Belize Times May 9, 2010

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Sunday, May 9, 2010

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The Belize Times

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Belize Times The Truth Shall Make You Free

SUNDAY MAY 9, 2010

Issue No. 4692

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The UK’s New Prime Minister is...?

means that no Party earned enough to have control of Parliament. According to exit polls conducted by the BBC, T he Conservative Party, also known as Tory Party Leader David Cameron the Tory Party, is expected to win As we go to press tonight, the results of 305 seats, 21 seats less than what is what can only be considered a historic election needed to form the government. in Britain resulted in a hung parliament. That In the United Kingdom, the

House of Representatives, which is officially called the House of Commons, is made up of 650 elected representatives. Much like Belize, for a party to form Prime Minister Gordon Brown the Government and the Leader to become Prime Minister, that seats. In this case 326 seats would be the Party must win more than 50 number of seats that would be needed for any (Continued on page 35) percent of the total number of

Another Krooman Lagoon? Alive and Well...

Kurt & Arecia Mariano were presumed dead in Mexico.

Shortly after April Fool’s Day this year, Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh made a monumental decision in the case of the Krooman Lagoon. Public outcry last year halted the sale of 9.3 acres of land within the Krooman Lagoon near mile 2 on the Western Highway. The go ahead to build a factory on the land had already been given to a Belizean businessman by the Minister of Lands Gapi Vega – the

only problem is that the land had been designated as a reserve because it acts as a catchment area for water from the Collet Division. While Vega tried to play semantics with the word reserve that didn’t work and he had to back off eventually. But the delay in his capitulation proved a costly one, at least for (Continued on page 35)

Rumours spread like wildfire on Wednesday when people in all quarters started hearing about a terrible armed robbery and the murders of possibly four Belizeans who were heading back to Belize from the US through Mexico. The report was that the four Belizeans, car dealer Kurt Mariano and his wife, Arecia, Police Department's Scenes of Crimes technician Martin Rodriguez, along with a fourth victim, Wilfred Burgess, were all held up by armed cartel bandits on the Mexican expressway and then murdered. Burgess

spoke to the media soon after he crossed into Belizean territory on Thursday evening, alive and he said while there was an armed holdup along the most dangerous stretch of highway, it did not involve any of the Belizeans because they had been lucky to get hotel rooms for the {Monday} night. Burgess said that an entire group of 60 Salvadorans were not so lucky and did not get any rooms and had to sleep in their vehicles. All were robbed early Tuesday morning near Tampico. (Continued on page 35)

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