B. versus Ashcroft match. And it was handed over […]
Written on August 11, 2008 | Posted in
Trials |
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But the weekend was not without crime. Two persons were killed and we begin with the cold-blooded attack on a defenseless single mother and her children that ended fatally for the Belize City woman who was first raped and then brutally murdered at her home in the presence of at least one family member. Thirty-nine […]
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In the second killing, one man was shot dead and police have detained and charged two suspects. The incident occurred before noon on Saturday inside a car as the three occupants zipped past the Yabra Police Booth on Caesar Road, reportedly playing with the gun. The incident claimed the life of eighteen year old David […]
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While police were at a press conference talking crime, brazen robbers were busy at the offices of Baymen Cable. Two men went to the cable headquarters on Baymen Avenue on the premise that they were selling newspapers just before noon today. But when the security guard opened the door, the men pulled out guns, hit […]
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And from robberies to traffic accidents, a young man is dead following a traffic accident last Thursday morning on the Yalbac Road in the Cayo District. According to forty-seven year old Ruperto Pinelo, at around six-thirty that morning he was driving towards Spanish Lookout when a motorcyclist travelling in the opposite direction crossed his path, […]
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And there is more bad news. In weekend shootings, forty-three year old Adrian Robinson was admitted at the K.H.M.H. trauma room on Sunday night after he was shot six times. Police say an initial investigation shows that Robinson was shot when he went outside his Flamboyant Street home to check who was calling out for […]
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The Minister of National Security, Carlos Perdomo, faced a tough session with the press this morning – the reason, the undeniable increase in crime, in particular murders. There was plenty of talk of the police department’s Operation Cycle Breaker, introduced by the Police Department shortly after the Barrow administration took office. And as is evident, […]
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The ease that consumers received last week with the five dollar decrease in butane gas, has been cut short with an announcement that the price of both chicken and eggs has gone up. The wholesale price of whole dressed chicken increased twenty-six cents, from two-eighteen to two dollars and forty-four cents. Eggs on the other […]
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