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The Venezuelan Housing fund made the headlines for over a year, not because of the good it would have done for Belizeans, but because the U.D.P. administration took former Prime Minister Said Musa to court for theft of ten million U.S. dollars. The Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh ruled that the charge be withdrawn against Musa […]
Written on October 19, 2009 | Posted in
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Turning to the courts, thirty-nine year old Ernest Vasquez took the short road to prison and pleaded guilty to Theft when he was brought before Magistrate Aretha Ford today. This comes on heels of a report by his neighbor Lisa Green that items valuing one thousand two hundred dollars were stolen from inside her car […]
Written on October 19, 2009 | Posted in
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And twenty-five year old Nathaniel Conorquie, the man accused of pulling a major heist, walked off a Robbery charge today. The hold-up occurred on February twentieth 2006 at the Princess Casino in Belize City in which over thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars were stolen. Conorquie, a former chef at the establishment, was only charged with […]
Written on October 19, 2009 | Posted in
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The concept of sustainable tourism, which seeks to allow mass tourism with as little damage to the natural resources, has been around for some time. But this week tourist operators are talking responsible tourism. And while that is also aimed at resource preservation, it simultaneously boosts cultural development. The International Conference on Responsible Tourism (I.C.R.T.) […]
Written on October 19, 2009 | Posted in
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We asked Dujon what the ministry of tourism is doing to make the idea of responsible tourism a reality. Yashin Dujon “The Ministry of Tourism actually is the first government ministry that has incorporated a full environmental policy. You visit our offices at #106 South Street, you’ll find that we do have the water saving […]
Written on October 19, 2009 | Posted in
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The Mexican Embassy is also promoting culture and history. It’s holding a literature-based film festival at the Institute of Mexico on New Town Barracks from the nineteenth to the twenty-second of October and will feature four different films on romance, superstitions and culture. The festival is a part of the embassy’s cultural educational program 2009 […]
Written on October 19, 2009 | Posted in
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It’s a story with a positive twist. A five year old girl has been battling renal failure. Bad and unusual at her age, but the condition has worsened with a number of complications including hypertension and cholesterol. This is not putting her down…she goes to school, takes treatment four times a day and lives as […]
Written on October 19, 2009 | Posted in
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Good evening I’m James Adderley and it’s always a pleasure bringing you another this thing we call Sports Monday. Week nine of the B.P.F.L. regular season brought the internecine struggle between F.C. Belize and the Belize Defence Force to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday and indeed the outcome proved to be surprising. For the Military unit, […]
Written on October 19, 2009 | Posted in
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It has been a bad week for the University of Belize. A financial crisis brought the university to its knees when the current Board of Trustees received information from the Chief Financial Officer and his team which indicated that U.B. was about to go broke. That prompted the board of trustees to implement austerity measures […]
Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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The financial situation at the University of Belize is still under investigation by the board. The board doesn’t run the day to day operations of the school. The institution is run by its president Santos Mahung and the Chief Financial Officer is Harry Lui. Did they have a clear view of the financial stability of […]
Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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A small wooden home in the Saint Martin’s De Porres Area was gutted in an early morning blaze. The neighborhood was engulfed with smoke during the morning commute. The fire is being tagged as arson and that is because, the owner’s common-law wife, with whom he has been living for more than thirty years, reportedly […]
Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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Belize and Guatemala have been trading informally for years, but today trade was formalized with the signing of a partial scope agreement that had been languishing before the Guatemalan congress for years. The agreement was first introduced in 2004, in the days of the Musa and Berger administrations. It was completed the following year and […]
Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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The agreement will provide better trading opportunities and Coleman says the delay in passage of the agreement was with the Guatemalan congress. Orla Kantun Coleman “I know at the technical level we were informed that there were some real glitches in terms of there is a specific committee within the congress that reviews trade agreements […]
Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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The partial scope agreement has finally been ratified, but both countries are still grappling with a territorial claim. You would not have known, however, there is a dispute by Guatemala along the western border today. The OAS administered Adjacency Zone was exploding with cultural activities by both countries. The event marks the end of a […]
Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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There have been frequent reports of home invasions in the city by criminals, but in this case, a family says their house was busted by law enforcement officers. The Saint Martin’s De Porres family claims that this morning at least six police officers arrived at their home armed with a presumably legit warrant to search […]
Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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The grieving mother of Eddie Neal, a.k.a. “EddieMac,” who was gunned down on Monday night in Port Loyola was in court this morning for the arraignment of her son’s accused killer. Michael Foreman was promptly charged with Neal’s murder before Chief Magistrate Margaret Mckenzie. Neal was shot on the left upper chest area and on […]
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An old beef is said to be the motive behind Wednesday night’s shooting of seventeen year old Kenrick Longsworth of Castle Street. His mother, Lavern Longsworth, alleges her son’s life was endangered twice on Wednesday and police told the court today that they have the gunman who tried to kill Longsworth while he was at […]
Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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The Court of Appeal has ordered two retrials in its October session. At the end of this session today, convicted murderer, twenty-one year old Tiffara Smith was granted a retrial. Smith was convicted in July of stabbing her brother, Dale Lino, to death in April of 2007. At the trial Smith claimed that on the […]
Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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About a billion people are without food around the world and at least fifty-four thousand families have been affected by a food crisis in neighboring Guatemala. On this side of the border, the National Food and Nutrition Security Commission is hard at work to guarantee food security to the population. So they teamed up with […]
Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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One component of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy is the free movement of skilled labor throughout the region. What this means is that Belizeans have to be more competitive and better prepared. The Mexican government is making available an unlimited number of scholarships to qualified Belizeans who want to take up bachelors and post […]
Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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Educators from the Americas and elsewhere are conferring in Belize City. And from the looks of it, the educators are learning new teaching strategies and having fun. They are taking part in innovative training that is showing new ways of better engaging their students in classroom activities. What does this all lead to? Better learning […]
Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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The weekend is here and that means that Safiyyah has been scouting around for fun activities. Dust off your dancing shoes because there are many bashes around the town and elsewhere and she found out that the Mexican Institute is hosting a travelling showcase of foreign films. Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is What’s Happening […]
Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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An increment freeze has been cancelled and the increase in tuition has been put off… at least for now at the University of Belize. But that is not the big story tonight, the bombshell that was dropped earlier today is that the finances of the flagship university are in a huge mess. We have heard […]
Written on October 15, 2009 | Posted in
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But after the news was revealed of the financial mess, the Board delivered its decision in respect of the increment freeze and tuition increases, which sparked off protests in the nation’s capital earlier this week by the students, faculty and staff. Here’s how that went. Imani Fairweather-Morrison, Chair, UB Board “It has decided to take […]
Written on October 15, 2009 | Posted in
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More on the situations at UB, classes were cancelled at all four campuses as of eleven this morning and students descended at the gymnasium at the Garden City Campus to meet the board as planned. When the board was a no show, the students crashed the press conference. The board was handed a statement on […]
Written on October 15, 2009 | Posted in
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