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Alleged cocaine runners released on $50,000 bails

Alleged cocaine runners released on $50,000 bails

Friday, July 22, 2011 14:02

BELIZE CITY, Wed. July 20, 2011 By Roy Davis Four police officers and one Custom Officer, who have been on remand for about 8 months on a charge of abetment of the importation of a controlled drug by facilitating the landing of ...

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Marketing Board sells sugar to Guatemalans

Friday, July 22, 2011 14:00

San Ignacio, July 19, 2011 Sugar is as scarce as jobs these days, and there seems to be no answer to either problem. But investigations carried out by Plus TV News in Belmopan have discovered that like most crisis in the agriculture sector, the dilemma might be created by our very own ...

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Mayor Simeon Lopez …LIAR, LIAR!

Mayor Simeon Lopez …LIAR, LIAR!

Friday, July 22, 2011 13:58

City of Belmopan, July 18, 2011 UDP Mayor of Belmopan, Simeon Lopez, was caught lying through his teeth when he faced the public during his appearance on a local morning show in the capital city. During the appearance, Mayor Lopez was sweating ...

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Northern Caucus finds strength in unity!

Northern Caucus finds strength in unity!

Friday, July 22, 2011 13:48

Concepcion Village, July 16, 2011 The People’s United Party Northern Caucus held its swearing in for its executive committees on Saturday, July 16th, 2011 at Concepcion Village in the Corozal District. The executive committees for each constituency in the Northern Caucus will ...

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Fostering or Building a Strong Relationship between the Public and Private sector

Friday, July 22, 2011 13:44

Today all of us are feeling the pinch of our bad economy.  Over the past three years many businesses have shut down. On Albert Street alone, 12 businesses were closed down in the past two years.  The effect of this is that today almost a quarter of our Belizeans that ...

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A Cesspool of Corruption at “Marion Jones”

Friday, July 22, 2011 13:43

There is a stink bomb timed to go off that will blow the lid off the cover of a cesspool of corruption in the spending of millions of dollars on the Marion Jones Sporting Complex in Belize City. A buddy-buddy unspoken code of silence that is tightly wrapped in layers of ...

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Ashcroft speaks!

Ashcroft speaks!

Friday, July 22, 2011 13:42

Talks about his personal relationship with PM Barrow, refutes that he has any interest in Speednet Belize City, July 20, 2011 British billionaire Michael Ashcroft has been the focus of Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s self-declared war since 2009, but when the British ...

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Write to the Point!

Friday, July 22, 2011 13:41

We at BELIZE TIMES received a letter purporting to be from the Human Rights Commission of Belize dated July 20, 2011. Now we at this newspaper welcome the many letters, comments and encouragements that we receive each week. We were tempted to simply publish the letter in its entirety but ...

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“From the ghetto streets” – “A Dying Nation Under U.D.P. Sufferation”

Friday, July 22, 2011 13:40

Dear Editor, If you would kindly publish my letter to the people of Belize, I would be grateful. When you think of Barrow, you feel sufferation. Belizeans brace yourself for more destruction coming from this worthless government we call U.D.P. It seems from the time this U.D.P. government got into office back in ...

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Wasted years at BSI?

Friday, July 22, 2011 13:40

Dear Editor, Last night my family and I watched the news with great sadness and dismay as the Prime Minster was interviewed by both of the news stations regarding the selling out of 81% of BSI shares belonging Belize Employee Holding. I have labored at BSI for eighteen years long years and ...

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