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The August 17th, 2014 issue of The STAR (Cayo) is online HERE
This Week's Stories:
- Four Arrested For Parceling A Pound Of Weed:
Three men from Red Creek and a
fourth from Santa Elena were, this
Thursday afternoon, arrested and
charged for the possession of marijuana when a team of policemen
sneaked up on them from behind as
they were parceling the merchandise
under a coconut tree in the back of a
yard.
Acting upon information received, at around 2:30 pm this Thursday
afternoon, a team of policemen,
comprising elements from Special
Branch, Crimes Investigation Branch
and the Tourism Police Unit sneaked
up from behind, along a cement fence, unto a property located at #213 Red
Creek, on the eastern outskirts of
Santa Elena Town, where they
surprised four men assembled under
a coconut tree engaged in a suspicious activity with a camp fire burning
nearby. The men, all Belizean laborers, were
identified as Ricky Diego, 28 and
Glenford "Geese" Lewis, 50, both
residing on the property as well as
Shane Smith, 29, who lives nearby
also in Red Creek and Wayne
Miralda, 34, who told the police that
he lives further up the highway in Santa
Elena.
- Espat Takes The Rap Fined and Confined:
Four persons from Santa Elena
were today arrested on a possession
of marijuana charge. The youngest of
the four pled guilty to the charge. He
was sent straight to jail on a five year sentence along with a ten thousand
dollar fine.
It was shortly before 10 o'clock on
the morning of Friday, August 8,
2014, when a team of policemen,
armed with a warrant to search for drugs, descended upon the #148
George Price Avenue, Santa Elena
residence of Nelson "Quack"
Flores, 30, Belizean laborer.
Present with Flores on location at
the time of the search were three other
persons later identified as Belizeans Alma Reyes, 36; Jose Garcia, 26;
and Justin Espat, 19. Both Reyes
and Espat told the police that they
reside with Flores at the house while
Garcia informed that he lives nearby
on Coconut Street.
- Editorial: We See, We Hear And We Read:
When one travels across the
nation, there is no denying that
unprecedented development in the
nation's infrastructure is happening
everywhere like never before.
The modernization of Belize City
is unquestionable, Mayor Darrell
Bradley, with assistance from Prime
Minister Dean Barrow and
Central Government are transforming
the city beyond imagination. In the
less than two and a half years since
Mayor Bradley was elected to Belize
City Hall, he and his team has done
more for the city than all previous
mayors combined.
Amazingly, while the national
development is advancing full speed
ahead, it is doing so without any
increase in national taxes and undue
hardships to the thousands of public
officers, teachers, doctors, nurses,
policemen and soldiers paid by the
national purse. Much unlike what is
taking place in the region.
We see, we hear and we read
reports of massive retrenchments of
public officers in sister Caribbean
states.
We see, we hear and we read of
moratoriums on new employment of
public officers in the region.
- Burglary, Burglary, Burglary:
San Ignacio police are this
week reporting three burglaries
with no arrest. Police are of the
opinion that a sneaky burglar is
in town. The general public is
therefore advised to guard against
becoming a victim of burglary.
In the first incident, Gerald
Armstrong, 48, reported to
police that between 6:00 am and
10:00 pm on Saturday, August 2,
his house, located on Eduardo
Juan Street in Santa Elena, was
burglarized. While several items
stolen amounted to less than a
hundred dollars, the fact remains
that someone invaded his privacy
and in the process disrespected
him.
In the second incident, Wayne Bermudez, 50, year old Belizean
farmer of a San Ignacio Town
address reported to police that
his farm house, located behind
Eden Resort on the highway
leading to Benque Viejo Town,
was burglarized on Sunday,
August 10.
- Belize Earns A Host Of Top 100 Readers Choice Awards:
The August 2014 "Scuba Diving"
magazine has outlined Belize as the
"Central American paradise" who
"earned a host of 2014 Top 100
Readers Choice Awards."
Belize earned Readers Choice
Awards for the Caribbean and
Atlantic's best overall destination, big
animals, wall diving, and underwater
photography.
Some of the highlights from the
three-page spread include mentions
of our barrier reef "bowing only to
Australia's great one." It also talks
about the wall dives that can be done
along the atolls, which "turn into an
underwater Lollapalooza." Also
among the highlights was Gladden
Spit which placed in the top 5 list for
"best big animals in the
Caribbean and Atlantic region."
Apart from our "big animals," Belize was also recognized for its
"macro critters." Belize, known for
some of the most authentic
experiences, was also pointed out as
a destination for tours from luxury
yachts, to explorations through the
jungle and to the archaeological sites.
- Marriage Reveals, Not Creates Problems:
BY: Rick Warren, Aug 3, 2014:
"In the end, people
appreciate honest criticism far
more than flattery." (Proverbs
28:23 NLT)
If you're single and you're
prolonging a relationship that you
know is going nowhere, don't
continue it. "But I won't have
anybody to take me out on
Friday night," you say. A bad
marriage is a million times worse
than not going out on Friday
night! The longer you're in a
relationship, the more difficult
it's going to be to get out of it.
Proverbs 28:23 says, "In the
end, people appreciate honest
criticism far more than flattery"
(NLT).
Size that person up quickly,
particularly related to emotional
health. Don't be afraid to ask
questions like, "Do you have
uncontrolled anger?" "Can
we talk about me?" or "Will
you pick up the tab?"
- Police Manhunt For Calderon Brothers Underway:
Police have detained two suspects
and are on the manhunt for two more
in connection with a Sunday night,
August 3, chopping incident in San
Ignacio Town.
It was a few minutes to 10 o'clock
on Sunday night August 3 when the
police were called to the community
hospital in San Ignacio. They were
immediately directed to the
emergency room where a male
person was being treated for large
chop wounds, one each to both knees
and another to the mid section of the
body.
Preliminary investigation revealed
that the victim, later identified as San
Ignacio resident, Felix Romero, was
at his mother-in-law's house on Flamingo Street in San Ignacio when
he went to open the gate for his
mother-in-law to enter. Whilst at
the gate he was reportedly attacked
by four male persons whom he
identified as the Calderon brothers:
Neri and Gerson along with Leroy
Supal and Joshua Concha.
- Invitation To Support HRCB Fundraising Eve:
The Human Rights
Commission of Belize invites
you to support their fundraising
event to be held in San Ignacio
at the Sacred Heart Auditorium
this coming Saturday August 16th
2014 starting at 7:30 p.m..
This event is being done in
partnership with the Rotaract
Club of San Ignacio and consists
of the performance of the
hilarious play "Every Rose has
Thorns" written by pastor Dillon
Burgin.
All proceeds go towards the
continuation of HRCB's human
rights educational trainings and
advocacy programs and the
Rotaract's Club " Send a child
to school scholarship program"
Come out and support us.
- Acne Vulgaris:
Acne vulgaris (or simply acne) is
a common human skin disease,
characterized by areas of seborrhea
(scaly red skin), comedones
(blackheads and whiteheads),
papules (pinheads), nodules (large
papules), pimples, and possibly
scarring. Aside from scarring, its main
effects are psychological, such as
reduced self-esteem and in very
extreme cases, depression or
suicide. One study has estimated the
incidence of suicidal ideation in
patients with acne as 7.1%.
In adolescence, acne is usually
caused by an increase in androgens
such as testosterone, which occurs
during puberty, regardless of sex.
Acne more often affects skin with a
greater number of oil glands; these
areas include the face, the upper part
of the chest, and the back. Severe
acne is inflammatory, but acne can
also manifest in noninflammatory
forms. The skin changes are caused
by changes in pilosebaceous units,
skin structures consisting of a hair
follicle and its associated sebaceous
gland, changes that require androgen
stimulation.
- Two Guatemalan Boys On Remand For Gun and Bullets:
Two Guatemalan boys were
this week captured with a gun and
ammunition inside the national
territory of Belize.
As rangers from Friends for
Conservation and Development
(FCD) continue the task of
protecting the Chiquibul Forest
Reserve, there are reports of yet
another incursion into Belize
by Guatemalans.
The report indicates that at
around 10:45 am on Monday,
August 11, the rangers were on
routine joint patrol with soldiers
of the Belize Defense Force in
the Caracol Archeological
Reserve when they came upon a
group of four Guatemalan male
persons sitting around a fire.
Upon reaching the group, two of
the men escaped while the other
two were captured.
- Penner and Rojo on Drug Charges:
Two men are facing drug
charges after being connected
with a really tiny amount of
illegal drugs.
They were doing the stuff,
police say, in the Welcome
Center in San Ignacio when
police, acting on information
received, pulled up on them. Police first searched the
Caucasian man dressed in a long
sleeve white shirt with blue
stripes and blue jeans pants while
the other, instantly identified as
Rayford "Rojo" Staine was
wearing a black t-shirt and blue
jeans pants.
A search of the Caucasian man
led to the discovery of a
transparent plastic bag containing
0.2 grams of cocaine in his left
pants pocket, while inside the
other front pocket police found
two grams of suspected weed.
Nothing incriminating was found
on Rojo. A search of the area
however, inside a flower pot, led
to the discovery of 1.3 grams of
suspected crack cocaine.
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