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Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s quarterly press conference was held this morning. The topics varied from hot button issues on Jalacte and the economy, which is where we’ll start tonight. It is no secret that countries around the world are grappling with the economic recession… and Belize is no different. Inflation is up, tourist arrivals are […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
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But one issue that is still unresolved is a bodega well within southern Belize. Last week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent out a press release confirming that the illegally erected bodega near Jalacte is within Belizean territory. And while Belize, Guatemala, and the O.A.S. agree that it needs to be dismantled, the O.A.S. was […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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The paving of Albert and Regent Streets appeared to take forever and it is now less than a month since its completion. But today if you drove downtown in Belize City you would have been shocked to see a deep man sized crater near Delta Store at the end of Albert Street. News Five’s Jose […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
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Earlier this month the Public Utilities Commission announced that they had made an amendment to the June 2008 annual review proceeding final decision. This would have resulted in an initial twelve percent reduction in rates for consumers. P.U.C. Chairman John Avery explained at the time that the decreases followed a new rate setting methodology instituted […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
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U.D.P. stalwart, Goldburn Adolphus, also known as “Eazy Glenn” could have gotten arrested today after he reportedly threw a rock at a door at his party’s Wave Radio. News Five understands that Adolphus became irate after he asked Mayor Zenaida Moya if he could get back his job at City Hall. The Mayor, who had […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
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And while the Mayor was battling with one of her previous supporters, in the PUP there also seems to be no end to the political divisions between the old guard and the new guard. And this goes back to the party assets which the new PUP said it had to buy from the old PUP. […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
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Police may not have their main suspects in custody for a number of robberies in the past twenty-four hours, but they have made some inroads in the jacking of National Transports Limited at two and three quarter miles on the Western Highway. Officer Commanding the Crime Investigations Branch, Superintendent Julio Valdez, says they recovered the […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
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It appears that no one is spared of the rampant crime scourge that is affecting our society, particularly in the Belize City streets. And tonight we have three more robberies to report. We start off with an armed hold up at Marlin’s Restaurant on Regent Street West in Belize City. Part owner of the business, […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
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Another business that was targeted by thieves was Manuel’s Jewelry Shop on West Canal, also in Belize City. Proprietor of the business, fifty-five year old Manuel Matute told police that the bandits pounced on him around four-thirty on Monday afternoon and cleaned out his jewelry showcase. Matute spoke with News Five off camera about the […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
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Thieves also got busy robbing a taxi driver of his keep on Monday night. The incident occurred on north side Belize City on York Street, situated off Douglas Jones Street. Taxi driver, forty-one year old Emmanuel Mah reported to police that he was on Princess Margaret Drive when two men approached him and hired him […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
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Fire officials have not been able to determine the cause of a blaze that gutted a two storey wooden and plycem house in the D.F.C area of San Pedro Town early this morning. The blaze was first spotted around twelve-thirty and it took fire fighters three hours to extinguish it. By that time, a portion […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
Disasters |
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The search for twenty-eight year old Leon Staine is over. The former accounts manager of Grace Kennedy Belize today appeared in court to answer to thirteen counts of Theft that was brought against him by the company. It is alleged that Staine stole over fifty-three thousand dollars from the company between June and October of […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
Trials |
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In other news from the courts, fifty-three year old Carlos Lauriano, who was busted with just under one pound of cannabis, was fined ten thousand dollars when he appeared in court today. Lauriano, a fisherman was apprehended on Tuesday by the cops when he was seen acting suspiciously. He was promptly taken to court, pleaded […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
Trials |
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Earlier this week, we heard the Attorney General’s bold statements on the state of affairs in the judiciary and today we found him addressing a meeting of the Legal Affairs Committee of CARICOM being held in Belize for the first time. At a brief opening ceremony this morning, Attorney General Wilfred Elrington discussed the committee’s […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
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She is currently on suspension, but today the Prime Minister confirmed that Diane Haylock will keep her job. Haylock’s contract, which comes up for renewal next month, will be extended for another year. And as for the contract that she signed with developer David Gegg, Barrow says while the matter now rests with the NICH […]
Written on January 21, 2009 | Posted in
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The Orange Walk Town Council is under the spotlight tonight and it has to do with financial irregularities under the watch of Mayor Ravei Gonzalez. As it turns out, the Council is not only borrowing from pawn shops at excessive interest rates, but it is covering up its debts through a local organization. Copies of […]
Written on January 20, 2009 | Posted in
Politics |
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It comes as no surprise, but recently released figures from the Statistical Institute of Belize reveals that in 2008 prices shot up where it hurts the most: food and medical care. According to S.I.B., last year consumers paid fifty percent more for flour, thirty-five percent more for rice, and about sixteen percent more for chicken. […]
Written on January 20, 2009 | Posted in
Economy |
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And while statistics were dismal in 2008 in prices of food and medical care, there is some news that will delight consumers since the price of cooking gas, has gone down again. According to a release late this evening, the Belize Press Office, G.O.B. has approved a decrease in the maximum retail price of a […]
Written on January 20, 2009 | Posted in
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There has been no break in Monday’s robbery of National Transport Services Limited and the stolen monies have still not been recovered by police when we checked today. Shortly after eight, three robbers hit the offices located at miles two and three-quarters on the Western Highway and within seconds got away with the loot of […]
Written on January 20, 2009 | Posted in
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And in news from the courts, the long arms of the law have finally caught up with fifty-three year old Anthony Myvett, an unemployed man of West Street who allegedly had sex with an eight year old child. Myvette was charged with Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and Dangerous Harm when he appeared today in Magistrates’ Court. […]
Written on January 20, 2009 | Posted in
Trials |
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And the remarks at the ceremonial opening of the new session of the Supreme Court on Monday were not of the same note between Attorney General Wilfred Elrington and Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. Both had opposing views, the CJ spoke of the lack of finances and referred to Oliver Twist who said “Can we please […]
Written on January 20, 2009 | Posted in
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At yesterday’s opening of the Supreme Court the C.J. spoke of the staggering number of cases—a total of eighty-three—in which the D.P.P.’s office entered a nolle prosequi and the cases were struck out. The C.J. counseled the D.P.P. not to press on with an indictment when there was not enough material. But there are two […]
Written on January 20, 2009 | Posted in
Crime |
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Last Thursday News Five broke the story of a portion of the Caribbean Sea six miles northwest of San Pedro Town that had been surveyed on August eighth, 2008. During that time, the Ministry of Natural Resources was presumably closed for public transactions and was busy investigating alleged wrong doings. Well, interestingly enough, the nine […]
Written on January 20, 2009 | Posted in
Environment |
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The next time you throw a fishing line into the sea you may want to think twice because it may cost you money even if you don’t catch anything. Well, The Coastal Zone Management Agency has been mandated to issue Sport Fishing licenses and collect Sport Fishing license fees. The good news is that it […]
Written on January 20, 2009 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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Nature lovers will be happy to know that they can once again return to one of the Belize District’s premiere destinations for conservationism. The Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary has been closed since torrential rains swelled across the Belize River Valley last year. And that reopening has come just in time because this year, the agency […]
Written on January 20, 2009 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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