The decision is the first of the newly appointed Appeals Board. Chairman Samuel Awich and members Jeffrey Locke and Jaime Alpuche will now focus their efforts on the Bank’s substantive appeal, which is against the March fourteenth directives of the Central Bank. Those orders had instructed the payment of the Venezuelan monies as well as the details of the monies sent from the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Following tonight’s decision, the Board scheduled the first hearing of that matter for the second of October.

News reaching Amandala around 5:00 p.m. today, Monday, was that Alexander Herrera, 51, had just died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH). Herrera’s death is controversial because while a police report says that an unnamed police officer shot him once last night in the vicinity of the southside of the Swing Bridge around 11:20, presumably because he was carrying “a black handgun,” family members told Amandala that Herrera was shot in the back of his head and in his back a total of four times. They said, even from this morning, that the injuries were so severe that they did not expect him to survive.

July - 2008’s most murderous month! The Old Capital continues to reel under an onslaught of murder and mayhem that began last week Thursday, July 24, and continued over the weekend. The period saw four men killed, four attempted murders, and two bodies found.

4 murders, 2 remains found, 4 attempted murders, 3 home invasions in 5 days

A set of bizarre romantic circumstances culminated in the tragic deaths of two Lucky Strike men yesterday afternoon. Sometime shortly after two in the afternoon, Terrence Herbert, 43, went in search of a man that he had threatened before, that he would kill him for having an affair with his woman.

Referendum to be held early 2009; International court could cost Belize up to $20 million and take 3 to 4 years, says Attorney General Elrington

At press time tonight, three Belizean security guards and their American employer remain in the custody of Mexican officials following a shootout in the early morning hours of Sunday, which occurred on the Belize side of the border.

The budget is almost four months late. Finally this morning, Prime Minister Dean Barrow read the first budget of his United Democratic Party government (2008-2013) at a Special Sitting of the House of Representatives, under the caption, Realizing the Possibilities. What most Belizeans want to know is, what’s in the $825 million budget for them

Police, up to press time tonight, have not found a fisherman, Earl Young Crawford, 27, and his girlfriend, Myrtle Gill, age unknown, reported missing since Tuesday, July 8, from Brown’s Caye, located 9 miles southeast of Belize City. The cay is owned by Walter “Wally” Brown, 76, of a Kings Park address. Police fear the worst – double murder.

6 murders in one week in the Cayo District: Jerson Paguada Hernandez, Angel and Marco Tulio Xis, Nirba Bradley, and now Michael and Donna Hill

Almost every Belize City resident who shops downtown is familiar with Doony’s, at the corner of Albert and Prince Streets, and so news of the sudden and tragic death of the store’s owner, Sunil Chandru Sadarangani, 34, early this morning has left the community in awe. But none more than his relatives and friends, and the close knit Indian community, who are still trying to come to terms with the gripping loss of this young, prominent multimillionaire, who died unexpectedly early Thursday morning.

Lost decision in Court of Appeal in March; vows to keep fighting

Where is the master agreement of July 2005?

CJ rules for GOB & Commissioner of Income Tax