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9/15/10

Sylvana On Shutdown
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/15/10‎
A number of schools are sending students to the funeral or will have students line the route of the funeral with placards, while at the University of Belize ...

The Shutdown In Effect
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/15/10‎
And while police continue to work on those cases, tomorrow, tears will not be enough for the burial of 8 year old Eyannie Nunez. The funeral is being held ...

Future Floods?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/15/10‎
And while the significantly weakened Karl is now crossing the Yucatan Peninsula and the tropical storm watch for Belize has been discontinued, ...

Belizeans Caught In Scary Bus Jacking In Mexico
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/15/10‎
In a check with Belize's Foreign Ministry by telephone this evening, an official there told Seven News they had no information to share about the incident.

Belize Represents in Guatemala City
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/15/10‎
And as we told you last night Belize and Guatemala moved a very significant step forward to a referendum when on September ninth the Guatemalan congress ...

Under Pressure, Police Launch Witness Protection Program
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/15/10‎
Tropical Storm Karl made landfall north of the Belize Mexico Border this morning - and our team was there. We'll have that story for you shortly but first ...

A Gun To The Head For A Few Dollars More
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/15/10‎
Police are investigating two separate theft reports that occurred yesterday September 14th. In the first incident 31 year old Postman Rosalindo Coc of ...

Police Minister Wants to Take Part In Shutdown
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/15/10‎
And, surprisingly one man who wishes he could join is police minister Doug Singh. That's right, he says the shutdown should be just the beginning. Hon. ...

Karl Cometh, (and Goeth) Without Much Fuss
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/15/10‎
Our storm chaser Monica Bodden has been in northern Belize and southern Mexico since morning to see what Karl did. Here's her report. ...

Bainton Sentenced For Escape
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/15/10‎
Thirty year old Terry Bainton, one of five prisoners who escaped from Belize Central Prison on April 12 was sentenced to three months today in the #3 ...

BELIZEANS FOR JUSTICE ORGANIZES BUSINESS SHUT DOWN
LoveFM - ‎9/15/10‎
We are calling for unity among everyone in Belize. We can't be divided 'we dah no Chin, we dah no Hindu, we no black'. We are all Belizeans and we need to ...

PRINCIPALS SPEAK OUT ON CRIME
LoveFM - ‎9/15/10‎
The Belize District Association of Primary Principals has issued a release condemning what it calls the continuous vicious and barbaric acts of violence ...

GOB ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR A WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM
LoveFM - ‎9/15/10‎
The Belize government has announced plans for a witness protection program. The decision to proceed with the initiative was announce this morning by ...

TROPICAL STORM KARL FORCES CLOSURE OF SCHOOLS IN NORTHERN BELIZE
LoveFM - ‎9/15/10‎
Since last night portions of northern Belize received steady rainfall associated with the system. Our northern based reporter Manuela Ayuso Cantun spoke to ...

MINOR ACCIDENT LEAVES ONE PERSON INJURED
LoveFM - ‎9/15/10‎
Reports are that Elvis Henry was driving a dump truck belonging to the government of Belize in the direction of San Ignacio when he reached mile 69 in ...

KARL HEUSNER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CELEBRATES 15TH ANNIVERSARY
LoveFM - ‎9/15/10‎
We also have Belize Medical Associates. We have the Belize Diabetes Association being represented and they are doing testing from the Karl Heusner Hospital. ...

9/14/10

No Arrests In 8 Year Old's Killing
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/14/10‎
Last night the toll of crime we reported on was staggering: 5 murders plus one more which was discovered yesterday morning on the Hummingbird Highway. ...

One More For Smith's Law Firm
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/14/10‎
A sixth person has been charged with the burglary at Godfrey Smith's law firm. He is 21 year old Kareem Gladden, a laborer of Zericote Street. ...

A Protest Against the Northern Regional Hospital
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/14/10‎
They had been planning the protest for the past two weeks and they called in all the big guns from Belize City media. That's because it was supposed to be a ...

The Tenth: PM Says Why He Still Marches
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/14/10‎
The ceremony ended with Shane Saldano, Tanya Carter and Berne performing the hit song "I Am Belize". The celebrations were held under the theme "United and ...

Karl Borders On Belize
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/14/10‎
A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect from Belize City to the northern Border at this hour. And If you live in Northern Belize or the Cayes you should be on ...

Prison Officer Could Become Inmate
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/14/10‎
Thirty-three year old Armando Alamilla, a prison officer who attempted to smuggle 84 grams of Cannabis into Belize Central Prison in Hattieville this ...

Shackron Proposes Shutdown
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/14/10‎
The shutdown is being organized as a protest against the crime situation in Belize and also in mourning for 8 year old Eyannie Nunez who was shot early ...

Guat Conress Approves Compromis; Unto Referendum
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/14/10‎
Remember the special agreement between Belize Agreement, the so-called compromis? Well, it was signed on in December, 2008, and 21 months later on Thursday ...

Sir Andy Burgled
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/14/10‎
They also stole a laptop and two thousand Belize dollars, plus one thousand US dollars and two thousand pesos, all in cash.

Vendors Treated Like Unwelcome Subjects At Queen's Square
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/14/10‎
Last week Thursday - we showed you the action at the Queen's Square Market when the city council tried to enforce parking regulations on wholesalers at the ...

OPPOSITION LEADER URGES THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION ON CRIME
LoveFM - ‎9/14/10‎
There is also and alarming increase in extortion against the business community especially in Belize City. The PUP condemns the utter failure of the ...

PRISON OFFICER PLEADS GUILTY TO DRUG TRAFFICKING
LoveFM - ‎9/14/10‎
Alamilla was caught trying to smuggle 84 grams of cannabis into the Belize Central Prison around seven this morning. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers fined him ...

REGIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY CONSULTATIONS BEGIN IN BELIZE
LoveFM - ‎9/14/10‎
A two day national consultation began today in Belize City. The aim is to coordinate mechanisms to provide for Civil Society's involvement in regional ...

GUATEMALAN CONGRESS APPROVES REFERENDUM
LoveFM - ‎9/14/10‎
Under the special agreement, also known as the compromise that was signed in December of 2008 by Belize and Guatemala it was agreed that if the people of ...

Partying and praying
Amandala - ‎9/14/10‎
Amidst the partying and the praying in Belize City over the celebration weekend, however, and no one can say we didn't expect it, there went the guns – boom ...

Belize Manatees a Separate Subspecies, DNA Confirms
LiveScience.com - ‎9/14/10‎
By LiveScience Staff The endangered manatees that live off the coast of Belize are genetically distinct enough to be considered a separate subspecies from ...

9/13/10

Seaboard heading for Belize
Heavy Lift - ‎9/13/10‎
September 14 - Seaboard Marine has started a service to and from Belize via Miami, Houston and New Orleans, as well as Cristobal, Panama, and Puerto Limon, ...

J'ouvert Madness In The Streets
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/13/10‎
And after the historicity and symbolism of the tenth, the weekend gave way to the debauchery of carnival bacchanal. And that began early on Saturday morning ...

Briceno To Be Endorsed As Deputy
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/13/10‎
Those wishing to offer themselves for executive posts in the PUP at the October convention had until today to submit their names. ...

Teenager Killed In Lake - I
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/13/10‎
We blame the government for the crime because if it is left up to the government we can lock off every street in Belize with the amount of BDF and police ...

Roaring Creek Man Killed In Teakettle
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/13/10‎
And before Sunday's killing spree in the city - there was a murder in Teakettle on Friday the Tenth. The victim is Lindon Mangar, the 32 year old younger ...

69 Year Old “Randomly” Executed
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/13/10‎
But they way things are going in Belize I guess bullets are made for anyone. So they have no respect for children; they have no respect for older folks; ...

They Broke Into Godfrey Smith's Law Firm
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/13/10‎
Five men who allegedly broke into Godfrey Smith's law firm, located at the corner of Marine Parade Boulevard and Goal Lane, were charged with burglary when ...

Economy On The Rebound; Manufacturing, Construction Lag
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/13/10‎
And tonight there's some good news coming out of the Statistical Institute of Belize. Latest GDP figures released last Thursday by the Institute, ...

Eight Year Old Girl Killed
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/13/10‎
The police rolled out with an impressive show of force in Belize City on the Tenth weekend. On Friday and Saturday, it seemed that everywhere you turned, ...

NEMO On High alert
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/13/10‎
... to strengthen into anything more than a tropical depression or a weak tropical storm, it threatens to produce heavy rainfall in northern Belize. ...

'Hood Senior Killed At Dawn
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/13/10‎
And back to the city and that deadly early Sunday morning. Sunday's second murder happened on Castle street at about 5:10 am when Everett Lincoln Davis was ...

BELIZEAN AND GUATEMALA POLICE MEET TO DISCUSS MISSING SIBLINGS
LoveFM - ‎9/13/10‎
“The Guatemalan counterparts came to Belize the meeting was conducted at Halacte Village Police Station, the Commissionado De La Cruz did present; ...

A BLOODY WEEKEND PUTS MULTIPLE BODIES IN THE MORGUE
LoveFM - ‎9/13/10‎
Belize City Police are investigating several shootings that occurred hours apart on Sunday and claimed four lives. Sometime after four o'clock on Sunday ...

25 BELIZEAN PATRIOTS TO BE HONORED AT THIS YEAR'S TRIBUTE TO BELIZEAN PATRIOTS
LoveFM - ‎9/13/10‎
Receiving the Order of Belize will be Dr. Lennox A. Pike for his contributions to Belize's consular service, medicine and the Belizean community in Detroit. ...

BELIZEAN ARTISANS INVOLVED IN WORKSHOP FOCUSING ON MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
LoveFM - ‎9/13/10‎
A three day workshop in management practices for Belizean Artisans and small contractors began today in Belize City. The workshop is being organized by the ...

9/9/10

Man is Charged for Shooting Cop
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/9/10‎
Nineteen year old Lloyd Elijio a construction worker who allegedly shot at two police constables and injured one of them, was charged with two counts of ...

Give Peace A Chance
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/9/10‎
It's also something to show solidarity to the cause that's for peace in Belize City." The concert, which starts at 7pm will end at midnight at the Memorial ...

Remembering Keith At Carnival Time
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/9/10‎
Whenever it comes to carnival time that is when we most miss our recently deceased colleague Keith Swift. Truth is we miss him every day, but more so when ...

K-9 Unit Joins The Search For The Rash Children
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/9/10‎
Joshua Trapp is a certified K-9 instructor that has worked with local law enforcement officials, including the Belize Defense Force. ...

Problems At Queen Square Market Area
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/9/10‎
They say progress brings problems - and nowhere has that been more apparent than at the Queen's Square Market. It seems that ever since the plan to ...

Belize's Film Heritage Showcased
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/9/10‎
But it's not about Hollywood blockbusters - it's a showcase of Belizean Films, films and documentaries made in Belize, starring Belizeans. ...

Celebrating Central American Independence
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/9/10‎
And to bring it all together, over the last couple of years, Belize has hosted its sister nations in holding one great big unified 'Independence Anniversary ...

Municipal Fair Will Be Big
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/9/10‎
And while the dancehall artists will rule the night, The Belize City Council's sixth annual Municipal Fair gets underway tomorrow at the MCC. ...

General Degree: Dancehall With Pedigree
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/9/10‎
And while that is set for tomorrow, another Jamaicn dancehall star will do his thing tonight. This one is well known for hits like traffic blocking -Hold Yu ...

Citizen's Arrest of Burglar
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/9/10‎
Two men, 21 year old Joel McGregor and 20 year old Carlton Wade, who allegedly broke into the house of Wendy Castillo and stole over fifteen thousand ...

Sandhill Robber Caught Red-Handed
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/9/10‎
Thirty-five year old Elroy Bonnell, who was released from prison about one week ago, went back to jail today when he appeared in the # 8 Magistrate's Court. ...

GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATION CALLS FOR GOVERNMENT TO REVERSE DECISION ON LAND
LoveFM - ‎9/9/10‎
The Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Association is calling on the government of Prime Minister Dean Barrow to reconsider its decision to disallow the ...

FARMERS RECEIVE TRAINING IN INTEGRATED FARMING
LoveFM - ‎9/9/10‎
“The training is basically directed to promote integrated farming system in Belize whereby the farmers in the rural areas will be able to make better use of ...

BELIZE CITY COUNCIL LOOKS TO MAINTAIN ORDER AT MARKET
LoveFM - ‎9/9/10‎
However, it appears that the Belize City Council is trying to bring some organization among vendors particularly in the area between Raccoon and Hickitee ...

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND UNESCO TEAM UP TO PROVIDE TRAINING FOR TEACHERS
LoveFM - ‎9/9/10‎
The project agreement was signed yesterday by the UNESCO/Japanese Fund-in-trust and the government of Belize. Kwame Boafo is the Director of UNESCO ...

PUP remake afoot
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
Former PUP Campaign Manager Ralph Fonseca is also to run in his old Belize Rural Central constituency, it has been confirmed. It remains to be seen what ...

Literacy Carnival launches national campaign
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
The Literacy Carnival, was held under the theme: “Quality Schools Promoting Literacy for a Better Belize”. The Literacy Unit sought to create a meaningful, ...

Audralee Enriquez wins Queen of the Bay
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
Miss Shanice Skeen of Belize City was voted the fifth runner up. The new Queen designate will receive her crown, robe and sceptre of office from the ...

Search mob torches sanctuary
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
Rose says that since their arrival in Belize in 2004, he and his wife had been rescuing and saving crocodiles; however, their operations weren't established ...

Police win interoffice Softball Marathon
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
... softball team won the two day marathon which launched the 2010 Interoffice Softball Competition at Rogers Stadium in Belize City on Sunday, September 5. ...

Spectrum Designs wins corporate relay triathlon
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
Spectrum Designs team won the corporate relay triathlon organized by the Belize Triathlon Association beside the ...

Giovanni Choto wins 11th Lionman Triathlon
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
Giovanni Choto won the 11th Lionman Triathlon organized by the Belize Triathlon Association beside the Sandlighter's ...

Tuff E'Nuff wins 2010 Interoffice basketball championship
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
It was the decisive third game of the finals at the Belize City Center on Wednesday night, September 1. Ashton Edwards led Tuff e' Nuff with 18 pts., ...

Belize City gets new police commanders
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
The Belize City Police Department has a new leader in Assistant Commissioner of Police Elodio Aragon Jr, who takes over ...

Today in History
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
... River Sarstoon on the south, and from Belize on the east to Garbutt Falls on the west to the great British Commonwealth of Nations by right of conquest. ...

Unmanned helicopter crashed in Cayo
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
No one was hurt when an unmanned, remote-controlled helicopter being tested by the US Army in Belize crashed at the ...

Belize Coalition - new leadership, but same goal
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
Belize's service sector is gearing up for regional and internatiional competition. The newly elected board of the Belize ...

Battered woman stabs boyfriend dead
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
Leshawn Lino was arraigned on manslaughter charges in the Belize City Magistrate's Court on Monday September 6 . In his plea for bail, Lino's attorney Carlo ...

Nurse Dorothy Bradley, JP, passes
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
Nurse Bradley was a Rural Health Nurse who practiced midwifery throughout most of rural Belize, delivering hundreds of babies with her capable hands. ...

Carlos Espat found dead in his bathtub Police focus on finding the killer
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/9/10‎
... undressed inside his bathtub at his home at the corner of Bishop and Albert Streets in Belize City around 11:35 Saturday morning, September 4th, 2010. ...

Garifuna Film Trilogy Completes Principal Photography of Part 1
Melodika.net (press release) - ‎9/9/10‎
The Garifuna are descendants of Carib, Arawak and West African people who live in the coastal regions of Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua in ...

9/8/10

Armed Robbers At Safeway
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/8/10‎
Police believe that the pair Abel Mendez was chasing when he was shot had just robbed a women. And before that the cops believe - they had just held up ...

Cop Shot In City
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/8/10‎
An exchange of gunfire on the mean streets of southside Belize last night has left one police officer injured. And city police are on an intense manhunt to ...

What If There Was a Tsunami?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/8/10‎
When the earth shook under all our feet a little over a year ago, and Belize woke up to the reality of an earthquake registering at 7.1 on the Richter scale ...

Ruthless Triple Killing In Carmelita
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/8/10‎
Tonight six children are without a mother, father and sibling - and what's worse is that three of them, two toddlers and a newborn saw their mother being ...

Prayers For Missing Children In Punta Gorda
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/8/10‎
11 year old Benjamin and 9 year old Onelia Rash are still missing - 9 days after they were last seen near Cattle Landing, just outside Punta Gorda Town. ...

Gough Gets Off
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/8/10‎
Thirty-eight year old Dr. John Gough, one of two men charged with wounding Carlos Zelaya Jr on February 15, was freed of the charge today in the #2 ...

Dean Perez Acquitted
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/8/10‎
Forty- three year old Dean Perez Sr., a building contractor who was charged with burglary and aggravated assault with intent to commit rape, ...

A Carnival For Readers, Not Revellers
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/8/10‎
Downtown Belize City had all the colour, the clamor and the pageantry of a carnival road march today - but it wasn't a case of the carnival coming two days ...

Ontario Outlaws
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/8/10‎
... year old Cecil Sadikee Castillo, and 27 year old Kimberly Ohson, - all of Belize City and all on a bus heading through Camalote on its way to Belmopan. ...

Police Make An Un-Fortunate Error
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/8/10‎
Last night we told you about 42 year old Delfina ALVAREZ SELGADO, the so called with doctor charged for "PRETENDS TO TELL FORTUNE. ...

Citrus Industry Shakeup, Again
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/8/10‎
For the past year that we've been covering the woes in the citrus industry, the fight has always been the Citrus Growers association versus Banks Holdings ...

Edwin Henry Critical
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/8/10‎
Last night we told you the story about 27 year old Edwin Henry who was shot at the Fair Brothers Pawn Shop on the corner of Mahogany Street and American ...

MISUNDERSTANDING LEADS TO POSSIBLE ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES
LoveFM - ‎9/8/10‎
Yesterday Logan was on duty at Fair Brothers Pawn Shop situated at the corner Mahogany Street and Central American Boulevard Belize City when he got into a ...

FIRST EVER LITERACY CARNIVAL CALLED A SUCCESS
LoveFM - ‎9/8/10‎
Hundreds of students from kindergarten to Junior College marched through the streets of Belize City this morning in the first of its kind Literacy Carnival. ...

New president for the Belize Amateur Athletics Association
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
The Belize Amateur Athletics Association held its Biennial General Assembly on Tuesday August 31, 2010, at the Edward P. Yorke High School. ...

Choto, Leslie, Cattouse, Figueroa and Te...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
The Belize National Triathlon Association held its 11th consecutive Lionman Triathlon competition on Sunday September 5, 2010. In the Elite competition it ...

Mirage Lady Rebels repeat as Belize City...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
The 2010 Belize City Senior Female Softball Competition came to an end on Friday September 3, at Rogers Stadium. The defending champion Mirage Lady Rebels ...

Shelton Moguel charged for robbery
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
On Monday September 6, 19-year-old Shelton Moguel appeared in Magistrate's Court in Belize City where he was charged with two counts following a report made ...

Leshawn Lino charged for killing BDF sol...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
Three days after the incident, on Monday September 6, she was taken to Magistrate's Court in Belize City where she was arraigned on a single charge of ...

Convicted serial rapist escapes more jai...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
A serial rapist who was convicted on August 8 of this year for one of many rapes he is accused of committing on the Southside of Belize City in a short ...

From Sketteldom - with malice towards some
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
You are indeed Belize; and so are we! Remember, no true-true Belizean artist is truly welcome enna dat deh skettel party. They could resurrect and replay ...

Record Profits for BWS - Non revenue water down, expenses down
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
Belize City's Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza Hotel was the venue for the 9th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Belize Water Services Limited (BWSL) on ...

Belize City landfill upgrade complete
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
Chia says that the Solid Waste Management Project is now working with Belize City Council to manage the dumpsite trying to make sure that the garbage is ...

Promoting more efficient farming methods
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
The workshop is sponsored by the Government of Belize and CATIE, (the Tropical Agronomic Center of Investigation and Education). ...

Women's Issues Network of Belize Wins Grant
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
The Embassy of the United States of America is pleased to announce that the Women's Issues Network (WIN) of Belize is a recipient of The Secretary of ...

Belizean Diaspora and Belize Homeland Reconnection: Proclamation of 12 Days of ...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
In September 2009, the Cabinet of Belize approved a special program entitled Engaging the Belizean Diaspora in Belize's Renaissance and Renewal. ...

Guinea Grass Youths Experience Belize's Marine Wonders
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
Additionally, the children were taken on an expedition at South Gallows Point where they were treated to snorkeling at Belize's Barrier Reef. ...

Belmopan produces another scholar
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
Farren Briggs, a native from Belmopan and product of Belize's public school education has recently graduated from the University of California, ...

Two children missing in Toledo! - Oracle's Vision Sparks Desperate Act near PG
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
ACES boasts a commitment to conserving Belize's critical habitats and protected species through scientific research and education to prevent further ...

2010 Carnival King and Queen crowned
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/8/10‎
Belize City residents were once again treated to an exciting evening on Saturday September 4 as the energy and colors of the annual Carnival King and Queen ...

9/7/10

Jam Jam is Recovering
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
Carnival Road March is only 3 days away - which means time is ticking down for the Jam Jam Carnival Band. As we reported on yesterday's newscast - their ...

Oracle Charged For Psychic Pretense
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
One woman who police say misled the community as to the children's whereabouts has been charged. She is 42 year old Delfina ALVAREZ SELGADO, a Housewife of ...

Art Of The Curtsy, Or How Not To Buckle
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
Last night we showed you the new Queen Of The Bay, Audralee Enriquez from Belize City. She won for a combination of attributes and talents - but at the end ...

September Tenth: the Birth Of A Nation?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
The independent Belize was born on September 21st. 1981, but the argument that the nation of Belize was born on September 10, 1798 is coming into increasing ...

Fatal Accident In North
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
A resident of Calcutta village was knocked down and killed on Monday night between miles 79 And 80 on the Northern Highway. Elvis Clarke was riding his ...

Convicted Rapist Gomez Gets Off
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
Two charges, attempted rape and robbery, were dismissed from convicted rapist 24 year old Leroy Gomez today in the court of Justice Adolph Lucas. ...

The Espat Murder Mystery
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
Funeral services for 47 year old Carlos Espat were held today at Holy Redeemer Church in Belize City. But the investigation into this very high profile ...

Concerns Deepen For Missing Children
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
There is no good news to report tonight in the case of Benjamin and Ophelia Rash, the missing children from San Marcos Village in the Toledo District. ...

Man Shot in Face On Life Support
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
A 27 year old is on life support at the KHMH tonight after he was shot in the face this morning. The circumstance under which he was shot is half the story. ...

A New Sherriff In Town
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
As we showed you last night, there's a new sherriff in town - or something like that as the crime ridden eastern division has its first new officer ...

Burglar Caught Half Naked at a Garment Factory
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
Twenty-five year old Floyd Robateau, a resident of Lord's Bank who was reportedly caught coming out of a window at Williamson Industries wearing only a ...

M-16 Recovered In the North
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎6 hours ago‎
One very deadly weapon is off the streets after Orange Walk police made a significant bust yesterday. It happened yesterday around 3:30 near the San Estevan ...

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO HOST SECOND MEETING OF BELIZE DIASPORA PROGRAM
LoveFM - ‎11 hours ago‎
All Belizeans who used to or currently live abroad are invited to the second annual forum for the Belize Diaspora Program. The program is an initiative that ...

TOLEDO ALCALDE ASSOCIATION TO HOLD PRAYER RALLY FOR RETURN OF MISSING CHILDREN
LoveFM - ‎11 hours ago‎
They say they were in San Pedro at the request of the Belize Forest Department rescuing three problematic crocodiles and meeting with top Belizean officials ...

9/6/10

Chinese Robbed
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/6/10‎
23 year old Shelton Moguel Jr, one of the two persons who the police believe robbed 31 year old Chinese businessman Wei Dong Lai, was charged with ...

Senior Citizen Slayed In The Street
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/6/10‎
"No information at all and that's the problem that we are facing here in Belize." "There are various angles that the investigators are looking at and we are ...

Carlos Espat Murdered
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/6/10‎
Carlos Espat - the elder brother of Albert Area representative, Mark Espat - was found dead in his home on Saturday morning. The 47 year old was found dead ...

Wild Saturday Shooting Spree on South Street
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/6/10‎
And while that was the murder, two others are lucky to be alive after a will spree of gunfire on South street on Saturday night. ...

Chaos In Punta Gorda
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/6/10‎
I was all the way in Belize City and I knew that they are going from the police station to burn down the man house. No oracle told me. ...

Leshawn Lino to Court
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/6/10‎
Twenty-four year old Leshawn Lino, a mother of three who allegedly stabbed her common-law husband, 24 year old Shamir Henry, to death, was charged with ...

Carnival King and Queen Announced
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/6/10‎
All of last week, we showed you the carnival mas camps - and all those late nights spent at camp headquarters was building up to the big moment, ...

“Lionman” Is A Local
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/6/10‎
Although - strictly speaking - the Lionman Triathlon isn't a part of the September Celebrations, there was reason enough to celebrate on Sunday as Belizeans ...

Robbed at Laundromat
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/6/10‎
And there was also an armed robbery at a city Laundromat. Sixty one year old Raymond Charley Sr., owner of RJ's Laundromat at #53 Neal Penn Road was with ...

Audralee Enriquez is the 2010-2011 Queen of the Bay.
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/6/10‎
... cash and other prizes won, Audralee Enriquez also got a scholarship to pursue a Bachelor's Degree in any field of her choice at the University of Belize.

Carnival bad mind…
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/6/10‎
And while the Carnival King and Queen was declared on Friday night - seems some bad mindedness was still brewing in the event's aftermath. ...

“Spy Chopper's” Demise
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/6/10‎
It was a cool toy, but the YMQ-18A had a fiery end on Saturday morning when it crashed at the central farm airstrip. This picture of it looking like a ...

POLICE IDENTIFY CRIME HOTSPOTS IN THE CITY
LoveFM - ‎9 hours ago‎
New officers have taken over command of the police's Eastern Division in Belize City. Since Wednesday of last week, the man in charge is Assistant ...

CRASH LANDING BRINGS MILITARY TESTING TO A HALT
LoveFM - ‎9/6/10‎
The 45 day testing of the unmanned helicopter, the YMQ18A and the Forester Radar, began on August first with the assistance of the Belize Defense Force. ...

SHOOTING VICTIM SUCCUMBS TO HIS INJURIES
LoveFM - ‎9/6/10‎
Elston Peters, who was shot last evening in Belize City, succumbed to his injuries this morning while receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial ...

MISS FREETOWN CHOSEN AS QUEEN OF THE BAY 2010
LoveFM - ‎9/6/10‎
Enriquez won the title from among 10 young ladies on Saturday evening at the Bird's Isle in Belize City. First runner up and Miss Amity is Miss Placencia ...

9/3/10

Villagers Get Access To Nighttime Education
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/3/10‎
"We decided at the ministry to extend the program to more than just to the Southside of Belize City but to the country on a whole. We have young people here ...

A Threat Taken Seriously
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/3/10‎
In times such as these, every threat has to be taken seriously and that's why 19 year old Andre Coleman reported to police that yesterday evening at about 6 ...

Student Pleads Guilty
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/3/10‎
Nineteen year old Emerson Faber, a high school student who attempted to rob another student, 15 year Khambrel Blease, was spared a custodial sentence when ...

Near Miss For A 20 Year Old; His Father Worries
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/3/10‎
This evening a 20 year old is at a relative's home recovering after he narrowly escaped death last night. Darren Morgan of Western Pines Community at Mile 8 ...

Memorial Park Roof Being Repaired
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/3/10‎
From the many broken sponsored chairs, to the monuments that pay homage to Belize's fallen soldiers, the entire park seems to be in a state of disrepair. ...

Funding For Women's Issues
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/3/10‎
The Women's Issues Network of Belize, a non-governmental organization that champions the cause of Women in Belize got a major institutional boost today, ...

Monica's Heat Check At Mas Camps
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/3/10‎
"Our theme is agriculture, we are portraying the 3 major industries in Belize. The sugarcane industry, the citrus industry and the banana industry. ...

4 Year Old Girl Knocked Down & Killed
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/3/10‎
As we told you at the top of the newscast, a four year old girl was run over in the city today. It happened on North Front Street as she was crossing north ...

The Most Expensive Box Of Biscuits Ever
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/3/10‎
Fifty year old bottle vendor Melvin Swift was not successful in his new profession of a thief which he seems to have taken up yesterday. ...

Music In The Lake
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/3/10‎
There's good news in the Lake I area tonight, after St Martin de Porres Primary received musical instruments valued around six thousand dollars. ...

“Manslaughter” For Woman Who Killed Boyfriend
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/3/10‎
Tonight, Leshawn Lino is spending her 25th birthday in lockdown at the Ladyville police station. That's because last night she stabbed her boyfriend and ...

WIN BELIZE RECEIVES SIZEABLE DONATION
LoveFM - ‎9/3/10‎
The efforts to addressing CSEC and other pressing social issues continue and a grant handed to the Women's Issues Network of Belize, WIN-Belize, ...

ONE MAN REMAINS HOSPITALIZED FOLLOWING BELIZE CITY SHOOTING
LoveFM - ‎9/3/10‎
Belize City Police are investigating a shooting incident which occurred just before midnight last night. Police say when they visited the Karl Heusner ...

BELIZEANS LIVING ABROAD PREPARE A SPECIAL WEEK FOR REFLECTION
LoveFM - ‎9/3/10‎
According to a joint statement issued today, September tenth to the twenty first is the period chosen for the Belizean Diaspora and Belize Homeland ...

Ten ways to survive the pensions crisis
The Guardian - ‎9/3/10‎
Move overseas ... to Belize? If you are worried about how you are going to manage financially when you retire, there is a more drastic solution: move to a ...

BSI Core Sampler Sabotaged!
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/3/10‎
“Use it or lose it,” was the clear message Belize Sugar Industry management got on Saturday, August 28 when they quite ...

BTL sale to be announced on Independence Day
Amandala - ‎9/3/10‎
The Government of Belize acquired a 94% supermajority stake in the Belize Telemedia Limited (BTL) just over a year ago, and Prime Minister Dean Barrow told ...

Jordick Thompson, 17, murdered on Glynn Street
Amandala - ‎9/3/10‎
I told him that I was going out, so I didn't lend him my bike,” said Thompson's father, Harold Thompson, 38, also of Belize City. ...

“It's time for Roaring Creek!!!”
Amandala - ‎9/3/10‎
Next was a contest between the Belize Rural villages, and it was a see-saw slug fest, with Burrell Boom Survivors emerging 14-13 winners over Flowers Bank ...

Roaring Creek Grace Kennedy wins National Women's Softball
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/3/10‎
... in the national tournament held under the auspices of the Belize Softball Federation, which climaxed at the Rogers Stadium on Sunday, August 29. ...

BDF rotates top commanders
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/3/10‎
The Belize Defense Force has completed, as of August 30, a major reshuffling of its three senior commanders. ...

Lee Henkis, 41, charged with unnatural crime against a 9-year-old boy
Amandala - ‎9/3/10‎
Police say that on Thursday, July 22, 2010, a nine-year-old boy of Belize City, accompanied by his mother, went to the police station. ...

Chamber urges Public Accounts Committee to get up off its butt
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/3/10‎
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called on the Government of Prime Minister Dean Barrow to treat the Auditor General's report “with the ...

Prime Minister pledges prompt action and penalties for non-performing public ...
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/3/10‎
... to open and accountable government and will leave no stone unturned to ensure that this legitimate demand by the people of Belize is fully satisfied.

St. George's Caye - Central to Patriotic Celebrations
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/3/10‎
I Am Belize!” It has since become the lyrical basis for the pulsating theme song: “I Am Belize”. Minister Heredia also found the ceremony an appropriate ...

Crooks in Corozal snatch SSB steel safe but come out mostly empty-handed!
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/3/10‎
Armed bandits made off with more than $100000 during a daring daylight robbery at the Belize City branch on March 10. The thieves entered through the ...

ICDE alumni help 43 needy students
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/3/10‎
Forty three needy schoolchildren from 20 families all over Belize have received much needed help from the Belize Taiwan ...

Cabinet declaration gives warnings to land squatters
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/3/10‎
The Government of Belize has issued a stern warning to people who occupy public or private lands without authority (squatting) and announced that it will ...

Newest Magistrate Court now in operation
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/3/10‎
Belize City's newest Magistrate's Court has wasted no time in getting to work. It has not only accumulated its fair ...

Belize Kids First and BCC helps 15 Students
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/3/10‎
Fifteen students from families of humble means are attending high school this academic year, thanks to the Belize Kids ...

Belize City Center unsafe for big crowds!
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/3/10‎
Several major events of this year's September celebrations will not be held at the Belize City Center as originally ...

New Water Jets challenge water taxi monoploy
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/3/10‎
Most maritime commuters would be familiar with the names; San Pedro Belize Express, and Caye Caulker Water Taxi, but not many would have heard of the Water ...

Guatemalan woman charged with human trafficking Police swoop arrest five in ...
The Reporter Belize - ‎9/3/10‎
A police detachment from Belize on special assignment to San Pedro has arrested a 24-year-old Guatemalan woman and charged ...

9/2/10

BTL launches new fixed-wireless 3G service, expands fibre reach
TeleGeography - ‎9/2/10‎
Belize Telemedia Ltd (BTL) has launched a new fixed-wireless telephony and high speed internet service for rural customers based on 3G CDMA2000 1xEV-DO ...

Belizean jaguar populations 'well connected'
Planet Earth - ‎9/2/10‎
Jaguars in Belize roam over a much wider variety of habitats than previously thought, researchers have found. They say this is good news, because it means ...

Janay's Journey, Back To School
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/2/10‎
We have been following 8 year old Janay Moguel's story since February when she was shot, hospitalized and later returned to Belize after receiving medical ...

Victimized by A Bogus Porn Video
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/2/10‎
"People can push around child pornography in Belize and it's not a criminal act and we have to look on those things because people supposed to have a right ...

“Nolle pros” in Cold Blooded Cayo Killing
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/2/10‎
When Albert Wade was killed in Cayo in April of 2006, it made the headlines as a senseless and cold blooded murder: Friend kills friend. ...

Robbed On Marine Parade
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/2/10‎
... that last night around 9:30, he was walking along Marine Parade near Celebrity Restaurant in Belize City with a female friend when they were robbed. ...

Hilux Hurtles Into Fence
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/2/10‎
It ended when a late model green Toyota Hilux crashed into the fence at Belize Cable Vision. Police say that on Saturday night at 15 minutes past seven a ...

National Campaign Manager, Et Tu “Lucas”?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/2/10‎
He's the sometimes controversial, always outspoken owner of the Port Of Belize. Reports to our newsroom suggest that Espat is offering himself for national ...

The Tradition Lives, Queen Of The Bay
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/2/10‎
We have candidates all the way from Independence, Placencia, Corozal, we also have 4 candidates from Belize City itself." "I am Lisa Guiterrez and I am ...

Safe Is Safe, Contents, Mostly
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/2/10‎
... 9 computerized Belize Bank check books, 1 Purchase Order Fuel Book, 10 Purchase order books, 16 receipt books and 2 computerized SSB check books, ...

Teenager Murdered In Driving Rain
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/2/10‎
Last night at ten, residents in the area of West Canal and Church Street were startled by the sound of a single gunshot. The shot was at point blank range ...

Mas Camps' Senior Moments
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/2/10‎
"This year we will be presenting a story called the victory and it's a fantasy story which comprises elements of Belize social history and cultural history. ...

Butane Truck Driver Pounced Upon
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/2/10‎
Armed robbers pounced on a butane truck driver as he made the rounds in Belize City yesterday. Twenty-one year old, Jimmy David Robinson, a Southside Depot ...

Interoffice basketball down to the final...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
The Belize City Interoffice Basketball League championship series will go down to the final game on Wednesday September 1, 2010, at the Belize City Centre ...

Belizean cyclists excel in Guatemala Cit...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
The Belize Cycling Association had representation at the XLVI Vuelta Internacional de La Juventud Categoria sub-23 from August 25 to 29, 2010 in Guatemala ...

Sexual assault withdrawn against Delesmo...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
A Belize City father who was accused of molesting a 7-year-old child in April of this year is a free man after being remanded to the Hattieville Prison ...

Woman found guilty of theft
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
... started in her absence and it concluded on Tuesday, August 31 before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer in Belize City Magistrate's Court. ...

Rushiel Bevans assaults Nuri Muhammad
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
42-year-old Rushiel Bevans, a self employed resident of #6220 Keating Crescent, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, ...

Briceño's One-upmanship Move
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
John Briceño would be the next Prime Minister of Belize in 2013, and that he, Briceño, was much smarter than all the (PUP) rest, including Mark Espat. ...

City Council Donates 3 Scholarships to Belize Kids First
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
On Wednesday, September 1, the Belize City Council donated three scholarships to the Belize Kids First program. Belize Kids First is an organization ...

THEN & NOW
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
The bottom line is that all Skettels are bad for Belize and it will make absolutely no difference which Skettel emerges with the big hat on October 17 ...

UWI Call for Papers Belize Country Conference – November 16-17, 2010 ...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
The PUP's Old Guard's attempt to destabilize Johnny Briceno's leadership failed miserably last week. Sensing one-upmanship on the part of the Old Guard to ...

Sugar Crop Closes
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
This makes it the longest crop in the history of Belize Sugar Industries, second only to the crop of 2007, when the mill remained in operation for 234 days. ...

National Art Exhibit Opens in Belize City
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
The exhibit is called 29: Artists Works Years and the tour will make its last stop in Belize City. The exhibits will be on display from Thursday, ...

Revisiting Security Cameras
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
The Auditor General Annual Report points out that in December of 2007 a contract was entered into between the Government of Belize through the Police ...

Queen of the Bay 2010
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
They are Salome Cardinez from Corozal; Diana Hemmans from Belize City; Shanice Flowers, Miss Belizean Pride; Audralee Enriquez, Miss Freetown; ...

Restore Belize Establishes 1st Safe Zone
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
The Restore Belize Program announced on Tuesday August 31st that the first Community Safe Zone has been established in Belize City. ...

First Caribbean Bank Adopts KHMH's Pediatric Ward
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
She says that this year the Belize City branches pooled their resources and decided to support KHMH's Adopt a Ward program. First Caribbean Bank purchased ...

Cheapest Water Taxi Fares
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
It has only been operational for a couple weeks now but Belizeans are quickly becoming aware of the exceptional service offered by Belize's newest water ...

Belizean Delegation visits the Instituto Politecnico Nacional
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
On August 20, representatives of the University of Belize (UB), the Belize Audubon Society, and members of Toledo visited the Instituto Politecnico Nacional ...

How to get rid of gangs in Belize and the Caribbean countries
The Guardian, Belize - ‎9/2/10‎
In Belize, the Caribbean countries and many other countries in the world gang violence has become so uncontrollable that most governments do not know what ...

9/1/10

No Charges For Matachica Death
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/1/10‎
The funeral for 57 year old Gregorio Eustaquio Cornejo was held today in Libertad Village , but while he is being laid to rest, police have not brought ...

29: the Magic Number
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/1/10‎
... which is organized by NICH along with the National Celebrations Commission and has been on a country-wide tour and which ended today in Belize City.

Benny's Belizean Megastructure
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/1/10‎
It is among the tallest structures in Belize and The long anticipated opening of the multi-million dollar Benny's Superstore mile 2 and a half on the ...

The Core Sampler – Gone With The Wind
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/1/10‎
On Monday August 30th, 42 year old Manager of the Belize Sugar Industry Control Board Marcos Osorio reported to police that sometime between the tenth of ...

Burglars Get “Bangles”
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/1/10‎
A 20 year old student was held up last night by an armed robber while walking on Yorke Street. But instead of the robber making off with anything he was ...

Deviance On Dean Street: Alleged Child Molester Charged
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/1/10‎
Ten days ago, a 9 year old student of Belize City accompanied by his mother went to police and reported that he went to a green upper floor house on Dean ...

City Gives Scholarships
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/1/10‎
Today three first formers were given the opportunity to make their dreams a reality as The Belize City Council partnered with The Belize Kids First ...

Another City Fire: Fourth In Nine Days
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/1/10‎
There was a fire this morning in the city - it is the fourth fire to destroy a wooden structure in 9 days. This one happened at around 11:15 on Fuller's ...

Nothing Like The First Day
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/1/10‎
That was what happened today at schools all across Belize as students returned with crisply creased uniforms, sparkling white socks, screechy sneakers and ...

No Seas, No Trees, Just Breeze....
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎9/1/10‎
He came on a cruise ship, but it seems one tourist was looking for more than seas and trees, he wanted some Belizean Breeze... 25 year old American, ...

CHANGES MADE IN THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
LoveFM - ‎9/1/10‎
The Ministry of Defense and Immigration has announced changes within the senior commanders of the Belize Defense Force. According to an official release ...

SECOND PAYMENT RELEASED FOR RICE FARMERS IN THE TOLEDO DISTRICT
LoveFM - ‎9/1/10‎
The 2009/2010 sugar cane crop will go down in the books as the longest cane crop in Belize's History. Today the cane yard at the BSI compound in Tower Hill ...


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