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There was a flurry of activity last month, when the Italian Minister of Economic Development, Claudio Scajola, visited Belize accompanied by Belize’s Ambassador to Italy Nuncio D’angeri. Scajola was wined and dined and was cajoling with the Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington and his counterpart Erwin Contreras. The official side of the visit was brief but […]
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Mid morning while the City Council was hosting a Violence Prevention Summit at the Princess Hotel, News Five was called out to the scene of a shooting on Cesar Ridge Road. Eustace Andrews was behind the wheel of a GMC Canyon pickup truck which was targeted by an armed man believed to have been on […]
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In the courts, a waitress who was facing eighteen years to life imprisonment for stabbing another woman had a charge of Attempted Murder withdrawn today. But before you assume it was another nolle pros, the reason the case was thrown out was because the victim softened up. Twenty-five year old Kadisja Castillo was stabbed on […]
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Twenty-five year old Cecil Castillo is once again facing charges for firearm offences following a raid near his residence on Iguana Street Extension which yielded a black homemade shotgun on Tuesday. This afternoon Castillo appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers and was slapped with a single count of possession of a prohibited firearm and one count […]
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The Belize Tourism Board announced today that semifinalists in various categories for the Tenth National Tourism Awards have officially been nominated. This year, says the BTB, industry stakeholders will vote for their favorite hotels, restaurants, tour guides and environmental organizations. In a press conference held at the Radisson this morning the BTB revealed the list […]
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Immediately following our newscast tonight, we will be airing a special television report by Robert Beckford, an independent writer who has produced numerous documentaries for the BBC. Beckford has covered numerous topics, particularly on Africa including a special documentary named “The Great African Scandal”. In the interview Beckford, who is also a lecturer at Oxford, […]
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Everyone agrees that something needs to be done about crime and urgently so. This morning, Belize City Mayor, Zenaida Moya Flowers, convened a summit in search of ways to stop the violence in the streets. Notables such as Attorney Michael Young, Senator Godwin Hulse and the outspoken Yolanda Schakron, took turns on the microphone. News […]
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In February 2002 Jermaine Fuentes, also known as Jermaine De Paz, was one of the Police Department’s most wanted fugitives in connection with the murders of Mark Ireland, Anthony “Trigger” Adderley, and the attempted murder of Joel Waight. He was never apprehended and while many thought that he had fled the country, his absence led […]
Written on May 4, 2010 | Posted in
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This Wednesday will mark one week since thirty seven-year old Stephen Buckley was critically shot by a police officer as he sat with his boss inside a green Dodge Ram at the Cesar Ridge intersection in Belize City. Buckley, a contractor by profession, was hit in the head by bullets from a pump action shotgun […]
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Stephen Buckley’s shooting has stirred outrage in the community. Police maintain that the shooting was accidental, but persons who witnessed the shooting attest that the trigger was pulled by the police officer. Buckley was injured on the face, was left paralyzed and continues receiving treatment at the K.H.M.H. News Five Delahnie Bain spoke to family […]
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Stephen Buckley is recovering from the shooting at the intersection of Cesar Ridge Road when the vehicle he was driving in was stopped by the police. The police and witnesses accounts differ in the number of gunshots and the version of events. The question is: Do you believe the shooting of Stephen Buckley was accidental? […]
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A major investment in the health sector was launched today with the groundbreaking of a pediatrics healthcare centre next to Belize Healthcare Partners that donated the land for the first of its kind clinic. The state of the art multi-million dollar project is linked to the Sanford Children’s Clinic based in South Dakota and is […]
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When it was held last October and November, the Commission of Inquiry looking into the procedures in attaining pharmaceutical and medical supplies at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, sounded alarm bells. The review covered January 2007 to July 2009, the period when the Belize Medical and Dental Union made allegations of gross abandonment of procedures, […]
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Ongoing litigation between Speednet and B.T.L. over the use of infrastructure and interconnection between both telecom companies has been adjourned until late June following a request made by Speednet to seek testimony from a new expert witness. Last December Smart’s services, including access to the E1 fiber optic network, were interrupted by B.T.L. Smart accused […]
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There’s more talk against crime, this time it’s coming from the Belize City Council that is holding a Violence Prevention Summit to bring all sectors of the community together to take an active stance against the increasing violent crimes. CitCo has activated the City Emergency Management Organization (CEMO) to spearhead the initiative which will feature […]
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The proposal dubbed ‘park to parking lot’ has been vehemently condemned both by residents and central government, so now the folks at City Hall are saying that the plan has been shelved. The idea was to use the front of the B.T.L. Park to provide parking for the new casino being built across the street […]
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On Monday night we heard from Paula Wade, the mother of nine year old Jamil Wade, a standard two student of Calvary Temple Primary who was knocked down by a police car last Friday. The child was going to the market when he was hit. The impact caused him injuries to his face, head and […]
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Twenty-nine year old Melvin Salazar, an accused fugitive who was at large since 2004 turned himself in to San Ignacio Police on April twenty-eight after several years of being on the lam. Salazar, who was in the presence of a local Justice of the Peace, is accused of the murder of Ermildo ‘Chakiste’ Coc which […]
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A fisherman of Ladyville is facing charges of grievous harm after being accused of stabbing another man multiple times during a fight outside a local bar on April thirtieth. Nineteen year old Nelson Peters, a resident of Mitchell Estate, reportedly stabbed Elvis Brackett in the chest, abdomen, throat, left leg and both arms over a […]
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A unanimous decision by a jury of twelve this evening has allowed two Belize City men to walk free of murder charges after four years of remand at the Hattieville Prison. Aaron King and Llewelyn Williams were both found not guilty of the murder of Russian national Alexei Golouber whose badly decomposed body was found […]
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They say music makes the world go round, but if it were up to one young man, he would use his music to put an end to violence. Hugh Dyer, a resident of Hattieville, is so passionate about the level of crime and violence in Belize that he is using his talent to send that […]
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By any stretch, John McAfee is a name to reckon in the computer world. He is the founder of McAfee, the largest computer anti-virus company in the world. For the past two and a half years, he has been living in Belize; more specifically in San Pedro Ambergris Caye. The fact that he had moved […]
Written on May 3, 2010 | Posted in
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There was little violence reported in the city over the weekend, but before lunch today a shooting took place on Mahogany Street. Brian Yorke, who has had his own troubles with the law was shot in a foiled robbery attempt and is in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Police report that around […]
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There is more stench coming from City Hall. This time it is the news the licensing of stolen vehicles that has hit the fan. According to the man who heads the Traffic Unit, Kevon Jenkins, the problem has been going on for years but there’s nothing he can do about it because one of the […]
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Last Friday morning nine year old Jamil Wade, a standard two student of Calvary Temple, headed to the store for his mother but ended up in the hospital after he was knocked down by a police vehicle. It was after eleven that morning and his mother, Paula Wade, was at home with her other child […]
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