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Six years later, extradition appeal comes up in court
Rhett Fuller spent his birthday in court. The extradition appeal of the thirty-eight year old finally made it to court after six years and today Fuller and his attorney, Eamon Courtenay, appeared before Justices Elliott Mottley, Dennis Morrison and Manuel Sosa in the Appeals Court. But while Courtenay was ready to proceed, Attorney Priscilla Banner, […]
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Court of Appeals turns down Telemedia’s application
But before the appeal of Rhett Fuller was dealt with, the Appeals Court heard an application for leave to appeal a stay of proceedings in the case of five claimants, among them, Belize Telecom Limited, who are claiming compensation for shares they lost when Belize Telecom became Belize Telemedia Limited. The case had started in […]
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Traffic officer charged with Carnal Knowledge
While his job is to uphold the law, today a traffic officer was charged for just the opposite when he appeared in court for Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Thirty year old, Mark Banner of Hattieville is spending his first night behind bars on remand for the offense he allegedly committed against a fourteen year old girl. […]
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San Pedro police make arrest in stabbing murder
San Pedro police have caught up with thirty-seven year old Alvaro Gregorio, who was on the run since the stabbing death of Salvadoran Roberto Jimenez of the San Mateo area of the island shortly after midday on Wednesday. Gregorio was nabbed in a police manhunt around ten this morning in an abandoned house about two […]
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Man pleads guilty to stealing 5 drums of fuel
In the Magistrates’ Court meanwhile, thirty-one year old Roger Pennil of Belama Phase Three, Belize City pleaded guilty to Theft in connection with an incident at the Princess Hotel and Casino marina on Wednesday night. The charge for which Pennil was arrested follows a report by the Marina manager, forty-four year old Angel Espat, who […]
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Police Dept. revamps People’s Coalition Committee
And because of escalating crime and violence, the fight against it is everyone’s business and there is one group that has been active but intends to do more. They previously existed under a different name and their mandate was to advise the Belize Police Department on ways to improve their fight against the scourge. Now […]
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Special Olympians return home with 20 medals
A delegation of athletes that represented Belize in Nicaragua for the Special Olympic Games returned home today with two gold medals. Ambassador for Special Olympics, Kim Simpliss and Chairman of Special Olympics Belize, Alan Auil, were at Stella Maris to greet the twenty-fourth athletes and handed out certificates for their accomplishments in winning a total […]
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Constable Lawrence Jones is Officer of the Month
They did not get medals but they were recognized with special awards as the Police Department’s Belize District Officer of the Month Award programme came back on stream. The programme seeks to single out those junior officers who go beyond the call of duty to make a difference in the community. The programme’s revitalization started […]
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Belize Post Office celebrates World Post Day
Aside from postmasters and mailmen, not many people may know that October ninth is commemorated as World Post Day. To kick-off the celebrations, on Wednesday, instead of delivering mails, the Belize Post Office handed out meals to homeless and needy individuals at the Battlefield Park in Belize City. Today, in conjunction with the Universal Postal […]
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NEMO sends second shipment of food Cuba
And to show appreciation for the continuous assistance from Cuba, Belize today deployed its second shipment of supplies to the island that was ravaged three times in a matter of just months by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike and Tropical Storm Fay. The recovery process is well underway but since every ounce helps, today’s supplies will […]
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Project Poverty exhibition opens tonight at Mexican Ins.
Poverty is the deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life and statistics show that there has been an increase in the level of poverty in the jewel. In fact, thirty-three percent of Belizeans are victims of poverty. This is the message that Photographer Richard Holder captured through his lens in an assignment […]
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Healthy Living looks at depression
At some point you have experienced feelings of sadness. Most of the time we learn to overcome these feelings and as some say: what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. But when a person suffers from depression their gloom and despair become debilitating, preventing them from experiencing happiness. As part of Mental Health Week, Healthy […]
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Murder in broad daylight in San Pedro
It appeared that there was a ceasefire on murder cases, but today in the nation’s favourite tourism destination, jealously was at the heart of the latest murder case, when an enraged former common-law husband turned on another man who he thought had relations with his ex. The incident occurred in the San Mateo area, one […]
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Leaking cargo cleared to dock at Port
There was a lot of activity at the Port this morning when word reached land that a container on a cargo ship headed for Belize was leaking hazardous material. This morning the crew aboard the Westerhaven informed their agent in Belize that a barrel in a container consigned to Belize Natural Energy had somehow sprung […]
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A.C.B. back in court over loan guarantee of U.H.S.
We have not heard much from them since the change of government in February, and today in the court of Justice Minnet Hafiz, the case brought by the Association of Concerned Belizeans against the government continued. This morning Attorney Lois Young, representing A.C.B., the Medical and Dental Union, Senator Godwin Hulse and the N.T.U.C.B., argued […]
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Court dismisses appeal of Mark Cardinez
The Belize Court of Appeal will be hearing a number of cases in its current session which began yesterday. Today the Court dismissed an appeal by thirty-five year old Mark Cardinez, who has been convicted of rape and sentenced to eighteen years behind bars. Cardinez, who appeared unrepresented, appealed his sentencing on several grounds: that […]
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Louie Ganzie will wait for decision on his appeal
In another case before the Appellate Court, the decision in the appeal of convicted murderer Louis Gentle, a.k.a. “Louie Ganzie”, which was heard yesterday, will be delivered in the next session of the court. Ganzie was convicted of the murder of his ex-common law wife Takeisha Sutherland and is serving a sentence of life imprisonment. […]
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Appeal Court uphold appeal of Dean Hyde
And the Court of Appeal upheld the appeal of thirty year old Dean Hyde who was convicted of the murder of sixteen year old Dual Wagner Jr. on August seventeenth, 2007 and sentenced to life. A conviction of manslaughter was substituted for murder and Hyde was sentenced to twenty-five years. Hyde’s attorney, Simeon Sampson, appealed […]
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Paul Fabers pleads guilty to possession cannabis
And in Magistrates’ Court, thirty-two year old Paul Faber, the brother of the Minister of Education, was fined five hundred dollars after he pleaded guilty to the possession of five point nine grams of cannabis. Magistrate Aretha Ford gave Faber until November tenth to pay the fine. If he defaults on payment, he will serve […]
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Two brazen women rob and assault elderly man
Two brazen teenagers from Corozal Town reportedly held up an elderly man at the Santa Elena border and made away with fifty pesos, the equivalent of ten Belize dollars, and an additional twelve dollars in cash. According to Ernesto Pech, the incident occurred at about two-thirty yesterday afternoon at an open lot in the border […]
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Mayor Moya still in the hot seat for $90,000
Zenaida Moya won her place back on the U.D.P. ticket as mayoral candidate for the March 2009 elections but that does not mean she is out of the woods. The bitter and personal campaign against her mounted by her own councillors, exposed gross financial mismanagement at City Hall. Auditors were called in and last Thursday, […]
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Seventy-five receive land titles
When the United Democratic Party came to power in February, one of their first decisions was to put a hold on the issuance of land titles and leases for transactions occurring between 2003 and February 2008. According to government, it wanted to conduct an audit of the Lands and Surveys Department to look for wrongdoing […]
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Crooked Tree gets first rudimentary water system…
If all goes according to plan, by next April the picturesque village of Crooked Tree along the Northern Highway, which is recorded as the oldest settlement, will at last be catching up and will benefit from a new water system. Construction was launched today after funding of more than one point four million dollars was […]
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…But it is in urgent need of better roads
Crooked Tree will shortly have a new water system, and while that is clearly a necessity for the community, there is another urgent need that is yet to be delivered. It has to do with infrastructure. When it rains, like it has been doing this week, access to the village is difficult because of the […]
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