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The controversy over the establishment of the Teaching Services Commission, as a part of the proposed Ministry of Education’s amendments to the Education Act, continues despite claims by the Ministry that the changes will stabilize Belize’s educational system. According to Minister of Education, Honorable Patrick Faber, the commission’s management of teacher applications and subsequent approvals […]
Written on August 11, 2009 | Posted in
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But while Faber was unavailable for comment because he is currently out of the country, Information Officer of the Ministry, Arlette Gomez, says that the release from the Catholic Diocese is misleading since the ministry has always had the final say with regard to hirings in church-state schools. Gomez says the amendment simply gives the […]
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A villager of Sarawee in the Stann Creek District is dead after he was knocked down on Monday night. The incident happened sometime before eight o’clock between miles four and five on the Stann Creek Valley Road and claimed the life of fifty four year old Dennis Peters. Police investigations have revealed that Emily Cornelius […]
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The uncle of deceased, sixteen year old Kevin Francis Jex, last Friday released information in which he alleges linked the police to his nephew’s death. Elton Jex claimed during a press conference at his house that he found out from another youth described only as Kareem, that he and Francis had robbed two people, including […]
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After spending three years behind bars awaiting trial, thirty-three year old Ted Armstrong had his day in court. Unfortunately for him, all that came of it was… more waiting time because prejudicial statements by police caused Justice Michelle Arana to discharge the jury and order a retrial. Armstrong is accused of fatally stabbing Jerome Longsworth […]
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A nineteen year old Rhaburn Ridge villager—who has been on the run since a shooting incident dating back to March—was finally detained by police on Monday. Jorge Rivera appeared today in the court of Senior Magistrate Dorothy Flowers to answer to two counts each of Attempted Murder and Aggravated Assault. No plea was taken and […]
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Gales Point Manatee Village is not only a home to the Kriol tradition but also to a large number of wildlife including manatees, loggerheads and the endangered hawksbill turtles. The abundance of wildlife prompted villagers to have the area declared a wildlife sanctuary on August fourth 1998. But since then the sanctuary has been surviving […]
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Today our basketball stars took to the floor for a second time in the COCABA Games in Cancun. Our opponents were from Guatemala and the victory we earned was even more impressive than Monday’s – winning by a convincing margin of thirty-seven points, with Belize scoring one hundred and Guatemala sixty-three points. James Adderley has […]
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Belize ahead by a mile; that is in Cancun, where the national team played in protest and secured an early lead in the COCABA regional games. The team massacred Nicaragua at the Cancun Poliforum where the games got underway this afternoon. Despite a last minute challenge from FIBA on the issue of the citizenship of […]
Written on August 10, 2009 | Posted in
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The COCABA games had a rocky start for Team Belize. The excitement wasn’t expected until the boys hit the court, but it appears that there was some strategy to scratch off more than half of the players from the roster prior to the first game. The late challenge was made by the International Basketball Federation […]
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Denys Barrow took the oath today as a Justice of the Court of Appeal. Justice Barrow was sworn in by Governor General, Sir Colville Young, at Belize House in Belmopan. Denys Barrow, Sworn in as Appeals Court Judge “I Denys Barrow do swear that I will bear true faith and allegiance in Belize and will […]
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And in the Magistrates’ Court, three persons were arraigned for the Murder of fifty-three year old Glenford Williams, who was employed with Anchor Security. The incident, a robbery attempt at the Western Union offices on Regent Street in May, ended fatally for the security guard on duty. That was three months ago and today two […]
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In other news from the courts, the brother of the Commissioner of Police, sixty-four year old William Jeffries doesn’t seem to have much regard for the law. And after eight previous drug related convictions, Jeffries finds himself behind bars for Possession of a three and a half inch pipe used to smoke drugs. The Tigris […]
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A shooting occurred in Belize City over the weekend in an area prone to violence. On Saturday night at about nine, a minor was standing at the corner of Vernon and Lakeview streets when two assailants rode up and blasted shots. One of the bullets caught the youth on the buttocks. Though the incident wasn’t […]
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A family outing in the Valley of Peace Area ended fatally for one member who was mistaken for wildlife. Sometime around four o’clock last Friday, a party of the Guardado family took off on a hunting trip. The group included thirty-nine year old Jose Antonio Guardado, his brother-in-law and three friends. The group headed to […]
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Also on Friday, around two-thirty that afternoon, a store in the Saint Matthew’s Village near mile thirty-nine on the western highway, was the target for an armed robbery. Seventeen year old victim, Elsworth Cus, told News Five off camera that he was alone at home with his mentally challenged brother when two men entered the […]
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And in the capital, a fourth person was charged this morning in connection with the vicious murder of eighty-two year old Belmopan taxi-driver, James Young. Twenty-five year old Sherlock Myvette now joins twenty-six year old Matthew Gentle, twenty-five year old Leon Gentle and nineteen year old Transito Ricardo Tzul for Young’s murder. Mister Jimmy, as […]
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In other news, the US States Chargé D’Affaires J.A. Diffily, handed over a donation to Belize today at the House of Culture. These funds will be used for cultural preservation and under the Ambassador’s Fund program, the House of Culture and the Institute of Archaeology, received grants totaling over two hundred and twenty thousand dollars. […]
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The construction work that was occurring within Krooman Lagoon has stopped. The reserve is the only of its kind in Belize City and its importance as a catchment basin for runoff waters after rains has been established for years. Businessman Jitendra Chawla, the owner of Xtra House who is better known as Jack Charles, was […]
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The COCABA games are dominating the national airwaves today, but there are a host of other sports whose fans want to know what occurred over the weekend. James Adderley has more on sports. In football news, game one of the Belize Female Football championships kicked off at Esperanza on Saturday August eighth when Gentle Touch […]
Written on August 10, 2009 | Posted in
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The sudden death of sixteen year old Kevin Francis was ruled a suicide on July twenty-sixth. His family, however, is not convinced and says that the fourth form student was murdered after he left home on Saturday, July twenty sixth. His uncle, Special Constable Elton Jex, has gone on camera to accuse the Police Department […]
Written on August 7, 2009 | Posted in
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The investigation into the death of twenty-one month old Jaydan Guy is almost completed. When we spoke with the Director of Health Services, Dr Michael Pitts, today he said the Quality Assurance Officer in the Ministry of Health, Michele Hoare, was expected to present the findings shortly. Little Jaydan Guy died after choking on a […]
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Social Issues |
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There is another case of missing monies in the west. Last month, Julio Santos was fired and then charged for the Theft of thirteen thousand dollars plus from the Border Management Agency. Well today, an employee of the Benque Viejo Town Council has been fired for thousands of dollars that went missing at the council. […]
Written on August 7, 2009 | Posted in
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We reported in our newscast on Thursday that the National Trade Union Congress was kicking up dust with three issues: the K.H.M.H. Inquiry, the Venezuelan Housing money and the Amendment to the Essential Services Act. And while they feel they have been slighted, the N.T.U.C.B. says it is open to dialogue. Still, P.S.U. President, Jackie […]
Written on August 7, 2009 | Posted in
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There is conflict in the Citrus Valley and it has nothing to do with the price of oranges. It has to do with the proposed removal of three directors by the Citrus Growers Association and its subsidiary, Investment Company Limited. The two companies no longer want former C.G.A. chairman, Frank Redmond, Mike Dunker, and C.E.O. […]
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