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Belize City, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - For almost two months, Belize City residents have been forced to endure the stifling and highly toxic smoke which is the result of the garbage dump burning out of control. On April 7, UDP City Councillor in charge of sanitation Phillip Willoughby stated that they would have the situation under control that same day, but as we go to press there has been no change.

Politics

HYPOCRITE OF THE WEEK This week it was a close race between Prime Minister Dean Barrow, DPM Gaspar Vega and the UDP manipulated ACB. I think it’s safe to say that the eloquent but empty Prime Minister would have made the cut if the moron Minister of Natural Resources had not decided to make the media rounds this week. So congrats, ‘Grabby’ Vega, you’re the top pick for Hypocrite of the Week. ...

Lifestyles

HEALTH SYSTEM MELTDOWN A Mother’s Worst Nightmare Belize City, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - As we go to press tonight, there has been no official response from the Ministry of Health on the tragic and appalling case of young Cenaida Reymundo, who lost her newborn baby on Tuesday night at the KHMH. The silence is deafening and condemning of a health system which failed a young mother and cost her a newborn son. ...

Business

Adam Ramadam - ‘The Beads Man’ Belize City, Thurs. May 14, 2009 - “Don’t ever say you can’t or use your past experiences and difficulties in life to say that you cannot make something of yourself; that you cannot reach your goals, because you can! No matter what stands in your way, if you have perseverance, you will achieve anything you want”, Adam Ramadam, a street vendor for 29 years told the BELIZE TIMES. He can remember going into the streets with one Rasta colored...

Sports

Cacho/Johnson & Arnold/Audinette win 1st Stop of BVA 2009 Beach Tour Old Belize Cucumber Beach, May 17, 2009 - Sherlene Johnson and Shelmadine Cacho of Belize City won the female competition while Arvid Arnold and Jermaine Audinette of Belize City won the male competition when the Belize Volleyball Association held the 1st Stop of its 2009 Beach Volleyball Tour at Old Belize Museum, Cucumber Beach over the weekend. Barbara Cadle and Thara Blanco of Belize City won 2nd place. Cadle and Blanco had triumphed over third place winners...

ARTS

a WORLD of JAZZ - NINA SIMONE I am currently reading a book called “The Story of Jazz,” written by Marshall W. Stearns and first published in 1956. There are updated editions is this text as well, but I have an old hard cover copy loaned to me by my Jazz friend Salim Malik, complete with book worm holes and, quite expectedly, yellowing and beat up. The first chapter – Jazz and West African Music – tells us that the “blue tonality” of West African mus...