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Written on January 11, 2003 | Posted in Miscellaneous | No comment
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Independent candidates: how big a factor?
With an as yet undeclared general election less than two months away, a factor is emerging that may have a major influence on the outcome. In fact, 2003 may well go down in political history as the year of the independent candidate. Nomination day has not even been announced, but if all those who have […]
Written on January 11, 2003 | Posted in Politics | No comment
Opinions vary on impact of packed ballot
And while traditional wisdom dictates that third party candidates are little more than spoilers, it doesn’t mean that voters want to see those names removed from the ballot. Today roving reporter Marion Ali was back in the streets…and she found that although the electoral appetite of most citizens is confined to a few familiar dishes, […]
Written on January 11, 2003 | Posted in Politics | No comment
Farmer dead in W. Highway traffic accident
A farmer of Santa Elena, Cayo is dead after he was knocked down on the Western Highway Thursday night. Forty-eight year old Guatemalan Samuel de Jesus Sinturion was reportedly hit by a Toyota pick-up near mile sixty-five at around 7:30. The man who hit him, fifty-eight year old Marcus Waight of Seven Miles Village, was […]
Written on January 11, 2003 | Posted in Auto Accidents | No comment
Escaped prisoner captured, wounded by captors
An escaped prisoner is recuperating from bullet wounds to both legs after he reportedly attacked the prison officers who hunted him down. Thirty-eight year old Delito Ortiz, a trustee inmate, reportedly escaped around two-thirty Thursday morning from Yalbac Ranch where he and others had been taken to do some work. Prison officer, Alfredo Urbina, said […]
Written on January 11, 2003 | Posted in Crime | No comment
Guatemalan business delegation visits Belize
Had the most recent diplomatic effort to end the Guatemalan claim been more successful, the visit of a high level business delegation from that country would be front-page news. But the fact is that profitable trade can flourish, even where politics falls short. News 5’s Janelle Chanona reports on the latest efforts in dollar diplomacy. […]
Written on January 11, 2003 | Posted in Economy | No comment
Stella Maris equipped with computer lab
After equipping dozens of schools and libraries with computers and high speed internet connections, an installation by Intelco is no longer big news–except to those fortunate people who will get to make use of the valuable equipment. And today that privilege was extended to one educational institution that is committed to making the most of […]
Written on January 11, 2003 | Posted in Education | No comment
Large numbers register to vote as election nears
With a general election just around the corner, registration offices around the country were today doing brisk business. News 5’s Janelle Chanona, already in possession of her voting card, decided to see how the applicants were making out. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Belizeans lined up in numbers today…patiently waiting, carefully filling out forms and having their […]
Written on January 11, 2003 | Posted in Social Issues | No comment
Two major parties field full slate
And while we led this newscast with the phenomenon of independent candidates, we’ll end with a rundown of the fifty-eight men and women carrying the standard of the traditional red and blue. Janelle Chanona, Reporting We begin in the north: In the Corozal Bay division, U.D.P. candidate’s Carlos Castillo will face off with Vildo Marin […]
Written on January 11, 2003 | Posted in Politics | No comment
