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A month ago he was told his contract with the Cane Farmers Association would not be renewed. The C.E.O., Carlos Magana, was pretty shaken up at the unexpected news. Today, he held a press conference in Orange Walk Town and unleashed a string of allegations of corruption, politics and misappropriation of hundreds of thousands of […]
Written on August 5, 2009 | Posted in
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And why did he wait until now to come forward? Magana says while that keeping silent on these very serious allegations implicated him as the C.E.O., he said that the information would have been exposed at the upcoming general assemblies. Carlos Magana, former CEO, Cane Farmers Assn “If I wouldn’t have done it now, the […]
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Still up north, thieves made off with a sizeable loot when they hit the Nineteen Miles Supermarket in Sandhill. The loss to owners tallied up to the tune of over seventeen thousand dollars and when we spoke to co-owner of the store, Brian Liou, he told us he thinks they were being watched because the […]
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And five days ago the body of eighty-two year old taxi-driver, James Young, was found in the bushes near the Pooks Hill Resort some thirteen miles off the Western Highway in Teakettle Village. Tonight there is progress to report in the investigation of who could have killed the senior citizen of Cohune Walk in the […]
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There is more coming out about the fictional university that was advertised on the internet to be situated at the Warrie Head Lodge in Teakettle Village. It’s name: University of Central America, School of Medicine in Belize. While there is clearly no hospital, school facilities or the faculty of over one hundred and fifty, the […]
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While fishermen at fish markets depend on their daily catch to make a living, others were banking big on the lionfish. Well, that’s all over, because the Fisheries Department says it is discontinuing the fifty dollars reward for the capture of the fish. And what’s behind this? Firstly, Fisheries, says that they now have over […]
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And in the courts, an inmate will spend additional time at the Hattieville Prison after being found guilty of Drug Trafficking by Magistrate Rachel Montejo. Forty-four year old Rudolph Alexander Bennett was convicted for over half a pound of weed stashed inside his boots. That’s another conviction to add to the long list Bennett has […]
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Also in the Magistrate’s court, three cops: two brothers and a sister, were charged for attacking one of their own during a case of domestic abuse. Today, twenty-two year old police constable, Rachel Sutherland and her two brothers: twenty year old Ryan and twenty-four year old Ronald, were placed on interdiction by the police department […]
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Du Di Rait Ting, that’s a program initiated by the police as an effective way to involve the community to reward students that show positive behavioural patterns and attitudes. The program first started in the United States and now in its third year in Belize, it has been met with much success. News Five’s Delahnie […]
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Belize’s National Softball team has not fared well at the Seventh Pan American Women’s Championships. The event is being held in Maracay, Venezuela and Tuesday night we reported that the team suffered two straight losses against Cuba and the Dominican Republic. To stay in the competition, the team also had to win last night’s game […]
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Many people say that the church, as an institution, is not reaching the youth. “Everything is too old fashioned” the younger generation would say. However, reaching the youth is not an issue for Andrew Pitterson. He has many captivated by his verse. Pitterson is far from the regular bible thumper. While you may not know […]
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There is another murder to report tonight. On Monday police discovered the body of eighty-two year old taxi driver James Young in the area of Teakettle in the Cayo District on the Western Highway. And today another body has surfaced. The victim is a Hispanic man believed to be between his thirties and forties. His […]
Written on August 4, 2009 | Posted in
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The parents of twenty-one month old Jaydan Guy are not only mourning his untimely passing, they are also blaming the weaknesses in the public health system for his death. The toddler choked on a red kidney bean and died six days later. The incident began to unfold at about eleven-fifteen on the morning of Wednesday […]
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Anna Guy said before doctors transferred the baby to Belize City, they made a superficial slit on his throat, but not on the trachea to create airspace. She added that in all the confusion, there was a lot that could have been done in order to save their baby’s life. Anna Guy, Mother of Deceased […]
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The question of whether or not more could have been done to save the toddler has consistently been asked. Doctor Cecilio Eck, one of the pediatricians who helped to revive the infant, says that the family followed the appropriate procedures to aid the infant. However, the main issue was the fact that a Rigid Bronchoscope […]
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The story began two years ago when a local businessman was approached for the use of his property along the Western Highway to establish an offshore medical university. That discussion led to an impressive full blown internet promotion, which News Five’s Jose Sanchez found out, was a fraud. The advertised university never got off the […]
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In news from the courts, he shot and killed his friend in March 2008 and today, forty-one year old Yong Sheng Zhang, a Chinese national and businessman, pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of Manslaughter before Justice Michelle Arana. He had originally been charged with the Murder of Chi Cheong Chan. Last year on March […]
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Also in court, thirty-five year old Herman Lanza has been fined five thousand dollars after pleading guilty to a charge of Grievous Harm. Last Thursday, Lanza, who was being charged for the Attempted Murder of Dean Bennett appeared before Justice Michelle Arana and pleaded guilty to the alternative charge. This morning at his mitigation plea, […]
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In more news from the courts, late this evening, thirty year old Adrian Bradley, son of Attorney Dickie Bradley, was slapped with three charges: the Aggravated Assault upon P.C. Mervin Locke, Wounding and Damage to Property. The charge of Damage of Property relates to Locke’s Anti-Drug Unit uniform. Locke was one of three officers who […]
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Mexico is having its first international shrimp fair and it coincides with Shrimp Week celebrated from August eight to the fourteenth. The two-day event, which will be held in Chetumal, Quintana Roo on the fifteenth and sixteen of August, is expected to boost the exportation of shrimp to Mexico from Belize, Honduras and Guatemala. The […]
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In other regional news, President Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from office for more than a month, on June twenty-eighth. And despite worldwide condemnation for the coup de etat in Honduras, the de facto regime headed by Ricardo Micheletti has prevented his return to office. While in Honduras over the weekend, News Five got reactions […]
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Belize’s national basketball team is heading to the regional qualifying games for the Olympics in 2012 and that journey starts in Cancun. And what better place to enjoy the games… Channel Five will be bringing you live broadcast of the games and extended coverage on Open Your Eyes. And what happens in Cancun will not […]
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Basketball is not the only game that Belize is playing on an international level. While the male National Basketball team is headed to Mexico this weekend, the Women’s softball team is currently playing in the Seventh Pan American Women’s Softball Championship in Maracay, Venezuela. The statistics are in and while they aren’t good, Belize still […]
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It started out as the Sea and Air Festival; that was eighteen years ago, and it has evolved into Costa Maya, the biggest annual festival hosted by the Jewel. The activities are engineered to boost tourism on La Isla Bonita in the slow season and indeed huge numbers converge on the island. The famous Reina […]
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Taxi driver, James Young, from the nation’s capital died a horrific death. He was stabbed at least seventeen times. His body was discovered some two hundred yards off a feeder road in the vicinity of Pooks Hill Resort located thirteen miles from the Western Highway in the Teakettle Village. He had been missing for some […]
Written on August 3, 2009 | Posted in
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