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BPD awards 3 officers with Women Police of the Year

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Suicide on the rise!

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BPD awards 3 officers with Women Police of the Year

Photo: (l-r) Myrna Pena, Carmella Cacho, and Shanice Bevans; BPD Female Police of the...

Suicide on the rise!

Photo: Iveth Quintanilla, Mental Health Coordinator by Charles Gladden BELMOPAN, Wed. Mar. 20, 2024 Since entering the...

NCA launches 8-year Strategic Plan

by Kristen Ku BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 18, 2024 Belize’s aging population, which comprised 6% of...

Belize places Top 40 at Miss World 2023

Photo: Elise-Gayonne Vernon, Belizean contestant by Kristen Ku BELIZE CITY, Tues. Mar. 12, 2024 22-year-old Elise-Gayonne Vernon...

GOB says it will buy back BWS and sell back to Belizeans

The Government of Belize announced on Friday that it would repurchase majority interest in the Belize Water Services from CASCAL B.V., a British/Dutch company, and sell the shares to Belizeans.

GOB said Friday that it would give CASCAL a down payment of US$14.9 million when the share purchase agreement is completed on or before October 3, 2005. The CASCAL shares would then be transferred to GOB. Subsequently, GOB would pay the US$9.9 million balance by installments over the next 4 years at interest of 10% per annum. The money would be paid to CASCAL in US dollars.

Lightning strikes tilapia pond; 15-year-old Wilbur Calderon dies

Tragedy struck in La Democracia, in the Cayo District, around 2:50 p.m. on Tuesday, August 9, when Wilbur Calderon, 15, was struck by lightning and fell deeper into a pond at the Fresh Catch Belize Limited.

According to police?s initial investigation, Julio Sarce?o, 16, a fisherman who experienced a little of the shock of lightning, reported to them that around 1:45 p.m. that day, Tuesday, three other workers were along with him and Calderon, working in the pond, standing in the water during a heavy thunder and lightning storm.

Pawpa Brown hearing continues

Chief Magistrate to make important ruling on Monday

Today, the court hearing for Andrew ?Pawpa? Brown, 39, wanted in the United States on drug trafficking charges, continued before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord, in the Belize Magistrate?s Court #1.

Solicitor General Elson Kaseke today made an application to the Chief Magistrate regarding his ruling on Tuesday, August 9, in which he ruled that he was not going to accept a second affidavit Kaseke had tried to tender through an employee from the Attorney General?s office, Priscilla Banner.

Weird kidnapping charge on girl, 11, reduced to abetment!

In a baffling move, police last Thursday, August 4, charged two girls, ages 11 and 13, with the kidnapping of a 19-year-old youth in April of this year.

The charge provoked public outcry, and today, Thursday, in the Belize City Magistrate?s Court, the 11-year-old had her charge reduced from kidnapping to abetment to kidnapping. The 13-year-old, charged in absentia, had already left the country for her native home, Honduras.

Wild night in Georgeville ? Brit girls say rape; Aaron Juan?s story is different!

Aaron Juan, 24, accused of raping three British teenagers early Monday morning, August 1, has not yet turned himself into police, according to his father, Nazim Juan, who spoke extensively with our newspaper tonight.

According to Juan, he has not seen Aaron, his only son, in a week, nor has he heard from him since last Friday or Saturday?he is not sure. He told us, though, that his son promises that he will eventually turn himself in to police, presumably with his attorney, Hubert Elrington.

Feisty J.P., 54, uses machete on gun-wielding thief

Fifty-four-year-old Justice of the Peace (J.P.), Modesto Madrill, reported to police that around 9:00 p.m. yesterday, Monday, he was inside his place of business, located at #30 Magazine Road, when a male person entered his shop, pulled out a small handgun and demanded money.

Madrill told Amandala that he saw the young man on a beach cruiser slow down and thought that he wanted to purchase something from the shop, but when Madrill, who was outside, reached the shop?s counter, the youth didn?t follow.

11-year-old and 13-year-old girls charged with kidnapping

In one of the strangest cases ever seen in this country, two young girls, 11 and 13, have been arrested and charged this morning in connection with their involvement, police say, in the kidnapping of a 19-year-old youth, one of two young men, the girls say, who had kidnapped and raped them earlier this year, on April 18.

On April 24, after the girls were found in Orange Walk, they told their families that they had been abducted and raped by two young men, ages 16 and 19.

11-year-old and 13-year-old girls charged with kidnapping

In one of the strangest cases ever seen in this country, two young girls, 11 and 13, have been arrested and charged this morning in connection with their involvement, police say, in the kidnapping of a 19-year-old youth, one of two young men, the girls say, who had kidnapped and raped them earlier this year, on April 18.

On April 24, after the girls were found in Orange Walk, they told their families that they had been abducted and raped by two young men, ages 16 and 19.

Ralph Fonseca vs Lanny Davis looks like ?advantage Prosser?!

The Government?s latest maneuver to depose American investor, Jeffrey Prosser, from an influential position on the board of Belize Telecommunications Limited (BTL) by amending the Laws of Belize, and to pave the way for the foreseeable return of British mogul, Lord Michael Ashcroft, may bring serious repercussions for the Government and people of Belize.

Already the Government?s decision to take back BTL on February 9 this year is costing Belize taxpayers US$50,000 a day in fines in the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida. Today, the meter stands at US$6.3 million or BZ$12.6 million.

Ralph Fonseca vs Lanny Davis looks like ?advantage Prosser?!

The Government?s latest maneuver to depose American investor, Jeffrey Prosser, from an influential position on the board of Belize Telecommunications Limited (BTL) by amending the Laws of Belize, and to pave the way for the foreseeable return of British mogul, Lord Michael Ashcroft, may bring serious repercussions for the Government and people of Belize.

Already the Government?s decision to take back BTL on February 9 this year is costing Belize taxpayers US$50,000 a day in fines in the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida. Today, the meter stands at US$6.3 million or BZ$12.6 million.

Egbert ?Jack? Vernon, 25, charged with Princess jacking of $65,000

On July 24, 2005, the Princess Hotel and Casino was robbed when two masked men entered the premises after gaining entry by jumping a fence on the northern side of the compound and walking through a side gate near the pool, to the accounting section of the hotel.

The armed, masked men escaped with $65,000, said police, and not $80.000 had been reported over a week ago in Amandala.

Spanish Lookout oil well producing 500 barrels a day, says GOB

The Government of Belize and Belize Natural Energy Limited announced today that they have discovered substantial crude oil (unrefined petroleum) in Spanish Lookout, Cayo, Belize, though they have not been able to determine whether there is enough oil for commercial production.

Andre Cho, inspector of petroleum, Ministry of Natural Resources, informed the media that BNE began production testing in late July and discovered light crude oil (38 degrees API), which he described as ?the best oil you could have.?

Gerald Bahadur, 56, charged with carnal knowledge of child, 11

A Belize City resident, Gerald Bahadur, 56, an unemployed of #6621 Police Street, appeared in Courtroom #4 of the Belize City Magistrate?s Court, where he was charged with three counts of carnal knowledge and one count of aggravated assault on Monday, August 1.

GOB overspends $112 million in 2003/2004

Minister of Finance, Prime Minister Said Musa, this morning laid before the House of Representatives a bill to approve $112 million more in spending for the fiscal year which ended March 31, 2004?spending that had not been approved by the National Assembly.

The bill, titled Supplementary Appropriation 2003/2004, asks legislators to approve an additional $48.7 million more in spending in recurrent revenue, $23.6 million in Capital II and $39.9 million in capital III.

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