The newly developed Kontiki area, Cayo District, was the scene from which police had to remove the body of Maritza Santos, 19, after she was found dead inside the home of her boyfriend, a well-known resident of Cayo District, Michael Silva, 26.

Edward “Pleck” Buller, 50, of Central American Boulevard, was today sentenced to 16 years in prison by Justice Adolph Lucas in the Supreme Court. Buller was acquitted of murder but convicted of the alternative charge of manslaughter by a jury of six men and six women on September 19, 2011 in the death of Ella Mae Pinnace Bennett, 42, also known as “Gial Gial.”

Rt. Hon. George Price to a foreign journalist on how he would like to be remembered: “A good Belizean, who went through life on a pilgrimage, and left the world a better place than he found it.” (From eulogy delivered by nephew and honorary pallbearer, Dr. John Waight, at Monday’s state funeral)

The victim demands that the company remove photos which she claims her ex-boyfriend maliciously posted. The information we received on an issue arising from the United Kingdom involving a United States based sex-website company that is operating from Belize, suggests that the victim, a woman, residing in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, is demanding that the website remove photos of her which are advertising her as a prostitute.

The Right Honorable George Cadle Price, 92, unfortunately did not live to see the nation he took on his shoulder some 60 years ago, along with others, turn 30 years old yesterday.

BDF confirms incursions - Farmer Arellanos back again... Many Belizeans around the country have been marking the nation’s 30th year of political independence from Great Britain. The People’s National Party (PNP), which was birthed out of Belize’s southernmost district, Toledo, decided to mark this anniversary with a flag-raising near Jalacte, a border village that sees virtually unchecked cross-border traffic with Guatemala, but which has in recent years been in the media spotlight due to illegal incursions by Guatemalans.

Fatal obsession - youth kills married woman, mother of one child... On September 20, 2011, at around 4:15 p.m., the mother of a 7-year-old boy, Nelsi Chuc, was shot once in the neck in August Pine Ridge, a village situated in northwestern Belize near the Mexican and Guatemala borders and about 16 miles from Orange Walk Town, by a man who is said to have had a mad obsession for her.

Today, residents of Belize City empathize with Marcia Argalles, 43, as she mourns the death of her 9-year-old son, Joshua Abraham, who became a victim of a senseless murder after two gunmen sprayed an area of Victoria Street, yesterday, September 21, 2011.

As the Belize flag “climbed up the pole” at the Memorial Park, and the strains of the national anthem could be heard floating over a large crowd of citizens and well-wishers from abroad enjoying a cool September night, the older among them perhaps thought back to September 21, 1981, with the country under a state of emergency, under then-Premier, George Cadle Price, uncertain as to what the future held for the young nation.

“A visionary, a hero, a legend, a giant of a man”... As Belize prepares for its 30th anniversary of Independence on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, the death of the Right Honorable George Cadle Price, 92, two days short of this milestone achievement – Belize’s Independence - has inevitably cast a blanket of sorrow over the festivities.

400 chickens destroyed... Amandalaspoke tonight with Chief Veterinarian, and the Director of Animal Health in the Animal Health Department, Miguel Depaz, who told us that the discovery of the disease was made about three weeks ago in a mixed poultry (boiler parents and brown-shell egg layers) farm in Cuatro Leguas, Blue Creek.

The majority of the citizens of Belize own or use cellular phones from either Belize Telemedia Limited’s Digicell, or Speednet’s SMART services. The reality, however, is that the cell numbers of many customers are not registered, and thus are in no way tied to the identities of their owners.

At press time tonight, the Central American Butane companies, Gas Tomza, Belize Western Energy Limited (BWEL), and Zeta Gas continue to strike against the Government of Belize (GOB) by not selling butane to the country.

Senior Counsel Rodwell Williams, 54, law partner of Prime Minister Dean Barrow in the firm of Barrow and Williams, was shot last May as he exited his office in downtown Belize City.