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5/25/10

Donating To The Kidney Cause
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/25/10‎
And while Carcamo is suffering, so are others who are on the waiting list for government sponsored dialysis at Belize healthcare partners. ...

Another Kidney Distress Case
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/25/10‎
They told me that they can't help me in Belize. They told me that I need to go to doctors in Guatemala for help. I went to Guatemala to put in the Catheter, ...

Flooding In The South
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/25/10‎
... south of El Salvador which is expected to cross into Central America and cause flooding in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Belize later this week. ...

Cross Country Champ Tested Positive For Banned Substance
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/25/10‎
... the Sugar City Team - who Perez rode for in the race - confirmed that his team today received the official letter from the Belize Cycling Association. ...

Alwin Gonzalez: Charged For Heroin, Weed, Crack
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/25/10‎
On Friday we told you about 30 year Alwin Gonzalez who was wanted in connection with a bust made at a home on K Street in Kings Park. ...

“Z” no Longer a UDP
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/25/10‎
Now, if the expulsion stands - that is, if the mayor does not appeal it - it will have no effect on her pubic post; she will remain the Mayor of Belize City ...

Three Kings At The Cacao Festival
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/25/10‎
And while portions of Kingston were at war over the weekend The Cacao festival was being held in southern Belize. NICH had its camera crew there and we put ...

It's Festival Week
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/25/10‎
... where the students and participants will be wearing costumes or a festive outwear to walk through the streets of Belize City to let the public be aware ...

HOUSE SEARCH LEADS TO THE ARREST OF ALWIN GONZALES AND TIFFARA BRADLEY
LoveFM - ‎5/25/10‎
30-year-old Alwin Gonzalez of Guadalupe Street and 26-year-old Tiffara Bradley of Coney Drive in Belize City have been arrested and charged with three ...

DEPUTY PM RETURNS FROM TRIP TO TAIWAN
LoveFM - ‎5/25/10‎
Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega returns to Belize today after concluding a visit to Taiwan. Last Thursday Deputy Prime Minister Vega met with President Ma ...

NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS KICKS OFF WITH PARADE
LoveFM - ‎5/25/10‎
A parade was also held after, where students marched their way downtown Belize to the House of Culture. Love News spoke with Clive Meyers, Coordinator for ...

5/21/10

Financing For “The Productive Poor”
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/21/10‎
The project, novel because it is financed by the government of Belize with assistance from multilaterals, it is being disbursed through credit union. ...

The Tale of the Jaguar
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/21/10‎
Since dawn on Monday morning, police and BDF have swarmed the streets in crime ridden areas of Southside Belize City. It's Operation Jaguar, but unlike its ...

Rogue Website Linked To Belize
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/21/10‎
In Belize City, we know plenty about criminal gangs but have you ever heard of internet gangs? Apparently, Belize is home to those as well. ...

The Prayer For Peace
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/21/10‎
The Belize Association of Evangelical Churches, headed by Pastor Eugene Crawford, is organizing a two day gun amnesty program which it believes through ...

INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY RECEIVED NEW STATE OF THE ART EQUIPMENT
LoveFM - ‎5/21/10‎
Laser equipment provides new three dimension images of Belize's forest floors and Mayan centres enhancing the Belize Institute of Archaeology's research on ...

OFFICIALS UPDATE PUBLIC ON OPERATION JAGUAR
LoveFM - ‎5/21/10‎
Operation Jaguar was officially launched before dawn on Monday May 17th by the National Security Council, Ministry of national Security, Belize Police ...

INTERNATIONAL BIODIVERSITY DAY CELEBRATED IN BELIZE
LoveFM - ‎5/21/10‎
This morning more than 350 primary school children gathered at the Mexican Institute in Belize City to learn from and participate in an activity organized ...

How the Chelsea Flower Show will save the rainforest
Times Online - ‎5/21/10‎
I had never known the meaning of the expression “coming out in hives” till I made a trip to the forest of Belize; now I can tell you with immense precision. ...

Chess News
Amandala - ‎5/21/10‎
The Belize Chess Institute (BCI) conducted a Junior Chess Tournament for the Mesop Police Cadet Chess Club. Thirty kids from the “Youth at Risk” project, ...

Glenford Grant, 26, charged with the murder of his father, 80
Amandala - ‎5/21/10‎
Glenford, 26, an unemployed of # 5 Oleander Street, Belize City, appeared in court without a shirt, footwear or representation, and was explained the charge ...

Village council elections continue across Belize
Amandala - ‎5/21/10‎
In the Belize District there were five elections, three in Belize Rural North and two in Belize Rural Central. In Biscayne, the elected slate was unopposed ...

Dr. Herbert Gayle on Belize crime: Belize passed civil war benchmark
Amandala - ‎5/21/10‎
Head of the Male Social Participation and Violence Research for the Belize project, Dr. Herbert Gayle, Anthologist of Social Violence at UWI, Jamaica, ...

Strong medicine
Amandala - ‎5/21/10‎
The issue of crime prevention is suddenly in vogue, as residents of Belize City continue to search for alternatives to arrest the continued violence that so ...

UDP heavyweights tussle
Amandala - ‎5/21/10‎
The latest development is that on the heels of the Berges controversy, a high ranking official within Cabinet has asked the chairman of the Belize District ...

Opposition Leader calls on GOB to freeze existing oil concessions for review
Amandala - ‎5/21/10‎
Opposition Leader Johnny Briceño has called on the Government of Belize to put a stay on existing offshore petroleum concessions, so that the country can ...

CitCo-market vendors crisis solved?
Amandala - ‎5/21/10‎
The Belize City Council appears to be rapidly backtracking on a proposed fee increase to be paid by the 76 market vendors at the temporary compound at Pound ...

Internet Firm Shut Down For Aiding Online Gangs
RedOrbit - ‎5/21/10‎
The FTC said Belize-based 3FN supported gangs that ran botnets, carried out phishing scams and traded images of child abuse. 3FN servers and hardware have ...

Guatemala extremists critize Belize oil licenses
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
The fledging oil industry in Belize has attracted the attention of at least one extremist congressman in Guatemala, ...

Cop's high speed chase ends with a bang
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
Belize City Police have charged Diego Witz, a 48-year-old businessman of Punta Gorda Town, with drug trafficking, ...

Ashcroft gets leave to take $40M claim against GOB to the Privy
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
The Belize Court of Appeal has given leave for investor Michael Ashcroft to take his dispute with the Government of Belize ...

Distinguished Caribbean Jurists joins Belize Court of Appeal
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
Justice Brian Alleyne of Dominica was sworn in as a Justice of the Appeals Court of Belize by the Governor-General, ...

Shalini Zabaneh wins 21st Sol Women's Cross Country Classic
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
Shalini rode the 71.7 miles from the Columbus Park in San Ignacio to the finish line in front of the Memorial Park in Belize City in four hours 26 minutes ...

GOB to consult on new lands policy
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
Belize will step up efforts to combat land degradation brought about by drought, deforestation and bad land use. ...

Nayeli Torres to represent Belize at Miss Latina America Pageant
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
Vivacious 18-year-old Nayeli Linnett Torres will represent Belize at the 29th Annual Miss Latina America del Mundo Pageant to be held in the Dominican ...

Mexico offers Belizeans 15 scholarships
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
The National College of Professional Technical Education (CONALEP) of Mexico and the Ministry of Education of Belize are offering 15 professional technical ...

Belize working on Trade Agreement with Guatemala
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
Belize and Guatemala are to improve commercial and economic relations through a Partial Scope Agreement, which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign ...

Hattieville breaks with the past! Finds new power in unity
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
Hattieville Village is one of the core villages in the Belize Rural Central constituency and last Sunday, the village, ...

Cops say 22 year old Paul Jex is gunman who shot Aubrey Lopez
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
Aubrey was a highly regarded teacher and basketball star who had represented Belize in several international competitions. Lopez left the Edward P. Yorke ...

Bogus SSB cheques sting merchants
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
Once the cheque reached the Belize Bank, it was returned to the depositor as unpaid and identified as a fraudulent cheque. Social Security Board's Chief ...

Son charged for killing 80-yr-old
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
Glenford Grant, 25, was remanded to prison for the murder of his 80-year-old father, Clifton Grant, when he appeared in the Belize City Magistrate's court ...

Rains came early this year
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
The Belize Meteorological Service has confirmed that this week's rains signal the onset of the rainy season. ...

No rent hike for Market vendors - BCC works out new lease agreement
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/21/10‎
... the same rate for their stalls if the Hotchandani Group accepts the Belize City Council's proposal for another tax write off, of an unspecified amount, ...

5/20/10

The Rise of Rice In Toledo
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/20/10‎
But the Taiwan Technical Mission which has been in Belize since 1991 is undaunted. ...

Is Bottled Water Good For You?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/20/10‎
In Belize one of the fastest growing and most unregulated businesses happens to be good old H2O, or as we commonly know it: WATER! ...

The Bust Behind The Crash
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/20/10‎
He followed the car to the Texaco gas station at mile one on the Northern Highway where they pulled up in front of the Belize Bank. Grinage saw Witz go into ...

Deputy Willoughby: “To Be Or Not To Be”
‎5/20/10‎
... seems he's thinking about giving it up. Here's what he had to say today: "Is it a fact that you have stepped down as the Deputy Mayor of Belize City?"

48 Baymen: Much Ado About Nothing?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/20/10‎
On Tuesday night, chairman of the Belize District Liquor Licensing Board Wilmot Simmons appeared on this newscast. He said that his board had demanded that ...

Queen's Square Market Will Be Ready in Four Months
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/20/10‎
What you are going to get is a first class market for Belize City for which everyone are going to be proud of including the vendors who are actually the ...

Betancourt/Lado released....
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/20/10‎
It was big news for Orange Walk Police when they caught Jamil "Lado" Betancourt in the San Lorenzo area on Saturday morning. Betancourt was the chief ...

BELIZEAN FARMERS RECEIVE TRAINING IN INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM
LoveFM - ‎5/20/10‎
The project was negotiated between the Governments of Belize and Venezuela. Some funds have been allocated to provide training for Belizean farmers. ...

OCEANA ANNOUNCES COMPETITION FOR WORLD OCEANS DAY
LoveFM - ‎5/20/10‎
Instead of receiving cash prizes the winners will get a chance to visit Belize's most famous marine tourist destination. “We have some wonderful prizes. ...

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS HOLDS FORUM ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS
LoveFM - ‎5/20/10‎
The seminar on International Trade Agreements will zero in on opportunities for Belize's private sector by identifying opportunities for increase levels of ...

WORK TO RESUME ON MICHAEL FINNEGAN MARKET
LoveFM - ‎5/20/10‎
That is the word from the Belize City Council and representatives of the Social Investment Fund, when they met this morning with vendors at the temporary ...

Paola Salazar to defend cross country title
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
The Belize Cycling Association in collaboration with SOL Belize Ltd. is hosting the 21st Annual SOL Female Cross Country Classic on Sunday May 16, 2010. ...

National Secondary Schools Sports Association held AGM
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
The National Secondary Schools Sports Association held its annual general meeting last Saturday May 8, 2010, at Wesley College in Belize City. ...

Franxel y Chami-ka film reggaeton video on La Isla Bonita
San Pedro Sun - ‎5/20/10‎
Driven by their determination to succeed, and take Belize to another level in the music industry, Franxel y Chami-Ka have recently completed recording their ...

CITCO REFUTES COUNCILORS CLAIMS THAT MONEY IS MISSING
LoveFM - ‎5/20/10‎
The Belize City Council has issued a press release, denying that funds collected from market vendors are unaccounted for. According to the official release, ...

FRAUDULENT SOCIAL SECURITY CHEQUES IN CIRCULATION
LoveFM - ‎5/20/10‎
... alleged to have been issued by the Social Security Board, were presented to and cashed by at least four business houses in Belize City. ...

Lions Zone 59 attend 69th Annual Isthmania Convention
San Pedro Sun - ‎5/20/10‎
25 representatives from the Belize Lions Zone 59 Organization participated in the 69th Annual Isthmania Convention in Puerto Cortez, Honduras. ...

SPTC says no to Sea Trek
San Pedro Sun - ‎5/20/10‎
Based on the Environmental Compliance Plan (ECP), three entities are involved in the recommendation process: the Department of Lands, Belize Port Authority ...

NACNW Substation raises controversy
San Pedro Sun - ‎5/20/10‎
It was built for the Belize Police Department and is therefore government property. The people north of the bridge are dedicated to continue to fight crime ...

SEPTEMBER CELEBRATIONS COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES PLAN FOR 2010 CELEBRATIONS
LoveFM - ‎5/20/10‎
In 2010 Belize celebrates its 29th year of Independence and 212th anniversary of the Battle of Saint George's Caye. The first activity for the 2010 ...

OAS SIGNS FUNDING AGREEMENT WITH THREE BELIZE ORGANIZATIONS
LoveFM - ‎5/20/10‎
The signing took place this afternoon at the OAS office with the National Committee for Families and Children, Belize Tourism Board and the Ya'axche ...

BDBA extend condolences to the family an...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
The Belize District Basketball Association would like to extend its deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Aubrey Lopez. Aubrey was the captain and ...

Shalini Zabaneh is female Cross Country ...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
The Belize Cycling Association in collaboration with SOL Belize Ltd sponsored its 21st Annual Female Cross Country Classic on Sunday May 16, 2010. ...

Operation Jaguar
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
It involves the reassignment of additional police officers as well as Coast Guard personnel and more than one hundred additional soldiers from the Belize ...

Then and Now
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
“Tell us something we do not already know”, say the people of Belize. It is evident that every single faction of the splintered PUP is in denial. ...

This Week in Belmopan
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
Dean O. Barrow, left Belize today to participate in the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). ...

UDP takes PUP strongholds in village council elections
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
In Belize Rural North, the UDP won the village of Biscayne and 4 councillor seats were secured in Gardenia. May Pen went uncontested by the UDP. ...

Belize's Elections and boundaries chai...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
On invitation from the Commonwealth Secretariat, Mr. Alberto August, Chairman of the Elections and Boundaries Commission of Belize is in Ghana, Africa where ...

From Sketteldom - with malice towards so...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
... country where in the worst of times skettels still rule; even when Fat Ralph was trashed by Hutchie in the overall constituency (Belize Rural Central). ...

Potable Water for Cotton Tree, Franks Eddy and St Mathews Villages along the ...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
It is being funded by the Government of Belize at a total cost of $980000 through the Commonwealth Debt Initiative (CDI). The project is being implemented ...

Ashcroft Going to Privy Council Again for Musa's Promise
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
On Friday, March 19, the Belize Court of Appeals ruled against a claim by the Belize Bank which requested the enforcement of a $33.5 million Loan Note ...

Financial Strategy in the Ministry of Natural Resources
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
Hon Gaspar Vega said that the Integrated Financial Strategy will identify local, bilateral and multilateral institutions that can assist Belize in managing ...

World Telecommunications Day
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
Here in Belize, Telemedia held an Open Day inside the King's Room of the Princess Hotel. The Guest Speaker at the opening ceremony was Hon Melvin Hulse, ...

Preparations for September Celebrations underway
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
For any political party, it is always a good exercise to have some level of election to gauge how good or bad that particular party is doing before a ...

Lotto Winner Travels $1000 per Mile
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
Carmela Lennan says she has been playing Lotto since it started in Belize. She and her husband usually buy four tickets, four quick picks and one with ...

Mothers are Killing Their Own Sons
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
It is sad that occurrences of shootings and other forms of violent crimes have become the norm in the lives of Belize City residents. ...

MEXICO announces 15 CONALEP Scholarships for Belizeans
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
The National College of Professional Technical Education (CONALEP) of Mexico and the Ministry of Education of Belize announce the offer of 15 scholarships ...

Oceana Essay Competition for World Oceans Day
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
Oceana's Ocean Day competition promises prizes that will allow the winners to visit Belize's most famous marine tourist destination. ...

SSB Fraudulent Cheques in circulation
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
... alleged to have been issued by the Social Security Board, were presented to and cashed by at least four business houses in Belize City. ...

'Lado' Betancourt captured in Orange Walk - Released in Belize City
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/20/10‎
Residents in the area say he was helpful and kind to them however for a moment Belize City police thought otherwise. The house where Betancourt was found is ...

5/19/10

The Hope For Belize's First Fully Private High School
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/19/10‎
There's a new high school opening in Belize City - but it's not state or church sponsored, it's fully private. Belize High school is an extension of Belize ...

The Spirit of September
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/19/10‎
"We officially launched the theme competition to commemorate the 212th Anniversary of the Battle of St. George's Caye and the 29th Anniversary of Belize's ...

Will Wilmot Be Pushed Out?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/19/10‎
... a Cabinet crime subcommittee met this afternoon and - as a sidebar - they planned to discuss the actions of the Belize District Liquor Licensing Board. ...

The Community Meeting To End Crime
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/19/10‎
Nigel Petillo and his Belize Youth Grassroots Empowerment Association have been much in the news since the death of their fellow Belmopan resident Aubrey ...

Funding For Social Projects
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/19/10‎
NCFC "Building Capacity of Disadvantaged Communities in Belize for Income Generation and Job Creation. "Building Sustainable Community Enterprise ...

BELIZEANS INVITED TO APPLY FOR MEXICAN SCHOLARSHIP
LoveFM - ‎5/19/10‎
For the academic year 2010/2011, which begins on August ninth, the university is offering 15 spaces to fourth form students from Belize scheduled to ...

PROJECT FIX BELIZE DISCUSSED AT THE YWCA
LoveFM - ‎5/19/10‎
The Grassroots Youth Empowerment Association has embarked on a project they are calling Mission Fix Belize. The association is hosting a meeting tonight at ...

5/18/10

The Chinese Community's Contribution
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎8 hours ago‎
Last night Nigel Petillo of the Belize youth Grassroots Empowerment Association called out all major organization to join his Fix Belize initiative. ...

Tarrell Hits The Big Time
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎8 hours ago‎
Five year old Tarrell Sutherland left Belize at the end of March and he is still in the states. During his absence, we've had regular updates on his ...

Police Catch Up With Big Tug
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎8 hours ago‎
On Friday night at around 7:30 Meyers was allegedly hanging out near Royal Imports on Vernon Street in Belize City when he had a misunderstanding with Royal ...

Ashcroft Injunction
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎8 hours ago‎
The injunction arises from the nationalization of Belize Telemedia. According to Ashcroft's attorneys, British barrister Nigel Pleming and Senior Counsel ...

Ashcroft: Another Appeal
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎8 hours ago‎
The first is case number 12 of 2009, the Belize Bank versus the Association of Concerned Belizeans, the NTUCB, Godwin Hulse, the Medical and Dental Union ...

Killed His 80 Year Old Father for Twenty-Five Cents!
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎8 hours ago‎
Today, 26 year old Glenford Grant, the man accused of killing his own father was arraigned in Belize City Magistrate's court. He appeared without a shirt ...

48 Baymen Avenue: It's Going To Court
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎8 hours ago‎
They both took their case to the Belize District liquor licensing board and on May 14th. Berges won out. Last night we gave you the broad strokes of the ...

SOCIAL SECURITY BOGUS CHECKS BOUNCING AROUND
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎8 hours ago‎
Once the check reached the Belize Bank, it was returned to the depositor as unpaid and identified as a fraudulent check. Social Security Board's Chief ...

Six officers charged for allegedly beating Elvin Torres, 35
Amandala - ‎17 hours ago‎
Allegedly, during the shooting, a grey truck with license plate C-12899 came from the direction of Belize City and stopped directly in front of the police ...

One down, 4 more to go in the murder of Aubrey Lopez
Amandala - ‎20 hours ago‎
Paul Jex, 23, a construction worker of # 46 Cran Street, Belize City, one of several suspects in the murder of Aubrey Dwight Lopez, 30, of Belmopan, ...

Shalini is Queen of the Hills and SOL Female Cross Country Champion 2010
Amandala - ‎20 hours ago‎
But, in what was a small surprise, Alicia Thompson, riding for Belize Bank/BEL, raised eyebrows when she made a gallant effort, leaving the sluggish chase ...

Angry taxi driver almost decapitates youth,17
Amandala - ‎20 hours ago‎
A minor was chopped to death, almost decapitated, in downtown Belize City, Friday, May 14, allegedly by an infuriated taxi driver. Anthony Lord, 17, of Mile ...

Francis Figueroa stabbed to death in Friday night fight
Amandala - ‎20 hours ago‎
Police are looking for Raymond “Big Thug” Myers, Jr., 26, of Belize City, in connection with the murder of Francis Figueroa, 27, of Belize City. ...

Neighborhood cook beaten and robbed
Amandala - ‎20 hours ago‎
... charged Ignacio Armando Villanueva Jr., a 37-year-old unemployed resident of #49 Albert St. West, Belize City, for the crimes of robbery and wounding. ...

5/17/10

Operation Jaguar Is In Effect!
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/10‎
It is called operation jaguar and it was launched in Belize City at the direction of the chairman of the National Security Council, Prime Minister Dean ...

Aubrey's Alleged Killer Charged
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/10‎
He is 22 year old Paul Jex a resident of #46 Cran Street in Belize City. The 17 year old minor - who was caught in the car along with Jex - told police that ...

Coombs' Alleged Killer Found at Hideout in OW
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/10‎
"Police during this operation captured Jamal Betancourt, 27 years old of a Belize City Address. He was wanted in connection with a murder investigation in ...

Alleged Embezzlers of City Funds to Be Charged?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/10‎
Farah Jones is accused of misappropriating $30191 Belize dollars and Marvin James is accused of the same for 31265 dollars. The City Administrator told ...

Darrol's Beaters Charged
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/10‎
They are 37 year old Ignacio Armando Villanueva Jr., of # 49 Albert Street West, Belize City, and 34 year old Armando Avilez. Today in court, they pleaded ...

BTL Celebrates World Telecom Day
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/10‎
"It gives Belize Telemedia an opportunity to show all the children the technology and its future development and how good it will serve the people of Belize ...

The Community's Rights VS. A Business Owner's Investment
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/10‎
It's a new type of business, a new venture, novelty to Belize. And it's a business center. When I heard the rumors that it's all these things; karaoke bar, ...

OW Bad Boys
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/10‎
All are from Belize City along with Leon Fitzgibon of Ladyville. The following items were found during this search; 1 - .38 revolver with 6 rounds, ...

Shalini Supreme Again!
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/10‎
12 women started the race in Cayo but when it got to the finish line 70 miles later in Belize City - there was only one. Here's how that went. ...

5/14/10

Female Cycling: Competitive But Not Celebrated
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/14/10‎
This year it will feature Thirteen female cyclists riding 70 miles from San Ignacio to Belize City. It starts at 8:30 in the morning and finishes at the ...

City Men Missing At Sea
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/14/10‎
There is a massive air and sea search operation being conducted in the waters off the Belize and Honduran coasts for two Belizean fishermen. ...

A March for Aubrey
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/14/10‎
Well, the Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Association out of Belmopan isn't waiting on police action to make their demands. ...

Gales Point Woman Says, “What's The Point?”
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/14/10‎
But no bail was granted as the case was transferred to Belize City. Today their sister came looking for those court paper and was told her relatives would ...

Teenager Killed In City
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/14/10‎
A 17 year old was murdered in Belize City last night. 17 year old Anthony Lord - a Hattieville resident - was chopped at the foot of the northern side of ...

Mother-Killers Were From City
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/14/10‎
Three Belize City males: two adults and one minor were this evening charged for the murder. They are 18 year old Anthony David Glenn Dennison of #94 Boots ...

Cop Stabbed Over Shoe In Orange Walk
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/14/10‎
Canul chased him and that's when Montero allegedly stabbed him multiple times to the leg, midsection and chest. Canul was transported to Belize City for ...

CITIZENS STAGE PROTEST AGAINST CRIME IN BELMOPAN
LoveFM - ‎5/14/10‎
The public cries “enough is enough” in Belmopan this morning in a peaceful demonstration against the escalating crime that has been plaguing Belize. ...

POLICE OFFICER STABBED BY ALLEGED SHOP LIFTER IN ORANGE WALK TOWN
LoveFM - ‎5/14/10‎
We did not know exactly what happened but they only asked for my mom and they said they came to pick her up because they were going to rush him to Belize. ...

SHOOTOUT AT TEXACO GAS STATION ON YOUTH FOR THE FUTURE DRIVE
LoveFM - ‎5/14/10‎
Cops are investigating yet another shooting incident in Belize City. The good news is that this time around, no one was hurt. ...

A MINOR AND THREE OTHERS FACE MURDER CHARGES
LoveFM - ‎5/14/10‎
Those charged are 18-year-old Anthony David Glenn Dennison of Belize City, 20-year-old Denfield Alwin Tasher Junior of Belize City, 29-year-old Kurt Carlton ...

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION HONOURS OUTSTANDING TEACHERS
LoveFM - ‎5/14/10‎
Meanwhile, a ceremony to honour outstanding teachers was held last night in Belize City. The gala event, which was held at the ITVET Compound on Freetown ...

TEACHERS COUNTRYWIDE CELEBRATE TEACHER'S DAY
LoveFM - ‎5/14/10‎
The Belize National Teachers Union observes teachers day on a three year cyclical basis; national, branch level and school level. ...

BEL turns $8.9 million profit for 2009
Amandala - ‎5/14/10‎
The country of Belize underwent a recession in 2009, but the Belize Electricity Limited (BEL), the country's premier distributor, turned an $8.9 million ...

Market crisis!
Amandala - ‎5/14/10‎
A meeting held Tuesday night at the Commercial Center on Market Square between the vendors and officials from the Markets' Department of the Belize City ...

Sayonara, Privy Council! Hello, CCJ!
Amandala - ‎5/14/10‎
The Government of Belize announced on Tuesday, May 11, that cases filed after May 31, 2010, for appeal beyond the Belize Court of Appeals, would be sent not ...

Jeffries threatens Amandala
Amandala - ‎5/14/10‎
As a police department, legally bounded by the Belize Constitution and the Police Act chapter 138 of the laws of Belize, to protect life and property, ...

Basketball superstar murdered in cold blood
Amandala - ‎5/14/10‎
“Aubrey had this leadership characteristic, he was one, if not Belize's best basketball player,” Wade stated. Lastly, Amandala sat down with two of Lopez's ...

2 brothers lost at sea while returning from Roatan, Honduras
Amandala - ‎5/14/10‎
Joseph Garbutt, 37, and his younger brother, Erleon Garbutt, 27, both fishermen of a Belize City residence, were reported missing since Sunday, 9, 2010, ...

PM Barrow, DPM Vega respond to call for ban of offshore drilling
Amandala - ‎5/14/10‎
He said that he will have to make certain that the Department of the Environment does everything to ensure that Belize does not take any needless risks. ...

CJ orders GOB to pay Joe Coye $100000 for Placencia land deal
Amandala - ‎5/14/10‎
Amandala also understands that the Government of Belize has been advised by one of its attorneys to appeal the Chief Justice's decision, in which he ordered ...

Cycling on purpose
South End News - ‎5/14/10‎
Sustainability does not always have to be an intense effort to persuade individuals to learn more about their carbon footprint, ...

Cancel sea exploration contracts! Environmental NGO's urge
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/14/10‎
The Association of Protected Areas Management Organizations (APAMO) in Belize has announced that it is opposed to all ...

Barrow admits crime crisis
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/14/10‎
The country is in a crime crisis and the government of Belize will clean house within the Police Department, by putting into place improved structures to ...

Belmopan Mayor's son murdered in Belize City
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/14/10‎
His death seemed only to accentuate Prime Minister Dean Barrow's announcement earlier that day that crime in Belize has reached “crisis proportions. ...

Market vendors furious over doubling of fees for rent space
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/14/10‎
A meeting called by the Belize City Council on Tuesday night to consult with market vendors ended in chaos after Deputy ...

January Jones wants to save the sharks
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/14/10‎
American starlet January Jones, spokes-person for Oceana's Save the Shark Campaign, held a press conference at the Belize ...

Cancer awareness can save your life The secret is to get the facts!
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/14/10‎
May is the month the Belize Cancer Society has chosen to talk about Cancer and how to prevent it. ...

3000 abortions a year? Move afoot to end the slaughter!
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/14/10‎
Roman Catholics of Belize are getting ready to launch the most the most awesome campaign of their 155 year history in Belize - a drive to collect 50000 ...

San Antonio water upgrade cost almost a million dollars
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/14/10‎
The project was funded jointly by the Government of Belize and the Caribbean Development Bank at a cost of nearly a million dollars and supervised by the ...

Lower interest rates. Do it now!
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/14/10‎
High interest rates and necessarily increased taxes continue to stifle Belize's economy, adding to the country's present recession ...

Caye Caulker prisoner executed in police cell Sgt. Alpheus Parham arrested for ...
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/14/10‎
Caye Caulker Police arrested Parham on Monday morning, May 10 and brought him to Belize City. Friends of the dead man and concerned citizens gathered ...

Police Association calls for justice for Cpl. Gavin Sanchez' s murder
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/14/10‎
... are serious internal problems inside the Belize Police Department which continue to undermine the public's confidence in the function of the police. ...

5/13/10

BEL's Big Bucks/Small Profits
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/13/10‎
Belize Electricity limited remains one of the country's highest earning companies. A look at its financial for the year ended 2009 shows that the ...

Shyne the Saviour?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/13/10‎
The man who says he wants to industrialize his native Belize through his music was officially announced the country's Music and Goodwill Ambassador this ...

Basketball Star, Son of Belmopan Mayor Aubrey Lopez Killed
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/13/10‎
30 year old Aubrey Lopez, he was one of Belize's elite basketball players. A veteran teacher at EP Yorke and a son and a brother to the Lopez family. ...

Cabinet, Crime and the Cops
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/13/10‎
As we reported earlier this week there are insistent reports that Reyes has left Belize and returned to his home country in El Salvador. ...

The Privy Council vs. The Privileges of the CCJ
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/13/10‎
And the first amendment to be brought into effect is the one that removes the Privy Council as Belize court of final appeal. That job will now be done by ...

Belize's low-key tempo and stunning natural habitats
eTurboNews - ‎5/13/10‎
My first evening perched in a treetop resort in the jungles of Belize was rudely disturbed by a long, strange, ...

PROMINENT BASKETBALL STAR MURDERED IN BELIZE CITY
LoveFM - ‎5/13/10‎
His father, Belmopan Mayor Simeon Lopez, was in Belize City along with family members to find out what had happened. Police were called to Prince Street ...

NICH ANNOUNCES INITIATIVE TO IMPROVE THE LOCAL MUSIC INDUSTRY
LoveFM - ‎5/13/10‎
The National Institute of Culture and History today announced plans for a series of initiatives intended to improve Belize's music industry. ...

FIRE SERVICE INVESTIGATES CAUSE OF FIRE IN BELIZE CITY
LoveFM - ‎5/13/10‎
There was a fire reported in Belize City this afternoon. It happened in the St. Martin Depores Area near the government complex. ...

SIF TO INAUGURATE PROJECTS IN SOUTHERN BELIZE
LoveFM - ‎5/13/10‎
The water project was financed by the Government of Belize and the European Union as part of the Banana Belt Clean Water Project. ...

MOTORCYCLE STOLEN FROM TRAFFIC OFFICE IN BELIZE CITY
LoveFM - ‎5/13/10‎
A motorcycle was stolen from the Traffic Department. Traffic Manager Kevan Jenkins reported that sometime between five pm on Tuesday and seven am on ...

LOCAL ACTORS PREPARE FOR STAGE PERFORMANCE
LoveFM - ‎5/13/10‎
It really displays the level of talent that is in Belize and it is a very entertaining production.” Can Belizeans relate to it; the way it is presented? ...

ONE DETAINED, COPS SEARCH FOR TWO FOR SUSPECTED CITY ROBBERY ATTEMPT
LoveFM - ‎5/13/10‎
Belize City Police have detained 25-year-old Marvin Forman and are looking for two other suspects. Leroy Ramirez reported to Police that just before four ...

FISHERMEN REPORTED MISSING
LoveFM - ‎5/13/10‎
Gosephina Sho of Belize City has reported that her common law husband 37-year-old Joseph Garbutt left home on Sunday along with his brother 27-year-old ...

20 million viewers watch as Belize Blitz...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
On May 5th, Wednesday evening at 5:30 pm Bz time, an estimated 20 million people watched as young Belize chess player challenged his American counterpart ...

This Week In Belmopan
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
The Government of Belize recognizes the crisis of crime, violence and social degradation in which we find ourselves. These social ills are of priority ...

Jose Melgar captured - 3 Hattieville res...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
The quick police response is because of a 911 call to the Belize Police Department hotline by a neighbor who has seen the news and alerted police of ...

Couple walk from Corozal to PG
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
A couple of youths, Michael Tesecum and Sherlene Rodriguez have come up with a novel idea to raise funds to help fight the crime situation in Belize. ...

New US Visa Application Forms
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
The US Embassy in Belmopan, Belize would like to inform all applicants for non-immigrant visas to the United States that there is a new online visa ...

Saint John's College Hosts Mexican Students
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
According to Marcelino Miranda, Press Secretary of the Mexican Embassy, the event was part of the celebrations in Belize of the Bicentennial anniversary of ...

Ministry of Health congratulates Nurses on Nurses Day
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
The Ministry of Health joins the Nurses' Association of Belize today in celebrating International Nurses' Day under the theme: 'Delivering Quality, ...

Salvation Army School Receives New Computers
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
On Wednesday, May 12, the Ministry of Education collaborated with Rotary International, Belize Natural Energy and Belize Telemedia Limited to launch a ...

THEN & NOW
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
Those PUP at the Belize Slimes are living in daily fear of being fired by the loose cannon Social Security Skettel. The retired Gordon Smith Musa Skettel ...

PRIVY COUNCIL ABOLISHED in Belize
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
The jurisdiction of the Privy Council to hear appeals from Belize has been abolished with effect from 1st June 2010. This follows from the Orders issued by ...

Hollywood's January Jones Swam with Whale Shark in Belize
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
Many species of sharks that dwell in Belize's waters are in trouble. On Friday, May 6, Oceana held a press conference with actress January Jones to express ...

Election of UK's Conservative Party Ba...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
Here in Belize, the members of the PUP are groveling at his feet- attending every event where Ashcroft has an interest; example, Belize Healthcare Partners, ...

Primary Schools Football Competition opens at the MCC Grounds
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
The Belize City Primary Schools Football competition opened on Tuesday May 4, 2010, at the MCC Grounds. This year's competition will feature a record 27 ...

Deputy Mayor of San Ignacio & Santa ...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
Deputy Mayor of the twin Towns of San Ignacio & Santa Elena, Ms. Vanessa Neal, returned to Belize on May 7 after completing a three-week National ...

Belize Defence force sits alone at the top of the Caribbean Motors Cup standings
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
The regular season for the 2010 Belize Premier Football League Caribbean Motors Cup came to an end over the weekend. On Saturday May 1, 2010, ...

Zitro International Limited Weekend Warriors Club Championship
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
The race was done in a time of 3:05:12 doing a respectable 17 minutes faster than the 82nd Holy Saturday Cross Country Classic leg from Cayo to Belize, ...

Two more cops charged for manslaughter and abetment
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
It was a cat and mouse game at the Belize City Magistrate's court on Tuesday May 11th as media personnel attempted to get footage and pictures of two police ...

Mayor's son shot and killed
Jamaica Observer - ‎5/13/10‎
BELIZE CITY, Belize — The son of Belmopan mayor Simeon Lopez was shot and killed last night in Belize City. Lopez, 30, a high school teacher and prominent ...

Sergeant Reyes leaves the country - no charges yet
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
There is no telling how his absence will affect the case or whether he will be returning to Belize but there has been mounting pressure to have the sergeant ...

Cop Charged for Murder
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/13/10‎
On Tuesday, May 11, Police Constable Alpheus Parham appeared in the Magistrates Court to face a charged of one count of murder upon 31-year-old Alex Gough. ...

More answers regarding Sea-Trek
San Pedro Sun - ‎5/13/10‎
... and requires little effort, and just may entice explorers to look into more of the underwater experiences that Belize has to offer. ...

Alex Goff shot and killed by CC Police Officer Alpheus Parham
San Pedro Sun - ‎5/13/10‎
According to a report issued on May 10th from the Belize Police Department Press Office, after Goff was placed inside the cell, he continued to make noise. ...

Oil exploration plan raises concerns
San Pedro Sun - ‎5/13/10‎
Recently, word hit the media that “oil and gas from onshore and offshore blocks in Belize will be explored, drilled and brought into production, ...

San Pedro Mothers celebrated
San Pedro Sun - ‎5/13/10‎
The annual Mother's Day celebration held by the San Pedro Town Council is most certainly an event mother's look forward to. What's not to love? ...

Daralee Sabal wins treats for her mother
San Pedro Sun - ‎5/13/10‎
May 12th we were pleased to notify 11 year old Daralee Sabal that her essay had earned the grand prize. Daralee, along with her mother Gina Cadle, ...

5/12/10

The Other Way Of Stopping
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/12/10‎
"I left Belize well and I stop down the road coming down. I had just left a lady about a mile from here. The brake was working fine. ...

The Lesson Of The Jaguar
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/12/10‎
Several weeks ago we showed you the birthday party for April the Tapir, the star attraction at the Belize Zoo. And while April may have the distinction of ...

Pulled up and Got Beat Up
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/12/10‎
"They drove me right back to Belize City. On the way back they stopped at the check point while the officer was still kicking me in my face. ...

Customs “Doubles-Up” On Phenyl-Acetic
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/12/10‎
On Friday we told you about the container of phenyl-acetic acid at the Port of Belize that customs has placed a stop on. It's still there, but tonight, ...

Oceana and Offshore Oil
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/12/10‎
It was eventual that we had to take a stand in Belize even though we were hoping that things would not have been as bad as we found out that they are. ...

INTERNATIONAL NURSES' DAY OBSERVED
LoveFM - ‎5/12/10‎
Lydia Blake is the President of the Nursing Association of Belize. “The Nursing Association of Belize is a member of the International Counsel of Nurses ...

2010 CENSUS BEGINS TODAY
LoveFM - ‎5/12/10‎
Today is known in Belize as Census Day; it marks the beginning of census in Belize. Every 10 years the Statistical Institute of Belize is tasked with ...

CABINET DISCUSSES CRIME SITUATION IN BELIZE
LoveFM - ‎5/12/10‎
The crime situation was discussed in Cabinet yesterday. Cabinet accepts that the crime situation has reached crisis proportions, both in terms of the ...

SAN IGNACIO MAYOR COMPLETES COURSE IN THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA
LoveFM - ‎5/12/10‎
Deputy Mayor of San Ignacio Santa Elena, Vanessa Neal returned to Belize last Friday after completing a three-week National Development Course in the ...

5/11/10

This Is Only A Test
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/11/10‎
"This year we've simulated several incidents where we check the response time and our capabilities to respond to all sort of incidents within Belize, ...

Charged With Remarkable Swiftness
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/11/10‎
Police Detainee Alex Goff was killed by Constable Alpheus Parham, at 6:15 on Sunday evening at the Caye Caulker Police station. Within 24 hours, Police had ...

A Toast To the Three Kings
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/11/10‎
The first was held at Ka'ana resort in western Belize and now they're coming to the City. The tribute event and documentary screening will be held at the ...

Bringing Equity To Education
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/11/10‎
It's education week and today the minister of education appointed a 16 member task force to look at the the Reform of Secondary School Financing and ...

APAMO: No! To Offshore Oil Exploration
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/11/10‎
If a country like Costa Rica can do it, I think Belize can also do it." "It might be argued that you all are standing in the way of progress and development ...

POLICE CONSTABLE ALPHEUS PARHAM CHARGED FOR MURDER OF ALEX GOFF
LoveFM - ‎5/11/10‎
34-year-old police constable Alpheus Parham who allegedly shot and killed 31-year-old Alex Goff in the detention cell at Caye Caulker Police station was ...

EDUCATION WEEK SEES IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEWS TASK FORCE
LoveFM - ‎5/11/10‎
This afternoon the Ministry of Education took another step in efforts of improving the education system in Belize. Minister of Education Patrick Faber ...

THIEVES TARGET BOWEN AND BOWEN DISTRIBUTION CENTER IN BELIZE CITY
LoveFM - ‎5/11/10‎
The Bowen and Bowen Limited Belize City Distribution Center on Slaughter House Road was robbed at gunpoint shortly after 8:30 this morning. ...

SEVENTH AMENDMENT ACT TO TAKE EFFECT ON JUNE FIRST
LoveFM - ‎9 hours ago‎
Effective June 1, the jurisdiction of the Privy Council to hear appeals from Belize will be abolished. This follows Orders issued by Prime Minister Dean ...

WIN BELIZE OFFERS TRAINING FOR HIV COUNSELLORS
LoveFM - ‎9 hours ago‎
The Women's Issues Network of Belize is offering a certificate course for HIV response workers. Day one will begin today with an opening ceremony at the ...

UDP takes Georgeville
Amandala - ‎5/11/10‎
Anthony “Boots” Martinez, Minister of Works; Phillip Willoughby, Deputy Mayor of Belize City; Cayo North area representative Hon. ...

11000 children not in primary school
Amandala - ‎5/11/10‎
Minister of Education Patrick Faber commented at the 75th anniversary celebrations of the Belize National Library Service and Information Systems (BNLSIS) ...

6 former champions in tentative starting list for SOL Female Cross Country Classic
Amandala - ‎5/11/10‎
So far, the “tentative starting list” released by the Belize Cycling Association (BCA) for this Sunday's 21st Annual SOL Female Cross Country Classic ...

Belize gold potential “intriguing,” says Geologist Cornec
Amandala - ‎5/11/10‎
Geologist Jean H. Cornec, a founding director of Belize Natural Energy, which struck commercial oil in Belize in 2005, and who has done extensive work in ...

2 Minors shoot restaurateur dead
Amandala - ‎5/11/10‎
Chen, who had recently migrated to Belize in November 2008, was shot in the right side of the chest; the bullet exited her body and hit the wall. ...

Cop shot handicapped prisoner in the forehead?
Amandala - ‎5/11/10‎
Alex Goff, 31, of Mopan St., Belize City, is dead, shot to death in the Caye Caulker Police Station detention cell, by a constable. ...

Minister of State's wife dies in Friday evening traffic accident
Amandala - ‎5/11/10‎
Coy had been driving the vehicle, a maroon 4-door Nissan Navarro with Government license plate BZ B-1708, from Belize City to Independence, Stann Creek, ...

5/10/10

Raffle Book Back And Forth
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/10/10‎
Things is hard here in Belize, if you go out to sell a raffle ticket nobody want to buy a raffle ticket because you don't eat a raffle ticket. ...

Coy Crashes; His Wife Dead
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/10/10‎
Reports that all three were returning from Belize City where they had gone to purchase gifts for mother's day. Reportedly, the Minister was going to ...

The Juarez Cartel and Belize
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/10/10‎
And while Arthur Young is being deported back to Belize, a Mexican fugitive who – reports say - once hid out in Belize is being extradited to the USA. ...

Mother Murdered While Infant Is On Her Back
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/10/10‎
One of them heading towards the direction of Belize City and the other two heading towards San Ignacio. But the one that was going towards Belize City turn ...

Arthur Young Intercepted in Mexico
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/10/10‎
According to the Mexican Newspaper Diario De Quintana Roo, Arthur Young was caught yesterday morning trying to get pass immigration authorities in that ...

Stolen Guatemalan Tow-Head Impounded
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/10/10‎
Benque police aren't quite sure what to make of a Guatemalan freightliner tow - head that was left at the Belize Guatemala border on Saturday morning. ...

Police Under Tactical Attack
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/10/10‎
Shortly after, a grey pickup truck coming from Belize City stopped directly in front of the police booth near the door and the driver demanded to see the ...

A Cop Kills on Caye Caulker
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/10/10‎
In June of 2003 Ruben “Pony” Alarcon was killed in the Caye Caulker Police station; shot in the head by a policeman who claimed that Alarcon – who was ...

POLICE DEPARTMENT LOOKS FOR ANSWERS FOLLOWING LATEST POLICE SHOOTING
LoveFM - ‎5/10/10‎
Thirty one year old Alex Goff originally from Belize City was at Caye Caulker spending time with his friends for the past few weeks. ...

ARTHUR YOUNG REPORTEDLY IN CUSTODY OF MEXICAN AUTHORITIES
LoveFM - ‎5/10/10‎
However this charge was withheld by Mexican authorities since upon notification to Belize Police they were informed that Young was a fugitive of the law as ...

ACTIVITIES IN CONNECTION WITH EDUCATION WEEK UNDERWAY
LoveFM - ‎5/10/10‎
A three-day literacy fair started today in Belize City. It is being staged at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall on North Front Street, and is being held as part ...

I'm staying in Belize
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/10/10‎
Reports of the stand-off between elements of the Belize Defence Force and a Police detachment of Benque Viejo are truly scary. ...

5/7/10

Customs Catch New Kind of Pseudoephedrine
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/7/10‎
Ok. So what does all that have to do with Belize, right? Well, plenty. It turns out that right now at the Port of Belize, this container, with 19 tonnes of ...

January Jones's Jaunt at Gladden
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/7/10‎
She was in Belize all of this week to see the annual passage of whale sharks through Belizean waters. It happens off Gladden Spit and Jones is a ...

Check Your Medicine Cabinet
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/7/10‎
We do have a few of those products here in Belize. Because when we did the re-call there were products and there are still maybe some. ...

More Fish In The Sea?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/7/10‎
Previously, they could not have done that without us because there was no form of facility in southern Belize that could assist in the processing of fishery ...

BELIZE NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE AND INFORMATION SYSTEM CELEBRATES 75TH ANNIVERSARY
LoveFM - ‎5/7/10‎
The Belize National Library Service and Information System was celebrating today. The library which was inaugurated on December 7th, 1935 in a building on ...

BELIZE RED CROSS PREPARES TO CELEBRATE WORLD RED CROSS DAY
LoveFM - ‎5/7/10‎
The Belize Red Cross will join the rest of the international community in celebrating World Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Day on Saturday. ...

POLICE OFFICER TRANSFERRED FOLLOWING CONFRONTATION WITH BELIZE DEFENCE FORCE ...
LoveFM - ‎5/7/10‎
An incident earlier this week resulted in tensions between members of the Belize Police Department and the Belize Defence Force and has resulted in a Police ...

Former patients owe KHMH $12.7 million but Commission finds "no corruption!"
The Reporter Belize - ‎15/7/10‎
The long-awaited report of the Commission looking into complaints of corruption in the management of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital confirms what the ...

Taiwan introduces Woodball to Belize
The Reporter Belize - ‎15/7/10‎
The International Woodball Federation's Executive Secretary Sean Chi-Hsiang Weng was in Belize over the weekend and conducted a one day seminar in Woodball ...

Catholics will pray for an end to abortions
The Reporter Belize - ‎15/7/10‎
They include prayer warriors from Australia, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Chile, Columbia, England, Germany, India, Israel, Ivory Coast, Italy, Ireland, Latvia, ...

Treaty Energy updates on Belize Oil and Gas Project
The Reporter Belize - ‎15/7/10‎
Treaty announced last week that it signed an oil and gas joint venture in Belize (Central America) with Princess Petroleum Limited, which owns concessions ...

INSIDE 2010 DIGICELL'S BALLIN-4-LIFE TOURNEY
Amandala - ‎15/7/10‎
The Belize Bank Junior Bulldogs, with their 83-68 trashing of Ghetto Ballers on Sunday last, have now won five games in as many outings in the 2010 ...

Two accused murderers surprised when jurors announced “not guilty” verdict
Amandala - ‎5/7/10‎
... of Buttonwood Bay, Belize City, and Lleweyln Williams, 23, also of Belize City. King and Williams, who allegedly gave a guilty statement back in 2006, ...

Kofi Geban, Acting Belize Chess Federation President, speaks out
Amandala - ‎5/7/10‎
At the request of Police Constable Wilfredo Petillo of the Orange Walk District Police detachment, the Belize Institute of Chess youth director Mr. Santos ...

Sandford Children Hospital breaks ground
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/7/10‎
Belize is to have one of the best children's hospitals in the region, to be built and operated by the world renowned ...

Princess and Treaty Energy oil and gas exploration area covers 2 million acres
Amandala - ‎5/7/10‎
Two major international companies, Princess Group International (through Princess Petroleum Limited in Belize) and Treaty Energy Corporation, ...

Taiwan to revive rice farming in Toledo
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/7/10‎
The Government of Belize has focused its attention on addressing this issue and has requested assistance from the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan). ...

False alarm!
Amandala - ‎5/7/10‎
They are all back in Belize today, safe and sound, but very upset considering the false report of their murder. We spoke to the Mexican Ambassador to Belize ...

“No evidence of actual corruption” at KHMH!
Amandala - ‎5/7/10‎
The Commission was appointed in July of 2009 following a massive public display of unrest at the KHMH by doctors affiliated with the Belize Medical and ...

National law should take precedence over international law
Amandala - ‎5/7/10‎
Initiatives, deceptively called “rights,” which are developing a culture diametrically contrary to the letters and spirit of our own Belize Constitution, ...

Amid concerns over expert witness, BTL-Smart litigation postponed until June
Amandala - ‎5/7/10‎
Attorneys for Smart and Belize Telemedia Limited (BTL) appeared before Chief Justice Dr. Abdulai Conteh on Tuesday morning; however, the case, ...

Ashcroft's party led in exit polls for UK elections
Amandala - ‎5/7/10‎
“This is the most exciting election I can ever remember,” the British High Commission resident in Belize, Patrick Ashworth, told Amandala Thursday. ...

Judicial review for environmentalist group and Chief Forest Officer on June 17
Amandala - ‎5/7/10‎
On February 17, the CJ granted judicial review in the matter of the Forest Department's decision to issue a research permit to Belize Hydroelectric ...

$14.5 million Land Fill replaces Mile 3 Garbage Dump
The Reporter Belize - ‎5/7/10‎
Belize has a new Solid Waste Management plan to be implemented over a four year period, the first phase of which came ...

5/6/10

Dangriga, the Destination
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/6/10‎
When we in Belize want a trip advisor, we ask one of those people who've been all over the country. But when American tourists want the inside story on a ...

Elrington & Israel
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/6/10‎
But Elrington maintained throughout that the agreement allowing a visa waiver and a technical assistance programme can only help Belize. ...

The Menace of Belize Rural North
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/6/10‎
Sure, he did well in the Village Council Elections in the Belize River Valley, but the Minister has been under sustained pressure by a kind of menacing ...

All Safe and Accounted For
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/6/10‎
They returned to Belize today, on schedule, after bringing a pair of vehicles through Mexico. As was reported on 7news and every other major media house ...

Jamaican Fishermen Re-loaded
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/6/10‎
In December, there was a national uproar when Jamaican Fishermen came to Belize in fishing boats. It was a partnership with the Rio Grande Fishing Co-Op in ...

BELIZEANS FEARED DEAD RETURN HOME UNHARMED
LoveFM - ‎5/6/10‎
But it was all just a rumour since today the three alleged murder victims showed up at the Belize Chetumal Border unhurt and unaware of what was going on. ...

REGIONAL CLIMATE EXPERTS MEET IN BELIZE
LoveFM - ‎5/6/10‎
The workshop began yesterday and is being hosted for the first time in Belize. Deputy Chief Meteorologist at the National Meteorological Service, ...

BELIZEANS FEARED DEAD RETURN HOME UNHARMED
LoveFM - ‎5/6/10‎
But it was all just a rumour since today the three alleged murder victims showed up at the Belize Chetumal Border unhurt and unaware of what was going on. ...

REGIONAL CLIMATE EXPERTS MEET IN BELIZE
LoveFM - ‎5/6/10‎
The workshop began yesterday and is being hosted for the first time in Belize. Deputy Chief Meteorologist at the National Meteorological Service, ...

COURTS BELIZE LIMITED MAKES DONATION TO YMCA
LoveFM - ‎5/6/10‎
Courts Belize Limited has made a donation to the Young Men's Christian Association. YMCA Executive Director Clara Cuellar says the organization would like ...

CATHOLIC SCHOOL PRINCIPALS MEET IN COROZAL TOWN
LoveFM - ‎5/6/10‎
We will have work to see that the catholic education boosts up our children in Belize so that they are more productive. This helps our principals to be more ...

Residents defend rights to SP land
San Pedro Sun - ‎5/6/10‎
On February 15th, 2008, the Government of Belize, under the Ministry of Natural Resources issued a press release advising the general public of the ...

New Underwater Sea Trek Project raises concerns
San Pedro Sun - ‎5/6/10‎
Located in the Mexico Rocks Area of Ambergris Caye, near the Belize Barrier Reef, this Sea Trek location has brought up many questions, which The San Pedro ...

Hollywood starlet January Jones visits Belize to film Swim with the Whale Shark
San Pedro Sun - ‎5/6/10‎
Press Release – Oceana – May 4th, 2010 – American super starlet January Jones arrives in Belize Monday to film her swim with Belize's world famous whale ...

Residents march against crime
San Pedro Sun - ‎5/6/10‎
He reminds the business sector of the ongoing efforts of the San Pedro Business Association to keep the Anti-drug and Belize Defense Force personnel on the ...

This Week In Belmopan
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
The Belize Medium Term Development Strategy 2010-2013, “Building Resilience against Social, Economic and Physical Vulnerabilities,” was presented for ...

Marlon Castillo and Shalini Zabaneh capt...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
The Belize Cycling Association in collaboration with the Corozal Sporting Committee sponsored the 5th Annual Pablo Marin Cycling Classic on Saturday May 1, ...

Waitress escapes jail time
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
... at about 10:00 pm, Castillo claimed that she had just left work and was heading home to her Jaguar Avenue home in the Faber's Road area of Belize City, ...

Dalesmon Lewis Charged for Fondling a 7-Year-Old Girl
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
On Monday, May 3, Construction Worker, Dalesmon Lewis, appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer in the Belize City Magistrates Court where he was ...

Confessed killers walk
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
... after a jury of 9 women and 3 men who had deliberated for over 4 hours emerged and found the two Belize city men not guilty of the crime of murder. ...

Improved Security in Ladyville Village
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
A motor bike was also donated by Dr. Veni and the Belize Medical College. Inspector Flowers said that the motor bike will be used in Lord's Bank. ...

Solid Waste Management program begins
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
Lewis told the Guardian that as of Wednesday 28 April 28th, preliminary work began in Belize City for the closing down of the existing garbage dump at mile ...

This Weel In Belmopan
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
The Belize Medium Term Development Strategy 2010-2013, “Building Resilience against Social, Economic and Physical Vulnerabilities,” was presented for ...

Thousands Sit PSE Part 2
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
On Monday, May 3, students from all across the country of Belize sat the second half of the Primary School Examinations. The PSE is the test that teachers ...

Mexico Implements New Immigration Rules
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
For further information in Belize, please contact the Embassy of Mexico, at 223-0193 or 223-0194, write to This e-mail address is being protected from ...

BTB recognizes Tourism stars
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
On Wednesday May 5th, the Belize Tourism Board formally announced the nominees for the 10th annual National Tourism Awards. A total of 45 nominations were ...

Stann Creek Ecumenical High School gets new computer lab
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
It was financed by the Government of Belize through a loan from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) at a total cost of $243000. The Ecumenical High School ...

Belizean Businesses Going Green
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
On Wednesday, May 05, representatives from the Department of the Environment, Belize Enterprise for Sustainable Technology, Belize Chamber of Commerce and ...

THEN & NOW
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
That was the era when the Emeritus Skettel walked the streets of Belize City and traveled the countryside distributing unsold Belize Slimes newspaperswhich ...

Violence Prevention Summit
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
Belize City Emergency Management Organization (CEMO) held a summit to develop strategies to combat Belize's greatest concern, violent crimes. ...

BDF and Police Face off in Benque
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/6/10‎
... goods illegally making their way into the country at the Western border has created a rift between the police department and the Belize Defense Force. ...

5/5/10

Tourism's Thirty Mil
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/5/10‎
Executives of the Belize Tourism Board held a press conference this morning at the Radisson Fort George Hotel to announce the list of ...

Imagine the Im-possibilities
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/5/10‎
“This is the start of something great and wonderful for Belize City and I know that the individuals here, a number of them, they do have the commitment to ...

Belizeans Feared Dead in Mexico
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/5/10‎
The names are Aricia and Kirk Mariano, a husband and wife Belize City residents both in their early thirties who were reportedly killed in southeastern ...

Hon. Finnegan's Battle with Prostate Cancer
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/5/10‎
“How soon will you be back home in Belize and also back in your office at Amara Avenue?” "I want to be back tomorrow if humanly possible. ...

Another Pellet Gun Accident
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/5/10‎
They may be seen as recreation toys but pellet guns can cause serious injury. In March we told you about Ahmad Nah who was almost killed when he was shot in ...

Construction for Belize Children's Clinic Underway
DOTmed.com (press release) - ‎5/5/10‎
Ground broke Tuesday for the first Sanford Children's international clinic in Belize City, Belize. ...

SHOOTING INCIDENT LEAVES ONE WOMAN INJURED
LoveFM - ‎5/5/10‎
Belize City Police are investigating a shooting incident that left a woman hospitalised. Police say they visited the Belize Health Care Partners where they ...

ANOTHER MIDMORNING SHOOTING INCIDENT REPORTED IN BELIZE CITY
LoveFM - ‎5/5/10‎
A brazen early morning shooting at the corner of Caesar Ridge and Kraal Road has left many residence fed up. For many of them, the scene this morning was ...

CANADIAN CONSULTANTS ON WORKING VISIT TO BELIZE
LoveFM - ‎5/5/10‎
Two consultants from Canada are in the country to assess the export potential of the service sector in Belize. With assistance from the Commonwealth ...

MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON OFFICIAL VISIT TO ISRAEL
LoveFM - ‎5/5/10‎
He also met with the heads of the Israel-Latin America Chamber of Commerce, with whom he discussed ways to increase mutual trade between Israel and Belize. ...

BTB PREPARES FOR NATIONAL TOURISM AWARDS 2010
LoveFM - ‎5/5/10‎
The Belize Tourism Board is holding its tenth annual National Tourism Awards. The semi-finalists were presented today in a press conference at the Radisson ...

DEMO AND CITCO HOST VIOLENCE AWARENESS SUMMIT
LoveFM - ‎5/5/10‎
A crime prevention summit was held today in Belize City. It is an initiative of the Belize City Council and includes discussion of a proposed plan which is ...

5/4/10

Belize foreign minister makes official visit to Israel 5-May-2010
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (press release) - ‎5/4/10‎
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belize, Mr. Wilfred Elrington, is in Israel on an official visit (3-6 May 2010). He has met with President Shimon Peres, ...

Can A Single Summit End Violence?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/4/10‎
And that's what Mayor Moya wants to start in Belize City with the violence prevention summit. The mayor will present a comprehensive multi sectoral package ...

Rappers Representing for Tourism
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/4/10‎
Destination Belize is the name of a well known tourist magazine published annually by the Belize Tourism Industry Association but now an all star trio of ...

Sanford Takes The Foreground, The Trust Shadows the Back
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/4/10‎
And just so today when the Belize Healthcare charitable trust broke ground for the Sanford Children;s Clinic - the only politicians in sight were PUP's ...

Traffic Warden Fired for Eighth Time in 7 Years
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/4/10‎
If you've driven a car on the streets of Belize city - you'll know Mark Banner - he's the traffic warden who always has a happy go lucky style, ...

The Import of Ports
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/4/10‎
Dozens of delegates representing Port Authorities from countries around the World are meeting at the Belize Biltmore Hotel for three days this week to ...

MAYOR ACTIVATES CITY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION TO DISCUSS VIOLENCE ...
LoveFM - ‎5/4/10‎
Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya-Flowers today announced that the City's Emergency Management Organization is being activated. CEMO as it is known is usually ...

JANUARY JONES SWIMS WITH THE WHALE SHARKS OF BELIZE
LoveFM - ‎5/4/10‎
American actress, January Jones, best know for her performance in “American Wedding” and “Anger Management” is in Belize for a couple of days to swim with ...

MAN INJURED IN SHOOTING INCIDENT
LoveFM - ‎5/4/10‎
A shooting incident yesterday in Belize City has left a would be robber suffering from a gunshot wound. Police reports are that just before three o'clock ...

GROUND BROKEN FOR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN BELIZE
LoveFM - ‎5/4/10‎
Ground was broken today for a new paediatric health care clinic in Belize City. The project is for a Sanford Children's Clinic located at the corner of ...

5/3/10

Buckley is Breathing on His Own
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/3/10‎
And while it was fortunate that both armed forces held their fire this morning, the Police weren't so restrained last week Wednesday night in Belize City ...

Belizeans Delayed for Hours at Border
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/3/10‎
Media houses throughout Belize get releases very regularly form the Mexican Embassy in Belize, issuing polite advisories on new border regulations, ...

Police Knocked Down My Son!
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/3/10‎
And in Belize City, the news is bad but not as dire for a 9-year-old who was knocked down by police. The mother of 9-year-old Jamel Wade came to our studios ...

PSE Day Two
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/3/10‎
And so these sampled reactions given by students who took part 2 of the 2010 Belize Primary School Examinations, which included Social Studies and Math ...

McAfee Counters Viral Article
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/3/10‎
That company still holds a fair chunk of the anti-virus market but its owner John McAfee is living in Belize. And he's angry about a feature which was ...

ORANGE WALK BRANCH OF BTIA ELECTS NEW EXECUTIVES
LoveFM - ‎5/3/10‎
Osmany Salas is the new Chairman of the Orange Walk Chapter of the Belize Tourism Industry Association. The group held its annual general meeting last ...

NEW CLERK OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPOINTED
LoveFM - ‎5/3/10‎
He holds an Associate's Degree in Applied Science from Belize Technical College and is pursuing an online Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering at ...

TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT BOSS BLOWS THE WHISTLE ON ALLEGED CORRUPTION
LoveFM - ‎5/3/10‎
The Belize City Traffic Manager Kevan Jenkins has made allegations of ongoing corruption within the Traffic Department. Jenkins has provided several ...

4/30/10

Deliverance from the Dump
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/30/10‎
The plan is to construct a state-of-the-art transfer site at the existing location which will accept garbage from the City of Belize, San Pedro, ...

More Police Shootings
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/30/10‎
The police shooting of Steven Buckley has been making all the headlines, but there are two others to report. First, Michael “Crazy” Arnold was shot by ...

Police Try to Dodge the Bullet
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/30/10‎
And while San Pedro residents rally against crime, city residents are railing against the police's abuse of lethal force. That's after police shot ...

La Isla Bonita Marches Against Crime
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/30/10‎
As you know, all over the country of Belize most of the criminal elements are repeated criminals.” While the police agree that some visitors come with bad ...

How to Clone a Vehicle 101
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/30/10‎
The vehicles are mostly stolen from Guatemala and then smuggled into Belize. The dealers then have to license these vehicles that did not enter the country ...

BUTANE GAS NOW FOUR DOLLARS CHEAPER
LoveFM - ‎4/30/10‎
The new controlled price for butane in Belize City and Corozal is 113 dollars, 114 dollars in Orange Walk, 115 dollars in Belmopan and San Ignacio, ...

ROBBERS TARGET TEXACO GAS ON YOUTH FOR THE FUTURE DRIVE
LoveFM - ‎4/30/10‎
There was an early morning armed hold up in Belize City. The incident happened around 6:25 at the Texaco gas station on Youth for the Future Drive. ...

BELIZE CITY POLICE IN SEARCH OF MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR MORNING MURDER
LoveFM - ‎4/30/10‎
A shooting incident was reported sometime around 10:30 this morning on Booths Crescent Street behind St John's Vinanny. Reports are that Michael Young was ...

NEW EXHIBIT OPENS AT IMAGE FACTORY
LoveFM - ‎4/30/10‎
So, the children are flying to Africa with the bird and from Africa to the Caribbean, to St. Vincent, to Honduras and then to Belize.”

WOMEN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS CELEBRATED NINTH ANNIVERSARY
LoveFM - ‎4/30/10‎
The Belize Women's Political Caucus was established in 1991 when a group of women came together because they felt that women were not fully participating in ...

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT BEGINS THEIR WORK AT CITY DUMP
LoveFM - ‎4/30/10‎
The Solid Waste Management Authority has started work at the Mile Three Belize City Dump Site on the Western Highway. CEO in the Ministry of Natural ...

SHAREHOLDERS DISCUSS FUTURE OF THE CITRUS INDUSTRY
LoveFM - ‎4/30/10‎
Citrus Products of Belize Limited held its Annual General Meeting yesterday on the CPBL compound on the Stann Creek Valley Road. ...

“Dollar taxi” operators are at war with “Z”
Amandala - ‎4/30/10‎
The Belize City Council's attempt to alter the existing Belize City bus schedule, and obstruct the Lake Independence Cooperative's legally operating their ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - ‎4/30/10‎
The power structure in Belize is always getting away with this, erasing whatever history involved resistance and rebellion among our people. ...

Saving the Field of Dreams
Amandala - ‎4/30/10‎
The body that is charged with the responsibility of promoting and developing the sport in Belize has failed miserably in its ability to inspire the athletes ...

Police fire at suspect in residential area; woman, in house, gets shot in leg
Amandala - ‎4/30/10‎
... enter a yard belonging to Minister Michael Hutchinson, the current Belize Rural Central area representative, at #217 Partridge Street, Mitchell Estate. ...

CGA unseats Canton, Redmond and Duncker
Amandala - ‎4/30/10‎
There is an extraordinary quiet in the Citrus Valley tonight, after the 2010 Annual General Meeting of the Citrus Products of Belize Limited (CPBL) was ...

Three drunken cops beat me up – Alain Garcia, taximan
Amandala - ‎4/30/10‎
... and/or the accuser in the case, and the charges are made according to the laws of Belize; or, the defendant can be put on trial in a court of law. ...

KREM's Tony Wright gets Lifetime Achievement Award
Amandala - ‎4/30/10‎
The leading and most long-standing promoter of Belizean music on Belize's airwaves, Tony Wright, has been recognized by the Belizean community in the United ...

Trigger happy cops!
Amandala - ‎4/30/10‎
Information reaching Amandala suggests that police may have mistaken the vehicle for a similar one involved in a shooting elsewhere in Belize City on ...

Billionaire Ashcroft pays no personal taxes in Belize, PM confirms
Amandala - ‎4/30/10‎
For some working class Belizeans, the claim by foreign business interests that Belize is a “tax haven” sounds like a dry joke, to others an insult to their ...

Vendors cry foul!
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
Due to a delay in construction plans experienced by the Belize City Council, - the extension contract date of April 7 of this year, was surpassed - leaving ...

Trigger-happy cop blasts innocent man
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
Stephen “Cripple” Buckley, 38, is on life support at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital's Intensive Care Unit, ...

Citrus Growers get 5 Directors on CPBL Board
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
... for since last July, five directors and majority control of the Board of Directors of Citrus Products of Belize Ltd, in which ICL owns a 51% share. ...

FCIB seeks Unsung Heroes
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
Belize has its fair share of Unsung Heroes; four have been recognized throughout the region since First Caribbean ...

Galen University gives Edward Reyes free College course
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
Reyes was accompanied by the president of the Belize Cycling Association, Emil Moreno. He spoke of his vision of a Cycling Association that operates on ...

World Bank funds Belize's fight vs Avian flu
The Reporter Belize - < ‎4/30/10‎
Belize's detection and response to Avian and Human Influenza has received help from the World Bank, in the form of a grant ...

Former Canadian Minister feels heat over unofficial side-trip in Belize
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
Sources say that some of the allegations are related to her trip to Belize. Other sources say she “went AWOL,” flying to Ambergris Caye against the advice ...

Belize and Brazil signs agreements
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
Belize and Brazil are to cooperate in child and maternal health, tertiary level education and cultural develpment, through three agreements signed by ...

Miraculous rescue to two of 5 fisherman lost at sea
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
Two fishermen from Jamaica, lost at sea for more than four weeks, were rescued some 50 miles northeast of Belize by the ...

Queen of the Bay honoured
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
The 2010 pageant is to be held on Saturday, September 4 at the Belize City Center, and the new queen will be crowned on Friday September 10 during the ...

Jamaican castaways survive 36 days at sea
The Reporter Belize  - ‎4/30/10‎
Two Jamaica fishermen, Anthony Hibbert, 35 and Jason Noble, 25, are happy to be alive and in Belize having survived for ...

Five fishermen caught fishing in a protective area.
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
Fishing in a reserve or natural monument is illegal in Belize. In an attempt to avoid prosecution, five fishermen from ...

Miami cop from Belize critical after being mauled by suspect
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
Detective Carlos Castillo, a Belizean serving with the Miami Dade Police, was badly hurt when a man he tried to arrest bashed him on the head with a cinder ...

O. Walk cops hold 3 for 20 lbs. of cocaine
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
She was actually at her home in Belize City, Attorney Anthony Sylvester told the Reporter. She was later arrested and charged. She had her infant baby with ...

Missing container gives Belize Customs a black eye
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
A mysterious act happened at Belize Customs house this week involving a container that was imported from India for a ...

Belize High School - newest school in town
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
The Belize Elementary School this week announced the opening of a new high school to be called the Belize High School. ...

Cheese import hurting Western Dairies sales
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/30/10‎
... States which get a 40% farm subsidy, the Government of Belize had placed a temporary ban on the importation of mozzarella and cheddar cheese last July. ...

4/29/10

Cops Open Fire on Several Construction Workers
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/29/10‎
Tonight 37 year old Belize City resident Steven Emmanuel Buckley is in critical condition at the KHMH after he was shot in the head by police last night. ...

Credit Union Founder Passes
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/29/10‎
... came to know him as their General Manager, Vicente Canul was their Giant, the main pillar that kept the second largest credit union in Belize afloat. ...

Roberts Recaptured
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/29/10‎
... and 22 year old Jose Melgar, who may be in the Cayo District. Anyone seeing these men can call the Belize Central Prison at 2256229 or 2256191.

Traffic Manager Blows the Whistle
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/29/10‎
That luxury SUV had a Belize City license plate and registration – both fraudulently obtained. Now, as long as there are stolen vehicles that need licenses ...

Empty Container Still a Mystery
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/29/10‎
There's not much new to report tonight about the container that left the customs department and never turned up at its intended destination in the Corozal ...

CPBL Opens Up to CGA; Close Doors on Press
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/29/10‎
It's a management call for Citrus Products of Belize Limited.” CEO Dr. Canton's call to exclude the press, might be a sign that the once affable and press ...

ESCAPED PRISONER RECAPTURED
LoveFM - ‎4/29/10‎
Roberts escaped from the Belize Central Prison shortly after seven o fclock on Monday night after he broke the lock of his cell during a thunderstorm. ...

CANCER SOCIETY TO HOST LECTURE ON CERVICAL CANCER
LoveFM - ‎4/29/10‎
This evening the Belize Cancer Society is hosting a lecture on cancer of the cervix. The lecture will be at the Radisson Fort George Hotel and will be ...

WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT PREPARES FOR SKILLS TRAINING PROGRAM
LoveFM - ‎4/29/10‎
Specifically for the Belize District there will be five programs inclusive of cake decorating, the intro and advance level computer, we have a cooking ...

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HOSTS 50TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
LoveFM - ‎4/29/10‎
The Belize Chamber of Commerce is today holding its fiftieth Annual General Meeting. This year's AGM will be held at the Chambers' new location on Coney ...

Delays in Money Laundering Case against Dean Fuller
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
... charge with money laundering of over 6 million dollars when he appeared before the Belize City Magistrate's Court. should go before the Supreme Court. ...

Crooked Tree Government School girls to defend National Softball Title
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
... the Cayo district, Louisiana Government School representing the Orange Walk district, and Burrell Boom Methodist representing the Belize district. ...

Big Scores for Customs - Container of Contraband Hauled in and stolen and an ...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
On Monday, April 26, the Customs Department in Belize City flagged the container to be inspected at the Customs' examination shed. ...

THEN & NOW
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
Well guess what Mr. Fat Man from Montevideo, the people of Belize have not forgotten you. In fact, it's going to be a very, very long time, if ever, ...

Minister Elrington Signs Three Cooperati...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
Wilfred P. Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade and Attorney General, represented Belize at the First CARICOM-Brazil Summit on 26 April ...

Importers pass on savings from GST but d...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
Alberto Young, Manager of Grace Kennedy Belize Limited, explained that while the price on their products which had the ten percent GST removed as of April 1 ...

Decrease in controlled price of Rice
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
But when it ... of Belize has approved a decrease in the controlled price of rice. The control prices already include the cost of labor, transportation, ...

BTIA Celebrates 25th Anniversary
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
On Monday, April 26, the Belize Tourism Industry Association celebrated its 25th anniversary. BTIA is made up of stakeholders from across the tourism sector ...

Belize and Venezuela celebrate 21st anniversary of diplomatic relations
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
The Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Belize, presents its compliments to the Belizean people and avails this opportunity to inform that on ...

2013 Looking Bleak
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
Often there are so many different topics to hold discourse about, all of them full of tantalizing material, all of them enticing like a cold glass of water ...

UDP 53- PUP 19- Independent 15 - After 3 Rounds of Village Council Elections
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
Elections were held in every district of Belize and there were similar results from North to South. and Carolina. Of the four villages that held elections ...

Who is Your Community Hero?
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
She has been a member of the Belize Red Cross for many years and the present Director General. Members of the committee from First Caribbean Bank are Irene ...

Car Wash Chicken
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
This is, Belize City = late + hungry means one thing --> FRY CHICKEN (and try not to get shot getting it)! It's no secret that I am a diehard Li Chee fan, ...

GST clamps down on collections
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
Over the past couple of weeks both departments have visited businesses in the Corozal and Orange Walk districts and this week they made it to Belize City. ...

Global Fund Approves US$2.18 Million to fight HIV & AIDS
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
A press release from the National AIDS Commission of Belize revealed that the Commission has received confirmation that the Global Fund has approved its ...

Violence and the Health of a Nation
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
Last week, a twenty-eight year old Cuban volunteer doctor, came all the way up from Big Creek to Belize City to attend the Annual Scientific Congress of the ...

Prime Minister's Council of Science Advisers Commissioned
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
... to lead the way in formulating and implementing an effective strategy for Belize's economic advancement through science, technology and innovation. ...

New Chicken Slaughtering Facility for San Antonio Women's Group
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
In the news business it is simple and easy to write articles of the deaths of young black Belizean men, after all we've become immune and desensitized as a ...

KHMH Commission of Inquiry Released
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
Nicholas representing the Trade Union Congress of Belize, began shortly after the swearing in on July 30, 2009. Public hearings were conducted from November ...

Eulogy for Keith Kevin Swift
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
After he received a degree in General Studies, he made Belize City his home and ventured into the field of Journalism. As an intern with the Broadcasting ...

Historic Judgment! Westerhaven to pay $11.5 million for Damage to Reef
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/29/10‎
On Monday, April 26, the Chief Justice of Belize delivered his judgment on a case which he dubbed to be one of “the most technical cases to ever come before ...

Xanadu Resort is Green Globe Certified
San Pedro Sun - ‎4/29/10‎
Other resorts that have been Green Globe Certified in Belize include Hamanasi and Chaa Creek. Since its inception, the Green Globe brand has represented the ...

Kainie Manuel Faces Criminal Charges
San Pedro Sun - ‎4/29/10‎
In addition, the Cabinet members were also informed that a check from the Belize Lions Zone 59, written to the Belize City Lions Club, was returned because ...

The San Pedro Sun presents a Mother's Day Treat
San Pedro Sun - ‎4/29/10‎
Send in your essays and tell us why your mother is most deserving of the treats that The San Pedro Sun has lined up for her. All mothers are special, ...

Reef Radio's “Ranza Boys” paddle to victory!
San Pedro Sun - ‎4/29/10‎
The sixth Ambergris Caye Lagoon-Reef Eco Challenge took place over the weekend of the 24th and 25th, and this year 35 teams of paddlers aimed to make it to ...

4/28/10

Local Marine Pilots - They Rule the Night
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/28/10‎
Well, you're right, except that marine pilotage as it is called is a highly specialized field in Belize practiced by the members of a small fraternity. ...

Help with H1N1
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/28/10‎
It is expected that Belize will complete the execution of the Avian and Human Influenza Detection and Response Project by June 2011. ...

Police Open Day
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/28/10‎
... schools having open days – but today the Police Department's Community Policing Unit had one for schools at the Wilt Cummerbatch Field in Belize City. ...

Minor Takes the Rap for Unlicensed Weapon
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/28/10‎
A 15-year-old boy, one of five persons charged with having a home-made shotgun without a gun license, pleaded guilty to the charge when he appeared today in ...

April is 27!
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/28/10‎
And right that she should, this national animal has become the flagship attraction at the Belize Zoo –and it seems that we've covered every one of her ...

Pilfering at the Port
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/28/10‎
The Port of Belize continues to be the target of thieves – a few weeks ago – a guard was robbed of his weapon, and very early this morning the Port's pilot ...

Citrus Squeeze
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/28/10‎
Tomorrow afternoon at 1:30, the Citrus Products of Belize Limited – known as CPBL will have its Annual General Meeting at its headquarters on the Stann ...

This Toyota Ain't No Toy
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/28/10‎
It looks unremarkable – a 2003 Land Cruiser VX – undamaged if somewhat dirty exterior, tan leather interior, overall good condition with Belize City license ...

PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND TRADE SHOW
LoveFM - ‎4/28/10‎
The woman farmer of the year is Isabel Gonzalez from Rockstone Pond village in the Belize District. The Junior farmer of the year is Lourdes Lazo from Bomba ...

BELIZE TOURISM BOARD HOSTS INTERNATIONAL WRITER AND PHOTOGRAPHER
LoveFM - ‎4/28/10‎
Freelance writer Karen Catchpole and photographer Eric Mohl are in Belize for a month to take a closer look what Belize has to offer. ...

MORNING MISHAP LEAVES ONE MAN HOSPITALIZED
LoveFM - ‎4/28/10‎
A traffic mishap this morning has left 30-year-old David Martinez Junior in a critical condition at Belize Health Care Partners. ...

COMMUNITY POLICING UNIT HOLDS FIRST OPEN DAY
LoveFM - ‎4/28/10‎
An open day put together by the Community Policing Unit is underway at the Cumberbatch Field in Belize City. Love News spoke with Douglas Hyde of the Unit ...

THREE MINORS AND TWO OTHERS FOUND IN POSSESSION OF UNLICENSED FIREARM
LoveFM - ‎4/28/10‎
Belize City Police have arrested and charged five persons including three minors with keeping firearm and ammunition without a gun licence. ...

BELIZE SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH BRAZIL
LoveFM - ‎4/28/10‎
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Wilfred Elrington returned home on Tuesday after representing Belize at the first CARICOM-Brazil Summit in ...

Owners of ship Westerhaven must pay $11.5 million for damage to Barrier Reef ...
Amandala - ‎4/28/10‎
In what Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh called one of the most “technical” cases he has ever decided in his time in the Belize Supreme Court, the Government of ...

2 Jamaican seamen rescued from 34-day ordeal
Amandala - ‎4/28/10‎
After being aided by a merchant vessel, two Jamaican men who were lost at sea for some 34 days are in Belize tonight. A ranking official from the Belize ...

CGA flexes to boot Dr. Canton, Redmond and Duncker
Amandala - ‎4/28/10‎
... Frank Redmond and Mike Duncker – three directors of the Citrus Products of Belize Limited (CPBL) – not to attend the upcoming AGM, slated for Thursday, ...

KHMH Commission of Inquiry report handed in after four months
Amandala - ‎4/28/10‎
Some four months after the last day of testimony at the Belize Institute of Management in Belize City in December of 2009, the 106-page report of the ...

Something fishy in Seine Bight?
Amandala - ‎4/28/10‎
A 20' x 18' wooden Mennonite house, reportedly built through a Belize Telemedia Limited/Government of Belize project, was the residence of Palacio's mother, ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - ‎4/28/10‎
The logistics of such an undertaking are forbidding, but there is a need in Belize for those Belizeans on opposite sides of the “Baymen's clan” fence to ...

Stalwart Corozal cañero, Vicente Canul, passes at 59
Amandala - ‎4/28/10‎
Corozal's St. Francis Xavier had grown under Canul's management to the kind of prominence enjoyed by Holy Redeemer Credit Union in Belize City.

The challenge to Belize
Amandala - ‎4/28/10‎
141, The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed The Bishop, by Francisco Goldman, Grove Press, New York, 2007 Belize is a nation state which has half of its ...

4/27/10

Park for Parking Proposal Examined
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/27/10‎
It says, “Cabinet, especially members from Belize City constituencies, is completely against any contemplated sale or swap of any part of the ...

The GST Police
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/27/10‎
And some say that's how it's been happening with the increase in General Sales Tax – which has forced the Dept. of GST and the Belize Bureau of Standards to ...

Teens Take on Victoria
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/27/10‎
Located off the Southern Highway, approximately 20 miles south of Dangriga, the mountain range remain one of Belize's most spectacular natural attractions. ...

A Tale of Survival
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/27/10‎
“We drift from Peter Bank to near to Mexico when the boat find we and carry come to Belize. It's five ah we and three died. ...

Common Maya Rituals Revealed
Softpedia  ‎4/27/10‎
The expert was the leader of a new investigation tracing such artifacts, which was conducted at a location in central Belize. The area was populated with ...

4/26/10

BTIA at 25
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/26/10‎
The Belize Tourism Industry Association celebrated its 25th anniversary today. It is an important benchmark for this organization that started out humble ...

City Residents Caught Heading North With Kilos of Coke
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/26/10‎
Franz W. Hamilton, Steven Burgess, and Leticia Requena, all from Belize City, were in a SUV heading north when they were stopped at a police checkpoint at ...

Grant's Guilty Gunman
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/26/10‎
On the night of September 17, 2008, 35 year old Freddy Grant was shot up in the Conch Shell bay area of Belize city which is near the fish market on Vernon ...

Talking Tradewinds
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/26/10‎
For the past two weeks, the Tradewinds military training event has been staged in Belize. It is an initiative of the US army with support from the BDF and ...

Guns Recovered from Minors
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/26/10‎
Police also recovered three other illegal weapons this weekend. On Saturday a group of men were in a fight at the corner of Douglas Jones Street and ...

City Shooting At Hotspot
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/26/10‎
There weren't any murders reported over the weekend but there was a shooting in the city. On Saturday morning at 6:00 Cecil Parks was walking on Berkley ...

Two Jamaican Fishermen Rescued At Sea After 31 Days
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/26/10‎
This morning when the Hyde Shipping vessel NV Caribe pulled into the Port of Belize it carried a most unexpected cargo: two Jamaican Fishermen who had been ...

Westerhaven Will Pay
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/26/10‎
“It's no reason to scare off the shipping industry and yet it is a confirmation of the fact that Belize holds the Belize Barrier Reef in high regard. ...

LEON BLEASE PLEADS GUILTY TO ATTEMPTED MURDER
LoveFM - ‎4/26/10‎
25-year-old Leon Blease pleaded guilty to use of deadly means of harm today in the court of Justice Herbert Lord. Blease was charged with the attempted ...

MINOR FOUND IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM
LoveFM - ‎4/26/10‎
As a result Police have arrested and charged the 16-year-old minor of a Belize City address for the offence of keeping firearm and ammunition without a gun ...

POLICE INVESTIGATE WEEKEND SHOOTING
LoveFM - ‎4/26/10‎
Police visited Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital trauma room where they saw Cecil Parks of a Belize City address suffering from a gunshot wound to the left arm ...

TEENAGER FACES GUN CHARGES
LoveFM - ‎4/26/10‎
As a result Police have arrested and charged the minor of a Belize City address for the offence of keeping firearm and ammunition without a gun licence.

BELIZE RECEIVES FURTHER FUNDING TO CONTINUE ITS FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS
LoveFM - ‎4/26/10‎
”The good news that we received from the global fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria means that Belize now has a strengthened partner to continue ...

Protected Reef Offers Model for Conservation
New York Times - ‎4/26/10‎
GLOVER'S REEF, Belize — As Alex Tilley powers his 15-foot skiff over the turquoise surface, a dark form slips across the white sand floor ...

4/23/10

2nd Annual Book Week
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/23/10‎
It is probably the least familiar and recognized association in the country of Belize, and that's partly because The Belize Book Industry Association was ...

Keith Swift – Farewell to an Icon
Channel 7 Daily News  ‎4/23/10‎
Our colleague Keith Swift who died unexpectedly of a brain hemorrhage at his home on Monday morning was buried today at St. Ann's Anglican Church in his ...

The Belize City Dump – Keith Swift's Award Winning Story
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/23/10‎
But his most highly honored story was the one he did on the Belize City dump. That combined his skill for succinct and compelling story-telling, ...

Murder Was the Case
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/23/10‎
A man was killed around 11:00 this morning in his yard at 8731 Curl Thompson Street – and this was no accident, it has all appearances of an execution. ...

Lucas Commission Presents KHMH Report to PM
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/23/10‎
... two members were Ms. Julia Castillo nominated by the Ministry of Health and Mr. Orvin Nicholas nominated by the National Trade Union Congress of Belize. ...

ATHLETES WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE CENTRAL AMERICAN GAMES RECOGNIZED
LoveFM - ‎4/23/10‎
On behalf of the Government of Belize, the National Sport Council and I think the entire nation they have made us proud. We appreciate all the effort; ...

KHMH COMMISSION OF INQUIRY PRESENTS REPORT TO PRIME MINISTER BARROW
LoveFM - ‎4/23/10‎
The other members were Julia Castillo nominated by the Ministry of Health and Orvin Nicholas nominated by the National Trade Union Congress of Belize. ...

BDF TO HOST ANNUAL RECRUITMENT DRIVE
LoveFM - ‎4/23/10‎
The Belize Defence Force will be holding a countrywide recruitment drive tomorrow. Interested persons between the ages of 18 and 23 with no less than a high ...

FATAL SHOOTING REPORTED IN BELIZE CITY
LoveFM - ‎4/23/10‎
A man was shot a killed this morning on Curl Thompson Street in Belize City. Around 11 o'clock a lone gunman gained entry to a fenced yard at 8731 Curl ...

Despite Justice Hafiz-Bertram ruling, an impasse continues in citrus
Amandala - ‎4/23/10‎
... of the country's premier producer and exporter of citrus produce, the Citrus Products of Belize Limited (CPBL), won't see closure any time soon. ...

Cardona wants re-vote in Palmar!
Amandala - ‎4/23/10‎
Cardona cites the Preamble to the Belize Constitution and the Village Council Elections Training Manual, which on page 14 cites the roles and ...

Kenneth “Big Tom” Flowers, former gang figure, dead at 32
Amandala - ‎4/23/10‎
Flowers' family in Belize confirmed that he was shot once in the head sometime on Monday, April 19. The motive is not known, and no arrests have been made. ...

Belize wins appeal to Court of Arbitration for Sport, national team headed to ...
Amandala - ‎4/23/10‎
In the middle of the morning yesterday, Tuesday, the president of the Belize Basketball Federation (BBF), Paul Thompson, received news he had been waiting ...

Luisa Carrillo, 19, dies early Tuesday morning
Amandala - ‎4/23/10‎
Admitted in critical condition at Belize Healthcare Partners Limited (BHPL) in West Landivar, she was put on selective life support as a team led by ...

Drug plane at Glovers Reef salvaged and looted
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/23/10‎
All small aircraft operating in Belize have been accounted for, the Department of Civil Aviation announced, leading investigators to conclude that this was ...

Kenneth "Big Tom" Flowers shot and killed in the US
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/23/10‎
Word has reached Belize from the State of Utah that Belizean street figure, Kenneth “Big Tom” Flowers, 32, ...

TV Journalist, Keith Swift, 30, found dead at home
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/23/10‎
He had also recently been diagnosed with a high blood sugar level while covering a health fair in Belize City. When paramedics arrived, they confirmed that ...

Cpl. Usher faces Police Tribunal
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/23/10‎
... to investigate the department's handling of the Galvez murder investigation and the Galvez family's complaints against the Belize Police Department. ...

Belize gets to keep it! COCABA's Silver Trophy
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/23/10‎
Belize's silver medal victory at the COCABA Central American basketball championships in Cancún was won fairly and ...

Belize Athletes wins 4 gold medals at Central American Games
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/23/10‎
Belize athletes won four gold, three silver and two bronze medals and set a new record for the games in Long jump at the ...

Children 7 and 4 perish in predawn fire which destroyed home in Dangriga
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/23/10‎
Such a call would go to the police operator in Belize City, who in turn would transfer the call to the Dangriga Police, who would then call alert the Fire ...

Horace Young.... Renaissance Man, Forever Young
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/23/10‎
He was born into a large family of ten, the eldest of 9 sons of Edward Godwin Young and Florine Inez Young, born in Belize City on July 5, 1922. ...

National Kriol Council empowers youth
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/23/10‎
Interested person may contact the National Kriol Council at the House of Culture next to the Music Industry Association Of Belize ( MIAB) office or they may ...

Esperanza Village now has access to Internet
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/23/10‎
Hernandez said the project was implemented by SIF, a statutory body in the Ministry of Economic Development ,and financed by the Government of Belize ...

Belize and Mexico discuss plans to speed up new border crossing
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/23/10‎
The Government of President Felipe Calderon in Mexico has fulfilled its commitment to Belize to make the southern area of Mexico into an area of opportunity ...

I'm staying in Belize
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/23/10‎
If it were not for their unflagging efforts, the murder rate in Belize could perhaps be twice as high. Murder is a heinous crime! To take somebody's life is ...

4/22/10

Citrus Split Decision
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
We're one week away from the Annual General Meeting of the Citrus Products Of Belize Limited, but a judgment handed down yesterday in the Supreme Court is ...

Hail in the North
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
A number of freak storms have been reported in northern Belize over the past five days. For example, these are actual hailstones that pummeled the northern ...

A Breath of Hope
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
... donations from all around the US and I use the term that one person's old stuff is gold to someone else, particularly the people and babies of Belize. ...

Keith Swift's Funeral
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
Those Belize City residents wishing to attend are advised that a bus will leave from in front of Channel 7 at 8:00 am. Space is limited, so if you'd like to ...

City Shooting
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
There was a shooting last night in Belize City but fortunately no one was seriously hurt. It happened at Hong Loo Shop at #44Tigris Street at 7:30 pm, ...

Balling for Tarrel
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
Doctors there want to ensure that when he returns to Belize, his skin condition does not deteriorate the way it did when he came back in February. ...

FILM COMMISSIONER ATTENDS LOCATIONS TRADE SHOW
LoveFM - ‎4/22/10‎
This past weekend Belize's Film Commissioner Nigel Miguel and Film Commission Facilitator Suzette Zayden attended the 25th Locations Trade Show in Santa ...

CONTROVERSY CONTINUES IN CITRUS INDUSTRY
LoveFM - ‎4/22/10‎
Chief Executive Officer of the Citrus Growers Association Dr. Henry Anderson has responded to a release from the Citrus Products of Belize Limited regarding ...

YOUTH FOR THE FUTURE HOLDS FORUM TO DISCUSS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
LoveFM - ‎4/22/10‎
Presenter Senator Godwin Hulse will be providing those who attend with information on the past and present of corporal punishment in Belize. ...

DECREASE IN PRICE OF RICE ANNOUNCED
LoveFM - ‎4/22/10‎
... is in violation of the Supplies Control Regulation Chapter 293 of the laws of Belize and is subject to a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars. ...

EARTH DAY CELEBRATED
LoveFM - ‎4/22/10‎
In Belmopan, students at the University of Belize are doing their part. In their fourth annual observation of Earth Day, today the group Ambassadors for a ...

20TH ANNUAL SIGNA YORKE MEMORIAL LECTURE HELD TODAY IN BELIZE CITY
LoveFM - ‎4/22/10‎
The topic for this year's lecture is “Sustainable Development in Belize: How do we Preserve Our Social Capital?” Committee member Sister Barbara Flores ...

ROBERT ROCHES ON THE RUN AFTER SHOOTING INCIDENT
LoveFM - ‎4/22/10‎
Belize City Police have detained one man and are looking for a second man in connection with a shooting incident. Leon Gentle reported that on Wednesday ...

Belize Defence Force, FC Belize share...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
The Belize Premier Football League Caribbean Motors Cup Tourney continued last weekend with games across the country. On Saturday April 17, at the Michael ...

5th Annual Pablo Marin Cycling Classic s...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
The Belize Cycling Association in conjunction with Hon. Pablo Marin is hosting the 5th Annual Pablo Marin Cycling Classic on May 1, 2010. ...

4 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals for...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
As we reflect back on the games and the disciplines that Belize participated in Panama there were indeed some bright moments for the country. fair share of ...

Crooked Tree Government girl and Burrell...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
The Belize District Primary Schools Softball Championship came to an end on Monday April 19, at Rogers Stadium. The district championship featured the ...

Latest Development in Case against Mayor Moya-Flowers
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

THEN & NOW
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
Rest in peace Keith, rest in eternal peace. long time before the people of Belize forget the blatant, rampant and widespread level of corruption that was ...

Maximizing and Rationalizing - Deployment of Limited Resources
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
Consider this issue of crime, for example, the epicentre of which is in Belize City. It is a costly phenomenon which not only endangers the security of the ...

UDP Continues to Dominate Village Counci...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
In Belize Rural North, the victorious slates in Bermudian Landing, Double Head Cabbage and Lemonal were all endorsed by the UDP. ...

New Bridges in the North and South of Belize
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
Anthony Boots Martinez along with Area Representative for Belize Rural North Hon. Edmund Castro; and CEO in the ministry of Works, Cadet Henderson ...

From Sketteldom - with malice towards some
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

Water and Electricity for Residents of San Isidro Village, Toledo
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

Mexico extends timetable for the entrance of Belizean buses
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

New school building at Epworth Methodist School, Dangriga
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

Magistrates now have extended powers
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

Hail falls in Northern Belize
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

Gold Medal Winners Return from Panama
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
On Wednesday, members of Belize's National Athletics team returned from Panama to a warm reception. They were met at the Phillip Goldson International ...

PUP steals from Ranchito Community
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/22/10‎
The level of complete disregard and care for the people of Belize by the former People's United Party government continues to surface two years after that ...

Census 2010 to commence May 12th
San Pedro Sun - ‎4/22/10‎
The 2010 census is a stocktaking exercise which will measure whether Belize, in a whole, has progressed or regressed in several areas; among them: education ...

Rapid HIV Testing Day held at Central Park
San Pedro Sun - ‎4/22/10‎
Nurse Bradley, Nurse Kelly and Caleb Orozco were on the island from Belize City and were on hand to offer counseling and testing assistance. ...

Alberto Villanueva is Caye Caulker's new chairman
San Pedro Sun - ‎4/22/10‎
He stated that to his knowledge the land was divided into three lots and sold to an individual from Belize City. During the meeting, this topic kept being ...

Solani Graniel is Miss SPHS 2010-2011
San Pedro Sun - ‎4/22/10‎
Congratulations to Miss Solani Graniel on her win in this past Saturday night's pageant, Miss San Pedro High School, 2010-2011. The pageant was a vibrant ...

4/21/10

Keith Swift - 1979 to 2010
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/21/10‎
Indeed, he was one of the most well-known media personalities in Belize. And that was because of his open, engaging style. ...

Robbery in the North
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/21/10‎
At 7:45pm, Bisham Topani and other employees of SP Group Limited were travelling from Belize City to Orange Walk and stopped at the Guinea Grass to drop off ...

Keith's Funeral Arrangements Finalized
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/21/10‎
Just say the name Keith Swift anywhere across Belize this week and people will know what you're talking about – the untimely death of the 7news star ...

Robbery in the City
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/21/10‎
There have been a number of armed robberies in the past few days. The most recent happened last night at 10:50 when Oliver Bolon was walking on Vernon ...

Robbery/Rape in the City
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/21/10‎
And there was a brutal robbery and rape in Belize City on Monday night. It happened around 11:15 when a 22 year old female was walking on Marine Parade ...

A Win in Court that Makes a Difference on the Court
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/21/10‎
As we told you last night, the Belize Basketball Federation scored a slam dunk over the world's governing body for Basketball FIBA in Lausanne, Swtizerland. ...

A Brief History of Belizean Books
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/21/10‎
“We've decided to gather as many books that have been published in Belize or about Belize. And to my surprise, we came up with almost 300 books so I am ...

Big Tom Killed in Utah
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/21/10‎
In about 2006, just the mention of the name Kenneth “Big Tom” Flowers would strike fear in many Belize City residents. He had the reputation of a ruthless ...

DUO CHARGED AFTER BEING CAUGHT WITH UNLICENSED FIREARMS
LoveFM - ‎4/21/10‎
Two Belize City men have been arrested and charged for keeping firearm and ammunition without a gun license. Police say on Tuesday morning they were on ...

COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT RULES IN FAVOUR OF BELIZE
LoveFM - ‎4/21/10‎
In August of last year, the Belize National Basketball team competed against six other teams in the COCABA's basketball Championship Tournament for men in ...

BOOKS FEATURING BELIZE ON EXHIBIT AT IMAGE FACTORY
LoveFM - ‎4/21/10‎
An exhibit titled “Books Published in and About Belize” opened this morning at the Image Factory. As a part of Book Week activities more than three hundred ...

STABBING INCIDENT LEAVES ONE MAN INJURED
LoveFM - ‎4/21/10‎
Police say on Tuesday night they visited the KHMH Trauma Room where they saw Oliver Bolon, of a Belize City address suffering from a single stab wound below ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - ‎4/21/10‎
Last year in Belize when Minister of Education Patrick Faber made some noises about increasing the power of the government in education, former UDP Leader, ...

Belizean professionals concerned over the fairness of international trade
Amandala - ‎4/21/10‎
It is because of this age old truth that Belize professionals should be informed about the various trade and corporation agreements that have been penned on ...

In Week 2, village council elections remain hotly contested
Amandala - ‎4/21/10‎
Amandala began our election coverage on Sunday in what is unofficially Belize's largest village, Trial Farm in the Orange Walk District, with over 4000 ...

2 children killed in fire
Amandala - ‎4/21/10‎
... that Friday night to give assistance at the wake of a family friend, Monica Sacasa, 62, who died of a heart attack in Belize City on April 10, 2010. ...

Old dogs, old tricks
Amandala - ‎4/21/10‎
National elections are not due in Belize until 2013. But the mood in the Musa-supporting “old guard” of the PUP has become more aggressive in the last few ...

Keith Swift found dead at Lizarraga Avenue home
Amandala - ‎4/21/10‎
Also present were several of Keith's many media colleagues, from the Guardian and Reporter newspapers and their competitor, Great Belize Television (Channel ...

Northern Spirit Resources Inc. granted oil exploration access to ¼-million ...
Amandala - ‎4/21/10‎
The Government of Belize has given Northern Spirit Resources Inc., a Canadian company, approval to explore for oil across ¼-million acres of The Jewel, ...

Fishermen's coop beats Musa and Hotchandani's Brown Sugar in court
Amandala - ‎4/21/10‎
The over 500 fishermen of National Fishermen Producers Cooperative Society Ltd., located on Angel Lane, Belize City, scored a major victory in the Supreme ...

An eminent Belizean, Horace Walwin Young, CBE, QC, to be laid to rest Saturday
Amandala - ‎4/21/10‎
Born in Belize City on July 5, 1922, Horace Young received his secondary school training at St. George's College (renamed Wesley College). ...

Maya commoners recorded history by burying their relatives under homes
Oneindia - ‎4/21/10‎
Excavations of Maya homes in central Belize have thrown up objects and human remains from the Classic period (250-900 AD) revealing that farmers and ...

Keith's Contribution
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/21/10‎
Indeed, it is a body of work whose sheer volume far surpasses any other active journalist in Belize. And while his productivity was immense – when it comes ...

Keith Swift's Cause of Death
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/21/10‎
7news reporter, Keith Swift was found dead in his Lizarraga Avenue home 24 hours ago. The thirty year old was found at ten minutes past five on Monday, ...

Jewett in Jail
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/21/10‎
An American man arrested last December in Belize on money laundering charges who turned out to be a US fugitive, wanted in the US for gun charges pleaded ...

Belize B-Ball Wins Decisive Victory at Court of Arbitration for Sports
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/21/10‎
There's Major breaking news coming out of Lusanne, Switzerland tonight, as the Belize Basketball Federation has scored a huge win over FIBA at the ...

Luisa Carillo Succumbs
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/21/10‎
Luisa Carrillo is the high school girl who jumped out of the moving during the frightening hijacking of a bus by Guatemalan bandits armed with a gun and a ...

4/20/10

UB HOSTS A SERIES OF ACTIVITIES
LoveFM - ‎4/20/10‎
The University of Belize will be holding a number of activities this week at the Central Campus in Belmopan. The first activity is scheduled for tomorrow ...

POLICE CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE KEITH SWIFT'S DEATH
LoveFM - ‎4/20/10‎
The news stunned many if not everyone in the media circle in Belize late yesterday afternoon when word got out that Keith Swift, journalist of 7 News, ...

TEENAGER INJURED IN A FALL FROM A MOVING BUS SUCCUMBS TO HER INJURIES
LoveFM - ‎4/20/10‎
Information to the RSV Media Centre is that eighteen year old Luisa Carrillo succumbed to her injuries early this morning at Belize Healthcare Partners ...

Permit Pursuits
Fly Rod & Reel Magazine - ‎4/20/10‎
Now, if you want to fish abroad, I've had great luck out of Belize, in the Turneffe area and out of Ambergris Cay. I've also taken many permit in the ...

Japan Donates $6M to Mayan Heritage Centre
Inside Costa Rica - ‎4/20/10‎
... display Mayan relics at Tikal National Park, a popular Unesco World Heritage Site near the Belize border, said Japanese embassy official Jisasi Ueno. ...

4/19/10

TELEVISION JOURNALIST IS FOUND DEAD
LoveFM - ‎4/19/10‎
Sketchy reports to our News Centre are that Swift who worked with Channel 7 News in Belize City did not report for work today and that his body was found ...

UDP CLAIMS VICTORY IN MAJORITY OF VILLAGES CONTESTED ON SUNDAY
LoveFM - ‎4/19/10‎
The UDP say they were victorious in five of five elections in Orange Walk North, five of five in Toledo East, six villages in Belize Rural North, ...

TROPIC AIR INAUGURATES NEW FLIGHT TO BELMOPAN
LoveFM - ‎4/19/10‎
The morning flight we think is going to be more for the San Pedranos that have got business the Belize government and Americans dealing with passport issues ...

TEENAGER CHARGED FOR MURDER OF RENAN RENEAU
LoveFM - ‎4/19/10‎
The boy was arraigned when he appeared today in Belize Family Court before Magistrate Alberta Perez. No plea was taken because the offence is indictable. ...

BELIZEAN ATHLETES RETURN FROM CENTRAL AMERICAN GAMES
LoveFM - ‎4/19/10‎
Eight cyclists returned to Belize today after competing in the Central American Games in Panama. Two female cyclists represented Belize in the female ...

DISTRICT FINALS OF NATIONAL COCA COLA SPELLING BEE TO BEGIN TUESDAY
LoveFM - ‎4/19/10‎
Next week we have the Belize District finals at the Belize Elementary and then on Wednesday we go to Escuela Mexico for the district finals and then on ...

4/16/10

Canadian scandal tied to Belize
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/16/10‎
A Canadian Minister of government resigned last week in a cloud of scandal – and the center of the scandal is tied directly into Belize. ...

1600 Marijuana Plants Up in Smoke
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/16/10‎
The Belize Defence Force today reported that it has destroyed close to one-hundred and fifty thousand marijuana plants and almost a ton of compressed ...

Elodio Aragon Escapes Injury in Traffic Collision
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/16/10‎
Incidentally, Gabriel says she was heading towards Belize City with her passenger, William Wildman who was scheduled to undergo a routine medical checkup at ...

Third Escaped Prisoner Recaptured
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/16/10‎
One more escaped prisoner has been caught. Prison and Police officials captured 45 year old Juan Menendez this morning in the Sandhill Area. ...

22 Shots from High Power Rifles Fired at Cecil Lewis
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/16/10‎
There was a broad daylight murder attempt this morning in Belize City. It occurred in the Faber's Road area where armed men assaulted 43 year old Cecil ...

Music Week's Star Studded Concerts at the Bliss
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/16/10‎
But, oddly, this new musical ambassador is playing no role at all in Music Week – sponsored by the Music Industry Association of Belize. ...

Robbers on High Speed Boat Attack Tourists
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/16/10‎
Three cruise tourists were mugged on Wednesday in Belize City. It occurred in broad daylight near the Baron bliss Lighthouse at around midday. ...

Shyne Appointed Musical Ambassador
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/16/10‎
But as we reported last night, Shyne also has a new gig in Belize. He has been appointed Musical Ambassador and will head the music program at NICH. ...

THIRD ESCAPED PRISONER RECAPTURED
LoveFM - ‎4/16/10‎
Yesterday Police recaptured 30-year-old Terry Bainton in Belize City. On Tuesday Jose Luis Cocom was recaptured at his sister's home in Trial Farm Village ...

BODY OF TWO YEAR OLD GIRL REPORTED MISSING DISCOVERED
LoveFM - ‎4/16/10‎
“A little after twelve police visited the Junesville Area in Belize City where they found the body of a two year old child that was reported missing ...

GUN VIOLENCE IN BELIZE CITY LEAVES ANOTHER MAN INJURED
LoveFM - ‎4/16/10‎
A shooting incident was reported this afternoon in Belize City. Love News got the details from Police Press Officer Sergeant Fitzroy Yearwood. ...

MUSIC WEEK RETURNS
LoveFM - ‎4/16/10‎
A number of workshops and concerts were organized by the Music Industry Association of Belize in collaboration with the National Institute of Culture and ...

TOURISM STAKEHOLDERS DISCUSS INDUSTRY'S RESPONSE DURING DISASTERS
LoveFM - ‎4/16/10‎
A workshop being coordinated by the Belize Tourism Industry Association, the Belize Tourism Board and the Organization of American States is underway in ...

Crime down says Jeffries
‎4/16/10‎
Despite a murderous barrage of shootings, unparallelled in the history of Belize, Police Commissioner Crispin Jeffries ...

Former PM Esquivel Knighted - 9 outstanding Belizeans receive Queen's honours
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/16/10‎
Nine outstanding Belizeans received New Year's Day honours from Queen Elizabeth II of England in an investiture ceremony held at Belize House in Belmopan ...

Breakout! 5 prisoners from Kolbe escape
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/16/10‎
The escape of five inmates from the Belize Central Prison Sunday night April 11, has launched a ...

“Major crimes …down by 30.6 percent” – ComPol Crispin Jeffries
Amandala - ‎4/16/10‎
Contrary to any Belizean citizen's, residing within the confines of this 22966 square kilometer of the Country Belize, views on their safety factor that ...

Did someone “shoot up” Prime Minister Dean Barrow's law offices?
Amandala - ‎4/16/10‎
Shots are believed to have been fired around 7:55 this morning at the law offices of Barrow and Williams, located on the second floor of a building at #99 ...

Xatéros loot archaeological artifacts from western border to Belmopan: Dr. Awe
Amandala - ‎4/16/10‎
The lootings, which the team said were done 75 meters away from the BHD camp, are a symptom of a much larger problem that has persisted along Belize's ...

Water brings new life to Buena Vista Village
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/16/10‎
The project was implemented by the Social Investment Fund and financed by the Government of Belize through a $129766.00 dollar loan from the Caribbean ...

New multipurpose center for Pomona
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/16/10‎
The Pomona ulti-purpose center was built at a cost of $172459.00 financed by the Government of Belize through a loan from the Caribbean Development Bank. ...

MIAB helps musicians cash in on their talent
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/16/10‎
In observing Music Week 2010, the Music Industry Association of Belize (MIAB) seeks to ensure the success of local ...

Shalini Zabameh wins silver & softball women win bronze at Central American Games
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/16/10‎
National women's road champion Shalini Zabaneh won Belize's first medal, a silver in cycling, at the 2010 Central American ...

Belize Classic Maya history is embedded in commoners' homes
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/16/10‎
A new study of the objects embedded in the floors of homes occupied more than 1000 years ago in central Belize begins to decode their story. ...

Intrigue at sea...
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/16/10‎
... bludgeoned bodywas found floating in th e sea on Monday April 12, near the Northern Two Cayes in the Lighthouse Reef Atoll 60 miles from Belize City. ...

Mexican passengers stranded in San Pedro due to ferry-boat rivalry
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/16/10‎
He has written also to the Belize Tourist Board and the Ministry of Transport. In his complaint he claims that the San Pedro Belize Express was the last ...

Prospects improving for Louisa, 18 year old student who fell from bus
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/16/10‎
Luisa was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize City, and later transferred to the Belize Healthcare Partners where Belizean neurosurgeon ...

Commuters pound bus raider to death! Fury and Fate on D&E busline
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/16/10‎
She received severe head injuries and had to be hospitalized in Belize City. Doctors say she has a good chance of recovery if they can get the swelling in ...

Heroic grannie drowns trying to rescue charges
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/16/10‎
The lake was carved out of solid pine ridge soil, excavated to satisfy the needs of the building trade in Belize City. After many years of excavation a ...

4/15/10

PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE IN BELIZE CITY HIT BY BULLETS
LoveFM - ‎9 hours ago‎
The Belize City office of Prime Minister Dean Barrow was hit by bullets this morning. Reports are that sometime this morning; at least two bullets hit the ...

ACCUSED MURDERER ESCAPES POLICE CUSTODY IN ORANGE WALK
LoveFM - ‎9 hours ago‎
Queme was handed over to Belize Police by Mexican authorities who found Queme hiding out in Chetumal. Police suspect that Queme is heading for the Mexican ...

ANOTHER WOMAN ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTING TO SMUGGLE DRUG TO INCARCERATED BOYFRIEND
LoveFM - ‎9 hours ago‎
... for putting herself in the same position as Andrea Jenkins; the other woman caught trying to sneak drugs into the Belize Central Prison last Friday. ...

SECOND ESCAPED PRISONER RECAPTURED
LoveFM - ‎9 hours ago‎
Another of the five prisoners that escaped from the Belize Central Prison in Hattieville on Monday has been recaptured. 30-year-old Terry Bainton was picked ...

PRIME MINISTER DEAN BARROW TRAVELS TO CHICAGO
LoveFM - ‎9 hours ago‎
An invitation extended by a Belize organization; a Chicago based Belize organization together with our honorary council there. It is to help to reach out to ...

SHOOTING INCIDENT LEAVES TEENAGER INJURED
LoveFM - ‎9 hours ago‎
Police reports are that the 17-year-old, a laborer of Belize City, was walking on Dolphin Street when one of two males riding by on bicycles fired several ...

EQUIPMENT FAILURE THIS MORNING PLUNGED THE NATION INTO BLACKOUT TWICE TODAY
LoveFM - ‎9 hours ago‎
BTL says power has been restored in certain parts of Belize City and other parts of the country. The estimate time for full power restoration is was 12-30 ...

Asbestos Update
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9 hours ago‎
Well, the standard 6 students aren't in classroom with asbestos roofing, but the standard one and standard four students are as seen in this picture. ...

Terry Bainton Recaptured
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9 hours ago‎
Twenty five year old Terry Bainton was captured in the Lake Independence area of Belize City before 8:00 this morning when a police led operation surrounded ...

Were Shots Fired at the Prime Minister's Law Office?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9 hours ago‎
... there's no overstating how scary that is – especially considering that the Prime Minister still uses that as his Belize City Political Office for his ...

Teen Shot on Dolphin Street
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9 hours ago‎
Last night in Belize City, a 17 year old was shot on Dolphin Street. It happened near Rogers Stadium just before 11:00 pm. The 17 year old – whose name has ...

Belizean American NCIS
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9 hours ago‎
Two days ago we told you about Operation Tradewinds which is being hosted in Belize for the second time in three years. On Tuesday we showed you the ...

The Ultimate George Gabb Collection
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9 hours ago‎
As an artist in Belize it is very hard to go beyond your potential in the sense that most of the time when you are creating you have to create to survive so ...

Another Woman Busted Trying to Smuggle Weed into Kolbe
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9 hours ago‎
Five days after twenty seven year old Andrea Jenkins was busted with cannabis in her underwear, a second woman, nineteen year old Julia Vaccaro, ...

Shyne Speaks About Messiah
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9 hours ago‎
The song was recorded in the United Kingdom but Shyne is in Belize and this evening he told Keith Swift about the “Messiah” track. ...

Accused Killer Escapes from Orange Walk Police
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9 hours ago‎
... she was pregnant at the time of her murder. When he was brought back to Belize, Keme confessed to CTV-3 in Orange Walk that he had killed her.

Young Car dealer executed
The Guardian, Belize - ‎18 hours ago‎
Jefferies who is a car dealer was scheduled to fly out to Houston on Sunday afternoon to purchase two vehicles which he would have driven back to Belize. ...

Belize City Mother looses second son to ...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎18 hours ago‎
His sister rushed to Belize City but when she arrived, his body was already in the morgue. According to his sister, “I see two bullets in his chest. ...

17 year old charged for robbery
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

15-year-old charged for shooting on King...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
He will be remanded to the Belize Youth Hostel until his next court appearance on May 17. In court his mother told Magistrate Frazer that her son is being ...

3 Charged for Importing Ephedrine
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
The package was registered to Belize General Pharmacy Supplies. Fakrul Alam Salim and Afsar Miah are the registered business owners of the company and ...

Prison escape and Lockdown at Hattievill...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
Authorities at the Hattieville prison were forced to 'lock down' the Hattieville prison on Tuesday April 13th following disturbances in the remand section ...

Prime Minister to Visit Chicago
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
Dean O. Barrow, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Kim Simplis-Barrow, will leave Belize on Thursday April 15th for Chicago, Illinois. ...

THEN & NOW
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
Juan Mentira's mental capacity is so weak that in his weekly Hypocrite Of The Week column in his Belize Slimes this week is featuring Clear the Land Castro. ...

Nine outstanding Belizeans honoured by the Queen
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
His Excellency, the Governor-General of Belize, Sir Colville Young, bestowed the honour of Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George on Rt. Hon. ...

New Taiwanese Ambassador presents credentials
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

MOE addresses Asbestos Concerns at St. Peter Claver
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
The Belize Natural Energy Charitable Trust has also been approached to assist and has indicated willingness to working along with other partners to address ...

Buena Vista residents access clean, potable water
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
It was financed by the Government of Belize through a $129766.00 dollar loan from the Caribbean Development Bank. The community provided labor for the ...

New Multi-purpose center for Pomona
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
The cost of the Pomona multipurpose centre is estimated at $172459.00 and was financed by the Government of Belize through a loan from the Caribbean ...

Lotto is Back
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
According to him, a ten year contract was signed on Tuesday, April 6, with Tropical Gaming Company for the playing of Lotto in Belize. ...

University of the West Indies holds Open Campus
The Guardian, Belize - ‎19 hours ago‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

Crime Decreases but Sense of Security Weakens
The Guardian, Belize - ‎20 hours ago‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

Improvement in Belize's Aviation Security
The Guardian, Belize - ‎20 hours ago‎
Gilberto Torres, Operations Officer of Belize Aviation Security, said that the training will be focused on Security Management. It will address concepts and ...

4/14/10

Two Youths Charged for the Raheem Velasquez Murder
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/14/10‎
Two men have been charged for killing 16 year old Raheem Velasquez in Roaring Creek Village. They are 20 year old Darren Banner and 19 year old Jaime Gill. ...

Shalini Zabaneh Wins Silver in Central American Games
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/14/10‎
Female cyclist Shalini Zabaneh is known for her dominance of the sport in Belize, and now she's taking her tradition of excellence to the Central American ...

Luisa Carillo Remains on Life Support
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/14/10‎
Her family does need help with medical costs and you can contact her brother Eswin at 651-1090. You can also make contributions into Belize Bank account ...

Two Kevins Gunned Down on Faber's Road
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/14/10‎
Two young men were gunned down in Belize City last night. Both of them were named Kevin – one 23 year old Kevin Lino and the other 26 year old Kevin ...

Kevin Lino Was Son of Magistrate Clive Lino
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/14/10‎
He was in Belize City visiting his sister. In fact just a short time before he was murdered, he left his sister's home. As we mentioned, he is the son of ...

Sir Manuel Esquivel Knighted
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/14/10‎
Investiture ceremonies were held in an unusual outdoor setting today at Belize House in Belmopan for Esquivel and eight other Belizeans bestowed with the ...

THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SALES TAX AND THE BELIZE BUREAU OF STANDARDS JOIN FORCES
LoveFM - ‎4/14/10‎
“We felt that this was an opportune time to collaborate with the Belize Bureau of Standards and that is the government entity that is responsible for ...

UB STUDENTS LEND A HAND TO IMPROVE CAMPUS SECURITY
LoveFM - ‎4/14/10‎
The University of Belize is today launching a Student Corps that will address public safety and security on campus grounds. The corps is comprised of ...

BELIZE CITY MAYOR TRAVELS TO COLOMBIA
LoveFM - ‎4/14/10‎
Belize City Major Zenaida Moya Flowers is leaving the country today en route to Bogota, Colombia. The Mayor will be attending the first Regional Summit of ...

COMPOL RELEASES QUARTERLY STATISTICS
LoveFM - ‎4/14/10‎
So far seven murders have been reported for the period of April 1st to the 14th of this year, six in Belize City and one in Belmopan.

GUN VIOLENCE CLAIMS TWO MORE LIVES
LoveFM - ‎4/14/10‎
The bloodshed continued on Belize City streets as last night gunshots claimed two more lives. Police say just before 10 o'clock last night they visited the ...

TWO MEN CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH MURDER OF ROARING CREEK TEENAGER
LoveFM - ‎4/14/10‎
Two men have been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of 16-year-old of Raheem Velasquez of Roaring Creek Village. 20-year-old Darren Banner ...

BELIZEAN FEMALE CYCLIST MAKES WAVES AT CENTRAL AMERICAN GAMES
LoveFM - ‎4/14/10‎
Belize's bodybuilding contingent, who will be participating in the games, leave for El Salvador today. The team is made up of Rigoberto Vellos, ...

Classic Maya history is embedded in commoners' homes
PhysOrg.com - ‎4/14/10‎
The researchers excavated two modest homes in a small Maya center called Saturday Creek, in central Belize. Numerous artifacts, including vessels, ...

Week 1 of Belize Bank Super League Tournament 2010
Amandala - ‎4/14/10‎
The 2010 Belize Bank Super League Tournament kicked off over the weekend with 4 games played across the country, one on Saturday night and three on Sunday ...

Terror - and heroism - in the West
Amandala - ‎4/14/10‎
According to police, the driver of the D&E bus targeted for the holdup, Ernesto Castillo, Jr., 19, of Benque, was on a regular run from Belize City to ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - ‎4/14/10‎
These years happened to be incredibly important in the history of British Honduras/Belize. The Maximum Leader of Belize, who had taken control of his ...

Kashief Trevor “Cash” Jeffries 24, murdered on Levi Slusher Street
Amandala - ‎4/14/10‎
Somebody wanted Kashief Trevor “Cash” Jefferies, 24, a car dealer and resident of Belize City, dead and a bit after one o'clock yesterday afternoon, ...

Genocidal pressures
Amandala - ‎4/14/10‎
Two hundred years ago the black forestry worker was a prized commodity in the forestry–dominated economy of the settlement of Belize. ...

Raheem Velasquez, 16, shot to death minutes from his home – family, community ...
Amandala - ‎4/14/10‎
Roaring Creek Village in the Cayo District has been for some time a scene of gang warfare, though not on a scale like Belize City, 55 miles away. ...

4/13/10

Teen Girl Who Jumped Out of Hijacked Bus still in Coma
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/13/10‎
... you can contact her brother Eswin at 651-1090. You can also make contributions into Belize Bank account number 10558. We'll keep tracking her progress.

Regional Soldiers Converge in Belize for Tradewinds
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/13/10‎
Tradewinds 2010 is in Belize. It is a military exercise sponsored by the US Army and it brings together 17 nations who converge on Belize for training. ...

Murder Victim Found Floating Near Lighthouse Reef
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/13/10‎
The body of a man who was suffered a violent death has been found floating in Belize's southern waters. The body was first found on Friday April 9th at the ...

PRISON INMATES PROTEST CHANGE IN PAROLE LEGISLATION
LoveFM - ‎4/13/10‎
There was a disturbance this morning at the Belize Central Prison in Hattievile. Reports are that inmates of the remand section and those from the Super Max ...

ONE OF FIVE ESCAPED PRISONERS RECAPTURED
LoveFM - ‎4/13/10‎
If you see any of the men you are asked to contact the nearest police station or the Belize Central prison at 225-6229 or 225-6191.

AMBASSADORS PRESENT THEIR CREDENTIALS
LoveFM - ‎4/13/10‎
The new Ambassador of the Republic of China on Taiwan Hs Excellency David CK Wu today presented his letters of credence to Governor-General of Belize, ...

4/12/10

Gunmen Execute Car Dealer Kashif Jeffries
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/12/10‎
And while the good guys had the upper hand out west, in Belize City, the bad guys won again as a young car dealer was executed. ...

5 Inmates Escape from Central Prison
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/12/10‎
Anyone sighting any of these 5 is asked to call the Belize Central Prison at 225-6229 or 225-6191 with information regarding the sighting or identification.


CAR DEALER GUNNED DOWN; FAMILY LOOKS FOR ANSWERS
LoveFM - ‎4/12/10‎
Jeffries, a car dealer was shot and killed around one thirty on Sunday afternoon in Belize City. Kashief Jeffries is the son of veteran broadcasters Trevor ...

EARLY MORNING PRISON BREAK: FIVE INMATES ON THE RUN
LoveFM - ‎4/12/10‎
Five inmates remain at large after escaping from the Belize Central Prison in Hattieville just after midnight on Monday morning. ...

BELIZE CITY SHOOTING LEAVES ONE MAN CRITICALLY INJURED
LoveFM - ‎4/12/10‎
A shooting incident last night in Belize City has left one man critically injured. The victim has been identified as thirty two year old Keith Nunez. ...

PM COMMENTS ON RECENT OUTBURST OF CRIME
LoveFM - ‎4/12/10‎
The past weekend saw murders in Belize City and Roaring Creek. Love News spoke to Prime Minister Dean Barrow who said crime is still an issue his government ...

POMONA VILLAGE RECEIVES NEW MULTIPURPOSE BUILDING
LoveFM - ‎4/12/10‎
The new facility which will benefit more than six hundred students in the area was funded by Government of Belize and carried out by the Social Investment ...

4/9/10

BELIZE CITY POLICE INVESTIGATE TWO MURDERS AND SEVERAL SHOOTINGS
LoveFM - ‎4/9/10‎
Over the last 24 hours a chain of senseless shootings in the old capital has left 2 bodies in the morgue, 4 persons injured and many Belizeans scared to ...

RETIRED POLICE SERGEANT LOSES LIFE IN APPARENT DROWNING INCIDENT
LoveFM - ‎4/9/10‎
Darrin Morgan was in Belize City getting some documents in order to apply for a job and received the call at around seven last night. ...

Western Pines Tragedy: Woman & 3 Grandchildren Drown
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/9/10‎
The Belize City morgue is full tonight after a devastating 6 hours last night between 6:00 pm and midnight. 9 people were shot – two of them fatally – and 6 ...

Elizabeth Higinio Wants Her Baby Daddy Released
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/9/10‎
A pair of 20 year old Belize City men are in prison on remand tonight for the relatively minor charge of handling stolen goods. Tonight, the girlfriend of ...

Mega Piranha Premiers Saturday
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/9/10‎
In January we told you about the movie, Mega-Piranhas which was being filmed in Belize. Well, the low budget sci-fi thriller is finished and will premier ...

WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MARIJUANA SMUGGLING AT THE BELIZE CENTRAL PRISON
LoveFM - ‎4/9/10‎
27-year-old Andrea Jenkins, a mother of four who tried to smuggle 94 grams of cannabis into prison in her underwear, joined her baby's father in prison ...

TWO BELIZE CITY MEN CHARGED WITH HANDLING STOLEN GOODS
LoveFM - ‎4/9/10‎
20-year-old Marcus Williams and 20-year-old Selvin Castillo who were allegedly found to have knowledge of a number of items which were stolen from the house ...

7 charged in connection with the Spanish Lookout Scotia Bank robbery
Amandala - ‎4/9/10‎
The police reported that they have recovered $30965.00 in Belize currency, so far. However, Gabriel Salazar, Alexander Edwards, Benjamin Peters and another ...

Constable Jermaine Mangar, alleged crime ringleader, charged
Amandala - ‎4/9/10‎
Yesterday, Tuesday, at the Magistrate's Court in Belize City, there was much media fanfare as Police Constable Jermaine Mangar, 25, who is attached to the ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - ‎4/9/10‎
Last week I watched a television show which featured a Belizean man and lady promoting their plans for a Belize District branch of the National Kriol ...

Lies in our skies?
Amandala - ‎4/9/10‎
Ok, so what has this to do with Belize? A lot, is the answer. Most governments, including our own, give the informing of the electorate a very low priority. ...

Cops and criminals and citizens
Amandala - ‎4/9/10‎
It must be a hell of a time to be a police officer in Belize. In the first place, one is trying to enforce the law in a country which has lost its sense of ...

Cops and criminals and citizens
Amandala - ‎4/9/10‎
It must be a hell of a time to be a police officer in Belize. In the first place, one is trying to enforce the law in a country which has lost its sense of ...

Nick Pollard, Jr., writes on corruption and leadership
Amandala - ‎4/9/10‎
What about Belize? Not because there are “corrupt criminal cops,” the whole leadership of the Police Department is bad. There should be good leaders in ...

A foreigner again!
Amandala - ‎4/9/10‎
But when it came down to the final 3 or 4 miles in the approach to Belize City, the foreign riders out-pedalled the Belizeans, plain and simple. ...

Prime Minister to decide UB president's fate
Amandala - ‎4/9/10‎
Amandala has come into possession of a letter from the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Belize (UB), Imani Fairweather-Morrison, ...

Western Pine tragedy – four drown in pond
Amandala - ‎22 hours ago‎
Police called the Belize Coast Guard for assistance in retrieving the last body, also a male minor. It was not until almost ten o'clock that they were able ...

4 Somalians request political asylum
Amandala - ‎22 hours ago‎
It was in Belize that Omar Yussuf, Sadak Hirsi, Abdikafi Hassan and Mohamed Farah, in their late teens and early twenties, were busted on the night of ...

Water rates up by 12.1%
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
The Public Utilities Commission has approved a 12.1% increase in water rates for the Belize Water Services Limited (BWSL). ...

Rogue cop ring exposed?
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
Belize City Police had discovered a ring of so-called rogue cops and conducted a sting operation last Wednesday night that resulted in the arrest of the ...

Water Taxi Companies merge
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
The Caye Caulker Water Taxi and the San Pedro Belize Express appear to have merged into one association, with an increase ...

Belize to sign Tax Information exchange pacts with more than a dozen countries
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
Belize has signed a Tax Information Exchange Agreement with the Commonwealth of Australia, which will allow for the sharing of tax-related information ...

St. John's Cathedral feeds the poor
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
The Anglican Bishop of Belize, Rev. Philip Wright, attended the start of the program along with the Cathedral Administrator, Canon Leroy Flowers, ...
Belize focusing on a long-range master plan for tourism
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
A master plan to guide Belize's tourism development for the next 20 years is the goal of an agreement which the Ministry of Tourism has reached with Tourism ...

Miguel Perez wins 82nd Cross Country Classic
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
Greg Lovell of the Santino's team pulled in four seconds behind Castillo to win the $800 fifth prize and a trophy sponsored by the Belize Social Security ...

Belize Cricketers host El Salvador
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
The Belize National Cricket Team and the defending champions, Excellence of Double Head Cabbage both enjoyed easy ...

Ministry mum on Dr. Mahung
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
The Ministry of Education has acknowledged a demand from the University of Belize faculty and staff calling on the government to reveal allegations made ...

Belize and Italy moves to closer ties
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
Belize's economic and commercial ties with Italy may be strengthened by the recent official visit of a delegation led by Italian Minister for Economic ...

Teenage Science students from US tackle algae growth problem in Belize
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
Two prize-winning students from University Laboratory High School in Illinois, Yulun Wu and Adam Joseph are in Belize to study the effects of nutrients on ...

Belize - Mother Nature's Secret No More
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
“Belize is Mother Nature's Best Kept Secret” is the slogan of the Belize Tourism Board's marketing campaign for the ...

Belize declares all-out war on venomous invading lionfish
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
Belize Marine authorities are waging an all-out war against the dreaded Lionfish, which has invaded Belizean waters. Since late last year when this ...

Belize welcomes Queen's Baton relay
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
The Queen's Baton passed through Belize this week en route the XIX Commonwealth Games scheduled for New Delhi, India, ...

Ocean Currents - Oceana Team visits Placencia
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
Over 20 international supporters of Oceana visited Belize to familiarize themselves with the marine resources of Southern Belize and dive in the Whale Shark ...

Community Policing head wins Outstanding Woman of the Year
The Reporter Belize - < ‎4/9/10‎
The Police Department recommended Williams to receive the award because under her direction, the Belize City Community Policing Unit conducts many programs ...

I'm staying in Belize
The Reporter Belize - ‎4/9/10‎
Sporadic raids on various tourist resorts like Xunantunich and Caracol and on the borderline village of Arenal remind us that Belize continues to be a target for ...

4/8/10

Queen's Relay Baton Changes Hands
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/8/10‎
This evening the Queen's Relay Baton continued its journey through Belize on its way to the Commonwealth Games in India. This afternoon's journey started at ...

Police Tight Lipped on $250000 Heist from A&R
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/8/10‎
The well known Belizean owned chain of stores, A&R was burglarized to the tune of a whopping two Hundred and Thirty thousand Belize dollars, but, ...

The Charges Against DC Jermaine Mangar
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/8/10‎
It is no small matter; that is the deadliest and most lucrative bank robbery in Belize's history – so the question of whether the police crime ring was ...

The Case Against UB President Dr. Santos Mahung
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/8/10‎
For the past two weeks, we've been reporting on Santos Mahung the President of the University of Belize who is under fire. The Chairman of the Board of ..

Belize Female Softball Team Heads to 9th Central American Games
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/8/10‎
Belize's silver medallist National Softball team is hoping to bring the gold back this year…that's what Head Coach, Greg Moguel told 7News as the first part ...

SPTC clarifies property tax letter
San Pedro Sun - ‎4/8/10‎
If property sales collapse on Ambergris Caye then the Government of Belize will be denied a valuable revenue source in the form of the Stamp Transfer Tax. ...

Water restrictions cause major problems over Easter weekend
San Pedro Sun - ‎4/8/10‎
A press release issued on March 31st, 2010 by Belize Water Services Limited (BWS) spoke of the possibility of restricting or rationing the water supply on ...

Water Taxis frustrate travelers
San Pedro Sun - ‎4/8/10‎
Mid-Easter week residents of San Pedro, Caye Caulker and the rest of Belize who use the water taxis as their mode of transportation, received a shock. ...

40TH ANNUAL TEACHERS CONVENTION CONCLUDES IN BENQUE VIEJO DEL CARMEN
LoveFM - ‎4/8/10‎
The Belize National Teachers Union held its 40th Annual Convention in Benque Viejo Del Carmen. The two day convention began yesterday at the Marshalleck ...

MINISTRY OF TOURISM, CIVIL AVIATION AND CULTURE TO HOST AVIATION SECURITY TRAINING
LoveFM - ‎4/8/10‎
They are coming down to Belize to conduct security training and we have invited all the stakeholders especially those established at the Philip Goldson ...

NOMINEES FOR EMPLOYER AND ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR ANNOUNCED
LoveFM - ‎4/8/10‎
The Belize Chamber of Commerce has announced the nominees for its second annual employer of the year and young entrepreneur of the year awards. ...

Scotia Bank robbers rounded up
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/8/10‎
It was the largest bank heist in Belize's history and it began shortly after 8 am when the robbers, four of them armed, travelling in a tinted white Suzuki ...

Oceana's High Rollers Enjoy Belize's Marine Reserve
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/8/10‎
He said that Oceana is all about “advocating for policy changes that will protect and assure that Belize has a sea that is abundant - that provides all ...

8 Prison Officers Return from Training in New Mexico
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/8/10‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

Belize showcased as a Wedding and Honeymoon Destination in Puerto Rico
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/8/10‎
For the very first time Belize was able to say 'present' at the Caribbean Bridal Expo and Marketplace. From Saturday March 27th to Sunday the 28th San Juan ...

World Health Day 2010
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/8/10‎
Wednesday, April 7, was celebrated as World Health Day 2010 and the Ministry of Health collaborated with the Pan American Health Organization and the Belize ...

Queen's Relay Baton in Belize City
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/8/10‎
The Queen's Relay Baton arrived to some fanfare in Belize on Wednesday afternoon at the Phillip Goldson International Airport. The baton is crisscrossing ...

THEN & NOW
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/8/10‎
The PUP came to a crashing end on February 7, 2008 with a sound trashing at the polls administered by the voters of Belize. The devastating defeat sent the ...

FC Belize and Belize Defence Force maintain lead in Caribbean Motors Cup Tourney
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/8/10‎
The Belize Premier Football League Caribbean Motor Cup Tourney continued on Sunday March 28, with four games across the country. At Ambergris Stadium in San ...

New director for Belize Tourism Board
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/8/10‎
On Wednesday afternoon, the Belize Tourism Board made a public relations power play by inviting members of the media to lunch at the Radisson. ...

Italian Economic Minister in Belize
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/8/10‎
A delegation led by the Italian Minister for Economic Development, His Excellency Claudio Scajola, made an official visit to Belize. Minister Scajola held a ...

Belize Signs Tax Information Exchange Ag...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/8/10‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

New Belize District Football Association formed
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/8/10‎
The newly formed Belize District Football Association held a general Assembly Meeting on Saturday March 27 at the MCC Grounds. The highlights of the meeting ...

Police-led crime ring dismantled
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/8/10‎
That ring is believed to be responsible for the Social Security robbery among others in Belize City. Investigation into the ring continues. ...

UB president's fate to be decided
The Guardian, Belize - ‎4/8/10‎
The Prime Minister is yet to decide on the fate of UB President Santos Mahung; however, some members of staff at the University of Belize are alleging the ...

4/7/10

Hurricane Forecasters Predict Above Average Season
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/7/10‎
What does this mean for Belize? That is what we asked Chief Meteorologist Dennis Gonguez. “We are looking are at fifteen named storms, eight of which will ...

Urban Matters at World Health Day Fair
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/7/10‎
Today was World Health Day and it was observed with a fair in Belize City where there was free advice, free testing, and free counseling. 7News was there. ...

Queen's Relay Baton Arrives in Belize
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/7/10‎
The Olympics has its torch and the Commonwealth Games has its Queen's Relay Baton which is what flew into Belize this afternoon. ...

New BTB Director Unveils Plan for Game Change
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/7/10‎
“Is there any way of making Belize a not so expensive destination? If you look at those we are competing with, I would say just in this region, Belize is a ...

Police Clarifies Clarification About Scotia Robbery-Murder
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/7/10‎
“The incident in Spanish Lookout took place with the assistance of persons we believe to be members of the Belize Police Department and I would like to just ...

$230000 Stolen from A&R In Free Zone
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/7/10‎
According to police, the money inside safe number one included $106320 in Belize currency, almost 300000 pesos which is equivalent to $46444 in Belize ...

Junior Heredia Promises Crackdown on Water Taxis
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/7/10‎
As we reported before the Easter break – travelers were “bex” with the service being offered by Caye Caulker Water Taxi and San Pedro Belize Express. ...

PM Barrow Meets with Mile 41 Settlers
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/7/10‎
... past three weeks it's been at the center of intense clearing activity and heated public debate about the entire system of land distribution in Belize. ...

THIEF TARGETS A&R IN COROZAL
LoveFM - ‎4/7/10‎
... and two safes that were inside her office were stolen. The safes contained a total of over 200 thousand dollars in Belize, US and Mexican currencies.

NEW TOURISM DIRECTOR SAYS THERE IS THE NEED FOR CHANGE OF STRATEGY
LoveFM - ‎4/7/10‎
Today the Belize Tourism Board presented its new management direction at a lunch press conference with the media at the Radisson Fort George Hotel. ...

BELIZEANS CELEBRATE WORLD HEALTH DAY
LoveFM - ‎4/7/10‎
Today the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Pan American Organization and Belize City Council brought that idiom into focus as they joined the ...

BELIZE RED CROSS COMPLETES INFLUENZA A-H1N1 AWARENESS TRAINING
LoveFM - ‎4/7/10‎
The Belize Red Cross has completed awareness training on Influenza A- H1N1 in institutions and communities across the country. The Belize Red Cross says it ...

POLICE CADETS TO PARTICIPATE IN ANNUAL SPORTS CAMP
LoveFM - ‎4/7/10‎
The Belize Police Youth Cadet Corp will be hosting its 12th National Annual Sports Camp at Independence High School beginning on Thursday. ...

4/6/10

7 Suspects Charged for Scotia Bank Armed Robbery/Murder
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/6/10‎
The robbery ring that we believe this police officer orchestrated is within the confines of Belize City. This robbery at Spanish Lookout had nothing to do ...

Cross Country 2010: What Went Wrong
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/6/10‎
“I thank all my team Sugar City, my family, I thank all the people in Belize. I feel good and I am happy, very happy for this victory. ...

Sydney Ellis Charged for Money Laundering
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/6/10‎
... William Jewett who was also charged for money laundering and having over $100000 on his boat that because of the reputation that Belize has picked up, ...

Guatemalan Miguel Perez Wins 82nd Cross Country
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/6/10‎
In fact, foreign riders thoroughly dominated Belize's most prized sporting event, securing eight of the top ten finishing positions. ...

Why the Mavado Concert was Cancelled
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/6/10‎
By Thursday afternoon we got a private jet to fly in from Jamaica directly to Belize. A memo was put out that Movado was wanted for interrogating so he ...

MOU Signed for School Safety Policy
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/6/10‎
Hurricanes as we know, because we are accustomed to hurricanes in Belize, there is time to prepare but there are disasters out there that don't give us much ...

Education Minister Discusses UB President Santos Mahung
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/6/10‎
And this afternoon Minister of Education Patrick Faber responded to last week's statement by the University of Belize's Faculty and Staff Association's ...

PUC Explains Reason for 12.1% Hike in Water Rates
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/6/10‎
... those were three of the main reasons for the 12.1% increase granted the Belize Water Services Limited, which took effect the first of this month. ...

THREE MEN CHARGED FOR FAILURE TO DECLARE LARGE SUM OF CASH
LoveFM - ‎4/6/10‎
Three people have been charged with money laundering and failure to declare entering Belize with excess of 10 thousand dollars. 37-year-old auto dealer ...

OTHER RING MEMBERS ARRESTED AND CHARGED
LoveFM - ‎4/6/10‎
So far police have recovered 30965 dollars Belize currency. There are still three suspects that we are looking for; Gabriel Salazar, Alexander Edwards and ...

BELIZE NATIONAL TEACHERS' UNION TO HOST 50TH ANNUAL TEACHER'S CONVENTION
LoveFM - ‎4/6/10‎
Jaime Panti is the President of the Belize National Teachers Union. “We are celebrating it under the theme, 'Educators Working Together for Quality ...

WORLD HEALTH DAY PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY
LoveFM - ‎4/6/10‎
The highlight of the day will be a multi-cultural Health Fair at the Fred Westby Park in Belize City. The theme for this year's World Health Day is ...

PUC EXPLAINS DECISION TO INCREASE WATER RATE BY 12.1%
LoveFM - ‎4/6/10‎
Last October Belize Water Services Limited made an application to the Public Utilities Commission for a 25 percent increase in rates. ...

BDF COMMANDER TAKES HIS PLACE IN THE HALL OF FAME
LoveFM - ‎4/6/10‎
The Commander of the Belize Defence Force, Brigadier General Dario Tapia will this week take his place in the International Hall of Fame of the Unites ...

4/4/10

A new view of the Maya
Boston Globe - ‎4/4/10‎
It builds on transformative new research over the past three decades, and boasts loans from major museums in the United States, Honduras, Belize, Mexico, ...

4/3/10

Belize Signs Agreement for New Tourism Master Plan
Belizean (blog) - ‎4/3/10‎
By The Founder on April 3, 2010 11:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Belmopan, Belize 3 April 2010 (Belizean.com) - The Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation ...

4/2/10

The learning curve
Edmonton Sun - ‎4/2/10‎
“Mullet,” snapped my Belize flats fishing guide Carlos Marin, with the same derision Alberta anglers sometimes reserve for mountain whitefish. ...

Belize: The healing power of soursop: It is a miracle cure for cancer?
FreshPlaza - ‎4/2/10‎
Soursop has always been a popular fruit in Belize, and recently there have been all kinds of reports, generated by the Internet, that it is a cure for ...

4/1/10

Belize Ambassador Responds to Guatemala's Commission on Belize
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/1/10‎
There are more bellicose statements on the Belize-Guatemala territorial dispute, coming out of Guatemala and no surprise where the comments made headlines ...

Rita Mae's Listening to Mahogany Whispers
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/1/10‎
You may not know the name Rita Mae Hyde as one of Belize's prominent poets, but this young artist has been steadily performing locally and at international ...

Tiffany from BET Hosting Placencia Reggae Beachfest
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/1/10‎
It will be Mavado's second trip to Belize but it will be the first for Assassin and Dr. Evil. They will perform on Sunday night as part of the Reggae ...

Preview of 82nd Cross Country
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/1/10‎
But even without Carlos Lopez – all eyes will be on those 19 foreign riders because Belize's wounded pride needs a local hero to re-claim the garland. ...

Italian Minister for Economic Development Visits Belize
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/1/10‎
Yesterday, Italy's Minister for Economic Development, His Excellency Claudio Scajola was welcomed to Belize. Minister Scajola arrived in the country ...

Corrupt Cops Masterminded Robberies at Scotia Bank and Social Security
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/1/10‎
A ring of corrupt cops masterminded the armed robbery at the Social Security Board in Belize City two weeks ago and the robbery/murder at the Scotia Bank ...

Suspects Still Wanted for Scotia Bank Heist
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/1/10‎
And while investigators believe that the police criminal ring masterminded the biggest, most violent bank heist in Belize history on Tuesday at the Scotia ...

Wayne Rock Charged for Shooting Kirk Dougal
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎4/1/10‎
It never made the news, but 33 year old Kirk Dougal narrowly escaped death on Tuesday on Nurse Findley Crescent in Belize City when a man rode up to him, ...

PM BARROW CALLS ACTIONS OF ALLEGED CORRUPT POLICE OFFICERS HORRENDOUS
LoveFM - ‎4/1/10‎
That is the kind of betrayal of public trust that is absolutely horrendous and of course does not do a great deal for the image of the Belize police ...

POLICE CONTINUE SEARCH FOR OTHER MEMBERS OF THE RING
LoveFM - ‎4/1/10‎
We believe that some part of that gang or group may still be in Belize. As we speak much effort is being made to locate those persons. ...

COMMISSIONER JEFFRIES: POLICEMAN SPEARHEADED BANK ROBBERY OPERATION
LoveFM - ‎4/1/10‎
There have been dramatic, new developments in the investigation of Tuesday's armed robbery of the Spanish Lookout branch of Scotia Bank. ...

BELIZE AND AUSTRALIA SIGN TAX INFORMATION EXCHANGE AGREEMENT
LoveFM - ‎4/1/10‎
The agreement will assist in the efforts to avert illegal financial processes by allowing Belize and Australia to share tax related information in ...

DUO DENIED BAIL IN ATTEMPTED MURDER CASE
LoveFM - ‎4/1/10‎
24-year-old Wayne Rocke who allegedly shot 33-year-old Kirk Dougal was charged with attempted murder and use of deadly means of harm. ...

ITALIAN MINISTER OF THE ECONOMY MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER DEAN BARROW
LoveFM - ‎4/1/10‎
A delegation led by the Italian Minister for Economic Development, His Excellency Claudio Scajola, made an official visit to Belize. ...

Peabody Essex exhibit reinterprets Maya art and civilization
Georgetown Record - ‎4/1/10‎
And there is an imposing cast, perhaps 10 feet tall, of the facade of a temple in Belize featuring three superimposed masks depicting Water Lily Serpent. ...

San Pedro observes Earth Hour 2010
San Pedro Sun - ‎4/1/10‎
In Belize City, a lively group of people celebrated Earth Hour with a bonfire, made smores, told and listen to folktales, quized each other and danced in ...

San Pedro Sea Dogs trounce Toledo's Paradise Freedom Fighters 5-1!!
San Pedro Sun - ‎4/1/10‎
On Easter Sunday, San Pedro Seadogs will host Belize Defense Force at the Ambergris Stadium at 3:30 pm San Pedro Seadogs stands in the fourth position ...

3/12/10

Mystery Barge Stuck on Ambergris Caye Reef
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/12/10‎
A barge is lodged on Belize's reef off Ambergris Caye tonight. The 30 by 23 foot barge is stuck on an area of the reef 8 miles north of San Pedro Town. ...

Mayors Learn About Good Governance
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/12/10‎
It's gotten so bad – particularly in Belize city – that informed opinion in some quarters suggests it would be cheaper and more practical to reverse the ...

Women's Month Bike Rally Starts at 6 am
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/12/10‎
It will be held tomorrow in Belize City. It is not a race but rather hundreds of men, women, and children will cruise through the city on their beach ...

EARLY MORNING TRAFFIC ACCIDENT LEAVES ONE MAN INJURED
LoveFM - ‎3/12/10‎
The crash happened near mile twenty seven in the village of Biscayne and involved a small car and a pickup truck belonging to Belize Western Energy Limited. ...

HONDURAN NATIONAL LOSES LIFE IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
LoveFM - ‎3/12/10‎
... shoulder of the highway waiting for his brother David Pertio who was across the street when a black Nissan SUV travelling towards Belize City hit him. ...

OFFICIALS FIGHT TO REMOVE BARGE THAT IS STUCK ON REEF
LoveFM - ‎3/12/10‎
The barges in Belize are marked; they have some markings with numbers and sometimes the name of the mother ship on them but that barge has no marking on it. ...

INSIDE 2010 DIGICELL'S BALLIN-4-LIFE TOURNEY
Amandala - ‎3/12/10‎
The Belize Bank Bulldogs organization was able to pull off the hat-trick this past weekend, as all three arms of its organization were victorious in their ...

San Pedro High School wins 2010 Math Olympiad
Amandala - ‎3/12/10‎
The match was close and tense, and after Match 2, San Pedro led Muffles by only 100 points, 3500-3400, with Belize Christian in third. ...

Message of Remembrance of Ricardo Aguilar
Amandala - ‎3/12/10‎
In this respect, chess in Belize today is blessed by the major inroads contributed to it through the incessant driving forces he installed. ...

Rick James, 54, chiropractor, dies while diving off Belize
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - ‎19 hours ago‎
On March 1, as their wives snorkled on the surface of the water above, the two men dove into the Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize in Central America. ...

Guatemala reasserts challenges to Belize's sovereignty
Amandala - ‎3/12/10‎
Officials of Belize and Guatemala, including a representative of the surveillance group Comision de Belice, a department in the Guatemalan Ministry of ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - ‎3/12/10‎
Those of our sources who are acquainted with Lord Ashcroft fully expected him to fly into Belize for Sir Barry Bowen's funeral a couple weeks ago. ...

Bitter power struggle
Amandala - ‎3/12/10‎
Francis Fonseca, replace him as Leader, in which case Mr. Musa and Ralph Fonseca, the defeated Belize Rural Central candidate, would have effectively ...

Bank robbery botched by brave security guard
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/12/10‎
... security officer foiled an attempt to rob the Atlantic Bank at corner of Magazine and Cemetery Roads in Belize City at 2:30 PM Thursday, March 11. ...

GUN CONTROL - the flip side
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/12/10‎
The editorial started by pointing out the differences between how one goes about obtaining a firearm's license in Belize vs the USA, and then mentioned that ...

Shalini Zabaneh wins 28th Belmopan Female Cycling Classic
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/12/10‎
Shalini completed the 50 mile ride from the Constitution Park in Belize City to La Democracia and back in two hours 29 minutes and 54 seconds to win first ...

Del Cid report finds no evidence of Galvez cover-up by police
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/12/10‎
The Belize Police Department place greater emphasis on investigation and that no effort is spared in the training of all CIB and IAD officers as soon as ...

I'm staying in Belize
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/12/10‎
It would be a mistake for the Government of Belize to ignore the cries of protest and the depth of public indignation over the ...

Sportfishing law to be amended
San Pedro Sun - ‎3/12/10‎
Exemptions are now being granted to all tour guides of Belize who possess a valid tour guide license upon application to the CZMA. ...

Tatiana Rivero heads for Piel Dorada pageant
San Pedro Sun - ‎3/12/10‎
Miss Rivero, modeling on behalf of the LPEL Modeling Organization out of Belize City, has previously held the coveted title of Miss San Pedro 2003 – 2004. ...

3/11/10

Mark Espat to GOB: Come Clean
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/10‎
But that special sitting will also feature the debate on four bills concerning the banking sector The Bills of note are the Central Bank of Belize Amendment ...

Bredda David Celebrates 25 Years in Music
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/10‎
Armed with ten years of fusing everything from contemporary to Jazz, Rock and Roll and R&B, to Caribbean and Calypso, he returned to Belize with his first ...

Mayor Moya's Criminal Trial Adjourned
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/10‎
A preliminary inquiry into twenty four offences with which Belize City Mayor, Zenaida Moya and two others are charged with, was adjourned until April 20th, ...

Guatemala Ratifies Partial Scope Agreement
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/10‎
Last night we told you about the issues between Belize and Guatemala and how a high level working group has been appointed to resolve it. ...

LOTTO in Suspense
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/10‎
There was no Lotto drawing last night and there hasn't been one since February 20th. That is because as we've reported, the license for Tropical Gaming ...

Draft Action Plan for Corruption
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/10‎
Today the OAS hosted a workshop to review a 115 page draft Action Plan for Belize. It's a lot of paperwork pledges, and Jim McFadzean found out how much of ...

Mail In Your Guilty Plea
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/10‎
In an effort to alleviate an overburden court, the Belize Magistrate's Court has introduced new procedures for those charged with certain offences. ...

NEMO'S HAIT RELIEF FUND STILL ACTIVE
LoveFM - ‎3/11/10‎
Although the story has moved from the headlines, Belize is still providing assistance to victims of the earthquake. Public Relations Officer for NEMO Rene ...

SOCIAL INVESTMENT FUND CONTINUES TRAINING ON GOOD GOVERNANCE
LoveFM - ‎3/11/10‎
Over the next two days Mayors of municipalities countrywide will be participating in a two day workshop which is a part of the Belize Municipal Development ...

COROZAL POLICE RECOVER STOLEN SKIFF
LoveFM - ‎3/11/10‎
Police in Corozal are investigating the theft of a skiff from the Belize Custom Department. “Corozal Police along with the Belize Custom Department are ...

OPPOSITION COMMENTS ON FINANCIAL BILLS TABLED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
LoveFM - ‎3/11/10‎
One is as it relates to the way that the Central Bank lends to the Government of Belize monies and in that regard the Government is reducing the Central ...

MID AFTERNOON ATTEMPTED ROBBERY LEAVES WOULD BE ROBBER INJURED
LoveFM - ‎3/11/10‎
An attempted bank robbery at the Atlantic Bank Branch corner of Magazine and Cemetery Road in Belize City has left many employees and spectators from around ...

BELIZE LOOKS AT RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION AGAINST ...
LoveFM - ‎3/11/10‎
Love News spoke with Kim Osborne, OAS Representative to Belize. “What we are doing here today is we are looking at the national action plan for Belize as ...

Belize - New High School for the South
ISRIA (registration) - ‎3/11/10‎
The Government of Belize through the Ministry of Education financed the construction of the temporary wooden structures for the high school at a total cost ...

Peter Choto is Belmopan Classic Champion
The Guardian, Belize - ‎16 hours ago‎
The Belize Cycling Association sponsored its 29th Annual Belmopan Cycling Classic on Sunday March 7, 2010. The Elite race started at 8:00 am from in front ...

Cave Branch Outpost Wins 13th La Ruta Ma...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
The La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge is now in its 13th year of existence and this year's challenge was as big as ever. The 179 mile long race has become ...

Wild Side: The one that got away
Pierce County Herald - ‎3/11/10‎
Later that same day we were back again under the coconut palms in Belize with our friends Bill and Sue Smith and Sandy Linehan of River Falls. ...

Prevent Gastroenteritis
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

NEMO Not Forgetting Haiti
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
Since the amalgamation of the Technical School that was located on Freetown road to form part of the University of Belize, there has been a gaping hole in ...

Waste of Time
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
In an effort to put this poverty issue into proper perspective, using quotes and all, I tried to locate a copy of the PUP's 1998 Manifesto, “Set Belize ...

THEN & NOW
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
... closer to the people as rural development continues, not only in southern Belize, but across the length and breadth of this beautiful jewel of ours. ...

Professional Sports Training in Primary Schools
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
It has started off in Belize City as a pilot project with the hope of it being extended into other districts. The program is being run by the National ...

Ministry of Health Holds Workshop on Diabetes Healthcare
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
The main objective was to introduce the Chronic Care Model as a tool to address the quality of care for diabetes in Belize and to develop interventions ...

From Sketteldom - with malice towards some
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
... in the legal profession, Prime Minister Barrow suggested that all lawyers in Belize should take up a collection to send the Saintly One to law school. ...

Heroes and Benefactors
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
Indeed, the tribute and honour of the day will always be shared with the late Baron whose acquired love and benevolence towards Belize is what the day was ...

New task force to replace corporal punis...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
Furthermore, he also invited the Belize National Teacher's Union and other partners in education to join a task force on identifying alternative school ...

Historic Times in Belize/Guatemala Relations: Limiting incursions into ...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
At a meeting with the Organization of American States in Washington DC in December of 2009, Minister Wilfred Elrington expressed Belize's concern about the ...

Your Air Conditioning System May Contribute to Skin Cancer
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
Environmentalists from across the Caribbean came to Belize to take part in the Caribbean Ozone Officers Network Meeting which will be taking place from ...

Business Magnate Barry Bowen dies in plane crash
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
Much of Belize remains in shock over the sudden and tragic death of businessman Sir Barry Bowen¸64, and four other people, including two young children. ...

Calvary Temple wins in primary schools softball
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
The Belize City Primary Schools Softball Competition rolls on at the Rogers Stadium here in Belize City. On Tuesday March 2, in the first of two male games ...

Sir Barry Bowen laid to rest
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
His wife has lost a great husband, the children a great father, and Belize has lost a great son.” John Searle who grew up with Bowen on Southern Foreshore ...

Written by Shane D. williams
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
Since the last winner, Paula Vasquez, went to claim her prize there has been no Lotto playing in Belize. However, there is no need for Lotto lovers to panic ...

Belize Defence Force and Hankook Verdes leads in Caribbean Motors Cup Tourney
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/11/10‎
The Belize Premier Football League Caribbean Motors Cup Closing Season continued over the weekend with four games across the country. ...


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