Poker Tournament & Spelling Contest Benefits SACNW

A great time was had by all last Friday night at the South Ambergris Caye Neighborhood Watch (SACNW) fund-raising Poker Tournament and Spelling Contest held at Pedro’s Inn. While some tried their luck at the card table, others tested their spelling skills while entertaining the crowd. Fabulous prizes were offered the winners and the evening was a huge success.

FIRST PRIZE - $1,200 CASH PLUS
Two Round Trip Tickets on
MAYA ISLAND AIR REGIONAL
to your choice of Cancun, Guatemala City or
San Pedro Sula.

SECOND PRIZE - $500 CASH PLUS
Two Round Trip Tickets on TROPIC AIR
to any scheduled destination in Belize.

THIRD PRIZE - $200 CASH PLUS
Two Round Trip Tickets on
MAYA ISLAND AIR
to any scheduled destination in Belize.

JP meeting to be held in SP

Dear J.P.’s

The Association of Justices of the Peace & Commissioners of the Supreme Court will be visiting San Pedro on the 24th October, 2009 to conduct a training seminar and re-establish the chapter. Cost of training is $20.00 per person. We would like to commence at 6:00 p.m. the training should take approximately 2 hours and the meeting to re-establish the chapter should last approximately 45 minutes. Once we start on time we should be finished by 9:00 p.m.
Please bring a pen and your reading glasses as we shall go through many of the documents that JP's witness on a regular basis. We shall also be outlining details of the JP Act of 2005.
I would like to ask you all to please contact all J.P.’s on the island so that we can make another effort to re-establish this chapter.

We need to elect a President, Vice President, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Public Relations officer, Legal advisor and two councilors.
If you know other J.P.’s who have email addresses, please send to us so we can contact them. Or feel free to forward this email to them. I am hoping for a positive response as we are willing to continue this association, and San Pedro has been out of our official chapters for some two years or more.

The meeting will be held at El Divino Restaurant at the Banana Beach Resort. Appetizers and soft drinks will be available and there will be a cash bar.
San Pedro is fortunate enough to have over 100 Justice's of the Peace and I look forward to meeting most of you at the meeting.

For further information and to confirm your attendance (so that the restaurant can be prepared) please call Danny Madrid at 610 2295 or 670 0007 or Rosie Reyes at 610 1737.

I await your response.
/s/ Hon. Adrian (Danny) Madrid, J.P.(S), C.S.C.
National President

$10,000 reward!

Crime Stoppers Belize in collaboration with Lord Michael Ashcroft and Past Chairman of Crime Stoppers Belize, Mr. Dean Boyce is please to announce that a reward of $10,000.00 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person(s) for the murder of Tropic Air Manager, Lorleen Young. Young, a Caye Caulker resident was brutally murdered inside her home in Caye Caulker on Thursday, 3 October, 2009 at around 6:00 in the evening.

Lorleen Young, deceased

Mr. Francis Woods, Chairman of Crime Stoppers Belize comments, “It is again sad to learn that another innocent life has been taken; Crime Stoppers Belize extends its condolence to the bereaved family and hopes that through this program the murder(s) will be convicted.”

Crime Stoppers Belize encourages the public to call its hotline number 0-800-922-8477 and provide eye witness information that will assist in closing this case.

Crime Stoppers Belize reassures the public that calling the hotline number remains confidential.

DON’T SUPPORT CRIME REPORT CRIME…0-800-922-8477
YOUR CALL REMAINS CONFIDENTIAL!

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President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

(CNN) — President Barack Obama said Friday that he was humbled by the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award him the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

“I am both surprised and deeply humbled,” Obama said at the White House.

“I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments. But rather as an affirmation of American leadership. … I will accept this award as a call to action.”

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The president had not been mentioned as among front-runners for the prize, and the roomful of reporters gasped when Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel committee, uttered Obama’s name.

Nominations for the prize had to be postmarked by February 1 — only 12 days after Obama took office. The committee sent out its solicitation for nominations last September — two months before Obama was elected president.

The Nobel committee recognized Obama’s efforts to solve complex global problems including working toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said.

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