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As you heard earlier in the newscast, the Leader of the Opposition, Francis Fonseca he supports the decision taken by the prime minister not to allow a cruise ship passenger to disembark the Carnival Magic. This morning, when we caught up with Minister of Tourism, Manuel Heredia Junior, we asked if the government’s decision would […]
Written on October 22, 2014 | Posted in
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In April 2012, a Wesley College Junior College student was the victim of an attempted robbery as he and a female friend were heading home from school. Anthony Mark Leslie Pollard was shot once in the back as he tried to fight off his attackers, to prevent being robbed. Today in trial, Pollard gave […]
Written on October 22, 2014 | Posted in
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Remember Norwegian Cruise Line and their mega-tourism project on Harvest Caye. Well, the last time we heard, the government sub-committee that was set up to deal with the project had given the green light for the development to proceed. Well, the NCL project is back in the news tonight. As far as we were able […]
Written on October 22, 2014 | Posted in
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Distinctive Belizean art pieces are often lost among the wide array of products from the region. Ongoing at the Ramada Belize City Princes, is an exhibition of locally made artwork that have been branded via Unique Belize. The initiative is part and parcel of the National Sustainable Tourism Master Plan; it targets communities close to […]
Written on October 22, 2014 | Posted in
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The number of call centers is growing in Belize creating employment to just under three thousand Belizeans. This week, the Belize Training and Employment Center is preparing individuals to become professional in the workplace. Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, Reporting Business Process Outsourcing, BPO, as it is commonly referred to, is a burgeoning […]
Written on October 22, 2014 | Posted in
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On Sunday, three men from the Guatemalan barrio of Castrillo de Suchitan headed into Belize to fish in the flooded Mopan River near Clarissa Falls. What happened there on Sunday night has the Benque Police a little baffled. One man, nineteen year old Cesar Umberto Chinchilla Rodriguez, was shot in the leg. Another was allegedly […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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In the south, there is a disturbing allegation tonight against a twenty-five year old man from Independence. The details are few, but we can report that the grown man was taken to court on Monday for a heinous offense and is on remand. It is alleged he sexually abused a five year old boy who […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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But in the north, thirty-year-old Leslie Logan Junior was shot and killed during a foiled robbery attempt in Orange Walk Town on September nineteenth. He was one of two men, including Alexander Tillett, who entered Hung Yun Store on the Belize/Corozal Road and held up a grocery store attendant at gunpoint. During the brazen mid-afternoon […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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The family has since retained the services of attorney Audrey Matura-Shepherd who told the media today that the Logans are being given the runaround by the police department and that there may be a cover-up afoot. She says that while the final recourse is the Professional Standards Bureau, the family is considering its legal options […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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Tonight, there are confirmed reports that P.U.P. Cayo North Area Representative Joseph Mahmud has thrown in the political towel. Those reports indicate that Mahmud handed in his resignation to the party’s secretariat as early as last week. It’s a significant blow to the People’s United Party going into municipal elections in less than six […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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And tonight’s question is: Do you think the US is justified in saying it is disappointed in Belize for not allowing a US lab technician to disembark in Belize in the recent Ebola scare? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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The Ebola scare last Thursday fizzled after a Texan lab technician traveling on a Carnival cruise ship that called to port in Belize was declared free of the deadly virus. But the scare has kicked health officials and relevant authorities into overdrive. The Belize Ports Authority is one of several government agencies on the frontline […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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A weeklong conference is underway at the Best Western Plaza where representatives from thirteen CARICOM countries have converged to discuss the safety of fishing vessels. It’s one of the worst safety records of any industry, yet has largely remained below the radar of the Safety of Life at Sea Convention, a list of international safety […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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This morning, a huddle of lawyers representing individual companies associated with the legally besieged Titan International Securities appeared in the courtroom of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. The attorneys were present for an inter-party hearing with officials from the Financial Intelligence Unit, following the restriction of financial assets stemming from a federal indictment in which six […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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Two government agencies were robbed over the course of the weekend. The fisheries department is reporting that sometime between five-thirty p.m. on Friday and seven-fifty Monday night, its offices located on the second floor of the Fisheries Department Building on Princess Margaret Drive in Belize City was broken into. About ten thousand dollars in electronic […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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There is an allegation tonight against a thirty-two year-old mother who is accused of disciplining her six year old child by placing his hand on fire after she found out he had been playing with fire. The Social Department intervened and has removed the young child from the care of his mother; placing him […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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On October sixteenth, 2012, two south side youths were the target of street violence when they were shot at on Mopan Street in Belize City. The duo, Ellis Meighan Junior and the then seventeen year old Malik Dixon, whose father was killed days prior to shooting, survived the incident. Police later arrested and charged […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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Late September, we showed you ten-year old Cleyon Marage Junior; who is afflicted with Acute Myloid Leukemia. The young student cannot get medical treatment in Belize and his mother made a public appeal for assistance to take him to Merida where he has to travel to at least once a month for eighteen months of […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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Marage Junior is in critical condition and pediatrician, Doctor Cecilio Eck, has taken on his case. His mother says that Doctor Eck does not agree with him traveling because he is a high risk case. At this time, Marage Junior is receiving antibiotics, which is all that is available locally to treat him. But United […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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The constant pillaging of Belize’s cultural and historic patrimony remains a national issue which cannot be swept under the rug. The looting of archaeological sites, including El Pilar near the Belize-Guatemala border, has raised serious concerns from the conservation community. For the past two days representatives of the U.S. State Department have been hosting a […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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There is another workshop ongoing. It involves the Directorate for Foreign Trade, the Customs and Excise Department and the World Trade Organization. The five-day workshop will determine where the country stands with the implementation of a facilitation agreement approved by W.T.O., but ratified by trade ministers back in November of 2013. One department that is […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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After spending months of training to perfect and tone their bodies, male and female bodybuilders competed on Friday night in different categories in the Belize Body Building and Fitness Competition. The annual physique competition has a steady following, and the event this year did not disappoint. While the competitors were judged on various points, muscularity […]
Written on October 21, 2014 | Posted in
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Benque Police are investigating a very curious shooting which has left one Guatemalan minor injured and another likely dead. It happened at around four Sunday afternoon, when three minors from Melchor de Mencos crossed the border illegally to fish in the Mopan River near Clarissa Falls. One minor told Police that while fishing the trio […]
Written on October 20, 2014 | Posted in
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While police continue to search for the Guatemalan minor, who is presumed dead, the body of forty-four-year-old Samuel Dawson, a truck driver of Hattieville, was found in his San Pedro apartment early on Saturday. Dawson, who had been working at a construction site on the island since the beginning of October, was dropped off at […]
Written on October 20, 2014 | Posted in
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Twenty-four-year-old Ivan Aldana is hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. after being shot in San Pedro on Sunday during an incident in which someone he is familiar with attacked him and fired as many as five shots at him. Sometime after ten p.m., Aldana, who was socializing at Iguana Gardens Bar in San Pedrito, was accosted by […]
Written on October 20, 2014 | Posted in
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