Many in the Belize private sector are hopeful that this Tuesday?s visit of Mexican President, H.E. Lic. Vicente Fox, and his entourage of about 45 high-ranking government officials and influential businesspeople, such as leading Quintana Roo businessman, Mario Felipe Rend?n Monforte, could mean good news for the Belize private sector, anxious to tap into Mexico?s huge market.
He allegedly beat female for her $1,500 gold chain
Leon Walford, 20, a resident of #43 Amara Avenue, is today remanded to prison after police charged him with robbery and harm for snatching a gold chain, valued at $1,500 from a domestic worker, Lucelia Marin, a resident of Belama, located on the Northern Highway, and beating the victim. The incident occurred on Sunday, June 19, sometime around 5:40 p.m.
Walford appeared in the Belize City Magistrate?s Court on Tuesday, June 28, in front of Magistrate Herbert Lord, where he was denied bail.
Amandala was told tonight by police that they had captured a suspect, the reported sodomizer of a 15-year-old boy, and impounded his vehicle - a tinted red taxi van.
The suspect, a man of dark complexion in his early thirties, was captured near the Belize City Center on Central American Boulevard late this afternoon. When the suspect was stopped, it was discovered that there were about five children in the vehicle, between the ages of 12 to 14.
What was once a comfortable working relationship between Glenn D. Godfrey, the former chairman of the Development Finance Corporation (DFC), and Mrs. Narda Garcia, the chief executive officer of the Social Security Board (SSB), has evidently gone sour, as was disclosed in the fifth hearing of the Special Select Committee of the Senate.
At the third hearing of the Committee, Narda told the Senators to ?bring St. James,? meaning Godfrey, to answer the Senate?s questions regarding some misrepresentations that were made on two mortgages, valued together at $17 million, that originated from St. James National Building Society?once a housing development agent of the SSB.
In the 70?s there was a catchy phrase that said, ?What if there was a war and nobody came?? I never really understood what that meant, but then that was the 70?s when everyone was in their ?thing? and could care less where the war was. It was all about partying and having fun.
In this case, we should have asked, ?What if there was a football game that turned out to be a swim meet and you forgot your swim trunks?? The air was thick with excitement and the pitch was under approximately 3?6 inches of water and muck in some areas. Saturday night in the Michael Ashcroft Stadium in Independence
As he walked towards his old school a second time to get a transcript to attend high school, former James Garbutt Primary School student, Maslo Garcia, 16, was the victim of a malicious and dangerous attack by a group of four youths, possibly all minors.
Police say that at around 2:00-2:30 p.m. yesterday, they responded to the report of an attack in an area near the James Garbutt School on Albert Street West, adjacent Lizarraga Meat Shop, where they found Garcia, stabbed in the back.
A fresh crop of Belizean poetic talent was unveiled on Thursday, June 23, 2005, at the House of Culture in Belize City. There, the National Institute of Culture and History (NICH) launched volume 1 of a compact disc and booklet of poems, captioned Poets ?R? Us.
The CD features 13 tracks, led by an introduction from the renowned poet, Leroy ?The Grandmaster? Young. The booklet contains 31 poems on diverse topics such as culture, love, AIDS, and dreams.
In our limited experience with tours, no one has led from start to finish. The previous gigantic battles, such as Ian Smith?s race-long fight against Guatemalan Louis Muc Macu in the 2001 Coca Cola Tour De Belize, where the ?Jed jersey? changed hands four times in an eight day tour, have become staple for us. It came down to a final day upset. Ian put a gap on Macu, melting the 2 minutes 8 seconds lead that Macu was taking in the final day.
June 17, 1972 ? Five men are arrested trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex. Two days later, according to the WASHINGTON POST?S Bob Woodward, Deep Throat confirmed that E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA operative who worked for the White House, was involved in the break-in.
It is some three weeks since Novelo?s began to use electronic ticketing. Although this can be seen as a positive step forward, it is a step taken by leapfrogging over other more urgent changes, ones which should have been made first. The ticketing may be in the computer age, but the buses themselves are still in the Dark Ages!
When you get right down to it, the history of the world has been defined by wars of various kinds. The nationalism of countries like Mexico has been painted in blood, and because that is so, other countries in the world hold their country as something sacred.
Allow me a space in your prestigious newspaper to say how proud I am of the editor and the publisher of your newspaper for the way you all handled the passing of a true ?General, of our time,? General Odinga Lumumba.
Saying that the tide rises and falls doesn?t appear to be an appropriate comment or statement in this case. Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when you hear ?tide?, is the thought of water. Even though water is our most precious resource, for the sake of this piece it?s of little importance. TIDE is the acronym for Toledo Institute for Development and Environment, and based on my experience in Punta Gorda over the weekend, the inaugural season of the TIDE Freshwater Cup will not stop here, but will continue to rise.
Lynn Young, Chief Executive Officer of the Belize Electricity Limited (BEL), told Amandala today that unless the company gets the 14.6% rate increase for which it applied this March, it would be at risk of not being able to pay for the power it is now importing from Mexico.
This would mean that Belize could be cut off from its major power source, forcing indefinite blackouts across the country.
