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The May 25th, 2014 issue of The STAR (Cayo) is online HERE
This Week's Stories:
- Aaron Juan Remanded On
Another Sex Related Charge:
Having been on the run for over
five months, a businessman from
San Ignacio Town accompanied
by an attorney, today turned
himself in to the police to be
charged.
San Ignacio police reports
that around midmorning on
Tuesday, May 20, Aaron Elijah Juan, 33, Belizean businessman
of a Burns Avenue address in San
Ignacio Town, accompanied by
Belize City based attorney,
Richard "Dickie" Bradley,
walked into the police station in
effect turning in himself to face
a carnal knowledge charge.
- Five Guatemalans On A
Drug Trafficking Charge:
Five Guatemalans, one of
which is a naturalized Belizean,
were found in a car on the George
Price Highway with 18 pounds of
marijuana suspected to be of
Guatemalan origin.
San Ignacio police reports that
the Guatemalans were moving the
sack of weed during the wee
hours of the morning on Tuesday,
May 20. The report indicated that at around 3:00 am, a joint
operation mounted by elements
of the police Anti Drug
Unit (ADU), police Mobile
Interdiction Unit (MIT), police
K-9 Unit and Customs personnel
were manning a checkpoint on
the George Price Highway
between the western towns of San
Ignacio and Benque Viejo, at mile
68, near Rumors Resort, when a
green Geo Prism car with San
Ignacio/Satna Elena license
plates C-01281, pulled up to the
check point. The car, with five
occupants including the driver,
was stopped and searched. Inside
the trunk of the car police came
upon a white sack and when
opened, it was found to contain
two black plastic bags with 11
parcels of marijuana.
- Belize City Man Guilty Of San Ignacio Theft:
A man who told the police that
the lives on Antelope Street in
Belize City today pled guilty of a
theft charge after he was caught
by an alert off duty policemen a
few minutes after snatching a
lady's sling bag.
The incident occurred at around
6:00 am on Sunday May 18 when
a hardworking vegetable vendor
from Santa Familia village, Cayo
was sitting under the Falcon Field
bus stop waiting for the bus to
travel on business to Belize City.
The lady told the police that
after sitting under the bus stop
for about 15 minutes a tall
male person of fair complexion,
wearing a black � Jeans pant, a
black "Los Angeles" baseball cap
and a black T-Shirt, arrived at the
bus stop. She heard when the
man said that he had lost his
telephone. He walked to the back
of the shed as if searching for
something and this was when he
grabbed the lady's black sling bag
she had on her lap and ran off.
- Guatemalan Ex-President Alfonso Portillo Jailed In US:
A court in New York has
sentenced former Guatemalan
President Alfonso Portillo
to five years and 10 months in
jail for taking bribes from
Taiwan.
Portillo, who was extradited to
the United States last year, has
also been ordered to pay a $2.5m
fine.
He pleaded guilty in March to
attempting to launder the illegal
money through American banks.
The judge has not decided
whether he will serve the
remainder of his sentence in the
US or Guatemala.
Portillo has already spent
a substantial amount of time in
jail and has only another
18 months of his sentence to
serve.
The time in jail was "a big
learning experience for me but
also great pain for my family",
Portillo said in court.
- Secret Passages-An Art Show
Opening At The Soul Project:
This new exhibit features works
of collage by people from all
over the world visiting Belize.
Collage is a very interesting
medium. In collage, the artist
assembles existing print material
into a new format, a new picture.
The artist creates a new context
for the text or images selected,
as they appear in the collage in
relationship to one another. The
seeming randomness of the
selection and reassembly leaves
a lot of room for subconscious
free association by the artist, but
also by the viewer. Collage
invites us to link images together
in an instantaneous impression,
the first look. Our minds scan for
patterns and similarities and
differences, in an instant we form
an idea about what we see. See
Secret Passages for yourself, and
let your mind expand...showing
until etc date at Soul Project in
San Ignacio.
- Cholesterol:
To understand high blood
cholesterol (ko-LES-ter-ol), it
helps to learn about cholesterol.
Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like
substance that's found in all cells
of the body.
Your body needs some cholesterol
to make hormones, vitamin
D, and substances that help you
digest foods. Your body makes all
the cholesterol it needs. However,
cholesterol also is found in some
of the foods you eat.
Cholesterol travels through
your bloodstream in small
packages called lipoproteins
(lip-o-PRO-teens). These
packages are made of fat (lipid)
on the inside and proteins on the
outside.
Two kinds of lipoproteins
carry cholesterol through
-out your body: low-density
lipoproteins (LDL) and
high- density lipoproteins (HDL).
Having healthy levels of
both types of lipoproteins is
important.
- What Is Commonwealth Or Sovereign's Day?:
Commonwealth or Sovereign's
Day, as it is known to us today, is
the annual celebration of the
Commonwealth of Nations an
inter-governmental organization
of 54 independent or sovereign
states. The origin of this day
came about in 1884 when
Lord Rosebery, while visiting
Australia (then under British
governance), observed the
changes in the British Empire.
His observation was that some of
its colonies were becoming
increasingly independent. He
was the first to address this issue
and the first to refer to the states
as the "Commonwealth of
Nations" while still under the
British rule. His observation lead
to the first consultation between
Britain and its colonies to
address this emerging need for
independence.
It was not until 1931, however,
that the first 5 colonies became
recognized as the "British
Commonwealth of Nations".
These nations included Canada,
the United Kingdom, Irish Free
State, Newfoundland, and
the Union of South Africa. In
1946, the 'British' was dropped
from the name and the member
states became known officially
as the Commonwealth of
Nations or simply The
Commonwealth. Over the years,
members joined, withdrew
from, and even rejoined the
Commonwealth; but it wasn't
until 1949 that the international
organization became the modern
Commonwealth we know today.
In 1952, Queen Elizabeth took
her place as the Head of the
Commonwealth of Nations after
the death of her father King
George IV.
- Closing Days Of The Embassy of Mexico:
The Mexican Embassy's
offices in Belmopan, Belize City
and Corozal will suspend
activities on Monday, 26 May
2014.
In case of emergency, Mexican
nationals can request consular
assistance or protection at the
telephone number: + (501) 602-
8677.
Belizeans are reminded that
they do not require visa to visit
Mexico. They only need to
present a valid Belizean passport
and fill out the immigration form
called "Forma Migratoria
M�ltiple" (FMM). It can be
obtained at any Mexican border
or at any airport.
- VA Hospital Officials Shredded Documents To Hide
Existence Of Secret Waiting Lists That Killed U.S. Veterans:
The horrific
Veterans Administration scandal,
in which scores of patients on a
"secret list" reportedly died
after spending as long as a year
without treatment, has widened.
CNN correspondent Jake
Tapper recently grilled White
House Chief of Staff Denis
McDonough over President
Obama's usual scandal posture:
indifference, holding no one
accountable and calculated
outrage without any real action
being taken.
As noted by Breitbart News,
Obama is currently standing by
his secretary of Veterans Affairs,
former Army Gen. Eric
Shinseki. This is in spite of the
fact that, in 2013, Rep. Jeff
Miller, R-Fla., the chairman of
the House Veterans Affairs
Committee, sent the president a
letter that, Tapper reported,
warned "of dramatic problems
at the VA, 'a perfect illustration
of the management failures,
deception, lack of accountability
permeating VA's health care
system [and] an alarming
pattern of serious and significant
patient care issues.'"
'But you are not. This letter
was sent a year ago.'
- Impoved Water Services:
The Belize Water Service
Limited is proud to announce the
upgrading of water services to
customers in the lower section
of Santa Elena Town and the
entire Esperanza Village.
The upgraded service includes
the recent replacement of the
three inch water line upgraded to
a ten inch main which will serve
to increase water pressure to
customers in the area.
The project, implemented over
the past three weeks, with a
crew under the direction of
William Stevens and Operations
Supervisor, Ron Cunningham,
worked long hours to install,
sanitize, pressure test and
energize the new 10 inch water
main.
The works was completed
on Tuesday evening and when
it was turned on, a major glitch
was immediately detected
resulting in customers on
one side the Highway leading
into Esperanza Village being
left without water.
- STAR Humor
- Editorial: Drastic Times Calls For Drastic Measures:
There was a time, in the not so
distant past, when gun related
murders were spiraling out of
control especially on the south
side of the old capital, Belize
City.
After careful study, analysis and
consultation, the government of
the day, charged with the
responsibility for citizens'
security, stepped up to the
challenge resulting in the
imposition of stiff, some might
say draconian, amendments to the
firearms act.
Coupled with other measures,
the nation began recording a
decrease in gun related murders,
resulting last year in the
recording of a drastic reduction
in, what many termed as, the
senseless loss of life "on the
mean streets of the city".
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- Public Notices
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