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5/31/11

City Man shot In Home
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/31/11‎
And while the story in Cayo is of a vicious stabbing, in Belize City 17 year old Allan Moody - a resident of Belize City was shot last night inside his home. According to police, around 9:30 Moody was lying down in his living room ...

Fragile Bus Truce In Serious Jeopardy
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/31/11‎
Official word from Belmopan yesterday afternoon was that nine runs had been agreed upon for the for Belize Bus Owners Cooperative in the west - and 8 more were being finalized in the north. That was a sign of real progress - but tonight, the whole deal ...

New Tint Regulations Take Effect Tomorrow
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/31/11‎
Now, most vehicles in Belize are at a VLT that's rated under ten - which won't work - AND THE traffic police will know for sure that you're in violation because they've gotten specialized meters to test the tint. Today we got to see one of the ...

UNION AND MANAGEMENT OF PORT OF BELIZE AT ODDS
LoveFM - ‎5/31/11‎
Four days after the bus controversy there is more controversy to report as now it is the stevedores and their employer, the Port of Belize Limited in deadlock over salary and benefits. On the side of the workers is the Christian Workers' Union, ...

Belize U-17 brings back Silver from COCABA Championship, qualifies to ...
Amandala - Daniel Ortiz - ‎5/31/11‎
Today, the Belize Under-17 National Basketball Team returned from Costa Rica where they participated in the COCABA U-17 Championship Tournament, which got underway on Tuesday, May 14. Our national team brought home Silver from the games, and they were ...

Corrigendum: 8 minutes, not 8 seconds; a story goes with it - words of inspiration
Amandala - ‎5/31/11‎
In the article “Shalini retains the garland for Belize” in last Sunday's issue, in the third to last paragraph I wrote, “She let Sara do most of the work, and their pace slowed, so that the 5-minute lead they had enjoyed over the others earlier had ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - ‎5/31/11‎
Recent history has proven, though, that when the bus operators of Belize begin to demonstrate, there is a flashpoint at the Orange Walk Town/Tower Hill Bridge area which can go off at any time. In other words, no intelligent government would seek to ...

Bus operators' blitzkrieg
Amandala - ‎5/31/11‎
In Belize, the so-called, secretive “Special Branch” performs the intelligence-gathering functions of an organization like the American FBI. No one is supposed to be able to organize an almost national shutdown of road transportation and deliver a body ...

Kolbe kicks out Arthur Saldivar
Amandala - Daniel Ortiz - ‎5/31/11‎
It was signed by Earl Jones, CEO of Kolbe Foundation, Belize Central Prison. The letters stated that at about 4:30 pm on May 25, Saldivar “facilitated interviews”, and that he in fact “took the liberty of calling Channel 7 and Channel 5 Broadcasting ...

Prison guard perishes in traffic accident
Amandala - Stacey Kelly - ‎5/31/11‎
On Friday, May 27, 2011, around 2:00 pm, during a routine drive from the Orange Walk Police Station to the Belize Central Prison for the transportation of prison inmates, Delbert McLaughlin, 46, an escorting Police Prison Officer, lost his life when ...

CGA injunction denied: Hafiz not convinced Canton is at fault for CPBL's money ...
Amandala - Adele Ramos - ‎5/31/11‎
Supreme Court Justice Minnet Hafiz issued a ruling on Thursday, May 26, 2011, refusing an application by the Belize Citrus Growers Association Investment Company Limited (ICL) and its subsidiary, Citrus Products of Belize Limited (CPBL), that sought an ...

Bus owners ambush “Flippin!”
Amandala - Aaron Humes - ‎5/31/11‎
He would not tell us directly on the record what his aggrieved operators, particularly the Belize Bus Owners' Cooperative (BBOC) — a cooperative of over 60 operators running buses in the Western Zone and a BBOA member, which was still off the road for ...

Harrison Smith beats murder charge – again!
Amandala - Aaron Humes - ‎5/31/11‎
Smith was on trial before Justice Adolph Lucas for the death of Lionel “Sleepy” Welcome, 47, killed on December 12, 2007, on Albert Street in Belize City. He had previously been charged with the murder of Renato Logan in February of 2006 but was ...

5/30/11

Miss Y Is 80!
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/30/11‎
"My message to you on this occasion of the launch of the Festival of Arts is that we should try to be a creative as possible, we should not be afraid of putting forward those things which are uniquely Belize. Let us not be copying from other ...

Drivers Get Their Busses Back Slightly The Worse For Wear
Channel 7 Daily News - Jules Vasquez - ‎5/30/11‎
On Saturday after the meeting - with the feelgood spirit still in the air - the operators went for their busses at the Queen Street Police Station in Belize. Here's how that went. Works minister Anthony Boots Martinez went to the police station to get ...

Agriculture Gets Spanking New Vehicles
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/30/11‎
The Belize Agriculture Health Authority (BAHA) and the National Coordinating Committee for Research and Development (NCCARD) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries today received ten spanking new pick-up trucks. It's part of the IDB funded ...

City Girl robbed At Gunpoint Wants Back Her Stuff
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/30/11‎
Times are hard in Belize, I am not working, I am struggling just as they are but I not robbing people. I just want them to return belongings. They can keep the phone and the $30 credit I am sure they have used it already. ...

A Truce In The Bus War
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/30/11‎
By Saturday morning though, it was clear that cooler heads had prevailed and things had gone in the direction of a negotiated settlement rather than sustained civil disobedience. And that's partly because Claude Frazier the President of the Belize Bus ...

Under 17 b-Ballers Return Home With Silver
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/30/11‎
At the end of the news on Friday we gave you the exciting news that Belize's under 17 basketball team had crushed Panama in the semifinals of the COCABA Championship in Costa Rica. That meant Belize would play for the gold the following night against ...

75th stories: Beautiful creatures - Ralph Lainson and his parasites
Wellcome Trust - ‎5/30/11‎
Lainson's long relationship with the parasite began in Belize (then British Honduras) in 1959. His aim was to find the source of cutaneous leishmaniasis, known locally as 'Chiclero ulcer', and the first step was to find the parasite's animal reservoir ...

ORANGE WALK MAN SHOT AND KILLED
LoveFM - Maria Novelo - ‎5/30/11‎
"The tranquility of the quiet neighbourhood on the Belize Corozal Road was shattered by the sound of gunshots on Sunday night. Gripped with fear, residents remained inside their homes until they heard screams. That was when they came out to see what ...

BUS COMPANY REGAINS A NUMBER OF RUNS
LoveFM - ‎5/30/11‎
Following the meeting the Ministry issued a release in which it states that the Belize Bus Owners Association was offered nine scheduled runs, four from Benque Viejo del Carmen to Belize City and return and five from Belize City to Benque Viejo del ...

COROZAL POLICE MAKE ARREST IN ROBBERY OF COURIER SERVICE OFFICE
LoveFM - ‎5/30/11‎
Corozal Police have arrested one man and are looking for another following a mid afternoon robbery at the Belize Messaging and Postal Service office in Corozal Town. Shortly after two o'clock on Friday afternoon two men, one armed with a short arm ...

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE GETS NEW VEHICLES
LoveFM - ‎5/30/11‎
The Belize Agricultural Health Authority and the National Coordinating Committee for Research and Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries are the recipients of ten new pick-up trucks. The new vehicles are the first shipment of vehicles ...

OFFICIALS PREPARE FOR HURRICANE SEASON
LoveFM - Marion Ali - ‎5/30/11‎
"Everyone remembers all too well the damage that Hurricane Richard brought 2010 when it ripped through central Belize on October twenty-fourth, tearing down houses, blocking roads, and flooding out portions of the low-lying plains. ...

PUBLIC INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN 21 DAYS OF PRAYER
LoveFM - ‎5/30/11‎
The surge of crime and violence that has taken the country, in particular Belize City and other social ills have prompted the body of Christ in Belize to organize twenty-one days of prayer. The prayers start as of midnight today and is scheduled to end ...

5/27/11

A CONCERT TO STOP THE VIOLENCE…
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/27/11‎
More than a dozen of Belize's top punta rock artists along with some of the country's top DJ's will stage a Stop the Violence concert tomorrow at the MCC Grounds. It's billed as the Supa G Birthday party, but in conjunction with Belizeans for ...

The Scene In Carmelita
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/27/11‎
And then the crowd heard that the riot squad from Belize City was on their way and so they began preparing for the worst. Stones were stockpiled and the fire blazed higher. Even though they wanted a calm demonstration, they were prepared for whatever ...

OPTIMIST BOATS ARRIVE
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/27/11‎
In December of last year 7News was invited to the Belize Sailing Association's "Christmas Sailing Days" which was staged at the Button Wood Bay seashore. It was an attempt at reviving interest in the sport of sailing, especially amongst the youth of ...

Compromise Blows Up In PM's Face, Live At Press Conference
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/27/11‎
And complicating things even more was that the chairman of the Belize Bus Operators Association, Claude Frazer did not show up at the Prime Minister's press conference. Best information to us suggests that he was drummed out of the meeting with his own ...

BELIZE BOYS TO GOLD MEDAL GAME!
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/27/11‎
In very good late breaking basketball news Belize's under 17 team beat panama in the semifinal round today by a score of 76 to 62. We will play in the championship game tomorrow against either Guatemala or Mexico Tariq Middleton had 21 points and ...

MISS Y TAKES CENTERSTAGE
LoveFM - ‎5/27/11‎
The 17th annual Miss Y pageant will take place tomorrow night in Belize City. This year's pageant will be held at the Bird's Isle. Coordinator Birdy Francis tells us more. 'We have seven beautiful contestants, matriarch of our country, ...

TWO BELIZE CITY MEN CHARGED WITH DRUG TRAFFICKING
LoveFM - ‎5/27/11‎
Two Belize City men have been charged with drug trafficking. On Thursday afternoon about one o'clock Police conducted a search on a taxi driven by 46-year-old Douglas Gill. Police say they found a black plastic bag and a transparent bag containing 96 ...

Cayo teams, St. Jude females and San Jose Succotz males are 2011 National ...
Amandala - ‎5/27/11‎
The National Primary School Softball Championships took place on Thursday and Friday, May 19 and 20, in Belize City with male and female champion teams representing their respective districts in games played at the Rogers Stadium and Youth Hostel Field ...

Belize joins International Sailing Federation;
Amandala - ‎5/27/11‎
The Council of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) has approved for the Belize Sailing Association (BzSA) to become a full Member National Authority of the world governing body for sailing. Belize has been allocated, by geographic location, ...

GOB loses millions in landmark Westerhaven appeals case
Amandala - Adele Ramos - ‎5/27/11‎
The BZ$11.5 million which former Chief Justice, Dr. Abdulai Conteh, had ordered MS Westerhaven Schiffahrts to pay to the Government of Belize for damage to 1.4 acres of the prestigious Belize Barrier Reef has been reduced to roughly BZ$4 million, ...

The BTL takeover - litigation enters new phase
Amandala - Adele Ramos - ‎5/27/11‎
Twenty-two months ago, in August 2009, the Barrow administration nationalized Belize Telemedia Limited (BTL), wresting control of over 90% shareholding from companies in the Michael Ashcroft group, and promising to pay compensation, in a move which the ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - Evan X Hyde - ‎5/27/11‎
I suppose the foreign clerics who control school curricula in Belize would argue that Malcolm was a black American, and therefore not that relevant to Belize. In response, I would ask if Belize is not part of the black world, if Belizeans have not been ...

Malic's closing for Chinese store in June
Amandala - Adele Ramos - ‎5/27/11‎
Malic's Poultry Supermarket, one of Belize City's longest standing roots superstores, located at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Vernon Street, on the Southside of Belize City, is closing its doors next month, June, and a Chinese grocery ...

Northside murder: neighbours closed their doors!
Amandala - Stacey Kelly - ‎5/27/11‎
It has been a murderous week for the nation, with six people dead and four people recovering from their wounds in gun violence that occurred mostly in the old capital, Belize City, and a stabbing death in San Ignacio. The violence began just before ...

Shot and chopped to death - by his own friends!
Amandala - Stacey Kelly - ‎5/27/11‎
A Belize Defence Force soldier, Shane Simplis, 23, a resident of Teakettle Village, Cayo District, met his death at the hands of his own friends; he was chopped and shot to death. Simplis suffered two chop wounds to his head, one to his right arm, ...

SavorBelize Honors Chocolate Producers from Belize and Cacao Farmers at 5th ...
TravelVideo.tv (press release) - ‎5/27/11‎
Belize City, Belize – May, 2011 – Known to Mayas in 1000 BC as “food of the gods,†Belize’s rich chocolate has emerged as an irresistible treat for international travelers, and it has become a solid contributor to the country’s economy. ...

Mayan Belize Accessories PR: MayaBags
Pierce Mattie Public Relations - ‎5/27/11‎
MayaBags is a product line from Southern Belize which employs Mayan women and male Mayan artisans so that every product carries a piece of their culture. Each product is handmade and produced with skill and precision. Their product line includes a line ...

Optimistic Future For Belizean Sailing
International Sailing Federation - ‎5/27/11‎
The Government of Belize waivered import duty and GST as the boats will be used by BzSA to launch youth sail training and for Belize to compete internationally at this entry level. The Optimist Project will also produce new sailors for the traditional ...

PRIME MINISTER INTERVENES IN BUS CRISIS
LoveFM - ‎11 hours ago‎
At the start of the Press Conference, Prime Minister Barrow conceded that the protest was the result of a wrong done to the Belize Bus Owners Cooperative when their runs to the west was taken away and a new provider given those same runs. ...

BPMS COROZAL OFFICE ROBBED
LoveFM - ‎11 hours ago‎
Corozal Police have arrested one man and are looking for another following a mid afternoon robbery at the Belize Messaging and Postal Service office in Corozal Town. Shortly after two o'clock yesterday two men, one armed with a short arm entered the ...

OPPOSITION LEADER COMMENTS ON BUS CRISIS
LoveFM - ‎11 hours ago‎
The Ministry of Transport, and by extension, the government, has come under heat from all sectors for the action taken against the Belize Bus Owners Cooperative. This evening, the opposition, People's United Party, also weighed in on the crisis. ...

5/26/11

Optimistic Future For Belizean Sailing
International Sailing Federation - ‎5/26/11‎
The Government of Belize waivered import duty and GST as the boats will be used by BzSA to launch youth sail training and for Belize to compete internationally at this entry level. The Optimist Project will also produce new sailors ...

Belize scheme gets AIPP seal of approval
Overseas Property Professional - ‎5/26/11‎
AIPP member company Eco-Futures Development, based in Newport Beach, California, has won AIPP approval for its flagship development Sanctuary Belize. "The approval process was very detailed," company principal Luke Chadwick told OPP this week. ...

Smith Beats Second Murder Charge
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/26/11‎
Welcome was fatally stabbed in the left side of his chest on December 12, 2007, on Albert Street near to the Belize Bank. One witness, Lindon Sutherland, testified that he saw Smith riding on a bicycle come from the direction of water Lane on to Albert ...

Taximan May Have Been Murdered Over Petty Wounding Charge
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/26/11‎
Charles Anthony Anderson, he's one of the most well known taxi drivers in Belize City - taking fares here at the corner of Albert and Bishop Streets between Scotia bank and Venus. But yesterday, he was found dead here, on Guzman Crescent in the Belama ...

The Recording Of Laru Beya
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/26/11‎
For these musicians in Senegal in felt right so that why those tracks ended up in the album but it was a lot of work coming back to the studio in Belize with all this tracks and saying how we are going to blend this in with the Garifuna drums - with ...

CARSI Funds For Police
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/26/11‎
There's a brand new team of crime fighters on the streets of Belize city tonight. And it is thanks to the US sponsored Central American Regional Security Initiative that the city now boasts a team of motorcycle cops that look like they came straight ...

Bus Operators Not Happy With Ministry's Response
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/26/11‎
The Operators demanded that all changes to the western runs which went into effect on Saturday be suspended so that the Belize Bus Owners Cooperative can have their regular runs re-instated. According to Thomas Shaw, Chairman of the Bus Association, ...

Belize's U017 Team's Narrow Loss To Mexico
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/26/11‎
Belize's male under 17 basketball team lost a close one to Mexico in the COCABA tournament in Costa Rica this evening. In overtime, Mexico beat Belize by a hair, 59 to 57. And while a disappointment, it's not a major setback; Belize still qualifies for ...

Region still has 'somewhere to go' in addressing climate change issues
Jamaica Observer - ‎5/26/11‎
APIA, Samoa (CMC) — Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (CCCC), Dr Leonard Nurse says while regional countries are making progress in their effort to resolve climate change issues they are ...

HARRISON SMITH BEATS SECOND MURDER CHARGE
LoveFM - ‎5/26/11‎
... when a jury of seven women and five men in the court of Justice Adolph Lucas found him not guilty of the murder of 47-year-old car washer Lionel “Sleepy” Welcome who was fatally stabbed on December 12, 2007 on Albert Street near to the Belize Bank. ...

US GOVERNMENT MAKES DONATION TO BELIZE POLICE DEPARTMENT
LoveFM - ‎5/26/11‎
Over eighty thousand US dollars worth of equipment including firearms and patrol motorbikes were handed over to the Belize Police Department courtesy of the United States government. Officer Commanding the Eastern Division, Assistant Commissioner of ...

THIEVES TARGET YABRA COMMUNITY CENTER
LoveFM - ‎5/26/11‎
This is where we house our feeding program for needy children of South Side Belize City. Someone broke into the lower flat of the building, stole an assortment of items that we use for that feeding program and that person released the butane gas as an ...

INVESTIGATION CONTINUE INTO MURDER OF TAXI DRIVER
LoveFM - ‎5/26/11‎
The empty parking spot and the black ribbon in front of Venus Photos and Records was where Belize's latest murder victim made his business home. This was where Charles Anderson stationed himself as a taxi driver for the past thirty odd years until his ...

TWO PEOPLE REPORTED MISSING
LoveFM - ‎5/26/11‎
The first is forty five year old Nathaline Peters, a resident of Belize City. Peters' sister Jane reported to police that Nathaline left home on Sunday afternoon to an unknown destination and has not been heard from since. Nathaline Peters is described ...

Belize Defence Force commander visits joint humanitarian exercise in Haiti
DVIDS - ‎5/26/11‎
Tapia, commander of the Belize Defence Force, and Col. Kenneth Donnelly, commander of Task Force Bon Voizen, for the work that the task force engineers are doing, May 19, 2011. New Horizons Haiti 2011 – Task Force Bon Voizen is a Commander, ...

SeaBase1 habitat in Belize put on Kingston director's to-do list
Newsday (subscription) -  - ‎5/26/11‎
By AP By Chris Brock May 26--Besides co-producing a documentary on the War of 1812, Kenn M. Feigelman, director of operations for Deep/Quest 2 Expeditions, is gearing up for another project. He serves as a consulting scientific partner for SeaBase 1, ...

City Boys United crushed Griga Knights
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/26/11‎
The Belize Bank Super League Tournament continued over the weekend with four games across the country. On Saturday May 21, 2011, in the first game on the schedule, which was played out at the People's Stadium in Orange Walk Town, the visiting Placencia ...

UB maintains lead in Ballin' for Life ...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/26/11‎
The Belize District Basketball Association 2011 Ballin' for Life competition continued over the last week of play with a number of games at the Belize City Centre. On Sunday May 22, in the first of two U-20 games played, Krem defeated OW by the score ...

Lanisha Jones spun two hit shutout
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/26/11‎
The 77th Belize City female softball competition continues at Rogers Stadium with a number of games. On Tuesday May 24, defending champion Mirage Lady Rebels defeated Orchid Blazers by the score of 7-0 behind the 2 hits shut- out of ace pitcher Lanisha ...

Belize wins opener at COCABA Tournament
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/26/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Vivian Castillo Wins Lotto's $75000 Jackpot
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/26/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Fortis profits up by US 17 Million- BEL in a slump
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/26/11‎
There was no earnings' contribution from Belize Electricity during the firstquarter of 2011. In March the Supreme Court of Belize dismissed Belize Electricity's appeal of the regulator's June 2008 Final Rate Decision. The Company is in the process of ...

Eulogy of Donald 'Jack' Hope
The Guardian, Belize -  - ‎5/26/11‎
Donald Alexander 'Jack ' Hope was born in Belize City on October 26th 1943. He and Edison or 'Brads' as he is better known, were the sons of Donald Hope Sr. and Maud Patterson. Donald was also the father of siblings Robert “Bob” Lottie and Laura, ...

Utility Companies Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars New Regulations to ...
The Guardian, Belize -  - ‎5/26/11‎
That incident sparked awareness on the rise in incidents of copper theft in Belize. Copper is a very valuable material because it is in high demand across the border. Vandals steal the copper and smuggle it across the border, mostly Guatemala, ...

Bert Vasquez in jail again!
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/26/11‎
He was unrepresented and no plea was taken and due to the nature of the offense he was remanded into custody at the Belize Central Prison until June 27. Within a half hour of his arraignment, CIB personnel brought additional charges against Vasquez ...

Belize UDP Government pass toughest Laws ever to deal with Violent Gang ...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/26/11‎
Last week the Belize UDP government tabled and passed new bills to deal with; violent gang related crimes, death penalty, jury trials and bails. This was done because last year there were about 129 murders committed in Belize the highest ever in the ...

Elections for New Football Federation set
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/26/11‎
On Saturday May 28th, members of the football pro-tem committees from 6 of the 7 football districts in the country met at the Belize City Center to discuss the future of football. The meeting had representation from Toledo, Stann Creek, Belmopan, Cayo, ...

KHMH and the Ministry of Health welcomes new Chairman to the Board
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/26/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

US$100000 from Switzerland to Reduce Oz...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/26/11‎
On Wednesday, May 18, the Belize Hydro Chlorofluorocarbon Phase-out Management Plan (HPMP) was launched. Hydro chlorofluorocarbon is the most commonly used ozone depleting substance in Belize. It is used almost exclusively in the refrigeration and air ...

Belize's basketball squad represents at COCABA
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/26/11‎
Belize's U-17 Basketball squad left Belize on Sunday May 17th for Costa Rica to participate in the COCABA championship tournament. Belize played its second game on Wednesday May 25th against El Salvador and defeated El Salvador with a score of 77 to 66 ...

5/25/11

Measles Alert For Belize
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/25/11‎
Health authorities in Belize are on the alert after an outbreak of Measles is reported to be affecting at least 33 countries in Europe, with transmission reported in 5 countries in the Americas. Measles is a contagious disease caused by an ...

Officials Finally Declare Drought Conditions
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/25/11‎
It is most pronounced in the east central parts of the country near the Belize River Valley where Rainfall totals reveal that the area has received only 20 to 25% of the rain that is typical for a dry season. It is similar in Corozal where only 20% of ...

Chess Olympiad
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/25/11‎
Anderson says there's international interest how chess develops and advances in Belize. And the attendance of International Grand Master of Chess, Maurice Ashley, is testament to that. Ashley says he is excited about what's happening here in Belize. ...

The Young At Heart
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/25/11‎
Now the Stonetree records production is being released in Belize and Aurelio is coming to the place he calls home for a launch concert. We spoke to him about the new album today. "We followed the Watina album, so Andy Palacio passed away, ...

7NEWS Visits BDF In Haiti
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/25/11‎
"We got twenty nine Belize Defence Force personnel that have been working alongside US forces on those engineering projects." Along with their Japanese and Columbian counterparts, the Americans and Belizeans are constructing two medical clinics, ...

Fire Burns Plywood House
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/25/11‎
A fire quickly engulfed a house made out of plywood located at number 9782 Franklin Avenue on the Southside of Belize City yesterday afternoon. No one was home at the time of the fire, and the cause of the fire is still being investigated. ...

FIRE LEAVES FAMILY HOMELESS
LoveFM - ‎5/25/11‎
A fire in Belize City yesterday afternoon completely destroyed a home on Franklin Avenue. Shermaine Galvez told Police she was visiting her mother on St. Jude Street when she received a call just after three o'clock telling her that her house was on ...

GUATEMALAN AND BELIZEAN ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS MEET
LoveFM - ‎5/25/11‎
Guatemalan enforcement authorities and representatives of the Belize Defence Force met at the Windy Hill Resort today for their routine operations commanders meeting. Guatemala was represented by the municipal commanders of both the military and the ...

BODY OF ELDERLY MAN RECOVERED FROM BELIZE RIVER
LoveFM - ‎5/25/11‎
The family and friends of eighty-one year old Dalton Franklin of Lords Bank VIllage were finally able to bury their loved one today after his body was recovered last night from the Belize River. On Monday Franklin had joined four men on a fishing trip ...

NATIONAL BASKETBALL UNDER 17 TEAM IN COSTA RICA
LoveFM - ‎5/25/11‎
The Belize National under seventeen basketball team left for Costa Rica on Sunday May 22, to take part in the COCABA under seventeen Championship tournament. A total of seven countries will participate in the tournament and Belize's team is expected to ...

An Ancient Watery Underworld
New York Times (blog) - Lisa J. Lucero - ‎5/25/11‎
A. KinkellaThe view from one of the deepest known pools at Cara Blanca, Belize. Lisa J. Lucero, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recently completed an expedition to central ...

5/24/11

BUS OPERATORS ISSUE ULTIMATUM TO MINISTER OF TRANSPORT
LoveFM - ‎5/24/11‎
This morning at a meeting held at the National Sports Council, operators in the West, particularly the Belize Bus Owners Cooperative, expressed outrage at what they say in the way in which newcomer Sergio Chuc's Westline has ...

UNIVERSITY OF BELIZE TO OFFER NEW PROGRAM
LoveFM - ‎5/24/11‎
The University of Belize today announced that it will begin offering a Master's degree in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development starting in August. According to a statement from UB, the Masters program is a mixed-mode program that will ...

WOMAN SHOT AND KILLED IN BELIZE CITY
LoveFM - ‎5/24/11‎
Police are following several leads but have made no arrest so far following a shooting incident yesterday morning that left a Belize City woman dead. Just before five o'clock yesterday morning Police responded to reports of a shooting incident t the ...

Day two of canceled flights at DFW International
WFAA - Cynthia Vega - ‎5/24/11‎
News 8 found three canceled before noon, one each to Belize, Mexico City and Denver. American Airlines has tried to make room on flights for those forced to spend the night unexpectedly in the airport or the DFW area due to a canceled connecting flight ...

Draft fisheries policy for the Caribbean approved
Antigua Observer - ‎5/24/11‎
Meanwhile, the Government of Belize tabled a proposal in support of regional collaboration between Fisheries and Aquaculture Organization of Central America (OSPESCA) and the CRFM. The ministerial council accepted the proposal and recommended that a ...

Bus Operators Protest Against “Betrayal” By Minister
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/24/11‎
Now, the West and the north are tied into each other because routes for the Belize bus owners cooperative in the West were cancelled in favour of new runs in the north. So implementing the new western regime - while holding off in the north - amounts ...

Bus Operators Gather To Strategize
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/24/11‎
And today, two days after that protest the BBOC and its allies met at the City Center conference room in the city to plan a strategy going forward. "What is the status right now Mr. Grinage?" "What would you normally be doing at 10:30 on a weekday? ...

And Ends With The Murder Of A Female
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/24/11‎
And Antelope Street would remain hot - because on Monday morning before dawn there was another murder - just a few hundred feet away from where the first one occurred. It happened when a group of six people were attacked in a drive by while taking a ...

Boys' B-Ball Win first Game
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/24/11‎
Belize's National Under 17 basketball is Costa Rica participating in the COCABA U 17 Championship tournament - where it won the first Game beating Nicaragua by 31 points. The tournament is divided into two groups. Group A consists of Costa Rica, ...

Gabriel Survives Fierce Challenge
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/24/11‎
7news was at the opening event on Friday night where we spoke to two local chocolatiers - who told us it is an art - and a science making world class chocolate from Belize's organic Cacao - which is among the finest in the world. ...

Hooligan And Horse Busted
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/24/11‎
Two well known Belize city men were busted by the Gang suppression unit this weekend. On Sunday At 8:45 am, GSU in the St Martins De Pores Area acting upon information, set chase after a blue Kia Sportage - from which the driver allegedly tossed two ...

Hay, Even While The Sun Shines
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/24/11‎
Last week we showed you the drought ravaged Belize rural north and the livestock teetering on the edge of starvation and dehydration. Well, the ministry of agriculture saw the story too, and this weekend - they started rolling out relief supplies. ...

5/20/11

GSU's Armed Conflict With Mike Menjivar In Belmopan
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/20/11‎
The Gang Suppression Unit has repeatedly made the headlines in Belize City with its tough, no nonsense raids of gang controlled hotspots. But before dawn this morning, the GSU was making news, in the other city, ...

Head Of City Special Branch Charged With Counterfeit Possession
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/20/11‎
For the past two nights, we've been reporting on a police sergeant who'd been caught at the Belize Bank with 16 hundred dollars in counterfeit US hundred-dollar notes. It is a case that was dealt with deferentially, meaning the Sergeant - who is a ...

Relief For Drought-Affected Farmers
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/20/11‎
Last night we told you about the drought in the rural Belize district that's decimating livestock and sapping the resources of farmers who have run out of pasturelands and water to nourish their cattle and sheep. Between forest fires and the long dry ...

Concerns For Missing Girl
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/20/11‎
A Belize City family is asking for your help in bringing home a missing teenaged girl who is believed to have run off with her boyfriend. 35 year old Martina ICAL reported that yesterday morning at about 7:30, her 14 year old daughter Teresita ...

Honduras Wants Drug Plane Found In Belize
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/20/11‎
Honduran authorities say that they are investigating whether the Twin Engine Beechcraft King Air 200 that was found in the middle of Belize's Southern Highway last November is the same plane stolen from one of its military airbase last October 31st. ...

A Reprieve For Northern Bus Operators
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/20/11‎
"Well at this moment they suspended it for three weeks and during this three weeks we will be together with all the bus owners and try to see what we can arrange because I lose all my runs from Orange Walk to Belize City and Orange to Santa Elena and ...

COLA: Tour Operators Affected By Bad Road To Prime Destination
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/20/11‎
It's the most visited tourist site in Belize - and tour operators have called on COLA to take their issue to the forefront. That's what Sulph did today and in an interview with 7news…. "The road is in a serious condition and I am not saying this to ...

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE TO ASSIST FARMERS
LoveFM - ‎5/20/11‎
On the heels of Thursday's report that farmers in the Belize River Valley Area are facing severe problems with their livestock, brought on by the extreme dry weather, the Ministry of Agriculture today announce that help us on the way. ...

Football rumblings, pro-tem district committees push for new National ...
Amandala - ‎5/20/11‎
The Ministry of Sports' Investigation Committee into the FFB has not released its report yet, but concerned individuals in the various football districts of Belize have gone ahead and formed themselves into pro-tem committees as the first step in a ...

Treaty publishes minutes of meeting at PM's law firm - weeks before actual date
Amandala - Adele Ramos - ‎5/20/11‎
Treaty Energy Corporation, the joint venture partner of Princess Petroleum Corporation in Belize, has posted documents on its website, pursuant to the Companies Act of Belize, detailing the minutes of a one-hour meeting at Barrow & Williams, ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - Evan X Hyde - ‎5/20/11‎
Belize is a small place, and there is and has always been a lot of tension amongst families involved with the question of who will have sex with whom. As a people, we are divided by color, ethnicity, religion, and class. Ideally, people who are going ...

A clarification of the “Compromis”
Amandala - Compton Fairweather - ‎5/20/11‎
I feel compelled to comment on an article in your Sunday edition of May15, 2011, mainly because it would appear to present information that is at variance with the facts concerning the special agreement between Belize and Guatemala relative to the ...

Group Crosses Border To Help Animals
KOAT Albuquerque - ‎5/20/11‎
An 11-person team recently returned from a trip to Belize and Mexico, where they spayed and neutered 232 animals. It's all part of the Helping Paws Across Borders initiative that was founded by New Mexico technician Angie Cherry. ...

Jewel or gas station?
Amandala - ‎5/20/11‎
Belize, which used to be British Honduras, was a place where people from the metropolitan world didn't want to go (check Aldous Huxley), but we who were essentially condemned to live here grew to love our home and we cared for each other. ...

Ideas and Opinions - Decriminalize Marijuana
Amandala - ‎5/20/11‎
In a modern state, such as Belize is now, to become law, a proposed measure has to go to a standing committee for examination and consideration, before it is reported back to the House to be debated and perhaps, amended. ...

Belize churches join GOB in court battle against homosexuals
Amandala - Adele Ramos - ‎5/20/11‎
The Belize Association of Evangelical Churches and the Council of Churches have applied through heavyweight attorneys, Rodwell Williams, SC; Eamon Courtenay, SC; Jackie Marshalleck, Christopher Coye, and MH Chebat, to join forces with the Government of ...

Illegal logging in Chiquibul costing Belize at least $15 million
Amandala - Adele Ramos - ‎5/20/11‎
In the mid-week edition of Amandala, we reported on concerns over the milpa farming inside protected areas, allegedly by Guatemalan farmers who habitually slash, burn and plant corn, beans and squash inside Belize every year. Ambassador David Gibson ...

Senior police officer tries to deposit counterfeit currency at Belize Bank
Amandala - Daniel Ortiz - ‎5/20/11‎
Reliable information to Amandala today is that a police officer attached to the Special Branch attempted to deposit $1600 in counterfeit US currency at the Belize Bank in sixteen $100 notes. Remarkably, he has not been arrested, or his home searched, ...

Peten massacre by Zetas too close for comfort!
Amandala - Adele Ramos - ‎5/20/11‎
Belize's Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar “Gapi” Vega met Thursday in Antigua, Guatemala, meeting with Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom and other Central American leaders as they discussed the implications of the worsening drug wars in the region, ...

5/19/11

Still No Charges For Cop Caught With Counterfeit, But There's More
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/19/11‎
There's still no word tonight on whether a veteran police Sergeant will be charged after he was caught with sixteen counterfeit hundred dollar notes at the Belize Bank. It happened yesterday morning at 10:00 at the Coney Drive branch, when the officer ...

Artistic Light And Magic
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/19/11‎
More than 70 works of art dedicated to nature and the simplicity of Belizean life make up the latest exhibition at the Belize Mexico Institute dubbed "Exquisite Souls". Those souls are depicted by Two Belizeans of Chinese ancestry who have shared their ...

Cacao Fest 2011
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/19/11‎
As an export crop, Cacao may not enjoy the cultural prominence of sugar, the history of banana, the contentiousness of citrus or the glamour of lobster, but Belize's Cacao is world renowned and thanks to fair trade practices sells for a ...

Belizean Implicated In Chet Robbery
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/19/11‎
So why is it news in Belize? Well, of the three men, one of them is a Belizean. They are reported to have held up AIMME jewelry store sometime around 9:15 yesterday morning. Maria Guadalupe del Carmen Aguayo, Manager of the store, told police three men ...

FFB Under Multiple Threats
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/19/11‎
The Football Federation of Belize and the National Sports Council remain locked in a standoff. According to Sports Minister John Saldivar, the FFB has not turned in to the sports council its audited financials or minutes of its last general meeting ...

Bus Operators Wary Of New Routes
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/19/11‎
Mr. Chell is from Orange Walk and basically he has lost all his runs into Belize City and being place on village from Orange Walk back to Carmelita. If you guys know that Mr. Chell is also a member of the association and as you guys can recall that Mr. ...

The Great Drought of 2011….Who Knew?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/19/11‎
In the past few weeks we've shown you the forest fires that have been burning - especially in the Belize district where Hurricane Richard trampled the forest and left plenty of fuel for those fires. And this week in the city we've seen how much smoke ...

Telecommunication and Information Society Day
The Guardian, Belize - Shane B. Williams - ‎5/19/11‎
On Tuesday, May 17, Belize and countries around the globe celebrated World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. The purpose of World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is to raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the ...

CHURCH LEADERS SPEAK AGAINST “GAY AGENDA”
LoveFM - ‎5/19/11‎
Signed by Bishop Dorick Wright of the Roman Catholic Diocese, Bishop Philip Wright of the Anglican Diocese and Reverend Eugene Crawford of the Belize Association of Evangelical Churches, the statement formally announced that Christian leaders have ...

BUS OWNERS DISCUSS CHALLENGES
LoveFM - ‎5/19/11‎
The buses Mr. Chuc is bringing in is not new, it is new to Belize, it is painted new. It is below the standard of buses that the present operators are operating right now due to the fact that you have the Bluebird buses with a caterpillar engine in the ...

SECOND MAN CHARGED FOR ROBBERY
LoveFM - ‎5/19/11‎
Police believe James is the second person involved in the robbery at Belize Recycling Plant on St. Jude Street. The other offences included wounding, use of deadly means of harm, two counts of robbery, harm and failure to report to police. ...

Personal financial troubles shadow Pinellas schools chief
Tampabay.com - Susan Taylor Martin - ‎5/19/11‎
She was born in Belize, where her father, Gene Mastry, ran family businesses that included cigarettes, logging and boat building. In 1961, he moved his clan to St. Petersburg, where he owned Mastry Marine and Industrial Co. ...

PUP Pure Jaw Bone - NO Backbone
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/19/11‎
In the Belize Times of last week they dedicated the editorial to shamefully bashing this country's national University by pulling an article written by Dr. Corinth Morter Lewis 5 years ago- when they were in office. The worthless PUP's are hoping that ...

Enough is Enough!!! Crime Bills Will Pas...
The Guardian, Belize - Shane B. Williams - ‎5/19/11‎
Prime Minister of Belize, Hon. Dean Oliver Barrow: “We will do what we believe we have to do for the protection of citizens in our society.” At the sitting of the House of Representatives on Friday, May 13, the Prime Minister of Belize, Hon. ...

21 Days in Paradise
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/19/11‎
In the interest of public safety, peace and good order, the Prime Minister of Belize, Hon. Dean Oliver Barrow, introduced the Constitution (Eight Amendment) Bill, 2011 which will provide for the preventative detention of suspected criminals for more ...

Sugar Shortage in Belize
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/19/11‎
Residents across the country of Belize have had to be subjected over the past three weeks to critical sugar shortages. The shortage, according to the Belize Sugar Industry limited is an artificial one; that is, the company is currently supplying 14000 ...

UB's Communication Skills students raise $5358.11 for Japan
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/19/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Spread of HIV Slows
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/19/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Emerson Guild remanded to prison
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/19/11‎
Luis Emerson Guild Bey, 57, was today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate's Court on a charge of aggravated assault with a firearm upon 34-year-old Charles Olivera. Guild appeared in Court #6 on Tuesday May 17th before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers ...

Malcolm Wagner charged with attempted murder
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/19/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Belizean Artists Exhibition to open at the Institute of Mexico in Belize
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/19/11‎
The art exhibition “Exquisite Souls” by Belizean artists Lucky Chiang and Vivian Liu will be inaugurated on Thursday, May 19th, at the Institute of Mexico in Belize. The exhibition includes more than 70 works in a wide range of techniques, ...

Marlon Castillo charged following death of Ariel Rosado
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/19/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

15 Scholarships Available to Study in Mexico
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/19/11‎
The call for submissions for the Academic year 2011-2012 is coordinated by the National College of Professional Technical Education (CONALEP) of Mexico and the Belize's Ministry of Education. CONALEP provides more than 33 different technical degree ...

Homeless man charged with the attempted ...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/19/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

What happened to Oceana's trawler money?
The Guardian, Belize - ‎5/19/11‎
It was signaled as a great victory for the country when shrimp trawling was declared illegal in Belize. The victory was largely through efforts of Oceana along with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries which secured the sale of the only two ...

5/18/11

Stash Of Chinese Passports Have Legit Visas Says Immigration Dept.
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/18/11‎
And one illicit trade that follows right behind the drug trade is human trafficking - and like Guatemala, Belize is ripe for it. Belmopan police thought they had found just such a case when they searched a Chinese businessman who held 29 Chinese ...

Budna Busted With Weed, Cops Say
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/18/11‎
Well now, Budna is the one who needs someone to get him out of Belize jail for - guess what: trafficking drugs in Belize! It's a reversal of fortunes, all right, but we couldn't make this stuff up. 30 year old freelance journalist Joseph ...

Colombians Caught With Copper
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/18/11‎
Police may have found a piece of the puzzle at Maya Belize Recycling Company, located at mile 8 on the Western Highway. Police searched the place and say they found 963.5 pounds of copper and 755 pounds of aluminum - which are prohibited materials. ...

Senior Cop Caught With Counterfeit Cash
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/18/11‎
That senior police officer is under scrutiny tonight after he tried to deposit 1600 US dollars in counterfeit notes at the Belize Bank. It happened this morning at the Northside branch on Coney Drive around 10:00 am, when the Sergeant, who is attached ...

Regional Beach Volleyball Championships Cancelled
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/18/11‎
Volleyball lovers were psyched for the upcoming weekend as the Central American Beach Volleyball Championship matches were to be held in Belize at the partially renovated Marion Jones Sports Complex. But plans have changed. According to the Belize ...

Belizean Vehicle Used In Guatemalan Massacre
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/18/11‎
The Guatemalan state of Peten which directly adjoins western Belize is under a state of emergency tonight, as Mexican drug gangs have carried out unprecedented violence there. On Sunday, 27 people - including two women - were killed - 25 of them ...

The HCFC Treadmill
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/18/11‎
So Belize worked on that from 2006 to 2010 - only to find out that the same western scientists who said HCFC's were safe - are now saying that those contain greenhouse gasses. So now, Belize and other countries have to move to organic CFC's - until ...

Belize Observes International Museum Day
Channel 7 Daily News - Flor Del Valle - ‎5/18/11‎
Along with the rest of the world, Belize is today celebrating International Museum Day. Since 1977, countries from the Americas to Europe, Asia and Africa use the date as an opportunity to increase public awareness of the role of museums in the ...

Vindication For Belize High Commissioner To UK
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/18/11‎
Belize's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Kamela Palma was in the bad books back in November when no less than the Prime Minister came out to say that she had addressed her ministry's CEO inappropriately when she challenged him on an ...

Ian Anderson's Caves Branch Jungle Lodge Annouces New Luxury Tree Houses
PRLog.Org (press release) - ‎5/18/11‎
Ian Anderson's Caves Branch offers a wide variety of adventurous tours ranging from the extreme Black Hole Drop (rappelling); rock climbing up through cascading waterfalls while hundreds of feet underground, to exploring Belize's Mayan underworld of ...

Guatemala: Brutality & Impunity: 28 Decapitated in Petén
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - Renata Avila - ‎5/18/11‎
Citizens in El Petén, the northernmost department (state) of Guatemala bordering Honduras, Belize, Nicaragua and Mexico, are in the middle of one of the worst armed encounters between the Army and one of the most dangerous drug cartels: the Zetas. ...

BUS OPERATORS TO MEET WITH TRANSPORT OFFICIALS
LoveFM - ‎5/18/11‎
“Bus operators are disgruntled since they say that with the new schedule they have each lost runs to newcomers on the Belize – Santa Elena Route and vice versa. An injunction filed in the courts by the Novelo Bus Company against the ministry of ...

TWO MEN DETAINED PENDING INVESTIGATION OF HUMAN SMUGGLING
LoveFM - ‎5/18/11‎
According to reports to our News Centre, the two men, one from Caye Caulker village and the other from Belize City, were found in possession of twenty nine Chinese passports. While a source told Love News that the passports had Belize visa stamps in ...

WOMEN IN NORTHERN BELIZE TRAINED IN PROCESSING SOY SAUCE
LoveFM - ‎5/18/11‎
Women from the Corozal and Orange Walk districts are this week being trained on how to process soy sauce. The three-day practical training is being conducted at the Ministry of Agriculture compound in Corozal town. Love News spoke by telephone with ...

BELIZE REPRESENTED AT REGIONAL LIONS CONVENTION
LoveFM - Jorge Aldana - ‎5/18/11‎
“A group of 30 left on Wednesday to represent Belize at the Annual Regional Istmania Lions Convention being hosted by Panama this year. The convention runs from Thursday May 19th to Saturday May 21st in Panama City. The Belize delegation is headed by ...

PHASING OUT OF DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES DISCUSSED
LoveFM - ‎5/18/11‎
About thirty representatives from mainly the refrigeration and air-conditioning sector gathered at the Belize Biltmore Plaza Hotel in Belize City for the final stage of the phasing out of Freon gas and other substances that are dangerous to the ...

5/17/11

Community Coordinator Guild Remanded To Prison
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/11‎
Emmerson Guild, well known community activist, organizer and businessman is in the Belize Central Prison in Hattieville tonight. Guild was arraigned today on a charge of aggravated assault, after a former worker reported to police Guild pulled a ...

Police Busted Battery Thief
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/11‎
Forty one year old Phillip Roy Neal, a resident of Periwinkle Street who allegedly broke into Renco Battery Factory and stole 42 vehicle batteries valued at ($11378.00) eleven thousand, three hundred and seventy eight dollars, was charged with burglary ...

Cardona Faces One More Government – Induced Humiliation
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/11‎
That's the aim of a new project in northern Belize - making soy sauce out of soy beans which grow easily in Belize. The Ministry of Agriculture Central Farm Agro processing unit in collaboration with Taiwan's Agricultural Mission is currently hosting a ...

Shooting Victim Survives Near Miss To The Head
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/11‎
There was a shooting after 7:00 last night in Belize City and the victim came within millimeters of receiving a fatal injury. 26 year old Jamie Flowers was reportedly standing at the corner of Pine and Vernon Streets when he was shot three times. ...

SUV En Fuego
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/11‎
It was a dramatic scene this afternoon on the northern highway in Belize City as an SUV burst into flames. It happened right in front of the Wood Depot at mile one on the northern where an Isuzu Pathfinder caught on fire. The cause of the blaze is not ...

And A Pall Hung Over The Land….
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/11‎
Today residents of the country's largest population center, which is Belize City, were walking around in a fog. Nope, no one spiked the water - it's a massive trail of smoke from forest fires which drifted over the city this morning and just sat there. ...

HIV Infections Down
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/11‎
And Stann Creek no longer holds the dubious distinction of the greatest number of new infections; Belize and Cayo are now numbers one and two, respectively. As for the cases of full blown AIDS, there were 81 with the greatest number of cases again ...

Government Bends Over Backwards To Accommodate Big Butane
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/17/11‎
"On the request of the Government Of Belize - LPG suppliers have been given until June first 2011 to fully comply with the regulations." End quote. That will make the complete time of extension 92 days - just to install and verify scales! ...

THIEVES TARGET BATTERY FACTORY
LoveFM - ‎5/17/11‎
Police say they have since recovered eight of the stolen batteries, and have arrested and charged forty one year old Phillip Ray Neal, a laborer of a Periwinkle Street address in Belize City. Neal has been charged for with the crime of Burglary.

YOUTH BUSINESS TRUST BELIZE HOSTS REGIONAL CONFERENCE
LoveFM - ‎5/17/11‎
Belize Youth Business Trust is hosting a regional conference for the next three days. Deanna Peyrifitte is the Manager of Youth Business Trust Belize. “It is about our regional Youth Business Trusts coming together to look at what we have achieved, ...

BELIZE'S HIGH COMMISSIONER TO THE UK RECEIVES AWARD
LoveFM - ‎5/17/11‎
Belize's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Kamela Palma is the winner of the Diplomat of the Year from the Americas award. The award is presented annually by Diplomat magazine. Heads of Mission from over 85 countries attended the event in London. ...

SECURITY FORCES OPERATION RESULTS IN DISCOVERY OF NUMBER OF ITEMS
LoveFM - ‎5/17/11‎
A six-hour multi-agency operation in Belize City today by the police department targeted known criminal-ridden areas of the south side of the old capital. According to today's police sitrep, searches were conducted in the Banak Street area resulting in ...

POLICE COMMISIONER HAS CONTRACT EXTENDED
LoveFM - ‎5/17/11‎
The international search continues for a new Commissioner of Police for Belize. In March, the government announced that it would look beyond Belize to the wider Commonwealth to find the next top cop for Belize, replacing the retiring Crispin Jefferies. ...

BELIZE CITY MAN CHARGED FOR AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
LoveFM - ‎5/17/11‎
57-year-old businessman Louis Emmerson Guild Bey who allegedly pointed a firearm at Charles Olivera was charged with aggravated assault when he appeared in court today. Guild pleaded not guilty to the charge. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers explained to him ...

LATEST HIV/AIDS STATISTICS RELEASED
LoveFM - ‎5/17/11‎
The 2010 statistics on reported new HIV infections for Belize have been released. And while there have been further reductions in infections, they paint a worrisome picture of the nations productive sector. Data for 2010 reveals HIV infections have ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - Evan X Hyde - ‎5/17/11‎
On the streets of Southside Belize City, when the mood is not downright ugly, it is forlorn, or tense. Are the gangs the problem, or are the conditions which gave rise to the gangs, the real problem? The question is somewhat of an academic one. ...

Naked white power
Amandala - ‎5/17/11‎
Belize is a sovereign, independent nation-state, but our leaders are being dictated to by regional and international white power in ways which are humiliating and colonial. Europe has said to Belize, for instance, you cannot impose the death penalty on ...

Mixed reaction to suite of crime measures
Amandala - Adele Ramos - ‎5/17/11‎
There is mixed public reaction to the suite of audacious amendments to the Belize Constitution and the crime laws which the Barrow administration tabled in the House of Representatives on Friday, May 13. Whereas some of the people we've interviewed say ...

Déjà vu – Guats continue to “slash and burn” in Chiquibul!
Amandala - Adele Ramos - ‎5/17/11‎
If you were to fly along the Belize-Guatemala border, along the Chiquibul Forest—Belize's most prized forest—you'll see the evidence of illegal incursions into Belizean territory, allegedly by Guatemalans who live in the vicinity of the border and some ...

Sudden, tragic death for Ariel!
Amandala - Stacey Kelly - ‎5/17/11‎
In a tragic turn of events, one of Belize's most famous ex-cyclists has been killed in a traffic accident, while his friend, himself of cycling fame, has been charged with his death. Former Junior Cross Country champion, Ariel Rosado, 28, ...

5/16/11

Man Charged For Shooting Another In Face
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/16/11‎
It was another of those unexplained shootings when Gilroy Garnett Jr was shot in the face in early March. Miraculously he survived and now, police have made an arrest. Twenty one year old Malcolm Wagner, was charged with attempted murder when he ...

A Star Shines No More
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/16/11‎
I was ready on Saturday night and he came around and we decided to come down to Belize City to go to a friend house. He and Marlon came together and they leave together. Me and a friend that was already there we left before them so we were ahead of ...

Churchgoing Young Man Killed, Why?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/16/11‎
"The way hoe I feel right now - in Belize the way that somebody kills somebody - that is the first thing they say; they had mistaken the person for somebody else. Even if they take you for somebody else that don't give them any right to shoot any ...

Cyclist Shalini Shows The Boys How It's Done
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎5/16/11‎
That's what Belize's most dominant female cyclist Shalini Zabaneh proved yesterday when she did what the male cyclists couldn't do; she kept up with a competing American cyclist and beat her out in a sprint! It was the 21st. women's cross country ...

TRAFFIC ACCIDENT LEAVES FORMER CYCLIST DEAD
LoveFM - ‎5/16/11‎
Police reports are that Castillo was driving a white 2007 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck heading towards Belize City when he lost control of the vehicle and it crashed into a concrete fence. Rosado received injuries to his head and body and died.

BELIZE CITY MAN CHARGED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER
LoveFM - ‎5/16/11‎
21-year-old Malcolm Wagner has been charged with attempted murder. It is alleged Wagner shot 22-year-old Gilroy Garnett Junior in the right side of his face. Wagner was also charged with dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm. ...

BELIZE CITY YOUTH GUNNED DOWN
LoveFM - ‎5/16/11‎
A Belize City youth was murdered on Friday night. The victim has been identified as twenty one year old Dwight Warrior a resident of Queen Charlotte Street. According to police reports, Warrior was riding in a van on Freedom Street around ten ...

APAMO HOLDS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
LoveFM - ‎5/16/11‎
Guest speaker at the APAMO AGM was Dr. Vincent Palacio from the University of Belize who highlighted the challenges that protected areas c-managers encounter in advocating for the protection and sustainable use of Belize's Natural Resources. ...

COMMUNITY WORKERS RECEIVE TRAINING
LoveFM - ‎5/16/11‎
Ten participants engaged in community work throughout Belize will receive training in Group Facilitation, Organizational Needs Assessment, Project Planning and Proposal Writing. According to a press release from the Social Investment Fund, ...

AUDUBON SOCIETY ELECTS NEW DIRECTORS
LoveFM - ‎5/16/11‎
The Belize Audubon Society held its 42nd annual general meeting on Saturday at the St. Herman's Blue Hole National Park. The event featured the election of two new directors, Verna Samuels and Julianne Stockbridge. The other directors are Anicasio ...

AMBASSADORS PRESENT CREDENTIALS
LoveFM - ‎5/16/11‎
Two Ambassadors today presented their letters of Credence to the Governor-General of Belize, His Excellency Sir Colville Young. The Ambassador of the Slovak Republic, His Excellency Mr. Jaroslav Blasko and the Ambassador of Switzerland, His Excellency ...


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