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The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Wilfred Elrington completed a one-day meeting with his Guatemalan counterpart, Haroldo Rodas Melgar in Washington, DC. last Wednesday. Agreement was reached on how to handle conflict between the two countries, but that was on the diplomatic front. Here at home, statements appearing on the OAS website, purportedly […]
Written on December 21, 2009 | Posted in
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Two persons who have rejected the Minister’s remarks are Senator Godwin Hulse and Patrick Rogers of the Vision Inspired by the People Movement. Senator Hulse said the Minister’s words could not even be interpreted as diplomatic language. Via Phone: Godwin Hulse, Senator “He made comments to the effect that our borders are artificial and that […]
Written on December 21, 2009 | Posted in
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And what does Elrington think of his critics? Well, he questioned where they were when the heads of agreement was on the table. Wilfred Elrington “You see all those people whoa re talking about being so nationalistic and talking about traitors? Ask them where they were in 1968 when the Webster proposals came about. You […]
Written on December 21, 2009 | Posted in
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The court awarded Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers two of three injunctions she filed against the United Democratic Party. On December seventeenth, Justice Minnet Hafiz ruled that the U.D.P. could no longer exclude Moya Flowers from attending its National Party Council meetings. It was seen as a major victory, but a release from the […]
Written on December 21, 2009 | Posted in
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A Punta Gorda family that came to the city on a Christmas shopping trip, is heading home empty handed. The Majano family had stocked up their Isuzu vehicle and were about to leave the city this afternoon when the vehicle combusted near mile two on the northern highway. The fire started in the blink of […]
Written on December 21, 2009 | Posted in
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While no one was injured when the Toledo vehicle burst into flames, a robbery in the Corozal District over the weekend left a resident of Santa Clara Village hospitalized at the Northern Regional Hospital. Around six this past Saturday, thirty-five year old Caesar Canul, was returning home from a full day’s work—exchanging monies at the […]
Written on December 21, 2009 | Posted in
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In August of 2007, he was arrested and charged for robbing Esso Gas Station in Ladyville of over forty thousand dollars in cash. And in October of last year, nineteen year old Akeem Gotoy was admitted in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. after he was shot several times to the back. Tonight, Gotoy, now twenty, […]
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And in the old capital, a resident has been detained in connection with a rape that occurred on Saturday. Nineteen year old Carlos Montejo also known as “Pollo” was taken into custody after he was reportedly accused as one of two persons who raped a young woman at the Isidora Beaton Stadium in the Garden […]
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A fifty-two year old man was convicted of Aggravated Assault of a young girl in Magistrates’ Court today. The victim, a ten year old girl, testified in camera and told the court that she was heading to a shop on December ninth when she was lured into the home of Lionel Scott. According to the […]
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A British freelance writer and his eight-month pregnant girlfriend begged for leniency after they were busted with a small amount of marijuana inside their room at a local guest house. Twenty-eight year old Stuart Hall and twenty-one year old Sheyla Velez, a Guatemalan Secretary, were escorted to court where they both pleaded guilty to Possession […]
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Former Agriculture Minister, Russel Alexander Garcia, has died following a brief illness. The fifty-nine year old died in his hometown of Dangriga on Saturday. He will be given an official burial on Wednesday. Affectionately known as “Chiste”, Garcia served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries during the period 1993-1998 before retiring from active politics.
Written on December 21, 2009 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s your weekly dish of Sport’s Monday. It was a big weekend out at Independence Saturday night as Texmar United hosted San Felipe Barcelona in a must win situation after losing game one of the Belize Bank Super League Championship three game series in a scorching 3-2 affair that […]
Written on December 21, 2009 | Posted in
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