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Last Wednesday three persons died in a horrible accident on the Northern Highway near Carmelita Village. And tonight five days later, the Highway has claimed the life of four more persons caused again by a tire blow-out. The latest tragedy occurred shortly before six on Sunday evening, and it involved a family from the village […]
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The twenty-ninth murder for 2009 happened just before seven-thirty last Friday night on the boundary between the Collet and Port Loyola Divisions as the old capital continues to be plagued by the highest number of homicides in the jewel. Friday night’s murder was carried out by one man who opened fire on a group of […]
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And there are two more murders to report tonight that also occurred over the weekend, but this time across the western border in Melchor de Mencos. Details are beginning to come in and Benque Viejo police have confirmed that two Belizeans were shot dead in separate incidents in the neighboring town. The first victim, twenty-two […]
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In other crime news, two men were shot in Belize City at about five thirty p.m. on April fourth. Twenty seven year old Terry Felix and twenty three year old Edward Thompson were standing in front of Excelsior High School on Faber’s Road when they were shot by a lone gunman. Felix’s mother, Therese was […]
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The Best Bake Bakery opened only three months ago on Western Avenue in Belize City and already it has been hit by robbers who made off with over four hundred dollars when they held up the bakery. Owner of the recently opened bakery, Zebedee Peterson Junior told News Five that the incident occurred around two […]
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And in the north, a driver was robbed of ten thousand dollars when he had concluded deliveries in the city. The incident happened last Thursday at about seven fifty p.m. when twenty five year old Calbert Castillo, a driver for Amelio Ahmad and Son Company Limited on fifth Avenue, Corozal Town parked his truck inside […]
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There is good news coming from the Belize Poultry Association tonight and it is just in time for Easter. In a meeting of egg producers last Friday, it was decided that since production has improved, the price of eggs is going down with immediate effect. If you purchase eggs individually you may not see the […]
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It has been six days since former Prime Minister, Manuel Esquivel, was flown to Miami, Florida for medical attention following a traffic accident on the Western Highway. And shortly before nine this morning, the sixty-nine year old senior financial advisor to the government, begun seven hours of surgery for facial reconstruction at the Jackson Memorial […]
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And we turn to immigration matters. There are ongoing investigations in two cases involving nationals who use Belize as a spring board to the United States. The first case involves eight Chinese nationals—seven men and one woman—who arrived on a direct chartered flight on the Cuban airline, Aero Caribbean on March twenty-sixth. The initial reports […]
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And there is another illegal person in prison facing deportation. Twenty-one year old Jose Cecilio Yanes of Honduras was recently freed of a murder charge in the stabbing death of thirty-one year old Tito Burgos Caballeros, which occurred in March of 2007. But Yanes was back in court today and pleaded guilty to Being a […]
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The law caught up today with thirty-nine year old Kumar Prakash, owner of K-Park Supermarket, who was charged with two counts of Employing Persons not in Possession of Employment Permits. When he appeared in Magistrates’ Court, Prakash pleaded not guilty, was offered bail of two thousand five hundred dollars and was remanded into custody until […]
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There is another twist to the story of a wooden house on Elston Kerr Street that was destroyed by fire last Thursday. There is now reason to believe the fire was deliberate. The home belonged to twenty eight year old Kimberly Trapp who today told News Five that she has been “going through some changes” […]
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Tonight we report on two programming features to complement our newscast and our Morning Show. Firstly, beginning on April fourteenth to twentieth, our breakfast show ‘Open Your Eyes’ will be broadcasted from Trinidad and Tobago and we will have reports in our newscast of the Fifth Summit of the Americas. William Neal and myself will […]
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First Caribbean Bank’s Unsung Heroes program has been running since 2003. It’s a recognition program that promotes individuals who give and work tirelessly to develop the community. The local coordinator of the program says that the bank is asking the public to make nominations of outstanding individuals in society. The winner will receive a monetary […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into Sports Monday. The highly anticipated opening of the Inter-office Basketball season got off to a blast, Friday night at the Civic Center with all twenty-four teams representing in the opening ceremonies, which included remarks from the president of the Belize Basketball Federation, Paul Thompson, and I.B.L […]
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