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They say justice is blind, but in the opinion of a San Pedro family, justice was nowhere near the courthouse this evening. Two years ago, a mother claimed that she saw an intruder in her home rape her eleven year old child. Both the minor and her mother testified against the accused during the trial. […]
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Meanwhile, a fruit and vegetable vendor is clinging to life tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Early Sunday morning, Desidorio Garcia was attacked and badly beaten when he was heading to the market, where he worked for three years selling for a stall owner. The vendor originally lived at mile twenty-eight on the Hummingbird […]
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In other tragic news, the B.D.F. lost one soldier and seven others were injured in a fatal accident in the Cayo District involving a heavy duty military vehicle. Shortly after eight Sunday morning, thirty-two year old Private Lucas Tek of San Benito Poite and seven other officers were returning to base at Camp Belizario after […]
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The Finance Director of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Carlos Perrera, whose name has been called numerous times during the ongoing Commission of Inquiry, took his seat today before the commissioners. Perrera was one of the persons that doctors and nurses had been insisting needed to be removed from duties when the scandal broke in […]
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Perrera, who took over as Director of Finance in the early part of June of 2008, contradicted statements made last week by the hospital’s former Supplies Manager, Carlton Usher. Usher had claimed that Perrera, signed off on requests for duty exemption for items that were available at Central Medical Stores. Usher was fired after equipment […]
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In last Friday’s House meeting in the capital, it was an all out shouting match between the current and former prime ministers. The recession and economic depression were the source of the verbal blows between Dean Barrow and Said Musa. The Fort George Area Representative said quite vehemently “The so-called stimulus package that the Prime […]
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Turning to crime, a robbery victim was spared from becoming the latest statistic since he was able to protect himself and his attacker is instead hospitalized. The incident happened after midnight on Saturday on a dangerous part of Banak Street. The police department is withholding the name of the victim, but the culprit is twenty […]
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A delivery man may spend Christmas behind bars after he was busted with a point thirty-eight pistol loaded with five live rounds. Nineteen year-old Ramon August was charged with Kept Unlicensed Firearm and Kept Unlicensed Ammunitions. August pleaded not guilty to both charges before Senior Magistrate, Dorothy Flowers. His arrest came as a result of […]
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He is well known and highly respected in the community. His store, Simon Quan, on Queen Street in Belize City carries an extensive variety of goods at affordable prices. Today shoppers in the height of the Christmas Shopping Season may have noticed a black bow on the outside of the store. That bow has been […]
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It is the largest eagle in the world and for years, Belize has been working in restoring the numbers of the birds in the country. And today after a week in quarantine, the Harpy eagle, Hope was released into the wild near Blue Creek in the Orange Walk District. Hope is the fifteenth eagle that […]
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Building on the success of its Rock the Runway initiative, Continental Airlines today doubled its outreach program to deserving primary school students. Today two hundred primary school students between the ages of five and seven from twenty schools in the city received gifts from the organizers, Toys for Tots Program. The faces of the children […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Belize Bank Super League Tournament kicked off its championship series as San Felipe Barcelona hosted Texmar United of Independence up north inside Orange Walk yesterday. At stake is twenty-seven thousand, five hundred Belize dollars, a gold medal for each player off the winning team […]
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The House of Representatives met in Belmopan today, it was its last sitting to close the year. But what initially looked like a lackluster meeting, soon turned into a brawl between the former and current prime ministers over the issue of the recession. The parting shots got personal and outright dirty. News Five’s Jose Sanchez […]
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Another issue before the House was over the Boledo, which is considered to be as Belizean as potholes and a plate of rice and beans. The government has recently announced that a ten year managerial contract to administer the government lottery would go to Brads Gaming Company Limited. That company which is operated by Kim […]
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The Leader of the Opposition was not the only one questioning the privatization of the Boledo. Outside the National Assembly Building, a group protested saying that their livelihood would be shattered by the new system that is set to be implemented in April of next year. Alfita Chan, Protestor “At least we sell our lee […]
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Day seven of the Commission of Inquiry got underway this morning as scheduled before Commissioners Justice Adolph Lucas, Orvin Nicholas and Julia Castillo. There were some light moments as the first witness gave testimony. Julian Chell is a former vegetable supplier to the K.H.M.H. Chell said he offered the institution cheaper prices of between three […]
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Former Chief Executive Officer at K.H.M.H. from 2000 to March 2008, Dr. Alvaro Rosado was second to take the oath. Dr. Rosado was fired on March twenty-first, 2008 while being placed on compulsory vacation leave. Rosado testified for about an hour. He was questioned about some transactions made under his watch, but he had no […]
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Boats belonging to two Jamaican fishing companies with Belizean counterparts have been spotted in the southern waters. PG Fishing Limited and Rainforest Limited are both seeking licenses for deep sea fishing for export. When word got out, it started a firestorm because the local community and others in the industry are fiercely opposed to the […]
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The amendment to the Education Act that would pass powers to a Teacher’s Commission went through its first reading in the House today. It has been a highly contentious amendment and it sparked emotions from the Belize National Teachers Union (B.N.T.U.) and the church, which felt that its authority was being eroded. The town meetings […]
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There are discussions on the implementation of a garbage tax for Belize City residents. And while residents might soon feel an additional financial pinch, a bill was introduced today that would offer tax discounts to businesses throughout the country. At his quarterly press conference on October twenty-ninth, Prime Minister Dean Barrow indicated he was in […]
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While the politicians had a go at each inside the House, outside temperatures were flaring as a group of protesters continued a protest against the increase in water rates. Two weeks ago, residents of San Pedro took to the streets to protest the decision of the Public Utilities Commission to approve a water rate increase […]
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Lindsdale Franklin and Ryan Herrera spent the last week in the Hattieville Prison waiting to hear their fate after they were convicted of Murder on December fourth. Justice Michelle Arana handed down her decision today and the men can look forward to spending a lot more time in their cells because they were sentenced to […]
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And an ex-convict who was just released last month after serving his prison sentence is again behind bars for Christmas – this time for allegedly climbing into a teen’s bedroom window and raping her. When police visited the scene, they observed that the culprit had gained entry by removing the board louvers to the room […]
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An aviation technician who was previously convicted of trafficking crack cocaine appeared in court today for assaulting a woman. The American national, forty two year old John Gibson, a guest at Gulf Hotel, was charged with assaulting businesswoman, fifty four year old Cheng Hsui Chu. In court she said that the incident occurred around nine […]
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Hattieville police are looking into an accident that occurred just after seven this morning on the Western Highway. Information so far is that a Toyota Hilux that was heading toward Belmopan when the driver lost control of the vehicle and it flipped over in the vicinity of Cheers Restaurant at mile thirty-one on the highway. […]
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