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12/19/2006

No-show witness fined for ignoring summons
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
It's an act that happens often, much to the dismay of attorneys ... but tonight they're not letting a Belize City woman get away with it. ...

Attorney: charges only filed due to legal pressure
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
... “It certainly is an unprecedented move for a family in Belize to have to file a court action to have the Commissioner of Police follow the directive of ...

Two city schools will receive new classrooms
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
Two southside Belize City primary schools will receive funding of close to a million dollars for badly needed new classrooms. According ...

Captured fugitive was Taliban, al Qaeda supporter
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
More details are emerging regarding the background of James Ernest Thompson, The US fugitive turned over by Belize authorities to the FBI yesterday and flown ...

Lucky to be alive, shooting victim says why he’sa target
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
... marked.". Belize City police say they still have no leads into the attempted murder of twenty-three year old Raymond Myers. Myers ...

Salvation Army feeds elderly
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
... “How much are you all planning to give out?”. “Right now for the Belize District I am able to give out seventy-five food parcels, but apart from this on ...

Red Cross hosts children’s party
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
As Christmas Day draws nearer virtually every day brings some event for children and this morning's venue was the headquarters of the Belize Red Cross. ...

Dangriga airstrip closed for emergency repairs
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
According to a press release from the Belize Airports Authority, a contract was signed Monday with M & R Construction to completely rehabilitate the badly ...

Christmas shopping reaches high gear
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/19/2006
If you've been in Belize City over the last week or so the traffic alone will tell you that Christmas shopping is rapidly reaching its peak. ...

Seattle man convicted of aiding Taliban back in court
KNDO/KNDU, WA - 12/19/2006
Justice Department spokesman Bryan Sierra says James Ujaama, a Muslim convert, was arrested over the weekend in the Central American nation of Belize. ...

The making of a young entrepreneur: John Mencias discusses web ...
Amandala, Belize - 12/19/2006
(Originally from San Ignacio, John Mencias carried out his high school studies at Sacred Heart in the Cayo District and on went on the Belize Technical College ...

Black American linked with Al Qaeda found in Belize - 15th US ...
Amandala, Belize - 12/19/2006
... Bilal Ahmad, travelling under a Mexican passport in the name of Jose Luis Ramirez, was the fifteenth wanted United States fugitive to be apprehended in Belize. ...

SEC freezes 'pump and dump' scheme
InvestmentNews, NY - 12/19/2006
... action filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Commission charged Grand Logistic, SA, a Belize corporation located ...

Fake plastic surgeon maims woman; jury awards her millions
Centre Daily Times, PA - 12/19/2006
... 1999. He was arrested five years later in Belize, where he was performing surgeries and even teaching medical school. Silvestre ...

Terror Fugitive Arrested in Belize
My Fox Colorado.com, CO - 12/19/2006
Belize police arrested a Denver native with Al Qaeda ties and handed him over to US authorities, a local television station reported Monday. ...

National Trade Union Congress and health professionals calls for ...
Amandala, Belize - 12/19/2006
A Joint Meeting of the National Trade Union Congress of Belize (NTUCB) and representatives of the Medical and Dental Union of Belize (MDU), the Nurses ...

David Price laid to rest
Amandala, Belize - 12/19/2006
When we doubt and become seriously concerned about the quality of loyalty some of us have to this Belize, our native land, we can turn to the example of a man ...

FROM THE PUBLISHER
Amandala, Belize - 12/19/2006
... Half a century ago when American cowboy movies were the vogue in movie theatres in Belize, the white producers and directors who made these movies, depicted ...

12/18/2006

Two arrested at airport for loaded gun in luggage
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/18/2006
It may not involve terrorism but two visitors to Belize are in a heap of trouble tonight as security officers at the Philip Goldson International Airport found ...

Husband slashes wife’s throat; charged with murder
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/18/2006
If the recent epidemic of gangland style shooting murders in Belize City makes us reflect on the kind of society we have created for our youths, the homicide ...

City shooting leaves one dead
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/18/2006
In Belize City police are investigating a more familiar type of homicide which occurred late Sunday night. After receiving reports ...

Another US fugitive arrested, this time tied to terror
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/18/2006
The Belize Police Department has bagged another US fugitive. ... He entered Belize about ten days or so ago using a Mexican passport. ...

Bulletproof vest saves shooting victim
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/18/2006
... Myers told the cops that around eight thirty, he was sitting with his family on the back stairs of his house on Vernon Street in Belize City when a clear ...

Christmas – the journey to joy
Amandala, Belize - 12/18/2006
... LUKE 2:7 -. Christmas has become, of course, the greatest festival of consumer capitalism in Belize and in the world. Yet, the event ...

12/17/2006

Casts & Shots: Tying saltwater flies
Frederick News Post (subscription), MD - 12/17/2006
A trip to Belize three years ago, really cemented my desire to pursue predatory fish in the brine. With shorter days and longer, cold nights; ...

`Apocalypto' a distorted view of Maya history
Chicago Tribune, IL - 12/17/2006
... spoken by more than 700000 Yucatec Maya in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize sends a dangerous message by asking them to portray their own ancestors as evil. ...

Belize dive boat operator loses license for five more years
CDNN, New Zealand - 12/17/2006
BELIZE (16 Dec 2006) -- A Belize dive boat operator accused of negligence in the death of an American tourist has lost his license for at least another five ...

Trinidad to import chicken from Guyana
Stabroek News, Guyana - 12/17/2006
... at a post-Cabinet press conference at Whitehall, Port-of-Spain announced that Guyana and Belize were identified as candidates for meat importation. ...

Web site helps orient travelers to new passport rules
Indianapolis Star, IN - 12/17/2006
In other categories, Best Shopping went to St. Thomas, Best Adventure Destination was Belize, and the Best Romantic Resort was Anse Chastanet in St. Lucia. ...

'Wild Places' shot in full, rich color
Deseret News, UT - 12/17/2006
... mountains in Nepal, national parks in Africa, islands in the Philippines, deserts of south Australia, a glacier in Argentina and rivers in Belize. ...

Norwegian Cruise Line Christens Norwegian Pearl - Its Newest ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - 12/17/2006
Ports of call on the five-day Western Caribbean itinerary include stops in Cozumel, Mexico and Belize City, Belize. The nine-day Southern Caribbean route ...

12/15/2006

Toy guns, real guns turned in for destruction
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/15/2006
What we are going to do now is burn these weapons to show the public how serious the City Council is about cracking down on crime in Belize City.” ...

Nurses Association opposes any hospital amalgamation
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/15/2006
That was the polite conclusion of President Isabel Bennett at the end of a press conference called by the Nurses Association of Belize. ...

Roving hands earn molester 18 months in jail
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/15/2006
On November twenty-seventh, a twenty year old woman reported to police that after she boarded a National Transport bus that was enroute from Belize City to ...

Kids battle for chess championship this weekend
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/15/2006
There will be war in Belize City this weekend ... but the battle I'm talking about won't be fought with TEC nines, Uzis and AK-47s. Instead some of Belize's ...

Christmas village is tradition for city family
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/15/2006
If you fought the traffic on Albert Street today you would be convinced that Christmas in Belize is all about shopping. But as News Five's Janelle Chanona ...

Economic partnership agreement to trigger southern Africa's ...
People's Daily Online, China - 12/15/2006
The conclusion of an economic partnership agreement between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations will lead to ...

Europe Moves to Common Migratory Policy
Prensa Latina, Cuba - 12/15/2006
Brussels, Dec 15 (Prensa Latina) The Summit of the European Union concluded here Friday, with the agreement of the 25 Heads of State and Government to take ...

ATHLETICS: Kisii’s turn to host big meet
Daily Nation (subscription), Kenya - 12/15/2006
“I just need to make a lot of decisions,” Jones told a news conference in Belize while visiting her mother’s Central American homeland with her ...

Belize Red Cross celebrates 92 years in pictures
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
On Tuesday at the Image Factory, North Front Street in Belize City an exhibition was opened to commemorate the 92nd anniversary of the movement and shed ...

Mega tourism project on North Drowned Caye: Causeway concern is a ...
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
The multimillion dollar tourism project on North Drowned Caye and Stake Bank Caye, which include the construction of a causeway from Belize City to North ...

UNICEF celebrates 60 years globally, 25 locally
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
In Belize the work of the UN organisation which is headed by Representative Rana Flowers has made great strides in the nation. ...

Health Reform addresses lifestyle diseases
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
Following the Forum Sir George Alleyne is scheduled to make a presentation to the cabinet entitled Primary Health Care History and Lessons for Belize. ...

Corozal woman wins $50,000 in Lotto
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
... Beolita Ancona, 22, along with her family stepped into the Tropical Gaming office located on Queen Street in Belize City to claim the $50,000 lotto jackpot ...

Provident Bank’s bigwig: Central Bank & SEC want him out!
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
The Central Bank of Belize has issued a directive for an American investor with majority shareholding interest in Glen Godfrey’s Provident Band and Trust, to ...

Musa’s $42 million headache:Ambergris land swap may be his way ...
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
... The Belize City private hospital five years ago received an unsecured loan from the Development Finance Corporation for $4 million. ...

Gina Lovell & Darnell Barrow win Annual Alpheus Williams Cycling ...
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
... Cycling Classic. Organised by the Belize Cycling Association the race started from Belmopan to Belize City on Sunday, December 10. The ...

David Price passes on at 55
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
... Price who taught at Wesley College in his early years was undoubtedly one of Belize’s best history lecturers, if not the best. ...

We have 41 guests online
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
By Angel Novelo - Staff Reporter. David McKoy Jr., son of the late Cabinet minister David L. McKoy Sr., has been sentenced to eight ...

4th murder in one week- Cassius Myers gunned down
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
By Armin Petzold - Staff Reporter. A Belize City man was on Monday arraigned on charges of murder in the Belize City Magistrate’s court. ...

Brannon suspect freed! Is the DPP judge & jury?
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 12/15/2006
... Aguilar’s release has deeply upset the Brannon family who now say they have lost all confidence in the judicial system in Belize. ...

Jacque Carter, Ph.D., named provost/vice president for academic ...
Media Newswire (press release), NY - 12/15/2006
... He also recently received a prestigious Lindbergh Grant from the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation for his ongoing research in Belize focusing on ...

Mexico Prez Proposes Border Plan
Prensa Latina, Cuba - 12/15/2006
... region of Soconusco, in Tuxtla Chico, Chiapas, Calderon learned that two million people cross annually the southern border from Guatemala and Belize to Mexico ...

Elderly man killed in traffic accident - Antonio Aragon, Jr., 35 ...
Amandala, Belize - 12/15/2006
One man from Northern Belize is dead and a teacher of Orange Walk Town has been charged with running over him. San Pedro Villager ...

Report: Caribbean coral reef being damaged
Amandala, Belize - 12/15/2006
... banana and pineapple plantations are threatening tourism by damaging a coral reef stretching along the Caribbean coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and ...

Big up, the NTUCB
Amandala, Belize - 12/15/2006
We feel that Belize now has the strongest trade union leadership we have had since independence in 1981. Last week’s elections ...

Marion Jones makes first visit home since her son’s birth
Amandala, Belize - 12/15/2006
... gold medalist and beloved Belizean, Marion Jones, today met with the media at a press briefing at the Chamber of Commerce on Regent Street in Belize City. ...

Not so fast, GOB! KHMH staff force taskforce to review Universal ...
Amandala, Belize - 12/15/2006
The Government of Belize has had to take a humble step backward in its recent move to amalgamate the services of the Universal Health Services and the Karl ...

Rene Gomez new NTUCB president
Amandala, Belize - 12/15/2006
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize (NTUCB) held its 40th Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Cahal Pech Village Resort in San Ignacio Town, Cayo on ...

Dominican banana exports to European markets imperiled
Dominican Today, Dominican Republic - 12/15/2006
... for growth, with short and medium-range cycle export crops. Belize, St. Lucia and other ACP African and regional nations have already ...

12/14/2006

David Price succumbs in Cuba at 55
Amandala, Belize - 12/14/2006
Belize has lost one of its most stalwart and indomitable servants – Mr. David Price, who passed away in a public hospital in Cuba early Wednesday, ...

CITCO promotes toy gun trade-in
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/14/2006
With violent crime such a major issue in Belize it's only logical to take a close look at the question of guns ... and at Christmas ...

US veteran Jones in career limbo
Unison.ie (subscription), Ireland - 12/14/2006
... "I just need to make a lot of decisions," Jones told a news conference in Belize while visiting her mother's homeland with her three-year-old son Monty. ...

PM emphasises need for order and justice to police recruits
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/14/2006
... “Policing in Belize today is no doubt more challenging than ever before ... The police will be assisted by the Belize Defence Force, especially at this time. ...

Law enforcement officers receive forensic training
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/14/2006
... Through the assistance of the US Embassy two instructors from the Department of Justice are in Belize conducting a specialized course in forensics. ...

Police inaugurate Yabra Community Computer Centre
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/14/2006
While the police recruits were preparing for the big event in Belmopan, their future colleagues in Belize City were engaged in the type of police work that ...

Belize has ambitious agenda during SICA presidency
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/14/2006
Belize will be represented at the summit of the Central American Integration System this weekend in Costa Rica by Deputy Prime Minister John Briceño. ...

Exhibition highlights achievements of Belize Red Cross
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 26 minutes ago
News Five's Kendra Griffith looks at a new exhibition at the Image Factory that spotlights the many accomplishments of the Belize Red Cross. ...

Government will pick up tab for Price’s transport
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/14/2006
As the family and friends of the late David Price continue to make preparations for his funeral, today the Government of Belize announced it will assume the ...

Calling all drag queens!
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/14/2006
... I think the Drag Queen thing dah wah difference mein, I think Belize should come out and see it.”. ... But da just entertainment Belize, da just entertainment.”. ...

Tour operator loses license for 5 more years
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/14/2006
A release from the Belize Tourism Board states that the Tour Operators Licensing Committee, following a November second meeting, reconvened today to consider ...

First Ever Special Education Unit opens at Holy Cross Anglican ...
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 12/14/2006
... Special Ed classroom second Infant I classroom at Holy Cross Anglican Primary School was done by Bishop Philip Wright of the Anglican Diocese of Belize. ...

Human-caused pollution is damaging reef
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 12/14/2006
(3) Compared to the other countries, relatively minor percentages of the regional sediment load come from Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. ...

Our Community – Magistrate Earl Jones
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 12/14/2006
Earl Anthony Jones was born on September 17th, 1954 in the city of Belize. Parents Barbara Savery and Karl Jones welcomed their second child to what would ...

Marion Jones still undecided on future
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 12/14/2006
"I just need to make a lot of decisions," Jones told a news conference in Belize while visiting her mother's Central American homeland with her ...

Building hotels? First simulate the effect on the reef
USA Today - 12/14/2006
A few hotels, for example, may initially benefit reefs on the coast of Belize, where pressure to develop is intense. (It's also where the first version of ...

Correcting With the Code
Inside Higher Ed, DC - 12/14/2006
We gave her a flea shampoo and that provoked my husband to cite a cause for his neckline balls: He had had a leftover bot-fly from our August trip to Belize ...

12/13/2006

IDB approves $25 million soft loan to Haiti for financial sector ...
Caribbean Net News, Cayman Islands - 12/13/2006
WASHINGTON, USA: A $25 million fast-disbursing soft loan from the Inter-American Development Bank will support Haiti’s reforms to strengthen and raise the ...

Belize Coast Guard marks first anniversary
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/13/2006
With hundreds of miles of shoreline, scores of cayes, three atolls and a barrier reef that ranks among the world's natural wonders you'd think that Belize ...

David Price, DFC Inquiry Chairman, dead at 55
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/13/2006
Reports are the veteran teacher passed away at a Cuban medical facility just after ten Belize time on Tuesday night. “Renal failure, kidney failure, ...

Marion Jones, home on a visit, faces the future
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/13/2006
Last week Belize's sweetheart, Marion Jones, arrived in the country with her three year old son Monty. And while she did not receive the hero's welcome that ...

Childrens’ parties mark festive season
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/13/2006
The boys and girls were chosen from different city primary schools to attend this year’s Christmas Party hosted by The Belize Tourism Board in collaboration ...

UNICEF looks back at 25 years of service
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/13/2006
It's an organisation that for over half a century has expended its financial and moral resources in service to Belize's--and the world's--children. ...

Deal to merge public & private hospitals short on details
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/13/2006
“What the government is looking at is: ‘How do we first settle the debt with the Belize Bank?’ and that is in process. Once that has been done, ...

Injured suspect arraigned for murder of teen
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/13/2006
One week after police shot him in the left ankle, twenty-four year old Leonard Myers, aka "Ghost," was released from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and ...

Building hotels? First simulate the effect on the reef
Christian Science Monitor, MA - 12/13/2006
A few hotels, for example, may initially benefit reefs on the coast of Belize, where pressure to develop is intense. (It's also where the first version of ...

Consolidated Water Closes Public Offering of Ordinary Shares
Yahoo! News (press release) - 12/13/2006
The Company currently operates water production and/or distribution facilities in the Cayman Islands, Belize, Barbados and The Bahamas. ...

12/12/2006

Report: Caribbean coral reef being damaged
Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA - 12/12/2006
BELIZE CITY -- Fertilizer and sediment runoff from sugarcane, banana and pineapple plantations are threatening tourism by damaging a coral reef stretching ...

Scientists measure how land pollution hurts reef
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/12/2006
We know it as the Belize Barrier Reef, but when you add the coral formations to the north and south the entire system is referred to scientifically in ...

Creditors will now consider new bond offer
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/12/2006
As for the latest on the progress of Belize's billon dollar bond offer, today Espat told the press that with the National Assembly's approval of the ...

Loan signed with IDB for US $25 million
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/12/2006
During a brief contract signature ceremony this morning, the Government of Belize officially wrapped up more than a year of negotiations with the ...

Family of missing tourist seeks closure
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/12/2006
His brother Donald Dresp says he, his wife Winifred, John had arrived in Belize on the Norwegian Dream Cruise ship. They were among forty-seven other ...

Ground broken on Korea-financed vocational school
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/12/2006
Today two ground breaking ceremonies were held on projects jointly initiated between the Governments of Belize and South Korea. Construction for a Central ...

IDB approves $25 million loan to Belize
Caribbean Net News, Cayman Islands - 12/12/2006
WASHINGTON, USA: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) last week approved a $25 million fast-disbursing loan to support Belize’s agenda of reforms to ...

Venezuela: Documenting the Threat
Stratfor - 12/12/2006
... aliens from other regions; they might access the region via other countries -- such as Guatemala, Belize, the Dominican Republic and Mexico -- as well. ...

Author: Adele Ramos
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
Amandala notes, however, that for the period to which Espat referred, Belize would not be required to make principal payments, and interest payments would ...

GOB gets US$25 million loan from the IDB
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
At the same time the Government issued a press release, informing that the Inter-American Development Bank had approved a $25 million loan to Belize. ...

PRESIDENT OF MENTAL ASSOCIATION TALKS ABOUT THE OBJECTIVES OF THE ...
LoveFM, Belize - 12/12/2006
... possible to confront and deal with mental disorder in a scientific way and alleviate any of the sufferings that we now see in the Belize City streets.” ...

The Universal-KHMH Story
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
GOB is not paying UHS any cash, but has, instead, decided to pay the hospital’s multi-million-dollar debt with the Belize Bank. That also begs the question: ...

Ho, Ho, Ho! Or Ha! Ha! Ha!
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
It’s the Christmas season and the Government of Belize is giving away some big bucks. On December 21, 2006, GOB will give away up to $10000 of taxpayers’ ...

The Babel-onians
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
The capital of the settlement of Belize, on the Haulover Creek delta, has been criticized over two centuries, primarily because it was not a deep water port ...

IDB AND GOB SIGN APPROVAL OF TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLAR LOAN
LoveFM, Belize - 12/12/2006
The Inter-American Development Bank and the Government of Belize this morning signed an approval of a twenty five million U -S dollars loan. ...

FROM THE PUBLISHER
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
There are political leaders in countries like Belize who think that what exists as the status quo, represents a natural, entrenched order of things. ...

UNCAF champions Shane Orio and Puntarenas FC defeat powerhouse ...
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
Congratulations to Belize’s star goalkeeper Shane Orio on becoming the first Belizean to win an international football championship and to do so following a ...

Deon McCaulay, Bernard Linarez to try out for MLS team Chivas USA
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
... Center. According to both McCaulay and Linarez, the connection was made initially by former Belize national coach, Ian Mork. McCaulay ...

Freed Friday, Ricky Aguilar flies Friday
Amandala, Belize - 12/12/2006
... The news came on Friday, December 8, at the Belize City Magistrate’s Court in a directive from the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Kirk ...

Exceptional Commercial Fishermen Receive Conservation Award
Common Dreams (press release), ME - 12/12/2006
... GCFI) presented the third annual Gladding Memorial Award for commercial fishing conservation leadership to Mr. Carlton Young of Placencia, Belize and Mr ...

Thoughts on the late conservationist Steve Irwin and stingrays ...
Egypt Today, Egypt - 12/12/2006
... these creatures each year. My favorite stingray experience was two years ago off the barrier reef in Belize. The dive boat stopped ...

IDB approves $25 million loan to Belize to assist economic reforms
Caribbean PressReleases.com (press release), Barbados - 12/12/2006
... 2006 --- The Inter-American Development Bank today announced the approval of a $25 million fast-disbursing loan to support Belize’s agenda of reforms to ...

CARICOM Secretary General 2006 End of Year Statement
Caribbean PressReleases.com (press release), Barbados - 12/12/2006
... The year started on a very positive note with the launching of the Single Market on January 1 by Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and ...

Nearly 5,000 lawyers have now been regionally trained, women have ...
Stabroek News, Guyana - 12/12/2006
... by an agreement signed by representatives from Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Barbados, Montserrat, British Honduras (now Belize), St Kitts ...

Caribbean Central America Garifuna, Maya and Ladino-Mestizo Music ...
RootsWorld, CT - 12/12/2006
... essential recording projects, past and present, testify to the expressive power of vital but relatively unknown music cultures from Belize, Guatemala and ...

12/11/2006

New US embassy opens in Belmopan
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/11/2006
... And while we in Belize know that no one here harbours such evil intentions, we also knew that it was only a matter of time until the US government replaced its ...

One dead, two injured as gang shootings continue
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/11/2006
Killing with impunity: that seems to be the latest style on the streets of Belize City as young men settle scores and battle for turf. ...

Darnell Barrow wins Alpheus Williams Classic
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/11/2006
... Monday. The 2006 Alpheus Williams Cycle Classic travelled for fifty miles from Belmopan to finish just outside Belize City yesterday. ...

Kiwanis Club donates to charities
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/11/2006
They call themselves the Kiwanis Club of Belize City. And while this might be the first time you're hearing of them, for the last ...

Two acquitted of kidnapping
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/11/2006
A Belize City father and son walked out of court free men this afternoon, cleared of kidnapping charges following their trial in the Supreme Court. ...

NEW US EMBASSY OPENS IN BELMOPAN
LoveFM, Belize - 12/11/2006
... States government today inaugurated a new embassy facility in the Capital City of Belmopan.This new facility replaces the embassy building in Belize City.This ...

MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURSES TO HOLD PUBLIC CONSULTATION
LoveFM, Belize - 12/11/2006
A Public Consultation will take place tonight in Belize City for the Ocean View Grand Development Project. The project is to be ...

BDF AND 156TH LOUISIANA NATIONAL GUARD ARMY BANDS TO HOLD CONCERT
LoveFM, Belize - 12/11/2006
The Belize Defense Force and the156th Louisiana National Guard Army Band will perform a free holiday concert at the Battlefield Park in Belize City tomorrow ...

BELIZE RED CROSS INTRODUCES CHRISTMAS CARDS
LoveFM, Belize - 12/11/2006
The Belize Red Cross has a new selection of Christmas cards on sale. Executive Director Lily Bowman told Love News the cards were ...

12/9/2006

GOB bails out Universal
Amandala, Belize - 12/9/2006
... transaction were forthcoming. Our sources say the Lord Ashcroft bank will receive extensive real estate on San Pedro Ambergris Caye. ...

12/8/2006

Military flight school launched
Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 2 hours ago
... to build. The school officially gets off the ground in February with six pilots (five from Jamaica, one from Belize) on base. The ...

JDF opens military aviation school in Kingston
Jamaica Observer, Jamaica - 12/7/2006
... "We have just completed the training of two officers, one from the JDF and one from the Belize force. The training was conducted ...

Mel's gruesome new movie is racist, say Mayan activists
Unison.ie (subscription), Ireland - 12/7/2006
... tagged for human sacrifice. There are about 800,000 surviving Mayans, mostly in southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. About 33pc of ...

No comment from Smith on Ralph article
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/7/2006
In this week's edition of the Belize Times, his Cabinet colleague, Minister of Tourism Godfrey Smith surmised the pros and cons of Fonseca's candidacy in the ...

Ricky Aguilar walks away from murder case
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/7/2006
In May, the double murder of Kevin and Phillip Brannon rocked Belize City to its core as the crime pitted southside victims against northside shooters. ...

Charges against accused tax thief dismissed
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/7/2006
Twenty-four year old David Longsworth was charged with robbery and handling stolen goods following the armed robbery of the tax office in Belize City on July ...

HOR debates billion dollar bond
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/7/2006
... come with short notice, but the session was not short of debate as both sides discussed the Musa administration's latest attempt of dealing with Belize's debt. ...

Police: 14-year-old caught in gang crossfire
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/7/2006
Homicide detectives believe it was an ongoing rivalry between two Belize City gangs that led to Wednesday evening's murder of the innocent victim. ...

Second round of free testing scheduled for Bze City
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/7/2006
And while it's not the number one cause of death in Belize, the fight against the deadly scourge of HIV is a priority for local health officials. ...

GOB presents five-year health plan
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 12/7/2006
Amid the proposed amalgamation of the KHMH and Universal Health Services, this morning the Government of Belize presented its Health Agenda for the next five ...

Cop extorts $250 bribe in name of Chief Magistrate
Amandala, Belize - 12/7/2006
... Amandala spoke with an officer of Internal Affairs Department countrywide, who said that he knows that Calbert Flowers, head of IAD in Belize District, was ...

Godfrey Smith gives his opinion on Ralph Fonseca
Amandala, Belize - 12/7/2006
... Minister of Tourism and PUP Deputy Leader, who last week began to pen a column called “Flashpoint” in his party’s newspaper organ, The Belize Times, in ...

Clinton Uh Luna – “I have no agenda.”
Amandala, Belize - 12/7/2006
... domination. In our 170 miles long with 68 miles wide, Belize is another thing, mixed under the Spanish and British philosophy. There ...

Alejandro Vernon tells his Hurricane Hattie experiences
Amandala, Belize - 12/7/2006
... I worked briefly in Mexico and Guatemala City. With no vacancies at Belize Airport (Stanley Field in those years), I was posted in Puerto Barrios. ...

FROM THE PUBLISHER
Amandala, Belize - 12/7/2006
... survived until today. The PUP itself, which is Belize’s ruling party, was not always the monolith it appears to be today. The PUP ...

Jesus Ken, is the subject of this week’s Personality of the Week
Amandala, Belize - 12/7/2006
... While some of their Mayan cultural traditions—brought down to Belize by their ancestors who fled the Caste War of the 1840’s—have been lost, some have ...

Muffles College girls and Orange Walk Technical boys win Northern ...
Amandala, Belize - 12/7/2006
... losers. In the second game Orange Walk Technical High School narrowly defeated Belize Rural High School by the score of 50-47. Giovanni ...

2006 Strong and Weak Tennis Tournament and 2006 Hall of Fame
Amandala, Belize - 12/7/2006
The Belize Tennis Association concluded its 2006 calendar of events last weekend with a Strong and Weak Tennis Tournament at the Belize Pickwick Club. ...

Wesley High Boys - Back to Back Champs!!!
Amandala, Belize - 12/7/2006
... Tifarah Swift, arguably Belize City high school basketball’s best female player, and her fellow teammates from Gwen Lizarraga High (GLHS) spoiled the ...

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MEET
LoveFM, Belize - 12/8/2006
... second motion brought from Cabinet is for a bond issue of five hundred sixty five million US dollars that of course is more than one billion Belize dollars in ...

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL ANTI CORRUPTION DAY TO BE HELD ...
LoveFM, Belize - 12/8/2006
Love news spoke with Bobby Lopez of Vision Inspired by the People. “The VIP is really serious on this corruption courts in Belize and we found it strange ...

How viable is a single Caribbean currency? - Part III
Jamaica Observer, Jamaica - 12/8/2006
... At the meeting of the Caricom Central Bank Governors held in Belize in May 2005 under the chairmanship of Governor Sydney Campbell, the conclusion was drawn ...


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