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And still on the firings, Public Service Union President, Jacqueline Willoughby Sanchez, says that her union believes the firings of four employees at the Belize Agricultural Health Authority are unjust. Will the P.S.U. join in next weeks protest organized by the P.U.P.? That is what we asked Sanchez late this evening. Jacqueline Willoughby Sanchez, President, […]
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The Public Utility Commission made good on its promise and has issued its Compliance Order to B.E.L. The document was served on the electricity company on Tuesday and today the P.U.C. made the document public. The order outlines that Belize Electricity Limited must provide services requiring no installation of poles, but extension of the distribution […]
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The Maya Leaders Alliance and the government were back in court this morning. This time the Mayans are asking the Supreme Court to create a mechanism, legislative or otherwise, that will cement a ruling it had previously made in favour of the Mayas confirming communal rights to the land they occupy in Conejo and Santa […]
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Also in the Supreme Court, a jury of six women and three men took two hours and fifteen minutes before it found forty-one year old Leroy Stevens guilty of Carnal Knowledge. Stevens, a former assistant supervisor of Belize Water Services Limited, will wait until November seventeenth to know his fate. Justice Adolph Lucas set the […]
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A nineteen year old man has been found guilty of Attempted Suppression of Evidence. Because Michael Foreman had no previous convictions, Magistrate Tracy Sosa showed him mercy today in Magistrates’ Court and Foreman was fined seven hundred dollars instead of serving a two year sentence. Magistrate Sosa gave him until December twelfth to pay the […]
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In an update to a story last night, twenty-one year old Tyrone Gentle, the alleged shooter who fired several shots at Austin Rowland was charged today. Gentle appeared in the court of Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb to be arraigned on charges of Attempted Murder and Damage to Property. Due to the nature of the offence, […]
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In other news, the Ministry of Education has finally released the names of Belize’s top students in the C.A.P.E. and C.X.C. examinations. Topping the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations with six grade one passes is Ian Lizarraga, earning the S.J.C. student title of the Most Outstanding Candidate and the Belize Scholarship for 2008. Lizarraga also took […]
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A freak accident has resulted in the death of a San Pedro man. Island police say they visited the polyclinic where they found the lifeless body of thirty-seven year old Jorge Teul Cuc with a large cut to the head. Cuc’s brother-in-law, Edgar Cucul, reported that they were working at a building in the Boca […]
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But a woman fared better and escaped rape. The Trial Farm resident reported to police that she was home on Tuesday when someone knocked at her door. The woman says she opened the door thinking that it was her husband, but instead it was a man, known to her as Eric Sambas. A shirtless Sambas […]
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Authorities are often accused of abusing the use of taser guns to torture prisoners or detainees by applying it to sensitive body parts. And today the Belize Police Department announced that it has acquired a number of tasers but that their use will be closely monitored. What’s more, there will be strict accountability. And to […]
Written on November 11, 2008 | Posted in
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Taser guns may be the preferred choice to restrain violent persons, but the legal system will deal with a couple who left two kids alone at home. Forty-seven year old Willard Leslie and thirty-one year old Kimberly Alford, a common-law couple of Vista Del Mar, Ladyville, appeared today in Magistrates’ Court where they were charged […]
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Also in the Magistrates’ Court, twenty-two year old, Jarrett Crawford was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment for firearm and ammunition offences and the aggravated assault of Police Corporal Gavin Sanchez. Today, Crawford changed his plea from not guilty to guilty when his trial resurfaced in Magistrates’ Court. Although he asked for leniency, […]
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Cops believe a shooting in Belize City on Saturday night is gang related. And a Saturn car with license plate number BZ 32327 saved the life of twenty-two year old Austin Rowland in the shooting. Rowland, who was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the incident fled towards Central American Boulevard and […]
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Cops are on the hunt for a man wanted for Drug Trafficking and are focusing on the driver of a taxi with license plate number CYD-3354. On Saturday night at around nine-thirty, police conducted a highway patrol on the Western Highway and their attention was drawn to a vehicle parked off the road in Blackman […]
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And cases of carnal knowledge appear to be climbing and tonight there are reports of sexual abuse of a fifteen year old minor of San Marcos Village. This past Monday, the minor told police that on September eighth around six-thirty a.m., forty year old Leoncio Muku of the same village had sexual intercourse with her […]
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The Anglican Cathedral College emerged from an amalgamation of St Michael’s and St Hilda’s high schools back in 1982. And many leaders have passed through its doors including present and former prime ministers: Dean Barrow and Said Musa. There are other personalities such as Attorney Dickie Bradley who is a graduate of St. Michael’s and […]
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Close to forty percent of Belize is designated as protected areas and maintaining that is not cheap. This week a group of organizations which fund conservation projects are meeting at the Biltmore Hotel to exchange experiences, discuss new challenges and opportunities. Kendra Griffith reports. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Representatives of the organizations which form the Latin […]
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While environmentalists were discussing funding, across the hall, public service officers were embarking on a three-day training session. C.E.O. in the Ministry of Public Service, Charles Gibson told us what skills they were acquiring. Charles Gibson, CEO, Ministry of Public Service “It’s part of an ongoing process that we have at the Ministry of the […]
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If you are heading to Dangriga for the celebrations of Garifuna Settlement Day or even sooner, there is a new facility that you will not miss, smack in the middle of town. The Princess Royal Park has received a whole new facelift with new benches, playground equipment, fencing, walkway bathroom facilities, garbage disposals and improved […]
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Also in the south, workers at the Citrus Products of Belize can now enjoy the benefits of an HIV/AIDS workplace policy. The document was signed last Tuesday by C.P.B.L. Chief Executive Officer Henry Canton, along with Union Representative Robert Palon and Labour Department Rep., Hertha Gentle. According to a Press Office release, the citrus company […]
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Our two countries have always enjoyed excellent relations and now Mexico wants to further strengthen these ties. And to do that, the Mexican Embassy says it also wants to improve its relationship with the local media. Today Ambassador Luis Lopez Moreno hosted the press to a luncheon to highlight the areas his country wants to […]
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Belize is a treasure trove for professional and amateur photographers alike. What escapes our observation is focused zoomed upon with the lens of an artistic eye and snapped by visual visionaries. One such person is Richard Holder, who experienced added flair to his recent exhibition, Project Poverty. And while Holder is established in his field, […]
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At news time, a jury has been unable to reach a verdict after deliberating twice in one day in the sensational murder trial of Keon “Duppy” Myvette. The jury in this trial comprises six women and six men who were locked up for four hours in the first instance and then an hour and twenty […]
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A U.S. national who was preparing to leave the country was picked up at the Phillip Goldson International Airport this afternoon, as he was about to board a flight to Houston, Texas. Businessman Christopher Hysinger, hours before was freed of five charges, among them Manslaughter by Negligence. When he was taken back to court Magistrate […]
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And in the Magistrates’ Court in Dangriga, Percival Jones Lewis, who was wanted for the double murder of Chinese nationals, Liping Zhen and Yue Lian Liu, and Aggravated Burglary, was arraigned today. Last Friday, he was arrested and transported to the Dangriga Police Station. And tonight the eighteen year old Lewis of Sawaii Street was […]
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