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3/14/11

Elderly Man Drowns; Neighbors: He Was Drunk
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/14/11‎
The body of a 61 year old man was found floating in the Belize River this morning near his home in Flowers Bank village. He had gone missing since Saturday night. Over the weekend family members and other villagers conducted searches - and this ...

Accident Claims One; Driver Charged For Alcohol Level Above Prescribed Limit
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/14/11‎
A traffic accident over the weekend has claimed the life of 29 year old Robert Burgess- a security guard of Ladyville - and son of well-known attorney Lionel Welch. It happened on Saturday morning around 4 o'clock. Burgess was travelling in a Gold Geo ...

Baby Chantel: Another Perspective
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/14/11‎
But that may be overstated because routinely children with cardiac problem are treated for free under the ROTARY Club of Belize's "Gift of Life". Rotary sent out a release today stating that it has been serving Belizean children diagnosed with cardiac ...

Butane Consultations Begin
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/14/11‎
For the past weeks - the Butane Industry in Belize has undergone massive upheaval - as fraudulent "skimming" practices were detected in an investigative report by this station - and a new law is about to come into effect which will change the way ...

How To Help Japan
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/14/11‎
Well, the Lions Club of San Pedro has launched a Japan Relief fund that you can contribute to right here in Belize. Jorge Aldana told us more:… "Jules, it's organization like Lions that keeps us bounded together Japan has been one of the largest Lions ...

MAN CHARGED FOR FATAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
LoveFM - ‎3/14/11‎
Police investigations revealed Castro was travelling towards Belize City when there was a blow out of one of the tires. Castro lost control of the vehicle and it overturned with its four wheels in the air. As a result 29-year-old security guard Robert ...

GOVERNMENT LOOKS TO REGULATE BUTANE SECTOR
LoveFM - ‎3/14/11‎
There are no standards that govern the butane industry in the country but the Belize Bureau of Standards hopes to change this soon to ensure that consumers finally get value for their money. Jose Trejo, Director of the BBS, says one of their focuses ...

INITIATIVE TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE IN THE TOLEDO DISTRICT
LoveFM - ‎3/14/11‎
Dr. Allen remarked that implementing arrangements are for Belize's Ministry of Health to be the grant recipient and the Toledo District Health Council to be the local implementing agency. Those present at the meeting held at the Punta Gorda Poly Clinic ...

UNIVERSITY REVIEWS TOURISM MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
LoveFM - ‎3/14/11‎
The University of Belize is collaborating with stakeholders in the tourism industry to review its Bachelors Degree in Tourism Management program. The findings and recommendations from the review will be included in a Quality Enhancement Plan. ...

3/11/11

Leader Of The Opposition Says Speech Was Boring
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/11‎
... here we are 3 years later and whilst he is talking about we are free to fly - obviously this bird's wings are broken because everywhere you go they will tell that Belize is not better off under these past 3 years and that it is ...

Belizean In Chi-Town In Major Trouble
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/11‎
Thompson is an illegal immigrant who had just finished serving time in an Illinois prison - and is now facing deportation to Belize. The remaining three Belizeans, are in custody pending upcoming court dates or sentencing hearings. ...

Art that Provokes…
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/11‎
The exhibition is part of the cultural exchange between Mexico and Belize. It's intended to promote dialogue between artists from both countries. Admission is free and the Exhibition will remain open until April 8th, Monday thru Friday from 8:00 AM ...

Baby Shantel Needs A Miracle
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/11‎
Yesterday Her family told 7news that they need to raise 80 thousand Belize dollars in order for baby Shantel to get the proper treatment that she needs. "When did you first realize that something was wrong with Shantel? I understand that you brought ...

Prime Minister Presents “Rebound” Budget
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/11‎
We are therefore replenishing our funding for the food support programme that we started on Southside Belize City. But we are going further now. We are expanding it to the North side of the old capital; and rolling it out to the Cayo District where it ...

A Working Man Murdered
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/11‎
Turning now to last night's headline - we today spoke to the family of 28 year old Andrew Moses - who was murdered yesterday evening. It happened on Kraal Road, next to the Wilt Cummerbatch Field where this working man was walking when a gunman shot ...

Garbutt Was Free With A Fine; Got His Money Back; But He's In Jail
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/11‎
An appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions of the sentencing of 39 year old Albert Garbutt Jr, who was convicted of dangerous harm and fined seven thousand dollars, was allowed today by Belize Court of Appeal. Garbutt's sentence was set aside and ...

A Different Take On Call Centers
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/11/11‎
The company is called Transparent BPO and is a brand new and growing call center in Belize. "We are a telemarketing company and what that means is that we mostly focus our work in telesales and we are more of a BPO to be honest with you and BPO means ...

BELIZEANS SIDE-STEPPED
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/11/11‎
Information reaching The Reporter this week is that the Government of Belize is considering the hiring of a St. Lucian attorney to replace the outgoing Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie, whose contract expires at the end of this month. ...

Satiim Holds Oil Summit In Toledo
The Reporter Belize (blog) - ‎3/11/11‎
“Belize voted in favor of adopting the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. “The GOB agreed to respect the rights of indigenous peoples to their lands... hence, we see it crucial that the government honors its moral and ...

PRIME MINISTER BARROW SAYS NO NEW TAXES
LoveFM - ‎3/11/11‎
The only company to see a hike in taxes will be Belize Natural Energy as government has decided to raise the rate of Excise tax on the locally produced petroleum. “We have therefore constructed our budget with creativity to avoid the need for any tax ...

Sugar Industry Back On Track
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/11/11‎
Only one turbine is functioning at Belcogen, but the Belize Sugar Industry resumed operations at 10:00 on Sunday morning, March 7, and all indications are that the sugar production is back on track. The resumption of the “zaffra” has brought smiles ...

KIDNEY ASSOCIATION HOLDS HEALTH FAIR
LoveFM - ‎3/11/11‎
The Kidney Association of Belize and its partners today hosted an all day Health Fair at the Belize City Centre grounds. Ruby Nicholas is the treasurer for the Association. “We are celebrating World Kidney Day which is March 10. ...

POLICE OFFICERS AWARDED
LoveFM - ‎3/11/11‎
Recognition and award went to PC Jeremy Middleton, PC Miguel Alpuche and PC Tedford Augustine. Certificates of appreciation went to Jose Mena, Julian Reyes, Gilroy Spence, Gary Gentle, Diana Shaw, Andre and Delia Perez and Belize Natural Energy.”

NO SUSPECTS IN THURSDAY'S SHOOTING
LoveFM - ‎3/11/11‎
Belize City police are investigating the shooting death of twenty nine year old Andrew Moses. Initial investigations reveal that about 4:48pm Moses was walking on Kraal Road towards Faber's Road and upon reaching Kraal Road and Ross Pen Road, ...

KAB Observes World Kidney Day
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/11/11‎
A recent study has shown that about 14% of the adult population in Belize suffers from diabetes, so there's a lot of potential victims for ESRF walking around out there. Internationally, studies have shown that in 1990, 426000 persons received renal ...

Andrew Moses Murdered
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/11/11‎
Andrew Moses, 27, a construction worker, of Central American Boulevard, died after he was shot several times as he walked on Kraal Road near the Wilton Cumberbatch Field in the Port Loyola area of Belize City . The shooting took place around 4:45 ...

Program For Belize Reopens La Milpa Eco-Lodge And Research Center
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/11/11‎
Programme for Belize, which manages the Rio Bravo area, celebrated the re-opening in a short ceremony on site on Wednesday, March 9. . Dining and kitchen facilities were also remodelled and upgraded, and a new reception office and manager's facility ...

Fair Winds For 2011 Baron Bliss Harbour Regatta
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/11/11‎
The Belize Sailing Association was blessed with clear skies holding 10 races to keep alive the tradition of the annual Baron Bliss Harbor Regatta in the Belize City Harbour last Sunday, March 6. The association marked two courses with buoys and flags ...

ZipRider Canoe Wins La Ruta Maya Challenge
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/11/11‎
The team clocked in at 18 hours and four seconds in cumulative time when they crossed the finish line in front of the Bel-Can Bridge in Belize City on Monday, March 7. Their arch rivals, Ervin, Amado and Daniel Cruz of the Belize Bank team actually ...

The Heavy Price Of Inaction - Two easy steps to promote a thriving lobster ...
The Reporter Belize (blog) - ‎3/11/11‎
They provided major financial support that bolstered Belize's economy. But lobster fisheries today no longer produce such financial support, and the lobster season that just closed was the worst in history. The destruction of Belize's once great ...

Baron Bliss Harbour Regatta 2011
Amandala - ‎3/11/11‎
The Belize Sailing Association reports on its activities supporting the annual Baron Bliss Regatta, which took place in Belize City Harbour on Sunday, March 6, under the patronage of His Excellency the Governor General Sir Colville Young and the Baron ...

SJC wins 5th Belize Math Olympiad in Belmopan
Amandala - ‎3/11/11‎
Belize City's St. John's College (SJC) is the winner of the 2011 Math Olympiad, after surviving a slow start in the first round to run away with the competition at the University of Belize Gymnasium in Belmopan this morning. SJC won their second final ...

Freetown Sibun's indelible African heritage
Amandala - ‎3/11/11‎
Slavery was a reality in Belize up until the early 1800's, and it was during that era that a courageous woman born in Africa, who had been given the European name Margaret Gordon, escaped to freedom and joined the Youngs in what is today known as ...

Sports and $$$
Amandala - ‎3/11/11‎
With that said, let us review the failure of semi-pro basketball in Belize, and consider all the negatives which were outside of the control of the owners and players. The most powerful business mogul in Belize City at the time, the late Barry Bowen, ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - ‎3/11/11‎
It is important that Belizeans learn something of this story, because the oil fields of Belize have begun to influence every important decision made in this country, and that influence will only become more and more powerful, if not actually sinister. ...

HL's Burger in “voluntary liquidation”
Amandala - ‎3/11/11‎
HL's Burger has become a house-hold name in Belize, along with the company's slogan “The Burger King of Belize”. It has been in operation for over 30 years, but the public started to see danger signs of its closing when it's owner and namesake, ...

SATIIM says NO drilling!
Amandala - ‎3/11/11‎
Prime Minister Dean Barrow told the media in February that the government will not change its position that it will permit drilling for oil in Toledo, inside the Sarstoon-Temash National Park, one of Belize's onshore protected areas. ...

3/10/11

Robotic moth offers bat-nav clue
BBC News - ‎3/10/11‎
They set up their moth in forest locations in Taiwan and Belize and recorded how different species of bat interacted with it. "For the eye, it doesn't look at all as an insect, but acoustically, it worked quite well," said student Louis ...

Troops return home
Jacksonville Daily News - ‎3/10/11‎
The Marines conducted several subject matter expert exchanges among nations in Colombia, Guatemala and Belize to include jungle warfare, combat marksmanship, security tactics, non-lethal weapons and humanitarian assistance operations, leadership, ...

Taneytown resident makes prosthetics in Belize
Carroll County Times - ‎3/10/11‎
Project Hope Belize has been providing prosthetic services to needy people in Belize since 1995. Last summer the International Hospital for Children in Belize contacted the project to see if custom orthotics could be provided for 10 to 15 children. ...

The Case Against Dr. Chimilio
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/10/11‎
Saldivar also commented on the situation with the Sports Investigation Committee which is conducting an ongoing investigation into the recent election of a new Football Federation of Belize executive. Saldiavr says he has not been involved in the ...

The Central Bank, The Belize Bank And Parallel Banking
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/10/11‎
The Central Bank of Belize and The Belize Bank are locked in a court battle which could have a significant effect on how the country's largest bank does business. According to an article appearing in today's Guardian, The Central Bank has blown the ...

How The Oil Company Called Maranco Was Selected For A PSA
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/10/11‎
The person with the expertise is Paul Marriot a former director of Belize Natural Energy. But the entire holding structure of the company is a matter of some intrigue for environmental watchdogs as it is truncated across multiple trusts and multiple ...

The Shoman Five Sentenced
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/10/11‎
The five men who were convicted of conspiring in December of 2008 to murder popular Belize city businessman, Jose Shoman all received stiff sentences today for their roles in the bizarre plot. Justice Adolph Lucas sentenced each of the men to 14 years ...

GOVERNMENT'S DECISION TO RATIFY CONVENTION APPLAUDED
LoveFM - ‎3/10/11‎
Mrs. Simplis Barrow commended the many organizations, including CARE-Belize, Belize Assembly for Persons with Diverse Abilities, Belize Council for the Visually Impaired, and Special Olympics, that for years have been advocating for the signing and ...

WOMAN TAKES DRASTIC MEASURES TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT
LoveFM - ‎3/10/11‎
Her name is Marva Hamilton, a Belize City resident, who says that it has been hard to find another job after she was let go from a previous employment over a month ago. “You really have to qualify in some field where there is a vacancy and the ...

MEN CONVIICTED OF CONSPIRING TO KILL SHOMAN FAMILY SENTENCED
LoveFM - ‎3/10/11‎
The charges arose from an incident which occurred on December 12, 2008 in which the five conspired to rob and kill Belize City businessman Jose Shoman. The following day, December 13, 2008, the police searched Mayorga's residence and found a point 22 ...

PROGRAMME FOR BELIZE UPGRADES CENTER IN ORANGE WALK
LoveFM - ‎3/10/11‎
While the centre served for many years as camp site for students and researches, Program for Belize hopes to upgrade its image. Edilberto Romero is the Executive Director for Program for Belize. "We have invested over $300000.0 on the improvement of ...

30th Annual Belmopan Cycling Classic thi...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
The Elite Open riders will start at 8:00 am from the Constitution Park here in Belize City to the City of Belmopan around the Ring Road, then back to the Hummingbird Highway making a right turn onto the Western Highway where the race will then conclude ...

Belize Bank puts depositors' money at risk
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
The Guardian has been attempting for the past couple of weeks to secure affidavits that have been lodged at the Supreme Court registry by the Belize Bank against the Central Bank of Belize; however, a court injunction filed by the Belize Bank is ...

Daniel Saldivar and minor charged for at...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
A 21-year-old man of the King's Park area in Belize City along with a 16-year-old minor have been identified as the two men who allegedly tried to rob Albert Street Taxi man 46-year-old Hubert Vaccaro, and on Tuesday, March 8, the two were arraigned in ...

Thirs National Mental Health Workshop for users and families held in Belize
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

New School building for Bella Vista and San Isidro
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
The Government of Belize is contributing approximately $75200 while the communities of Bella Vista and San Isidro will provide $3000 in the form of labor. The building will be constructed of reinforced concrete masonry block walls and concrete roof ...

Chinese Businessman Found Dead Hours aft...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Couple escapes five year jail term for k...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
Police say the couple, 36 year-old Xiomara Ceballos, a Belize City Tour Guide along with her common-law-husband, San Pedro Chef 34-year-old Trevor Henkis, had two rounds of 5.56 ammunition inside a bedroom at their home located at #23 Goal Lane. ...

UB partners with OAS, CARICOM & Caribbean Universities in the war on drugs
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
The University of Belize (UB) along with eight Caribbean universities met with the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) Secretariat of Multidimensional Security of the Organisation of American States (OAS) and the Caribbean Community ...

Bureau to Hold Forum on Butane Industry
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

In Belize, the painting exhibition “Erotica” will open at the Institute of Mexico
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

FirstCaribbean International Bank “Rendering Meaningful Donations”
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Bandstand at BTL Park
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Women's Month Poetry Winners
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Minister of Education and Youth Concludes Successful California Visit
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
(Los Angeles) Coordinated by the Consulate of Belize in Los Angeles, Honorable Patrick Faber, Minister of Education and Youth in Belize and Deputy Chief Education Officer, Mrs. Carol Babb concluded a statewide visit to California with some notable ...

Japanese Ambassador to Sign $6 Million Project with Belize
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
The nutrition programme will not take much longer to commence because the Japanese Ambassador to Belize, Hiroshi Sakurai, will be in the country on March 17 and 18 and the grant agreement will be made official. The official signing of the agreement ...

Women's Day 2011 and the Seemingly Indestructible Glass Ceiling
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/10/11‎
As we celebrate women's month in Belize we are reminded that there are no elected females in our Legislative Branch of Government. Furthermore, there are no females in our Executive Branch. Though the government has made a conscious effort to appoint ...

3/9/11

Toledo To Have New Primary School
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/9/11‎
The Government of Belize is contributing approximately $75000.00, while the communities of Bella Vista and San Isidro will provide $3000.00 in the form of labor. Once completed, the building will be able to withstand category 5 hurricane ...

Slain Chinese Man's Son Back In Police Custody: Was It Patricide?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/9/11‎
Now that does not square with what President of the Belize Chinese Association and translator Edmund Quan told us last night. He indicated that Bing Chang Zhao's son was released because investigators were seized of evidence which indicated that some ...

Illuminating History's Hall Of Fame
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/9/11‎
"Think she was the one who started Gwen Lizarraga High school here in Belize." "Do you know who Thomas Vincent Ramos is?" "Yes, she is a medical nurse; she has her own institute somewhere here in the city." "And do you know who is Samuel Haynes? ...

Riding For The Fairer Sex
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/9/11‎
This year the 4 mile ride is in support of the Belize Cancer Society. Icilda Humes the Director of the Women's Department told Seven News the ride this year has generated tremendous interest from all sections of the community. ...

Murder to Manslaughter For Shane Juarez
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/9/11‎
Twenty three year old Shane Juarez, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, was sentenced to 15 years today by Belize Court of appeal after his conviction of murder was substituted with manslaughter. ...

SJC Wins Math Olympiad
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/9/11‎
The National Championship of the 2011 Belize Math Olympiad was held today at a very noisy University of Belize Gymnasium in Belmopan where students from the 5 schools in the finals gathered in clamorous support of their schools. At the end of the game, ...

Colombian Navy Intercepts Drugs Allegedly Destined For Belize
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/9/11‎
A boat laden with over a million dollars worth of cocaine and headed to Belize, was intercepted by the Colombian navy and seized along with its two occupants. An American Octogenarian along with a middle-aged Colombian travelling in a US flagged boat, ...

SATIIM Takes The People's Position In Oil Matters
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/9/11‎
"SATIIM is calling for the government of Belize to make decisions in line with the law of our country. To drill for oil in the Sarstoon/Temash National Park, is to disregard laws put in place to preserve our natural resources in the national interest. ...

Hernandez Also Appeals
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/9/11‎
The judges of Belize Court of Appeal were of the view that Hernandez's sentence was excessive. The incident occurred on December 30, 2007 outside of a bar in Corozal Town. Hernandez stabbed Wiltshire in his right shoulder and left side of his chest. ...

The Find: Flavors of Belize
Los Angeles Times - ‎3/9/11‎
Tifara Smith shows a sampler platter at Flavors of Belize. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) By Linda Burum, Special to the Los Angeles Times Chirmole, a high-intensity soupy sauce as black as squid ink, is poured over tender poached chicken and holds a ...

Belize native who kidnapped Gary man for drugs gets 20 years
nwitimes.com - ‎3/9/11‎
For Thompson -- an illegal immigrant from Belize who had just finished serving prison time in Illinois -- that sentence would be 235 months. Eight defendants are accused of following a Gary man from Chicago to his apartment in the 4200 block of Madison ...

EARLY MORNING FIRE DESTROYS HOME IN BELIZE CITY
LoveFM - ‎3/9/11‎
A fire in Belize City has destroyed a wooden structure at the corner of Fabers Road. Operations Manager at the National Fire Service, Michael Middleton says the fire was deliberately set. “We received a call of a fire corner Waight Street and Faber's ...

MATH OLYMPIAD CHAMPIONS CROWNED
LoveFM - ‎3/9/11‎
“The fifth national math Olympiad was held at the University of Belize Gymnasium in Belmopan. Teams to advance to the final competition were from Belize Christian Academy, Julian Cho Technical High School, Corozal Community College, St. Catherine ...

MAN HAS SENTENCE REDUCED
LoveFM - ‎3/9/11‎
23-year-old Shane Juarez who was convicted of the murder of Mark Young and was sentenced to life imprisonment, was sentenced to 15 years today by the Belize Court of Appeal after his appeal was allowed and his conviction was reduced to manslaughter. ...

FISHERMAN GETS FOUR YEARS REMOVED OFF ORIGINAL SENTENCE
LoveFM - ‎3/9/11‎
33-year-old fisherman Marcos Moh who was charged with murder but had pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 20 years had his sentence reduced to 16 years today by Belize Court of Appeal. The judges of Belize Court of Appeal said it was a ...

DANGRIGA BUILDERS TO PROTEST ONCE AGAIN
LoveFM - ‎3/9/11‎
Castillo said that anyone from Dangriga can apply for employment at the site once they can adhere to the Government of Belize's working regulations and the company's rules. The contractor is Sewell Harvesters and Development Limited, a company outside ...

UNIVERSITY OF BELIZE PARTICIPATES IN REGIONAL MEETING
LoveFM - ‎3/9/11‎
The University of Belize has taken part in a regional meeting of Universities of the Caribbean. The meeting also had the participation of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission, a sub-committee of the Organization of American States and the ...

3/8/11

Weather looks great for space shuttle Discovery's final landing
Central Florida News 13 - ‎3/8/11‎
Weather permitting, Discovery will fly over Guatemala and Belize, and then south of I-4 as it flies over the Florida Peninsula and back to KSC. View Map If needed, Discovery will orbit the Earth one last time, flying across Mexico and the US Gulf ...

Ruta Maya, The Drama And The Dominance
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/8/11‎
The Ruta Maya started on Friday in San Ignacio, wended its way down the Macal and Belize Rivers, and culminated in Belize City on Monday, a formidable 186 miles later. "Well it was a pretty exciting finish, we tried our best, we didn't finish first ...

Church Cleaned Out by Thieves
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/8/11‎
A part from that they thief the Belize flag." "Now, have you made a valuation of the complete losses?" "Well like I say I would estimate $22000.00 worth of stuff. People may thing that church don't have that, but trust me we have that. ...

Hon. Castro Claims Politically Motivated Arson
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/8/11‎
Belize Rural North Representative Edmund "Clear The Land" Castro had a scare this weekend when his fish farm property in his home village of Maskall was targeted, he says, by arsonists with a political agenda. For Castro - who - since 2004 - has been ...

Horse And Car Collide
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/8/11‎
It happened around 6 o'clock on Saturday evening on the Western Highway, just a couple yards away from Old Belize. According to the driver of the vehicle, he was traveling to Belize City when a horse veered onto the highway, into his lane. ...

Chinese Business Owner Killed – Not A Robbery: Son Briefly Detained
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/8/11‎
Today Chairman of the Belize Chinese Association Edmund Kwan - who has been acting as a translator between the family and investigators - told 7news that police have found new evidence. "To my knowledge is that the deceased was found around 9 am ...

Baron Bliss Harbor Regatta: A Modest Comeback
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/8/11‎
And while the Ruta Maya drew loads of media attention and throngs of spectators, the Harbor Regatta staged a quiet comeback the day before in the Belize Harbour. A light easterly wind and flat waters made the racing conditions not quite dramatic but it ...

Getting Women Into Politics
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/8/11‎
"In Belize women are facing significant challenges and while we have 31 members of the House of Representatives; nine of the seats is currently held by women. We've done an analysis over the years even before Independence. We have identified only 6 ...

NEW SCHOOL FOR THE TOLEDO DISTRICT
LoveFM - ‎3/8/11‎
We contacted the Social Investment Fund who willingly found the money and of course the Government of Belize found it available for us to have the counterpart funding.” The project will be implemented by the Social Investment Fund and will provide a ...

SANDHILL WOMAN WINS WOMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD
LoveFM - ‎3/8/11‎
According to Ambassador to Belize Vinai Thummalapally, the honors go beyond Belize's borders as Small will be the US Embassy's nominee for the 2011 US Secretary of State's International Woman of courage Award. The other nominees Senator Corona ...

LOTTO WINNER CLAIMS PRIZE MONEY
LoveFM - ‎3/8/11‎
53-year-old Orlett Lord of Belize City became the latest lotto winner on Saturday night. A mother of one, Lord says she is very happy to have received this blessing. We spoke to her this afternoon as she stopped in at the Tropical Gaming Company's ...

THREE BUILDINGS BELONGING TO AREA REPRESENTATIVE CASTRO DESTROYED BY FIRE
LoveFM - ‎3/8/11‎
I have never addressed the area rep, Mr. Castro is the person in Belize Rural North, he is my political opponent this is going to be a campaign, an election based on the issues affecting the people of Belize Rural North; that and that alone. ...

Shyne Talks About His Feud With 50 Cent And Calls Him Childish
TaleTela - ‎3/8/11‎
The Belize-born rapper told Hot 97 that the seven year spat with Fiddy happened because Shyne turned down a G-Unit record deal just after being released from prison, following the infamous shooting involving P Diddy and then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez. ...

Photo Essay: Volunteers Share 50 Years of Peace Corps Memories
Voice of America - ‎3/8/11‎
My training group visited Benque Viejo del Carmen in western Belize to learn about the culture and traditions of the Maya Mestizo. Marimba music often accompanies traditional Maya dances, such as the Hog Head Dance. After a cultural performance, ...

3/5/11

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How's Your Text Life?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/5/11‎
On last night's news - you saw John Brackett protest against the dreadful habit of texting and driving and all across Belize tonight, exasperated parents will be telling children: "aren't you tired of texting?" Well, the truth is ...

Well Known Former Salon Owner Charged In Arizona
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/5/11‎
In January, Olga Hill Belisle - formerly the proprietor of La Dolce Vita nail salon in Belize city was charged with two felonies: forgery and criminal impersonation in January of this year. Court records from the Superior Court of Arizona show that she ...

Citco's Feast OF Self-Congratulation End With A Bandstand
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/5/11‎
Unless you've been sleeping under a rock somewhere you'll know that this week, the Belize City Council is commemorating its fifth anniversary. Mercifully, the feast of self-congratulation ended today with the inauguration of a new bandstand at the BTL ...

Aboard The Gunston
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/5/11‎
A week ago, we showed you the USS Gunston Hall - a US Navy Ship that's visiting Belize from February 25 to March 8th. It's part of the US Southern Command exercise designed to develop good relations with Latin Americas and Caribbean countries. ...

BSI: Ready For Sunday
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/5/11‎
And in an unusual act of concerted goodwill BSI, the Government of Belize and The Cane Farmers Association have agreed to provide some assistance to those farmers who lost cane while the plant was shut down. That's what came out of a stakeholders ...

Marine, Adopted From Belize At Birth Seeks His Biological Parents
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/5/11‎
Tonight we have a different twist on that; it is the story of a US Marine who was adopted in Belize as a newborn and now he's back home trying to find his biological parents. Lance Corporal Philip Tysinger was born in Southern Belize on December 6th., ...

Man Gets Off Rape Conviction
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/5/11‎
... and she lost consciousness when her head hit a rock. She claimed that Fernandez raped her while she was knocked out. In October, 2009 Fernandez was convicted of rape and sentenced to 10 years. He appealed and Belize Court of Appeal ordered a retrial.

Master Gardener: Belize farming: Past and present
Arizona Daily Sun - ‎3/5/11‎
Ted, my husband, and I returned to Belize, Central America, this past summer after a 10-year child rearing hiatus. In the mid 1990s, I followed Ted down to the Belizean jungles to study Ancient Maya agriculture. While Ted traipsed around in the jungle ...

3/4/11

GOB Snubs Oceana
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/4/11‎
Shepherd explained that both the Coast Guard and the Belize Defence Force (BDF) had asked Oceana to sponsor their teams; a request that Shepherd said Oceana was willing and well prepared to grant. However, when the news of Oceana's charitable gesture ...

Akeem Lord Fined $128000 For Uncustomed Beer
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/4/11‎
Revenue Magistrate Aretha Ford ordered Akeem Lord, 22, of Belize City, to pay a $128664 fine in the Orange Walk Magistrate's Court on Monday, February 28, when he pleaded guilty to recklessly acquiring over 400 cases of contraband liquor and beer, ...

Police Department Fires Aldo Ayuso Twice Without Compensation
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/4/11‎
The entire process might begin all over, with an appeal to the Belize Advisory Council, and eventually to the Supreme Court, if the Police Commissioner fails to act. Ayuso declined to speak with The Reporter, except for a terse comment that he intends ...

PUP Sour Grapes Season?
The Reporter Belize - ‎3/4/11‎
Belize's two major political parties are in convention mode, selecting their candidates for the next General Elections. But these constituency conventions have created all kinds of intrigues inside and outside the Opposition People's United Party ...

ZIP LINERS TEAM LEADS AFTER FIRST LEG OF RUTA MAYA
LoveFM - ‎3/4/11‎
“The 14th annual La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge got started at 7:00 this morning under the Hawksworth Bridge. 81 teams left from there and the first team to have completed the first leg was Zip Riders followed by the Belize bank, NICH in third ...

BELIZE CITY COUNCIL INAUGURATES BAND STAND
LoveFM - ‎3/4/11‎
Activities to commemorate the Belize City Council's fifth anniversary culminated with the inauguration of a new band stand at the BTL Park on Newtown Barracks this morning. Mayor Zenaida Moya-Flowers says it was long anticipated. ...

La Ruta Maya takes centre stage this hol...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/4/11‎
The river challenge will cover the entire length of the Belize Old River and will commence on Thursday, March 4, 2011 at the foot of the Hawkesworth Bridge in San Ignacio Town, Cayo District and will conclude on Monday, March 7, at the Belcan Bridge in ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - ‎3/4/11‎
From 1970 to the early 1980s, I was pretty close to the Belize City underworld. For our purposes, I would define the “underworld” as where people who have been left behind at the station of the education train, try to make a life for themselves. ...

Shyne Explains Deportation, 50 Cent Beef
HipHopDX - ‎3/4/11‎
The order sent Shyne back to his native Belize, where is father serves as the prime minister. “We're working on that right now,” Shyne told Hot 97's Funkmaster Flex. “We're putting in the application, and we've just got to show the United States that ...

Government comes public with new petroleum applications
Amandala - ‎3/4/11‎
The Government of Belize has, for the first time since 1995, come public with information on pending applications for vacant petroleum blocks. While it is not the publication in the Government Gazette specified in law, the press release issued late ...

Stewart, Audrey and the Mennonites
Amandala - ‎3/4/11‎
It is distressing to see such a high profile person as Audrey Matura writing in such an authoritative newspaper as Amandala perpetuating the same commonly held falsehoods about Belize's Mennonites. I refer to her article in the February 27th issue ...

Just put a pressure gauge on your butane tank!
Amandala - ‎3/4/11‎
The article decries the apparent rip off of the Belizean consumer by butane gas companies in Belize and seeks the intervention of the regulatory body for the protection of consumers. Mention is also made of a German company to be contracted to advise ...

SSB takes heat for employment injury policy
Amandala - ‎3/4/11‎
While Amandala was unable to reach key union executives on this question, we were able to speak with a former executive of the Belize National Teachers' Union, who told us that, when those provisions of the law were negotiated several years ago, ...

2 senior managers at the Belize Tourism Board terminated - no reason given
Amandala - ‎3/4/11‎
Amandala has confirmed that two senior managers at the Belize Tourism Board (BTB) have been dismissed from their posts yesterday. They are Shakira Oxley-Tsai and Lloyd Enriquez. Tsai has been with the BTB for 17 years and in her time there, ...

“Shoman 5” guilty of conspiracy to commit murder
Amandala - ‎3/4/11‎
In Belize's laws, conspiracy is defined under Section 23 of the Criminal Code, Cap. 101, as “…two or more persons agree[ing] to commit or abet a crime, or act[ing] together with a common purpose in committing or abetting a crime, whether with or ...

1000+ domestic violence cases per year
Amandala - ‎3/4/11‎
In excess of a thousand domestic violence cases are reported across the country of Belize each year, although so many go under the radar of mainstream media. The recent killing of Christie Carrasco in Orange Walk this past Monday has catapulted the ...

3/3/11

1st Ever Street Art Festival
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the ...

Dutch Tourist Resists Robbers
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/3/11‎
It happened in the afternoon around 3:00, when Dutch Tourist THEODORUS PETERS a teacher from The Netherlands, was walking alone at the corner of King and Plues Streets, Belize City when he was approached by two dark complexion male persons, ...

Cruise Tourist Caught With Belizean Breeze
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/3/11‎
Twenty Four year old Nicholas Bergen, a massage therapist who came to Belize yesterday on a cruise ship pleaded guilty to marijuana possession today. Bergen was caught yesterday when he was walking in the tourism village and a police officer saw him ...

New Position On Oil Licenses
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/3/11‎
The applications are from Belize Natural Energy Ltd, New Hope Natural Resources Ltd, Providence Energy Belize Ltd, Maranco Ltd, Cara Energy Belize Ltd which will all be evaluated at the next cabinet meeting. Information on the successful applicant will ...

City Hall Still Celebrating
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/3/11‎
As we told you last night, The Belize City Council's is celebrating fine years in office and it held an Open Day today in the NICH Parking lot. If your interest is in city administration, this was the place to be. Mayor Moya Flowers told us why the ...

Wesley Students Speak
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/3/11‎
Here's her report: "We hear gun violence sweeping the streets of Belize City bit when it hits your own back yard, your own school, it is a different story. my name is Phaedra Mohammed and Wesley College is my school. I ask my peers what effect gun ...

Sore-Mouth Not Foot And Mouth
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/3/11‎
The news is a great relief to the Belize Agricultural Health Authority, because there are regular outbreaks of this and the affected animals usually get over it in two weeks. The quarantine remains in place at affected farms until the animals get ...

GAME DEALER LICENSE FEES WAIVED FOR THIS WEEKEND
LoveFM - ‎13 hours ago‎
Previously the forestry Department had sent out press release reminding people that the sale of game meat at public events, such as the upcoming La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge is illegal without the necessary permits to do so. ...

BELIZE SUGAR INDUSTRIES TO RESUME OPERATIONS
LoveFM - ‎13 hours ago‎
Belize Sugar Industries Limited hopes to resume milling operations at the Tower Hill factory by the beginning of next week. A release from the company says they hope to make an announcement following a meeting with the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers ...

BELIZEAN TRACK ATHLETE TO TRAIN IN JAMAICA
LoveFM - ‎13 hours ago‎
Martinez is the recipient of scholarship from the Belize Olympic Association through the Belize Amateur Athletic Association. Martinez says she is ready to take her personal training to the next level. “I'll be training with a coach in Jamaica and I do ...

14TH ANNUAL LA RUTA MAYA RIVER CHALLENGE TO BEGIN
LoveFM - ‎3/3/11‎
The much anticipated La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge begins tomorrow in San Ignacio. Roberto Harrison is the Chairman of the La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge Committee. “It promises to be another successful event. We are expecting at least 90 ...

The Common in Commonwealth
PR-USA.net (press release) - ‎3/3/11‎
Recently, 13 students from the University of Toronto, escorted by Dr. Richard Lee, professor emeritus and renowned anthropologist, took advantage of the cultural wealth that Belize has to offer. Arranged through the Institute of Sustainable ...

30th Belmopan Cycling Classic is set for...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
The Belize Cycling Association will be holding its 30th Annual Belmopan Cycling Classic on Sunday March 13, 2011. The Elite/Open category will commence at 8:00 am from in front of the Constitution Park in Belize City to the City of Belmopan around the ...

Brandon Cattouse takes Saturday race
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
The Belize Cycling Association held its usual Saturday race on February 26, 2011 from Leslie's Imports to Hattieville and then back to Leslie's Imports. Some 46 riders started the 26 miles event in the Elite/Open category, where only three riders did ...

Football Investigation Continues
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
The Sports Investigation Committee is a special team appointed by Statutory Instrument 125 of 2010 in December, 2010 to review and establish the validity or otherwise of the appointment of the executives of the Football Federation of Belize (FFB) ...

Belize City Primary Schools softball com...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
The 2010-2011 Belize City Primary Schools Softball Competition was officially opened on Monday, February 28, 2011, at Rogers Stadium the home of Softball in Belize by Mr. Jude Lizama, 1st Vice President of the Belize Softball Federation. ...

Texas Calling: Another Flashy Mega-Ship Will Cruise From Galveston
CruiseCritic.co.uk - ‎3/3/11‎
Crown Princess will be stationed in Galveston from December 22, 2012, to April 27, 2013, and will offer 19 Western Caribbean cruises calling in Costa Maya, Roatan, Belize City and Cozumel. The four-and-a-half-year-old ship is part of Princess' Crown ...

New bridge access road started
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Hutchy Wins Rural Central Convention
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
The United Democratic Party held a convention for residents of the Belize Rural Central to elect a Standard Bearer on Sunday, February 27. Hon. Michael Hutchinson was being challenged by Anthony Sankey. Polls opened at 9 am and closed at 4 pm When the ...

CITCO's 5th Anniversary
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
On March 1, 2006 the United Democratic Party took control of the Belize City Council. Though it has been a challenging task to deliver services to a city deep in debt, the administration has performed fairly well. They were elected on a platform of no ...

Busted on Queen Street with .38 gun
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Akeem Lord pleads guilty for uncustomed goods
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

US Pays Belizean American $800000 for Deportation Attempt
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Five years of back pay for Aldo Ayuso, still wants to be a cop
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Special Envoy and CARE Deliver Gifts of Mobility
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
On Monday, February 28, Mrs. Kim Simplis-Barrow, Special Envoy for Women and Children and Global Ambassador to Special Olympics, collaborated with Care Belize to deliver special mobility carts to 20 Belizeans with physical disabilities. ...

Taiwan Scholarships Available
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
According to John Chang, First Secretary of the Taiwan Embassy to Belize, the program has been opened to Belizeans since 2002. Since 2002, 160 Belizeans have received scholarships to study in Bachelor, Master or Doctorate degree programs. ...

New BNE Trust General Manager is Tracy Panton
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Child Stimulation Month
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

2011 National ADM Mills Secondary School Nutrition Quiz Competition
The Guardian, Belize - ‎3/3/11‎
The Nutrition Quiz Competition provides students and teachers with updated information on Nutrition and Health with the overall objective of improving the image of food and nutrition in Belize and the region and promoting nutrition and healthy ...

Deputy Dean Speaks
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/3/11‎
As you know I am a two time elected serving two terms member of the Belize City council." "Yesterday we had our regular caucus meeting and we, the post for deputy mayor is up after a year and me and my esteem colleague, Erick Chan went up for the ...

Local Cops Awarded For Catching America's Most Wanted
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/3/11‎
Many of America's most wanted are caught in Belize. Maybe the fugitives come here because it is the only other English speaking country on the American Mainland south of Texas, or maybe it's easy to lie low, or maybe it's a great place to spend your ...

City Council Celebrates
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/3/11‎
And while Samuels celebrates his ascension, The Belize City Council is celebrating its fifth anniversary. City residents may say there's not much to celebrate but tomorrow an Open Day will be held in the Nich Parking lot - to showcase the work of the ...

Double-Head Wants Game Meat For Ruta Maya; Forestry Frowns
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/3/11‎
But something has to give this holiday weekend: The Forestry Department has gone ahead with what it calls an awareness campaign in the Belize River Valley - to coincide with the staging of the La Ruta Maya Race where game meat is all the rage. ...

Mexican Soldier Still In Custody, But Maybe Not A Soldier Anymore
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/3/11‎
"Is it your opinion that he has been pursuing illicit business in Belize, in the free zone?" "Well I don't have any evidence to that but we are going to look into the matter and we are going to actually put some corrective measures in place however ...

Child Stimulation Month Is On
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/3/11‎
... sports day and we do have a week set aside for pre-school children's festival of arts in each district as well I mean Belize City, ours will be at the Bliss Center for the performing arts, and it runs from the 14th to the 18th and then on the 19th ...

3/2/11

Central America Urges Costa Rica and Nicaragua To Respect Court Decision
Inside Costa Rica - ‎3/2/11‎
Representatives of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize and Panama called upon the Costa Rican and Nicaraguan authorities to respect the decision of the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) on the dispute between the two countries. ...

Marie Sharp's Habanero Pepper Sauce
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - ‎3/2/11‎
During this trip we spent one month in Belize (used to be British Honduras), home of Marie Sharp's. Belize is the most expensive country in Central America because it has little industry, so everything must be imported. To go grocery ...

New agency to target tourists for Belize
Caribbean360.com - ‎9 hours ago‎
Director of marketing and public relations at the Belize Tourism Board, Shakira Oxley Tsai, added that BVK would be responsible for ensuring that Belize gets greater publicity in the international market. (File photo) BELMOPAN, Belize, August 21, ...

POLICE OFFICER RECEIVE AWARD FROM US GOVERNMENT
LoveFM - ‎3/2/11‎
Since 2008, some thirty three fugitives who attempted to escape the American justice system have been captured in Belize. The US Embassy says that this record ranks Belize second in worldwide fugitive return to the US, a record which is commendable.

BOWEN & BOWEN LTD. DONATES TO HELPAGE
LoveFM - ‎3/2/11‎
Helpage Belize today received a donation from the Bowen and Bowen group of companies. During brief ceremonies this morning, Sales and Marketing Manager at Bowen and Bowen David Craig handed over a walk-in shower tub for use in the provision of services ...

NEW POST OFFICE INAGURATED IN THE WEST
LoveFM - ‎3/2/11‎
Also yesterday the Benque Viejo sub post office received a motorcycle and a computer to assist in the delivery of services. Belize now has seven full-service post offices, six sub post offices and a large quantity of community post offices.

RESIDENTS OF MASKALL VILLAGE TO BENEFIT FROM PROJECT
LoveFM - ‎3/2/11‎
The project is estimated at $176000.00 which is a joint venture with the Government of Belize and Social Investment Fund. Area Representative for Belize Rural North Edmund Castro says the center will be retrofitted with four unit bathroom facility, ...

3/1/11

Art Fair Was a Success
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/1/11‎
On Saturday afternoon, downtown Belize City was transformed as the Institute of Creative arts took over three city blocks, draped it in chiffon, and let artists loose with their wares. It was the First Art Fair, and there were crafts, paintings, ...

City Will Not Increase Property Taxes, Not Yet at Least
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/1/11‎
The Belize City council has a new deputy mayor. He is Dean Samuels who was elected by his fellow councilors and takes over from Phillip Willoughby. Samuels, who also has responsibility for traffic, works, streets and drainage for southside will serve ...

Suspicious Soldier Beltran, Still Being Held
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/1/11‎
Beltran was escorted to the Belize prison, but within 24 hours filed an appeal with the courts, which allowed for him to post bond and receive bail. He was immediately re-arrested by police and charged with the possession of counterfeit currency. ...

Injured Tourist Says, “Don't Let Down Your Guard”
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/1/11‎
Jon Berg, an American Tourist who was vacationing on Caye Caulker made the media rounds across Belize City to say that he was brutally assaulted on Caye Caulker. "Taking pictures of the moon and the clouds and video movie with my camera here and all of ...

Jalacte, The Road Less Travelled
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/1/11‎
But the truth is it will facilitate brisk illegal trade at an unauthorized border point but one that keeps Belize Guatemala Relations at a healthy middle ground. We found out as much when we visited Jalacte in December of 2008. ...

Canton, Still Standing
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/1/11‎
Embattled CEO of the Citrus Products of Belize Limited Henry Canton called us today to say, basically, that the news of his death has been greatly exaggerated. We reported that he has been fired, and indeed the Citrus Growers as majority shareholder of ...

Family Who Gave Child Away For Medical Treatment Says They Were Deceived
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎3/1/11‎
But he never was and 17 years later, they've tried everything to get him back including having the adoption reversed in Belize's courts and challenged in a US court. They've also tried to contact him, but the adoptive mother has rebuffed them. ...

Prestigous Belizean Institute Team with Local Gardens
PR-USA.net (press release) - ‎3/1/11‎
The Institute of Sustainable International Studies Belize (ISIS) and the Belize Botanic Gardens (BBG) have signed an Agreement of Collaboration. The two organizations will work together to provide academic courses, field programs, service-learning ...

NEW BELIZE CITY DEPUTY MAYOR ELECTED
LoveFM - ‎3/1/11‎
Dean Samuels has been elected as the Deputy Mayor for Belize City for the period March 2011 to February 2012. The Belize City Council met today in a closed council meeting. Also discussed were portfolios of the Council. Councillor Eric Chang is ...

BELIZE CITY HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE
LoveFM - ‎3/1/11‎
“A wooden structure on Jane Usher Boulevard was destroyed by fire just before midday today. Owners of the house, the Galvez family say they were not at home at the time of the blaze but they lost all their belongings and personal items. ...

BAR ASSOCIATION OF BELIZE ELECTS EXECUTIVE
LoveFM - ‎3/1/11‎
Last Thursday Jacqueline Marshalleck was re-elected as President of the Bar Association of Belize. Vice President is Darrell Bradley. Senior Council Edwin Flowers is the Treasurer while Agnes Segura Gillett is Secretary. Serving for the next year as ...

Alert issued for vesicular stomatitis in Belize
Amandala - ‎3/1/11‎
Farmers in the agricultural belt of Belize, particularly in the Cayo and Stann Creek, are on the alert for the disease vesicular stomatitis (VS), also known as “sore mouth.” A release from the Belize Agricultural Health Authority (BAHA) through the ...

BSI postpones re-opening of factory; returned turbine presents more problems
Amandala - ‎3/1/11‎
Belize Sugar Industries (BSI) had hoped to have the back-pressure steam turbine which went down around January 20 of this year, up and running by Tuesday or Wednesday of this week, but today it has been reported that the sugar producer needs more time ...

Hector Silva, Sr., resigns from the PUP's ODS
Amandala - ‎3/1/11‎
I am a lecturer to tourist guides, not only in the Cayo District but also in Belize City. I have been guest speaker at the National Teachers Union in Burrell Boom. I was also a guest speaker at the Public Officers Union in Belmopan. ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - ‎3/1/11‎
If we use the yardstick of Evan X Hyde in Collet in 1974 and Rufus X in Belize Rural North in 1989, these being poorly-financed, independent candidate runs, that small group represents a minimum of 4-plus percent of the electorate. ...

New $48 mil road to link Bze with Pan - American Highway!
Amandala - ‎3/1/11‎
The two-lane road upgrade, which would span about roughly 28 feet, including paved shoulders, would complete Belize's connection to the Pan-American Highway – a regional network of roads from Mexico down to Panama. It would pass through villages such ...

8 to compete in 3rd Annual Miss African Queen
Amandala - ‎3/1/11‎
Among the main prizes are a $2500 tuition scholarship from Minister of Education Patrick Faber, $500 cash, a deluxe auto-kit (including a battery, re-charger and compressor), a $250 savings account from the Belize Bank, a Belize Telemedia Limited ...

CGA: Canton must go!
Amandala - ‎3/1/11‎
The Citrus Growers Association (CGA) met in special assembly on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at its compound in this village in the Stann Creek Valley, its first since the attempted forced expulsion of CEO of Citrus Products of Belize Limited (CPBL), ...

US $400000 for 226 days!
Amandala - ‎3/1/11‎
Settle's decision sets out the entire historical background of Castillo's case: Castillo was born in Belize in 1977, but went to live in the US at age 7, around 1984. In 1990, his mother applied for an alien registration number and social security card ...

2/28/11

Twenty years of archaeology at Blue Creek
Past Horizons Archaeology News - ‎2/28/11‎
Strategically located atop the Rio Bravo escarpment in Belize, the rulers of the Blue Creek controlled the terminus of an important trade network and expansive fertile agricultural fields. ...

Belizean medical mission trip helps make UT student 'Ready for the World'
UT Daily Beacon - ‎2/28/11‎
Knoxville native Alicia McClintock knew she wanted to be a doctor, but it was a medical mission trip to Belize that confirmed that international medicine was the best way for her to give back. McClintock, senior in biological sciences at UT, ...

Turbine Trouble Again?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/28/11‎
The Belize Sugar Industry is on a hair trigger tonight after reports emerged today stating that one turbine is back, but it's not working. Viewers will recall that the Tower Hill Factory was forced to shut down two and a half ...

The Last Link To Guatemala Paved
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/28/11‎
The last link of the Southern Highway is about to be paved - and soon enough, it will take travelers right up to the Belize Guatemala boundary. That's the stretch from the cutoff at dump to Jalacte which abuts the Belize Guatemala border in the ...

Physically Challenged Persons Get Carts, PET Carts
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/28/11‎
While many of us able bodied persons complain about exercise or having to walk to the corner store, physically challenged persons would only wish they had that burden. Many of them are home bound, and unable to move without assistance. ...

Mexican Soldier Pleads Guilty Twice, But Gets To Go Home!
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/28/11‎
We already know what happened to three Belizean security guards and a Casino owner when they went into Mexico with guns - but when you hear what happened to a Mexican soldier who was in Belize with an unlicensed weapon, you'll shake your head! ...

Lifelong PUP Don Hector Resigns From ODS
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/28/11‎
And while discord persists in the Citrus Industry, it's also recently spiked in the PUP. Last week you heard cries of dissent from newcomer Leanardo Chavrria and former Deputy Party Leader Godfrey Smith. This week, a foundational member of the PUP Don ...

Telemedia On Paul Perriot
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/28/11‎
The company adds that Perriot was not president of the Belize Communication Workers Union. Telemedia says that - based on legal advice - it ignored the outcome of a purported election of a new executive on August 21, 2010 - and continued to communicate ...

Business Attacked In City
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/28/11‎
The Belize Recycling Company located on St Jude's Street - just adjacent to the Belize Civic Center became a crime scene around 4 o'clock this afternoon. Details remain sketchy at this time but we understand that 2 men entered the establishment, ...

PEOPLE'S UNITED PARTY HOLDS PARTY COUNCIL MEETING
LoveFM - ‎2/28/11‎
“Despite the ongoing turmoil and division within the Opposition People's United Party, the executive of the PUP met in an emergency session Belize City. The meeting was historic in its own right because for the first time the national executive met ...

BNE TRUST NAMES NEW GENERAL MANAGER
LoveFM - ‎2/28/11‎
Tracy Panton is the new General Manager of the Belize Natural Energy Trust. A release from the Trust says Panton brings with her a wealth of management and leadership experience from her years of service to both the tourism public and private sectors. ...

CONTRACT SIGNED FOR PAVING OF PORTION OF SOUTHERN HIGHWAY
LoveFM - ‎2/28/11‎
A contract for the paving of the southern Highway all the way to the Belize-Guatemala border was signed today in Belmopan. The contract was awarded to Cisco Construction and will cost forty seven point nine million dollars. According to a government ...

PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES RECEIVE MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION
LoveFM - ‎2/28/11‎
The Special Envoy for Women and Children in close collaboration with CARE BELIZE handed out twenty Personal Energy Transportation carts to persons with disabilities. Director for Care Belize Evan Cowo told us more. ...

Oscars 2011: Even the Losers Get $75000-plus in Swag Bag
Hollywood Today Newsmagazine - ‎2/28/11‎
They will get a $12000 Belize getaway in Cayo Espanto — a private island, a $5000 all-inclusive week-long fitness retreat from Live In Fitness Enterprise and a $16000 all-inclusive getaway to Huvafen Fushi luxury resort in the Maldives compliments of ...

2/26/11

House of Shotakan Wins Belize - Mexico Karate Tournament
The Reporter Belize - ‎2/26/11‎
Karatekas of House of Shotokan Karate of Belize City enjoyed a 73-58 points victory when they hosted black belt martial arts enthusiasts of the Eagle Park Tae-kwon-do Martial Arts Academy of Mexico for an international karate tournament at the Belize ...

COPS SEIZE $108000 WORTH OF CONTRABAND
The Reporter Belize - ‎2/26/11‎
The Northern Enforcement Unit of the Belize Customs Department seized about $36000 worth of contraband beer and whiskey when they stopped two vans in a joint operation conducted with Orange Walk Police around 4:00 Wednesday morning ...

Belize Receives US $3 Million Line of Credit From CARICOM
The Reporter Belize - ‎2/26/11 ‎
Belize has received a US$3 million line of credit from the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF). Prime Minister Hon. Dean Barrow and CDF's Chief Executive Officer, His Excellency Lorne McDonnough, signed the official loan agreement on Monday, February 21. ...

Grab a tube (or canoe), dodge the jaguars, do a nutty, fishy festival in the ...
CultureMap - ‎2/26/11‎
There were plenty of overhanging snags here in Belize, waiting to snatch the reckless, with a few rapids for the pulse and throbbing jungle pressing in on all sides. The rental fee for a tube was just a dollar — good all day. ...

MORE NEWS at http://www.BelizeNews.com/todaysnews.html 2/25/11

Cabbie Caught By Criminals Escapes Thru Trunk!
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/25/11‎
A Belize City taxi man reported to police that he was held up by two men who had hired his cab. It happened sometime last night. According to Elmer Martinez, while driving on Albert Street, 2 men requested taxi service to ...

Jamelia's Mom: I Didn't Sell My Daughter, I Gave Her Away
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/25/11‎
This week shocking news came to Belize out of California. The report from Fresno said that an 11 year old Belizean girl, Jamelia Hinds had been sold by her mother into slavery- and that she was kept by American Family for ten years, enslaved and living ...

Paradise Energy: Not Fronting! Instead, Victims Of Fraud
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/25/11‎
The story was broken in the Belize Times, but the documents were legitimately filed in the companies register in Belmopan, so it was also picked up by independent media and this station. Justifiably, based on the registry documents, the spin was that ...

Belizean American Army Vet Vindicated After Being Chanced By “Sam”
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/25/11‎
Rennison Castillo was detained for seven months by US Immigration at a detention center in Tacoma, Washington, while immigration officials prepared to deport him to Belize. Castillo a naturalized US citizen and army veteran was jailed for violating a ...

US Navy In Belize
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/25/11‎
The USS Gunston Hall, A Whidbey Island class dock landing ship of the United States Navy sailed into Belizean waters today to take part in an annual exercise with the Belize Defense Force and National Coast Guard. The ship was launched on June 27th, ...

Capleton Cometh
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/25/11‎
It promises to be one of the biggest concerts San Pedro has seen and Capleton told us why he plans to make his first concert in Belize memorable. Monica Bodden was at the airport this morning when he made touchdown. "No it's not my first time; ...

PROGRAM TO TARGET SINGLE MOTHERS
LoveFM - ‎2/25/11‎
The Women's Department is recruiting single mothers to be a part of their “Supporting Single Mothers in Belize City Project”. Arlette Abraham Thompson is the Job Placement Officer at the Women's Department. “It's the fourth cycle of the supporting ...

NEW HIGH SCHOOL HOLDS OPEN DAY
LoveFM - ‎2/25/11‎
Belize High School is less than a year old, but is today holding its second annual open day at the University of the West Indies Campus where it is temporarily situated. The new high school was opened in September of last year and from the start, ...

BELIZE CITY MAN CHARGED WITH RAPE OF TEENAGER
LoveFM - ‎2/25/11‎
33-year-old Brian Smith, an employee of the Ministry of Works who allegedly had sex with a 17-year-old girl without her consent, was charged with rape when he appeared in court today. Magistrate Albert Hoare explained to Smith that he will not take a ...

Spillover Cartel Wars Will Become A Major Headache For Belize
The Reporter Belize (blog) - ‎2/25/11‎
Haroldo Rodas warned Belize's Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Wilfred Elrington when they met last Friday, February 18. Minister Rodas visited in his capacity of the pro tem president of the Central American Integration System (SICA). ...

Holy Redeemer School Girls Are National Basketball Champions
The Reporter Belize - ‎2/25/11‎
The girls of Holy Redeemer RC School won the National Primary Schools Basketball championship in the tournament organized by the National Sports Council at the Belize City Center last Friday, February 18. Most Valuable Player Indie Dixon led the Holy ...

The Cayes to happiness: Belize by boat
The Guardian - ‎2/25/11‎
Where to stay Absolute Belize (+1 800 640 2182, absolutebelize.com) has four nights all-inclusive on a catamaran from £890pp, based on six people; four nights on the boat and three in a resort on Ambergris Caye, room-only, costs from £1173pp. ...

Consumer prices forecasted to rise, says Grace GM
Amandala - ‎2/25/11‎
Alberto Young, general manager of Grace Kennedy Belize Limited, a subsidiary of Grace Kennedy in Jamaica, told Amandala Wednesday that it is important for consumers to understand what is happening on the economic scene. Young said consumers will see ...

Campbellsville University signs agreement with St. John's College in Belize
ReadMedia (press release) - ‎2/25/11‎
by Campbellsville University CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY (02/25/2011)(readMedia)-- Campbellsville University recently signed an agreement for academic exchange and cooperation with St. John's Junior College, located in Belize City, Belize. ...

Belize sounds nice right about now
Bluffton News Banner - ‎2/25/11‎
Belize has beautiful sandy beaches, where the blue water glistens in the sun. The sound of crashing waves is all you hear as you lounge comfortably, sipping an alcoholic concoction from a coconut shell through a tiny straw. ...

RISING STARS AND YABRA WARRIORS ATOP U-15 DIVISIONS WITH PERFECT 4-0 RECORDS
Amandala - ‎2/25/11‎
U-15 Clubs, Rising Stars and Yabra Warriors are quickly becoming household names in Belize City U-15 basketball landscape, with both of them being able to post four wins in as many outings, in the ongoing 2011 Telemedia/BDBA U-15 Championship. ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - ‎2/25/11‎
I was travelling on the sea between Belize City and Spanish Caye as a baby, before I even knew myself, as we say amongst our people. In the days of my childhood, it was almost all sailboats, and the nine, ten- mile trip to Spanish Caye was different ...

Education, elitism, and tragedy
Amandala - ‎2/25/11‎
The purpose and role of education should have changed dramatically once British Honduras, the colony, became Belize, the independent nation. The needs of an independent nation, where trained personnel are concerned, are different from those of a colony ...

Belizean woman victim of human trafficking
Amandala - ‎2/25/11‎
A young Belizean woman who has only been identified to the international press as “Jamelia,” disappeared from Belize more than ten years ago. She has now resurfaced in the United States as a young woman of 23, and the shocking charge is that she had ...

Mexican police hold “Butchie” and Anthony Barrow
Amandala - ‎2/25/11‎
Haynes is no stranger to Belizean authorities, as he was set to appear in the Belize Magistrate's Court on March 4, 2011, on charges of drug trafficking, possession of a controlled drug and possession of a prohibited gun silencer. ...

Customs bust contrabandistas!!
Amandala - ‎2/25/11‎
Belize Customs officials have made a major bust of 277 cases of beer and 2 cases of Johnny Walker Black Label whiskey after two suspicious vans were seized outside of Orange Walk Town yesterday at 3:50 am The Customs Department believes the items are ...

2/24/11

Costa Rica, Belize to boost convention against racism
People's Daily Online - ‎2/24/11‎
The Costa Rican and Belizean governments will boost the approval of the "Inter American Convention against Racism" as part of the activities to celebrate this year the United Nations International Year of the Afro-descendants. ...

Accused of Incest
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/24/11‎
A 33 year old prison officer became an inmate of Belize central prison today when he appeared in Magistrate's Court on a charge of incest in which the complainant was his 12 year old daughter. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie explained to ...

Accused of Killing Her Brother, Tifara Smith Finally Free
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/24/11‎
After three trials, a Court of Appeal hearing, and almost 3 years in lock-up, 29 year old Tifarra Smith charged with the murder of her brother, 18 year old Dale Lino, was finally freed of the charge yesterday. Smith's attorney, Simeon Sampson made a ...

Sewell Brothers Back In Court
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/24/11‎
They are allegedly also responsible for 1 million dollars in drug proceeds sent to Houston, Texas; Lakeland, Florida, and Belize. In furtherance of their extradition, they've had numerous Magistrate's court appearances and adjournments and today was ...

Belizeans Fugitives Nabbed In Mexico With Major Firepower
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/24/11‎
"What are these two men wanted for here in Belize?" "Well offhand I can tell you that we have issued a wanted person poster September 9th of 2010 for Anthony Barrow - for the arrest of Anthony Barrow, he was initially arrested and charge for keeping ...

Human Traffic Victim Speaks, Raises Worrying Historical Parallels
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/24/11‎
Jamelia - who is now 23 - told a local television station in Fresno Califonia that she was sold by her mother in Belize when she was only 11-years-old, to a woman who eventually took her to live in Clovis, California. Now, doing the math, ...

Cattle, Pigs In Stann Creek And Cayo Affected By Vesicular Stomatitis
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/24/11‎
The Cayo and Stann Creek Districts are under strict surveillance by the Belize Agricultural Health Authority after cattle in Cayo and pigs in Stann Creek started showing symptoms of a disease called vesicular stomatitis, known locally as sore mouth. ...

BELIZE CANCER SOCIETY PREPARES FOR AGM
LoveFM - ‎2/24/11‎
The Belize Cancer Society will be holding its fourteenth Annual General Meeting tomorrow. Love News spoke to President of the Belize Cancer Society Laura Longsworth who says one of the main events will be the introduction of a theme for the year. ...

WOMAN CHARGED WITH HER BROTHER'S MURDER FREED OF CHARGE
LoveFM - ‎2/24/11‎
Smith's attorney, Simeon Sampson made a no case to answer submission after the prosecution closed its case having called five formal witnesses but not WPC Elizabeth Thompson, the chief witness, because she is not in Belize. The prosecution's case was ...

NATIONAL BIRTH REGISTRATION CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF IN TOLEDO
LoveFM - ‎2/24/11‎
“Today we have launched an initiative to encourage and assist in obtaining our objective of a hundred percent registration of births in Belize. It is important for persons to have a nationality. Registration of birth occurs within a country is ...

MEXICAN DANCE GROUP ON TOUR IN BELIZE
LoveFM - ‎2/24/11‎
... on the role of director for this company which is an international one because it has dancers from Brazil, Venezuela of course Belize and also Mexico and so we are very proud inviting this company to Belize performing here at the Bliss Center. ...

Belize PM concerned by Tony Quinn oil firm
Irish Times - ‎2/24/11‎
THE PRIME minister of Belize has intervened in a row at a largely Irish-owned oil company of which yoga guru Tony Quinn is a director. The Hon Dean Barrow has expressed concern that a legal battle involving Mr Quinn and other directors of the company ...

Sasha Lopez charged for stabbing Elizabe...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Busted at MCC with 9mm pistol
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

5 years for stealing $20.00
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
Twenty six year old fisherman, Marlon Young, a resident of #4 Barrack Road will have to spend five years in jail for breaking into a jewelry shop in Belize City. Businessman Carlos Medina reported to police that sometime between 5:00p.m. on Thursday, ...

Darnell Barrow takes Saturday cycling ra...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
The Belize Cycling Association sponsored its usual Saturday race on February 19, 2011, where some 35 riders participated in the 26 miles event. The event started from Mile 2 on the Western Highway to Hattieville and then back to Belize City where it ...

5th Annual Belize Bank Super League comp...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Bishop Martin boys repeat as national pr...
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
The 2010-2011 National Primary Schools Basketball Championships took centre stage on Friday February 18, 2011, at the Belize City Centre. In the male championship game, Bishop Martin Primary School repeated as national basketball champions when it ...

SIF presents computers to YFF and Community Policing Unit
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
The equipment complements a month-long computer training program, held in October last year, which provided training for some 30 Belize City youths for the online job market. The objective of the training project was to sharpen the computer skills of ...

Mexican Army 98th Anniversary commemorated in Belize at the Embassy of Mexico
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
In Belize, a commemoration ceremony was held at the Embassy of Mexico in Belmopan. The event was headed by the Mexican Military and Air Attaché, General Luis Fernando Orozco, and the Embassy of Mexico's Chargé d'Affairs, Hector Peralta. ...

Kenisha Hoare Wins Library Services' Story Competition
The Guardian, Belize - < ‎2/24/11‎
As part of its 75th anniversary, the Belize National Library Service and Information System (BNLSIS) held a story writing competition. The competition was open to all writers who were to have written stories with the content being appealing to children ...

LPG Regulation Introduced
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Horse and Carriage Operators Complete History Course
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
On Monday, February 21, twenty Belize City tour operators received a certificate of accomplishment for completing Fred Hunter's Belize City Historical Tour Course. The course focused on horse and buggy operators and was sponsored by the Belize Tourism ...

Check your tax receipts!
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Affair of the Heart attracts huge support
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
The Affair of the Heart was supported by Cabinet members, members of the Diplomatic Corp, members of the Bar Association of Belize, Ministry of Health officials, representatives of NGO's, teachers, nurses, parents and others interested in the ...

Belcogen gearing up to restart
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Cabinet Meeting
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...

Street naming program begins in Collet
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
On Wednesday, February 23, the Belize City Council officially launched its street naming program which will see the municipal body placing names on all unnamed streets in Belize City. It's a program that began in June of last year with the empanelling ...

Lee Mark Continues Historic Journey
The Guardian, Belize - ‎2/24/11‎
On Sunday, February 20, Lee Mark Chang became the first Belizean of Chinese descent to hold the post of standard bearer of a political constituency for a major political party in Belize. It was indeed a phenomenon of historic proportion and the Belama ...

2/23/11

Math Olympiad Eliminations Conclude
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/23/11‎
The fifth annual Math Olympiad started in February, and since then it's rolled though the western, northern, and southern regions; today it came to the central zone where 13 Belize district schools vied for the final regional ...

Mexican Dance Company Brings Contemporary Style To Belize
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/23/11‎
"The Tumakat is a cultural exchange between Mexico and Belize. As you know we have a great relationship with Mexico and so we have identified Tumakat contemporary dance group and of course we at the institute of creative art and the national institute ...

The Sad, Sad Story Of Sonia Diaz's Death
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/23/11‎
Instead we found her body bundled inside this sack that was carted away from the Belize City morgue - by her family. An unimaginable end for as child - described by everyone as a quiet little girl. Funeral Services will be held tomorrow morning for 5 ...

Where The Streets Have No Names Reloaded
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/23/11‎
About twenty years ago I drove from Vancouver British Columbia Canada to Belize with my younger brother Ernesto, and I am sure today when I phone him, when I speak with him tonight, and tell him Mrs. Hilda Forman - a street is named in her honor, ...

New Chicks For Old Northern Road Communities
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/23/11‎
The objective is for the farmers to make money at the farm, and also employ people around to work with them if possible and to keep the young people on the farm so that they don't go to Belize City or Orange Walk Town to look for jobs, to stay in the ...

BELIZE CITY BEGINS STREET NAMING PROGRAM
LoveFM - ‎2/23/11‎
The Belize City Council today launched the beginning of its Street Naming project and thirty four educators around Belize were honored in a ceremony at the Unity Presbyterian Primary School. Mayor of Belize City, Zenaida Moya-Flowers says through ...

BSI OFFICIAL SPEAKS ON FACTORY'S OPERATIONS
LoveFM - ‎2/23/11‎
Belize Sugar Industries Limited is hoping to resume milling operations at its Tower Hill Factory early next week, following repairs to malfunctioning turbines at its co-generation plant. And while that is good news in the short term, ...

POLICE DEPARTMENT INTRODUCES QUALITY OF LIFE CAMPAIGN
LoveFM - ‎2/23/11‎
"You said it starts in Belize City, how soon will be able to see this initiative, the enforcement of the laws extend to the districts? “Well I am hoping that it will take place concurrently, although we are working here in Belize City. ...

SOCIAL INVESTMENT FUND DONATES TO TWO ORGANZATIONS
LoveFM - ‎2/23/11‎
“What is happening is that last year in October the Social Investment Fund in collaboration with the Community Policing Unit along with Youth for the Future launched a one month training program for youths in Belize City, it was roughly 30 youths, ...

FIRST EVER STREET ART FESTIVAL TO TAKE PLACE DOWNTOWN BELIZE CITY
LoveFM - ‎2/23/11‎
On Saturday downtown Belize City will be filled with activities as the first ever Street Art Festival will be held. Karen Vernon is Theatre Director at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. “It's going to be very exciting. ...

2/22/11

Belize voted top emerging honeymoon destination
Opodo - ‎2/22/11‎
According to the Belize Tourism Board (BTB), the achievement is a result of its recent efforts to promote the romantic experiences on offer to visitors. The Belize in Love campaign was launched in 2009 with the aim of targeting couples ...

Shooting Accident Leaves Man Dead
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/22/11‎
That one happened in Scotland Half Moon in the Belize District late last night. Two men, 32 year old Elvis Denvo Moody and 24 year old Deon Ferguson left on horseback late last night to go duck hunting, but only Ferguson came back. ...

Hon. Perriot Says He Was Dishonorably Railroaded By Union Busting BTL
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/22/11‎
President of the Belize Communication Workers Union and a BTL employee of 11 years Senator Paul Perriot has resigned from the company. The phone company sent out a bulletin to workers today saying that Perriot has submitted a letter of resignation ...

Poor & Famous holds bike race for City youths
Amandala - ‎2/22/11‎
The race was for youths 16 years and under, and, though they used the same start and finish point as the Belize Cycling Association's (BCA) weekly Saturday races, the BCA had nothing to do with this race, which is purely the initiative of the Poor ...

Belize Bank, Heritage continue to be challenged with non-performing loans
Amandala - ‎2/22/11‎
At the end of 2010, Belize's premier commercial bank, the Belize Bank, as well as the youngest newcomer to the scene, Heritage Bank, continued to suffer high rates of adversely classified or non-performing loans, amounting to more than a fourth of ...

Earth and life
Amandala - ‎2/22/11‎
In Belize, a British colony which had been poor and oppressed for centuries, our people looked north to America with admiration, with awe, with longing, and even with desperation. This was natural. We wanted a better life. There were some of our people ...

From The Publisher
Amandala - ‎2/22/11‎
In America they say that a shoeshine boy can become the President: in Belize a street hustler actually became the Deputy Prime Minister. That was the late CL B Rogers, and he was much loved and admired in the streets of Belize City for many years. ...

What's up with Sadie Vernon?
Amandala - ‎2/22/11‎
Today, the Belize National Teachers' Union (BNTU) called on the Sadie Vernon board, which sanctioned the firings, to resign. At a press conference on Friday, February 18, teachers boldly decried the firings, but principal Laura Baptist has refused to ...

Guate warns Belize of drug war spillover
Amandala - ‎2/22/11‎
Belize's Ambassador to Guatemala, HE Alfredo Martinez, told Amandala on Monday that there is already evidence that Guatemala's narcotics problems are trickling to this side of the border. Martinez informed our newspaper that the Government of Guatemala ...

BDF officer convicted of Manslaughter
Amandala - ‎2/22/11‎
Yesterday afternoon in the Orange Walk Supreme Court, Belize Defense Force (BDF) Private Paulino Assi, 23, was convicted by a jury of 9 on a manslaughter charge dating back to a November 21, 2008 incident. His conviction is in connection with the ...

Toledo trouble for John B!
Amandala - ‎2/22/11‎
Disgruntled members of the Opposition People's United Party (PUP) in the Toledo District made history today when they made a long journey to demonstrate in the media capital of the country, Belize City, against the rejection of two candidates for their ...

Melonie's New Vid
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/22/11‎
Melonie Gillett is one of Belize's most talented songstresses and now she wants to take her product to a whole new international level. She's hoping to do that with what has to be the most ambitious music video ever produced in Belize. ...

Horse and Carriage Drivers Learn Courtesy
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/22/11‎
Horse and buggy operators gathered at the memorial park - to receive certificates - after completing a four day training called - Belize City Historical Tour Course. "This is a specialize training that we decided to offer primarily to the horse and ...

CARICOM Development Fund Makes Belize First
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/22/11‎
Belize will benefit from a three million us dollar line of credit with the Caricom Development Fund. The monies will be channeled through the DFC and Belize is one of the first CARICOM nations to have qualified. CEO for the Fund Lorne McDonnough ...

Belizean Nurses to Receive Professional Training in Mental Health
Inside Costa Rica - ‎2/22/11‎
Belmopan - The Belizean Public Health Ministry will train 170 nurses coming from rural zones of Belize, with the necessary techniques to diagnose and take care of patients with psychiatric problems in their respective communities. ...

IMF Executive Director Visits
Caribarena Antigua - ‎2/22/11‎
Tom Hockin represents the interests of Canada, Ireland, the six independent OECS states, plus Barbados, Jamaica, Belize, and the Bahamas. He is a former minister of state for Finance and minister of International Trade in the Federal Government of ...

2/21/11

PUP's Protesting Against The PUP?
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/21/11‎
You know why, he don't have any kind of support up North, no kind of support in Belize District. You add them up and the make over 14 votes that he can't win the party leader, now he is trying to push down everybody in the south down his throat in ...

BNTU Calls For Sadie Vernon High Board To Resign
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/21/11‎
Now The Belize National Teachers' Union has weighed in on the issue. A statement issued this afternoon calls for the resignation of the members of the School Board because - in the BNTU's opinion - they have failed. BNTU also calls on the Ministry of ...

Tipping The Scales In The Consumers' Favour
Channel 7 Daily News - ‎2/21/11‎
So, bottom line, this time next month, every butane truck and depot in Belize should have a scale that can show you how much pounds of butane you're getting. And this is where it gets a little complex for people, because you're actually buying ...

UNION SAYS BOARD OF DIRECTORS AT SADIE VERNON SHOULD RESIGN
LoveFM - ‎12 hours ago‎
Meanwhile The Belize National Teacher's Union also expressed concern over the contentions between the teachers at Sadie Vernon Technical High School and the administration. Following its Union Council Management meeting on Saturday the BNTU is of the ...

BELIZE TO BENEFIT FROM CARICOM DEVELOPMENT FUND
LoveFM - ‎12 hours ago‎
Belize today became the first country in the Caribbean to benefit from the CARICOM Development Fund. The Fund is a key component of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy and gives priority to projects in lesser develop nations and industries. ...

REJECTED PUP CANDIDATE CRYS FOUL
LoveFM - ‎12 hours ago‎
An aspiring candidate for the People's United Party in the Toledo East constituency today held a protest in Belize City. Leonardo Chavarria and his supporters traveled by bus this morning to protest what Chavarria claims is the unfair treatment by the ...

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SAYS IT SUPPORTS SANCTIONS OF BUTANE COMPANIES
LoveFM - ‎2/21/11‎
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry says it is in full support of the implementation of sanctions on butane companies. The BCCI said so in a press release issued this morning after following the developments in the Liquefied petroleum Gas ...

PUNTA GORDA ROTARY CLUB MAKES DONATION
LoveFM - ‎2/21/11‎
"The Rotary Club of Punta Gorda along with the Sunrise Club of Belize City has ventured into a project of issuing English Spanish dictionaries to all high schools in Toledo, especially to all first formers. We have delivered dictionaries over to Toledo ...

BIRTH CERTIFICATE CAMPAIGN TO BEGIN
LoveFM - ‎2/21/11‎
The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF along with other partners in Belize will be launching a birth certificate campaign on February 24th. The launch will first be held in the Toledo District. The campaign aims at having every child registered in ...

UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS IN DANGRIGA UNDERGO TRAINING
LoveFM - ‎2/21/11‎
A job preparedness training workshop is presently underway at Belize Spiritual Life Center in Dangriga for some 25 unemployed young people. The objective of the training is to empower the participants with marketable skills to be better prepared to ...

Troubling trends in coral
MiamiHerald.com - ‎2/21/11‎
Researchers at the University of North Carolina are reporting a "troubling change" in the growth patterns of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, off the coast of Belize in the western Caribbean and the world's second largest reef system. ...

2/20/11

Mexican universities will help Belize with science programs
The Reporter Belize (blog) - ‎2/20/11‎
Belize has begun a collaboration with prestigious universities of Mexico which will lead to a Bachelor programme in Marine Biology for the University of Belize. The initiative has come from Mexico, which this week hosted a symposium ...

Guatemalan rider wins Valentines cycle race
The Reporter Belize (blog) - ‎2/20/11‎
Guatemalan cyclist Lisandro Ajcu of the Santino's Belize team set a new record when he won the annual Digicell Valentine Cycling Classic. Ajcu completed the 83 mile ride from the San Ignacio Hotel at the top of “Cement Hill” in San Ignacio Town to the ...

JAPAN OFFERS $20 MILLION SOLAR ENERGY GRID TO BELIZE
The Reporter Belize - ‎2/20/11‎
The Government of Japan has offered to build a $20 million photo-voltaic solar energy grid on 2.04 acres of land in Belmopan owned by the University of Belize to help supply Belize with clean solar-powered electrical energy. The University of Belize ...

Belize Defence Force, 3-time winners in national football
The Reporter Belize - ‎2/20/11‎
The Belize Defense Force won their third consecutive national football championship, when they triumphed 2-0 over the Toledo Ambassadors in the second game of the championship finals of the Caribbean Motors C uptournament organized by the Belize ...

Belize Library Service awards $2250 to short story writers.
The Reporter Belize - ‎2/20/11‎
The Belize National Library Service and Information System (BNLSIS) has awarded prizes to the top three writers of its story writing competition. Ms. Kenisha Hoare, with her entry entitled: “Finding Home”, claimed the first place prize of $1000. ...

Stepfather, 46, charged with molesting 13 year old stepdaughter
The Reporter Belize - ‎2/20/11‎
A 36-year-old South side man of Belize City's was remanded to the Belize Central Prison today, after he was charged with molesting his 13-year old stepdaughter. Police arrested the man after they heard a report from the frightened teenager. ...

Bureau of standards to crack down on cheating butane gas vendors
The Reporter Belize - ‎2/20/11‎
The Belize Bureau of Standards has assured consumers that they intend to immediately “pursue measures to provide additional assurance to the consumer as it relates to purchases of liquid petroleum gas in the ...

SEVEN WONDERS OF CENTRAL AMERICA
Tourism Review - ‎2/20/11‎
Beach lovers, adventurers as well as history lovers – they all head to Belize sandwiched between thick jungles and the Caribbean Sea. Wild animals, forests, palm-dotted shores as well as several Mayan sites lure many tourists to the country every ...


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