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The Mexican Embassy is sponsoring a drawing contest that is open to all primary school children throughout the country. The competition started on Tuesday and is part of the embassy’s mission to promote mutual understanding of the history and culture of both Belize and Mexico. Doctor Gina Aguilar, one of the organizers of the contest, […]
Written on January 23, 2009 | Posted in
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News agencies in the U.S. are reporting tonight that a Ghanaian man connected to a smuggling ring in Belize has been convicted of smuggling East Africans to the United States. On Thursday, twenty-seven year old Mohammed Kamel Ibrahim AKA Hakim, a native of Ghana and naturalized citizen of Mexico, was sentenced to five years in […]
Written on January 23, 2009 | Posted in
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Earlier in the newscast we reported on the alarming number of cases that fail because of evidence tampering. In his opening speech at the Supreme Court on Monday, Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh urged the use of provisions in the law to deal with persons who threaten or intimidate witnesses and to also deal with witnesses […]
Written on January 23, 2009 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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But there is one way in which prosecutors may be able to successfully present a case without depending solely on fearful or embarrassed witnesses to appear in court. Branker-Taitt points to a section of the Jamaican Evidence Act and hopes that it can be applied in Belize to help get convictions. Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt, D.P.P. “There […]
Written on January 23, 2009 | Posted in
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It’s Friday and it’s time to map the weekend of activities. And if you want to have fun, there are two events to look out for. Safiyyah is having a birthday party and masters of the floor will be having a first audition. Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is What’s Happening Belize? This Saturday is […]
Written on January 23, 2009 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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In his novel 1984, George Orwell describes a state in which the government or “Big Brother” is constantly watching over society. And now in modern day Belize, the controversial issue of telephone tapping has surfaced again. On Wednesday Prime Minister Dean Barrow, at a press conference commented on the topic of increasing crime, saying that […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
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Two brazen thieves in the early afternoon of Tuesday jacked the popular Marlin restaurant located in the vicinity of the Swing Bridge. It took less than two minutes when many patrons were having their lunch and health inspectors were on the premises. Unknown to the thieves, they were being recorded. Marion Ali has a report. […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
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San Pedro fire officials say while they are unable to determine what caused Wednesday morning’s blaze that destroyed the lower flat of a two storey wooden building, they are certain of where it started. Investigating officer, Miguel Medina told News Five today that the blaze started from the living quarters of Francisco Arceo, who owned […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
Disasters |
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In another fire, a car went up in a blaze this afternoon on Map Street. At about four-thirty p.m., Lucrecia Green, a cashier of the Belize Medical Associates, was driving along Cleghorn Street near the intersection with Mapp Street when flames suddenly burst from under the vehicles hood. Green and her female passenger immediately jumped […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
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The new session of the Supreme Court opened on Monday and today a jury of five men and four women deliberated for almost two hours in the court of Justice Adolph Lucas in the retrial of thirty-eight year old Edward Reyes. Reyes, the owner of Prime Cut Meats, was found guilty of Manslaughter in the […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
Trials |
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He is well known in the underworld and twenty-nine year old Darren Banks, who had been on remand for almost three months, is now out on bail. Banks was kept on remand on two previous occasions for charges of Attempted Murder, but today, Chief Magistrate, Margaret McKenzie offered him a bail of eight thousand dollars. […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
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It is difficult to keep up with illegal immigration because the borders of Belize are porous and the country is strategically located for those who want to head north. And on Wednesday, police caught up with several persons who were in the country illegally. While on mobile patrol at the Dump Settlement Area in the […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
Trials |
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Last week, more than fifty pounds of cocaine washed up in San Pedro AC in what is believed to be an earlier wet drop. Police picked up the drugs and handed it over to the Anti-Drug Unit. But it does not mean the white stuff is not circulating and only Wednesday the police department made […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
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San Pedro Town was not the only municipality to make a drug bust. Over eight pounds of cannabis were removed from Belize City Streets yesterday. On January twenty-first, officers conducted a search on G Street in Kings Park, the residence of twenty-seven year old Kareem Flowers. They found four thousand and twenty-six grams or eight […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
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On Wednesday night’s news we reported that the former Prime Minister, Said Musa wrote to his former Deputy Prime Minister, and new leader of the Opposition, John Briceño, demanding final payment of half a million dollars for the party assets owned by the old guard – those include Positive Vibes Radio and the Belize Times […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
Politics |
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And there’s more news from the P.U.P. as former Minister Jose Coye will be back in court soon. Coye has been served with a notice of civil action against him by the government. Coye recently said he felt vindicated after Lands Commissioner, Manuel Rodriguez, instructed the Lands Registrar to cancel letters of caution the ministry […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
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Municipal elections for towns and city councils are about a month and a half away on March fourth and the political sparring is well underway. All the way from the southern most district, Carlos “Obeah” Galvez, Mayor of Punta Gorda, visited our studios loaded with documents to bolster his point of alleged wrongdoings. The P.G. […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
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We reported last week that the consortium of companies called NEWCO sent out a press release revealing that it was taking civil action to collect its nine million dollar arbitration settlement. At a press conference on Wednesday, responding to the release, Prime Minister Dean Barrow said that they haven’t paid NEWCO because the two parties […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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No one from the Ministry of Natural Resources has been able to provide any feedback to News Five on the survey done on a nine-acre portion of the Caribbean Sea. Since Tuesday of this week we have been trying to reach either the C.E.O. in the Ministry of Natural Resources, Beverly Castillo or the Commissioner […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
Environment |
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On Monday News Five spoke to Doctor Michael Deshield, Director of Food Safety at Belize Agricultural Health Authority concerning the salmonella outbreak in the United States that has caused the death of six people and sickened four hundred and seventy-four others. Today, the Ministry of Health and the Consumer Protection Unit of the Belize Bureau […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
Health |
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We last heard of them for missing monies and even though it is well into January, today Grace Kennedy Limited launched its 2009 calendar entitled, Creative Cooking. It carries twelve recipes from Belizean cooks who use Grace Products. Senior Product Line Supervisor, Victor Guerrero, told us what criteria the recipes needed to satisfy. Victor Guerrero, […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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Dr. Peter Esselman of the U.S. has been studying the Belize water systems extensively for more than a decade. And he has now completed a doctorate that included a three year study programme on inland fishes. Today, Esselman disclosed to members of PACT, the Fisheries Department and the Audubon Society the findings of his research. […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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As though there aren’t enough reasons already for smokers to kick the habit… tonight there is one more. It’s called pulmonary fibrosis and while there aren’t any statistics to say how many lives have been claimed in Belize, it does exist. Persons at risk of developing pulmonary fibrosis are smokers, those who work with wood, […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
Health |
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It is hard to find a person in Belize that has not heard of him for the impact he had had in the life and political movement in Belize. He was born the third child of William Price and Irene Escalante and on January fifteenth, George Cadle Price turned ninety. He is referred to as […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
Uncategorized |
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It is commonly believed that eye problems are associated with identifiable symptom. When it becomes difficult to see, then something must be wrong. Healthy living looks takes a deeper look at glaucoma. Marleni Cuellar reporting It is referred to as the ‘silent blinder.’ It robs you of your vision slowly and most often goes undiagnosed […]
Written on January 22, 2009 | Posted in
Health |
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