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Woman badly beaten in
San Pedro home invasion... 
Police have not been able to crack the
murder of Lorleen Young at La
Isla Carinosa. And tonight they have another case in their hands at
neighbouring La Isla Bonita. Eudenia Eiley turned forty-one on Sunday,
but her birthday was not a very happy one. On Saturday morning Eiley
became the victim of a home invasion and was brutally beaten and robbed
at her house in the San Pablo area. The family is outraged, especially
because Eiley was previously in an abusive relationship. But the
community is also on edge because the island is one of our main tourist
destinations and the rising crime is deterring visitors. News Five’s
Delahnie Bain headed to La Isla Bonita to meet the victim and her
family.
Delahnie Bain, Reporting San Pedro resident, Eudenia “Deny” Eiley, was at home alone on Saturday morning when someone broke in and beat her severely. When we found the battered victim today in the island, she wanted her story heard and was brave enough to tell it on camera. Eudenia “Deny” Eiley, Victim of Home Invasion “Around five in the morning somebody, a Spanish person, went inside my house. He took away my phone and he beat me. And then I try to beat him some to defend myself.” Delahnie Bain “How did he get into the house?” Eudenia Eiley “I think he—on my door, he use one of the knives and then he went inside with the big sharp knife.” No one heard the commotion in Eiley’s house until her seventeen year old son, Jay, arrived home and heard noises. He called family members, who showed up soon after with the police. Jay says he found his mom on the living room floor and he suspects that the culprit might be part of a group that hangs out in a nearby abandoned church. Jay Eiley, Son of Home Invasion Victim “When I came in I saw my mom very well naked on the floor sitting down and I told her what happened to you, who beat you like this, who did this to you? She said nobody and she was very lost and she was calling my aunts name and she was very lost. She didn’t know what to do. I saw everybody started to come in and I told them this is what happened, I found my mom here lying on the floor and the whole house was completely upside down. It was in a mess. I was trying to make her stand up and she didn’t have the strength to stand. She couldn’t stretch her feet so we put her on the bed in her room. This is a sad thing for me to find my mom like this.” But the heinous details only got worst. Eiley’s niece, Melody Sanchez, says the culprit went so far as to write vulgar words on her body in red lipstick. Eiley was eventually brought to the Belize Healthcare Partners for treatment and Sanchez says they are all looking for the man responsible for landing her in the hospital. Melody Sanchez, Niece of Victim “I’m asking the community to come together and just try to find this guy because, well the police haven’t found a lead and the they say my aunt didn’t give them a good description but she told me that he is a Spanish man and that he is short and he has black hair and she said she scratched him. She scratched his face and she scratched his arms so there was blood and skin under her nails. If the police can't find him, the community will and I think they will hurt him very badly if this guy is found and there is a reward if somebody can bring this man.” That reward is two thousand dollars and anyone with information is asked to contact the Eiley family at 226-2166 or call the San Pedro Police Station. Delahnie Bain for News Five. While the residents are on the lookout, police have no suspects as yet in both the murder and home invasion. CH5 Environmentalists and Chamber of
Commerce ask for time-out
To become aligned with the Caribbean Single
Market Economy, the
government introduced a bill in the House that changed the tax
structure for imported spirits. That meant stiff competition for the
manufacturer of Belikin Beer since the price of Heineken beer went
down. And on August twenty-fourth, a bill to add a deposit of
twenty-five cents on imports of beverages in glass bottles and tin went
through a first reading in the House of Representatives. That was seen
by many industry insiders as a move to increase the cost of Heineken
and to protect the local product. But the Returnable Containers Bill is
expected to impact more than just beer. It also affects a wide variety
of imported beverages. The environmental groups have said that the bill
does little to address plastic containers which comprise the majority
of trash amassed countrywide. The environmentalists headed by the
Association of Protected Areas Management Organization (APAMO), found
an unusual ally in the Belize Chamber of Commerce. APAMO and the
Chamber held a joint press conference today to urge the government to
postpone the second reading and hold consultations with all those who
would be affected by the Returnable Containers Bill.
Amparo Masson, President, B.C.C.I. “We got together with the environmental groups we feel if we’re going to pass a bill and call it an environmental bill we feel it really should address the environment. And the press conference is really to ask government to please put a hold on the bill so that we can get all the stakeholders around one table to really discuss the bill and come up with a comprehensive environmental bill.” Jose Sanchez “At this point, some people are of the impression this is an economic issue, probably just to make Heineken increase in price. Is that the viewpoint shared by the Chamber?” Amparo Masson “The Chamber has not taken the point whether it is the Heineken against Bowen or whatever it is. The fact is that it will indeed have economic implications for distributors in general. If you think about the containers, it talks about the juices up to the size of a gallon. That could be baby juices, that could be any kind of juice; apple juice, whatever it is, health juice, V8 juices. Whether the intent was a Bowen and Heineken thing, it’s one thing, the Chamber is not really involved with that. But there's not a proper mechanism in place to really pay deposits and make refunds. As a matter of fact it is far more complicated than that. We have five or so importers bringing in the same product. You sell five, I sell ten and somebody comes and wants to make a refund and take fifteen to your organization, or to your company. It will put an impact on your cash flow. How will you separate what was sold from my company and what was sold from your company. There is a lot of implications.” Jose Sanchez “This bill was modelled after a Barbados Act, what is missing in the adaptation from that act?” Yvette Alonso, APAMO “Well, Jose, our concern is that we feel that the bill needs to be strengthened. If you look at the Barbados bill, they also look at plastics which is one of the biggest contributors to pollution in Belize. We see a lot of it in our streets, but not only in our streets; they also end up in our waters. A number of organizations for our Marine Protected Areas, TIDE for instance, does a clean up, garbage and the amount of plastics and garbage that they take out of the sea is the reason why APAMO took the stand to join with the Chamber to address this bill so it is strengthened in scope no.” Both groups say they want more consultations with government to include plastic containers in the Bill. CH5 Ministry of Labour, Local Government
and Rural Development
On August 25, 2009, the Cabinet of Belize
approved what is now the
first National Policy on Local Governance (NPLG) in Belize. The NPLG
was developed by the Ministry of Labour, Local Government and Rural
Development (MLLGRD) with the support of the United Nations Development
Programme through the project entitled “Promoting Dialogue and Action
on Decentralization and Local Governance in Belize. (DLG-Project)”
The central goal of the National Policy is to give better guidance and direction to the systems and practices of local governance in Belize towards greater equity, efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency in the delivery of local government services to people in rural and urban communities. The implementation of the policy is now underway under the coordination of a Local Governance Monitoring Council headed by the Ministry of Local Government. The Ministry of Labour, Local Government and Rural Development hereby announces the official Launching of the National Policy on Local Governance to take place at the National Headquarters of the National Association of Village Councils (NAVCO) at the Agricultural Showgrounds in Belmopan on Wednesday 14th October at 10 am. Stakeholders and the general public are invited to come out to witness the launch of the first ever National Policy on Local Governance in Belize by the Hon. Gabriel Martinez, Minister of Labour, Local Government and Rural Development. GOB LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
South AC Neighborhood Watch Meeting- Tonight at Sandbar at 7PM. Please make every effort to attend and bring a neighbour or a friend from another area in our community. Saga Humane Society is holding a Cheap Sale this Saturday. Saga was recently given the contents of a two bedroom condo including fixtures and cabinets. These items will be sold at a cheap sale this Saturday, from 8 am till noon at 11Sunflower Street, behind the Sausage Factory. Items include kitchen and bathroom items, Hummingbird Rattan furniture, bedding, kitchen and bathroom cabinets, and many great deals. All proceeds of the sale will go to purchase a much needed IV pump for the veterinarian clinic.
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