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12/19/2006
No-show witness fined for ignoring summons
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
It's an act that happens often, much to the dismay of attorneys ... but tonight they're not letting a Belize City woman get away with it. ...
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Two city schools will receive new classrooms
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
Two southside Belize City primary schools will receive funding of close to a million dollars for badly needed new classrooms. According ...
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 | Captured fugitive was Taliban, al Qaeda supporter
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
More details are emerging regarding the background of James Ernest Thompson, The US fugitive turned over by Belize authorities to the FBI yesterday and flown ...
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 | Salvation Army feeds elderly
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
... “How much are you all planning to give out?”. “Right now for the Belize District I am able to give out seventy-five food parcels, but apart from this on ...
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 | Red Cross hosts children’s party
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
As Christmas Day draws nearer virtually every day brings some event for children and this morning's venue was the headquarters of the Belize Red Cross. ...
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Dangriga airstrip closed for emergency repairs
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
According to a press release from the Belize Airports Authority, a contract was signed Monday with M & R Construction to completely rehabilitate the badly ...
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 | Christmas shopping reaches high gear
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
If you've been in Belize City over the last week or so the traffic alone will tell you that Christmas shopping is rapidly reaching its peak. ...
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SEC freezes 'pump and dump' scheme
InvestmentNews, NY - 12/19/2006
... action filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Commission charged Grand Logistic, SA, a Belize corporation located ...
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Terror Fugitive Arrested in Belize
My Fox Colorado.com, CO - 12/19/2006
Belize police arrested a Denver native with Al Qaeda ties and handed him over to US authorities, a local television station reported Monday. ...
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David Price laid to rest
Amandala, Belize - 12/19/2006
When we doubt and become seriously concerned about the quality of loyalty some of us have to this Belize, our native land, we can turn to the example of a man ...
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FROM THE PUBLISHER
Amandala, Belize - 12/19/2006
... Half a century ago when American cowboy movies were the vogue in movie theatres in Belize, the white producers and directors who made these movies, depicted ...
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12/18/2006
Two arrested at airport for loaded gun in luggage
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/18/2006
It may not involve terrorism but two visitors to Belize are in a heap of trouble tonight as security officers at the Philip Goldson International Airport found ...
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 | Husband slashes wife’s throat; charged with murder
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/18/2006
If the recent epidemic of gangland style shooting murders in Belize City makes us reflect on the kind of society we have created for our youths, the homicide ...
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City shooting leaves one dead
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/18/2006
In Belize City police are investigating a more familiar type of homicide which occurred late Sunday night. After receiving reports ...
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Bulletproof vest saves shooting victim
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/18/2006
... Myers told the cops that around eight thirty, he was sitting with his family on the back stairs of his house on Vernon Street in Belize City when a clear ...
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Christmas – the journey to joy
Amandala, Belize - 12/18/2006
... LUKE 2:7 -. Christmas has become, of course, the greatest festival of consumer capitalism in Belize and in the world. Yet, the event ...
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12/17/2006
Casts & Shots: Tying saltwater flies
Frederick News Post (subscription), MD - 12/17/2006
A trip to Belize three years ago, really cemented my desire to pursue predatory fish in the brine. With shorter days and longer, cold nights; ...
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`Apocalypto' a distorted view of Maya history
Chicago Tribune, IL - 12/17/2006
... spoken by more than 700000 Yucatec Maya in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize sends a dangerous message by asking them to portray their own ancestors as evil. ...
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Trinidad to import chicken from Guyana
Stabroek News, Guyana - 12/17/2006
... at a post-Cabinet press conference at Whitehall, Port-of-Spain announced that Guyana and Belize were identified as candidates for meat importation. ...
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 | 'Wild Places' shot in full, rich color
Deseret News, UT - 12/17/2006
... mountains in Nepal, national parks in Africa, islands in the Philippines, deserts of south Australia, a glacier in Argentina and rivers in Belize. ...
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12/15/2006
 | Toy guns, real guns turned in for destruction
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/15/2006
What we are going to do now is burn these weapons to show the public how serious the City Council is about cracking down on crime in Belize City.” ...
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Roving hands earn molester 18 months in jail
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/15/2006
On November twenty-seventh, a twenty year old woman reported to police that after she boarded a National Transport bus that was enroute from Belize City to ...
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 | Kids battle for chess championship this weekend
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/15/2006
There will be war in Belize City this weekend ... but the battle I'm talking about won't be fought with TEC nines, Uzis and AK-47s. Instead some of Belize's ...
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 | Christmas village is tradition for city family
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/15/2006
If you fought the traffic on Albert Street today you would be convinced that Christmas in Belize is all about shopping. But as News Five's Janelle Chanona ...
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Europe Moves to Common Migratory Policy
Prensa Latina, Cuba - 12/15/2006
Brussels, Dec 15 (Prensa Latina) The Summit of the European Union concluded here Friday, with the agreement of the 25 Heads of State and Government to take ...
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ATHLETICS: Kisii’s turn to host big meet
Daily Nation (subscription), Kenya - 12/15/2006
“I just need to make a lot of decisions,” Jones told a news conference in Belize while visiting her mother’s Central American homeland with her ...
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Belize Red Cross celebrates 92 years in pictures
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
On Tuesday at the Image Factory, North Front Street in Belize City an exhibition was opened to commemorate the 92nd anniversary of the movement and shed ...
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Health Reform addresses lifestyle diseases
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
Following the Forum Sir George Alleyne is scheduled to make a presentation to the cabinet entitled Primary Health Care History and Lessons for Belize. ...
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Corozal woman wins $50,000 in Lotto
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
... Beolita Ancona, 22, along with her family stepped into the Tropical Gaming office located on Queen Street in Belize City to claim the $50,000 lotto jackpot ...
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David Price passes on at 55
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
... Price who taught at Wesley College in his early years was undoubtedly one of Belize’s best history lecturers, if not the best. ...
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We have 41 guests online
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
By Angel Novelo - Staff Reporter. David McKoy Jr., son of the late Cabinet minister David L. McKoy Sr., has been sentenced to eight ...
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Mexico Prez Proposes Border Plan
Prensa Latina, Cuba - 12/15/2006
... region of Soconusco, in Tuxtla Chico, Chiapas, Calderon learned that two million people cross annually the southern border from Guatemala and Belize to Mexico ...
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Report: Caribbean coral reef being damaged
Amandala, Belize - 12/15/2006
... banana and pineapple plantations are threatening tourism by damaging a coral reef stretching along the Caribbean coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and ...
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Big up, the NTUCB
Amandala, Belize - 12/15/2006
We feel that Belize now has the strongest trade union leadership we have had since independence in 1981. Last week’s elections ...
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Rene Gomez new NTUCB president
Amandala, Belize - 12/15/2006
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize (NTUCB) held its 40th Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Cahal Pech Village Resort in San Ignacio Town, Cayo on ...
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12/14/2006
David Price succumbs in Cuba at 55
Amandala, Belize - 12/14/2006
Belize has lost one of its most stalwart and indomitable servants – Mr. David Price, who passed away in a public hospital in Cuba early Wednesday, ...
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 | CITCO promotes toy gun trade-in
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/14/2006
With violent crime such a major issue in Belize it's only logical to take a close look at the question of guns ... and at Christmas ...
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US veteran Jones in career limbo
Unison.ie (subscription), Ireland - 12/14/2006
... "I just need to make a lot of decisions," Jones told a news conference in Belize while visiting her mother's homeland with her three-year-old son Monty. ...
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 | Police inaugurate Yabra Community Computer Centre
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/14/2006
While the police recruits were preparing for the big event in Belmopan, their future colleagues in Belize City were engaged in the type of police work that ...
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 | Government will pick up tab for Price’s transport
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/14/2006
As the family and friends of the late David Price continue to make preparations for his funeral, today the Government of Belize announced it will assume the ...
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 | Calling all drag queens!
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/14/2006
... I think the Drag Queen thing dah wah difference mein, I think Belize should come out and see it.”. ... But da just entertainment Belize, da just entertainment.”. ...
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 | Tour operator loses license for 5 more years
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/14/2006
A release from the Belize Tourism Board states that the Tour Operators Licensing Committee, following a November second meeting, reconvened today to consider ...
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 | Human-caused pollution is damaging reef
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 12/14/2006
(3) Compared to the other countries, relatively minor percentages of the regional sediment load come from Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. ...
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 | Our Community – Magistrate Earl Jones
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 12/14/2006
Earl Anthony Jones was born on September 17th, 1954 in the city of Belize. Parents Barbara Savery and Karl Jones welcomed their second child to what would ...
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Marion Jones still undecided on future
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 12/14/2006
"I just need to make a lot of decisions," Jones told a news conference in Belize while visiting her mother's Central American homeland with her ...
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Correcting With the Code
Inside Higher Ed, DC - 12/14/2006
We gave her a flea shampoo and that provoked my husband to cite a cause for his neckline balls: He had had a leftover bot-fly from our August trip to Belize ...
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12/13/2006
 | Belize Coast Guard marks first anniversary
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/13/2006
With hundreds of miles of shoreline, scores of cayes, three atolls and a barrier reef that ranks among the world's natural wonders you'd think that Belize ...
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 | David Price, DFC Inquiry Chairman, dead at 55
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/13/2006
Reports are the veteran teacher passed away at a Cuban medical facility just after ten Belize time on Tuesday night. “Renal failure, kidney failure, ...
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 | Marion Jones, home on a visit, faces the future
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/13/2006
Last week Belize's sweetheart, Marion Jones, arrived in the country with her three year old son Monty. And while she did not receive the hero's welcome that ...
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 | Childrens’ parties mark festive season
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/13/2006
The boys and girls were chosen from different city primary schools to attend this year’s Christmas Party hosted by The Belize Tourism Board in collaboration ...
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 | UNICEF looks back at 25 years of service
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/13/2006
It's an organisation that for over half a century has expended its financial and moral resources in service to Belize's--and the world's--children. ...
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 | Injured suspect arraigned for murder of teen
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/13/2006
One week after police shot him in the left ankle, twenty-four year old Leonard Myers, aka "Ghost," was released from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and ...
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12/12/2006
Report: Caribbean coral reef being damaged
Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA - 12/12/2006
BELIZE CITY -- Fertilizer and sediment runoff from sugarcane, banana and pineapple plantations are threatening tourism by damaging a coral reef stretching ...
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 | Scientists measure how land pollution hurts reef
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/12/2006
We know it as the Belize Barrier Reef, but when you add the coral formations to the north and south the entire system is referred to scientifically in ...
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Creditors will now consider new bond offer
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/12/2006
As for the latest on the progress of Belize's billon dollar bond offer, today Espat told the press that with the National Assembly's approval of the ...
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 | Loan signed with IDB for US $25 million
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/12/2006
During a brief contract signature ceremony this morning, the Government of Belize officially wrapped up more than a year of negotiations with the ...
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 | Family of missing tourist seeks closure
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/12/2006
His brother Donald Dresp says he, his wife Winifred, John had arrived in Belize on the Norwegian Dream Cruise ship. They were among forty-seven other ...
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 | Ground broken on Korea-financed vocational school
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/12/2006
Today two ground breaking ceremonies were held on projects jointly initiated between the Governments of Belize and South Korea. Construction for a Central ...
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IDB approves $25 million loan to Belize
Caribbean Net News, Cayman Islands - 12/12/2006
WASHINGTON, USA: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) last week approved a $25 million fast-disbursing loan to support Belize’s agenda of reforms to ...
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Venezuela: Documenting the Threat
Stratfor - 12/12/2006
... aliens from other regions; they might access the region via other countries -- such as Guatemala, Belize, the Dominican Republic and Mexico -- as well. ...
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Author: Adele Ramos
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
Amandala notes, however, that for the period to which Espat referred, Belize would not be required to make principal payments, and interest payments would ...
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GOB gets US$25 million loan from the IDB
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
At the same time the Government issued a press release, informing that the Inter-American Development Bank had approved a $25 million loan to Belize. ...
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The Universal-KHMH Story
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
GOB is not paying UHS any cash, but has, instead, decided to pay the hospital’s multi-million-dollar debt with the Belize Bank. That also begs the question: ...
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Ho, Ho, Ho! Or Ha! Ha! Ha!
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
It’s the Christmas season and the Government of Belize is giving away some big bucks. On December 21, 2006, GOB will give away up to $10000 of taxpayers’ ...
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The Babel-onians
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
The capital of the settlement of Belize, on the Haulover Creek delta, has been criticized over two centuries, primarily because it was not a deep water port ...
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FROM THE PUBLISHER
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
There are political leaders in countries like Belize who think that what exists as the status quo, represents a natural, entrenched order of things. ...
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Freed Friday, Ricky Aguilar flies Friday
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
... The news came on Friday, December 8, at the Belize City Magistrate’s Court in a directive from the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Kirk ...
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CARICOM Secretary General 2006 End of Year Statement
Caribbean PressReleases.com (press release), Barbados - 12/12/2006
... The year started on a very positive note with the launching of the Single Market on January 1 by Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and ...
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Nearly 5,000 lawyers have now been regionally trained, women have ...
Stabroek News, Guyana - 12/12/2006
... by an agreement signed by representatives from Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Barbados, Montserrat, British Honduras (now Belize), St Kitts ...
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12/11/2006
 | New US embassy opens in Belmopan
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/11/2006
... And while we in Belize know that no one here harbours such evil intentions, we also knew that it was only a matter of time until the US government replaced its ...
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 | Darnell Barrow wins Alpheus Williams Classic
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/11/2006
... Monday. The 2006 Alpheus Williams Cycle Classic travelled for fifty miles from Belmopan to finish just outside Belize City yesterday. ...
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 | Kiwanis Club donates to charities
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/11/2006
They call themselves the Kiwanis Club of Belize City. And while this might be the first time you're hearing of them, for the last ...
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Two acquitted of kidnapping
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/11/2006
A Belize City father and son walked out of court free men this afternoon, cleared of kidnapping charges following their trial in the Supreme Court. ...
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NEW US EMBASSY OPENS IN BELMOPAN
LoveFM, Belize - 12/11/2006
... States government today inaugurated a new embassy facility in the Capital City of Belmopan.This new facility replaces the embassy building in Belize City.This ...
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12/9/2006
GOB bails out Universal
Amandala, Belize - 12/9/2006
... transaction were forthcoming. Our sources say the Lord Ashcroft bank will receive extensive real estate on San Pedro Ambergris Caye. ...
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12/8/2006
Military flight school launched
Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 2 hours ago
... to build. The school officially gets off the ground in February with six pilots (five from Jamaica, one from Belize) on base. The ...
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 | No comment from Smith on Ralph article
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/7/2006
In this week's edition of the Belize Times, his Cabinet colleague, Minister of Tourism Godfrey Smith surmised the pros and cons of Fonseca's candidacy in the ...
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 | Ricky Aguilar walks away from murder case
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/7/2006
In May, the double murder of Kevin and Phillip Brannon rocked Belize City to its core as the crime pitted southside victims against northside shooters. ...
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Charges against accused tax thief dismissed
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/7/2006
Twenty-four year old David Longsworth was charged with robbery and handling stolen goods following the armed robbery of the tax office in Belize City on July ...
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 | HOR debates billion dollar bond
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/7/2006
... come with short notice, but the session was not short of debate as both sides discussed the Musa administration's latest attempt of dealing with Belize's debt. ...
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 | Police: 14-year-old caught in gang crossfire
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/7/2006
Homicide detectives believe it was an ongoing rivalry between two Belize City gangs that led to Wednesday evening's murder of the innocent victim. ...
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 | GOB presents five-year health plan
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/7/2006
Amid the proposed amalgamation of the KHMH and Universal Health Services, this morning the Government of Belize presented its Health Agenda for the next five ...
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Clinton Uh Luna – “I have no agenda.”
Amandala, Belize - 12/7/2006
... domination. In our 170 miles long with 68 miles wide, Belize is another thing, mixed under the Spanish and British philosophy. There ...
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FROM THE PUBLISHER
Amandala, Belize - 12/7/2006
... survived until today. The PUP itself, which is Belize’s ruling party, was not always the monolith it appears to be today. The PUP ...
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Wesley High Boys - Back to Back Champs!!!
Amandala, Belize - 12/7/2006
... Tifarah Swift, arguably Belize City high school basketball’s best female player, and her fellow teammates from Gwen Lizarraga High (GLHS) spoiled the ...
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MEET
LoveFM, Belize - 12/8/2006
... second motion brought from Cabinet is for a bond issue of five hundred sixty five million US dollars that of course is more than one billion Belize dollars in ...
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