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The March 17th, 2013 issue of The STAR (Cayo) is online HERE
This Week's Stories:
- Police Kill Two Robbers:
Preparations are being made for the
burial of two young men who were
reportedly shot by police as they fled
the scene of a robbery in San Ignacio
shortly after 12 noon on Tuesday,
March 12, 2013.
San Ignacio police reported
receiving an emergency call via the
911 line of a robbery in progress at
Roses Chinese Restaurant & Store
located between miles 67 and 68 on
the George Price Highway on the
western outskirts of San Ignacio
town.
It is reported that a team of
policemen rushed to the scene where
in the area they came upon two male
persons, one of whom was seen with
a blue rag concealing his face while
the other wore a black stocking over
his face and toting a sawed-off shot
gun.
- Fully Equipped
Resource Center
For Arenal
Village:
A spanking new resource center
will soon be constructed in the western village of Arenal, Cayo.
The fully furnished 30 x 60 feet
building will be constructed at a cost
of $250,000. The furnishings will
include computer equipment and
furniture. The building will be located
in a spacious new area of the village
alongside a new football field.
Daniel Cano, Executive Director
of the Social Investment Fund,
informed that the design for the new
building will be completed within the
next two months. He told the
gathered villagers that bids for
construction will be invited thereafter.
The building is expected to be
completed before the end of this year.
- Cayo's Oscar Quiroz Is The
Cyclist To Watch On Holy Saturday:
Oscar Quiroz, the junior cyclist
who has recently graduated into the
major leagues will be the cyclist to
watch in the March 30, Annual Holy
Saturday Cross Country Cycling
Classic.
The rising young cycling star who
participated in the Smart Belmopan
Cycling Classic on March 10,
shocked the crowd when he captured
the top prize in the junior league
category by crossing the finish line one
minute and forty seconds ahead of the
second place finisher.
Quiroz has dominated the junior
league since exploding onto the scene
back in March 2010 when he
competed in the Junior Cross
Country Cycling Classic placing 9th
in this prestigious race, an excellent
feat by any standards for a first time
rider.
- A New Basketball Court For St. Andrews Anglican Primary School:
Thirteen students from Toronto
District Christian High School in
Canada arrived in Belize on March
5, 2013; sleeves raised and ready to
work on constructing a new basketball
court for St. Andrews Anglican
Primary School in San Ignacio Town.
Country coordinators Richard Zul
and Lucille Sosa explained that
works on the basketball court took a
total of four days, which included
preparation of the building site,
laying stone ground work, and
pouring of the concrete slab.
During their spare time, members
of the visiting team visited classrooms,
entertained students, painted
hopscotch on the cemented courtyard,
leveled out the school grounds
and prepared new garden beds.
- D'bi.Young Anitafrika
performing live at the Bliss:
The Institute of
Creative Arts (ICA) and the Winsom
Foundation in collaboration with
Women's month presents for the first
time in Belize, African-Jamaican-
Canadian dubpoet, playwright,
monodramatist and educator
D'bi.Young Anitafrika.
She is internationally celebrated as
a visionary storyteller, a passionate
humanist and a leader in the development
of arts education. She will be
performing one of her eight plays
'Blood Claat', specializing in what she
terms biomyth monodrama, D'bi.
writes one-person theatre plays
comprised of music, poetry, dance, and drama that chronicle the stories
of global peoples and our quests for
self-actualization.
She has recently completing her
third global tour, performing and
teaching, D'bi. has shared the stage
with many renowned names such as
legendary American poet Saul Williams,
and world renowned singers
Alicia Keys, Angelique Kidjo, Annie
Lennox, and Sarah Maglachan.
- Pope Francis Warns Church Could Become 'Compassionate NGO':
Pope Francis has warned the
Catholic Church would become "a
compassionate NGO" without
spiritual renewal.
In a Sistine Chapel Mass with
cardinals on his first day as Church
leader, the pontiff said: "If we do not
confess to Christ, what would we
be?
"We would end up a compassionate
NGO. What would happen
would be like when children make
sand castles and then it all falls
down."
Francis is the first Latin American -
and the first Jesuit - Pope.
The BBC's David Willey, in Rome,
says the 76-year-old has already been
swift to stamp his style on the papacy.
Pope Francis is regarded as a
doctrinal conservative, but he is also
seen as a potential force for reform
of the Vatican bureaucracy, analysts
say.
- Early HIV Drugs 'Functionally Cure About One In Ten':
Rapid treatment after HIV infection
may be enough to "functionally
cure" about a 10th of those
diagnosed early, say researchers in
France.
They have been analysing 14
people who stopped therapy, but
have since shown no signs of the
virus resurging.
It follows reports of a baby girl
being effectively cured after very early
treatment in the US.
However, most people infected
with HIV do not find out until the
virus has fully infiltrated the body.
The group of patients, known as the
Visconti cohort, all started treatment
within 10 weeks of being infected.
- China Confirms Li Keqiang As Premier:
China's leaders have named Li
Keqiang premier, placing him at the
helm of the world's second-largest
economy.
Mr Li, who already holds the
number two spot in the Communist
Party, takes over from Wen Jiabao.
Mr Li was elected for a five-year
term but, like his predecessor, would
be expected to spend a decade in
office.
On Thursday, Xi Jinping was
confirmed by legislators as the new
president, completing the transition of
power from Hu Jintao.
Li Keqiang's widely-signalled
elevation was confirmed by 3,000
legislators at the National People's
Congress, the annual parliament
session, in Beijing, by 2,940 votes of
2,949 cast.
- Brazil Outrage Over Sao Paulo Cyclist's Lost Arm:
A road collision in Brazil has caused
outrage after police said a motorist
drove off with a cyclist's severed arm
attached to his vehicle.
The driver, who later turned
himself in, told Sao Paulo police that
he had dumped the limb in a stream.
The arm has not been recovered but
doctors believe it could have been
reattached, police told local media.
The cyclist - a window-cleaner on
his way to work - is said to be in a
stable condition in hospital.
The accident that saw the cyclist's
arm torn off took place on Sunday
morning on Avenida Paulista, one of
Sao Paulo's busiest streets.
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