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A Saturday night outing in Ladyville turned fatal for one and two others were injured in a traffic accident just after a deep curve near Miles eight and nine on the Northern Highway. The seventeen year old driver died while undergoing surgery and one passenger is in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. the other passenger […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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And up north, a man lost his life—also on the road—after he was knocked off his bike on Friday night. He has been identified as forty-two year old Francisco Garcia Villanueva, a Salvadoran national living in Paraiso Village. According to twenty-eight year old Elsner Manzanilla, the traffic mishap happened when he was driving his taxi […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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The recent murder of twenty-seven Lacey Rosales remains a mystery. Belize City police have still not made any arrests in connection with last Tuesday morning’s stabbing murder on Pen Road. Rosales died after receiving numerous stab wounds to her chest and throat. The woman was surprised around five that morning as she exited her home […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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The quiet of Sunday evening was broken when two minors and an adult were shot at Rowland’s Alley, not far from downtown Belize City, when they stopped at a friend’s house for water. At about six-thirty p.m., eighteen year old Brandon Middleton was shot twice and received two injuries to his right thigh, three to […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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In another shooting incident, also on Sunday, police have detained a suspect and a weapon. Forty year old Sarah Reyes of Simon Lamb Street told police that she was socializing in Lord’s Bank around six that evening when she felt a burning sensation in her left arm and realised she had been shot. Reyes reported […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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Closer to the city, there is a cool spot where you can get away and enjoy the seaside breeze. Perhaps that is what inspired two men to rob the bar near the sea at mile four and a half on the Northern Highway. The proprietor of the Bayview Oasis, sixty-five year old Otto Petterson, said […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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CLICO branches throughout the Caribbean have been folding and in Belize the local branch is now reportedly also facing liquidation. From what we have ascertained, there are three local agencies in Corozal, Orange Walk and in Belize City, with about fifteen agents and close to twenty employees whose fate with the company will be determined […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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The visiting Court of Appeal is in session for the third week and Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay and his client, Rhett Fuller, are before the court fighting extradition to the United States in a case that goes back for almost two decades. Fuller has been on the U.S. wanted listed since the 90’s for the […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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But in the Supreme Court, a jury of seven women and two men deliberated for about two and a half hours and was unable to reach a verdict in the carnal knowledge trial of forty-nine year old Joel Hernandez. Hernandez, a watchman from Calla Creek Village is accused of the carnal knowledge of a thirteen […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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And in the lower court, a Belize City man has been sentenced to six months in prison for theft. When he appeared in court today, forty-four year old Louis Romero changed his plea from not guilty to guilty. Romero, an employee of Youth for the Future is accused to stealing a cell phone from Karina […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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In another case, a restaurant owner at the Belize City Municipal Airstrip was sent behind bars after he was denied bail on allegations that he assaulted three people with a gun. Forty-four year old Rick Munnings Senior pleaded guilty at first to three counts of Aggravated Assault with a Firearm before Magistrate Tracy Sosa and […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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In other news, World Tuberculosis Day is being celebrated on Tuesday March twenty-fourth and Cleopatra White Health Clinic is leading the charge in spreading awareness about this infectious disease. The symptoms of TB include a persistent cough that won’t go away, headaches, fever, weight loss, poor appetite and a general feeling of tiredness. According to […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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The Barbados Coalition of Services Industries has partnered with the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industries and Beltraide to host a services trade mission to strengthen intra regional trade. The representatives from Barbados are in the jewel and today begin a series of meetings and other networking opportunities. At a business forum held at the […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Game two of the Belize Bank Super League Football Championship series saw the defending champion, Texmar Boys roll into Dangriga’s Carl Ramos Stadium yesterday with a one game lead over the host team, Valley Renaissance after last weeks 3-2 win at Independence. A win today […]
Written on March 23, 2009 | Posted in
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In the course of the budget debate yesterday in the House of Representatives, the Minister of Public Service, John Saldivar dropped a bombshell when he said with much bravado that he had intercepted an e-mail from the Leader of the Opposition, John Briceño. The matter sounded alarm bells because of the legalities at hand. But […]
Written on March 20, 2009 | Posted in
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And we did get a reaction from the People’s United Party in respect of the intercepted e-mail. Calling it morally reprehensible and a gross violation of privacy, the P.U.P. says that in many countries such an act would be considered as cyber piracy, an offense punishable by imprisonment. And according to the P.U.P., in preparing […]
Written on March 20, 2009 | Posted in
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In other news from Belmopan, the Governor General has administered the Oath of Allegiance to Nemencio Acosta of the Corozal North Constituency and appointed him as Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Development and Social Transformation at the Belize House in Belmopan City. Acosta takes over the post temporarily from Juan Coy, the […]
Written on March 20, 2009 | Posted in
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An appeal by the Belize Bank winded down late this evening in the Court of Appeals. Arguments began Thursday evening on the constitutionality of the Appeals Board of the Central Bank . This appeal goes back to a directive by the Central Bank to the Belize Bank to transfer to Government U.S. ten million dollars […]
Written on March 20, 2009 | Posted in
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We reported yesterday that the London Court of International Arbitration (L.C.I.A.) Awarded Telemedia thirty-eight point five million dollars in damages because the government of Belize decided not to honor the accommodation agreement it signed with B.T.L. in 2005. To drive home the point, Telemedia explained in a release today that the Government chose not to […]
Written on March 20, 2009 | Posted in
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He came out of the water blazing with two guns after leaving behind a dead business man and several injured officers, but tonight the former cop turned outlaw, Kevin “Cowboy” Alvarez, has been remanded to the Hattieville prison. Since Saturday night’s chase in Orange Walk, Alvarez has been under police guard at the Northern Regional […]
Written on March 20, 2009 | Posted in
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But in Belize City, two men had a shot at freedom this morning when their case was struck out… but it was short lived as they were rearrested almost as soon as they left the courtroom. This morning Chief Magistrate, Margaret McKenzie struck out the charges against thirty-five year old Charles Moss and twenty-nine year […]
Written on March 20, 2009 | Posted in
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It was his fifteenth trip to the court and he has only one conviction under his belt, but today he landed his second when twenty-one year old Gion Bernard was found guilty of Theft. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers sentenced him to six months for theft and six months for an additional charge of Damage to Property; […]
Written on March 20, 2009 | Posted in
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Two prison inmates got themselves in more hot water and appeared today in Magistrates’ Court on charges of Drug Trafficking. While they both pleaded not guilty and their case was adjourned until April twenty-third, thirty-one year old David White and twenty-six year old Noel Herrera were carted back to prison because they are currently serving […]
Written on March 20, 2009 | Posted in
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Yet another duo was freed after the victim requested no further action in Court. Twenty year old Jason Gillett and a fifteen year old minor were charged with the Attempted Murder of seventeen year old Adolphus Gomez. The incident occurred on August twelfth 2008. Gomez reported to police that he was walking on Fairweather Street […]
Written on March 20, 2009 | Posted in
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Belize is widely known for its beautiful fauna and flora and is market as an eco-destination to view all of nature’s wonders. But the attention placed on our exotic animal species is not always positive. The Forest Department has become aware that a lot of people are hunting and selling game meat. Chief Forest Officer […]
Written on March 20, 2009 | Posted in
Environment |
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