Canadian company goes to market for ~ BZ$1 million... Contract for area near BNE Spanish Lookout discovery gives company 90% of first 10,000 barrels/day - 10% to GOB.. Other contract where RSM Corp exploration failed gives 85% of first 5,000 barrels/day to Canadian company - 15% to GOB of production revenues
The Belmopan Bandits won their third straight game this past Sunday evening in the ongoing Digicell’s Ballin-4-Life basketball tournament, currently being played at the City Center. As a result of that win, the Bandits now find themselves alone atop the standings with a perfect (3-0) won-loss record. Belmopan got out to a commanding 51-34 lead at the end of first half of play, and so, despite being outscored 50-43 the rest of the way, still managed to hang on for the 94-84 win. Aubrey Lopez had a huge game, totaling 33 pts 7 rebs 3 asst on 10 of 17 shooting from the field.
“The criminal element is very brazen, very aggressive …if we are confronted … we will have to speak to people in the court system thereafter, because they will be shot and killed if they are caught ...” In a press briefing held yesterday, Wednesday, Police Commissioner Crispin Jefferies presented crime statistics for the first quarter of 2010. No cameras were allowed in the briefing.
A recent assessment of activities in the Columbia River Forest Reserve and Bladen Nature Reserve by a committee set up to assess the impacts of work by the Belize Hydroelectric Development Management Ltd.(BHD) has unearthed the looting of two archeological sites in Toledo with “two big holes excavated on the sites.”
Police cite reduction in crime reports, but a nation lives in fear... As Amandala went to press the night of April 8, there had been no murders in Belize City, or elsewhere, since the brutal death of young security guard and expectant father Steven Lopez, 32, who was killed while doing his job at the Scotiabank in Spanish Lookout – and seven persons had been arrested for that incident.
Belizean-American Ian A. Alamilla, 33, of Westmont, Illinois, U.S.A. (a suburb of the City of Chicago), has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder for allegedly strangling his wife Tara, 34, at their home on Saturday, April 10.
Police cannot confirm that shots were indeed fired... Shots are believed to have been fired around 7:55 this morning at the law offices of Barrow and Williams, located on the second floor of a building at #99 Albert Street owned by partners, attorney Rodwell Williams and Prime Minister Dean Barrow, breaking some of the office windows.
As the school year of 1965 began in British Honduras, here I am in St. John’s College Sixth Form with a U.S. State Department scholarship to Dartmouth College in my pocket, and a Jesuit dean to watch every day who has tried to stab me in my academic back. He doesn’t know that I know that he’s a bushwhacker. In fact, the afternoon when he called me out of class to tell me about the scholarship, he put on a big performance as if he were congratulating me and as if he were so glad about my good fortune. He wasn’t giving me any news. I knew about the scholarship two days before. I put on a real Uncle Tom, humble act in front of him. But as the days began to go by, I didn’t want to be on the same scene. I didn’t want to be around this enemy of mine.
I write to correct a misleading headline which appeared on page 3 of the Sunday, April 11, 2010 issue of the Amandala Belize Newspaper under the caption “$7 million payment possible for Jitendra and Leena Chawla.”
I am an American travelling in Belize this month, and I have enjoyed reading your paper from time to time, as I have enjoyed meeting Belizeans from many areas of your beautiful country. I have appreciated your verve and passion on editorial topics.
What are the political issues which can provoke violence among village neighbours? We do not believe there are any such issues which are strictly village issues. The issues which provoke violence in small villages are those which involve warlord/oligarchs at the highest levels of Belize’s two major political parties – the PUP and the UDP. In the case of Nuevo San Juan in the Orange Walk District, those warlord/oligarchs are PUP Leader John Briceño and UDP Deputy Leader Gaspar Vega. So, the villagers of Nuevo San Juan are proxies, or surrogates.
Listen, Mr. Compol, we admire your bravery, and applaud your career success. But you need to understand how your problems with the media began. Your problems began when you were the poster boy for the PUP security response to popular resistance in Belmopan and Belize City, beginning in 2005. In doing your job as best as you could, you made enemies amongst the people. The media were doing their jobs as best as they could, and in their so doing, you Crispin Jeffries, became the poster boy for a Musa/Fonseca government which the people despised for more than three years before they succeeded in replacing them in February 2008. It wasn’t personal on the media’s part: it was business, the same way it was business when you personally took the bull by the horns several times during the popular protests in 2005 and 2006.
Kevin Cassanova and Kevin Lino, two friends, were gunned down while exiting their car... The streets of the City seem to grow more deadly with each passing day; the senseless murders seem to have no end... Last night at around 9:45, at the intersection of Fabers Road and Waight Street, two best friends, Kevin AKA “Head” Lino, 23, a security guard of Dangriga Town, and Kevin Cassanova, 26, another security guard, were fatally shot.
