The deceased, Michael “Ham” Young, is alleged to have acted with 2 others still at large... During what police are classifying as a robbery of a Chinese supermarket located in Belmopan on Saturday, September 3, 2011, at approximately 8:55 p.m., a robber was fatally shot.

Credit Union League and Mount Carmel call for patience from members... Reports reaching Amandala are that more than a month after being put under the administration of the Belize Credit Union League (BCUL) and putting a hold on members’ withdrawal from their savings, the Mount Carmel Credit Union (MCCU), based in the town of Benque Viejo del Carmen, Cayo District, and established in 1958, remains in a precarious financial position, having to put on hold requests by some of its more than 2,500 members to withdraw their savings.

The brother of former Prime Minister George Price lived alone on the Northern Highway... On Saturday, April 15, sometime after 9 a.m., the body of Samuel William Price, 84, brother of Leader Emeritus of the PUP, George Cadle Price, was discovered in his home, “Tarpon Cove”, at Mile 5 ½ on the Northern Highway.

Over $200,000 stolen from Heritage Bank in Orange Walk... Ricky Valencia (also known as Valencio), 27, of Queen Charlotte Street in Belize City; Samantha Carlos, 26, of Orange Walk Town; and City residents Harold Valencia (or Valencio), 31, a Lance Corporal in the Belize Defence Force (BDF), and laborer Noel Usher, 30, appeared in court on charges of, respectively, robbery for Valencia, and conspiracy to commit robbery for all four accused. Carlos and Harold Valencia were represented by attorneys Richard “Dickie” Bradley, Marcel Cardona and Merlene Moody; the others appeared without an attorney.

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.