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9/28/2006

Eco-Conscious Belize Celebrates Twenty-Five Years of Independence
The Open Press (press release) - 9/28/2006
Belize City, Belize (OPENPRESS) September 29, 2006 -- Twenty-five years ago, on September 21st, 1981, Belize attained independence from Great Britain. ...

SJC joins with Regis to grant bachelors degrees
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/28/2006
... So it’s really for the adult who would not want to leave family or work behind to go away to study or even to programmes currently available in Belize. ...

So you test HIV positive ... what’s next?
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/28/2006
... Hand in Hand opened its offices in Belize in 2002 and has kept a low profile, getting customers by referrals and word of mouth ... ...

Accused Cayo gang leaders hit with more charges
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/28/2006
... Magistrate Herbert Lord to be informed that not only were their original charges, filed in Belmopan and San Ignacio, to be transferred to Belize City, but new ...

Two charged for Tourism Village burglary
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/28/2006
... September fourteenth and September seventeenth at the Jewels of India shop inside the Tourism Village led them to a residence at North Creek Road in Belize City ...

Attorney General chides BTL, defends GOB
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/28/2006
Following three days of public ire against the board of Belize Telecommunications Limited for ignoring a Supreme Court injunction against Monday night's annual ...

Citrus investors have already paid deposit on purchase
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/28/2006
... reported that an injunction had been issued by the Supreme Court to postpone its ruling on an application that would allow Citrus Products of Belize Limited to ...

Belize finally taken off Tier 3 human trafficking list
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/28/2006
The Musa administration is tonight breathing a sigh of relief following an announcement by the United States government that Belize has been removed from the ...

Body found in yard: foul play or natural causes?
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/28/2006
There was a minor commotion on Belize City's Southside this afternoon following the discovery of a corpse. I reached the scene as ...

Fortis Inc. Closes $125,000,000 First Preference Share Issue
Market Wire (press release) - 9/28/2006
... Fortis has holdings in regulated electric distribution utilities in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Belize, Grand Cayman ...

Leonardo DiCaprio: Married to Marty's mob
Independent, UK - 9/28/2006
... Now just 31, he may have recently plunked down $2.5m for his own paradise island off the coast of Belize, but it is a utopian marine-life preserve - as well as ...

MINOR REPORTS SHE WAS HELD AGAINST HER WILL AND RAPED AT A POPULAR ...
LoveFM, Belize - 9/28/2006
The Crimes Investigations Branch at the Queen Street Police Station in Belize City is investigating a report made by a 14 year-old girl that for days she was ...

BCCI STATES BTL'S ACTION UNACCEPTABLE
LoveFM, Belize - 9/28/2006
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry issued a statement on the injunction order delivered by Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh to the BTL Board of Directors ...

ATTORNEY GENERAL ADDRESSES BTL ISSUE
LoveFM, Belize - 9/28/2006
... ignore or disregard an order of the Supreme Court or seeks to avoid service of that order will be dealt with in accordance with the laws of Belize, but that is ...

WPC LOSES BATTLE WITH DISEASE
LoveFM, Belize - 9/28/2006
Felix, a seven year veteran of the Belize Police Department had been hospitalized with serious complicated medical problems for the past two months. ...

POLICE NEWS
LoveFM, Belize - 9/28/2006
... Belize City Police have arrested and charged two men and have recovered most of the items stolen from a business at the Tourist Village. ...

SATIIM VICTORIOUS IN COURT
LoveFM, Belize - 9/28/2006
... But this does suggest though that Belize new oil industry could also be on a more solid footing as the rules of the game are clear and that all companies are ...

SALVATION ARMY LEADERS VISIT BELIZE
LoveFM, Belize - 9/28/2006
Newly appointed Caribbean Territorial Leaders of the Salvation Army will visit Belize. Commissioners Raymond and Judith Houghton ...

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING SIGNED BETWEEN SJC AND REGIS ...
LoveFM, Belize - 9/28/2006
... The portion done at Regis is all online so students do not need to leave Belize don’t need to leave their jobs, don’t need to leave their homes they stay ...

Business browser: Share buyback planned (3:20 pm)
Edmonton Journal (subscription), Canada - 9/28/2006
... in regulated electric distribution utilities in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Belize, Grand Cayman, and ...

Fortis Announces Fourth Quarter Common Share Dividend - 2006
CCNMatthews (press release), Canada - 9/28/2006
... Fortis has holdings in regulated electric distribution utilities in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Belize, Grand Cayman ...

PRANAB ‘SATISFIED’ WITH HIS VISIT TO UN
Press Information Bureau (press release), India - 9/28/2006
... Earlier today, I separately met with Foreign Minister Gert Rosenthal of Guatemala, Foreign Minister Eammon Harrison Courtney of Belize, the French Minister for ...

Nevisian students among C'bean’s top performers
Sun St.Kitts/Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis - 9/28/2006
... noted. Students from Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica, Belize and Barbados were also listed among the most outstanding performers. ...

Gazette Opinion: Congress should close offshore tax shelters for ...
Billings Gazette,  USA - 9/28/2006
... well-known tax shelters as the Cayman Islands but also in obscure or relatively unregulated places such as Nevis (a Caribbean island) and Belize (the tiniest ...

Fayetteville : UA developing course for Belize service work
Arkansas Democrat Gazette, AR - 9/28/2006
FAYETTEVILLE — It’s hot and humid in the classroom where University of Arkansas graduate Danis Copenhaver teaches math in Dangriga, Belize. ...

2006 Coldwell Banker(R) Home Price Comparison Index Reveals That ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - 9/28/2006
... Price in Country Market US Dollars # Local Currency # AUSTRALIA Sydney $683,109 887,200 Dollars BAHRAIN Manama-Muharraq $196,688 74,000 Dinars BELIZE San Pedro ...

9/27/2006

Courtenay makes debut on UN stage
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/27/2006
On the occasion of the sixty-first General Assembly of the United Nations, this week Belize took its traditional turn at the imposing podium to address the ...

Citrus deal faces another hurdle
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/27/2006
... of citrus farmer Oscar Ramirez, filed for an injunction, asking the Supreme Court to delay its ruling on the restructuring of Citrus Products of Belize Limited ...

More training for BDARRT
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 9/27/2006
Sixteen members of the Ambergris Caye BDARRT (Belize Disaster and Response Rescue Team) attended a Marine Rescue Class in San Pedro last week. ...

September Celebrations a great success!
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 9/27/2006
This year’s celebrations marked the 25th anniversary of Belize’s Independence, and to commemorate this historic occasion a variety of activities and events ...

Jim Diehl - Stoned Art
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 9/27/2006
As active as the seasons have been in the past couple of years, it is imperative that Belize has great people at the front to monitor and assist should in case ...

NTUCB COMDEMNS ACTION OF BTL'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS
LoveFM, Belize - 9/27/2006
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize, NTUCB says it condemns the actions of the BTL Board of Directors. On Monday, BTL’s ...

RULING EXPECTED IN SATIIM VERSUS US CAPITAL ENERGY CASE
LoveFM, Belize - 9/27/2006
This afternoon, Justice Samuel Lungole Awich will pass judgment in the Supreme Court of Belize over a civil matter between the Department of the Environment ...

COMMISIONER OF POLICE VISITS WESTERN TOWNS
LoveFM, Belize - 9/27/2006
... way mirrors. The new acquisition was a gift from the Cayo District branch of the Belize Tourism Industry Association. Police say ...

BELIZEAN BUSINESS PERSONS IN BERLIN GERMANY TO ATTEND TRADE FORUM
LoveFM, Belize - 9/27/2006
... As a result of that consultation with the private and public sector we have come up with five export potentials for Belize namely tourism, agribusiness ...

BELIZE TAKING PART IN IMF GENERAL DATA DISSEMINATION SYSTEM
LoveFM, Belize - 9/27/2006
Belize today began taking part in the International Monetary Fund’s General Data Dissemination System. This means that comprehensive ...

SATIIM DONATES EQUIPEMENT TO BDF
LoveFM, Belize - 9/27/2006
The Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management yesterday donated field equipment to the Belize Defense Force and Police in the Toledo District. ...

INCEST CASE ENDS WITH A HUNG JURY
LoveFM, Belize - 9/27/2006
A 31 year old Belize City man accused of incest yesterday walked out of the Supreme Court a free man after his trial ended with a hung jury. ...

SPEAR RELEASES VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES
LoveFM, Belize - 9/27/2006
... “Each is about fifteen minutes in duration 4 topics; the rights of the child, the constitution of Belize, democracy and the development process and civil ...

Carnival Miracle to visit St. Kitts late 2007, Legend, early 2007
SKNVibes.com, St. Kitts and Nevis - 9/27/2006
... include St. Maarten, St. Lucia, and St. Kitts. The western route features Colon, Panama; Limon, Costa Rica; and Belize City, Belize.

SBTS student encourages Belize believers to engage cults with the ...
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Towers Online, Kentucky - 9/27/2006
By Jeff Robinson. One stark memory John Divito has of his recent trip to Belize was of the buses that frequently rumbled past the home where he was staying. ...

Manatee Protections in Belize Should Be World Model, Expert Says
National Geographic, D.C. - 9/27/2006
Efforts to protect manatees in the coastal waters of Belize stand to benefit the global conservation of the huge, sluggish marine mammals, a leading expert says ...

While the US Real Estate Market has Stalled, the International ...
Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada - 9/27/2006
... opportunities that are available in sunny locales around the globe: A new two-bedroom house with a direct view of theCaribbean on the coast of Belize for only ...

UN told of economic and environmental shocks of Caribbean nations
Caribbean360.com, Barbados - 6 hours ago
... Foreign Minister Eamon Courtenay of Belize complained that the World Trade Organisation had worsened conditions for his country. ...

Over 131,000 Children Vaccinated Against Polio In Cabinda
AngolaPress, Angola - 9/27/2006
... According to these data, 108,701 children are part of the Cabinda district, 11,364 Cacongo, Buco-zau and Belize with 5,286 children. ...

Carnival introduces new ship deployments from US ports
Travel Daily News International, Greece - 9/27/2006
... s new seven-day schedule from Tampa begins April 15, 2007, and includes extended calls at four Caribbean ports – Grand Cayman, Cozumel, Belize and Costa Maya ...

Belize tests market reaction with debt service trigger
Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 9/27/2006
Belize has triggered a special facility on two of its debt instruments to cover September payments, saying it did so to retain its limited cash pool for ...

Local animal feed prices inching up - Pushed by US demand for ...
Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 9/27/2006
... growing the grain locally, to reduce the dependency on foreign grain as well as stabilise the cost of milling feed locally, as is the case in Belize where corn ...

Arizona Outing Club masters the outdoors
Web Devil - 9/27/2006
... "Hopefully a trip to Belize.". For the bigger trips like skydiving and scuba diving, funding is left to those members wishing to attend. ...

9/26/2006

Lawyers castigate BTL board for ignoring injunction
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/26/2006
Tonight there are serious questions being raised about the rule of law in Belize and respect for the judiciary at the highest levels of business and government ...

Port provides prizes in CitCo competition
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/26/2006
This afternoon Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya stopped by Port of Belize Limited to pick up her donation from CEO Reynaldo Guerrero. ...

SSB donates to St. John’s Primary...
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/26/2006
... As part of its twenty-fifth anniversary, the Belize City branch office of the SSB decided to make an investment in the nation's future leaders by assisting the ...

HIV testing: it’s fast, easy ... and vital
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/26/2006
... If Belize and the world are going to reverse that situation then the initial step is to find out who's got the virus ... and that means testing. ...

Murder suspect returned from States
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/26/2006
Almost one month after twenty-four year old Ronell Gonzales fled Belize following his alleged involvement in the torture and murder of twenty year old David ...

Carnival Legend, Miracle to swap homeports, operations in '07
Travel Weekly (subscription), NJ - 9/26/2006
... The Legend's new Tampa-based schedule calls at Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands; Cozumel and Costa Maya, Mexico; and Belize City, Belize. ...

MURDER SUSPECT RONNELL GONZALEZ RETURNED TO BELIZE
LoveFM, Belize - 9/26/2006
24 year old Ronnell Gonzalez was returned to Belize this morning to be charged for murder in the death of 20 year old David Pook on August 28th. ...

BTL HOLDS AGM IN SPITE OF CHIEF JUSTICE'S RULING
LoveFM, Belize - 9/26/2006
The Belize Telecommunications Limited last evening held their Annual General Meeting, despite a Supreme Court ruling by the Chief Justice, Abdulai Conteh ...

FOREIGN MINISTER ADDRESSES UNITED NATION'S GENERAL ASSEMBLY
LoveFM, Belize - 9/26/2006
... is being accompanied by Chief Executive Officer Amalia Mai, Deputy Chief of Mission Janine Felson Coye and the staff of the Permanent Mission of Belize to the ...

At UN, island countries call for efforts to achieve energy ...
UN News Centre - 9/26/2006
... WTO talks.”. Eamon Courtenay, the Foreign Minister of Belize, said the WTO had worsened conditions for his country. “Since Doha ...

COURT NEWS
LoveFM, Belize - 9/26/2006
... checked with Police records it was discovered that the firearm had been reported stolen on March 17 by a Special Branch Officer of the Belize Police Department ...

POLICE NEWS
LoveFM, Belize - 9/26/2006
... her hand after which all three proceeded to rape her. The incident happened near the Matron Roberts Health Center in Belize City.

PROPOSALS FOR PROJECTS TO ASSIST YOUTHS TO BE APPROVED
LoveFM, Belize - 9/26/2006
... The people who will be selected will be receiving two thousand Belize dollars to implement their grant which will be done over a three month period.”. ...

TOLEDO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION APPEALS FOR HELP TO CONTINUE WORK
LoveFM, Belize - 9/26/2006
... The Government of Belize had pledged in its Manifesto and at the Education Summit to aid and support Adult Education Program, since 2000 we have gotten some ...

FORT GEORGE RESOURCE CENTER OFFERS SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC
LoveFM, Belize - 9/26/2006
... interested in those courses can call me at 607-9298 or visit the Fort George Resource Center, which is up stairs the Prime Minister’s Office, Belize City and ...

Entertainer Ricky Martin Urges Effort Against Human Trafficking
Washington File, DC - 9/26/2006
... State Condoleezza Rice has named 12 countries that have not met the minimum standards specified in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act: Belize, Burma, Cuba ...

Two Charged In Internet Drug Case
Southern Pines Pilot, NC - 9/26/2006
... They are accused of selling unregulated drugs manufactured in Belize and marketed through "spam" e-mails as low-price Canadian drugs. ...

The quest for the elusive mangosteen
Minnesota Public Radio, MN - 9/26/2006
... My goal is to raise them to about 15 inches tall (about 2 years) and then obtain an import permit to delivery them to my farm in Belize. ...

The world’s young visionaries gather in Hong Kong for 5th ITU ...
The New Nation, Bangladesh - 9/26/2006
... This year the list of participants has grown to include, for the first time, students from Belize, Cuba, Gabon, Lao, Paraguay and Qatar. ...

Revered Principal Emma Jackson to leave post at Gregory
Wilmington Morning Star, NC - 9/26/2006
... its staff and new principal Maria Greene, currently assistant principal of Pine Valley Elementary, said Jackson, whose lilt hints at her childhood in Belize. ...

American Airlines Receives Overwhelming Support to Begin Dallas ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - 9/26/2006
... Among American's nonstop international destinations from DFW are cities in Argentina, The Bahamas, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, France, Germany ...

LETTER OF THE DAY - Policies that could boost growth rate
Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 9/26/2006
... Only weeks ago, Belize had to restructure its loans portfolio with local and international creditors, as its debt repayment strategy was becoming unsustainable ...

9/25/2006

Verdes and Wagiya draw in RFG Cup Football
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/25/2006
... In other action around the league, Belmopan Bandits double Alpha 2-1 at OW, while at the MCC Grounds FC Belize blanked Across Lake 2-zip. ...

Belize City woman reports she was raped
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/25/2006
A thirty-eight year old Belize City woman has told police that she was violently beaten and raped by three men over the weekend. ...

Belizean murder suspect will be returned from LA
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/25/2006
... justice for their alleged crimes in the USA But on Tuesday a murder suspect who fled to Los Angeles will be returned to the waiting arms of the Belize Police. ...

Cops find suspect with Glock stolen from Special Branch
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/25/2006
... Myers, a resident of Cider Street in Belize City, was charged with Keeping an Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition, this morning in the court of Magistrate Robert ...

Belize joins Central American Bank
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/25/2006
The notion that Belize is a bridge between Central America and the Caribbean has been repeated so often that it is now just an empty cliché. ...

Spain sponsors film festival
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 9/25/2006
... next three days the Government of Spain invites Belizeans to the first Spanish Film Festival it is hosting to commemorate the occasion on Belize's twenty-fifth ...

Belize Close To Debt Default
Tax-news.com (subscription), UK - 9/25/2006
Although Belize has undertaken savage fiscal cut-backs under Prime Minister Said Musa, reducing a deficit of 9% of GDP to 3% in just two years according to the ...

Belize Host Second International Media Tour for Fiscal Year 2006 ...
Belize Tourism Industry Association (press release), Belize - 9/25/2006
-- Belize City, Monday, September 25th, 2006. ... “Awareness is key in a budding tourism industry such as Belize,” comments Director of Tourism, Tracy Panton. ...

Two to Receive Honorary Degrees for Contributions to Conservation ...
AScribe (press release) - 9/25/2006
... CATIE's members are Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Venezuela ...

GOVERNMENT OF BELIZE AND CABEI SIGN ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT
LoveFM, Belize - 9/25/2006
... Love News spoke with Minister of National Security Mark Espat, who’s Ministry collaborates directly with CABEI. “The Government of Belize has been ...

CARICOM MINSTERS PREPARE FOR MEETING IN BELIZE
LoveFM, Belize - 9/25/2006
Environment Ministers from CARICOM member states are in Belize today preparing for the nineteenth special meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic ...

UDP ASSIGNS THREE OFFICERS AS REGIONAL LEADERS
LoveFM, Belize - 9/25/2006
... These officers are Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber, who will be responsible for the Eastern Region or the Belize District, Standard Bearer John ...

SSB DONATES TO BELIZE CTIY SCHOOL
LoveFM, Belize - 9/25/2006
The Belize City Branch of the Social Security Board will tomorrow be making a presentation to St John’s Primary School in Belize City. ...

MOTHER ASKING FOR FINANCIAL HELP FOR DAUGHTER WHO NEEDS LIFS ...
LoveFM, Belize - 9/25/2006
... If you would like to help Shelly Wade you may call her mother at 604-7123 or visit her at 20 Fern Lane in the Saint Martin De Porres area of Belize City.

Costa Rica not caving to US gambling arrests
Lottery Post, NJ - 9/25/2006
... Filed in the Eastern District of Missouri, it's littered with supposed aliases, front companies and massive bank transfers that went to Ecuador and Belize. ...
Central America goes after boomer retirees
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - 9/25/2006
... materials to furniture for up to 10 years. Honduras and Belize have passed similar measures. Panama sweetens the deal by throwing in ...

9/23/2006

BELIZE CELEBRATES TWENTY FIVE YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE
LoveFM, Belize - 9/23/2006
25 years ago, Belize attained Independence from Great Britain. ... In Belize City the ceremony took place Thursday morning at the Memorial Park. ...

BTIA APPLAUDS THE WORK DONE IN CAPTURING SUSPECTED GANG LEADER
LoveFM, Belize - 9/23/2006
Belize Police yesterday charged 44 year old Guatemalan national Jeronimo Cortez Gonzalez of San Benito Peten area of Guatemala for 14 counts of Robbery that ...

FOREIGN MINISTER COURTENAY TO ADDRESS UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ...
LoveFM, Belize - 9/23/2006
... Other members of the Belize delegation are Chief Executive Officer Amalia Mai, Deputy Chief of Mission Janine Felson Coye and the staff of the Permanent ...

GROUND BROKEN FOR CONSTRUCTION OF NEW CENTRO ESCOLAR MEXICO
LoveFM, Belize - 9/23/2006
Prime Minister Said Musa, Education Minister Francis Fonseca and Mexican Ambassador to Belize Arturo Trejo yesterday broke ground for the construction of a new ...

COURT NEWS
LoveFM, Belize - 9/23/2006
... October 24, 2006. Jex was charged after a report by Carlton Spencer a linesman at Belize Electricity Limited. Spencer said while ...

POLICE OFFICERS COMMENDED FOR JOB WELL DONE
LoveFM, Belize - 9/23/2006
... to the tough task over the celebration period and also to the members of the public who were enthusiastic yet civil in their commemoration of Belize’s twenty ...

POLICE NEWS
LoveFM, Belize - 9/23/2006
... recover property. Earlier this week, Will Lauriano and Kent Skeet were arrested after robbing a Belize City man of his cell phone. The ...


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