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BPD awards 3 officers with Women Police of the Year

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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...

Mother to missing Tiffany Mendez, 13: ?Please come home!!?

On Monday, January 10, 2005, Tiffany Mendez, 13, a student of Gwen Lizarraga High School and a resident of Lords Bank Village, left home to go to school, but never made it there.

Today, three days later, her mother, Earlene Garcia, 37, who visited Amandala, is pleading for her daughter?s safe return home.

Mother, 28, 8 months pregnant, hangs herself in Gardenia!

Our newspaper received the tragic news today that a distressed, dejected mother, eight months with child had ended her life, by hanging herself inside her home, where she lived with her daughter, 5, who is now an orphan.

A male family member who is still in shock following the incident yesterday, Wednesday, told Amandala that the deceased, Lavern Williams, 28, had not been emotionally stable since the death of her daughter?s father, who had drowned two to three years ago in Crooked Tree.

8 unions will ?flex? against PM?s new budget!

The National Trade Union Congress of Belize (NTUCB) announced at a militant press conference this afternoon held at the Belize City Center?s conference room that it has gotten a license from the Police Department to picket outside the National Assembly in Belmopan tomorrow.

Tomorrow morning, Prime Minister, Hon. Said Musa, is scheduled to present the 2005/2006 budget in the House of Representatives. Considering that the country?s revenue cannot cover the country?s debt, the unions are speculating that PM Musa would be closing the deficit by raising taxes, or introducing new ones.

Castrate, cut penis off, hang, whip, torture rapists and child molesters!

In recent months, the public?s consciousness of child molestation and rape has been heightened with the horrific tales that flood through the media and society?s grapevine.

In the past two weeks alone, the media houses have reported on the rape of a little girl, 5, by her step-father; a girl, 3, by an acquaintance of her family; and the unfortunate rape and murder of a woman, 21, in Cayo.

UDP ?total failure? ? Hubert Elrington

Attorney Hubert Elrington, who was the UDP Lake Independence representative in the 1984-1989 and 1993-1998 UDP governments, told Amandala today that he would revive The Alliance Weekly, a newspaper that was the official organ of the National Alliance for Belizean Rights (NABR), a party that was formed in early 1992 by Hon. Philip Goldson.

Goldson had resigned from the executive of the UDP in the week of November 15, 1991, after disagreement with UDP Leader Manuel Esquivel and Deputy Leader Dean Barrow over the Maritime Areas Act. He, along with some other members of the UDP, left the UDP and formed NABR.

Corpse of cop, 38, found in Consejo, Corozal!

By yesterday, Wednesday, he had been missing in action (MIA) for two weeks. Today, finally, after a week of a massive effort by the Belize Police Department to find him, along with assistance from their Mexican counterparts, police stumbled upon the decomposing body of Police Constable #878, Morris Martinez.

The gruesome discovery was made shortly before 2:00 this afternoon by a search team that had been combing the Corozal and Progresso areas since last week Thursday in the hope that they would have found Martinez (left) alive.

Three more charged with murder of Nedir Raymundo!

Almost two weeks ago, Police Constable #975 Nedir Esner Raymundo, 22, was murdered in broad daylight in the heart of the old capital, on West Canal Street, and authorities now have four men on remand at the Hattieville Prison, pending trial for the murder.

One man had already been charged, and 12 days after the murder, the Police Department?s intensive investigation into the incident led them to charge three more Belize City men, making the total arrests for the officer?s murder, four.

Hung jury; Mark Gardiner, 24, acquitted of manslaughter!

A jury of 5 women and 4 men deliberated for about 6 hours today, but was unable to reach a verdict in the case of Mark Gardiner, 24, charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of Gregory Batty, 20, which occurred on March 14, 2003, during a football game at the M.C.C. grounds.

Justice John ?Troadio? Gonzalez declared the jury hung and acquitted Gardiner.

Burrell Boom student rape victim, 15, says her family received death threats!

A Burrell Boom resident, 26, is expected to be arraigned in Belize City Magistrate?s Court tomorrow, Friday, on charges of rape, abduction, threat of death and assault in connection with a report made by a female student, 15. The student alleged that he had dragged her away from her home, beaten her badly and then raped her, police said today.

According to the student, who spoke with our newspaper tonight, the incident happened around 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 4.

Delrick Sankey, 24, shot to death at Mile 4, Northern Highway

Former Belizean footballer, Joseph Allan Coye, 49, the fourth child of the late Felipe Coye, a prominent businessman of Felipe & David Funeral Parlour on Freetown Road, and Mrs. Elswith DeShield Coye, is scheduled to be buried tomorrow Friday, after funeral services at 3:00 p.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church on Simon Lamb Street.

Joseph Coye (below) was at his home in South Central, California, where he passed away on Christmas Day, at about 3:30 a.m. He died from throat cancer about six months after he was diagnosed.

Rayford Sanchez, 28, accused of raping 5-year-old

Rayford Sanchez, 28, an employee of a Belize City company on Slaughterhouse Road, Belize City, was remanded to the Hattieville Prison this afternoon after he was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate?s Court #4 on charges of carnal knowledge and aggravated assault.

Sanchez was arrested at 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 4, at his home at #9968 Lacroix Street, Belize City, after a woman made a report that he had sexually assaulted her 5-year-old child in her vagina and anus.

Construction worker stabbed 4 times by ?friend? after all-day spree

George Quintanilla, 26, a construction worker of San Jose Palmar, Orange Walk, has narrowly escaped death. He was stabbed four times with a knife, twice in his abdomen and twice in his left fore arm, and in connection with the incident, at press time, police are looking for one Umberto Vargas, particulars unknown.

Quintanilla told police that the incident occurred at about 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 26, Boxing Day in the Louisiana area, of Orange Walk Town. The area is near San Jose Palmar.

Mother, 18, gives birth inside vehicle on Xmas Day!

It?s the Christmas season and miracles seem to be in the air. The miracle?which occurred not on ?34th Street,? but inside a vehicle on the Southern Highway?was the birth of a bouncing baby girl to 18-year-old Angelica Rodriguez of Farm 16, located about 30 miles from Dangriga, on the Southern Highway.

Rodriguez gave birth to her second child soon after daybreak on Christmas Day, while on her way to the Southern Regional Hospital.

Said shatters Southside!

Amandala?s attempts today to get comment from the Prime Minister, Hon. Said Musa, on the removal yesterday of three prominent ministers (Mark Espat, Cordel Hyde and Eamon Courtenay) from Cabinet were futile. We asked for answers to three specific questions: Why were the particular ministers chosen; why now; and what does the Prime Minister?s Tuesday decision say about his commitment to the plan proposed by these and four other ministers who had formed the G-7 in August, to address concerns about the management of public finances?a sore point for the Musa administration. The Prime Minister is downsizing and he has no other explanation, Amandala was told today by a spokesperson from his office.

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