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One of his companies was named in our headline story last night when we reported that the Ministry of Culture was up in arms over an undisclosed contract with the President of the National Institute of Culture and History, Diane Haylock unknown to her Board of Directors, the Ministry and Minister Marcel Cardona. Tonight, it […]
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And on the unraveling controversy involving NICH President Diane Haylock and Minister Marcel Cardona, a copy of a letter by outgoing administrator Victor Espat, has been made available to the media. In the letter bearing today’s date, Espat tells Board members of the power struggle between Haylock and Cardona which according to him began on […]
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But while NICH Board members were kept in the dark about the contract, David Gegg, says the document which he signed with Haylock was a Concession Agreement which the entire NICH technical team knew about for months. Gegg says the project is one he feels is in the interest of everyone, including NICH for better […]
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Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh is the newest member of the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal. Conteh took the oath of office on December eleventh at the island. We are not sure how the appointment will work, but it does beg the question, what if any effects will the post have on his role as Belize’s […]
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Senior Superintendent of Police Chester Williams has been reinstated to post following a very public demotion earlier this year. Williams’ lawyer, Edwin Flowers confirmed to News Five today that he received a letter from the Belize Advisory Council stating that a decision had been reached to reverse the demotion made by the Security Services Commission […]
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Over the past few months the price of fuel at the pump has experienced two significant decreases and at midnight last night, the prices of regular and premium have plummeted even further and reached a milestone below five dollars. Premium or Super gasoline has dropped from six dollars and sixteen cents to four dollars and […]
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And while the heat is on for NICH President Dianne Haylock, Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya is facing her own ongoing dilemma with overdue payments for garbage collection. A release at the close of the workday from Belize Waste Control says that the company has not received payments for garbage collection for the past five […]
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The post-mortem has been conducted on the body of U.K. national Victoria Harner. Today’s police report quotes pathologist Dr. Mario Estradabran as saying that Harner died from head trauma and ruptured heart chest trauma as a result of a C.P.R. procedure. We are not sure whether that means that the C.P.R. she was administered contributed […]
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A minor appeared in Family Court today and was slapped with charges of Murder and Attempted Murder following a shooting in the early hours of Boxing Day at the Princess Hotel and Casino on Newtown Barracks. The fifteen year old is accused of the murder of twenty-nine year old Jermaine Trapp and the attempted murder […]
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Police have made an arrest in the Sunday night shooting of Griffith Green Junior. The alleged culprit is twenty-seven year old Roger Wagner Junior of Junesville in Belize City. Wagner handed himself in to police just before midnight on Sunday, but refused to participate in an I.D. parade and chose to remain silent. This morning […]
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In news from the courts, Edwin Davis, a.k.a. Lieutenant Stitchie, who is known for stealing batteries from cars, appeared in Magistrate Court this morning, to face another charge relating to missing batteries. Davis was charged with Attempted Theft and Damage to Property following an incident this past Monday. Davis was recently charged with several offences […]
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Another fight had more serious repercussions for the victim. On Monday morning police visited the K.H.M.H. and saw twenty-eight year old Michael Caine with four stab wounds to the back. Caine told police that he was in the Port area when he became embroiled in an argument with Alvin Conorquie, a resident of Second Street […]
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The battle to get guns off the streets rages on and tonight police are reporting two more successes. Around seven on Sunday night cops acted on an anonymous tip and visited an empty lot on Iguana Street Extension in Belize City. Hidden in some bushes in the yard was a point thirty-eight Special Taurus revolver. […]
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Two Belize City boat owners have reported their vessels stolen. Fifty-one year old Galindo Perez told police that on December eighteenth he left his twenty-three foot blue and yellow fiberglass skiff along with a forty horsepower Yamaha engine at Potto Stuck Island located thirteen miles from Belize City. The boat was in the care of […]
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After three p.m. this afternoon, alarms went off in downtown Belize City as a fire engine raced down Regent Street, contrary to traffic. And almost as quickly as it reached the end of the street, it turned around and raced back towards the Swing Bridge. It appeared that the source of the alarm was Belcove […]
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The hurricane season closed a month ago but preparations for the next period are already underway. This morning the U.S Southern Command based in Miami handed over to the National Emergency Management Organization sleeping accessories worth around twenty-seven thousand dollars. The items included more than five hundred cots and over a hundred sleeping bags. U.S […]
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While NEMO received a sizeable donation today, residents in the Cayo District will benefit from water services come 2009. According to a press release, the expansion will take place in the Bradley’s Bank and the Hill View Area near Santa Elena and will result in approximately two point nine miles of pipe being laid. The […]
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It is the countdown to the New Year, and News Five has a peek at the many activities planned around the City to usher in 2009. Whatever your mood is, there is plenty entertainment. The day begins with a huge live concert by Channel Five which will set the tone for the rest of the […]
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We mentioned earlier in this newscast that Channel Five is organizing a live concert for the hit Morning Show; Open Your Eyes, tomorrow morning beginning at six-thirty. The free concert will be aired live from Channel Five studios on Duck Lane. There will be live musical performances by Supa G and plenty other entertainment. What’s […]
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