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5/3/2007
Belize to host CARICOM-Central America summit
Caribbean Net News, Cayman Islands - 5/3/2007
BELMOPAN, Belize: Prime ministers of the Caribbean Community and presidents of Central America will converge in Belize to attend a summit meeting of Heads ...
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PUC rejects BEL proposed tariff rebalancing
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 5/3/2007
The Public Utilities Commission has delivered its initial decision in the Annual Review Proceedings for Belize Electricity Limited. Released this afternoon ...
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 | Despite intimidating letter, ACB files lawsuit
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 5/3/2007
Whether the letter from Belize Bank chairman Phillip Johnson to the Association of Concerned Belizeans was a crude, blatant, and arrogant act of ...
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Cops shot at from car; two detained
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 5/3/2007
Belize City police came under fire last night after officers asked the driver of a vehicle to stop. The brazen attack unfolded in the Port Loyola Area ...
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 | Police need help to identify Belcan corpse
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 5/3/2007
Belize City police need your help in identifying this man found dead early this morning. The corpse, described only as wearing dreadlocks and sporting a ...
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 | Shopkeeper shoots back at armed robbers
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 5/3/2007
According to Belize City police, Jian Zhi Huang was inside his shop at the corner of West Street and Water Lane when around three yesterday afternoon two ...
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 | Sr. Cecilia Home celebrates eleventh anniversary
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 5/3/2007
“It was Sister Cecelia who tried very hard to convince them to do that because she had in her vision for a better life for our older persons in Belize.” ...
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 | Six contestants seek Ms. Y crown
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 5/3/2007
With apologies to Miss Belize and the Queen of the Bay, if there is any event that can be called the mother of all pageants--make that grandmother of all ...
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 | Taiwanese Show “World’s #1” films in SP
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 5/3/2007
Belize has garnered much international recognition, hosting many a film crews in its shores. This week, members of the Gala TeleVision Corporation were in ...
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 | Our Belize Community - Marina Kay
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 5/3/2007
Following high school, Mrs. Graniel moved to Belize City where she enrolled in a six-month course at Glessima Computer School. Upon her return to San Pedro, ...
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 | Costa del Sol Nairi’s advance to playoffs!!
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 5/3/2007
Over at the Carl Ramos’ Stadium, Wagiya took on the toughest team in the league, FC Belize for a west side showdown. Early in the game, Lisbey Castillo gets ...
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 | The Apprentice program graduates 4
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 5/3/2007
Esteemed guests included Mayor Elsa Paz, and Maureen Williams, Community Rehabilitation Officer for Belize City. Opening remarks were done by President of ...
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BELIZE CITY YOUTH CHARGED WITH THEFT
LoveFM, Belize - 5/3/2007
Belize City Police have arrested and charged a youth after he was identified as the person who robbed a young woman of jewelry earlier this year. ...
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SUSPECTS SOUGHT IN ATTEMPTED ROBBERY
LoveFM, Belize - 5/3/2007
Belize City Police are looking for two suspects who tried to rob a businessman but couldn’t after he reportedly retaliated. 47 year-old Jian Zhi Huang of ...
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UDP CONDEMNS LETTER SENT TO ACB BY BELIZE BANK
LoveFM, Belize - 5/3/2007
The United Democratic Party says it is in complete solidarity with the Association of Concerned Belizeans and condemns the letter sent to the ACB by Belize ...
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MAY IS CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
LoveFM, Belize - 5/3/2007
We have a social for cancer patients and ten we have the big Annual Cancer Walk from Ladyville to Belize City that is on May 26 that last Saturday in May ...
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NEMO RECEIVES NEW WAREHOUSE
LoveFM, Belize - 5/3/2007
Through the US Southern Command Humanitarian Assistance Programme Belize has benefited from the retrofitting of its Ladyville Warehouse and the construction ...
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5/2/2007
 | Soldiers arrive for Tradewinds 2007
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 5/2/2007
Although Tradewinds has run for twenty-eight years it will be only the second time that Belize will be the host. It is also the second time that Guyanese ...
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 | Belize Bank warns ACB to stay out of UHS deal
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 5/2/2007
Well today a heretofore silent but central player in the drama was heard from: The Belize Bank. That's right, the financial institution that just happens to ... UHS |
 | NEMO erects new building in Big Creek
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 5/2/2007
It’sa successful exercise between the militaries of Belize and the military of the United States; the government of the United States, the government of ...
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 | Baby barn owls will find new home at zoo
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 5/2/2007
The birds were turned over to the Belize Audubon Society this morning where Publicity Coordinator, Dirk Francisco told us that while residents might be ...
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 | UB students raise funds for accident victim
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 5/2/2007
He has been in surgery at Belize Medical Associates since three this evening to repair serious damage to the spine. It is not certain if Monima will be able ...
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LIONS TO HOLD 30TH ANNUAL CONVENTION
LoveFM, Belize - 5/2/2007
Lions from throughout the country will convene in Belize City this weekend to attend the Belize Lions Zone 59, thirtieth annual Lions Convention. ...
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5/1/2007
 | 3 year old loses fight with leukaemia
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 5/1/2007
“Steven I understand that when Malecai was brought back to Belize he was put on a treatment to deal with the leukaemia that he was suffering from, ...
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4/30/07
 | PUPs defend Musa/UHS guarantee...
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/30/07
The Prime Minister or really his committee that he appointed is prepared to go back to the Belize Bank to negotiate this matter, yes.” ...
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 | ...but ACB to challenge its legality
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/30/07
... in the Supreme Court to stop any payment that would be made under the terms of the loan agreement between the Belize Bank and the Government of Belize. ...
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 | Kids to rebuild computers in summer programme
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/30/07
The classes are scheduled to start in July and are being done in partnership with the Belize Defence Force. Because of space constraints, interested parents ...
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 | San Pedro beats OW to make football playoffs
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/30/07
FC Belize won Group A with twenty-four points after ten outings; Tex Mar Boys finished with twenty-two points; Wagiya thirteen and Hankook Verdes United ...
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4/27/2007
Village Council Elections....
Belizean - Only in Belize!, Belize - 4/27/2007
....have become the focus of most newspapers in Belize in recent weeks, as a possible gauge of public sentiment as the country prepares for General ...
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The Reporter Belize, Belize - 4/27/2007
The Government of Belize does not have the money to pay, and so it is looking around for some national asset that it can give to the Belize Bank in lieu of ...
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The Reporter Belize, Belize - 4/27/2007
The Reporter has been reliably informed that the President of the University of Belize Corinth Morter-Lewis, is on her way out. ...
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INSIDE SEMI-PRO BASKETBALL
Amandala, Belize - 4/27/2007
The Orange Walk Eagles will make their 2007 semi-pro basketball debut tonight at home when they play host to the (1-1) Belize Bank Bulldogs. ...
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4/26/2007
 | Belmopan City Council donates to fire victims
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/26/2007
And while the Living Hope School in Belize City raises funds to get back on its feet, a family in Belmopan is rebounding with help from that city's council. ...
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 | Maya pursue land and park cases
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/26/2007
Residents of Conejo and Santa Cruz filed suit in the Supreme Court earlier this month, asserting that the Government of Belize has failed to protect ...
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 | School hit by burglars raises funds to recoup
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/26/2007
School burglaries have become an all too familiar facet of Belize City life. But beyond the press coverage and indignant words from students and staff, ...
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 | Injured cyclist complains driver not arrested
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/26/2007
Twenty-eight year old Mark Cho, a resident of Red Bank in the Stann Creek district, is lucky to be alive. In February, the young father of two children, ...
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Machete man sentenced to five years in prison
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/26/2007
Lemoth, initially charged with Attempted Murder and Maim following a macheting incident in Belize City on April nineteenth, 2006, this morning pleaded ...
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 | Farmers of the year ready for Ag Show
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/26/2007
I think I am following a trend in terms of being a former student of the Belize College of Agriculture—one and only—and to be the Farmer of the Year, ...
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 | Cops revisit house ... and this time find gun
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/26/2007
Last week we ran a story following up on a murder investigation in which a Belize City family complained that overzealous police ransacked their home in ...
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 | Lawyers continue to battle over BTL
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/26/2007
Thank you.” This case between Belize Telecommunications Limited and Prosser's Belize Telecom has been adjourned until May seventh.
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 | HRCU racks up another successful year
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/26/2007
Belize's most popular single financial institution, the Holy Redeemer Credit Union, held its sixty-third annual general meeting last night and as has become ...
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4/25/2007
 | BTB seeks new branding, more focussed marketing
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/25/2007
It's Belize's largest single industry, biggest foreign exchange earner and foremost employer ... so when the government body in charge of tourism speaks, ...
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 | YFF says survey supports toy gun ban
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/25/2007
Well, one organisation in Belize is claiming that not only do guns lead to killing, but even toy guns can put us on the road to fatal violence. ...
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GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
LoveFM, Belize - 4/25/2007
The Government of Belize has decided to release the full text of the guarantee given to the Belize Bank in respect of the Universal Health Services debt. ...
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POLICE NEWS
LoveFM, Belize - 4/25/2007
Belize City Police say they intercepted the 31-year-old man trying to escape with a stolen bicycle. 34-year-old BDF Captain Ricardo Leal of Buttonwood Bay ...
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 | Our Belize Community – Jules Vasquez
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 4/25/2007
Belize has grown immensely from the tiny country that survived on coconuts, Mahogany and chicle. Belize has grown and jobs that were never available in the ...
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 | “We deh pan line” paddles to victory!
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 4/25/2007
The general camaraderie around camp kept everyone’s spirits up especially with the assistance from the Belize Defense Force who helped and supported the ...
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| Costa Maya set for August 2nd – 5th, 2007
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 4/25/2007
In the coming weeks, their plans will come to light and everyone can start to eagerly anticipate one of Belize’s biggest festivals. ...
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SJC-JC WINS TERTIARY-LEVEL DEBATE
LoveFM, Belize - 4/25/2007
Coordinator of the event, Ritamae Hyde told Love News students from three Tertiary-Level Institutions in Belize engaged in the debate. ...
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4/24/2007
 | Senator Hulse: guarantee was inexcusable
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/24/2007
... proposes and recommends, the Legislature approves and no other institution can commit the funds of the people of Belize but the National Assembly.” ...
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 | US refurbishes dormitory at Youth Hostel
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/24/2007
According to US Ambassador Robert Dieter both projects involved extensive renovations at a cost of over two hundred and thirty-eight thousand Belize dollars ...
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 | Burglary victim offers $5000 reward
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/24/2007
A Belize City businessman who was victimized by robbers earlier this month has offered a reward for the return of his property. According to Dean Fuller, ...
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Cruise industry generates $1.6 billion in spending for Caribbean ...
Barbados Advocate, Barbados - 4/24/2007
The destinations said to have benefitted from this include Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cayman Islands, Cartagena, Costa Maya, Cozumel, ...
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GALEN UNIVERSITY PREPARES FOR OPEN DAY
LoveFM, Belize - 4/24/2007
The Galen Bus will leave Belize City at seven o’clock that morning for residents in Belize City and will stop at the bus terminal in Belmopan for those who ...
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4/23/2007
No arrests in city’s latest shooting
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/23/2007
A shooting in Belize City over the weekend has left one man hospitalized. Eighteen year old Wayne Matthews of a Faber’s Road Extension address remains at ...
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4/22/2007
Regional journalists to engage experts on climate
Caribbean Net News, Cayman Islands - 4/22/2007
... Climate Change Centre was established by CARICOM Heads of Government to coordinate the Region’s response to climate change. It is based in Belmopan, Belize.
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4/21/2007
 | Concert pianist to give encore performance
SunJournal.com (subscription), ME - 4/21/2007
Born in Brooklyn, Lopez was raised in Belize and Texas, where he began to play the piano at age 11. He won his first competition by age 14, and two years ...
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4/20/2007
 | Ladyville Tech hosts first open day
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/20/2007
Open days are a regular feature of the academic year for many educational institutions in Belize ... And this morning, News Five's Kendra Griffith visited ...
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 | Signa Yorke lecture on Guat. claim set for Tues.
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/20/2007
On Tuesday night, the seventeenth annual Signa Yorke Lecture Series will continue its tradition of provoking thought on critical issues facing Belize. ...
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 | BCWU still not happy with terms of reference
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/20/2007
But a press release issued today by the Belize Communication Workers Union's Christine Perriott voices "deep dissatisfaction" with the Minister's comments. ...
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 | Counsellors to help fight drug/alcohol abuse
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/20/2007
This morning eighteen soldiers were added to the forces fighting drug and alcohol abuse in Belize. Through the UK-based National Children’s Home and the ...
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 | April the tapir turns twenty-four
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/20/2007
The special event for the beloved specimen of our national animal is hosted every year by her caretakers at the Belize Zoo to promote awareness of the ...
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 | Teenager charged with murder of younger boy
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/20/2007
As a society we've come to accept the news of another murder on the streets of Belize City with frightening ease. But when the victim is only a child, ...
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 | Family claims weapons raid destroyed home
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/20/2007
And while the victim's family mourn his passing, relatives of the young teenagers that police detained in connection with the murder are crying foul. ...
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MINISTERS OF AGRICULTURE MEET IN BELIZE
LoveFM, Belize - 4/20/2007
Ministers of Agriculture from Central America are in Belize for meetings under the Central American Integration System. Love News spoke with Minister of ...
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MEN CAUGHT WITH STOLEN ITEMS
LoveFM, Belize - 4/20/2007
Belize City Police today have two men in custody who were caught in the West Landivar area with items that turned out to have been stolen. ...
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Emigrating Brits risk losing up to £10000
Easier, UK - 4/20/2007
In response to ONS stats released yesterday that over five hundred Brits are leaving the UK every day in search of a life in the sun and work abroad, ...
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The Reporter Belize, Belize - 4/20/2007
Reports that the Musa Government has been thinking about “setting off” its 10% holdings in the Belize Natural Energy Limited in return for cancellation of ...
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A tribute to the late Ismael Gomez Sr.
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 4/20/2007
Growing up in Orange Walk and attending La Inmaculada Primary School, there was no indication of future greatness until Melin came to Belize City to study ...
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Garinagu celebrate 210 years of arrival
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 4/20/2007
A delegation of some 30 members of the National Garifuna Council from Belize City, Dangriga, Hopkins and Punta Gorda has recently returned from Honduras ...
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Arenal killer-rapist could face life in jail
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 4/20/2007
Epifanio Apolinario Guerra, a Belizean farmer of Arenal Village in Cayo on the Belize/Guatemala border, will know if he will spend the rest of his natural ...
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The Reporter Belize, Belize - 4/20/2007
Not in a time when the entire country is blaming all that’s wrong with Belize on Ralph Fonseca. The village was so important for him to have won that he ...
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New Report ‘Volume 5: The Biopesticides Market In Latin America ...
Business Wire (press release), CA - 4/20/2007
... Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, ...
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 | Whale sharks do it deeper
ScienceBlogs - 4/20/2007
Perhaps you have been one of the lucky few to swim with these enormous friendly elasmobranches off Honduras in Utila (pictured), off Belize at Gladden Spit, ...
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4/19/2007
NTUCB CONDEMNS PROPOSED SALE OF SHARES IN BNE
LoveFM, Belize - 4/19/2007
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize issued a release in which it says it officially records its resolute disapproval of the proposed sale of the ...
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4/18/2007
EU funds Toledo micro credit programme
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/18/2007
The eight hundred and fifty thousand Belize dollar fund, administered through the Toledo Teachers Credit Union, will be used for micro credit to the ...
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 | Officers who foiled robbery commended by Compol
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/18/2007
... officers whose quick action resulted in the apprehension of a pair of robbers earlier this month were honoured today in a short ceremony in Belize City. ...
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 | City and Health Ministry team up for health fair
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/18/2007
Organised by the Public Health Department and the Belize City Council, the event included the participation of several service providers including the Karl ...
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| Brightening smiles in San Pedro
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 4/18/2007
Students, faculty and friends of the University flew to Belize as part of an annual trip sponsored by Ayuda—a non-profit, secular charity that provides ...
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| Miss Belize Universe fundraiser held in SP
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 4/18/2007
Thanks to the special support from the island residents and tourists alike, Maria Jeffrey, Miss Belize Universe has garnered enough money that will allow ...
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| Tigersharks beat the Bulldogs 71-66!
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 4/18/2007
On Saturday night, the San Pedro TigerSharks took center stage at the sports complex to host the Belize Bank Bulldogs for the first game in the 2007 ...
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4/17/2007
 | The waltz makes a comeback at Palloti High
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/17/2007
On Saturday night, twenty-two couples from Belize City and Belmopan will take centre stage in the second annual Palloti Waltz competition. ...
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4/16/2007
Belmopan oil field shares will not go to bank
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/16/2007
In news from Belmopan, the Musa administration is maintaining its silence regarding its latest offer to the Belize Bank as negotiations continue over ...
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 | Belmopan tops Toledo in RFG Cup football
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/16/2007
In other results from around the league, in group A Tex Mar Boys handed Wagiya a 1-zip blast while Hankook Verdes and FC Belize battled to a 1-all stalemate ...
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 | Two murders in city keep cops busy
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/16/2007
Belize City lived up to its violent reputation this weekend with two residents dead and another four recovering from stab wounds. ...
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 | Cops hunt for escaped convict
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/16/2007
... but reports are that well-known burglar Dennis Quilter apparently was taken by bus from Hattieville prison to court in Belize City to stand trail. ...
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 | Ismael Gomez Sr. dies of cancer at 75
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/16/2007
Gomez, one of Belize's pioneering business figures, died early this morning at his Belize City home following a three-month battle with cancer. ...
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An Apology to Mr. Glenn Godfrey SC
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 4/16/2007
The Reporter has received notification from Mr. Carlos E. Kepke of Houston,Texas, attorney for Mr. Glenn D. Godfrey of Belize City, to say that a report ...
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4/14/2007
The Rise and Fall of Third Parties in Belize
Belizean - Only in Belize!, Belize - 4/14/2007
In Belize, the PUP and the UDP have dominated politics. The UDP has twice been elected into government; the PUP has won all other national elections. ...
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4/13/2007
 | Safety Records a Click Away
New York Times, NY - 4/13/2007
A cabana at the Cotton Tree Lodge in Belize. A number of rain forest ecolodges are offering visitors hands-on experiences to get a sense of life in the rain ...
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Arkansas bail bondsman gets his man in Belize
Pine Bluff Commercial, AR - 4/13/2007
BENTONVILLE, Ark. - A Bentonville bail bondsman seeking a bail jumper in a drug case traveled more than 1400 miles to find the man in Belize. ...
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 | Caye Caulker couple wins SUV in Sol raffle
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/13/2007
“The promotion was carried out in all eleven territories that Sol operates in the Caribbean, including Belize, so a similar draw is being done in all the ...
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 | Miss Belize continues fundraising drive
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/13/2007
For more than three decades Belize has been sending young women to participate in the Miss Universe Pageant. But the closest any of our contestants have ...
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Banking laws keep UHS guarantee secret
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/13/2007
The PM went on to assert that in December 2004, Belmopan did in fact guarantee Universal's debt at the Belize Bank. Musa maintains that without consent from ...
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 | Frequent headaches? Doc advises check-up
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/13/2007
Lots of people in Belize have high blood pressure and they say, oh, pressure have mi head the hurt mi, you should still check to make sure. ...
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 | Moya elected Mayors Association President
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/13/2007
The Mayors Association of Belize has a new president. According to a press release issued today, Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya will replace outgoing ...
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 | Accused killers convicted of burglary
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/13/2007
... remembered as a feisty but lovable woman who for over three decades led the life of a trailblazing pioneer in the rugged limestone hills of central Belize.
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 | Kaseke: GOB must defend citizen rights
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 4/13/2007
According to Kaseke, because the US kidnapped Duane from Jamaican custody in January, Belize should refuse to hand over his brothers Mark and Gary. ...
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The Reporter Belize, Belize - 4/13/2007
Past governments of Belize have recognized this right by setting aside a Carib Reserve and a Maya Reserve, although the Garifuna Indians of Belize have not ...
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Panti is BNTU National President
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 4/13/2007
The Belize National Teacher’s Union has elected Jaime Panti, a teacher at Bishop Martin Roman Catholic School in San Ignacio Town, four miles off the Bullet ...
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Bishop Dorick recovers from 6-hour brain surgery
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 4/13/2007
The Catholic community of Belize has been offering up prayers and supplications for the quick recovery of the Rt. Rev’d. Dorick Wright, Bishop of Belize ...
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Charged in gang rape of UB student
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 4/13/2007
... along with Wilber Smith were on Tuesday arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court on charges of rape of a 21-year-old University of Belize student. ...
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