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Albert Vaughan, new City Administrator
Belize launches Garifuna Language in Schools Program
NATS Committee announces Farmers of the Year 2024
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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.
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.
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.
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.?
Dr. Louis Zabaneh rebuts: I did not push SSB into shark infested waters
Dr. Louis Zabaneh has today responded to a headline article appearing in the Sunday, July 24, 2005, issue of Amandala, titled ?Who gave the $17 million SSB order??
Via a letter dated Wednesday, August 3, Zabaneh said that he was never a director of the Development Finance Corporation (DFC).
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.
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.?
Did Mex navy boat fatally injure Bzean in the Rio Hondo?
A young Belizean is dead, but there is controversy over what actually killed him, and who is responsible for his death. The Rio Hondo River defines the Belize-Mexico border, and it was there, on the Mexican side of the river, that a Santa Clara young man met his untimely death during a day?s outing at the river with his girlfriend, who herself escaped death.
Police bust 50-year-old with 15-year-old in hotel room
On Monday, July 25, Carlos Guardado, 50, a businessman of San Felipe Village, Orange Walk District, appeared in the Orange Walk Magistrate?s Court, where he was charged with unlawful carnal knowledge.
Police were called by an anonymous caller, who had informed them that a man, accompanied by a very young girl, was seen entering one of the rooms of Juanita?s Guest House, located on Santa Ana Street, Orange Walk Town, on Monday, July 25.
Two charged with robbery of Income Tax Department
This morning, Kenroy Espinoza, 19, a laborer of #6 Hibiscus Street, and David Longsworth, 23, a clerk of the Income Tax Department, of Sittee Street, appeared in courtroom #1 of the Belize City Magistrate?s Court, where they were jointly charged with conspiracy to commit robbery.
Espinoza was additionally charged with robbery.
