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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The annual BCA September Criterium took center stage in Belize City as it ran through the Albert Street/Regent Street circuit yesterday to the delight of the many fans that turned up for the event. As we pan the start, we find the 2013 Cross […]
Written on September 16, 2013 | Posted in
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In Thursday’s newscast, we reported that two investors had apparently been scammed of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a project in the south involving the Social Investment Fund. It involves the reconstruction of a million dollar market in Dangriga that was awarded to the company of a highly placed contractor from the north, Kenard […]
Written on September 13, 2013 | Posted in
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While residents and vendors were outside the compound picketing SIF’s takeover of the Dangriga Municipal Market Project from Kenard Smart’s K and G Construction, more specifically Gush and Emy Ramirez, Daniel Cano and Ernest Raymond were meeting with the distraught couple and attorney Audrey Matura-Shepherd. A formal assumption of control was scheduled for two o’clock […]
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On Wednesday, one month old baby Dulce Maria Coye died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. She had been rushed there by ambulance from the Northern Medical Plaza in Orange Walk Town on Tuesday, following two surgeries for a condition known as congenital pyloric stenosis. That’s when the muscle between the stomach and small intestine […]
Written on September 13, 2013 | Posted in
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The grieving family has made serious allegations of malpractice against the doctors from the Northern Medical Plaza who treated baby Dulce. Those allegations have caught fire in certain sections of the media. And they have resulted in those doctors seeking immediate legal counsel. In a release issued today, the medical facility refutes any claim that […]
Written on September 13, 2013 | Posted in
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The government-owned Belize Telecommunications Limited will hold its annual general meeting this coming September twenty-sixth. Early word is that the company will be reporting a less than stellar performance with another drop in profits of five point five million dollars. Looking at the figures, in 2011, the gross revenue was reported at one hundred and […]
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Alexander Noel Torres, a resident of Belize City, was today arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrates’ Court for the murder of Daniel Aguirre, the KTV Latino King. His charred remains were found in his taxi early last Saturday morning. When police got to the scene in the Arizona area of Teakettle Village on the George Price […]
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Before the courts closed today, police escorted eighteen year old University of Belize student, Micah Tillett, to the Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with the Murder of Jamal Anthony Neal. Tillett appeared before Magistrate Hettie Mae Stewart, but when he returns to court, he will appear before the Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer. Before leaving […]
Written on September 13, 2013 | Posted in
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As we have been reporting, the persistent rains have dropped a couple of inches of water in many houses and yards around the City. The situation has become unbearable for many residents whose furniture and other household effects have been damaged. The lack or blockage of drains caused the water line to rise. Affected residents […]
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The annual Children’s Rally in Belize City was held today at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall. Approximately a thousand students gathered inside the hall for the event which seeks to promote patriotism among youth; paying homage to the Battle of Saint George’s Caye and Belize’s Independence. It took a little over a week to put […]
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The new British High Commissioner to Belize, Peter Hughes, has arrived in the country to commence a diplomatic tour of duty. Hughes today paid a courtesy call on Minister of National Security, John Saldivar, in his capacity as acting Prime Minister. Hughes started his diplomatic career as Desk Officer in the British Defence Department, and […]
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As we mentioned earlier, Minister John Saldivar has been acting as Prime Minister in the absence of the Deputy Prime Minister, Gaspar Vega. The Minister of Natural Resources is on an official visit to the border area of Peten, Guatemala. According to his ministry, while attending the First National Livestock, Vega met with the Guatemalan […]
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The highly anticipated Carnival Road March 2013 will be broadcasted live right here on Channel Five starting at one p.m. on Saturday. The road march is preceded, however, by the jouvert on Saturday morning starting at five a.m. All in the spirit of the celebrations thousands of persons are expected to gather at the San […]
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A protest is planned for Friday in Dangriga where a million dollar renovation of the Dangriga Market has run into trouble. The project had been behind schedule and tonight, construction works on the market have come to a complete halt with word that contracts have been canceled. Two aggrieved investors involved say there is a […]
Written on September 12, 2013 | Posted in
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Belizean artists across all genres of music are tonight up in arms over a promotional video commissioned by the Belize Tourism Board, which premiered on national television on Wednesday evening. While the video does an excellent job of showcasing Belize’s cultural diversity, it’s accompanying soundtrack, a Garifuna ballad performed by acclaimed parandero, Aurelio Martinez, has […]
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Orange Walk Police are mum about an incident which occurred in the early hours of Wednesday morning. It involved B.D.F., Police and civilians and could have turned ugly, but fortunately was diffused. News Five has been able to confirm that at around three o’clock that morning, two B.D.F. soldiers were detained and escorted to the […]
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Police have yet to charge any suspect for the murder of popular Belmopan taxi-man Daniel Aguirre. But according to a source close to the case, investigating officers are one step closer to arraigning a Belize City man on that offence. The suspect is currently on lockdown, serving time for possession of an unlicensed firearm and […]
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In many areas of the City, residents are pulling out their rubber boots so they can exit or access their homes. The heavy rains in the past couple days have caused flooding and there is still more rain predicted for the weekend. The problem seems to be that while residents can boast about beautiful new […]
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It’s only been a week since thirty-eight year old Salvador Marlon Carballo was released from jail, but tonight he is back behind bars to serve an eighteen month jail term. Carballo appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith this afternoon and was charged for Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature and Threatening Words on a […]
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A Belize City businessman who drank a sixty dollar bottle of wine at the Princess Hotel and could not pay for it was criminally charged this morning. Thirty-four year old businessman, Thyron Edward Lamb, a resident of Belize City, was arraigned in the court of Magistrate Hettie-Mae Stewart for a single count of Making off […]
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There two major events that will take place at the same time this weekend. The Carnival Road March takes place on Saturday, as does the Chamber of Commerce’s Expo Belize Marketplace which will continue on Sunday. Some eighteen thousand persons visited the expo last year, and the Chamber says it is seeing an increase in […]
Written on September 12, 2013 | Posted in
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The opposition, People’s United Party, has announced that it will be holding conventions for candidates interested in contesting the upcoming elections. Already in Cayo Central and Belmopan, the field is getting crowded with new faces popping up. Today, Alburn Rivero Senior, who hails from Double Head Cabbage, dropped by our studios to say that he […]
Written on September 12, 2013 | Posted in
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Belize is getting ready to finalize a National Economic Partnership Agreement Implementation Plan. To this end, a validation workshop was held today at the Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza. Various technicians, private sector representatives and other stakeholders gathered to analyze the different steps necessary to finalize the E.P.A., as it is referred to. The validation […]
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In this week’s segment of Healthy Living we’ve compiled some very important advice from the professionals for your survival – survival of the carnival and expo weekend, that is! So before you head out on Saturday, whether to play mas or your own viewing party, or even to look for deals at the expo here […]
Written on September 12, 2013 | Posted in
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Police continue to investigate the killing of Dean Yearwood Junior, the cop who was shot in back by another police officer in the early hours of Sunday morning. And from some accounts, there are discrepancies in the official version of the shooting. The Yearwood family is contending that the same weapon used in the shooting […]
Written on September 11, 2013 | Posted in
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