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On yesterday’s newscast we brought you the story of Ready Call, the international customer service operation on New Road that is being hit with a long list of local complaints ranging from unacceptable bathroom facilities, incorrect wage payments, inadequate lunch breaks, and sexual harassment. This afternoon, the Labour Department issued a press release maintaining that […]
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Tonight the management and staff of Bowen and Bowen Limited, bottlers of Belikin beer are fighting mad. Recent investigations by the company have turned up restricted Mexican products as far inland as the Cayo district. Company officials tell News Five that since the recent increase in taxes on beer, the contraband trade has only escalated. […]
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A shooting near the Belcan Bridge in Belize City has left a security guard recovering from gunshot wounds. News Five visited with the victim this afternoon at the K.H.M.H. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This afternoon it was encouraging to see fifty-eight year old Thomas Gomez sit up in bed. When we arrived, Gomez was preparing to […]
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A Belize City woman has been found guilty of witness tampering in a rape case. According to police reports, thirty-seven year old Awiona Sarita Reyes appeared in Magistrate’s Court today to answer to a suppression of evidence charge. The victim reported to authorities that Reyes visited her at her home and “insisted” she drop the […]
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In other court news, a man sentenced in absentia has been found in Dangriga and is now behind bars. Eighteen year old Emmerson Young was found guilty earlier this week for ripping a chain from a woman’s neck in November 2003. He failed to show up for the trial, but Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord continued […]
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Reports out of Dangriga are that the United Democratic Party’s mayoral candidate Frank “Pawpa” Mena has injured himself and is currently admitted to ward at the Southern Regional Hospital. We understand that Mena was playing with a lighter when it exploded and set fire to his shirt. Health officials tell News Five that Mena might […]
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In the entertainment business, the show must go on … but in the real world, and especially in Belize, when something goes wrong, there’s very little hope of getting your act together before the curtain drops. That’s what local concert promoters faced last night after their headline performer, Gregory Isaacs, went missing in action. With […]
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St. Valentine’s Day is only three days away and that means there is only limited time to buy that special someone a gift. This year the Belize Family Life Association, through its Youth Advocacy Movement, is encouraging Belizeans to try something local to express that feeling of love. YAM members have been busy making wooden […]
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Battlefield Park was invaded this morning by members of the City Council and local schools as part of a new project designed to promote cleanliness. News Five’s Karla Vernon explains. Eloisa Trujeque, City Councillor ?Today we are celebrating an awareness day, environmental awareness day. This is actually the brainchild of the department enforcement officers. They […]
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This morning’s eleven-mile individual time trials turned the list of leaders in the M and M Tour of Belize upside down. James Adderley was at the finish line in Hattieville and has the interesting highlights. James Adderley, Reporting Stage seven of the M&M Tour of Belize produced a monumental shift in the overall standings as […]
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And before we leave you tonight we wanted to share with you the following footage that was captured while at the El Pilar archaeological site last Friday. It may look like this guy bit off more than he could chew, but snakes actually dislocate their jaw so that they can swallow large prey.
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