Software engineer is facing extradition to Belize after being arrested in Guatemala City with his 20-year-old girlfriend US software guru John McAfee, fighting deportation from Guatemala to Belize to face questions about the slaying of a neighbour, said Saturday he wants to return to the United States. "My goal is to get back to America as soon as possible," McAfee, 67, said in a phone call...
UK left isolated as Ambergris Caye, in Belize, heads table that includes only one European destination Belize's largest island, Ambergris Caye, a popular destination for scuba divers, has come top of a list of the world's 10 best islands in a survey of travellers. The western Caribbean nation, which has the second largest coral reef in the world after Australia's Great Barrier Reef, beat another Caribbean...
Guatemalan police arrest US software guru John McAfee on Wednesday for illegally entering the country and says it could expel him to Belize. McAfee fled Belize after being sought for questioning over the murder of fellow American Gregory Faull. McAfee says he is being persecuted by the Belizean government...
Guatemalan authorities awaiting instructions from Belize police, who want McAfee as 'person of interest' in neighbour's murder The fate of John McAfee remained unclear on Thursday as authorities in Guatemala, who ended the software pioneer's increasingly peculiar status as a blogging fugitive when they arrested him at the hotel where he was hiding , awaited instructions on what to do with him. ...
Retired software mogul who is wanted as 'person of interest' in Belize murder case plans to appeal against denial of asylum The former software mogul John McAfee was taken to hospital in Guatemala on Thursday, after complaining of chest pains while being detained by local authorities. McAfee fled from Belize to Guatemala after the murder of one of his neighbors, Gregory Faull. McAfee is a person of...
Taiwanese news outfit has at last seen fit to recount story behind antivirus millionaire's recent unBelize-able travels It's well known that no world event has truly occurred until the mad geniuses at Taiwan's Next Media Animation have done one of their inspired virtual reality mockups recounting the events. Tiger Woods's post-infidelity car crash , Steve Jobs's career there's really nothing that escapes...
Replying exclusively to questions from the Observer, the software king, now wanted for questioning after a neighbour's murder, talks of sensationalist reporting, paranoia and why he's relieved to be in Guatemala By the time I contacted him on Wednesday, even by his own recent standards, John McAfee was having an unpredictable week. Seven days ago the multi-millionaire internet security pioneer was...
t have access to the internet and other basic things such as food, water and electricity. Some of them live in abusive and dysfunctional homes. These factors stunt the girls' emotional, intellectual and physical growth. Proudest moment: We broaden the girls' experiences by creating a traditional Garifuna [people of African and indigenous origin living in central America] singing group. We learn songs...
flags. The three countries to be banned were warned last year that the European commission was preparing to end imports of their fish and fish products, because of concerns that they had failed to take action over piracy and illegal fishing. It is the first time imports have been banned as a result of the widespread global trade in landing fish for which vessels do not have the correct fishing permits....
Anti-gay discrimination not on the agenda of this month's heads of government meeting in Sri Lanka Helen Davidson ...
s business interests have made from helping develop Belize as a tax haven. The prime minister of Belize, Dean Barrow, signalled recently that he thought taxpayers would benefit from the registry being under government control. "I see them making threats about how many millions of dollars they are going to sue for," he said. "When you look at what was collected over the past few years, the figure they...
A construction company in Belize bulldozes one of the country's largest ancient Mayan pyramids to extract gravel for a road project ...
s dynamiting of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001, the bulldozing of a Mayan archeological site dating back at least 2,300 years in Belize has shocked many, particularly because the ancient ceremonial site of Nohmul (or Big Hill) was destroyed by a local building contractor solely in order to use the mound's rich limestone and gravel content to fill roads in a nearby town. A question, in other...
s largest Mayan pyramids with diggers and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities have announced. The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said on Tuesday that the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial centre dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize,...
s anti-gay laws, is said to have faced more threats of violence since start of court case Death threats against Caleb Orozco, the gay rights campaigner attempting to overturn laws that criminalise homosexuality in Belize, have escalated during the four-day courtroom hearing, his lawyer has claimed. The high-profile challenge to the Caribbean state's colonial-era "anti-buggery" legislation has stirred...
anti-buggery' criminal laws to Belize's supreme court Caleb Orozco has been denounced as the antichrist, received death threats and had a beer bottle smashed into his face. Next Tuesday, the gay rights campaigner will face a very different kind of challenge, when he comes up against the attorney general of Belize and the leaders of the country's churches. The courtroom battle over the Caribbean state's...
s Last Stand , which documented the anti-virus expert's extraordinary tale. McAfee, 67, was living in virtual retirement on the island of Ambergris Caye in the tiny Central American country when local police sought to question him after the murder of his neighbour Gregory Faull, a Florida builder who was killed by a gunshot wound to the head in November. McAfee subsequently went on the run, claiming...
John McAfee, fugitive software tycoon wanted for questioning in Belize over murder of American neighbour, speaks to reporters in Florida ...
s website announced that he was at a hotel in Miami's upscale South Beach neighborhood. Investigators in Belize want to talk to McAfee as "a person of interest" in the murder of Florida builder Gregory Faull, his neighbour on the island of Ambergris Caye, last month. Faull, who had quarrelled with McAfee over his "vicious dogs" was found shot in the head, although McAfee has strongly denied any involvement...
s wish to return to the United States appears to have been granted after officials in Guatemala said the eccentric software pioneer would be deported to his home country. McAfee fled to Guatemala from Belize after being named as a person of interest in the murder of a neighbor and fellow expatriate in Belize, Gregory Faull. After spending three weeks on the run and slipping across the border into Guatemala,...