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After weeks of speculation, three candidates have been nominated to succeed Said Musa as leader of the People’s United Party. They are deputy leader Johnny Briceño, party chairman Francis Fonseca and Albert representative Mark Espat. While Fonseca was unavailable for comment this evening, Briceño and Espat have already started to campaign. Mark Espat, Candidate for […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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And while the P.U.P. gets its house in order, tonight there are new accusations against the Musa administration regarding those housing loans. When the program was launched in January, Belizeans were told that the Venezuelans had sent nine million U.S. dollars to assist low income families repair or construct homes. An additional million was stipulated […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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A police raid at a Corozal home has resulted in the seizure of drugs and prohibited ammunition. According to police, around seven-thirty on Thursday night their search of the home of James and Jason Quan on Flamboyant Street turned up a cassette pouch with marijuana seeds, weed, three nine millimetre bullets, a sixteen gauge cartridge […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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Orange Walk police have made some inroads into last week’s double murder of Jose Ricalde and Nazim Romero. Investigators had initially fingered eighteen year old Luis Cardenas as a prime suspect but at a press conference this afternoon, Senior Superintendent Robert Mariano says new evidence is now pointing in an entirely different direction. Sr. Supt. […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, Corozal police have charged a Belize City man with that district’s first murder for the year. Nineteen year old Ian Haylock of Water Lane in Belize City is accused of shooting fifty year old taxi driver Eduardo Samos to death and then stealing his taxi and cellular phone. Police believe Haylock travelled to Corozal […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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Sexual crimes against the country’s children continue unabated and tonight a police officer has been added to the list of accused offenders. According to investigators in San Ignacio, on Wednesday a fourteen year old reported that last September she was at the home of Police Corporal Joel Grinage when he asked her to iron one […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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On Saturday, two Belizean officer cadets of the Belize Defence Force will leave the country bound for Taiwan. Twenty-one year old Chantel Castillo and twenty year old Hugo Rosa received scholarships from the Ministry of National Defence of Taiwan to study medicine at the National Defence Medical Centre. The program is for seven and a […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
Education |
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In December of last year, the Belize National Coast Guard broke ground for the construction of a forward operational base on Calabash Caye. According to Commandant of the Coast Guard, Cedric Borland the base should result in faster response to illegal activity in the area. Today, as part of his familiarization tour of the portfolio, […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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In news from the City Council, plans to pave Albert and Regents have been postponed until further notice. According to a press release issued this afternoon, the delay is to “allow the utility companies to conduct preparatory works needed to facilitate the uninterrupted paving” of the downtown area. The announcement was made following discussions today […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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On Saturday, chess players will participate in the first ever international tournament. Chief Tournament Director of the Belize Chess Federation, Glen Reneau says “Candidate Games” is designed to take the sport to another level. Glen Reneau, Chief Tournament Director, Belize Chess Federation “Belizean chess players for the first time will receive an international rating. An […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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As parades go it will never be confused with the ones on September tenth or the twenty-first, let alone the big jump up of carnival. But this morning the village of Blue Creek in the Orange Walk district kicked off its celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Mennonites’ arrival in Belize with its own […]
Written on February 22, 2008 | Posted in
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