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A Saturday night outing in Ladyville turned fatal for one and two others were injured in a traffic accident just after a deep curve near Miles eight and nine on the Northern Highway. The seventeen year old driver died while undergoing surgery and one passenger is in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. the other passenger […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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And up north, a man lost his life—also on the road—after he was knocked off his bike on Friday night. He has been identified as forty-two year old Francisco Garcia Villanueva, a Salvadoran national living in Paraiso Village. According to twenty-eight year old Elsner Manzanilla, the traffic mishap happened when he was driving his taxi […]
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The recent murder of twenty-seven Lacey Rosales remains a mystery. Belize City police have still not made any arrests in connection with last Tuesday morning’s stabbing murder on Pen Road. Rosales died after receiving numerous stab wounds to her chest and throat. The woman was surprised around five that morning as she exited her home […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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The quiet of Sunday evening was broken when two minors and an adult were shot at Rowland’s Alley, not far from downtown Belize City, when they stopped at a friend’s house for water. At about six-thirty p.m., eighteen year old Brandon Middleton was shot twice and received two injuries to his right thigh, three to […]
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In another shooting incident, also on Sunday, police have detained a suspect and a weapon. Forty year old Sarah Reyes of Simon Lamb Street told police that she was socializing in Lord’s Bank around six that evening when she felt a burning sensation in her left arm and realised she had been shot. Reyes reported […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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Closer to the city, there is a cool spot where you can get away and enjoy the seaside breeze. Perhaps that is what inspired two men to rob the bar near the sea at mile four and a half on the Northern Highway. The proprietor of the Bayview Oasis, sixty-five year old Otto Petterson, said […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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CLICO branches throughout the Caribbean have been folding and in Belize the local branch is now reportedly also facing liquidation. From what we have ascertained, there are three local agencies in Corozal, Orange Walk and in Belize City, with about fifteen agents and close to twenty employees whose fate with the company will be determined […]
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The visiting Court of Appeal is in session for the third week and Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay and his client, Rhett Fuller, are before the court fighting extradition to the United States in a case that goes back for almost two decades. Fuller has been on the U.S. wanted listed since the 90’s for the […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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But in the Supreme Court, a jury of seven women and two men deliberated for about two and a half hours and was unable to reach a verdict in the carnal knowledge trial of forty-nine year old Joel Hernandez. Hernandez, a watchman from Calla Creek Village is accused of the carnal knowledge of a thirteen […]
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And in the lower court, a Belize City man has been sentenced to six months in prison for theft. When he appeared in court today, forty-four year old Louis Romero changed his plea from not guilty to guilty. Romero, an employee of Youth for the Future is accused to stealing a cell phone from Karina […]
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In another case, a restaurant owner at the Belize City Municipal Airstrip was sent behind bars after he was denied bail on allegations that he assaulted three people with a gun. Forty-four year old Rick Munnings Senior pleaded guilty at first to three counts of Aggravated Assault with a Firearm before Magistrate Tracy Sosa and […]
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In other news, World Tuberculosis Day is being celebrated on Tuesday March twenty-fourth and Cleopatra White Health Clinic is leading the charge in spreading awareness about this infectious disease. The symptoms of TB include a persistent cough that won’t go away, headaches, fever, weight loss, poor appetite and a general feeling of tiredness. According to […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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The Barbados Coalition of Services Industries has partnered with the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industries and Beltraide to host a services trade mission to strengthen intra regional trade. The representatives from Barbados are in the jewel and today begin a series of meetings and other networking opportunities. At a business forum held at the […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Game two of the Belize Bank Super League Football Championship series saw the defending champion, Texmar Boys roll into Dangriga’s Carl Ramos Stadium yesterday with a one game lead over the host team, Valley Renaissance after last weeks 3-2 win at Independence. A win today […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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