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The new owners of the Water and Sewerage Authority, renamed Belize Water Services Limited, have been alternately hailed as farsighted strategic investors and vilified as rapacious international scavengers. Today those extreme descriptions were set aside as B.W.S. and government put their differences behind them and looked toward a better future. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon, […]
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The sweet water may have been flowing this afternoon at Double Run, but two men lost at sea since Friday night would have given almost anything for a single gallon. Gerald Thomas Junior and his cousin Gregory Martinez were found safe and sound Tuesday evening in the Gulf of Honduras. The pair, who departed Glover’s […]
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The murky future of National Health Insurance is beginning to clear up. A release by the Social Security Board indicates that the N.H.I. southside pilot project has been extended through September. However, due to cost considerations it will be modified. While basic primary care will remain free of charge, other hospital and pharmaceutical services will […]
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A confrontation between police and two armed Guatemalans near the Benque Viejo border has resulted in the wounding of one of the visitors. According to police reports, a patrol operating about five hundred yards on the Belize side of the frontier encountered the two men, nineteen year old Jorge Gonzales Salazar and twenty-two year old […]
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The decomposed body of a man found in the Port Loyola area of Belize City has been identified. Thirty-year-old Ains Gutierrez of Punta Gorda was found Tuesday evening in the mangroves near the Esso Terminal. The body was removed this morning, but due to the advanced state of decomposition, a post-mortem could not determine the […]
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On Tuesday’s newscast, we reported on the discovery of a human foetus in the Cayo garbage dump. Today, following a post-mortem examination, we are informed that the body is in fact that of a full-term baby boy who was killed after birth. According to police, the cause of death was strangulation and the age of […]
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Police are asking the public for help in finding a suspect in an armed robbery. Herman Morris, better known as Yaga, has been identified as one of three men who tried to hold up a shop Tuesday on Lakeview Street in Belize City. According to the proprietor, the robbers became frustrated when they could not […]
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Week six of Karaoke Television has produced another winner. This time a man known for his fast feet has earned recognition for his golden voice. William Neal, Host, KTV “The winner for tonight is…Joseph Carr.” (Carr sings “Incomplete” by Sisqo) Carr joins Adilean Coffin, Osvaldo Perez, Rohjani Perriott, Dale Turner and Cherrymae Flowers in the […]
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Year round, it is Belize’s number one tourist destination and come this weekend the town of San Pedro and Ambergris Caye will be rocking like never before. This morning we sent News 5’s Jacqueline Woods on a scouting trip…and she didn’t want to come back. Patty Arceo, Area Rep, Belize Rural South “We would like […]
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