The three are accused of shooting Belama cop in the police station! Karim Morris, 24, of Belama Phase III; Linsford Acosta, 27, of Waha Street; and Elroy Smith, 32, of Belama Phase IV, all of Belize City, appeared this afternoon in the #1 Magistrate’s Court in connection with the shooting of police constable Nigel White, 23, on March 27, 2011 at his place of work – the Belama police sub-station at the corner of Albert Hoy Avenue and Chetumal Street, on the boundary between Phases I and II of the residential subdivision.

Sometime between the hours of Friday and Saturday, two facilities within the Philip Goldson International Airport (PGIA) were looted of valuable items. The total value of all that were stolen has not yet been ascertained, but the police have made successful efforts to recover a number of the items.

“One outstanding French colonial educator, Georges Hardy, worried that the African child taught French begins to live ‘in two separate worlds: the real world from which he has come and to which he is passionately attached by the language of the country; and an artificial world – a temporary existence where he for the time being comes into contact with the French language.’ Most Africans in the schools gained only a superficial understanding of French, and with it a thin cultural veneer. Nonetheless a very small group, destined to become the elite of the colony, developed emotional and cultural ties to France that reinforced the colonial, political ones.”

According to police, Ulrick Willoughby, the proprietor of “Mile 69 Superstore” (also known as Three Flags Supermarket and actually located at Mile 59 on the Western Highway), was called around 3:15 a.m. and told that his establishment was being burglarized.

Kenroy “Kenny G” Mejia, 17, murdered in his sleep... Kenroy Tyron Mejia, 17, an unemployed resident of Belize City, was found in a fetal position lying on his bed with two gunshot wounds in the right temple. It is suspected that Mejia might have been murdered by a close acquaintance of his; there was no sign of a forced entry at the small one-bedroom home where he lived.

It is a fact that we have to eat and drink, wear clothes and live some place, and all of these things cost money, which someone has to provide. The person who provides it has to have earned it himself or got it from someone who has. If none of them earned it then, it must have been saved from previous earnings. There is only one other way for money to be available to pay for these necessities, and that is for it to be stolen. All the ways that money becomes available to pay for our needs are the result of work, except the last. All are productive, except the last. The last is unproductive.

Colonel Novelo had been busy to the south. After his early tour near Lake Bacalar, he had established himself at the crosstrails of Pachmul, surprising Maya supply columns of mules and porters coming from the English depots on the Hondo, columns which had thought themselves safe after skirting the Bacalar garrison. He also followed the established routine, collecting prisoners and raiding for corn. With the larger force and the more strategic position, he attracted his full share of Indios, who assembled against him from the most distant points. Learning of this through prisoners, Novelo sent messengers through the jungle to González camp, about twenty-five miles to the northeast, where they asked for help and a concentration of forces. But there was bad blood between the commanders, and González answered that he had trouble enough of his own. Novelo then recalled his raiders and opened the battle against the massing enemy, attacking their camp on February 22, 1855. The attack went forward too quickly; it was cut off, hacked up, and got back to base with heavy losses. The Maya immediately tightened the siege, and there was heavy fighting for the next two days. On February 25 the Colonel made his final effort, throwing 250 men into a single assault against the barricades. It failed. Obviously, the season was over, and two days later he started his units north.

I decided to add these few thoughts on the subject, in the light of a report on the incident when shots were fired on a building where a family resided and, a child was killed while asleep. Also, as a result of a conversation I had with a concerned citizen.

Jermaine Matura, one of the accused murderers in the homicide of Hellen Yu, a Chinese-Belizean 14-year-old girl who was killed last week, was arraigned in the Magistrate’s Court to face a total of 8 charges of murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, dangerous harm, deadly means of harm, wounding, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery.

The bright, well-loved 14-year-old student was cut down by a gunman’s bullet... Chinese businesspeople today sent an unmistakable message to the government of Prime Minister Dean Barrow – they are tired of the murders of their own by brazen, lawless, savage criminals who kill, seemingly, without compunction, or remorse.