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The AccusedJerome Tillet, 30

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SAN IGNACIO, Cayo, Monday,February 17, 2013: A Ministry of Works truck driver,charged with the attempt murder ofhis sister’s estranged common lawhusband, is currently on remand at thecentral prison in Hattieville. The 911 call of a chopping incidenton Maxi Street in Santa Elena, Cayo,was reportedly received by SanIgnacio police at 8:45 pm onSaturday, February 16, 2013. By the time the team of policemenarrived on the scene, the injured manhad already been rushed, by relatives,to the Community Hospital in SanIgnacio. On the scene however the policeencountered and detained the suspect,Jerome Tillet, 30, Belizean driveralso of a Maxi Street address in Santa

Elena. The police then rushed over to thehospital where they encountered theneighbor, Aaron Castillo also 30,undergoing emergency medicaltreatment for three large cut wounds:one to the left arm which almostsevered the wrist, another to the backof the head and the third to the lefthip. The injuries were classified by the

attending physician as dangerousharm. The injured man was kept at thehospital overnight and the followingday, Sunday, February 17, he wastransported to the Karl HeusnerMemorial Hospital in Belize City forfurther medical attention. The investigation revealed the

The AccusedAlex Reid, 24

The AccusedAkiesha Anderson, 24

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SAN IGNACIO, Cayo, Monday,February 20, 2013: Last week we reported on theviolent attack upon San Ignacio Taxidriver, Pedro Choc who remains incritical condition at the Karl HeusnerMemorial Hospital in Belize City. This week we report on the arrestof the suspected attacker AlexAnthony Reid, 24, Belizean laborerresiding in Cotton Tree Village aroundmile 44 on the George PriceHighway in the Cayo District. Police strongly suspects that Reidis the man who whopped the taxidriver with a piece of wood behindthe head. Reid, who is no stranger toSan Ignacio, was picked out in anidentification parade by both thebrother and son of the victim. Slapped with an attempt murdercharge, the accused Alex AnthonyReid appeared in front ofSan Ignacio’s magistrate, NardaMorgan, where the indictable

charge was read to him. Being amatter for Supreme Court hearing, noplea was entertained. Reid wasremanded to the central prison inHattieville with instructions tobe brought back to court onWednesday, April 24, 2013.

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estranged common law wife wasvisiting her brother the accused andthat she sent the two children sheshares with the victim over to theneighboring house to visit their fatherwhile she spent time with her brotherand his family. It is reported that whenit was nearing the time for her to catchthe last bus heading out of town, sherequested for the children to return.The request reportedly sparked aconfrontation between the estrangedcouple. It is reported that the verbalexchange escalated when the victimallegedly returned in the company ofa male friend with whom he told themthat he would return. The two menreportedly walked over into the yardof the accused and reportedlypunched the accused in the face. Theaccused reportedly rushed over to hiscar which was parked nearby, opened

Jerome Tillet RemandedFor Attempt Murder

From Front Page the trunk, pulled out a machete andallegedly inflicted the first chop woundwhich caught the victim on the lefthand. Notwithstanding the injury,the victim reportedly continuedthreatening to kill the accused and hisfamily. The death threats reportedlyinfuriated the accused who rushed tothe victim and inflicted the next twochop wounds. The investigation subsequently ledto the arrest and the formal chargingof the accused Jerome Tillet onsingle attempt murder charge. The accused was arraigned onMonday, February 19, in the SanIgnacio courtroom of magistrateNarda Morgan where the indictablecharge was read to him. Due to theindictable nature of the crime theaccused was remanded to the centralprison in Hattieville. The case wasadjourned until Thursday, April 4,2013.

COROZAL TOWN, Sunday,February 17, 2012: Four months of rigorouscampaigning climaxed today at theAndres Campos Civic Center inCorozal on the occasion of the UnitedDemocratic Party’s NationalConvention 2013.

U.D.P Poised ToWin A Third Term

While thousands of UDP support-ers, from every corner of thecountry, converged on theconvention site, the focus was on theParty’s 566 delegates from all 31constituencies along with electedmunicipal officials, senators andmembers of the Party’s CentralExecutive each with one vote to castfor the candidate of their choice to fillthe three contested positions of FirstDeputy Party Leader, Party Chairmanand Deputy Chairman of the Party. On this occasion the incumbentFirst Deputy Leader of theParty/Deputy Prime Minister, Hon.Gaspar Vega faced a challenge fromthe incumbent Party Chairman/Minister of Education, Hon. PatrickFaber. The Gaspar Vega slate, dubbed the“Unity Team” included AlbertoAugust contesting the post ofChairman and Fern Guiterrezseeking election as DeputyChairman while the Patrick Faberslate included former DeputyChairman, Roosevelt Blades andBelize City Councilor, RogerEspejo. After the votes were counted theHon. Gaspar Vega, with 331 votes(58.48%), was re-elected to serve as

New Chairman Of The United Democratic Party,Alberto “STAR” August

First Deputy Leader of the Partywhile the Hon. Patrick Faberreceived 233 votes (41.16%). Therewere two spoilt ballots in this contest. For the post of Party Chairman,Alberto August, with 379 votes(66.96%), was elected to serve asthe new Chairman of the United

Democratic Party as he defeated theincumbent Deputy Chairman of theParty, Roosevelt Blades, whogarnered 183 votes (32.3%). Therewere four spoilt ballots. In the third contested position,Punta Gorda Town Councilor, FernGutierrez, with 378 votes (66.78%)defeated Belize City Councilor,Roger Espejo, who received 180votes (31.8%). There were 8 spoiltballots. Rounding off the five top positionsin the Party, Prime Minister DeanBarrow and the Hon. ErwinContreras were overwhelminglyendorsed as Party Leader andSecond Deputy Leader of the Partyrespectively. Other highlights of the day’sevent included the Party’s positionon Crime, Youth and Women as wellas a declaration on the October 6,2013 referendum on the issue of thetaking of the Guatemalan claim toBelize, to the International Court ofJustice. Despite the over 8,000 UDPsupporters in attendance theconvention was peaceful as Partysupporters seized the opportunity ofinteract with each other in the spirit ofunity within the Party.

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Murderous trade The head of Interpol's environmen-tal crime programme, DavidHiggins, said the raid, dubbed"Operation Lead", was just the firststep in the organisation's fight againstthe illegal timber trade. He said the international nature ofthe trade made prosecutions difficult,but that in the long term Interpol wouldtry to help countries apply the law ina more uniform manner.

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trafficking. Over the past years, dozens ofanti-logging activists have been killedin Brazil in attacks believed to be

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Preliminary results of the generalelection on the Caribbean island ofGrenada suggest a landslide win forthe opposition New National Party(NNP). Election supervisors said thepreliminary figures showed the NNPhad won all 15 seats. The governing National DemocraticCongress admitted defeat. If the results are confirmed,Keith Mitchell, who servedthree terms as prime ministerbetween 1995 and 2008, will returnto power. The main theme during the electionwas the economic crisis. Grenada has a 30% unemploymentrate and the Caribbean Development

Mexico Security Forces Colluded In Disappearances The pressure group Human RightsWatch says Mexico has failed toproperly investigate human rightsabuses committed by the securityforces. The group has documented almost250 disappearances during the termof former President Felipe Calderon. It says evidence suggests that inmore than half of the cases thesecurity forces participated eitherdirectly or indirectly in the disappear-ances. HRW has called on the newgovernment to find the missing.

'Arbitrary detention' In a report published onWednesday, HRW says "stateagents participated directly in thecrime [of disappearances], orindirectly through support andacquiescence" in more than 140 ofthe cases they investigated. In the remaining cases, theirresearchers were not able todetermine whether state actors mayhave participated. HRW says the majority of the casesof enforced disappearances itinvestigated followed a pattern, inwhich members of the security forces"arbitrarily detain individualswithout arrest orders or probablecause". "In many cases, these detentionsoccur in victims' homes, in frontof family members; in others, theytake place at security checkpoints,at workplaces, or in publicvenues, such as bars," the reportalleges. The report says that theadministration of former PresidentCalderon ignored the mountingproblem and failed to take steps toaddress it, thereby contributing to itbecoming "the most severe crisis of

enforced disappearances in LatinAmerica in decades".

Nationwide efforts An estimated 70,000 people arebelieved to have been killed in Mexico

Relatives of the disappeared have been marching acrossthe country to demand the authorities do more to find

the missingsince December 2006, when MrCalderon came to power anddeclared war on the country'spowerful drug cartels. Mr Calderon deployed the army in

an attempt to curb the violence, buthuman rights groups say the levels ofhuman rights abuses against civilianshas risen as a result. Mexico's interior ministry has notyet commented on the report. Human Rights Watch says ithopes the administration ofPresident Enrique Pena Nieto willdevelop a national strategy totackle the growing number ofdisappearances. According to HRW, the creation ofa national database documentingdisappearances and unidentifiedremains would be an invaluable toolfor investigators and relatives tryingto trace the missing. Shortly after coming to office on 1December 2012, Mr Pena Nietoannounced the creation of a newnational police force which he saidwould be better trained and betterequipped to fight crime.

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Bank recently warned Grenadathat it had unsustainable debt levels. During his campaign, Mr Mitchellpromised to make job creation hispriority. After the preliminary results camein, catapulting his party from foursseats to 15, he said he would alsostrive to unite the country. "The victor is the one who hasto reach out, the one who lostcan't be expected to reach out;national unity will be a seriousplatform," he said. He asked Grenadians "to havepatience" with the new government,and to give it a chance to implementpolicies he said would revive thestalled economy. The country has been struggling torecover from major destructioncaused by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Dozens of people were killed and90% of the island's buildings weredestroyed. Grenada's main exportcrop, nutmeg, was also devastated.

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ARIES:March 22 to April 20

Work that could advance youprofessionally could take you awayfrom loved ones and cause someemotional tension. You might feeldown because you would rather bewith your loved ones but feel it'simportant to move ahead now. Tryto make up for it with some qualitytime. It's crucial to make the mostof the current planetary positions.Everyone will be glad when you seeresults. Lucky numbers: 50, 66,95.

TAURUS: April 21 to May 21

A task, perhaps job related orperhaps one of your own, might proveweightier than you expected. You areworking too hard and you could befeeling tired and dejected. Exactlyhow crucial is it to get this done rightnow? If it isn't vital, get as much doneas you can without compromisingyour well-being. Do the resttomorrow. The world won't end ifyou take another day. Luckynumbers: 12, 27, 43.

GEMINI: May 22 to June 21

Someone, perhaps a personinvolved with a group you are in, mayask you to help in some way thisweek. You probably don't want to doit, possibly because you have plans.Don't be afraid to say no. Yourcreative energy should be high andyour imagination working overtime,but other responsibilities interfere withyour doing anything about it now. Noteyour ideas and come back to themlater. Lucky numbers: 05, 46, 83.

CANCER:June 22 to July 23

Career developments could lookpromising now and you might be in a

Your Weekly Horoscope and Lucky Numbershurry to finish whatever needs to bedone. But responsibilities to homeand family might interfere. For somereason, you might have to stay home.Perhaps you experienced someintense dreams that you feel aresignificant but you can't rememberthem. If you stop trying to remember,they may come back to you. Luckynumbers: 16, 34, 77.

LEO:July 24 to August 21

Some rather depressing informationcould come to you this week from faraway. This is less likely to be aboutyour immediate situation or circle offriends than it is about somethingsocial or political in nature. It'sprobably the subject of a lot of talkaround you. You might need to runsome errands in your community, butfor some reason you can't. Relax.Tomorrow should be fine. Luckynumbers: 09, 31, 85.

VIRGO:August 22 toSeptember 21

You have been working hard toimprove your financial situation. Youmight be on the verge of attaining whatyou want, but temporary obstaclescould get in your way. You could bein a bit of a panic, wondering if thismeans you will never get where youwant to be. Don't worry. That isn't thecase. You just need to assess thesituation and figure out what to do toget over this hurdle. Lucky numbers:23, 49, 91.

LIBRA:September 22to October 23

A partner might be feeling ratherdown and need you to cheer him orher up. Too many social invitationscould come your way this week. You

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This week you might enjoy planningto have some visitors stay withyou for a while. Worry about devel-opments on the job or unfinishedchores of your own might have youfeeling a bit stressed and under theweather. You need to look at yoursituation objectively. It isn't all thatbad, just something that needs to bedone. Get it handled and then rewardyourself somehow. Lucky numbers:18, 36, 72.

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December 21 A friend could be depressed andneed your advice. Some long-held,cherished goals that you have beenworking toward could be temporarilyblocked, causing you to wonder if theywill ever come to fruition. Don't wasteany time lapsing into negative thoughts.Assess what needs doing and do it.This is only a temporary situation. You

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AQUARIUS:January 21 toFebruary 19

This week you might need to runsome errands but they might provedifficult for a number of reasons. Theerrands could be personal or businessrelated. Communication may betemporarily blocked. Messages maynot be delivered or you could beplaying phone tag. On days like this,you need to make a special effort tokeep cool. Nothing is so importantthat you have to drive yourself crazy.Lucky numbers: 13, 32, 65.

PISCES:February 20to March 21

You might reflect on recentsuccesses in business and money andsuddenly feel a strong sense of gloom,wondering if it's going to continue.Don't panic. It isn't a vision of thefuture. It's only a temporary feeling.Work it off through exercise or throwyourself into a task. Meditation couldalso help. Get the endorphins goingand your optimism and enthusiasmshould return. Lucky numbers: 21,54, 79.

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The expedition, funded by theNatural Environment ResearchCouncil, is being run from a Britishresearch ship, the James Cook,named after the 18th century explorerwho blazed a trail of discovery aroundthe Pacific. Now the ship bearing his name isusing the latest technology to open upand understand an underwater worldof eerie landscapes and unusual lifeforms. A live stream of video is relayedback to a control room onboard - where a cheer went up whenthe ROV's lights and high definitioncameras picked out the new ventsamid total darkness. The team had been looking for aset first identified a year ago but theirsearch took them unexpectedly intoan entirely new field. The tallest of vents reaches about10m. The chief scientist, Dr Jon Copleyof the National OceanographyCentre, said the discovery of"astounding mineral spires" wasa "complete surprise". "We initially thought it was asite we'd been to before but itlooked so different we thought ithad changed. But eventually we

David Shukman joins researchers examining the sea bedrealised it looked different becauseit was different," Dr Copley toldBBC News. "The beauty of working in thedeep oceans is that you're alwaysstumbling over things that arecompletely new. "It's teaching us how little weknow and for a few minutes it'snot about the science, it's aboutthe wonder of the planet,something that's been hidden forso long." The ROV remained on station fornearly 24 hours - a typical length fora dive - before being returned to theJames Cook bearing samples ofwater and wildlife. For the biologists on board, the

vents act as a highly unusual habitatwith a massive contrast between thewater from the vents measuring justover 400C, compared to thesurrounding sea temperature ofaround 4C. The narrow interface between thetwo extremes of water - sometimesas narrow as a few centimetres -provides a unique environment for anarray of creatures. Ghostly-white shrimp - clustered onthe rocks in teeming crowds - appearto have lost the ability to see becausetheir eyes are fused together. Verity Nye is one of the research-ers studying the blind shrimp, broughtup in the ROV's containers, filled atthe seabed. "We don't think they havefunctioning eyes but they have areally unusual organ on theirbacks which is like a warningsystem for them to tell them whenthey're getting too hot so theydon't get too close to the hotwater from the vents. "But we really don't knowhow life operates down there sowe're still trying to understandit." According to Dr Copley, theexpedition has already yielded findsthat are likely, after lab analysis backhome, to prove to be new speciesincluding a white anemone andstarfish.

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Investing In The Caribbean

By Joseph Doway Someone asked me this week,where are investors all flocking tocertain islands or regions within theCaribbean, and neglecting others. Myanswer was simple. Kudos to thegovernment and the people of thosecountries that accept change anddevelopment. As advisors toinvestors and developers of hotels andresorts in the 2006 to 2009 period,we were always asked to do studieson the destinations where thesedevelopments were to take place. Consistent and transparent policieshold the key to economicdevelopment of any country or island,which then help to boost its efforts toattract foreign investment. Local participation is anotherfactor, since there are fewer bankslending to the sector and those thatremain have tightened their lendingrequirements. Many of those withouta physical presence in the region haveretreated from the market completely.The market is now seeing an increasein hotel and mixed-use projectreceiverships and restructurings asbanks exercise their exit options. Wehave had to make presentation onmany distressed properties in theregion. These properties slowly go outof business due to (a) high energycost; (b) stressful union interference;(c) lack of airlift and (d) lack ofsupport from government officials. But some countries in the Caribbeanand beyond are able to attractinvestors and financiers to their shores.St Kitts and Nevis has two majormillion dollar projects on stream, whileThe Bahamas already started the $3.5billion Baha Mar resort. Grenada hassecured financing for a major resortand investors are looking to go intoDominica and St Lucia to developprojects there. The majority of thesuccess is due to the participation ofthe people to partner, their willingnessto recognize job creation and the factthat the investors are comfortable withthe arrangements. Investors are now looking for trans-parent business policies and a properlegal structure. There are signs thatthis is under way, with internationallegal and accountancy companies

helping drive greater transparency.Investors play hardball with theirmoney and it make take years ofnegotiating before the final Letter ofIntent is signed. After all, it is theirmoney.

There is a need for public-privatepartnerships (PPPs) that could play akey role in bringing the private sectorcentre stage in any country’seconomic expansion, particularly withthe country's plans to drive forward anumber of major infrastructuralprojects. Concerns about investmentenvironments and perceptions ofpolitical risk often inhibit foreigndirect investment, with the majority offlows going to just a handful ofcountries and leaving the world'spoorest economies largely ignored.The Multilateral InvestmentGuarantee Agency (MIGA)addresses these concerns byproviding three key services: politicalrisk insurance for foreign investmentsin developing countries, technicalassistance to improve investmentclimates and promote investmentopportunities in developing countries,and dispute mediation services, toremove possible obstacles to futureinvestment. Investors want protection as well asvery little friction from legal agencies,some of which may be consideredharassment to foreign investors andhow they are derived. Countrieswhere foreign investors have been putto task or mistreated by governmentofficials receive very little preferenceor consideration in the scheme of

things. The Caribbean is in considered agem to the investor who wants todevelop a business, but with thatconsideration comes the fear ofbeing taken to task, or being

considered smarter than the natives.The populace is slightly bendingtowards the acceptance of foreignmoney, because it brings job creationfrom construction to day to daymanagement, procurement of goodsand services and the like. But don’t expect miracles, saidexecutives participating on the“Caribbean Gone Global --International Investors” generalsession panel during last week’sCaribbean Hotel Investment Confer-ence and Operations Summit at theAtlantis Resort, Bahamas. Whileinvestors welcome the opportunity todo business, there are a number ofother challenges in the Caribbeanbeyond finding the actual financingpiece of the puzzle. Charalambides said there are twoother primary obstacles for foreigninvestors looking at the region.“Everything takes a long time toget done -- it takes two to threetimes longer than in maturemarkets,” he said. “It’s very nicefor holidays but the region istough to do business in.” “The other challenge is keepingyour costs down” when develop-ing a hotel, he added. “We’respending a lot more time in valueengineering and making sure weget the supplies from the rightplace.”

It was said that Caribe buildsidentical rooms in every market itenters, but the Caribbean’sgeography makes it a difficultproposition. He said building a hotelin Jamaica, for example, costs 40%more than it does to build the samehotel in Mexico. It was also mentioned that the lackof airlift also is an issue. “To get to a destination you have tochange two or three planes,”Charalambides said. “It’s verydifficult to create residentialresorts that way.” During my working period in TheBahamas, people in the Caribbeanwould always say to me they adoreThe Bahamas, but they do not have avisa to travel via Miami. It takes justabout six hours to travel from Nassauto Antigua. That is due to the layoverin Miami. I always wonder why not aflight four times a week to SantoDomingo or Haiti. One can then flyfrom either location to The Bahamas. Investors are looking for marketswith good cash-on-cash return and along-term hold. “The secret formula in theCaribbean is finding localpartners,” said John Keith,managing partner for San Jose, CostaRica-based Caribe Hospitality, whichhas a goal of developing 20 to 25hotels throughout Mexico, CentralAmerica and parts of the Caribbean.The properties will be operated byMarriott International when they areopen; the company has developedfive Courtyards by Marriottproperties thus far. The Chinese are emergingtravellers that will target theCaribbean -- especially if the countrycontinues to provide investment intothe region. Hence the reason for theBaha Mar project in Nassau. One canfly directly from China into Miami andthen to Nassau. With a new airportstructure, a possibility of direct flightsis not far away. While the majority of Caribbeanpeople have been consuming Chinesefood for years, there is always theconcern of the influx of Chinese inrecent years. There’s a tremendousamount of wealth creation in Asia thatis bound to stimulate travel. Let’s notforget that the Asians come in withtheir money and they purchasewhatever the locals will sell them.Nobody seems to have a problemwith Asian money, so the Caribbeanneeds to capture a small share of thatmoney and continue to expand. On a particular Caribbean island,there has not been one single resortdevelopment since 2009. Resortswere started and were forced to stopdue to the downturn of the worldeconomy. Hotel plants are now whiteand yellow and blue elephants.Instead of the government addingthese properties in a stimulus pack-age, they introduced all sorts of legal



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Haiti's 'Baby Doc' Duvalier Bids To Avoid Court

Jean-Claude Duvalier ruled Haiti from 1971 to 1986

Haiti's former ruler has filed alast-minute appeal with the SupremeCourt to avoid appearing in courton allegations of crimes againsthumanity. Jean-Claude "Baby Doc"Duvalier was due to attend ahearing in the capital, Port-au Prince,on Thursday afternoon or face arrest. The ex-leader, who returned toHaiti in 2011 after 25 years in Frenchexile, has already missed twohearings. He denies all charges, with hislawyers saying the case should bethrown out. Mr Duvalier's chief counsel,Reynold Georges, earlier toldjournalists that the ex-president wouldnot attend Thursday's hearing. Human rights groups say hundredsof political prisoners died fromtorture or were murdered under MrDuvalier's rule from 1971 to 1986. His unexpected homecoming twoyears ago prompted the Haitianauthorities to open an investigation. In January 2012, a court decidedMr Duvalier should stand trial forembezzling public funds but ruled thatthe statute of limitations had run outon charges of murder, arbitrary arrest,torture and disappearances. However, Amnesty Internationaland the Open Society JusticeInitiative said the former leader "mustnot evade justice" for crimes againsthumanity.

'Dictator' gibe The court in Port-au-Prince ishearing an appeal by victimschallenging the January 2012 rulingregarding the charges of human rightsabuses. If Mr Duvalier attends, he will facehis alleged victims for the first time in

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country that the judiciary is biased infavour of the rich, he adds. The appeal court already orderedMr Duvalier twice to appear toanswer the charges - once on 31January and again on 7 February. A judge ruled the ex-leader would

be arrested if he did not turn up onThursday. Responding to Mr Duvalier'slast-minute appeal, a lawyerrepresenting some of the allegedvictims said: "Duvalier is trying tocontrol the justice system like hedid when he was a dictator." Amnesty International and HumanRights Watch are observing the casein the capital. Jean-Claude Duvalier was just19 when he inherited the title ofpresident-for-life from his father,Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier,who had ruled Haiti since 1957. Like his father, he relied on a brutalmilitia known as the TontonsMacoutes to control the country. In 1986 he was forced from powerby a popular uprising and USdiplomatic pressure, and went intoexile in France.


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Hugo Chavez Returns To Venezuela After Cuba Cancer Care

Information Minister Ernesto Villegas: "He's back!Bravo! Commander Chavez has returned"

Venezuelan President HugoChavez has returned to the countryafter receiving treatment for cancer inCuba. In three messages posted onTwitter, Mr Chavez, 58, thankedCuban President and ex-leader Rauland Fidel Castro. He also thanked Venezuelans fortheir support and said he wouldcontinue treatment in his homecountry. He has been president for 14 yearsand was re-elected for anothersix-year term in October 2012, buthis swearing-in was delayed becauseof his illness. Mr Chavez went to Havana forsurgery on 11 December, his fourthoperation in an 18-month period forcancer first diagnosed in mid-2011. Last week the first images of himsince the operation were broadcastby Venezuela's government. He was pictured smiling as he lay inbed reading a newspaper, with his twodaughters by his side.

Thanks and praise Mr Chavez announced his return toVenezuela to his 3.9 million Twitterfollowers in a series of tweets thatwere bombastic in tone but short ondetail. "We have arrived back in theland of Venezuela. Thank you

Lord!! Thanks to my belovedpeople!! We will continue ourtreatment here." There was no information aboutwhen or why he returned, and nodetails about whether he wouldactively take up the duties of office. He is yet to be sworn in for his newterm, and doubts remain aboutwhether his health will allow him toreturn to active politics. Instead he thanked Cuba's leadersand people and said he hadconfidence in his doctors. "Onwards to victory!! We willlive and we will overcome!!!" hewrote in his final tweet. Local media quoted Vice-PresidentNicolas Maduro as saying that Mr

Chavez landed at 02:30 local time(06:30 GMT) before beingtransferred to the Military Hospital inCaracas. State TV later confirmed his return,proclaiming the president's repatria-tion in joyous terms: "He's back!Bravo!" said one presenter."Commander Chavez hasreturned!" Those sentiments were echoed onthe streets of Caracas, wheresupporters headed towards thehospital and the central Bolivar

Square. Waving banners and carryingportraits of their idol, the crowds ofred-clad "Chavistas" spoke of theirhero in similar terms: "We're allChavez" , one man told theAssociated Press. The extent of Mr Chavez's illnessis shrouded in mystery, but it isunderstood to be serious. Mr Madurodescribed it as a "continuousbattle". During his treatment the Venezuelanleader is reported to have had tumoursremoved from his pelvic region. He has also undergone prior roundsof chemotherapy and radiationtreatment. Mr Maduro has effectively beenrunning Venezuela since Mr Chavezwent to Cuba, and the opposition hasdemanded clarity about who is incharge. Delaying the inauguration scheduledfor 10 January, the VenezuelanSupreme Court ruled that Mr Chavezcould be sworn in at a later date. But the opposition argued thatNational Assembly SpeakerDiosdado Cabello should takeover and new elections should beheld.


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Two explosions have killed 12people in the southern Indian city ofHyderabad, in what Prime MinisterManmohan Singh labelled as a"dastardly attack". The blasts that hit the city in AndhraPradesh were 10 minutes apart,police said. Television images showedcasualties being rushed to hospital. India's home minister said bombshad been planted on bicycles 150m(500ft) apart near a crowded fruitmarket. Major cities have been put on alertas police probe the cause for theblasts. "The number of dead hasincreased to 12 and the injured are57," home secretary RK Singh saidafter a high-level security meetingfollowing the attacks. Unconfirmed reports suggest thenumber of casualties may rise. The explosions hit just after 19:00(13:30 GMT) within a radius of150m, home minister Sushil Shindesaid. There was a possible third blastreported shortly afterwards,Hyderabad police told the BBC.

Appeal for calm No group has so far said it carriedout the attack. Authorities had received intelligenceabout possible attacks in the countrybut no specific information as to whereor when they might occur, Mr Shindesaid. The information had been passedon to the states, he added. Prime Minister Singh has urged thepublic to remain calm. "The guilty will not gounpunished," he tweeted. He has directed federal agencies toextend all possible help to the stateauthorities in the relief effort, andoffered 200,000 rupees (£2,500) tothe next of kin of each person killed. Meanwhile, Australia's cricket teamsays it has held talks about itsplayers' safety with Indian authoritiesin the wake of the deadly twin

bombings. The second Test of theIndia-Australia series is due to startin Hyderabad on 2 March. "The safety of the squad is ofparamount importance andAustralian team management andCricket Australia staff areliaising with the Board ofControl for Cricket in India,local authorities and the

Australian High Commission toensure we have all the appropri-ate information," the team said ina statement on Thursday. Mumbai and the rest ofMaharashtra state have been put onhigh alert following the blasts, withmeasures such as increased policepresence on the streets and randomvehicle searches.

It is the first major bomb attack inIndia since a September 2011 blastoutside Delhi's High Court killed 13people. The Muslim extremist groupHarkat-ul Jihad al-Islami (Huji) saidit carried out the Delhi attack. Hyderabad is one of southernIndia's main commercial hubs, and theUK opened a new deputy highcommission in the city late last year. The explosions hit the busy DilsukhNagar neighbourhood, which iscrowded with cinemas, shops,restaurants and one of India's largestfruit and vegetable markets. There have been at least nineattacks on the city since 1992,including twin explosions in 2007 thatkilled more than 40 people. The city has a sizeable Muslimminority, is a stronghold of theMuslim political party, MIM, and hasa long history of religious tension, saysthe BBC's Soutik Biswas in Delhi. He says religious tensions grewfrom the 1980s and 1990s with Hin-dus and Muslims moving out of mixedareas into community ghettos.

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China Cultural Revolution Murder Trial Sparks Debate The trial in China of an elderly manaccused of murder during the CulturalRevolution has sparked onlinedebate. The man, reportedly in his 80s andsurnamed Qiu, is accused of killing adoctor he believed was a spy. The Cultural Revolution, launchedby Mao Zedong in 1966, was anera of violence against intellectualsand other alleged bourgeoiselements. Some have questioned why oneman is on trial so belatedly when sofew officials have been brought toaccount. Prosecutors say that in 1967 MrQiu, from Zhejiang province, strangledthe doctor with a rope. Charges were filed against him inthe 1980s and he was arrested lastyear, Global Times reported. Mao's 10-year Cultural Revolutionwas intended to produce massivesocial, economic and politicalupheaval to overthrow the old order. Ordinary citizens - particularly theyoung - were encouraged to challengethe privileged, resulting in thepersecution of hundreds of thousandsof people who were consideredintellectuals or otherwise enemies ofthe state.

The Cultural Revolution radicalised young Chinese intoacts of violence against "elites"

The BBC's John Sudworth inShanghai says the topic of what wenton during the Cultural Revolutionremains highly sensitive in China andpublic discussion of it is limited, butthat the trial has caused fierce debateonline. One user said on the Weibomicro-blogging site described the caseas a farce, saying: "Do they reallythink this reflects the rule oflaw?" The South China Morning Postquoted one internet user as asking:"What about those big names whostarted the Cultural Revolution?"How come they never took any

responsibility?" However some internet users wasa step in the right direction. "This is good, at least it sendsout the message that those whodid evil will pay back one day,"wrote one user. The state-run China YouthDaily published an outspokeneditorial comparing the excesses ofthe period to the Nazi atrocities inEurope. "The most shocking thingabout the Cultural Revolutionwas the assault on human dignity.Insults, abuse, maltreatmentand homicide were common.

The social order was in chaos," itsaid. It suggested that unless the periodwas finally allowed to be openlyreviewed there was a danger of thechaos and violence returning,warning that many people harbournostalgic views of it. Many Chinese today want the partyto face up to the wrongs of theCultural Revolution era. It is not astaboo a subject as the TiananmenSquare protests. The party'swrongdoings during the CulturalRevolution are discussed openly in thestate media, but without discreditingor undermining the party's legitimacy. Chinese children are not taught indetail about events from that period,which makes it difficult for the youngergeneration to understand the country'straumatic past. Mr Qiu's trial has sparkedvigorous public debate. Some say it'smore important to hold those at thetop responsible, rather than make oneindividual a scapegoat for the party'swrongs. Nearly 40 years since the CulturalRevolution ended, China is stillhaunted by events from that period.As recently as last year, Premier WenJiabao said the country risked another"historical tragedy" like theCultural Revolution unless it pushedpolitical reforms.

China's 'Leftover Women', Unmarried At 27 Over 27? Unmarried? Female? InChina, you could be labelled a "left-over woman" by the state - but someprofessional Chinese women thesedays are happy being single. Huang Yuanyuan is working lateat her job in a Beijing radio newsroom.She's also stressing out about the factthat the next day, she'll turn 29. "Scary. I'm one year older," shesays. "I'm nervous."Why? "Because I'm still single. I haveno boyfriend. I'm under bigpressure to get married." Huang is a confident, personableyoung woman with a good salary, herown apartment, an MA from one ofChina's top universities, and a wealthof friends. Still, she knows that these days,single, urban, educated women likeher in China are called "sheng nu"or "leftover women" - and it stings.She feels pressure from her friends andher family, and the message getshammered in by China's state-runmedia too. Even the website of thegovernment's supposedly feministAll-China Women's Federationfeatured articles about "leftoverwomen" - until enough womencomplained. State-run media started using theterm "sheng nu" in 2007. That sameyear the government warned thatChina's gender imbalance - caused by

selective abortions because of theone-child policy - was a seriousproblem. National Bureau of Statistics datashows there are now about 20million more men under 30 thanwomen under 30. "Ever since 2007, the statemedia have aggressivelydisseminated this term in surveys,and news reports, and columns,and cartoons and pictures,basically stigmatising educatedwomen over the age of 27 or 30who are still single," says LetaHong-Fincher, an American doing asociology PhD at Tsinghua Universityin Beijing. Census figures for China show thataround one in five women aged 25-29 is unmarried. The proportion of unmarried men

that age is higher - over a third. Butthat doesn't mean they will easilymatch up, since Chinese men tend to"marry down", both in terms of ageand educational attainment. "There is an opinion that A-quality guys will find B-qualitywomen, B-quality guys will findC-quality women, and C-qualitymen will find D-quality women,"says Huang Yuanyuan. "The peopleleft are A-quality women and

D-quality men. So if you are aleftover woman, you are A-quality." But it's the "A-quality" ofintelligent and educated women thatthe government most wants toprocreate, according to Leta Hong-Fincher. She cites a statement onpopulation put out by the StateCouncil - China's cabinet - in 2007. "It said China facedunprecedented populationpressures, and that the overallquality of the population is toolow, so the country has to upgradethe quality of the population." Some local governments in Chinahave taken to organising matchmakingevents, where educated youngwomen can meet eligible bachelors. The goal is not only to improve thegene pool, believes Fincher, but to getas many men paired off and tied downin marriage as possible - to reduce,as far as possible, the army ofrestless, single men who could causesocial havoc. But the tendency to look down onwomen of a certain age who aren'tmarried isn't exclusively an attitudepromoted by the government.

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vehicle was purchased by theFoundation’s Project Coordinator,Clayton Chavez. This purchase, according to Mundy,was never approved or authorized byhis office and as such constitutes fraudon the part of Chavez. In a statementto the police Mundy reportedly isseeking court action in this matter.While Clayton Chavez continues toevade the long arm of the law,Anderson was encountered in theSantiago Juan Layout Area in SanIgnacio on Friday, February 15 whereshe was detained and transported tothe police station and subsequentlycharged jointly with Clayton Chavezfor theft. With attorney Rachel Montejo ather side, Akiesha Anderson,appeared in the San Ignacio Towncourtroom of magistrate NardaMorgan on Monday, February 18,2013, where she pled not guilty to thetheft charge. Prosecutor George Gomezobjected to the granting of bail on thegrounds that, being a foreigner,Anderson presents a flight risk.Magistrate Morgan concurred withthe prosecutor’s request resulting inAnderson being remanded to prison.She will reappear in court onThursday, April 4, 2013.

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increasing tax collection. But I am still baffled as to why somecountries benefit from newinvestments, new projects, whilesome islands see absolutely noprogress. From our experience at MoonBayGroup, we know that investors haveinterest, but they will go where theyget value for money and where theyare welcome.

Facts Related To Death Of 17Year Old Of Toledo District

PRESS Release From The BelizePress Office Belmopan. February21st, 2013. The Ministry of Health wouldlike to state the medical findings inrelation to the death of a seventeenyear old female of Golden StreamVillage, Toledo District. The patient first visited the Big FallsHealth Center on March 19th, 2012where she was treated for a chronicabdominal condition and released.She later returned to the clinic onMarch 22nd, 2012 where she wasdiagnosed with a chronic disorder.She received a blood transfusion atthat time and was hospitalized for aweek at the Punta Gorda Hospital forobservation before release by her

doctor. On February 17th, 2013, thepatient was brought into the hospital

Milka Sho, 17

by her father but was declared deadon arrival. The father reported thattwo days before she had ingesteda very large amount of soappowder detergent. Upon review ofthe Belize Health Information System(BHIS) it was confirmed that shesuffered from a chronic disease thateventually led to her death.

Additionally, two medical officersexamined the body and found no signof external injuries. Along with the clinical dataretrieved from the BHIS and thehistory provided by the father, themedical officers felt confident toissue a death certificate; thus noautopsy was needed. The Ministry of Health expressessincere condolences to the family andwe are prepared to offer anyadditional assistance for the family intheir time of bereavement.Ends.

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