Sep 3rd 10
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IR Satellite Photo
General Situation: Warm and somewhat unstable weather conditions prevail. 24hr Forecast: Sunny with cloudy spells today and partially cloudy tonight. Isolated showers and thunderstorms along the coast this evening. Winds: East to Southeast at 5 to 15 knots. Sea State: Slight/Light Chop. Outlook: Through Sunday: Partially cloudy with isolated showers. Highs: 32°C/90°F Lows: 25°C/77°F.
Tropical Weather Outlook: At 3:00am Tropical Storm Fiona was centered about 310mls SSW of Bermuda with maximum winds of 50 mph and was moving N at 13 mph. At 3:00am Hurricane Earl was centered about 135mls E of Cape Hatteras North Carolina with maximum winds of 105mph and was moving to the NNE at 18 mph. The remnant low from Tropical Depression Gaston was centered about 1100mls East of the Lesser Antilles. Conditions could become a little more conducive for re-development as the system moves westward. Elsewhere, in the North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico, tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 48 hours.
Sep 3rd 10
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First Aid Training offered by NEMO
| In keeping with the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) trainings schedule, another in the series is here on its second round. Community First Aid training is scheduled for September 8 – 9, 2010. The Venue is the San Pedro Town Council’s Conference Room.
All trainings commence at 9:am and runs through 4:pm. The training days are split into two sessions to accomodate twenty five participants on any given day. Please schedule your people as seems fit. This training will be essential to both participants and workplace.
Feel free to call the District Emergency Coordinator at 666- 7476/600-8672. or Nurse Natalie Palin 226-2500, to confirm your participation and dates. Any contribution towards the training will be gratefully appreciated. Thanks in advance for your participation in preparing our Community to respond in rendering first aid to those in need. The life you save may be yours, a friend or your family member.
Sep 3rd 10
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San Pedro Tortilla Factory Accident
Ambergris Today | An unfortunate and untimely accident fell upon a worker of La Popular Tortilla Factory, located on Angel Coral Street, on Tuesday, August 31, at about 1:00 p.m., as 16-year-old Emmanuel Marcos Garcia got his hand caught in one of the tortilla-making machines.
According to reports, Marcos was cleaning the machinery after work and apparently forgot to turn it off before reaching into the moving parts of the machine. In the process, his hand somehow got caught in the machine, almost to elbow level. Fortunately for Marcos, the recently bought modern machine’s safety feature triggered it to shut off before it caused more damage to his entire arm. His injuries could have been a lot worst if it weren’t for the safety feature.
The problem then was to remove Marcos’ hand from the machine. Employees and assistants tried to reverse the gears to release his hand but with no success. Shortly the decision was made to cut the section of the machine with a grinder. Dr. Daniel Gonzalez was on hand to properly protect Marcus’ hand and deliver pain killers to the young man who was clearly in agonizing pain. (Continue Reading)
Sep 3rd 10
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Ambassador Celi Paz with Prime Minister Dean Barrow
Ambergris Today | Celie Paz de Gonzalez, Belize Ambassador to El Salvador, sent over exclusive pictures to Ambergris Today as she presented her ambassador’s credentials to Belize Prime Minister Hon. Dean Barrow at a recent ceremony and that of Hon. Barrow’s recent visit to the Belize Embassy at El Salvador.
Celie is a San Pedro native and sister of Mayor Elsa Paz whose appointment as ambassador to El Salvador came through Cabinet’s approval in July of last year. She currently resides in El Salvador with her family but visits the Island on a regular basis as a tourist, resident and also in her official diplomatic capacity as Ambassador of Belize to El Salvador.
Celie was born in San Pedro to Gildardo “Daddy” Paz and Celi Marin Paz. She was raised in San Pedro as the youngest of four sisters along with four brothers. Like her sisters and all her brothers, Celie is a graduate of San Pedro R.C. School and San Pedro High School. Early in her life Celie moved to San Salvador, capital of El Salvador where she got married to a native of that country. San Pedro is very proud of Celie Paz de Gonzalez.
Sep 3rd 10
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Free entrance to Museum of Belize in September
Channel 5 Belize | There will be plenty to see and take part in during the celebrations of Belize’s twenty nine years of Independence. Favourite events include the Carnival Road March and the Citizen’s Parade. It is a time of year that all Belizeans across the diaspora return home and what better way to treat them than with a free guided tour of the Museum of Belize. That’s right, the museum is offering free entrance and tours to all Belizeans during the celebrations.
Shauniece Heusner, Research and Education Officer, Museum of Belize
“We’re having “I am Belize” weekend because we’re celebrating the month ogf September, our twenty-nine years of independence. Since the team for this year is “United and Proud, Moving Forward, I am Belize” we chose that name I am belie weekends because all weekends in the month of September will be free for all Belizeans to come in and view the museum. Our opening hours will be nine to one p.m.”
Jose Sanchez
“What will people be able to see during the month of September at the Museum?”
Shauniece Heusner
“Everything on exhibit. You can come in and you can go at your own pace. We will have the Pirates exhibit on display, Stamps of Belize, Coins of Belize, logwood, peoples’ display, the Maya Masterpieces, Jades of Belize, and Insects of Belize. You can come and you can shop and buy souvenirs and mementos at our gift shop.”
To accommodate the cruise lines and the patriotic alike, the museum will be open for a few hours during the tenth of September.
Sep 3rd 10
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Oil rig explodes in Gulf of Mexico
Channel 5 Belize | The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico put the world on alert. Well, there is more bad news to report. An oil rig exploded this morning in the Gulf of Mexico. The rig which was located about eighty miles south of Vermillion Bay, Louisiana belongs to an oil company called Mariner Energy. Thirteen persons were onboard the Vermillion three hundred and eighty platform when it caught on fire. The fire is currently contained to one active well at the platform that has seven active wells. On average, the platform was producing fifty-eight thousand eight hundred gallons of oil and nine hundred thousand cubic feet of gas per day, while storing up to four thousand, two hundred gallons of oil. Here’s an interview with Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, who confirmed that only one person has been injured.
Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary
“There’s a production platform about a hundred miles off the coast. I’m told the dept of water was about three hundred and forty feet so this is not a deep water facility. As I understand it, the well is not in active production. I will, in some ways, rhetoric what I think the Coast Guard has said in a statement they released and that is that they responded to reports of a fire onboard an oil platform in the gulf. The initial report that we got was that thirteen people were on the platform. They are accounted for, one is injured and is on his way out of that area. Two Coast Guard cutters, multiple Coast Guard aircraft were en route, one Coast Guard helicopter was on the scene. We will continue to gather information as we respond. We obviously have response assets ready for deployment should we receive reports of pollution.” (Continue Reading)
Sep 2nd 10
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IR Satellite Photo
General Situation: Warm and somewhat unstable weather conditions prevail. 24hr Forecast: Sunny with cloudy spells today and partially cloudy tonight. Isolated showers and thunderstorms along the coast this evening. Winds: Light and Variable becoming Easterly at 5 to 15 knots. Sea State: Slight/Light Chop. Outlook: Through Saturday: Partially cloudy with isolated showers. Highs: 33°C/92°F Lows: 25°C/77°F.
Tropical Weather Outlook: At 6:00am Hurricane Earl was centered about 355 miles South of Cape Hatteras North Carolina with maximum winds of 145 mph was and moving to the north-northwest at 18 mph. Also at 6:00am Tropical Storm Fiona was centered about 610 miles S of Bermuda with maximum winds of 50 mph and moving to the northwest at 17mph. At 3:00am, Tropical Storm Gaston was centered over the Atlantic about 1550 miles E of the Lesser Antilles with maximum winds of 40 mph and moving to the west at 9 mph. Elsewhere, tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 48 hours.
Sep 2nd 10
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Love FM | Police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of fifty-seven year old Gregorio Eustaquio Cornejo who died yesterday at San Pedro Ambergris Caye. Police are reporting that Cornejo was involved in an altercation at Mata Chica Resort with twenty year old Oscar Barela, a resident of the island. Both men were at a staff party at the resort when an argument started sometime after six yesterday evening in which Barela reportedly punched Cornejo in the face causing him to fall off a pier and into the water. Cornejo was taken out of the water and died shortly after. This afternoon Love News spoke to Cornejo’s wife, Candida Cornejo when she arrived at the Karl Huesner Memorial Hospital to pick up her husband’s body. She told us what she understands happened yesterday evening.
Candida Cornejo; Wife of deceased
“According to what I understand there was a staff party and everyone was drinking. They were about to leave when a fight broke out at the end of the pier. My husband was not involved in this fight but at the end he tried to defend one of his friends and because of defending this friend the one that was fighting hit him on the stomach and when he hit him in the stomach he fell into the water. He does not know what is swimming and what I water so he drowned.” (Continue Reading)
Sep 2nd 10
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Reminder: A Blood Donation Drive sponsored by the Belize National Blood Transfusion Service, in collaboration with the San Pedro Cancer Society will be happening in San Pedro on September 4th from 9:00 am. The location is next to El Torito and Island Adventures – right in town. Blood can only be stored for a short period of time which is why the hospitals need a constant supply of fresh donations. A healthy adult can donate a pint quite easily and the body makes more over a short period of time.
- Donors must be between the ages of 18 – 65 years.
- You must eat an adequate size meal prior to making the donation.
- Your last donation must have been at least 3 months prior to donating.
- Your latest tatoos must be at least a year old.
- Menstruation must have stopped at least a week prior to donating.
- It must have been a year since your last major surgery, transfusion of blood, pregnancy or miscarriage.
- You must wait 2 years after your last malaria infection.
- You cannot donate blood if you have HIV, AIDS, if you have had hepatitis over the age of 11 years, asthma, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease or if you are presently ill.
Sep 2nd 10
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Be Kind Belize Program
San Pedro Sun | Be Kind Belize kids Delvorene Zuniga, Julian Trapp, Dioni Moh and Faith Edgar all won prizes sponsored by Sail Sports. Caribbean Villas were kind enough to provide cold drinks. The children learned to sail a Hobie Catamaran and then were given the opportunity to sail one themselves. It was a great adventure and the children were able to see marine life from a different perspective.
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