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Dance X Belize is in its seventh year and in 2015, the creative art experience has evolved to an eight-day event which started on Monday with several workshops and master classes across the country. The first show was a one-day event organized by former dancer and now theatre director, Karen Vernon, bringing dance back to […]
Written on November 24, 2015 | Posted in
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But Dance X is for most people synonymous with the name Jamie Thompson. A Belizean dancer living in the U.S. and a creative arts director, Thompson recently formed his own dance company, Lyve Arts Project, and will be performing one of his original pieces in a duet on Friday night at the Bliss. Also being […]
Written on November 24, 2015 | Posted in
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The Belize Coastguard held its annual strong man competition over the weekend at different locations. Three days of grueling competition tested the physical fitness of the officers stretching their skills to the max. Five teams comprising forty officers took part in the most competitive challenges to assess their readiness for combat. It ended on Sunday […]
Written on November 24, 2015 | Posted in
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A pair of Camalote men have been arrested and charged for the execution-style murder of sixteen-year-old Ivan Choc who was mercilessly shot and killed inside his home on November thirteenth in the village. Earlier today, twenty-year-old Damien Bowden of Young Bank area and eighteen-year-old Justin Banner were arraigned for the crime of murder in the […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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Where is international fugitive, David Nanes Schnitzer tonight? He is wanted in his home country of Mexico for his role in defrauding investors of millions of dollars, as much as much as forty-two million U.S. dollars. On Friday, he was granted bail by Justice Denis Hanomansingh when he appeared in Supreme Court. Nanes was being […]
After a relative calm, there were three shootings over the weekend in the city. The first was a brazen daylight shooting on Saturday afternoon on Orange Street near the entrance to Taylor’s Alley. Notorious figure in the criminal underworld, Kenneth Flowers, aka “Big Tom”, was targeted by gunmen who are reportedly affiliates of the Taylor’s […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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Three major sectors in the agriculture industry are in deep trouble. In the shrimp industry, thirty million dollars has been lost due to a bacteria that has infected upwards of fifty percent of the farms. The banana industry also in the south is faring no better as hundreds of workers are losing their jobs as […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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The B.S.C.F.A. held its Annual General Meeting on Sunday where key agenda items included the passage of a resolution to seek an increase in the cost per pound of sugar sold on the local market. According to Alonzo, all efforts are also being made to commence the 2015/2016 crop on time to avoid a recurrence […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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Has former Minister of Natural Resources Gaspar Vega surrendered his precious office space to his successor at G.O.B.’s Cohune Walk Building? News Five has been reliably informed that the erstwhile head of the Lands Department is indeed holding on to his workplace. Since being removed from that ministry, a portfolio Vega has held since 2008, […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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The vice principal and a teacher of Wesley College, thirty-five year old Melvin Newton Hewlett, is in plenty trouble with the law tonight. Last Friday morning, the Gang Suppression Unit was in the area of Yarborough Road when they spotted two men, an alleged drug peddler and another individual who turned out to be the […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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There is a report of an apparent case of human trafficking in Orange Walk Town. On Saturday, the Quick Response Team visited Dominguez Bar which is located on the Otro Benque Road where they interviewed a Guatemalan mother and her daughter. Twenty-seven Dania Marisol Paredes Contreras and her forty-eight mother Ana Maria Auralia Contreras de […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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Two shootings on Sunday occurred within minutes of each other in Belize City on the heels of the attempt on the life of Kenneth Flowers, aka Big Tom. Just after six a.m., twenty-seven year old Herman Ramsey and thirty-five year old Clive Arnold were shot close to their homes on Fabers Road by a friend […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, police has one person in detention for the murder attempt on the life of Liston Myers. While it is not believed that he was the intended target, around seven Sunday morning, two gunmen aimed their rifles in the direction of Myers and another man who were walking on Antelope Street in Belize City. Several […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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The court set free today Belize City resident Clive Jones; Judge Adolph Lucas made that ruling in an inferior case in the Supreme Court. Jones was convicted of burglary and sentenced to seven years and had already served one year and nine months of his prison term. But today Justice Lucas quashed his conviction and […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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Charges have been brought against the driver of a vehicle who hit and killed a mother of three children on November first, 2015 between Miles twenty-four and twenty-five on the George Price Highway. Sharmaine Humes was laid to rest after funeral services at Wesley Methodist Church on Albert Street last Friday, twelve days after the […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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Seasoned canero Leonardo Cano is the newly-elected Chairman of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association. He succeeds Ezequiel Cansino as chief presiding officer of the largest group of cane farmers in the country. Cano’s leadership of the organization comes at a critical juncture when the membership of the B.S.C.F.A. is concerned about the future of […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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Residents of Cohune Walk are tonight resting easy and are a little safer with the opening of a police substation in their neck of the woods. The housing community has been plagued by a number of burglaries recently, prompting Belmopan police to reestablish their presence in the area. Superintendent Howell Gillett has been instrumental in […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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But the Eastern Division South Region of the Police Department is not fazed by the recent shootings in its jurisdiction. As a part of its continued community policing initiatives, on Sunday, through collaboration with the Mayflower Neighborhood Watch Committee and the Yarborough Community Policing Unit, a sports day was held at the Berger Field on […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We open tonight’s show with the showdown in Central Secondary Schools Sporting Association Male Basketball play featuring the 2 powerhouses from inside Belize City—Wesley College and St. John’s College, two perennial rivals. Kyron Samuels gets Wesley College going early attacking the run to go […]
Written on November 23, 2015 | Posted in
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A father and son left their home on Allenby Street, Belize City, for work this morning; two hours later they got a distress call that their house was ablaze as smoke bellowed in the neighborhood. The two storey concrete building is located next to a primary school which had to be evacuated to ensure the […]
Written on November 20, 2015 | Posted in
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Forty-seven year old Mexican- American national David Miguel Nanes Schnitzer is out on bail tonight. Nanes is wanted in Mexico in connection with what is known as a Ponzi scheme in which investors lost forty-two million U.S. dollars. But Nanes has been living in Belize for over two years and was able to acquire a […]
Written on November 20, 2015 | Posted in
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At news time tonight, we can confirm that arrangements are in play to deliver two year old Nina Charlotte Barrera-Perez into the care of foster parents in Orange Walk. It’s been one week since the child was removed from the custody of her mother, Analiz Gutierrez by the Human Services Department, acting on a request […]
Written on November 20, 2015 | Posted in
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There are many questions surrounding the death of an elderly American visitor who lost his life on Tuesday afternoon when he drowned off the coast of Caye Caulker. Sixty-one-year-old Karl Edwin Simmons was discovered floating face down in the Caribbean Sea sometime before one o’clock after reportedly attempting to rescue his wife who suddenly began […]
Written on November 20, 2015 | Posted in
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There was a deadly traffic accident on the George Price Highway on Thursday. A forty-seven year old resident of Las Flores community in Belmopan was hit and killed. The vendor was riding his bicycle when he was knocked down by a police vehicle. Meanwhile in Belize City, there was a massive seven-vehicle pileup on the […]
Written on November 20, 2015 | Posted in
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Sixteen days after he allegedly discharged his firearm in public on election night, a close affiliate and supporter of Minister of Police John Saldivar has yet to be charged, or even detained – except for one brief moment when he was in Police custody immediately after the shooting. The incident was caught on video, including […]
