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9/22/2006

Other nations don't trail offenders
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 9/22/2006
... Residents of Belize, Mexico and Costa Rica have cashed in on Oprah's finder's fee and have received heroes' accolades on her show, but citizens of these ...

SPEAR launches good governance education campaign
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/22/2006
... “The main objective is designed to create an awareness among the voting and non-voting population in Belize on issues relating to governance, creating an ...

National leaders reflect on 25 yrs. of independence
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/22/2006
On Thursday, official ceremonies commemorating Belize's twenty-fifth Independence took place in simultaneous events across the country. ...

Belize City man drowns in Haulover Creek
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/22/2006
Belize City police do not suspect foul play following the discovery of a body in the Haulover Creek. On Thursday morning, authorities ...

Mastermind of Cayo attacks in jail
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/22/2006
Belize police are patting themselves on the back tonight following the arrest of the person they say masterminded a crime spree against visitors and residents ...

King’s Park woman charged for stealing light
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/22/2006
It's a common practice but this morning a Belize City woman appeared, charged with stealing electricity. Forty-one year old Lottie ...

Death-row inmate wants reduced sentence
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/22/2006
... This morning, the inmate appeared in Belize City's Supreme Court flanked by human rights attorneys Antoinette Moore and Edward Fitzgerald of the United Kingdom ...

Cuban Minister at Belizean Independence Celebration
Escambray, Cuba - 9/22/2006
Belize City, Sep 22 (Prensa Latina) Ricardo Cabrisas, Cuban government minister, is making an official visit to Belize to attend celebrations for the 25th ...

Cuban Minister at Belizean Independence Celebration
Prensa Latina, Cuba - 9/22/2006
Belize City, Sep 22 (Prensa Latina) Ricardo Cabrisas, Cuban government minister, is making an official visit to Belize to attend celebrations for the 25th ...

Chiquibul Bandit Ring Leader Captured
Belize Tourism Industry Association (press release), Belize - 9/22/2006
BELIZE CITY, Belize (September 22, 2006) - The tourism industry of Belize has just received one of the biggest Independence Day presents anyone could ever ask ...

THE CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL OF CREATIVE ARTS (CARIFESTA)
Voice of Guyana International, Guyana - 9/22/2006
... Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica ...

Yoga instructor’s age and energy arouse disbelief
Villages Daily Sun, FL - 9/22/2006
... Ports of call are George Town, Grand Cayman; Costa Maya, Belize; and Cozumel, Mexico. Prices for the seven-day cruise start at $799. ...

Making the Choice - Finding Your Perfect Caribbean Vacation Spot
Market-Day.net, AZ - 9/22/2006
... the Caribbean. The Dominican Republic, St. Lucia, Saba, Belize, and Dominica are known for their natural beauty. With mountains, rivers ...

CARIFIESTA KNICKS OFF TODAY
Trinidad News, Trinidad and Tobago - 9/22/2006
... October 1st. Caribbean countries from as close as Guyana and Barbados, to as distant as Cayman Islands, Belize and Cuba. It promises ...

The World's Gayest Flags
Radar Online, NY - 9/22/2006
... If it were, in short, more like these eight arguably queer flags. Belize The sexual tension here is so thick you could cut it with—oh, we don't know—an ax? ...

Charges against financiers Kozeny, Vostry brought
Czech Happenings, Czech Republic - 9/22/2006
... If convicted, they may be sent to 12 years to prison. Both men are being prosecuted as fugitives. Vostry lives in the Central American Belize. ...

Letters: Accent is unimportant
Taipei Times, Taiwan - 9/22/2006
... New Zealand, Singapore, Jamaica, India, the Philippines and Belize, to name a few, are native speakers in that English is either an official language or widely ...

9/21/2006

San Pedro gets healthy smiles!
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 9/21/2006
... The head dentist David Brodeur who has accompanied the group to Belize each year emphasized that the rewards of providing such a service to the community ...

Our Community – Jennie Staines
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 9/21/2006
... This was followed by practical training in Florida. She also received a certificate in management from the Belize Institute of Management (BIM). ...

A Stones' throw
The Daily News, Canada - 9/21/2006
... bought tickets so far for the Parking Lot Party, a fundraiser in support of Bandage International, a charitable group of medical personnel who teach in Belize. ...

New band is noticed at Knickerbocker
Journal and Courier, IN - 9/21/2006
... Belize's Aurelio Martínez will bring his form of Afro-Caribbean music called parada to downtown Lafayette at 8 tonight at Lafayette Brewing Company, 622 Main ...

Making a visit to the world of Mennonites
ChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 9/21/2006
... Paul explains that this particular community originated in Manitoba and found its way to Nova Scotia via Mexico and Belize, in Central America. ...

9/20/2006

TSX Venture Exchange Daily Bulletins
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse), Canada - 9/20/2006
... As per the terms of the Letter, the Finder introduced the Company to a private company located in Belize ('PrivateCo'), with whom the Company was able to ...

US donates more equipment to Coast Guard
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/20/2006
It remains a work in progress but Belize's fledging Coast Guard is slowly but surely gaining strength. News Five's Janelle Chanona ...

UN: Migrant female workers face special challenges
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/20/2006
... According to UNFPA Liaison Officer in Belize, Jewel Quallo Rosberg women make up the majority of migrant workers across the globe and their labor goes largely ...

Court puts BTL control in doubt; Fonseca defends actions
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/20/2006
Many of the headlines in 2004 and 2005 centred on the public soap opera that consumed Belize Telecommunications Limited as we traced the saga of its sale from ...

Solid Waste is number one environmental threat
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/20/2006
In the twenty-five years since independence Belize has signed on to dozens of international treaties and conventions, most of which appear to play little or no ...

State of the Nation: High on hope; but weak on resolve!
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 9/20/2006
In his State of the Nation address on Monday morning Prime Minister Said Musa made the point that Belize was firmly on the road to recovery.Why? ...

Choto brothers win Elite & Junior 7th Annual Lionman Triathlon
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 9/20/2006
Jose Choto of the Cayo, second place winner in last year’s Lionman Triathlon, won the Seventh Annual Lionman Triathlon held by the Belize National Triathlon ...

Hoschton man among 11 arrested for Internet drug sales
Access North Georgia, GA - 9/20/2006
ATLANTA - Federal authorities have indicted eleven people in Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, South Dakota and Belize on fraud and drug charges for selling ...

Pedigreed horses of another calibre. High Court will decide!
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 9/20/2006
Five pedigree horses seized in January this year by BAHA, the Belize Agricultural Health Authority on grounds that they were smuggled into Belize from Mexico ...

Pott & Subtil win 5th Belize -Mexico Tennis Tournament
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 9/20/2006
Samira Musa-Pott and Jerome Subtil of France, via Miami, emerged as the new ladies’ and men’s singles tennis champions when the Belize Tennis Association ...

Vista Amphilife Belize wins Relay Triathlon
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 9/20/2006
The Vista Amphilife Belize Team won the Relay Triathlon held by the Belize National Triathlon Association at the Sandlighter’s Promenade in Belize City on ...

Gunslingers on Periwinkle Street
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 9/20/2006
A Belize City youth of Franklin Avenue has been arraigned on charges of attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and three counts of aggravated assault. ...

Cops may press charges on buyers of stolen property
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 9/20/2006
A Belize City teenager has been remanded to the Hattieville Prison on charges of burglary, pending his next court date on September 26, while Belize police ...

Girl 16, collapses and dies
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 9/20/2006
A 16-year-old Guatemalan girl from the village of Bella Vista in South Stann-Creek has died from what appears to be an overdose of pain-killers. ...

Eleven men arrested for Internet drug sales
WHNS - 9/20/2006
ATLANTA Federal authorities have arrested eleven men in Georgia, North Carolina and Belize on fraud and drug charges for selling unapproved prescription drugs ...

Summer break a learning experience for teachers
Holmdel Independent, NJ - 9/20/2006
... Vannucci's summer excursion lasted for 11 days in Belize, a central American nation bordered by Mexico to the north, Guatemala to the west and south, and the ...

9/19/2006

Harrison Ford Awarded for Conservation Ethic
Conservation International Frontlines, DC - 9/19/2006
... In turn, acknowledgments of all shapes and sizes have followed. In Belize and Honduras, a species of ant now goes by the name Pheidole harrisonfordi. ...

Cops foil robbery, wound suspect
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/19/2006
... A high speed pursuit ended on Peter Seco Street near Belize Water Services when the car ran off the road and crashed into a canal. ...

New stamps issued for 25th anniversary
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/19/2006
The Belize Post Office has released a set of stamps to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Belize's independence. Making ...

Church service remembers five slain children
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/19/2006
... dollars for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the abduction and murder of five Belize City girls ...

Roberto Young is new PUC chairman
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/19/2006
... Young, who is a veteran executive in Belize's telecommunications industry, is an engineer by profession and has headed the PUC's telecoms division. ...

Independence Day ceremonies move back to Bz. City
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/19/2006
This year the official Independence Day ceremonies return to the Memorial Park in Belize City. According to Celebrations Committee ...

Panama president leads list of dignitaries
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/19/2006
In a special ceremony Torrijos will accept the Order of Belize for his late father, Omar Torrijos. The former Panamanian leader ...

Beltraide seeks more investments for Belize
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/19/2006
Economists and politicians generally agree that Belize needs more investment. But that's the easy part. The tough job is how to find it ... ...

BTL Deploys Lucent's Real-Time Rating and Charging Platform to ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - 9/19/2006
Deployment of SurePay(R) Solution Integrates BTL's Existing GSM, AMPS and Wireline Charging / Billing Systems in One Platform BELIZE CITY, Belize, Sept. ...

Neighbor Notes
Battle Creek Enquirer, MI - 9/19/2006
Area residents are invited to travel to the rainforests and coral reefs of Belize with Binder Park Zoo's Director of Conservation Education, Tom Funke. ...

Belize To Launch Debt Exchange Offer By Year-End -Officials
Easy Bourse (Communiqués de presse), France - 9/19/2006
SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- Belize's government aims to launch an exchange offer to restructure its existing overseas bonds by the end of this year, senior ...

Royal engineer chefs win cookery competition
This is Wiltshire.co.uk, UK - 9/19/2006
... on operations where the chefs have had to cook in field conditions - ranging from Arctic wastes in Norway, to the humidity of the jungle in Belize and the ...

Royal engineer chefs win cookery competition
Salisbury Journal, UK - 9/19/2006
... on operations where the chefs have had to cook in field conditions - ranging from Arctic wastes in Norway, to the humidity of the jungle in Belize and the ...

Lunch Program Focuses on Belize Course, Trip
University of Arkansas Daily Headlines, AR - 9/19/2006
University of Arkansas students interested in an international service learning project in Belize can learn more at the Research in Progress Seminar from noon ...

9/18/2006

New book looks at food in Belizean life
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/18/2006
From the first time American Richard Wilk stepped foot in Belize in 1973 he has been fascinated not only with Creole bread but the entire range of Belizean ...

Jose Choto carries on family tradition in Lionman
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/18/2006
The seventh Lionman Triathlon gripped Belize City yesterday at its staging point, Sandlighters Promenade and it was only fitting that the national anthem was ...

State of Nation is upbeat, says PM
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/18/2006
... Fiscal discipline, tight expenditure control and public finance reform measures have strengthened our economic fundamentals, putting Belize on a more solid ...

PUC announces logo competition winners
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/18/2006
... a logo. On Sunday the winner of the high stakes competition was announced at Belize Expo from over two hundred entries. The first ...

Police unveil latest promotions
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/18/2006
Today the Belize Police Department officially announced that some twenty-one officers have been promoted. During a brief ceremony ...

PRIME MINISTER DELIVERS STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS
LoveFM, Belize - 9/18/2006
... turn around, fiscal discipline, tight expenditure control and public finance reform measures have strengthened our economic fundamentals putting Belize on a ...

PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL OF CHURCHES DELIVERS STRONG SERMON
LoveFM, Belize - 9/18/2006
... Just listen to how they speak of an independent Belize and our leaders, sad but true even some who claims to be intellectuals of our society. ...

HIGH LEVEL GUESTS TO PARTICIPATE IN ANNIVERSARY CEREMONIES
LoveFM, Belize - 9/18/2006
Many high level guests have accepted the invitation of Prime Minister Said Musa to participate in the 25th anniversary of Belize’s independence. ...

ORANGE WALK PREPARES FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS
LoveFM, Belize - 9/18/2006
... we don’t want to disappoint so we are having Policias Federal Marching Band coming in from Chetumal we have three carnival groups from Belize City coming we ...

PICTURES OF PAST BELIZEANS QUEENS ON DISPLAY
LoveFM, Belize - 9/18/2006
The House of Culture continues its picture display of past queens of Belize. Researcher at the House of Culture, Ritamae Hyde, explains ...

POLICE NEWS
LoveFM, Belize - 9/18/2006
... charges. Belize City police are investigating a stabbing that occurred yesterday that has left a 16 year-old youth hospitalized. ...

CITRUS GROWERS MEET TO DISCUSS AGREEMENT
LoveFM, Belize - 9/18/2006
... issue on the agenda item which was the investment agreement that the CGA-ICLD Investment Committee Limited as well as the Citrus Products of Belize Limited and ...

The search for Adnan El Shukrijumah
Canada Free Press, Canada - 9/18/2006
... From Tegucigalpa, Adnan made his way north to Belize in British Honduras and, from Belize, to Mexico's Quintana Roo State, south of Cancun.[xxxv] He remained ...

Guatemala Calls for Anti-Drug Policy
Prensa Latina, Cuba - 9/18/2006
... The meeting is attended by representatives of El Salvador, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti ...

Radisson Hotels Latin America Appoints Denise Estefan Litten to ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - 9/18/2006
... in Central America are located in Panama City (Panama), San Jose (Costa Rica), San Salvador (El Salvador), Guatemala City (Guatemala) and Belize City (Belize). ...

Column: Tour beckons Michigan travelers to Belize
MLive.com, MI - 9/18/2006
... Funke, director of conservation education at Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek, is leading a March 31-April 6 trip to the rain forests and coral reefs of Belize. ...

Eclecticism and Tradition Prove to Be Ideal Consorts
International News Service, Australia - 9/18/2006
... So, you might ask, where's the logic in this weekend's unlikely collaboration between the cool Belize-born singer-songwriter and Edinburgh's foremost ...

Column: Tour beckons Michigan travelers to Belize
MLive.com, MI - 9/18/2006
... Funke, director of conservation education at Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek, is leading a March 31-April 6 trip to the rain forests and coral reefs of Belize. ...

Eclecticism and Tradition Prove to Be Ideal Consorts
International News Service, Australia - 9/18/2006
... So, you might ask, where's the logic in this weekend's unlikely collaboration between the cool Belize-born singer-songwriter and Edinburgh's foremost ...

Yesterday's news - 1931
Mobile Register, AL - 9/18/1931
... "Responding to the urgent call for aid in storm-stricken Belize, Mobile will send a boatload of foodstuffs to that country today. ...

The Iceman ruled Sunday’s Burrell Boom races
Amandala, Belize - 9/18/2006
... at the Castleton Race Track in beautiful Burrell Boom on September 10, 2006, to watch what we all know as one of the biggest days in horseracing in Belize. ...

Proactive steps taken for blackeye marketing
Western Farm Press - 9/18/2006
... Cheap, inferior quality blackeye imports from nations such as Belize influence the world market, but Paulin said they may not be as cheap as some believe ...

Belize Celebrates 25 Years on September 21
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service, Jamaica - 9/18/2006
On Thursday (September 21), Belize will mark the 25th anniversary of its independence. Belizeans saw their national flag unfurl ...

NOVA Students Who Studied Abroad Will Present Program
EKU News Center, Kentucky - 9/18/2006
... major Rodney Pratt from Augusta, two weeks in Ireland; and Winchester native Jessica Williams, a nursing major with a psychology minor, two weeks in Belize. ...

Hackett: $226m right on the money
The Nation Newspaper, Barbados - 9/18/2006
... The IDB's figures for Guyana, Belize and Trinidad and Tobago were also much higher than the UN's, fuelling speculation that the actual amount of remittances ...

Central America calling retirees
Wilmington Morning Star, NC - 9/18/2006
... materials to furniture for up to 10 years. Honduras and Belize have passed similar measures. Panama sweetens the deal by throwing in ...

Bank creates employee awards initiative
Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands - 9/18/2006
... Originally from Belize, Mr Hulse joined Barclay's Bank in 1965. He moved to the Cayman Islands in 1971, and has since made the Islands his home. ...

9/17/2006

Eclecticism and tradition prove to be ideal consorts
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 9/17/2006
So, you might ask, where's the logic in this weekend's unlikely collaboration between the cool Belize-born singer-songwriter and Edinburgh's foremost ...

TRAVELERS’ CHECKS
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 9/17/2006
... ship passengers. Belize, Mexico and other countries with warm waters also tout dive sites that attract stingrays. Such programs ...


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