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11/30/11
Despite the challenges the Sugar Industry is faced with the 2011 / 2012 Sugar Cane Crop got off to a good start today as Corozal Farmers began delivery. John Gillett is BSIs Factory Manager.
11/29/11
The Much Convicted Conorquie Back In Jail Channel 7 Daily News - 11/29/11 Thirty year old Moses Conorquie a construction worker, who has 10 convictions for crimes of dishonestly, the first on 1999, became an inmate of Belize Central Prison when he appeared yesterday in the Magistrate's Court and was charged with ...
The History Of Dentistry In Belize Channel 7 Daily News - 11/29/11 When you hear about a book named "My Reflections On Dentistry in Belize" - if you're not a dentist you might think it's not all that interesting. But, Dr. Chris Bennett's first book is surprising for its sweep and the social gems he turns up as he ...
No Arrests For 66 Year Old's Home Invasion Channel 7 Daily News - 11/29/11 Tonight, 66 year old Castula Westby remains in a critical condition and an induced coma at the KHMH after she was stabbed 13 times during a home invasion on Sunday morning. As we reported, it happened at about 3:30 when an intruder entered her bedroom ...
Bze-Guat Referendum in 2013? Channel 7 Daily News - 11/29/11 The release announces - and this is the news - that the OAS Secretary General will convene a bilateral meeting immediately after the general election in Belize, with a view to holding the referenda before the end of the year 2013.
Uruguayan Rice Approved "For Charity" By BAHA Channel 7 Daily News - 11/29/11 Since last week news has been breaking about the presence of Uruguayan rice on the local market for sale at retail outlets in Orange Walk - and almost 20% cheaper than the abundant Belizean rice. All fingers pointed to the Belize Marketing Development ...
Hurricane Season Ends: Belize Is Spared Channel 7 Daily News - 11/29/11 The 2011 Hurricane Season will end tomorrow - and, this year, Belize can boast that it was spared. But there were legitimate scares: Tropical Storm Harvey in August and Hurricane Rina last month. Harvey made the biggest news with that tornado that ...
Popular singer/songwriter raises funds for school Waterloo Record - 11/29/11 Danny Michel top Danny Michel aims to raise $20000 by the end of year to help support a school in Belize. It's commonplace for performers to donate their talent and celebrity to worthy causes. But most of these participate collectively in high profile ...
BTIA PREPARES FOR AGM LoveFM - 11/29/11 The Belize Tourism Industry Association is holding its Annual General Meeting on Thursday of this week. As a lead up to the AGM, a sponsor's cocktail is scheduled for tomorrow evening at the Radisson Hotel. Efren Perez is the Executive Director of the ...
DISABILITIES WEEK OBSERVED LoveFM - 11/29/11 The Belize Special Olympics was first started in the country in 1992, although it was very inactive some time thereafter, about eight years ago a revival surged and this Saturday will see another year of this exceptional occasion. ...
BELIZE LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION ELECTS EXECUTIVE LoveFM - 11/29/11 The Belize Livestock Producers' Association held its 34th Annual General Meeting last Saturday at the Livestock Central Market in Belmopan. Chairman of the Belize Livestock Producers' Association John Carr highlighted the accomplishment of the ...
BOOK ON DENTISTRY HITS THE SHELVES LoveFM - 11/29/11 A new book documenting the history of dental health care in Belize was launched today. The book titled: “My Reflections of Dentistry in Belize” was authored by Dental Surgeon Dr. Chris Bennett. In an interview with Love News at the book launching, ...
UNIBAM case postponed; preliminary hearing set for December 9 Amandala - 111/29/11 The high-profile case of Caleb Orozco and the United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) versus the Attorney General was set to be heard in the first week of December. Today, two weeks before the case proper was to have been heard, a preliminary matter ...
Belize undertaking Customs reform Amandala - 11/29/11 At the Turning the Corner business forum held on Wednesday, November 23, 2011, keynote speaker Prime Minister Dean Barrow highlighted Customs reform in Belize, which, he said, would mean that “the business playing field will naturally be more level, ...
Thomas Charlesworth writes Amandala - 11/29/11 It is always devastating to hear that another child was raped here in Belize City. It is wrong and we do not accept it. But have we ever looked at the real issue here? There have been cases where the child's parents did not know, like the one a couple ...
Homosexuality is not a human rights issue – it is downright disgusting! Amandala - 11/29/11 Where is the Belize National Teachers Union, the Scout Association, the National Committee for Families and Children, the Rotary Club of Belize, the VIP political party and others? Have homosexuals infiltrated your ranks, too? Your silence is deafening ...
Godfrey's gaffe Amandala - 11/29/11 George C. Price was the linking of Evan X Hyde and Dean Lindo in the 1971 Belize City Council elections. Smith allowed himself to be the conduit for this mistake. He did not himself manufacture the mistake, but he bears the conduit responsibility. ...
From The Publisher Amandala - 11/29/11 “He (Price) claimed that $10 million dollars had been earmarked in the Guatemalan budget of $1 billion to advance its claim on Belize internationally.” - pg. 217, GEORGE PRICE: A Life Revealed, Godfrey Smith, Ian Randle Publishers, 2011 I am grateful ...
Sleeping woman, 68, brutally stabbed in bedroom Amandala - 11/29/11 The horrific stabbing occurred at Westby's home in Southside Belize City at approximately 3:15 am on Sunday, November 27. The house is a two-storey wooden and cement structure, with back and front entrances. Westby's room is located on the upper flat ...
Greg Flowers, 17, drowns in Macal River Amandala - 11/29/11 Greg Flowers, 17, a student majoring in forensics at the University of Belize, drowned on Friday evening at around 5:00 in the Macal River. Two days later, on November 27, at around 2:00 pm, his body was found about 20 feet from the Hummock Bridge in ...
Is rice being illegally imported from Uruguay and sanctioned by the authorities? Amandala - 11/29/11 Currently, the Belize market for locally produced rice is saturated. Levels of stored stocks of rice from the Belizean rice farmers and from the Belize Marketing Development Corporation (or Marketing Board as it is also referred to) are not decreasing ...
Rudolph “Tuba” Smith, 35, wanted by CIB Amandala - 11/29/11 Police now say that Smith is presently wanted by the Crimes Investigation Branch (CIB), Belize City police for rape; they did not say much about the rape or the date of occurrence. In July of this year, Smith had been arraigned in the Magistrate's ...
11/28/11
Belize and Guatemala Foreign Ministers Meet with OAS Secretary General Caribbean PressReleases.com (press release) - 11/28/11 28, at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS), delegations of Belize and Guatemala, headed by their respective Foreign Ministers, the Honorable Wilfred Elrington and His Excellency Haroldo Rodas Melgar, met with OAS ...
Sanford opens Ghana clinic Sioux Falls Argus Leader - 11/28/11 One that made the short list for 2012 but has dropped off for now is the Central American country of Belize. “Belize is currently on hold due to priorities of identified health care and philanthropy partners and political and government instability,” ...
What Is Gender Violence Channel 7 Daily News - 11/28/11 According to the statistics, in January to December of 2010 there were 1477 reported cases of Domestic Violence nationally, with the most, 794 cases reported in Belize City. The second most cases, 317 were reported in Corozal.
Bailed For Attempted Rape: Accused Of Rape Channel 7 Daily News - 11/28/11 Thirty five year old Rudolph Tubba Smith, an unemployed of Hattieville who was released from prison last week on bail for aggravated burglary with intent to commit rape, is back in the hands of the law charged this time with rape and aggravated ...
BMDC Denies Uruguayan Rice Allegations Channel 7 Daily News - 11/28/11 This year, there is a surplus of locally produced rice in Belize - in fact, we might not even be able to consume all of it! And that's why the allegation that rice is being imported - with the involvement of the Belize Marketing And Development ...
Lambey Charged Again Channel 7 Daily News - 11/28/11 33 year old Honduran Shirley Lambey lived virtually her entire life in Belize, albeit illegally, and, now, because she lost her temper, she stands to lose it all. Last week, the domestic worker of 8888 Jane Usher Boulevard was fined one thousand ...
The End Of An Era: Jeffries No Longer Top Cop Channel 7 Daily News - 11/28/11 He was initially contracted for one year, and got two contract renewals - making it clear that he had the confidence of his employers, the Government of Belize. We can't say that any good boss is or should ever be popular or universally - liked, ...
Not Gender Violence Channel 7 Daily News - 11/28/11 And we don't know if the next story falls under gender violence or just plain old woman fum-fum. 23 year old Victoria Jeffries, who told the court she is the public relations officer for a big time hotel, was charged with aggravated assault and ...
Terrifying Home Invasion Leaves Sixty-Six Year Old Critical Channel 7 Daily News - 11/28/11 This one was especially brutal - and seems particularly senseless; it happened in the Lake Independence area of Belize City. The victim is an elderly woman and tonight she is in a coma in the Intensive Care Unit. It happened around 3:30 on Sunday ...
GSU Busts Contraband And Drugs Channel 7 Daily News - 11/28/11 Present along with Benguche at the time were 22 year old Belizean Pharmacist, Nadia Pineda and 23 year old mechanic Jemmy McLaughlin both of the same address. As a result of the discovery, all three were arrested and jointly charged with possession of ...
The Roads To Caribbean Shores Channel 7 Daily News - 11/28/11 "Jules a lot of people have told me that I have been contributing in many ways to the Belizean society from they know me, for the last 30 plus years, so they know that this is not because I am in politics. I've been doing this for 30 years and they ...
Millennium drills Tornadoes 2-0 in football playoffs The Reporter Belize - 11/28/11 The Millennium Girls of Belize City continue to lead the Belize district women's football competition, and are virtually assured a berth in the championship finals, after they blasted the fourth-ranked Ladyville Tornadoes 2-0 in the playoffs at the ...
Jerome Flores completes historic Ride for the Reef The Reporter Belize - 11/28/11 Oceana Belize has been sponsoring Jerome in his training, so Oceana's Executive Director Audrey Matura-Shepherd and five other cyclists accompanied Jerome on the first leg last Friday, November 18. Former Belmopan Mayor Anthony Chanona was on hand to ...
Placencia Village gets New pre-school The Reporter Belize - 11/28/11 Other speakers included the Anglican Bishop of Belize, representatives of the Education Ministry, SIF and the school's management. Minister Melvin Hulse joins school principal in cutting the ribbon ; The new pre - school.
Belize Rural High School softball girls win Silver in Panama The Reporter Belize - 11/28/11 The softball girls of Belize Rural High, National Secondary Schools sub-champions, did Belize proud by winning the silver medal at the 3rd Central American and Caribbean Scholars' Games in Panama City, Panama from November 12-22. ...
Rhett Fuller loses Judiciary Review, and promptly turns to Appeals Court The Reporter Belize - 11/28/11 Fuller's attorney, Senior Counsel Godfrey Smith, substituting for Senior Counsel Eamon Courtnay who is currently out of the country, informed the court that Fuller had instructed his attorney to file an appeal to the Belize Court of Appeal without ...
PM addresses private sector's concerns The Reporter Belize - 11/28/11 The Government of Belize may very well “turn the DFC into a full-scale national commercial bank,” Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced at his “Turning the Corner” Business Forum held at Old Belize on Wednesday, November 23. ...
Beltraide has plans to up employment rate The Reporter Belize - 11/28/11 Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) can help to reduce Belize's unemployment rate. The Belize Trade and Investment Development Services (BELTRAIDE) is, therefore, actively seeking out and negotiating with BPO investors. ...
Electrification for Belizean Communities The Reporter Belize - 11/28/11 A $5.5 million grant from the European Union, with counterpart funding from the Government of Belize, will pay for the electrification of over twenty Belizean communities. The EU representative in Belize, Cosimo Lamberti Fossati, ...
Heska's Inspiration in Action contest goes to final stage of voting DVM 360 - 11/28/11 A proposal to build a state-of-the-art medical facility for wildlife in Belize. According to the entry proposal, the Belize Wildlife and Referral Clinic would serve as a dedicated facility to provide medical care to a population of animals that are ...
BMDC OFFICIAL SAYS BELIZE IS NOT IMPORTING RICE FROM URUGUAY LoveFM - 11/28/11 The Belize Marketing and Development Corporation today issued a public statement, refuting allegations in certain section of the media that BMDC is importing rice from Uruguay. Managing Director of BMDC Roque Mai told Love News that there is no need to ...
US NATIONAL FINED AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO DRUG TRAFFICKING LoveFM - 11/28/11 He said he stopped them and when he searched Child he found three transparent plastic bags containing cocaine in the pocket of his pants. Child said he has been vacationing in Belize for one week and the cocaine was for his own use.
SCOUTING MOVEMENT CELEBRATES CENTENARY IN BELIZE LoveFM - 11/28/11 Scouting was founded by Robert Baden-Powell in the United Kingdom in 1907 and the first recorded Scout Troop registered in Belize in 1911, making this year its hundredth Anniversary. As a result The Scout Association of Belize held a Centenary Awards ...
VIP SAYS NO TO CORRUPTION LoveFM - 11/28/11 This followed an incident, which a member of the party says he witnessed at the Belize-Mexico border over the weekend. Robert Lopez, who is the chairman of VIP says he personally witnessed Belizeans engaging in corrupt dealings with Mexican immigration ...
BELIZE CITY MAN CHARGED FOR ANOTHER SEXUAL OFFENCE LoveFM - 11/28/11 35-year-old Rudolph Smith also known as Tubba who was recently released from prison on a bail for a charge of aggravated burglary was back in court today charged with rape and aggravated burglary. The prosecutor objected to bail on the grounds that the ...
POLICE SAY PLANS IN PLACE TO TACKLE UPSURGE IN AGGRAVATED BURGLARIES LoveFM - 11/28/11 Officials of the senior police command for the Belize district were guests today on the Love FM Morning Show. During the course of the discussion, several topics came up, including the issue of what the media refers to as home invasions. ...
11/27/11
Water wonderlands carved by the waves: The world's most spectacular sea-caves Daily Mail - 11/27/11 Many 'sea caves' are famous among the watersports community - largely because you have to strap on a pair of flippers and an air tank to explore sights such as Belize's Great Blue Hole. But the relentless action of the waves over ...
Golding thinks region owes much to governors general Jamaica Gleaner - 11/27/11 Governor General Sir Patrick Allen (standing, second left) introduces former Prime Minister of Jamaica Bruce Golding (standing, right) to (from left) Governor General of the Bahamas Sir Arthur Foulkes; Governor General of Belize Sir Colville Norbert ...
| Budget Travel Fox News - 11/27/11 Why in 2012: Belize tends to be overshadowed by its neighbors: Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, which in 2010 saw twice the visitor arrivals that Belize did. Yet this English-speaking nation has plenty to recommend it, including a bounty of exotic ...
Celebrating life at Iberostar Jamaica Gleaner - 11/27/11 That man is Belizean Queen's Counsel Rodwell Williams, who was shot in the abdomen last May, and left to die on the streets of Belize. He told Outlook at that moment he thought, "I can't die now; I am a promising young man. ...
11/25/11
Best In Primary School Volleyball Channel 7 Daily News - 11/25/11 The National Primary School Volleyball Championship was held at the Belize Civic Center today. Two teams from each district came out fired up and charged, ready to represent their district and school in front of a huge crowd . ...
Women Launch 16 Days Of Activism Channel 7 Daily News - 11/25/11 It starts with an opening ceremony and then a march through the streets of Belize City to bring awareness and to advocate against different issues women face on a day to day basis - specifically gender-based violence. For the next 16 days, ...
Body Of Drowned 79 Year Old Still Not Found Channel 7 Daily News - 11/25/11 She told police that she couldn't swim so he pushed her to safety. Unfortunately, after that he went under and did not resurface. When we checked at newstime he still had not been found and the family is having a wake for him tonight. 7 News Belize.
"Di Plane (Crash) Lan'!" Channel 7 Daily News - 11/25/11 This morning around 9:00, the news went out in waves that a drug plane had crashed in the Belize District and two men were dead inside. It happened behind the Belize Zoo, not far from La Democracia - in a very accessible area, on solid land, ...
Tapir Calf Rescued From Chiquibul Channel 7 Daily News - 11/25/11 A disturbing case recently came to light where a Guatemalan Xatero threw away a crocus sack as he fled from Belizean authorities. Inside the sack, they found a tapir calf, only a few weeks old - separated from his mother - who no doubt had to have been ...
SUSPECTED DRUG PLANE CRASH LANDS, TWO MEN DEAD LoveFM - 11/25/11 They were transported the whole way on the highway and into the Belize City uncovered. After the embassy personnel left, we were allowed to visit the crash site. The plane landed in an open area and skidded in swamp for about five hundred feet before ...
UNIBAM VERSUS CHURCHES CONTINUE LoveFM - 11/25/11 The constitutional challenge to section fifty three of the Belize Constitution continues to inch closer to a hearing in the Supreme Court. Today an adjournment was granted based on an application by the Churches who are interested parties in the case ...
16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM KICKS OFF LoveFM - 11/25/11 The keynote speaker at the ceremony was Dr. Corinth-Morter Lewis, President Emeritus and Employee Assistance Program Manager for the University of Belize. Jay Coombs, Program officer for the United Nations Development Program also stepped up to the ...
BELIZE CITY MAN WANTED FOR RAPE, ON THE RUN LoveFM - 11/25/11 Police have issued an advisory asking the public to be on the lookout for a man identified as Rudolph Smith, also known as Tuba. Police did not release any other details; but did say that Smith is wanted by the CIB office for the crime of rape. ...
CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST BELIZE CITY WOMAN LoveFM - 11/25/11 Five charges that included theft of $2800.00 and possession of a forged document were struck out from 21-year-old Lisani Caliz for want of prosecution. The other charges were uttering a forged document, claiming upon a forged document and handling ...
EX-SERVICES LEAGUE BUILDING GETS FACELIFT LoveFM - 11/25/11 The Belize Ex-Services League headquarters in Belize City has received a much needed facelift. The building, situated on Newtown Barracks, was refurbished by the soldiers of the British Army Training Support Unit in Belize of the course of the last few ...
Herbert Smith LLP | The constitution of disciplinary and appeal boards and the ... Linex Legal (press release) (registration) - 11/25/11 The appellant Bank of Belize Limited (BBL) appealed against a directive of the Central Bank of Belize, following a hearing by the Bank and Financial Institution Appeal Board (the Appeal Board) ordering it to repay US$10 million. ...
Of this and that, part 2 Amandala - 11/25/11 I never thought that that the editorial board of The Belize Times could be in sympathy with homosexuals until I read a “letter” on page 2 of their Sunday issue today, Thursday. I fully expected the homosexuals to attack me, and Amandala for my article, ...
Sudden, “massive” heart attack claims Harry Lui, 41 Amandala - 11/25/11 It does happen, and it has happened to former Chief Financial Comptroller for the University of Belize (UB), Harry Waren Lui, at the family residence on University Boulevard just before 1:00 pm on Thursday, November 17, 2011, a week ago. ...
Ideas and Opinions - CONCERNING UNIBAM Amandala - 11/25/11 A group of homosexuals in Belize have come together and formed an organization to advance their cause. Their name is Unibam, and they have launched an offensive beginning with a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a law that declares that the ...
From then, until now … Amandala - 11/25/11 Between 1998 and 2004, Belize had a fiesta and the PUP won two general elections. Belize borrowed and spent a lot of money during that period, and, as a result, Belize now owes a lot of money. Because the electorate could not really see that the money ...
Turning the economic corner – all hands to the wheel! Amandala - 11/25/11 Taxes, crime, interest rates, road infrastructure, statistics and policy were among the main issues that government officials highlighted at a half-day business forum, Turning the Corner, held at the Old Belize Pavilion in Belize City—but the business ...
Decriminalizing homosexuality will have dire ripple effects: churches Amandala - 11/25/11 During an almost 3-hour-long forum held in Belize City on Wednesday night, November 23, attended by about 120 people, key presenters such as the President of the Council of Churches, Pastor Canon Leroy Flowers, expressed their stance on the ...
Barrow asks IMF for diagnostic of Belize's taxation system Amandala - 11/25/11 At the Wednesday, November 23, 2011, business forum titled, Turning The Corner, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced that the Government of Belize has requested the help of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to conduct a diagnostic—a short-term ...
Coast Guard search for Carl Flowers, 79, continues into second day Amandala - 11/25/11 The Belize Coast Guard had to suspend its search today for an elderly man of Flowers Bank who reportedly drowned in the Belize River Valley—but whose body has yet to be recovered. Authorities plan to resume their search in the morning for 79-year-old ...
CSEC and CAPE top performers in spotlight at national awards Amandala - 11/25/11 Rudon told the gathering that his wish was for this class of honorees to combine their various talents in the service of Belize, both at home and abroad, and represent the country well. He acknowledged that young people are sometimes “foolish” and tend ...
Author: Daniel Ortiz Amandala - 11/25/11 In a third case, a group of five Belize Defence Force officers are being accused of beating two Belizean teens they labeled as Guatemalans with their belts. Nursing a broken arm in a sling, Deon Bainton, 33, a pastry vendor of Pickstock Street, ...
Central America rejects shark finning FIS - 11/25/11 In addition to officials from Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, the minister of the Dominican Republic, Salvador Jiménez also participated. At the meeting, there was consensus in the Central American ...
Consultation on youth gangs and violence heads to Trinidad Caribbean360.com - 11/25/11 T&T is the fourth country earmarked for the intervention - the others being Belize, Guyana and St Kitts and Nevis. The project aims to strengthen the capacity of youth and community members to design and implement programmes to address gang formation ...
Weird and Mysterious Places on Earth Siliconindia.com - 11/25/11 By SiliconIndia, Friday, 25 November 2011, 05:04 Hrs The is a large submarine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 kilometers from the mainland and Belize City. The hole is in circular in shape. ...
11/24/11
After A Lifetime in Belize, A Honduran Faces Deportation Channel 7 Daily News - 11/24/11 A Honduran who has been living in Belize for more than 25 years is facing deportation tonight after an alleged altercation with Police. Thirty three year old Honduran national Shirley Lambey, a domestic worker of 8888 Jane Usher boulevard ...
A History Of Trade Unions In Belize Channel 7 Daily News - 11/24/11 It's called, "Understanding The Role Of The Christian Trade Unions In the Making Of Modern Belize." And while the title may sound like just a drab recounting of the genesis of the Trade Union movement, in fact, it is a fascinating examination of the ...
Women In Politics, The Mexican Perspective Channel 7 Daily News - 11/24/11 But Mexico, which has an older, more sophisticated and diverse democracy than Belize's may have a model that Belize's women leaders can emulate. Today the Mexican Embassy held a - Seminar-workshop in Gender participation in politics. ...
Customs Reform, When? Channel 7 Daily News - 11/24/11 "I am also happy to say, that Belize I am being advice, is the first country that will allow online payment of duties. We are presently working with the Atlantic Bank, which means that you will be able to sit at your desk in your office or in your ...
Body Of 79 Year Old Still Not Found Channel 7 Daily News - 11/24/11 Tonight, the body of 79 year old apparent drowning victim Carl Flowers has still not been recovered from the Belize River - near his home in Flower's Bank. Today, an all-out effort to find his body continued, and Monica Bodden was in Flower's Bank:. ...
Will Port Of Belize Fall to Receivers? Channel 7 Daily News - 11/24/11 Is the Port Of Belize about to fall into receivership - and under the control of the Belize Bank? That's been the buzz all week - but in this case, while rumour abounds, fact has been hard to come by. Today's Guardian reports that agents of the ...
Cruise Ship Passenger Pays Stiff Fine For Cannabis Channel 7 Daily News - 11/24/11 An American college student visiting Belize on a cruise ship was busted by Tourism Police after he was found in possession of marijuana. Twenty one year old Florida resident, William Moore, was fined One Thousand dollars today by Senior Magistrate ...
CABINET APPROVES REMOVAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL TAX ON CARICOM IMPORTS LoveFM - 11/24/11 According to a release from the office of the Prime Minister, the removal of the tax will have the effect of achieving consistency with Belize's commitment under the revised treaty of Chaguaramas. The government release says that it is fair to expect ...
WOMAN SENT TO JAIL AFTER FAILING TO PAY FINE LoveFM - 11/24/11 33-year-old Honduran national Shirley Lambey, a resident of Jane Usher Boulevard who has been living in Belize from the age of five, was charged with failure to produce a visitor's permit when she appeared in court today. Lambey pleaded guilty to the ...
US NATIONAL FINED FOR DRUG POSSESSION LoveFM - 11/24/11 21-year-old US national William Moore from Florida who came to Belize City yesterday on a cruise ship, was fined one thousand dollars today by Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer after he pleaded guilty to possession of two point nine grams of cannabis. ...
PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS ON VOIP AND OTHER ISSUES LoveFM - 11/24/11 “There has been an expression of interest, BNE itself wants to do one but I need to point out that the presence of a refinery won't necessarily mean a lower fuel prices in Belize. The Mexicans who are interested in a refinery are interested in refining ...
Turning the corner The Guardian, Belize - 11/24/11 Despite global conditions, Belize has weathered the storm and our economy is again on the right track. With a continued focus on poverty alleviation through social investment; job creation; enterprise development; growth in productivity; and safety and ...
No fair play by FFB The Guardian, Belize - 11/24/11 The Football Federation of Belize is in the process of selecting representatives that will make up the congress to select a new executive for the organization. From the onset, the process has been fraught with difficulties mainly due to the current ...
Five years for pen gun The Guardian, Belize - 11/24/11 The 20-year-old of Belize City was arraigned in Magistrate's court on Tuesday November 23rd on a single count of keeping an unlicensed firearm. Police say that at about 12:15am on Sunday, November 20, they were conducting a mobile patrol on Newtown ...
The Port in Ashcroft control Ashcroft company calls in Port of Belize Loans The Guardian, Belize - 11/24/11 Going into the Port of Belize has become quite the task, as the management of the institution is closely screening who comes into the port to do business. The port is on near lock down after agents for Michael Ashcroft have been attempting to make ...
Teenager murdered at the western border The Guardian, Belize - 11/24/11 Esvin Ernesto Reyes, a 16 year old Guatemalan living in Benque, was murdered on Saturday morning near the Belize Guatemalan Border. Reyes and his parents were attempting to enter into Melchor illegally as is the practice of those living in Benque who ...
11/23/11
79 Year Old Drown When Canoe Capsizes In Flowers Bank Channel 7 Daily News - 11/23/11 As we told you earlier, a 79 year old man apparently drowned in the Belize River near Flower's Bank today. Carl Flowers and his common-law-wife Gloria Sanchez were both returning home from their plantation when their dory . ...
When Will VOIP Be Legal In Belize? Channel 7 Daily News - 11/23/11 That's what many have been asking for years. Critics argue that, in the modern era, it's hard to do business without VOIP. But regulators maintain that introducing VOIP would strip earnings away from phone companies like Telemedia that have to invest ...
PM Reaches Out To Business Community Channel 7 Daily News - 11/23/11 "At a more general level, there was a clear indication of the need for improvement in the perception of the business climate in Belize." "The need for Government to enter into a more comprehensive ongoing dialogue with, you, the private sector, ...
GOB Says Immarbe May Have To Adjust For EU Channel 7 Daily News - 11/23/11 Not least among them is the grave peril into which Belize's aquaculture interests have been placed with the threatened blacklisting by the European Union. The European Union says it will identify Belize as what they call a non-co-operating third ...
Best and Brightest Honoured Channel 7 Daily News - 11/23/11 "Right now, I am attending the University of Belize doing general course subjects. I plan to move on, this coming semester, to information technology and mathematics. And from there, I plan to further my studies." "Tell us how many subjects you took, ...
BOOK ON TRADE UNION MOVEMENT HITS BOOKSTORES LoveFM - 11/23/11 The trade union movement in Belize has a long and storied history. And today, a new book seeks to lay bare the contributions of Nicholas Pollard Senior, one of the movement's powerful players. The book, Understanding the role of the Christian Trade ...
PRIME MINISTER HOLDS BUSINESS FORUM LoveFM - 11/23/11 Belize is no different and many companies have had to count their losses and shut up shop. But today, whether he did it to protect the remaining businesses or to win the business vote at the polls or not, the Prime Minister held a business forum, ...
CEREMONY TO HONOUR OUTSTANDING STUDENTS TAKES PLACE LoveFM - 11/23/11 The Bliss center for Performing Arts was packed to capacity this morning as the CXC National Committee in Belize held its seventeenth annual National Awards ceremony for outstanding performance in the 2011 May to June Caribbean Advanced proficiency ...
MAN CHARGED BY POLICE ACCUSES OFFICERS OF VIOLATING HIS RIGHTS LoveFM - 11/23/11 Twenty Seven year old disc jockey, also known as “DJ Motion” is accusing Belize City police of violating his rights and of allowing a man to beat him up while he was handcuffed inside the CIB office on Queen Street. Lara, who is employed by our sister ...
Belize Government Defies Supreme Court Ruling; Grants Oil Company Permit to ... Upside Down World - 11/23/11 The government of Belize has quietly granted an American oil company drilling rights to protected Maya lands inside the Sarstoon Temash National Park (STNP) in the Toledo District of southern Belize. The surreptitious move is in defiance of an historic ...
11/22/11
OPINION: Guatemalans are invading Belize and now is the time to take the ... Middle East North Africa Financial Network - 11/22/11 ago Nov 23, 2011 (Caribbean News Now - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- As a citizen of Belize, it is hard for me to read the news to know that the citizens from Guatemala have been constantly crossing the Guatemalan border at ...
New Car Sales Seriously Slowed By Sluggish Economy Channel 7 Daily News - 11/22/11 For example in 2008 Belize Diesel sold about 350 Toyotas, the overall market was about 850 cars - meaning all the news car dealers sold 850. From 2009-2010-2011 the market has contracted about 350 new cars overall. So the dealers are selling much less. ...
HS Softball Team Shines In Regional Competition Channel 7 Daily News - 11/22/11 The girls' softball team of Belize Rural High in Double Head Cabbage excelled in the third Central American and Caribbean Scholar Games which were played in Panama over the past weekend. The team came out with silver when it loss a heart breaker to ...
ALLEGATION: Police Punched Bailiff Channel 7 Daily News - 11/22/11 The incident occurred on September 16 at a local bar in Belize City. The bailiff reported to the police that Ortega and police constable Leonardo Yama did not like his comment about them drinking in their uniform and Ortega followed him to the bathroom ...
European Money For Rural Electrification Channel 7 Daily News - 11/22/11 Communities that will benefit from the project include: Steadfast, Belize City's Belama Phase 4, Belmopan's Salvapan and Maya Mopan, Dangriga's Wagirale and Rivas Estate, Independence's New Site and Noralez Extension, Benque Viejo Town, the villages of ...
Rhett Fuller Loses, Throws Himself On Mercy Of Court Channel 7 Daily News - 11/22/11 She reminded the court also that the Government of Belize has treaty obligations. Those arguments took another half an hour and then Justice Awich took five minutes to write up his judgment right there in the courtroom. There was an uneasy quiet in the ...
A Conference On Alcohol Consumption Channel 7 Daily News - 11/22/11 Excessive Alcohol Consumption is a major social problem in Belize and now the ministry of health is coming up with draft National Alcohol Policy for Belize. The idea is to reduce alcohol- related harm in the society. A consultation workshop was held ...
S and P Says No Go For Belize Channel 7 Daily News - 11/22/11 The international rating agency Standard and Poors has downgraded its rating for Belize from stable to negative. The first downgrade came months ago when government first acquired BEL, but was just made official yesterday. It says there are, quote, ...
FIRST EVER MAYORS FORUM TO BE HELD IN ORANGE WALK LoveFM - 11/22/11 Belize Promoting Active Citizenship, Belpac has partnered with Estereo Amor to host the first ever Mayors Forum in Orange Walk. With municipal elections set for March next year and the campaign machineries getting into gear the group thought this time ...
BELIZE ACTION TO HOLD FORUM IN BELIZE CITY LoveFM - 11/22/11 Earlier this year the United Belize Advocacy Movement, UNIBAM filed a motion against the Attorney General in which they are challenging the constitutionality of section 53 of the Belize Criminal Code which criminalizes carnal intercourse against the ...
OVER 34 VILLAGES TO GET ELECTRICITY SUPPLY LoveFM - 11/22/11 Belize Electricity Limited has entered into a tripartite venture with the Government of Belize and the European Union. A ceremony was held this morning at BEL's Corporate Headquarters for the signing of a contract for a five point five million dollars ...
BELIZE RETURNS FROM REGIONAL SCHOLAR GAMES WITH SILVER MEDALS LoveFM - 11/22/11 The Belize Rural High School's softball team returned to the country this morning following its participation in the just concluded third Central American and Caribbean Scholar games. The tournament was held in Panama City, Panama and had the ...
RHETT FULLER GRANTED TEMPORARY STAY LoveFM - 11/22/11 It has been perhaps the longest trial in Belize's history, the extradition case of Rhett Fuller, now 42, who is wanted in the United States to stand trial for murder. The hearings started back in 1998 and today, after what many thought would be the ...
GUATEMALAN NATIONAL DETAINED LoveFM - 11/22/11 The team comprised elements of the Belize Defence Force and Friends of Conservation and Development and took place in the area of Tunkul, located 10 kilometers from the western border. According to a release from the conservation group the area had ...
PROGRESS MADE IN CITRUS FIGHT LoveFM - 11/22/11 The situation in the Citrus Industry continues to inch towards a settlement of the impasse between Citrus Growers Association and the Citrus Products of Belize Limited. Love News understands that the security documents necessary for CPBL to access two ...
FORGERS TARGET SALVATION ARMY LoveFM - 11/22/11 The Christmas bells of the Salvation Army have been ringing in Belize City for a couple of weeks now; but today a different kind of bell was sounded by the organization. According to Regional Secretary Major Henry King, someone has been going around ...
Rallying against the international homosexual agenda Amandala - 11/22/11 The Belize Action Team, a group of Belizean Christian leaders, have organized two events this week in Belize City, to educate and engage the public in relation to the United Belize Advocacy Movement's (UNIBAM) challenge to Belize's Constitution. ...
Belizean industries improve efficiency with GIS Amandala - 11/22/11 Two of Belize's leading industries – telecommunications and agriculture – are among the chief users of Geographic Information Systems in Belize (GIS). Among those Amandala spoke with at Wednesday's inaugural GIS Expo in Belize were staff of Belize ...
Guats caught red-handed razing Chiquibul Amandala - 11/22/11 FCD reported that the Joint Forces Unit in the Chiquibul Forest—a team of Belize Defence Force, Police and FCD personnel—was on a mission on Friday, November 18, in the area of Tunkul, located 10 kilometers (over 6 miles) from the western border with ...
Murdered near Melchor Amandala - 11/22/11 The life of a Benque Viejo del Carmen teen was abruptly and mercilessly cut short near Belize's western border, in the sight of his helpless parents on Saturday, November 19, by two masked assailants on what was supposed to be a festive Garifuna ...
The “19th” in Dangriga – time to remember, and celebrate Amandala - 11/22/11 With the recent cultural explosion, both inside and outside of Belize, of knowledge and recognition of Garinagu culture and tradition, the 19th has become a centerpiece, and many other cultures take time out on this date to reflect on the common ...
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Exploring the benefits of Mayan abdominal massage Royal Gazette - 11/21/11 This was the view of Don Elijio Panti a highly sought-after traditional healer from Belize. Mr Panti died in 1996 at 103 years of age. In the 1990s he gained international respect and recognition for his knowledge of the healing properties of ...
Nineteenth In The City Was Unusual Channel 7 Daily News - 11/21/11 And while he was in Dangriga for the nineteenth - we were in Belize City - where the ceremonies offered an unexpected twist this year. Everyone was waiting at the Belcan bridge for the re-enactment players to arrive, but they came from another ...
He Used His Pickup As A Murder Weapon Channel 7 Daily News - 11/21/11 And while that killing occurred on the border another happened in Northwestern Belize, in a village not too far from the border with Mexico. This one is equally pointless and possibly more vicious. It happened on Friday night at the entrance to San ...
FCD Catch a Logger & A 14 Year Old With thousands OF Xate Leaves Channel 7 Daily News - 11/21/11 He reported that he had been bringing the xate from the area of Monkeytail River which is some 35 kilometers - more than 20 miles inside Belize. Because he is a child, the Unit did not handcuff him and he capitalized on that by escaping into the jungle ...
Guatemalan Teen, Resident In Belize, Killed At Backdoor Border Crossing Channel 7 Daily News - 11/21/11 On Saturday night, a teenager was killed at the Belize - Guatemala border. It happened on the banks of the Mopan River which runs along the border with Guatemala. 16 year old Esvin Ernesto Reyes was along with his parents - Guatemalans living in Benque ...
German Shot In Home Invasion/Robbery Channel 7 Daily News - 11/21/11 51 year old Harold Hillger, a German/Belizean businessman reported that around 11:00pm he was at home along with his friend Werner Woehrle, a 57 year old German businessman/tourist who is staying with him. They were having a conversation ...
Journalists Get Training In Children's Issues Channel 7 Daily News - 11/21/11 It's a training being offered by UNICEF Belize and the University of The West Indies for journalists from all over the country. The idea behind is that the news very often cuts across children's issues particularly child exploitation. ...
Jerome Flores Rode Triumphantly Into Griga Channel 7 Daily News - 11/21/11 Contributions can be made to BAPDA's First Caribbean Bank Account #10202430. Some $1200.00 has been raised to date, but the public's support is needed to meet Jerome's target of twenty thousand dollars. 7 News Belize.
Call Centers: The Employer Of The Future? Channel 7 Daily News - 11/21/11 And now, Belize - which has a few call centers - wants to capitalize on the opportunity afforded to this country as an English Speaking nation and maximize its call-center potential. Except, it's being called, BPO, Business Processing Outsourcing - and ...
BUSINESS PICKS UP IN THE COROZAL FREE ZONE LoveFM - 11/21/11 All indications are that the government of Belize stands to receive 10 million dollars in revenues from the importation of goods to the free zone. David Ackerman says this is stands to be the best the zone has done since it was established 15 years ago ...
RECRUITS UNDERGO FIREFIGHTING TRAINING LoveFM - 11/21/11 For the next thirteen weeks nineteen recruits are engaged in firefighters training in session for the next thirteen weeks at the Belize City Fire Station on Cleghorn Street comes in just timely. Training Officer, Orin Smith says the course teaches the ... |
