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The fisheries industry is the fourth largest foreign exchange earner and over two thousand persons depend directly on fishing to earn a living. Today, CARICOM delegates of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group involved in the management of the industry converged at the Princess Hotel for a needs assessment workshop. The two-day workshop entitled ACP […]
Written on October 27, 2009 | Posted in
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Belizean Author, Zee Edgell, has spent many books including In Times Like These, Festival of San Joaquin and the most renowned, Beka Lamb. Over the past weekend, Edgell travelled to Cave Hill University in Barbados where she was conferred with an honorary doctorate. News Five contacted her via phone from her home in the U.S. […]
Written on October 27, 2009 | Posted in
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Music is a form of communication and a duo released a CD that is expected to send a message to its listeners. Sharon Humes and Melissa Mossiah, known as Autumn’s Spring, launched their first album entitled “Freedom sixty-one-one.” The gospel artists from Burrell Boom Village have been playing instruments and singing for over a decade […]
Written on October 27, 2009 | Posted in
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It’s the perfect time to play the game because the Lotto jackpot is hot. After a farmer took home the October fourteenth winnings and twenty persons shared the October seventeenth prize, today there is another lucky winner. A nurse of twenty-eight years and faithful lotto buyer won with her special numbers, 5, 9, 12, 19 […]
Written on October 27, 2009 | Posted in
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Two men were murdered over the weekend: one in Hattieville and the other in the twin-town of Santa Elena/San Ignacio. In Hattieville, a resident was found with his throat slit in a dug-out pool. In Santa Elena, a taxi driver was shot in front of his common-law-wife and her three children. She believes it is […]
Written on October 26, 2009 | Posted in
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The body of a Hattieville resident was found at the edge of dug out pool behind his home last Friday evening. Hubert Tillett lived in a secluded area about two and a half miles down the Dollar Bank Road. His wife and kids reside in the United States. Tillett was last seen by his brother […]
Written on October 26, 2009 | Posted in
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While the Hattieville home invasion turned fatal for a resident, a family not far away in Burrell Boom experienced a similar ordeal but was fortunate to survive. After one Saturday morning, a sixty-two year old Burrell Boom resident woke up to his home under siege and his wife and kids in danger. The businessman requested […]
Written on October 26, 2009 | Posted in
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And in the city, a fire sometime around ten on Sunday night destroyed the home of a family of four. Thirty-three year old Marcelteno Montejo and his two year old son were inside their home located on Periwinkle Street in the Lake I Area when an overload in an extension cord used to power his […]
Written on October 26, 2009 | Posted in
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Both the P.U.P. and the U.D.P. had a busy weekend. While the P.U.P. headed west, the U.D.P. executive met in the city on Saturday. In the west, the contentious issue of ownership of the Belize Times, Independence Hall and Positive Vibes Radio, was ventilated. The assets, which were considered to belong to the P.U.P., turned […]
Written on October 26, 2009 | Posted in
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Meanwhile in the governing party, Mayor Zenaida Flowers returned from a conference in England on Saturday on the same day her party’s National Party Council was meeting to establish the Ethics and Integrity Committee which will determine whether or not the Mayor stays in the party. The Mayor has been charged with the criminal offences […]
Written on October 26, 2009 | Posted in
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This afternoon Justices; Elliott Mottley, Dennis Morrison and Boyd Carey of the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by the Government of Belize against businessman Barry Bowen and the Landowners Association. G.O.B. had appealed a landmark ruling by the Chief Justice, Dr Abdulai Conteh given earlier this year in which the C.J. ruled that the […]
Written on October 26, 2009 | Posted in
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The preliminary inquiry into the Money Laundering case of Money Gram Director, Melonie Coye, started today in the Magistrate’s Court. Prosecutor for the Financial Intelligence Unit, Antoinette Moore, submitted eighty five statements against the Coye family to Magistrate Kathleen Lewis. A total of five members of the Coye family are charged with Money Laundering. By […]
Written on October 26, 2009 | Posted in
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A school warden and a minor from Belize City are tonight behind bars after they were charged with firearm offences. After a police bust over the weekend, twenty-two year old Rosemarie Reyes and her fourteen year old brother who is a student, appeared in court today and were charged with keeping an unlicensed firearm and […]
Written on October 26, 2009 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s son, Jamal “Shyne” Barrow is heading home. Shyne has served almost nine years in prison for assault and reckless endangerment following a shooting at a Manhattan nightclub in 1999. The Prime Minister wrote to New York Governor seeking pardon for his son, but the news is that he is coming home […]
Written on October 26, 2009 | Posted in
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The official opening ceremonies for the thirteenth annual Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation Congress took place today at the Biltmore Plaza Hotel. Delegations from the seven member countries convened in the River Hall room of the hotel to celebrate the start of what will create a network between the countries to strengthen conservation and […]
Written on October 26, 2009 | Posted in
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Last week the Association of Secondary Schools met to discuss and propose a way forward to mitigate crime and violence. This comes on the heels of an uncontrollable crime wave in which more schools and students are falling victims. Today the Excelsior High School took to the streets to kick off a week of activities […]
Written on October 26, 2009 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for this portion and Sports Monday. Kraal road of Belize City went into week twelve of the Belize Bank Super League with a four point lead in the standings of the north zone, already assured of moving on to the eight team playoffs. How did […]
Written on October 26, 2009 | Posted in
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The Belize City Council is known to be broke and unable to pay bills. The mayor has been criminally charged and while she was out of the country, new allegations came out of more improprieties against her. Now there’s another bombshell on a councillor. In an audit of the council from 2006 to 2008, it […]
Written on October 23, 2009 | Posted in
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The audit also touched on the relationship between the council and Peyrefitte family business. The councillor says that her family didn’t receive any benefits from the incentives that the city council offers. However, employees of Peyrefitte Brothers did double duty and were collecting taxes for the council on commission. Between 2006 and 2008, one of […]
Written on October 23, 2009 | Posted in
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Across the political fence, we have reported that all roads lead to Cahal Pech, Cayo this coming Saturday, where a fiery and perhaps historic meeting of the National Executive of the P.U.P. is being convened. Fiery because there is plenty anger in the ranks and historic because the P.U.P. finds itself at a juncture where […]
Written on October 23, 2009 | Posted in
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Hard times are hitting villages in the north. Residents have been unable to pay their water bills and B.E.L. pulled the plug on October nineteenth for arrears of eight thousand dollars. So how are the villagers surviving without water and light? Marion Ali headed to the twin villages of San Pablo/San Jose and has this […]
Written on October 23, 2009 | Posted in
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In breaking news, News Five’s Duane Moody is just back from Hattieville where a body has been found in a swimming pool. At this early stage, police are treating this case as one of murder. The body has been identified as Hubert Tillett, a resident of the village. The discovery was made by his brother […]
Written on October 23, 2009 | Posted in
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There is a war in fuel prices. Gone are the days when gas stations stick to the regulated prices set by government. News Five checked with several stations today and found where consumers can save a few cents at the pump. The government controlled price of fuel at the pump is eight dollars and seventy-four […]
Written on October 23, 2009 | Posted in
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A former People’s United Party City Councillor and radio talk-show host had to spend a night in prison for failure to pay an outstanding fine owing to the Belize Social Security Board. Owner and proprietor of Carter’s Custom Upholstery, Darrel Carter, was arrested and charged late Thursday evening after police visited his business at the […]
Written on October 23, 2009 | Posted in
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A Honduran national finds himself behind bars after he was accused of raping a woman on Sunday morning. Forty-eight year old laborer, Hector Figueroa a resident of Police Street Extension in Belize City, appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie today and was arraigned for the indictable offence. He is to reappear in court on […]
Written on October 23, 2009 | Posted in
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