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It is a major bust by law enforcement agents which involves the confiscation of illegal drugs fake whiskey and cigarettes. And today’s haul, the fourth for this year suggests that Belize is a transshipment point for illicit drugs heading north. What triggered the find by authorities was an attempt by a group of men, believed […]
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And in other news from the dangerous Belize City streets, a man is recovering at the Karl Heusner tonight from gunshot wounds. At about nine-thirty p.m. last night thirty-eight year old Phillip Lightburn, a resident of Cemetery Road, was sitting at the corner of Fullers Alley and Cemetery Road, when a man came up behind […]
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Children at Saint John’s Anglican Primary on Amara Avenue in Belize City returned to school today after a long summer break, but the first day of classes was frightening when a lone gunman attacked the school principal while administrators conducted late registrations. School counselor, Caroline Westby, was in the Resource Centre next door and heard […]
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Belizean law enforcement authorities believe there may be a breakthrough in the murder of Mennonite contractor, Wilhelm Braun, who was gunned down execution style at the Commercial Free Zone. Sources close to News Five say that at around seven o’clock on Friday night, authorities detained a man who was trying to enter Mexico at the […]
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And in an update to last Tuesday’s murder in Sarteneja, the results of an autopsy conducted on the charred remains of Ronnie Alamilla are inconclusive because of the degree of burns on Alamilla’s remains. The twenty-eight year old Sarteneja Hotel Manager was last seen in the company of twenty-two year old Cristino Verde around eleven […]
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On Friday, we reported on the mysterious death of eighteen year old U.B. student, Juan Baeza and tonight police have made an arrest. On Saturday police formally arrested and charged eighteen year old Izra Zetina, with Baeza’s murder. On Thursday, Baeza, Zetina, and nineteen year old Gaspar Vasquez, all students of U.B., hitched a ride […]
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And in a story we aired last Thursday fourteen persons who were intercepted by police for illegal entry into Belize, the group remains in police custody in Belmopan. The fourteen nationals of Taiwanese, Guatemalan and Salvadoran nationality, were fined a thousand dollars each on charges of Illegal Entry when they appeared in the Belmopan Magistrates’ […]
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Police are trying to track down a rapist who attempted to assault his second victim in two weeks. The perpetrator first struck last Sunday morning when he allegedly raped one of two women whom he held up with a knife between Antelope Street and Iguana Street Extension, in Belize City. Now police believe that the […]
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Less than two months after a Belize City paraplegic was busted with crack cocaine, today he was back in court for the same offence. This morning fifty-five year old Barrington William Carr pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking in Magistrates’ Court number three. He was offered bail of three thousand dollars and ordered to reappear […]
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B.E.L. has finally released a statement on the standoff with the Public Utilities Commission following last week’s directive by the regulatory body instructing the utility company to comply with requests for new connections. B.E.L.’s position was and continues to be that because of the cap of twenty-five million dollars in capital investment, it could not […]
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There is more trouble within the United Democratic Party, which is showing it is anything but united. The latest case of internal infighting involves businesspersons Kevin Gonzalez and Yolanda Parham, two solid U.D.P. names in San Pedro Ambergris Caye and the U.D.P. controlled Town Council. According to reports from the island, Gonzalez and Parham sought […]
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It’s every musician’s dream to make it big … and tonight one Belizean group has been given that opportunity. While performing at a charity concert in California several weeks ago, the group Bryce Simpson caught the eye of Kashif, an American songwriter and producer who has agreed to work with them on an album. Kendoyll […]
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It’s back to school for children of primary and high schools countrywide and to help with a smooth transition, the Women Inspired to Serve and Help are rendering assistance to kids of less fortunate families. Today, members of the WISH Foundation distributed over two hundred back to school kits to students of the Primary schools […]
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In the oldest beauty pageant in Belize, Karima Card, competing as Miss Black Orchid was chosen as the new Queen of the Bay to succeed outgoing Queen, Ronnie Coye. Card won over nine other contestants in talent, evening gown, and interview segments to capture the title of Queen of the Bay 2008-2009 and was also […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week six of the RF&G Cup tournament brought the Belize City Derby to the M.C.C. Grounds as F.C. Belize took aim at the Belize Defence Force in a battle for the hearts and minds of the metropolis by the sea. In the opening minutes it’s […]
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