Belize Times May 20, 2012

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

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THE BELIZE TIMES

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SUNDAY May 20, 2012

Issue No. 4796

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Dean and “the Devil” Back in Love?

event, which Ashcroft attended, ending a four-year long travel boycott to Belize. And, neither did he inform his Party or key advisors that he would be heard begging the Belize Bank for help to end an impasse he created. This has spun the UDP into confusion and disarray and has undone and falsified what they claimed they fought and stood for since 2008. Not even their best spin masters on Wave Radio, the Amandala or Channel 7 have been able to ex-

Ashcroft & Barrow greet & smile at Belize Bank’s 25th anniversary celebration

City of Belmopan, May 16, 2012 Wet road conditions and oil on pavement is the perfect recipe for disaster, and disaster was just what happened at 7:25 this morning on the Western Highway. This morning, it spelled tragedy for a family of four who left their Belize City homes with no idea that their early voyage would result in

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First PUP Leader, John Smith, passes away

View of mangled Geo Prizm car following Wednesday morning’s collision

Brian Brown Wanted by GSU!

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Retrenchment continues at Ministry of Works Fired employees blame DPM Gaspar Vega for witch-hunt Orange Walk Town, May 11, 2012 A sinister plot to fire hardworking employees from the

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Majority of Belizeans support a military takeover

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GOB pays $5000 rent for office with no electricity

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Mark Espat’s treacherous silence

Belize City, May 16, 2012 An arrest warrant has been issued for Brian Brown, a well-known Belize City street figure and affiliate of the George Street gang, after the Gang Suppression Unit searched his residence on Jimmy Dyer Avenue and

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Belize City, May 15, 2012 The BELIZE TIMES received the sad news on Tuesday, May 14, 2012 of the passing of John Albert Smith, the first leader of the People’s United Party.

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Family of 4 Killed in Crash

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Belize City, May 14, 2011 Prime Minister Dean Barrow has yet to inform the nation that he held secret meetings with billionaire Michael Ashcroft in Miami last week, prior to him appearing as the surprise keynote speaker at a special event on Friday for the Belize Bank, which is one of the Ashcroft-related companies in Belize. Neither did Barrow inform his UDP colleagues of his plans to speak at the

plain what is taking place. For four long years, the Barrow Administration painted Ashcroft as an enemy of the state. Barrow used nasty and scurrilous descriptions such as “puppet master” and “the ungodly”. The UDP called him the “white devil”, the “virus” and said he was the worst kind of investor for Belize. This is how the Prime Minister got away with

Ministry of Works in the Orange Walk District, first exposed by the BELIZE TIMES in

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