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Darrel Williams’ family pulls the plug
Posted: 05/02/2010 - 11:09 AM
On Monday night, the Southside of Belize City experienced a series of frightening shooting incidents that have left their tragic marks in the lives of many persons - still traumatized and saddened by the impact of the apparent inescapable, random violence
17 companies contracted to look for oil in Belize
Posted: 05/02/2010 - 10:42 AM
Most of Belize’s 8,867 square miles of territory and much of the waters offshore have been parceled out in petroleum contracts (concessions) to 17 different companies with a range of foreign shareholders from as close as the USA and as far off as Taiwan.
Glenston Martinez, 33, murdered
Posted: 05/02/2010 - 10:41 AM
This morning the city awoke to the tragic news that yet another man had been murdered in cold blood — bringing the total number of shooting victims since only yesterday evening to five and the fatalities to two, with one man clinging to life on a life support machine at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Most of the recent carnage occurred on one stretch of street — Central American Boulevard in its Port Loyola section.
More tax, same bite
Posted: 05/02/2010 - 10:29 AM
BNE reports $652.2 million in crude sales; GOB’s take $151.6 million, company profits $111 million... Serious questions have been raised over the nearly $400 million that BNE has charged in expenses between 2005 and 2009... “I don’t believe that we can do any better...” says P.M. Barrow
Brazen Guate thieves steal $350,000 Works grader
Posted: 04/02/2010 - 09:20 PM
The three attackers tied up operator and took the grader across the border to Guatemala... CEO in the Ministry of Works Cadet Henderson says “no expense will be spared” to recover a 2000 12H Caterpillar open-cap grader, valued at $350,000, swiped from its operation post on the Young Gial Road in the Cayo District on Wednesday afternoon.
Murder conviction rate dismal—available figures say 7%
Posted: 04/02/2010 - 06:45 PM
“Drug and utensil possession” most common reason for imprisonment... Information that Amandala has obtained from the Police Department and the Kolbe Foundation (which manages the Belize Central Prison) signals a persistent trend of extremely low conviction rates for Belize.
“We were screwed!” says BNE oil investor of Ireland
Posted: 04/02/2010 - 06:40 PM
Where there is big money, there are usually huge fights over the wealth. The situation with Belize Natural Energy (BNE) is no exception, as the $600 million plus, which the company has earned in revenues since it struck oil in 2005, has been big talk lately, especially with reports of even more petroleum finds at Never Delay (Cayo) and the upward revision of the Spanish Lookout oil field prospects from 14 million barrels to 20 million.
“Share the wealth!” COLA’s message to GOB!
Posted: 02/02/2010 - 01:27 PM
Protesters focused on Belize’s oil industry... The group Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action (COLA) staged a street protest this morning organized around the Belize oil industry and the perceived inequitable distribution of revenue generated from the millions of barrels of Belize light, sweet crude oil that has been exported.
Sugar isn’t so sweet right now!
Posted: 02/02/2010 - 01:21 PM
The new $126 million bagasse cogeneration facility, Belize Cogeneration Energy Limited (BELCOGEN), sits atop Tower Hill in all its majesty — the realization of a dream that dates back to the 1990’s for some sugar industry stakeholders, but for some cane farmers, today’s multimillion-dollar nightmare.
Neville “Tete” Thomas shot to death in home invasion
Posted: 02/02/2010 - 01:19 PM
Was murder the result of a quarrel over a cell phone? Neville Thomas, Jr., 53, of Orange and West Streets in Belize City, was a U.S. Army veteran and devout Rastafarian who was not known to be involved in the gang trouble and in the other crime and violence plaguing the streets of the old capital.


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More questions than answers in murder of Christopher Galvez, 23
• Galvez’ family upset with police’s behavior; Ministry of National Security appoints inquiry team... The first of four murders in the Christmas season is perhaps the most puzzling. A 23-year-old man with everything to live for went out with a friend, ostensibly on an errand, but ended up dead, leaving his 1- year-old son orphaned and his family grieving.
Jim Baxter, rest in peace
• Jim Baxter died today. His real name and picture are in Sports, sin and subversion. I’m glad now that I got the chance to talk to him before the book went to press. Jim Baxter was one of the football personalities who made the MCC Grounds such a wonderful, exciting experience on weekends in the 1960s and 1970s. He loved football and he lived football.
“Panta” gunned down at family’s apartment during evening news
• Residents of the Ebony and Sarstoon Street area continue to struggle with the crushing loss of a prominent sportsman and area resident to gunfire shortly after the Christmas weekend.
Lusby Martinez, 25, the alleged grenade thrower, is charged with murder
• With his head bent low to avoid the media’s cameras that were focused on him, Lusby Martinez was escorted from the police holding cell to the #1 Magistrate’s Court, where he appeared in front of Chief Magistrate, Margaret Gabb-McKenzie, who arraigned him on a single count of murder and other related charges in connection with the City’s fifth grenade incident that claimed a minor’s life in the Kraal Road area of the city.
Standstill at Tower Hill
• Sugar cane deliveries are again at a standstill today, as things took an unfortunate turn at about 1:10 this afternoon, when the Belize Sugar Industries at Tower Hill, Orange Walk, lost power, reportedly after transformer failure.
Gold, silver, lead at Chiquibul
• Caribbean company explores... Belize, particularly the Cayo District, is being explored for its store of precious metals, such as gold and silver, as well as lead and other associated metals—tin and zinc. How much of these metals are buried underneath the surface of the Chiquibul area in western Belize is uncertain, but a letter dated August 15, 1978, made available to our newspaper recently, suggests that there may be more “wealth untold” in The Jewel than Belizeans know.
From The Publisher
• I asked four of UBAD’s former officers to sit with me on New Year’s Day morning. These were Galento X Neal, Ismail Shabazz, Rufus X and Wilfred Nicholas, Sr. These men had joined with me in hosting Norman “Imamu” Fairweather, another former UBAD official, at a dinner in September last year. (Norman lives in New York.) I reported to you on that September reception, pointing out that it was of a social rather than an organizational nature.
In remembrance of Arthur Innis Barrow
• Mr. Arthur Innis Barrow, Senior Pharmacist of the Ministry of Health, was the son of Ebenezer Oliver Bunting Barrow, an able public officer in British Honduras, and his wife, Iris, the first lady of the south side, whose love and devotion to her family and neighbours calmed the rambunctious and disorderly conduct of the visitors of the famous “Water Lane,” and the charming and beautiful neighbours on both sides of the canal.
Female lawyers battle for Belize
• While the men lawyers line up to follow di money, women lawyers in Belize battle for justice. Add the name of Mrs. Audrey Matura Shepperd alongside Ms. Lois Young (the battle for BTL), Ms. Antoinette Moore (the battle for the rights of our brothers and sisters in Toledo), and Mrs. Candy Gonzalez (the battle for clean water, and the rights of river dwellers).
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