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Teacher found nude, stabbed to death!

San Ignacio police are investigating the violent, mysterious death of a high school teacher who was found dead, with stab wounds in his neck, in his living room in the West and Second Street area of San Ignacio.
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Sex for headache!

Man, 67, tells woman, 31, he could cure her headache – has sex with her twice! Samuel “Cu-Cu” Jones, 67, of Santa Elena, Cayo District, has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison on a charge of rape until Wednesday, August 8, when he will reappear in court.
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Barrow urges Belize Bank to help break impasse

“Pride of place in the financial system of Belize as the country’s largest and oldest bank, also carries a heavy responsibility”... The Belize Bank has a 110-year history, dating back to the founding of the Bank of British Honduras in 1902, and this past weekend, it celebrated its 25th anniversary as The Belize Bank at a gala event held Friday night in Belize City. The main speaker for the event was Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Dean Barrow—an interesting development against the backdrop of a string of litigations that had ensued between the bank and the Barrow administration since 2008. Barrow, in his address, called for “a new beginning.”
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John Chessman, 22, acquitted of third murder charge

He was acquitted of the brutal murder of Mara Naomi Garcia just weeks before he was arrested for the murders of Karen Crawford and Maurice Cadle... Today in the Supreme Court of Justice Adolph Lucas, John Chessman, 22, was found not guilty of the double murders of Karen Crawford, 19, and Maurice Cadle, 44.
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Habet election petition may be headed to Court of Appeal

“Dissatisfied” with Supreme Court rulings, candidate is seeking second opinion, but attorney for respondent wants case thrown out... Claim No. 201 of 2012, Orlando Habet vs. Elvin Penner and Others, an election petition on the result of the March 7 general elections in the Cayo Northeast division, continued in hearings on Thursday and today, Monday.
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Richards, ex-cop, and Matilda Virginia Garnett, clerk, charged with attempting to corrupt an officer

The officer was told that he would be “handled” if he disclosed confidential information... The Gang Suppression Unit’s house raid and long detention of John McAfee made headlines a few weeks ago. McAfee was handcuffed for almost fourteen hours while his residences were being searched for illegal guns.
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Gunmen invade UB ITVET compound posing as students
• 3 students robbed at gunpoint of laptop computers, cell phones and jewelry... One day after the finance officer of the YWCA on St. Thomas Street in Belize City was robbed at gunpoint by a lone gunman who got away with around $3,000 in cash and checks, three students of the University of Belize engineering department were also robbed at gunpoint around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27, while they were in class in the UB building on the ITVET compound on Freetown Road.
CitCo pay-mistress terminated
• Swindled $69,000 from City Hall coffers in two years... CitCo and Central Government audits failed to discover the scam... Effective tomorrow, Friday, March 30, the end of the financial year, pay-mistress for the Belize City Council, Shirlene Sabal, accused of fleecing her employers of $69,586 in 2010 and 2011, will be terminated.
Tyson ran; the cop shot!
• Caye Caulker resident shot by police during drug search... Tyson Rodriguez, 25, a resident of Dangriga, is presently recovering from gunshot wounds to his abdomen at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot by police in Caye Caulker.
Guat prez, Perez Molina, raises eyebrows with daring drug decriminalization proposal
• Belize says discussion cannot advance without the US, the major consumer.... “Let it pass through.... We are getting fed up with what is happening, of the way the consuming nations are not helping us properly,” Belize ambassador to Guatemala recounts from statement by Guat president... Guatemala’s recently installed president, Otto Perez Molina, who was elected on a platform to tackle the issue of the nation’s security, made a radical proposal this past weekend at a Central American Drug Summit, to decriminalize the consumption of drugs now deemed illicit, and also to decriminalize and regulate the transshipment of such drugs.
Stepfather’s beating broke 2-year-old’s leg
• He was found guilty of grievous harm... “…the child is at a high risk of present death if returned to the same environment”... Carldeen Lawrence, 20, was today found guilty of grievous harm against one of his two stepdaughters. The incident, which occurred in June of last year, was addressed by the courts when the verdict was read and a fine was imposed.
Petitions, petitions, petitions …
• UDP strikes at Francis Fonseca – PUP goes after Mark King and Herman Longsworth... UDP’s Chang alleges Fonseca won Freetown by bribery – seeks court’s permission to file election petition; PUP says Longsworth and King have undisclosed contracts with GOB. “By virtue of Section 46(c) of the Representation of the People Act, the election of a person as member of the House of Representatives shall be declared void where bribery was committed...” 58(1)(h) says”...a person who is a manager of a company which is a party to any contract with the government for or on account of the public service and has not within one month before the day of election, declared publicly and in a newspaper circulating in the electoral division for which he is a candidate, a notice setting out the nature of the contract and his interest or the interest of the company therein” is disqualified.
Belize City and the PUP
• In a couple post-general election editorials, we have commented analytically on the fact that the People’s United Party (PUP) defeated the United Democratic Party (UDP) by some 3,000 votes in the so-called Out-Districts of Belize. We have not examined the reasons why the UDP smashed the PUP by more than 5,000 votes in Belize City. This is what we propose to do now
Thomas Charlesworth rails about city traffic
• Imagine this, there is a sign clearly marked on the Northern Highway and by Atlantic Bank. It says, “Prohibited Crossing 7 to 9,” but each and every day there are people who ignore that sign.
A letter from “The Other Woman”
• You may be wondering what debilitating illness or disease may be the culprit of my “looming death,” but after reading this letter from “The Other Woman,” you will understand where I am coming from. I have decided to write this letter with the hopes of finally muting the talkers and educating the ignorant.
From The Publisher
• “In 1789 the French West Indian colony of San Domingo supplied two-thirds of the overseas trade of France and was the greatest individual market for the European slave trade. It was an integral part of the economic life of the age, the greatest colony in the world, the pride of France, and the envy of every other imperialist nation. The whole structure rested on the labor of half-a-million slaves.
EU signs 3 agreements with Caribbean for US$110 million
• Special assistance earmarked for Belize – details to be discussed during April mission... Chief Executive Officer in the Belize Ministry of Economic Development, Yvonne Hyde, the focal point for European Union matters inside the Government of Belize, informed our newspaper today that a mission of the Caribbean Forum of African Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) is due to come to Belize in April, at which time the specifics of the assistance for Belize, under an EU-financed agreement, should be discussed.
Brazen thieves stole boat and sleeping watchman!
• The watchman was sleeping on board a 32-foot Twin Vee Weekender fiberglass boat with two attached black Suzuki 250 HP outboard engines when thieves stole it and towed it out into the open seas. When the boat was being taken away through the canal waterway behind the property of the owner, the watchman was awakened by the movement and he jumped off the boat; the thieves continued towing away the boat and escaped with the prize
Apologies, corrections to “Oscar’s Year,” our Wednesday issue story on Junior Cross Country 2012
• In our lead cycling story in our last issue – “Oscar’s year, Oscar Qurious, Jr. completes sweep with 2012 Junior Cross Country garland” – there were some unfortunate errors in the names we gave for a few of the other top finishing positions.
Big Wire’s farewell ride in Cross Country
• It symbolizes the end of an era, and certainly conjures up nostalgic memories of past glory days, as today the most legendary name among active cyclists, Michael “Big Wire” Lewis announced that this will be his last Cross Country ride in 2012.
FFB “bruk,” but not broken
• FFB Executive promises “new day” for Belizean football... On March 15, 2012, the 14-year reign of President of the Football Federation of Belize (FFB), Dr. Bertie Chimilio, was democratically ended by free and fair elections carried out at the Federation’s headquarters in Belmopan.
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