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This morning the Belmopan mayoral candidates for the two major parties made their scheduled pre-election appearance on the Open Your Eyes morning show. The P.U.P.’s candidate is Rosalie Casey, a public service veteran with thirty-five years of experience. According to the former administrator, she wants to see the capital city develop to its full potential. […]
Written on February 17, 2009 | Posted in
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And while most of focus has been on the P.U.P. and the U.D.P. as we reported yesterday, there are some independents and less known political groups that are also contesting the March poll. In Belmopan, the Vision Inspired by the People is promoting itself as the alternative to the P.U.P. and the U.D.P. Their candidates […]
Written on February 17, 2009 | Posted in
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It is two weeks away from the elections in all nine municipalities and by agreement the political parties nominated their candidates at different times in the day. While the crowds were small, there was plenty energy to go around and the horses are now officially at the starting gate, ready to bolt. Sixty-seven seats are […]
Written on February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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Later in the day the incumbent U.D.P. City Council pulled double duty and before heading to the C.B. Hyde Building for nomination, the party launched its manifesto for 2009-2012. Kendra Griffith begins her report from the U.D.P. Secretariat on Youth for the Future Drive. Kendra Griffith, Reporting With the Prime Minister seated at the head […]
Written on February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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And by the close of nomination today, both political parties, the U.D.P. and P.U.P., had fielded candidates to all seats to be contested on March fourth, sixty-seven in all. But in Punta Gorda, the story is different. The incumbent council is headed by a P.U.P. mayor and the councilors are U.D.P. And in this coming […]
Written on February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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Last Friday Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh ruled against the Government of Belize, calling their proposed amendment to section seventeen of the constitution incompatible with the basic structure of the supreme document as it makes access to the court unavailable. Businessman Barry Bowen and the Landowners Association challenged the amendment in the case, which also had […]
Written on February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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Last Friday we reported on a grizzly murder in Orange Walk Town, and in tonight’s newscast, there is another homicide to report, this one in Belize City in which a forty-three year old man was gunned down. The motive has still not been ascertained and no arrests have been made up to news time. Marion […]
Written on February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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There is a development to the brutal murder of forty-four year old Enrique Lino Castillo who was murdered last Friday in Orange Walk Town. Lead suspect, Nimrod Tillett, who is believed to have slit Castillo’s throat, turned himself in to Orange Walk police yesterday. Today Tillett was charged for Murder and remanded to prison. The […]
Written on February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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On January thirtieth San Pedro police were summoned to an area some seventeen miles from town, where the bullet-riddled body of Paul Saldivar was discovered. Today police report that they have arrested and charged three persons in connection with the murder. The three are twenty-eight year old Shelton Tillett of George Street, twenty-eight year old […]
Written on February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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One man is in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. following a stabbing incident at the well known Li Chee Restaurant on Freetown Road. The incident took place last Friday night at about nine o’clock when the fast food restaurant was crowded with patrons. Nineteen year old Vince Mitchel of Belama Phase two was wounded on […]
Written on February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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Also in Belize City, two brazen thieves targeted Quality Supermarket in the peak hours last Friday afternoon. According to cashier, twenty-two year old Dennis Ortiz, around two-twenty, two men entered the establishment armed with what appeared to be a point thirty-eight revolver. One of the men ordered a female customer to the floor and the […]
Written on February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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“Bridging the Gap between poverty and possibilities” is the motto of the Friends Boys School on Allenby Street in Belize City. The school is very small in comparison to most primary education institutions and is designed to pull primary school dropouts back into the education system. But over the weekend it was burglarized. Candi Young, […]
Written on February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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Rotary Belize’s Gift of Life is a unique Program that helps children with heart problems receive the necessary healthcare in the United States that they would be unable to get in Belize. Not only do the organizers help with the diagnosis, they also assist with the travel and hospital expenses. But to undertake this costly […]
Written on February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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The United Democratic Party government came to power on February seventh, 2008 with a manifesto entitled “Imagine the Possibilities”. With one year already under their belt, our morning show Open your Eyes has featured both the U.D.P. and the opposition P.U.P. for a review of one year into the U.D.P. Administration. Minister of Education Patrick […]
Written on February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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For the People’s United Party, the G.O.B. report card is anemic. Deputy Leader and Albert Area Representative, Mark Espat, this morning had a shot at a wide range of issues he believes the U.D.P. is falling short on. The former Minister of Tourism has been paying keen attention to details of the budget and stimulus […]
Written on February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and it is with pleasure we bring you this dish of Sports Monday. In a bid for its first win of the Belize Bank Super League post season, Kraal Road hosted Valley Renaissance of Stann Creek at the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday in week three. So let’s see how it went. […]
Written on February 16, 2009 | Posted in
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In a grizzly murder, less than twenty-four hours before Valentine’s Day, one man was brutally murdered in Orange Walk Town. Police are on the hunt for the lover of the murdered man, Enrique Castillo, who is believed to be the main suspect. Forty-four year old Castillo returned from his job as a head waiter at […]
Written on February 13, 2009 | Posted in
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There are more details on this morning’s brutal murder in Orange Walk Town. Neighbours are accusing the police of not responding promptly but cops have swiftly detained a number of suspects. The prime suspect, Nimrod Tillett, who police believe actually slashed Castillo’s throat, remains at large tonight and police have released his picture with the […]
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A woman is fighting for her life following a traffic accident at mile seven on the Northern Highway at midday. Two vehicles were involved in the mishap, a Chevy pick-up being driven by twenty-two year old Erroll Garbutt and a Toyota Corolla driven by sixty-three year old Hydee Gutierrez. Garbutt escaped with minor abrasions but […]
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And in crime news, the law has caught up with a Punta Gorda man who had sex with a sixteen year old minor. Twenty-three year old Dennis Trapp, a mechanic of Oriole Street in Punta Gorda Town was charged today for the Unlawful Carnal Knowledge of the teen. Even though Trapp committed the act alone, […]
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At about one-twenty p.m. on Thursday February twelfth, police executed a search warrant for drugs and firearms at Amelia’s DVD Store, located two miles on Northern Highway. The cops discovered three black plastic bags containing green leafy substances suspected to be cannabis in a suitcase and an additional six black plastic bags under the suitcase. […]
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This morning Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh delivered his judgment in the novel case of Barry Bowen and the Landowners Association versus the Government of Belize. At the end of the more than two hour long judgment, Conteh ruled in favour of the claimants and their attorneys, led by Eamon Courtenay. According to the C.J., clause […]
Written on February 13, 2009 | Posted in
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In other court news, twenty-four year old Jaret Jerry Jones will be on remand until March thirty-first. That is because Jones, an unemployed of a Mahogany Street address, was charged with Attempted Murder of Marvin Underwood along with charges of Wounding and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. In court this morning, Magistrate Sharon Fraser […]
Written on February 13, 2009 | Posted in
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A man who was charged with assaulting his ex, is back in court for a new assault charge committed on the same woman. Thirty year old Emery Lino allegedly committed the first aggravated assault on his twenty-five year old ex-common law wife Ursula Reid on November thirteenth, 2008. And today he was slapped with an […]
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Want to share love this Valentine’s day? Tonight students from St. Michael’s College are giving you the opportunity to do just that at a dance and concert. The high school, which is experiencing financial problems, specifically with school supplies, is hosting a valentine’s extravaganza to much needed raise funds. During the event entitled, ‘Share D […]
Written on February 13, 2009 | Posted in
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