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As we have reported, the website of the Hayward Charitable Belize Trust Fund was launched today and if you have not checked it out, then you are invited to go on line to so do at www.thehaywardcharitablebelizetrust.com. Not-for-profit organizations who wish to apply for funding can so do. Up to twenty million dollars annually will […]
Written on November 25, 2009 | Posted in
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There have been many unusual developments in the judiciary lately, including a public war of words between the Attorney General and the Chief Justice. Today, News Five has learnt of an application being made by the Belize Electricity Limited seeking leave to rehear an oral ruling by the Court of Appeal given on October twenty-seventh […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
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A fire in Caye Caulker that started at about two o’clock this morning lasted for two hours and by the time it was contained, over seven hundred thousand dollars in damages were caused to three properties. But the issue stirring much anger on the island today was the alleged negligent response of the Fire Department. […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
Disasters |
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The garbage problem remains unresolved in the old capital. City Hall once more breached its most recent agreement with the Belize Maintenance Limited when it could not meet last Friday’s part payment of ten thousand dollars. As a result, BML could not pay its staff and has had to send home about a hundred of […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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But if the City Council can’t meet even one seventh of its contractual agreement, then how will it meet the full arrangement of seventy thousand dollars a week? There doesn’t seem to be an answer in sight and as they say while the grass grows, the horse starves. We found one of those workers at […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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But while Ellis looks to the Council to pay up, Councillor responsible for Sanitation, Phillip Willoughby, says the problem is also the citizens’ fault. Philip Willoughby, Councillor responsible for Sanitation “Then I say if in fact that is the case, then we turn around and say to the residents of the city and to the […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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It was either a streak of bad luck or she was framed by a friend. On December nineteenth of 2008, twenty-eight year old mother of six, Kristine Rehanna Bood, a resident of Lakeview Street in Belize City was busted at the Security check point of the Kolbe Foundation as she allegedly tried to smuggle cannabis […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
Trials |
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As we told you on Monday’s newscast, the website of the Hayward Charitable Belize Trust, is about to come online. In fact, its launch is on Wednesday when you can log on to www.thehaywardcharitablebelizetrust.com. Valuable information will be available on the nature of the trust and on millions of dollars to become available in grants […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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Cabinet issued a short release of its sitting today. Noteworthy is that West Landivar will soon be declared a residential zone and that a grant of over a million Belize dollars is being given to the Ministry of Health by the World Bank to help address H1N1 related issues, specifically in training workers at ports […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
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It was not mentioned in the police blotter, but on Saturday night there was a hit and run accident near the junction of Western Avenue and Mahogany Street that sent a sixty-one year old man to the intensive care unit of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Stanley Usher was heading home when he was knocked […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
Auto Accidents |
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And while a Belize City man is in critical condition, a Guatemalan national lost his life and a three year old boy is recovering after a weekend traffic accident on the Southern Highway. The incident happened shortly after six o’clock between miles fourteen and fifteen and claimed the life of thirty seven year old Juan […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
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A Belize city resident whose home was burnt to the ground in April, is still having difficulties getting his life back on track. On April fifth of this year, twenty five year old Fredrick Olivera watched as the home he built with his own hands went up in smoke. Before the fire, Olivera was threatened […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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In September of this year the Alliance Bank changed ownership, and with that came a competition entitled—Name that Bank. The bank invited submissions for a new name that would reflect its amalgamation with the Provident Bank. Well, that competition came to a close and today at its offices located on Princess Margaret Drive, the bank […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
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The Belize Basketball Federation has embarked on an ambitious training program targeting four areas: discipline, increased competition, promoting and building the sport. It program is designed for players and coaches. This follows a summer camp in August in which the Federation partnered with UNICEF to provide training on the fundamentals of the sport. And this […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
Sports |
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And while at the training program, we got an update on the status of an appeal regarding the nationality of Herbert Allen, Dakin Braddik, Charlie Burgess and Kyron Stokes of Belizean Heritage who were disqualified by FIBA. In August, the team placed second in the COCABA Games. It’s been three months since the games that […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
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It has been months since reports first surfaced on scandalous purchases made by the K.H.M.H. of pharmaceutical and medical supplies. Following an audit of the hospital financial records, government finally announced today that a Commission of Inquiry into the allegations of improprieties and wrongdoings at the hospital will begin this week. The hearing will take […]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
Health |
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Over a thousand residents on a stretch of the Western Highway experienced a dry spell today. According to Belize Water Services Limited consumers from about three hundred and thirty homes were without water during the day. The problem stems from an operation at the Burton Canal Bridge at about mile six on the Western Highway. […]
Written on November 23, 2009 | Posted in
Social Issues |
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Turning to the telecommunications industry, late Wednesday, government said it had taken over a forty-five million dollar loan as part of the nationalization of Telemedia in August. That loan, as it turned out, is owed to the British Caribbean Bank of (formerly the Belize Bank) of Turks and Caicos. But it seems that government may […]
Written on November 23, 2009 | Posted in
Miscellaneous |
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In respect of the war between the two telephone operators, SMART subscribers were able to access limited international and roaming services this morning through independent services and not through Belize Telemedia. On Friday, the battle between the two escalated when Telemedia cut off SMART from its international circuits claiming that Speednet, SMART’s parent company, was […]
Written on November 23, 2009 | Posted in
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The operator of Money Exchange International Limited, the Coye Family, is committed to stand trial at the Supreme Court. That’s the decision of Magistrate Kathleen Lewis at the conclusion of a preliminary inquiry today. They Coyes have been charged with Money Laundering of more than a million dollars in cold cash found in suitcases at […]
Written on November 23, 2009 | Posted in
Trials |
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In other news from the courts, Hirian Good is moving ahead without her husband Charlie who passed away three weeks ago. The Goods protested for weeks at the steps of the Supreme Court after Hirian was fired from her job as a school warden at Trinity Methodist School. Now the fight has moved from outside […]
Written on November 23, 2009 | Posted in
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Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh also dealt with the case by Belize Bus Owners Cooperative (B.B.O.C.), who sought an injunction by the Supreme Court against the Transport Department. The Cooperative made claims that the Department’s new bus schedules for the western route had taken away three of its peak runs, significantly cutting into its revenues. Today […]
Written on November 23, 2009 | Posted in
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Still on the courts, Corporal Samuel Bonilla was arraigned in the San Ignacio Magistrates Court for Attempted Rape, Harm and Aggravated Assault. Bonilla pleaded not guilty to the charge and was released on a bail of five thousand dollars and two sureties of the same amount. According to investigations, Bonilla and several other officers visited […]
Written on November 23, 2009 | Posted in
Trials |
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While one San Ignacio cop is facing charges of Attempted Rape, a shooting incident involving two Belize City Officers on Sunday night is still up in the air. Police Constable, Adolph Navarro made an official report to the Patrol Branch Unit that he was shot at Sunday night by P.C. Adrian Lopez, a colleague from […]
Written on November 23, 2009 | Posted in
Crime |
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Two men stormed and robbed Tang’s Store on Vasquez Avenue while others waited in a getaway vehicle last Friday evening. The thieves took off with four hundred dollars from the cash register but were intercepted by police shortly after the incident. According to owner of the store, Zan Chu Chen, the men were armed with […]
Written on November 23, 2009 | Posted in
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