28.3 C
Belize City
Thursday, March 28, 2024

World Down Syndrome Day

Photo: Students and staff of Stella Maris...

BPD awards 3 officers with Women Police of the Year

Photo: (l-r) Myrna Pena, Carmella Cacho, and...

Suicide on the rise!

Photo: Iveth Quintanilla, Mental Health Coordinator by Charles...

General

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...

Sedi Elrington denies Ralph Fonseca statement

Attorney Wilfred ?Sedi? Elrington told Amandala today that a report that the Minister of Home Affairs, Hon. Ralph Fonseca, gave in an interview to Love FM yesterday, Wednesday, that he, Elrington, received a loan from the St. James Building Society for $763,000, was false.

The St. James Building Society, a company controlled by Glenn Godfrey, has benefited from foreign funds secured by the Social Security Board. The SSB has taken a severe beating over the use of its funds to promote the businesses of ?cronies? of the government, but Elrington, an official of the Opposition United Democratic Party, had been named by Fonseca as one of those who had been a beneficiary of SSB?s largesse.

Oscar Flowers, 29, charged with burglary Magistrate blasts police for denying detainees phone call

A Crooked Tree man who was offered bail late this afternoon at the Magistrate?s Court had to spend another night behind the slammer because his family did not know that he was in police custody. After Magistrate Sharon Frazer offered Oscar Flowers, 29, bail, she asked him if he had anyone to bail him.

Flowers told the court that police had not allowed him to make a telephone call to his family.

Magistrate Sharon Frazer said that she has been observing that many persons are appearing before her and are saying that they have not been able to communicate with family members because police would not allow them to make a phone call after they were arrested.

Uneasy PUP truce ? new Cabinet swearing in today!

For the second time in six days?and since the Social Security scandal broke?the Prime Minister, Hon. Said Musa, delivered a premeditated speech to the nation of Belize that practically ignored the most pressing national concerns today. In his latest speech on Wednesday night, August 18, the Prime Minister took about seven minutes before he mentioned ?social security funds and public finances??and that was all he said specifically about those matters. It was disagreement over these same national matters that had allegedly caused over half of his Cabinet to resign on Monday.

Before the Prime Minister breathed those five key words, he spent minutes talking of peripheral and past matters, and condemning ?false prophets of doom and gloom.?

14-year-old Supal Street boy shot in abdomen at basketball court

The mother of 14-year-old Ryan Alvarez, a first year student of Living Hope High School on Central American Boulevard who was shot once in his abdomen at around 7:30 p.m., on Tuesday, August 17, told Amandala that her son had had a successful operation late this evening at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital.

Ryan was shot while playing basketball at the St. John?s Basketball Court, located at the corner of Kut and Euphrates Avenues. He had almost five hours of surgery when he was taken to the hospital that night.

Denton Kelly gets 18 months for ?borrowing? 6 sacks of cement!

Denton Kelly, 36, a laborer of Mile 8 on the Western Highway, appeared in Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord # 1 Court this morning, and pleaded guilty to stealing six sacks of cement from a house in West Lake Park, located at Mile 8 ? on the Western Highway.

Kelly, after entering his guilty plea, explained to the Court that he was working along with Michael Garbutt and his father.

Missing security guard?s family agonize ? is decomposed corpse found that of Benito Reyes, 43?

The badly decomposed body of a male person was stumbled upon late Monday evening, at around 5:30 p.m. by some children who had gone into a swampy mangrove area to cut ?line stick.?

They found the skeletal remains of a person lying in the mud and immediately the authorities were alerted.

Something fishy going on in the sea at Buttonwood Bay Write a letter, Lands Dept. tells Amandala

Last week, in its Sunday issue of August 15, 2004, Amandala ran a front-page story about an expensive land reclamation project that is taking place in the Buttonwood Bay area of Belize City, where a large part of the sea, at the end of University Boulevard, has been filled in to create lots for a well-to-do and apparently well-connected developer.

In an interview with area representative, Hon. Jose Coye, he told the newspaper that he did not remember to whom the lease for the area in the sea was given.

Amandala celebrates 35 years as Belize?s nationalist voice!

Last Friday evening, August 13, workers and friends of Amandala gathered at our Partridge Street headquarters to celebrate the birth of this newspaper and its committed, nationalistic service to the country and people of Belize.

Thirty-five years ago, on August 13, 1969, the newspaper Amandala began as the official organ of the United Black Association for Development (UBAD). As the changing times surged on, Amandala grew into the country?s leading newspaper, while still maintaining its nationalistic focus and social commitment to the neighborhood in which it is located, providing jobs and opportunities for many persons.

Walking the walk

?When fish come fram riva battam and tell yuh dat alligata gat belly ache, believe am!?

This afternoon, the sudden and unprecedented resignations of just over half of Cabinet?including a Senator and the Deputy Prime Minister?because of dissent over Government?s financial management, have reaffirmed that, ?All is not well in the PUP?s kingdom.?

For several months, this newspaper has been systemically documenting the plethora of concerns that have been coming from various quarters on the country?s financial management, and the effects that Belize?s financial management has had and will continue to have on the local economy. The latest reports have focused on the Social Security scandal, involving the use of the public?s funds for private business ventures.

Cabinet confrontation ends in compromise

The Prime Minister, Hon. Said Musa, appeared to be under so much ?stress? today that for the first time in our recollection, he denied our request for an interview. We wanted the opportunity to probe him on the current national issues and on the threat from seven Cabinet Ministers that they would resign if the Prime Minister did not make some hard and fast decisions about the country?s financial management.

At 8:30 this morning, six Cabinet Ministers?Hon. Mark Espat, Economic Development, Investment, Tourism and Culture; Hon. Godfrey Smith, Foreign Affairs, Defence and National Emergency Management; Hon. Jose Coye, Works; Hon. Cordel Hyde, Housing and Transport; Hon. Servulo Baeza, Agriculture and Fisheries; and Hon. Eamon Courtenay, Attorney General and Foreign Trade?sat down with the Prime Minister and negotiated with him for a total of four hours on a list of 9 demands. About 11:15 a.m., a compromise was reached, and after that preparation of a statement to be read by the P.M., began. The Prime Minister?s terse statement was aired nationwide shortly after 2:30 p.m.

Dividend freeze for BTL?s shareholders

At the 16thAnnual General Meeting of the Belize Telecommunications Limited (BTL) this evening, shareholders were informed that they would be paid dividends of 22 cents per share, and that no more dividends would be paid for at least the next five years.

A shareholder remarked to the newspaper that this has been the lowest dividend payment ever declared since the company?s privatization. The low dividend payment is in spite of the fact that BTL?s revenues reached another record this year, at $123.7 million.

Mystery developers ?acquire? lots in the sea at Buttonwood Bay!

For some poor people, it is difficult to come by a piece of land to call their own. As a consequence of that, many persons living on the Southside of the city have to brave living in mosquito-infested swamps?erecting so-called London Bridges?then wait, for years sometimes, for basic utilities such as running water and electricity.

But in the suburb of Buttonwood Bay, where there are no more available seaside lots, Amandala?s investigation has discovered a massive undertaking of questionable legality?that no one in authority, including the Caribbean Shores area representative, the Hon. Joe Coye, appears to know much about.

New York Park Fest!

Belizean luminaries Mohobub Flores, Chico Ramos, Mobile Malakie will be joined this Saturday, August 14, in New York by Heights of Vibes, Dan Man, and the Dignatariz Sound System, in the person of selecta ?Biggaford? for the annual Parkfest at the corner of 145thStreet and Lennox.

KREM FM will broadcast the event.

Supreme Court freezes assets of Target Data Processing Ltd. and Generic Ltd.

Three applications made by the Government?s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) for restraining orders in respect of three business entities were heard today in the Supreme Court of Justice Adolph Lucas.

The business entities are Target Data Processing Limited, which has its account at Atlantic International Bank; Pegasus Resources Limited, with its account at Atlantic International Bank; and Generic Limited, which has its account at Provident and Trust Bank. All three businesses are charged with money laundering. Two of them, Target Data Processing Limited and Generic Limited, are charged with drug trafficking.

spot_img

Follow us

HomeGeneral