Marion Jones, 32, ended her 6-month prison term on Friday, September 5, when she was released from a community corrections center in San Antonio, Texas, USA. In January, Jones was also sentenced to a two-year probation after her release, with 800 hours of community service.
For most Belizeans suffering the harsh effects of cancer, the cost of treatment is so prohibitive that early death is the likely end result. In an effort to provide badly needed financial support to cancer patients, a group of Belizeans in New York have recently established the Belize Chemotherapy Organization of New York, Inc.
When the Belize Olympic team passed through Los Angeles on their way to Beijing, China, for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the Belizean community certainly looked forward to hosting them during the brief layover. Preparations were made and a welcome delegation consisting of Consul General Roland Yorke, Mr. Merve Hendy, Mr. Fred Westby, Ms. Verona Burks and Ms. Kim Hernandez were in place; but regrettably, no athletes were in sight.
Belizeans in the major cities of the United States, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Miami, have been organizing into cultural groups for some time now. In New York for the last five or so decades, the National Belize Association has spawned at least a dozen organizations, all dedicated and committed to the cause of promoting and helping Belize.
In a press conference held on Tuesday, July 17, 2008, the Prime Minister of Belize, Hon. Dean Barrow, noted that during the recent oil price negotiations between B.N.E. and the Belize Government, a high point came when big officials in the US came after the Government of Belize.
The seemingly endless legal wrangling spawned by separate efforts by the Government of Belize and the Central Bank, a statutory regulator, to investigate and to reverse the diversion of US$20 million in public funds, entered another chapter this week on Wednesday and Thursday in the courtroom of Chief Justice, Dr. Abdulai Conteh.
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has confirmed that it is levying 113 charges against First Caribbean International Bank (FCIB) for “failure to report suspicious transactions” under the Money Laundering (Prevention) Act.
Prime Minister, the Hon. Dean O. Barrow, leaves Belize today, Wednesday, for New York City where he will participate in the New York Conference on the Caribbean along with other CARICOM leaders. The conference, scheduled for June 19-20, will primarily focus on education and investment, as well as facilitate engagement with the Caribbean Diaspora.
At a meeting on May 16 in San Ignacio, Belize, sponsored by Exploring Solutions Past, the highest authorities of archaeology from Belize and Guatemala met and agreed to joint efforts in order to research and protect archaeological sites along the Adjacency Zone
Prime Minister Dean Barrow left Belize on Friday, May 16, en route for Taipei, Taiwan, to attend the inauguration of the 12th president of the Republic of China on Taiwan.
When we last left the Tourism Village wall case, Brown Sugar marketplace and the Harbour View group of companies were crying foul on the Tourism Village, alleging after Justice John Muria, acting as an Appeals judge on April 23, ruled that he could not grant a stay on the decision of Chief Justice Dr. Abdulai Conteh on April 6 rejecting an appeal from the Village to keep the walls up pending meetings to discuss new security arrangements.
Belize Bank’s principal shareholder and chairman, Lord Michael Ashcroft, KCMG, has been at the forefront of the news in Belize ever since the change of government on February 7, 2008. It is public information that public monies destined for the poor of Belize from Venezuela and Taiwan was diverted, via a complex series of wire transfers, to the accounts controlled by the British Lord to liquidate the private loans of UHS with public monies.
