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12/31/2006

Belize Prme Minister: Guatemalan claim to Belize should go to ...
Caribbean PressReleases.com (press release), Barbados - 12/31/2006
... time against the British Government. When Belize gained Independence in 1981, the issue became our problem. Since then, hundreds of ...

12/29/2006

Passengers stuck on plane over 8 hours
Dallas Morning News (subscription), TX - 12/29/2006
... the grounded plane. "And there's younger kids on here than her.". He was headed for Belize with his wife and daughter. "I fly a lot ...

Huntington News
HNN Huntingtonnews.net,  USA - 12/29/2006
... treatment. Therefore, Caribbean banana growers in Belize, Jamaica, St Lucia, St Vincent and Dominica are headed for more difficult times. ...

Belize launches debt exchange offer - To issue new 'step-up' bond
Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 12/29/2006
The Government of Belize has offered to replace outstanding commercial debt to creditors with a new issue of a 23-year US dollar-denominated bond. ...

Fisherman killed in southside stabbing
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/29/2006
... the shooting incident at the corner of George and Dean Streets, detectives received word of a stabbing incident in another part of southside Belize City. ...

PM: Guat. claim to Belize should go to court
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/29/2006
... The public finance reform measures implemented by this Government have put Belize on a solid foundation for sustainable growth.”. ...

Bystander critical following morning shooting
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/29/2006
Tonight the family of a Belize City entrepreneur is keeping vigil at the KHMH after their loved one was caught in the cross fire of another violent eruption in ...

Citrus share sale is done deal
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/29/2006
... decisions in the Supreme Court, on Friday December twenty-second, forty-six point five nine percent of the shares of Citrus Products of Belize has been ...

CitCo: Birds in Battlefield pose health issues
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/29/2006
... down.”. The situation has not gone unnoticed by the Belize City Council. “It’sa pestering factor but also a health factor. ...

Former DPP detained at PGIA for tax paper
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/29/2006
He bid Belize goodbye earlier this week but it seems law enforcement officials were determined to keep Kirk Anderson in Belize as long as possible. ...

Who will win New Year’s Day classic?
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/29/2006
... Krem New Year's Day Cycling Classic from its departure at the Santa Elena border in Corozal all the way to what promises to be a dramatic finish in Belize City ...

Marine life, up close
TCPalm, FL - 5 hours ago
Austin Tennant, 14, Jupiter High School freshman, holds Belize, a hawksbill turtle, as Junior Marine Biologists, from left, Kristen Mondik, 8, Lambert Johnson ...

Sri Lanka : APPEAL TO UN SECRETARY GENERAL TO SUPPORT THE CAUSE OF ...
TamilSydney.com, Australia - 7 hours ago
... 6,400) to Trinidad and Tobago (pop. 1,300,000). Belize (pop. 236,000), Suriname (pop. 431,000), French Guiana (pop. 168,000) and Guyana (pop. ...

New Year Honours in full
Independent, UK - 12/29/2006
... For serv Disadvantaged People in Scotland. Minty, Christopher David, Special Projects Offr, Belize, R Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. ...

ANOTHER BELIZE CITY SHOOTING
LoveFM, Belize - 12/29/2006
A man is in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital receiving treatment following a mid morning shooting in Belize City. Shortly after ...

PM SAYS 2006 WAS A DEFINING MOMENT FOR BELIZE' ECONOMY
LoveFM, Belize - 12/29/2006
2006 was a challenging year for Belize in several different aspects. Love News sat with Prime Minister Said Musa today and spoke ...

BELIZE CITY BUSINESS MAN CHARGE UPGRADED TO MURDER
LoveFM, Belize - 12/29/2006
The Director of Public Prosecution’s Kirk Anderson in one of his final acts before leaving office, instructed the Police to charge Belize City businessman ...

YOUNG BOY LOSSES LIFE IN TAFFIC ACCIDENT
LoveFM, Belize - 12/29/2006
... 39 year-old Felipe Flores gave to police states that sometime around one-30 yesterday afternoon he was driving his blue Chevy pickup towards Belize City when ...

CENTRAL STATISTICAL OFFICE ESTIMATES BELIZE' ECONOMY GREW IN 2006
LoveFM, Belize - 12/29/2006
The Central Statistical Office estimates that Belize’s economy grew by two point nine percent in the first three quarters of 2006 compared to the same period ...

HOMELESS WOMAN PASSED AWAY
LoveFM, Belize - 12/29/2006
Bernadine Fitzgibbon who had been living on the streets of Belize City since 2004 has reportedly passed away. Fitzgibbon’s story ...

COURT NEWS
LoveFM, Belize - 12/29/2006
43 year-old Clinton Davis Junior of Sittee Street Belize City, appeared before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez yesterday where he was formally arraigned for ...

SPTC takes legal control of ACPC
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 12/29/2006
... entitled to be appointed by the first defendant to constitute the local building authority for the town of San Pedro under the Belize Building Act No. ...
San Pedro celebrates Christmas
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 12/29/2006
The participation of Jamie from the National Dance Company of Belize was very helpful for the dancers as he assisted with the choreography. ...
Download free National Geographic podcasts, featuring news, travel ...
National Geographic, DC - 12/29/2006
Alan Rabinowitz of the Wildlife Conservation Society, who helped create the world's first jaguar sanctuary in Belize, details plans for establishing a ...
Fishing resources dwindle as fisherfolk population grows
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/29/2006
“Why are we in Belize taking this route!,” he wants to know. He concludes: “This is the time for the Fisheries Department to champion the thrust for the ...
Fire at Sunnyside Bakery Bread production not affected
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/29/2006
An early afternoon fire two days after Christmas, on Wednesday December 27, almost gutted the popular Sunny Side Bakery at # 63 Racecourse Street, in Belize ...
Belize’s secret addiction to drink! One in every 3 men do it to ...
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/29/2006
An alarming report just published reveals that alcoholism is a serious problem in Belize, not only among adult working men and women, but among students as ...
Bail for cop charged with murder! Crown Counsel says it’s ok.
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/29/2006
A month later, on December 14, Gordon’s family took Westby and his department to court to ask for a ruling which says in effect that under Belize’s ...
Belize ranks among top 6 of 10 nations with the highest gun homicides
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/29/2006
The Organisation of Ibero-American States, has ranked Belize among the top six of 10 countries in the world where young people between the ages of 15 and 25 ...
San Pedro Town Council
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/29/2006
According to court records, under the Belize Building Act number 7 of 2003 as amended by Act 2 of 2005, the Minister of Housing is obligated to appoint a ...
Husband stabs wife to death in front of their sons
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/29/2006
A Belize City man who intentionally stabbed his wife on Christmas Day in front of their three sons is in jail for the rest of the holidays after having been ...
Editorial - Prime Minister
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/29/2006
His latest move to stave off economic disaster has been to float a huge bond issue of two billion Belize dollars, which at ten percent interest is going to ...
A week's worth of good music
Times Picayune, LA - 12/29/2006
CFormer Cowboy Mouth guitarist Paul Sanchez does an acoustic show at dba, before moving to Belize for the next few months. Jimmy Robinson and Beth Patterson ...
Wife murdered by her mate on Christmas Day!
Amandala, Belize - 12/29/2006
Today at the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, Cecil Gabourel aka “Wilbat”, 40, a security guard at Save-U, was charged with one count of murder and remanded ...
Belizean of The Year 2006
Amandala, Belize - 12/29/2006
In paying our respects to Mrs. Barbara Lino, the individual, we, of course, pay our respects to all the teachers of Belize, for the vast majority of ...
Kolbe’s Annual Family Day a success
Amandala, Belize - 12/29/2006
Kolbe Foundation, the Belize Central Prison, held its 5th Annual Family Day on December 26, 2006. Over 3240 people including, families of inmates, ...
KREM New Year’s Day Cycling Classic - For the glory
Amandala, Belize - 12/29/2006
Here in Belize, it can be considered as an expensive hobby. Unlike top professional cyclists from abroad, Belizean cyclists have to work. ...
“Smiling” in US using Smiling Meats to swindle Belizeans
Amandala, Belize - 12/29/2006
Amandala today spoke with a not-too-happy Matthew Smiling, proprietor of the famous “Smiling Meats,” located on New Road in Belize City, who is not only ...
Don’t forget Technical!
Amandala, Belize - 12/29/2006
What is it in Belize City with politicians and football fields, that they always seem compelled to destroy our earthen playgrounds in pursuit of some lofty ...
CitCo being evicted from Pound Yard!
Amandala, Belize - 12/29/2006
Businessman Arun Hotchandani this morning moved to evict the Belize City Council from its Pound Yard location. Reports to Amandala are that at about 10:00 ...
Yesterday when we were young
Amandala, Belize - 12/29/2006
The people of Belize had a good idea of what the PUP stood for, what it represented, but in 1969 the masses of the Belizean people were surprised, ...
FROM THE PUBLISHER - AMANDALA
Amandala, Belize - 12/29/2006
Ralph Fonseca is once again considering a run in the PUP’s Belize Rural Central convention. According to the published instructions of the PUP Secretariat, ...
12/28/2006

New Part Owner For Coke Manufacturer
The Bahama Journal, Bahamas - 12/28/2006
... announced on Thursday. BHL has also bought 46.58% ownership of the Citrus Products of Belize Ltd. for $32 million. BHL chief executive ...

Agribusiness: Diet
The Bahama Journal, Bahamas - 12/28/2006
... nCARDI improved rice cultivar "CARDI 70" in Belize was released to farmers in 1988 and in the 2000s 50% of the national rice acreage is under this variety. ...

Teenager killed in Western Highway accident
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/28/2006
Police reports are that around one thirty today, thirty-nine year old Felipe Flores was driving his pickup towards Belize City but between mile thirty-seven ...

Charge against businessman upped to murder
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/28/2006
An arrest warrant has been issued for Belize City businessman Ben Bou-Nahra following an indictment for murder against him last week. ...

Integrity Commission confirmed but Senate asks for more
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/28/2006
... of the Integrity Commission with effect from January first, 2007 up to thirty-first December 2009 in accordance with the provisions of the Belize constitution. ...

Moya: garbage problem persists in old capital
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/28/2006
... spots. It’s not healthy and clearly, it does not look beautiful, so let’s just please work with the Belize City Council.”.

City Council fights to stay on Pound Yard compound
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/28/2006
... Because as News Five's Janelle Chanona reports, the owner, Belize City businessman Arun Hotchandani, is eager to take possession of his property. ...

Traffic Officer is CitCo Employee of the Year
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/28/2006
He controls chaos on a daily basis and for his years of dedicated service, this month the Belize City Council is honouring one of its own as Employee of the ...

New Year’s Cycling race will shutdown NH'way
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/28/2006
... a hundred elite, female and junior riders, and in an attempt to keep things organized on the road, coordinators have colluded with the Belize Police Department ...

TRADE AMONG BELIZE MIXICO AND GUATEMALA GOOD IN 2006
LoveFM, Belize - 12/28/2006
2006 was a good year for trade between Belize and Mexico. Mexican Ambassador to Belize, Arturo Trejo, explains that the cooperation agreements for this year ...

COURT NEWS
LoveFM, Belize - 12/28/2006
The bail was made under sections 56 and 62 of the indictable procedure act, chapter 96 of the Laws of Belize, revised edition 2000 and section 16 of the ...

CITRUS PRODUCTS OF BELIZE LIMITED SELLS PART OWNERSHIP TO BANKS ...
LoveFM, Belize - 12/28/2006
Citrus Products of Belize Ltd has sold 46 point 58 per cent ownership of the company to Banks Holdings Limited.The part ownership was sold to BHL for thirty ...

12/27/2006

Husband kills wife in front of children on Xmas Day
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/27/2006
Amid the joy and merry making of Christmas Day, one Belize City family found itself in the throes of anguish as a domestic dispute turned deadly. ...

Lake I beats Alpha in FFB Tournament
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/27/2006
We start off with the mad dash in the Football Federation of Belize-sponsored Knock Out Tournament as aspiring teams take aim at the five thousand dollar ...

Kirk Anderson ends career as Belize’s DPP
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/27/2006
Today as Anderson prepares to leave Belize, he sat down with News Five's Janelle Chanona to talk about the past and his future. ...

Noon fire threatens Sunny Side Bakery
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/27/2006
After a quiet weekend, fire officials had their hands full today as separate blazes in Belize City threatened a Southside landmark and destroyed an SUV As ...

HIGHEST NUMBER OF NEW HIV/AIDS INFECTION IS AMONG TEENAGE GIRLS
LoveFM, Belize - 12/27/2006
2006 was another year that new number of HIV and AIDS cases remained high in Belize. Jose Lopez Communications Officer at the National AIDS Commission, ...

12/26/2006

Spend New Year's weekend in Washington from $262 per person
Miami Herald, FL - 12/26/2006
American Airlines Central America sale: From Miami International Airport to: Belize City, Belize, $529; Guatemala City, Guatemala, $399; Liberia, ...

GUEST COLUMN: Mel Gibson's movie scratches surface of Mayan history
Florida Times-Union, FL - 12/26/2006
As anthropologists who work among contemporary Maya peoples in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, we are troubled by Gibson's fantasia about a real civilization ...

12/24/2006

Traditional Christmas Day Speech to be Podcasted by Queen
The Money Times, India - 12/24/2006
... Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. ...

12/22/2006

Roaring Creek teen is latest murder victim
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/22/2006
And while some members of the Belize Police Department are busy spreading Christmas cheer, other colleagues are busy investigating crimes. ...

Post Office: Christmas mail should be on time
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/22/2006
... letters and parcels alike, has been delayed for more than two days because of an increase in airline passengers travelling to Belize. ...

Spanish Lookout choir serenades PM for Christmas
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/22/2006
“I must tell you that last night at home I watched a programme on the Mennonites in Belize. It is a very interesting programme, but it brought out one thing ...

CIBC Acquires Majority Stake In FirstCaribbean International Bank
Caribbean PressReleases.com (press release), Barbados - 12/22/2006
... 100 branches and banking centres, and offices in 17 countries comprising: Anguilla, Antigua, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, The British Virgin Islands, ...

A local agency, a global mission
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, MO - 12/22/2006
Among the countries are Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Boliva, Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana, Kenya, Liberia and Zaire. It's administrative offices are in a rented ...

“Go no further” to marry off the KHMH!stakeholders warn Musa ...
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/22/2006
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize meeting with stakeholders of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has issued a statement telling the government of ...

Police say fugitive with Al Qaeda connections captured in Belize
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/22/2006
Belize City police have deported a US national who was hiding out in Belize from US officials, after he violated the terms of his parole by jumping boarder ...

Wilfred Peters Brokdong Competition 2006 holds sway
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/22/2006
The annual Brokdong Competition held on Saturday last, December 16 at the Bliss-Centre for the Performing Arts in Belize City featured nine entrants, ...

“Every Society needs a David Price” - David Gibson on the late Price
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 112/22/2006
Over 300 family, friends and supporters of what David Price stood for turned out at Wesley Methodist Church in Belize City to say farewell to a man who ...

Two southside primary schools will receive facelifts next year
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 112/22/2006
The Government of Belize is to provide the sum of $583852 while $7500 will represent contribution by the Parent/Teacher’s Association in the form of in-kind ...

KHMH management shares Christmas cheer with staff
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 112/22/2006
Over 500 employees from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Princess Margaret Drive in Belize City gathered for their annual Christmas luncheon and awards ...

12/21/2006

Train no match for Central Americans heading home
Brownsville Herald, TX - 12/21/2006
“They are going to Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, and El Salvador,” the consul said. Arroyo said she wants to be back home for Christmas Day. ...

New Chief Elections Officer sworn in
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/21/2006
During brief ceremonies in Belize City this morning, Dorothy Ann Bradley was officially sworn in as Belize’s new Chief Elections Officer. ...

GST raffle won by Police Officer
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/21/2006
As part of a month long awareness campaign this afternoon, the General Sales Tax department and the Belize Chamber of Commerce ended a joint raffle with a ...

Home for elderly rocks at Christmas
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/21/2006
... folks not only danced but eighty seven year old Stephen Webster and sixty eight year old Reymundo Cuellar shared their memories of Christmas in Belize. ...

Dry weather allows city to fill potholes
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/21/2006
After major publicity on the city's two television newscasts, we are pleased to report that work crews were hard at work this morning in downtown Belize ...

Study looks at nation’s drinking habits
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/21/2006
Basically it's a survey designed to tell us whether Belize has a drinking problem. And while no one who has stepped outside the house in the last thirty ...

Deputy PUP leader has different ideas on UHS deal
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/21/2006
The new wrinkle he adds however, is that after Belmopan satisfies the Belize Bank's thirty million dollar outstanding loan with a comparably valued chunk of ...

Street restoration project in San Pedro
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 12/21/2006
The tax dollars of the businesses, working people and tourists of Ambergris Caye have long been a Government of Belize consistent income source. [… ...

Our Community - Jan Brown
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 12/21/2006
It was a perfect night for such a kaleidoscope of beautiful colors parading over the moon lit waters of Belize. How did this idea come around? ...

NEW CHIEF ELECTIONS OFFICER SWORN IN
LoveFM, Belize - 12/21/2006
She worked for seventeen years as supervisor in the Banking and Currency Development at Central Bank of Belize. Bradley also holds a first degree in ...

POLICE COMMISSIONER EXPLAINS WHY THEY TOOK FIVE WEEKS TO CHARGE ...
LoveFM, Belize - 12/21/2006
Meanwhile yesterday Prime Minister Musa and Defense Minister, Cordel Hyde, served members of the Belize Defense Force lunch. As Brigadier General Lloyd ...

BEL HOLDS EIGHT ANNUAL CHRISTMAS DRIVE
LoveFM, Belize - 12/21/2006
Employees of the Belize Electricity Limited have conducted their eight annual Christmas Hamper Drive. BEL employees made monetary contributions which were ...

SALVATION ARMY DISTRIBUTES FOOD AND TOYS IN THE NORTH
LoveFM, Belize - 12/21/2006
The members from the Army Main Church from Belize City along with their pastor, Captain Anthony Sanchez first stopped in Orange Walk town where the first ...

POLICE IDENTIFY BODY FOUND FLOATING IN THE SEA
LoveFM, Belize - 12/21/2006
Belize City police have identified the body of a man whose lifeless body was found floating in the sea in the Button Wood Bay area of Belize City. ...

PRICE OF ONIONS SOAR
LoveFM, Belize - 12/21/2006
Whole sale price right now at the Belize City Depot is at one dollar and ninety cents per pound for the container that came in yesterday. ...

Regional corruption “endemic”
Latin America Press, Peru - 12/21/2006
... Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama — along with two representatives from Belize and the Dominican Republic, signing the so-called Guatemala Declaration, ...

BHL shareholders to benefit from profits
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation, Barbados - 12/21/2006
More than three thousand shareholders of the Banks Holdings Group will have about 3.4 million reasons to smile this Christmas. ...

What is a person of color?
ProgressiveU.org, CA - 12/21/2006
In Central America (not including Belize or Panama), the “Whites” are racially white people and mestizos, and the people of color are Asians, Blacks and the ...

12/20/2006

Bolivian Reforms Raise Anxiety on Mennonite Frontier
New York Times, NY - 12/21/2006
They migrated earlier to Russia, the United States, Canada, Belize and Mexico, and then some came here, for the farming opportunities and religious freedom. ...

... and Northern Highway no better
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/20/2006
The highway is the main access from the Northern Districts, Ladyville suburbs and the Philip Goldson International Airport to Belize City and it is ...

Downtown city streets in a mess ...
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/20/2006
It seems that at least once every year--often around this same time--we do a story on the deplorable state of Belize City's streets. ...

Annual BDF dinner features big time waiters
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/20/2006
'Tis the season for Christmas parties and dinners and the Belize Defence Force is not immune to the festive epidemic. But unlike other events, ...

Body of Nigerian resident washes up off Belize City
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/20/2006
The corpse of a Nigerian resident of Belize was found floating in the sea this morning ... and while his identity is no longer in question, the cause of his ...

Ready Call moves to much improved offices
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/20/2006
Belize at the beginning was in the last precision of course we knew that we were not having too much experience with the people that were working with us, ...


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