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Killer leads police to murder victim’s corpse
The year’s thirty-fifth murder was committed over the weekend in the Stann Creek Valley. Today police say the perpetrator took them to the scene of the crime, which is where we tonight find News Five’s Marion Ali. Marion Ali, Reporting The murder may have happened in the quiet rural community of Hope Creek, eight miles […]
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Mom and granny accused of pimping daughter
In other criminal news from the south, a Dangriga mother and grandmother are both behind bars tonight, accused of pimping out a ten year old girl. According to police, the women, who rules prohibit us from naming, appeared in court on Monday where they were formally charged with Abetment and Procuration. The Magistrate denied them […]
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Residents say drunk cop shot up the neighbourhood
Meanwhile, police investigations continue into a shooting involving an off-duty cop and a fisherman early this morning. The official version of events is that Corporal Gavin Sanchez was heading to his Iguana Street Extension home around twelve-thirty this morning when a man on a bicycle shouted at him and caused him to run into a […]
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Driver says gunmen jacked his container truck
The theft of cargo trucks is common along Guatemalan highways but tonight a Belizean driver has reported that’s exactly what happened to him Monday night on the Coastal Road. Twenty-one year old Edson Moh told police that on the instructions of his boss, Moises Manzur, he drove his container truck to the Belize City Port, […]
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Trail of paint leads to arrest of thief
He didn’t do it deliberately like the fabled Hansel and Gretel, but a Belize City man who stole a bunch of paint was apprehended after his victim followed the trail of wet drippings. Twenty-seven year old James Brown of Lakeview Street pleaded guilty today in Magistrates’ Court to the charge of Theft. It seems that […]
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Car rear ends bus, student seriously injured
It’s the scene of many fender benders but this afternoon the Western Highway’s intersection with Western Avenue was the site of a serious accident. According to Tillett’s Bus driver Emelio Soler, he was heading to Corozal following a school trip to Spanish Lookout and Old Belize but as he made the left turn, a car […]
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Reports say Guatemala willing to go to World Court
The Guatemalan claim to Belize: Although often left to simmer on the public’s back burner, it remains the number one issue on our foreign policy plate. Foreign media reports say that during official meetings in Washington DC earlier this week, Guatemalan President Alavaro Colom indicated that his government will seek voter approval to have the […]
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Rotary receives grant for education
The Rotary Club of San Ignacio has received funding to promote teacher education nationwide. The project, which builds on a successful pilot programme initiated in 2003, aims to train three hundred and sixty “master teachers” in math, science and language arts over the next three years. Those teachers will then impart skills to an additional […]
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Is Belizean headed for career in N.F.L.?
Viewers of this newscast are no strangers to the exploits of Belizeans who make it big in international professional sports. The name Milt Palacio immediately comes to mind in N.B.A. basketball, Marion Jones in athletics and fifteen years ago we chronicled the accomplishments of Chito Martinez, a Belizean who spent three years with major league […]
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City Council receives donation for Battlefield Park
The present focus of the Belize City Council’s downtown rehabilitation efforts may be on paving Albert and Regent Streets but in the no-too-distant future Battlefield Park—which sits between those thoroughfares—will also be receiving a facelift. Today, in a brief handing over ceremony, FirstCaribbean International Bank presented a cheque for ten thousand dollars to get the […]
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Question to viewers: How to transcribe Kriol
Over the years we have consistently received comments from viewers/readers expressing their difficulty with our transcriptions of certain quotes in stories in which the speakers use Kriol. The common complaint is that such transcriptions are difficult—if not impossible—to read. The other side is that putting broad Kriol into proper English destroys all the flavour of […]
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