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7/15/11
Jason Gardiner: I thought I'd die after being bitten by sand fly in Belize Metro - 7/15/11 He was in the Central American country of Belize when the incident occurred earlier this month, requiring him to have emergency treatment before being flown back to the UK, where he is now recovering. A friend told The Sun: 'Jason was in agony. ...
Easy Glen Has Hard Time Avoiding Jail Channel 7 Daily News - 7/15/11 Goldburn Easy Glen Adolphus, a rapper, UDP mouthpiece and employee of Belize City Council, almost got sent ot jail today. He was taken to court on a committal warrant because he owed eight hundred dollars to First Stop Speed Money, a cash advance ...
Arson In Harmonyville? Channel 7 Daily News - 7/15/11 Last night there was a fire in the community of Harmonyville on the Western Highway - and it appears to be a case of arson. Jose Villanueva who had one of the model homes in the community had his two bedroom wooden structure burned to the ground at ...
Football & Food Camp Gets Boost Channel 7 Daily News - 7/15/11 Over a hundred and fifty children from across the Southside of Belize City invested their time wisely in a 3 week sports camp- called the 3rd world social club. There, they got to play, football, basketball, volleyball and a number of other sporting ...
Belize International Film Festival In Full Swing For Sixth Year Channel 7 Daily News - 7/15/11 The Sixth Belize International Film Festival is underway at this hour with a red carpet opening. And while most of us won't make it to that gala event, public relations officer for the even YaYa Marin says there's plenty for everyone to see, ...
Illegal Guate Loggers "Influence" 55k Acre Zone In Forest Channel 7 Daily News - 7/15/11 Whilst the Belize law enforcement team was speaking to two illegal loggers, a child of about 8 or 9 years shouted "NEGRITO" - a second after they heard that voice, gun shots were fired at the law enforcement team from the bushes. ...
Belize National Selection Destroys Honduran Club Channel 7 Daily News - 7/15/11 The Football Federation of Belize and the National Sports Council are busy fighting in court but the National Selection - blighted as it is by controversy - is preparing for a World Cup Qualifier on Sunday afternoon at 4:00 at the Olympic Stadium in ...
Man Knocked Down, Left Critical; His Family Wants Answers Channel 7 Daily News - 7/15/11 Luckily, he was discovered in time by a passer-by and was rushed to Belize City where he was admitted at the KHMH and put on life support. Today Augustine was taken off the machine but his condition remains critical. "Right now, I guess, he is stable, ...
Co-Ops Day Observed Channel 7 Daily News - 7/15/11 Today, as Belize and the rest of the World observe International Cooperative's Day, a special signing ceremony took place at the offices of the Coastal Management Zone this afternoon. It was the formal establishment of a friendship accord between the ...
Fried Jacks Don't Hold Up As Evidence Channel 7 Daily News - 7/15/11 Chan was busted in August of last year at the Belize Central Prison when 80 grammes - about two ounces of cannabis was found stuffed between two fried jacks. She was charged for drug trafficking because of the amount of weed. But today, 11 months later ...
Track and Field Stars Return Home With Major Bling Channel 7 Daily News - 7/15/11 The Central American Track and Field Championships finished three weeks ago - but two of Belize's most outstanding athletes have not yet had their moment to shine along with their medals. That's because one of them Kaina Martinez was still training in ...
Security Guard Remanded For A Single Live Round Channel 7 Daily News - 7/15/11 A security guard is in jail tonight because of a single round of ammunition that was found in his home. Thirty three year old Errol Pollard, a part time security guard of 65 West Canal Street was charged with kept ammunition without a gun license. ...
'Crossed fingers' over Caricom coming on board Trinidad Guardian - 7/15/11 Only three countries—Barbados, Guyana and Belize—are signatories to the appellate jurisdiction of the Port-of-Spain-based court. The CCJ president made the comments during his address at a special sitting of the court in Port-of-Spain yesterday to mark ...
MORE CONTROVERSY IN CITRUS INDUSTRY LoveFM - 7/15/11 In his response, Chief Executive Officer of the Citrus Products of Belize, Dr. Henry Canton, said that there is some history to the ruling. Dr. Henry Canton - CEO, Citrus Products of Belize Limited “The ruling of the court yesterday was the third step ...
SUSPECTED ARSON IN HARMONYVILLE LoveFM - 7/15/11 Love News spoke with the President of the Belize Grass Roots Youth Empowerment Association, Nigel Petillo, who told us what happened. “While we were at the preventative detention forum being held by COLA in Belmopan we got a call from the Police that ...
ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL TO GET UNDERWAY LoveFM - 7/15/11 The annual Belize Film Festival starts today. One of the highlights of the weekend activity is the district screening of the film “the road to Damascus” tonight in Dangriga. Organizers say this year's Film Festival is the biggest yet, featuring 16 ...
BELIZE CITY MAN CHARGED FOR KEPT AMMUNITION LoveFM - 7/15/11 33-year-old Errol Pollard was charged with kept ammunition without a gun licence when he appeared in court today. Pollard pleaded not guilty to the charge. Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser explained to him that the court cannot offer hi bail because of ...
Belize has $26 million to spend on a Master Tourism Plan! Belize City ... The Reporter Belize (blog) - 7/15/11 The Government of Belize has secured a loan of $26.6 million Belize dollars from the Inter-American Development Bank to fund a tourism project for Belize which aims at doubling the overnight tourism trade. Doubling overnight stay to Belize to 897376 ...
Six Belizean beauties line up for Miss Earth Contest The Reporter Belize (blog) - 7/15/11 The winner will represent Belize in Pattaya, Thailand in the Miss Earth Pageant scheduled for November 12, 2011. Six young women from across the country are vying for the title, but only one will emerge as winner and head for Thailand in November. ...
Belize Bar Association says the Court will decide on BTL The Reporter Belize - 7/15/11 The Belize Bar Association has put out a release. commenting on the ruling of the Court of Appeal against the Government's acquisition of Belize Telemedia Limited. “Belize is a nation founded on the rule of law, and our Constitution. ...
Orange Walk to get BTIA Information Center & Gift Shop The Reporter Belize (blog) - 7/15/11 The Belize Tourism Board and the Orange Walk Chapter of the Belize Tourism Industry Association held official ground-breaking ceremonies for a new BTIA' Tourist Information Center and Gift Shop to be built near the Orange Walk Town Hall on Thursday, ...
Belize promotes investments in Dubai The Reporter Belize - 7/15/11 Prospective investors and the decision makers from existing and emerging markets were invited to invest in Belize at the Annual Investment Meeting 2011 held in Dubai last week. Minister of Economic Development Commerce and Consumer Protection, Hon. ...
$26 million for Progresso Road The Reporter Belize - 7/15/11 Minister of Works Anthony Martinez signed the contract on behalf of the Government of Belize and Mr. Cosinno Lamberti-Fosssati, Head of the European Union Technical Support Office in Belize, signed on behalf of the EU.
Outlaw loggers fire on Belizean officials The Reporter Belize - 7/15/11 All except one of the illegal loggers escaped from Belize police custody, but the cops held on to a 20-year-old youth identified as Jairo Orlando Ariel Motta, from the village of La Rejoya , Peten. A joint Forestry/BDF/Police group patroling near the ...
Court delays ruling on Football Federation! FIFA executes fly in next week The Reporter Belize (blog) - 7/15/11 The Football Federation of Belize failed in its bid to get the Supreme Court to lift the National Sports Council's ban on FFB use of National Sports Council's fields and stadiums, when Justice Minette Hafiz delayed judgment following an all-day hearing ...
Men acquited of murder sue GOB for "false imprisonment" The Reporter Belize - 7/15/11 Three Belize City men who filed a lawsuit against the Attorney General and the Police Department for false imprisonment were in court this week making depositions to explain why they should be compensated for false imprisonment. ...
High levels of mercury found in fishes Antigua Observer - 7/15/11 BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Health authorities are urging people to stop eating Bay- snook fish from the Macal River because of high levels of mercury. The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Department of Environment and the Belize Electric ...
Wegmans Says Bye To Belize Shrimp Belize Aquaculture, the source of our prized Belize shrimp, has been closed. In 2010, Sir Barry Bowen, the owner, was killed in a tragic plane crash. Since then, the various businesses making up Bowen and Bowen Ltd. have ...
Belize's Special Olympics Team brings home bronze Yesterday, the delegation for Belize's 5-a-side Special Olympics Team returned from Athens, Greece with the bronze for the country after leaving 3 weeks ago. It is our first time competing in the Special Olympics World Summer Games, and a significant ...
BEL's money woes still unresolved When the Government nationalized the Belize Electricity Limited (BEL), it did so following a declaration by Prime Minister Dean Barrow that the company was “de factor insolvent” – unable to pay over $20 million in bills to suppliers locally and ...
Deeds registration and the principle of “caveat emptor” There are basically two land registration systems in Belize. For simplicity I will refer to them as the Deeds registration system and the Land Titles registration system. The latter provides for more effective management of land records, more efficient ...
FFB and NSC back in court Another chapter in the titanic struggle between the Football Federation of Belize (FFB) and the National Sports Council (NSC) unfolded today in the Supreme Court before Madam Justice Minnet Hafiz-Bertram. The FFB, which remains under non-recognized ...
From The Publisher Belize's demographics have changed dramatically over the last 50 years, and the change has been a peaceful one. The reason the change was peaceful was because our people were offered opportunities to migrate to the United States, and we natives thought ...
More land title thefts exposed Alex then used the land to secure a loan from Belize Bank for $80000 and another line of credit for $41000. He defaulted on both loans. As a result, Belize Bank then seized the property and was forced to attempt to sell it to recover the funds. ...
Mercury-laced Tarpon and other food fish in Macal Information supplied to our newspaper by both the Ministry of Health and the Fisheries Department confirm assertions from the Belize Environmental Law and Policy Office (BELPO) that there are more fish than the bay snook eaten from the Macal River that ...
Ex-BEL CEO Lynn Young could face legal action, says BEL chair Rodwell Williams Rodwell Williams, SC, the chairman of the Belize Electricity Limited (BEL), the electricity company Government acquired nearly a month ago, told Amandala today that an internal audit is in the works for the recently acquired company, and following that ...
BDF, Guat loggers in Chiquibul gunfight!! Yesterday, Wednesday, at about 4:00 pm, members of the Belize Defence Force, the police, the Forestry Department and Friends for Conservation and Development on patrol near the Belize-Guatemalan border, ran into a group of Guatemalan loggers illegally ...
7/14/11
Jaws dropping: It's sun, sea and sharks Metro - 7/14/11 Metro heads to Belize to see how volunteers can help save these beasts. 'I'm not leaving here until I catch a shark, even if I have to stay all night,' says frustrated marine biologist Demian Chapman. One of two dark shapes gliding through the water ...
When Doing The Right Thing Pays Off Channel 7 Daily News - 7/14/11 It's the programs 6th year - and is a part of the Belize Police Department creative way of working with high school students. This youngster had to first be recognized by their principal or school counselor in order to become a nominee. ...
Chiquibul Forest Shootout Between BDF & Guatemalan Loggers Channel 7 Daily News - 7/14/11 Whilst the Belize law enforcement team was speaking to two illegal loggers, they heard the voice of a young person shouting "NEGRITO" - which is a derogatory term common in Latin countries for a black person - sometimes used by Guatemalans to ...
The Fight Over Football Continues In Court Channel 7 Daily News - 7/14/11 The Football Federation of Belize went back to the Supreme Court today before Justice Minnette Hafiz. This time, the FFB's attorney Elson Kaseke asking for an injunction against the National Sports Council to restrain it from disallowing the FFB access ...
Cop Accused Of Carnal Knowledge With Teenaged Girl Channel 7 Daily News - 7/14/11 A police-man who recently entered the department will go to court tomorrow charged for the carnal knowledge of a 15 year old girl. 25 year old police Constable Yannick Wade was investigated after someone called in a tip to the 922-tips hotline. ...
Film-Maker Fantauzzi In Belize Channel 7 Daily News - 7/14/11 Documentary Film-makers Khalil and Eli Fantauzzi from Caifornia have become fictures in Belize during the summer time. They host annual video production summer camps - and this year they are here to do the same. But they're also making a documentary on ...
GUATEMALAN NATIONAL CHARGED FOR ILLEGAL ENTRY LoveFM - 7/14/11 A Guatemalan national is detained in Belize pending charges for illegal entry and illegal logging. Twenty year old Jairo Orlando Ariel Motta was captured by Belizean officials near the Caracol Mayan site in the Cayo district. ...
COURT RULES CGA SPECIAL MEETING CANNOT PROCEED AS PLANNED LoveFM - 7/14/11 A meeting that was scheduled for Friday on the compound of the Belize Citrus Growers' Association has been cancelled. The meeting was requested by a group of forty members to discuss matters over which those members have concerns. ...
BELIZEAN ATHLETE RETURNS HOME WITH GOLD MEDALS LoveFM - 7/14/11 Belizean track athlete returns home with gold medals from Central America meet Belize's track star Kaina Martinez returned home today sporting three gold medals that she won at the recent Central American championships held in Costa Rica. ...
POLICE CONSTABLE INVESTIGATED FOR SEXUAL OFFENCE LoveFM - 7/14/11 He is a serving member of the Belize police department, but tonight Constable Yannick Wade is being investigated for allegedly having sex with an underage girl. According to police reports, a fifteen year old girl, accompanied by her mother, ...
HIGH SCHOOLERS RECOGNIZED FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING LoveFM - 7/14/11 Exemplary high school students were recognized at the sixth annual Du di rait ting program today at a ceremony held at Old Belize. Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries says the event highlights the continuous work of these students who selflessly ...
Fitch Affirms Rating and Outlook of Belize Sovereign Investments III Business Wire (press release) - 7/14/11 The rating on the notes is supported by the financial strength of the insurance provider, Steadfast Insurance Company, the relatively straightforward claims paying process, and to a lesser extent, the default probability of the Government of Belize ...
Belize to host XI Central American Beach Volleyball Championship The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 The Belize Volleyball Association will play host to the XI Central American Beach Volleyball Championship from July 22 to 24, 2011, at the Marion Jones Sports Complex. Ten teams will participate in both the female and male competitions representing all ...
Team 313 stops Strikers in its track The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 The Belize City Male Softball Competition continued on Friday July 8, 2011, with 2 games on the schedule. In the first game played, Dantos blasted the Police by the score of 17-0 in four innings. Smart Dantos batting in the top of the 2nd inning sent 8 ...
Motorcycle accident claims life The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 They were heading toward Belize City when they came up on Efrain Martinez, 47, riding his bicycle on the same side of the road. Details remain sketchy, but Usher tried to swerve to avoid hitting Martinez's bicycle. The instant that Usher made to avoid ...
Alamilla's Furniture/Ministry of Education maintains lead in interoffice ... The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 The Belize City Interoffice Basketball Competition continued on Monday July 11, 2011, at the Belize City Centre with two games on the schedule. In the first game, War Paint Desig edged Mirab & Co by the score of 54-51. The top scorers for War Paint ...
Mealey Bug workshop underway The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 The first International workshop was conducted in Belize City in the year 2000 but the emphasis was on pest diagnostic, where Technical staffs of the Ministries of Agriculture of the OIRSA member countries were trained in the proper identification of ...
Belize Welcomes Home Special Olympics Medalists The Belize Special Olympics 5-a-side football team,made up of eight players and three coaches, returned to Belize on Tuesday with international bronze medals around their necks. The team is the perfect example for how a national selection should be put ...
Con man continues his misdeeds The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 On Tuesday July 12th, 44-year-old William Dwayne Lyndon Lopez was arraigned in Belize City Magistrate's Court where he was charged with two counts of obtaining property by deception. He is being accused of swindling $550.00 from Soraida Areli, ...
Former Gracie Rock Chairman gets off charges The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 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. ...
Man caught with weed stuffed in his underwear The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 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. ...
GST looking for $11 million from hard pay businesses The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 We understand that Loretta Palacio is presently out of the country but that a committal warrant is out for her arrest and that warrant has been forwarded to the PGIA upon her return to Belize. Service One Cleaner which is owned by Samir Chebat was also ...
Lodging and recording of conveyances - land titles unit Land and Surveys ... The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 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 Tourism Police Unit in place in Placencia thanks to Belize Tourism Board! The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 New Tourism Police Unit in place in Placencia thanks to Belize Tourism Board A special meeting was held in Placencia on May 13, 2011, between the Belize Tourism Board's (BTB) Coordinator of Enforcement – Andrew Longsworth, Head of the Tourism Police ...
Belize City Council Launches Get Up and Run Summer Camp 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. ...
EU funds rehabilitation of Progresso Road The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 The government of Belize is continuing with the delivery of better roads for the sugar industry and on Wednesday, July 13th, the Government of Belize signed a contract with the European Union to undertake phase II (Lot “B”) of the Accompanying Measures ...
More Dental Services to Rural Communities The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 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. ...
Ministry of Education receives 80K for Scholarship Fund The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 Patrick Faber, at a ceremony on Tuesday night, received a cheque in the sum of eighty thousand dollars on behalf of students of Belize. The money is a donation from PricewaterhouseCoopers and Peacework. PricewaterhouseCoopers is a global accounting and ...
FIFA Delegation Coming - Is Bertie Going? The Guardian, Belize - 7/14/11 The National Sports Council Board met on Saturday, July 9th, to review applications of two football organizations bidding to be the nationally recognized body in Belize. Those two organizations are the Football Federation of Belize and the National ...
7/13/11
Land Fraud Reloaded Channel 7 Daily News - 7/13/11 Having obtained land certificate, Alex Nunez approached the Belize Bank, obtained a loan of $80000 with interest over 15%, and then obtained another line of credit - over $41000 in addition to the $80000, defaulted on all ...
Progresso Will Get A Road Channel 7 Daily News - 7/13/11 Support Ofc. "For the European Union, this is a very exciting moment decided in discussion with the Government of Belize to invest quite a lot in infrastructures up north. Almost two-thirds of the funds available under the 1st phase of the AMS, ...
Price Waterouse Gives The Gift Of Education Channel 7 Daily News - 7/13/11 It's a part of what they call Project Belize which was launched in 2008 in partnership with Peacework. The firm has made an important corporate financial commitment worldwide to provide under-privileged youths with educational opportunities through ...
Winston Smiling Goes Back To Court: 6 K Debt Bigger Than Politics Channel 7 Daily News - 7/13/11 Now, we are going to ask him to have Mr. Nembhard pay all the money, or have it be paid, because Mr. Nembhard, quite frankly, doesn't reside in Belize. And if he leaves, and even has time to pay, he may never come back." "But I get the impression your ...
FFB Executive Election "Null And Void" Channel 7 Daily News - 7/13/11 Dr. Bertie Chimilio last night asked who is the sports council. Well, tonight, he might be asking who is the Sports Investigation Committee. That's a body which was set up in January to investigate the FFB's election. The report was completed a few ...
Public Health On High Alert To Avert Another Dengue Outbreak Channel 7 Daily News - 7/13/11 The rainy season is in full swing as torrential rains continue to blanket most of the country since the last couple of weeks, and according to the Belize Met office, there's plenty more to come. And with all the rains come the mosquitoes, ...
BELIZE CITY COUNCIL AND VENDORS STILL LOOKING FOR WAY FORWARD LoveFM - 7/13/11 Vendors at the Michael Finnegan Market met with the Councilor responsible for Markets Philip Willoughby today to discuss a way forward. With their cries concentrated on infrastructural measures, Willoughby says they are formulating a plan to get these ...
CONSUMERS COMPLAN ABOUT CONDITIONS PUT ON SALE OF SUGAR Love News understands that the Belize Marketing and Development Corporation and its selling technique could be at the heart of the problem. Wendy Cocom is the manager at Public's Supermarket branch on Central American Boulevard. ...
CITY RESIDENTS URGED TO KEEP SURROUNDINGS CLEAN LoveFM - 7/13/11 In addition, the cries of pleas from the people keep mounting as well and as part of its mandate to maintain our infrastructure, the Belize City Council has embarked on an operation to clear away the debris from the drainage systems to allow the flow ...
BELIZE CITY COUNCIL HOLDS SUMMER CAMP LoveFM - 7/13/11 Speaking with the UNICEF representative when we went to present the program and asked for support and funding for the program, when we presented it to her she said “Get up and run” isn't only a sporting and health initiative for the city of Belize ...
AGRICULTURE EXPERTS DISCUSS PINK HIBISCUS MEALY BUG LoveFM - 7/13/11 Technical experts on the pink hibiscus mealy bug from Belize and Central America are meeting in San Ignacio Town this week. A three-day international/regional forum is giving Belizean experts a change to share the secrets of Belize's success in ...
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ATHLETES HONORED Belize's Special Olympics football team returned home yesterday. They were honored at a special ceremony hosted by special envoy for women and children Kim Simpliss Barrow. This morning the bronze medalists were further acknowledged at a ceremony in ...
Mark the calendar for a Belize Birthday Bash San Francisco Chronicle (press release) - 7/13/11 Two big birthdays will be celebrated in the Caribbean/Central American region this year as Belize and its first eco-resort, The Lodge at Chaa Creek, both turn 30. Chaa Creek, which had previously been a small family farm, first opened its doors to ...
The Mayan Underworld: ATM cave in Belize The ATM cave's name is often times a joking matter in Belize (Hey man, if you're going into the ATM cave, bring me back some money, eh?), but already it seems as though there may be more to these acronymic parallels drawn than just a joke. ...
7/12/11
Financial Literacy From The Experts At Price Waterhouse and Coopers and Lybrand Channel 7 Daily News - 7/12/11 You could study business at the high school and tertiary levels in Belize and probably never learn how to go into a bank and swim with the great white sharks of modern finance without getting devoured. And that's why one of the world's leading ...
A Visual Fingerprint Of Your Parcel Of Land Channel 7 Daily News - 7/12/11 ... Management Project - and the technical consultant explained how though specialized aerial photography it will provide something like a visual fingerprint of very parcel of land, every installation and every street in every urban area across Belize. ...
Funnymen In Belize Channel 7 Daily News - 7/12/11 Both Comedians arrived in Belize this afternoon to be a part of the Belize Comedy Tour Show on Thursday night as a part of the Belize Film Festival. The duo stopped by our studios this evening to invite everyone out to the show - in their of the wall ...
Special Olympians Return Home In Triumph Channel 7 Daily News - 7/12/11 Belize's Special Olympics 5-a-side football team returned today from Athens Greece triumphantly. In their first time at the games, the team won the bronze medal at the Special Olympics World Summer Games. It's the first time Special Olympics Belize ...
FIFA Will Visit Belize To Speak With Ministry of Sports Channel 7 Daily News - 7/12/11 A high ranking FIFA delegation will visit Belize a week from today to meet with the minister of Sports. The Ministry of Sports today announced the FIFA/CONCACAF/UNCAF delegation will meet concerned stakeholders in particular from the Government of ...
My Kind of Belize – Like Ohio in the 50s I hesitate to reveal how wonderful the little village of Placencia in southern Belize really is. If the secret gets out, then that may spoil what makes it so unique—its small town atmosphere. I grew up in small towns in southern Ohio in the 50s. ...
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ATHLETES RETURN HOME Belize's Special Olympics football team is back home after participating in the recently concluded world games in Greece. “The Special Olympics football team consisting of eight players returned from Athens, Greece today bearing smiles and sporting ...
ARTISTS INVITED TO ATTEND FILM WORKSHOP LoveFM - 7/12/11 From script to screen is a two day intensive workshop for interested Belizeans that will get underway tomorrow and Thursday at the Government House in Belize City. Yao Ramesar, facilitator for the event is one of the Caribbean's most accomplished and ...
TOLEDO YOUTHS PARTICIPATE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRAINING LoveFM - 7/12/11 “The training program during last week and this week is held at Plenty Belize office in Punta Gorda. Managing Director of Plenty Belize Organization Mark Miller spoke to Love News. “This workshop is about project management, it is a ten day workshop ...
The FFB's children – they know not what they do Amandala - 7/12/11 There has been a whole lot of “water under the bridge” between 1998, when present FFB President Dr. Bertie Chimilio first took over the leadership of football in Belize, and today when a crop of young footballers are dutifully following the orders of ...
1 goal makes all the difference – Placencia vs City Boys in Super League finals Amandala - 7/12/11 Anything was possible going into yesterday's last two playoff games in the 2011 Belize Bank Super League Tournament, where defending champion Raymond Gentle-Boys United stood atop the standings with 9 points, followed by both Placencia Assassin and ...
Belizean designers/artists showcase their talent Through efforts by NICH [National Institute of Culture and History], OAS [Organization of American States] and BELTRAIDE [Belize Trade and Investment Development Services], Belizean Design Week was created to shed light on the raw talent hidden all ...
From The Publisher 36, MY WAR WITH COMMUNISM, by Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963 “Later, without being returned to Guatemala, I was appointed Ambassador of Guatemala to Great Britain with instructions to renew and revive Guatemala's claim on Belize ...
Sharon Matola says kudos to Audrey Matura Shepherd Well done for her persistence in revealing the facts behind the provocative issue of off-shore drilling in Belize. Mrs. Matura Shepherd is ever so right in drawing analogies between the off shore drilling issue and the disaster development project, ...
15% chance of survival for Maurice Usher, traffic accident victim Usher and Williams were headed in the direction of Belize City when they collided with a bicycle being ridden by Martinez, who was also heading in the direction of Belize City. Other conflicting information suggests that a vehicle slammed into the ...
Election blessings Amandala - 7/12/11 In Belize we take for granted the fact that we have the opportunity to express our political opinions in regularly scheduled elections. Some countries, such as many of those in the Middle East, do not have that opportunity, and the result is political ...
Sports Council blocks FFB and NFAB – no football governing body in Belize On Friday, July 8, attorney for the Football Federation of Belize (FFB), Elson Kaseke, was prepared to argue for an interim injunction against the National Sports Council (NSC) and Minister of Sports John Saldivar, restraining them from attempting to ...
Immigration Officers get off charges for suspected immigration smuggling ring Those immigration officers arrested, charged, and arraigned were Angelica Lima, 42, a resident of Los Lagos, Ladyville; Lindsay Wade, 30, also a resident of Los Lagos; along with Candra Wade, 29, of Antelope Street, Belize City, and Jason Daly, 33, ...
48 years since Nora, Viola murder conviction After nearly five hours in deliberation, they had found housewife Viola Pook, 54, guilty of the murder of her common-law husband, Orlando Vasquez, 48 (also known as Orlando Mai) at their home in Rancho Dolores Village, Belize District, on ...
7/11/11
Belize – Perfect Island Life We interviewed them out on their dock for an upcoming project we're putting together on Belize and the people who live and work here (and how you can join them—read about the pre-release of this Belize project here.) We cast the occasional ...
Sports Council Not Satisfied With FFB Statutes Channel 7 Daily News - 7/11/11 In Belize on Saturday the Sports council met to consider the FFB statues as well as those form a new football association. The chairman Allan Sharp told us what was the result of those deliberations.. "Basically both statutes council unanimously agreed ...
The Thrill Is Gone: Mayor Moya And DJ Dalla File For Divorce Channel 7 Daily News - 7/11/11 When Belize City Mayor Zeniada Moya and popular DJ and Promoter Troy Dalla Flowers got married in May of 2009 - it made big news, they were a five star celebrity couple. And for the first time, the private lives of public figures made news: The media ...
City Accident: The Full Details Channel 7 Daily News - 7/11/11 -both heading to Belize City - when they collided into a bicycle that was ridden by 47 year old Efrian Martinez. The accident happened around 6:30 on Friday evening near mile 3 and a half on the Western highway - between the garbage dumpsite and the ...
Planning Tourism For The Next 20 Years Channel 7 Daily News - 7/11/11 What's going to be happening in the next twenty years for tourism in Belize? No one knows but the planners at the Ministry of Tourism say they have a well-informed guess - and that's because they plan to shape the future. ...
From Delphi: The Bar Association Speaks Channel 7 Daily News - 7/11/11 In terms of the BTL re-nationalization, it's a done deal, but with the same stately pace of those slow - to - deliver judges they like to criticize, the Bar Association has issued a release on declaratory judgments and enforcement orders. ...
Belize International Designers Put Fashionistas On Parade Channel 7 Daily News - 7/11/11 Last week we told you about the Belize Design Marketplace. It culminated with a fashion show on Thursday night. Here's how it looked on the catwalk: "What the fashion show did was allow us to show everyone the designs in movement because of course for ...
University Singers Visit Belize The famous University Singers from the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies are in Belize. They are on a three country tour that took them to Cancun and Chetumal before this. Now they are back in the Caribbean and today we found them giving ...
UDP HOLDS ENDORSEMENT CONVENTION IN SAN PEDRO LoveFM - 7/11/11 Current area representative for Belize Rural South Manuel Heredia Junior was endorsed as the party's choice to contest the 2013 general elections. The convention had the participation of Prime Minister Dean Barrow and party chairman Patrick Faber. ...
DENTAL DEPARTMENT RECEIVES MOBILE UNITS LoveFM - 7/11/11 Today the Belize Dental Department received new equipment that will assist in increasing dental services to rural areas. The donation was made through the collaborative efforts of the Ministry of Health, Rotary International and Social Security. ...
NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL DOES NOT CERTIFY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATIONS LoveFM - 7/11/11 There is currently no organization representing football in Belize. Last month, the National Sports Council decertified the Football Federation of Belize and since then a new group has been trying to get a foothold. Over the weekend the National Sports ...
BAR ASSOCIATION COMMENTS ON COURT RULING ON TELEMEDIA LoveFM - 7/11/11 The Bar Association today issued a press release regarding the Court of Appeal judgment regarding Belize Telemedia Limited. The release acknowledges that there are differing opinions as to the full extent of the legal rights and obligations conferred ...
MURDER REPORTED IN SOUTHERN BELIZE A family dispute in the village of Jalacte village in the Toledo district on Sunday ended in murder. “Police visited the Punta Gorda hospital at three thirty pm when they saw the lifeless body of 22-year-old Sabrina Ack, a Belizean resident of Jalacte ...
CYCLIST HOSPITALIZED FOLLOWING TRAFFIC ACCIDENT ON WESTERN HIGHWAY According to police press officer, Sgt. Fitzroy Yearwood, forty seven year old Efrain Beltran Martinez who was riding the bicycle reported to them that he was heading away from Belize City when the motorcycle hit him from behind. ...
NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE TOURISM MASTER PLAN DISCUSSED LoveFM - 7/11/11 Over the last sixteen months or so, the Ministry of Tourism, the Belize Tourism Board and other stakeholders in the Tourism Industry have been working closely on a National Sustainable Tourism Master Plan. CEO in the Ministry of Tourism, ...
ORGANIZATION OFFERS HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS LoveFM - 7/11/11 Since its inception in 2004, Rise Up Belize! A mission based, non -profit organization has been involved in creating professional development programs for teachers in various subjects. In 2006, several summer camps for youths have been held in Sandhill ...
7/10/11
UDP defines GOB policy on utilities! Putting BTL out of reach of Ashcroft The Reporter Belize (blog) - 7/10/11 Prime Minister Barrow introduced the new Bill, designed to state in clear language government's reasons for acquiring Belize Telemedia Limited. This was the main business of the House meeting. “I rise to introduce a Bill for an Act to amend the ...
Prime Minister refutes GOB detractors. Belize needs to control all its utilities! The Reporter Belize (blog) - 7/10/11 This will reassure all Belize that the Government is in full control because we would have done everything legally necessary to retain ownership of Belize Telemedia Limited. “I want to point out here, Mr. Speaker, that the Court of Appeal completely ...
Castro beats back competition! Clear the Land clears the way. The Reporter Belize - 7/10/11 Edmund “Clear the Land” Castro, the embattled area representative for the ruling United Democratic Party, proved his popularity among the electorate of Belize Rural North Division, by decisively defeating his adversary, Mr. Elston Wade. ...
Belize footballers win bronze at Special Olympics World Games The Reporter Belize - 7/10/11 Belize's Special Olympics 5-a-side football team returns home national heroes after winning the bronze medal at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in from Athens, Greece. Team Belize includes Sidney Rhaburn, Darroll Lambey, Benny Baiza, ...
Belize off to 2011 Pan-Am Games The Reporter Belize - 7/10/11 The Belize Amateur Athletic Association introduced some of the more outstanding Belizean athletes: Tricia Flores, Charnelle Enriquez, Julia McCord and Jaheed Smith, who will be representing the Jewel at the upcoming XVI Pan American Games, ...
At Lord's Bank, a new radio station The Reporter Belize (blog) - 7/10/11 Its signal reach Ladyville and Burrel Boom and Belize City. Mood FM is owned and managed by Kenneth Moody, a former technical assistant, who worked at Radio Belize in the 1960's and 70's. During the opening ceremony, Moody told the gathering of ...
FIFA lifts suspension of FFB...But Belize Football Woes continue. The Reporter Belize (blog) - 7/10/11 The Football Federation of Belize is looking for a suitable stadium in Honduras to play Belize's return match with Montserrat in the first qualifying round for the 2014 FIFA World CupTM, the FFB announced on Thursday, July 7th, 2011. ...
FAO to help Belize develop agriculture and fisheries The Reporter Belize - 7/10/11 The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has agreed to finance several developmental programmes in Belize during the next five years. Minister of Agriculture Hon. Rene Montero signed two important agreements with FAO Regional ...
Belize gets New Solicitor General The Reporter Belize - 7/10/11 Belize's new Solicitor-General, Mrs. Cheryl Krusen (nee Thompson) has taken up duties as of July 1, Attorney-General Hon. Bernard Q. Pitts announced on Tuesday, July 6. She succeeds outgoing Sol. Gen. Oscar Ramjeet, who completed his tour of duty on ...
How to steal an island! Paperwork OK'd by Lands Dept. The Reporter Belize (blog) - 7/10/11 Israel Marin, a businessman, owner-manager of Belize Diesel and Equipment Ltd. and one of the legal title-holders to an offshore island called Bikini, was in for a shock earlier this year, when on a trip to South Water Caye, he saw smoke coming from ...
7/8/11
Title Theft: Another Layer Of Land Larceny Revealed Channel 7 Daily News - 7/8/11 We've already told you about a Belize City businessman who had his island stolen from him and a US senator who suffered the same fate. Both their properties were in the Stann Creek district, both were supposedly sold for twenty thousand dollars, ...
Farming In the Urban Jungle Channel 7 Daily News - 7/8/11 In December of last year, the Ministry of Agriculture along with Restore Belize launched and initiative called the Urban Agriculture project. It provided residents of the southside with seeds and technical assistance to grow short term vegetables, ...
Men from Mystery Boat Remain Detained Channel 7 Daily News - 7/8/11 There was some excitement in law enforcement circles last night when news went out that that the Coast Guard had intercepted a boat with two Cubans in front of Bellevue on the Belize City foreshore with no paperwork for entry ...
Political Operator Says She Didn't Steal A Cell Phone Channel 7 Daily News - 7/8/11 On Monday, July 1, Wendy Castillo, the wife of defeated candidate for PUP Standard Bearer in Belize Rural Central, Linsford Castillo, reported to the police that she hired Ferguson to do housekeeping work at her house and she fired Ferguson when she ...
NSC Will Review FFB Statutes Channel 7 Daily News - 7/8/11 Dr. Bertie Chimilio and The Football Federation of Belize had the National Sports Council back in the Supreme Court today. The FFB was applying for an injunction against the Minister of Sports, The Commissioner of Police and the National Sports Council ...
KIDNEY ASSOCIATION TO HOLD MAJOR FUNDRAISER LoveFM - 7/8/11 The Kidney Association of Belize is trying to raise half a million dollars to assist patients with kidney problems. The event called the Summerfest Telethon is scheduled for later this month. Olga Herrera is the President of the Association. ...
FOOTBALL DISPUTE STILL UNRESOLVED LoveFM - 7/8/11 The claim the Football Federation of Belize made against the National Sports Council, Minister of Sports and the Commissioner of police was heard in a close chamber hearing today. Ismael Miley Garcia is the National Sports Administer at the Ministry of ...
PARTICIPANTS OF URBAN AGRICULTURE PROGRAM AWARDED LoveFM - 7/8/11 Six months after the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries introduced the Urban Agriculture Program in South side Belize City, families have been able to literally reap the fruits of their labor. These backyard vegetable gardens have been the ...
CITRUS GROWERS ASSOCIATION TO HOLD SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING LoveFM - 7/8/11 Some of the issues they mentioned, the people calling the meeting were that the CGA Investment Company did not take measures necessary to get CPBL to access $10 million worth of funding from the Government of Belize which is not true, but that is what ...
Athletics past and present – Novian Middleton We present an extraordinary young man whom very few people in Belize know about, but he's an international track star. Running was not the fist love for Novian. He started running on the advice of his father and coach, while waiting to take another try ...
Land title larceny ring! Amandala spoke to Israel Marin, manager of Belize Diesel and Equipment in Belize City. He told us that he has owned Bikini Caye jointly with Rosella Zabaneh since 2005. He showed us the documents that indicate that it's their titled land. ...
Message to FIFA – Come clean up this mess in Belize Amandala - 7/8/11 When a nation whose “national team” is in such a strong position of advancing in a FIFA World Cup qualifier, as Belize is in right now, for that nation to forego that opportunity and declare its willingness to endure suspension from FIFA, ...
Belize's final goodbye to the Privy Council The Privy Council is today hearing its final appeal from Belize, as the country has since last year adopted the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its final appellate court on civil and criminal matters. The lawsuits being wound up are crucial, ...
Integrity Commission hibernating Belize's Integrity Commission—the body that has jurisdiction to carry out its work under the Prevention of Corruption in Public Life Act—is inactive and has been without a chair since BQ Pitts, the chairman appointed at the end of July 2009, ...
BEHIND THE ACCOMMODATION AGREEMENTS: Senator Hulse said that the agreements obviously were “accommodating” two parties – meaning, the Government, on the one hand, and the Ashcroft-controlled Belize Telemedia Limited, on the other. Senator Hulse explained that the mess that was ...
From The Publisher What about all the progressive intellectual elements in Cayo, all the militant trade unionists in Stann Creek and Orange Walk, all the young Belizeans nationwide who believed in a Belize where togetherism would be exalted over rapacious capitalism? ...
Auditor General Edmund Zuniga to be replaced? Reports reaching Amandala claim that the Barrow administration is planning to replace Zuniga with Zane Castillo, former Director of Financial Services under the UDP administration of the Belize City Council. Zuniga told us he is unaware of a ...
Ashcroft camp will come at GOB again: Barrow Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who said that he has “big majority support” in the re-nationalization of BTL, told us that he expects more legal challenges from Michael Ashcroft over the Monday, July 4, 2011, re-nationalization of Belize Telemedia Limited ...
7/7/11
FIFA lifts Belize suspension Stabroek News - 7/7/11 By Stabroek staff | View Comments BERNE, (Reuters) – Belize's international suspension has been provisionally lifted by FIFA and their World Cup qualifier at home to Montserrat will go ahead but on neutral territory, soccer's governing body said ... |
