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THE BELIZE TIMES
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SUNDAY June 17, 2012
Issue No. 4800
100 days of NOTHING! Indian businessman
executed in OW
Orange Walk Town, June 13, 2012 The nation’s murder #68 for 2012 has triggered heightened fear in the Orange Walk community as a wellknown Indian businessman, Sunil Punjabi, was executed by a lone gunman on Tuesday evening. 44 year old Punjabi, who owns Lucky Store, on Guadalupe Street which is in a residential area was inside his store manning the cashier section when a man who was dressed in black rode to the store on a bicycle. The man put down the bicycle and entered the store. But his intention was not to purchase anything. Punjabi’s cousin, who was in the Continued on page 4
Sunil Punjabi
Police suspect San Pedro teens’ murder was drug-related See page 22
Mayor Bradley announces new garbage tax Belize City, June 13, 2012 It appears Belize City Mayor Darrel Bradley has forgotten that one of his major campaign pledges to voters was that he wouldn’t burden residents with taxes. But like his promise Continued on page 6
UDP Cabinet Chaos Belize City, June 13, 2012 The red mutiny which the BELIZE TIMES warned in last week’s issue was about to hit Prime Minister Dean Barrow like a tidal wave, did more than that, rocking the UDP ship and almost tilting it over. The UDP have attempted their utmost best to conceal the upheaval that broke out during Cabinet meeting on Tuesday this week, but the BELIZE TIMES has the best inside source. It was an all-out war – involving shouting matches, Cabinet Ministers threatening to Continued on page 6
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at the party’s headquarters, Independence Hall. “97 days later, there is no such plan, no new course, no budget and no sense of direction. Unemployment remains at 24% and growing. Investments continue to stand still and investor confidence remains at a low-point. The Government has been uncharacteristically quiet about the Debt Restructuring exercise while Belize’s Credit-rating nears Junk Status. The outlook for economic growth remains weak as oil-related revenues decline and Continued on page 4
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Teenagers’ bodies arrive in San Pedro (Photo courtesy Ambergris Today)
SolGen disses DPP
Cheryl Krusen
Mayor Darrell Bradley
tally neglected Belize’s needs during a most critical time. The UDP leader and Prime Minister, Dean Barrow, has been distracted with his wife’s cancer treatment and has spent a majority of his time in Miami. While he is out, nothing takes place in the country, even though he leaves someone else in charge. This sad state of affairs was the center of discourse at the People’s United Party press conference held on
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2008. This period actually presented an opportunity for the Barrow Administration to move swiftly ahead with policies of nation building – those that would encourage economic growth, create education opportunities, inject investments in industries and create businesses and jobs. But instead of doing so, the UDP went into go slow immediately after the election and to-
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Belize City, June 13, 2012 Friday June 15th will mark 100 days since the UDP won their second term in office. The 100-day milestone marks the end of the “honeymoon” period, a time granted to government administrations to get their act together and become prepared to work. In the case of the Barrow Administration, it really had no need for a “honeymoon” period, since it has been in office since
Cheryl-Lynn Vidal
Belize City, Wednesday 13th June, 2012 We have in the past written on numerous occasions of the dismal performance of the Office of the Director of Public ProsContinued on page 8
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Bondholders form bloc to challenge GOB
Another 13 Year Old Missing
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