A desire to get high has landed an American resident of Ladyville in double trouble. Police report that forty-eight year old Walter David Soehnge of Marage Road went to purchase three sticks of weed from a neighborhood vendor and paid for the purchase with a twenty dollar bill. The salesman didn’t have change however, and […]
If Marine Researcher Nicole Auil is getting to be as well known as C.I.B.’s Simeon Alvarez, it’s no coincidence. Both often deal in death… and while the police have to cope with their share of homicides so does Nicole… although her victims are marine mammals and not human beings. Today she investigated her third manatee […]
The area of Belize City known as Port Loyola has earned a reputation for controversy over the subject of housing. Last year, for instance, there was the infamous house built in the middle of Matura Street. Then earlier this month it was a disaster on Rivero Street, when a house came tumbling to earth. Today […]
Good evening. I’m James Adderley and welcome to this crucial serving of Sports Monday. The Belizean football sub-champion Real Verdes face its second CONCACAF opposition a of the ’98 campaign. Yesterday in a role as host to Aurora of Guatemala. It’s rainy day this Sunday but the Guats still get off to a great start. […]
Jose Coye and Marshall Nunez have been re-elected as Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Belize City… But that’s about the only thing upon which all nine City Councilors apparently agree. A press release issued today by City Hall says that the vote was unanimous and that no other candidates were even nominated. Councilor Merilyn Young, […]
By the start of this morning’s rush hour the obstruction had been towed off the road but for the previous twelve hours the butane truck had blocked the Northern Highway. Traffic was backed up for as much as a half mile in each direction as authorities were fearful that a spark from a passing vehicle […]
Just as Belize City has elected a mayor, so the Belize District has chosen a spelling champion. Patrick Jones was on hand at Parish Hall to record her victory. The Competition was tough today as seventeen Belize district Primary School boys and girls went head to head at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall to decide […]
They say appearances don’t always paint an accurate picture, but don’t tell that to the Belize Family Life Association. The ten year old organization today relocated its main clinic and headquarters to the old Belize City Hospital. B.F.L.A.’s Executive Director Jewel Quallo-Rosberg says the move to what was the operating theater wing, made possible by […]
While Holy Redeemer Parish Hall was the venue for the Belize District’s spelling finals, a different sort of competition was taking place thirty miles up the Western Highway at the Belize Zoo. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods wouldn’t think of missing it. The seventh annual Environmental Science Fair was not as big as previous years, but […]
In case you haven’t noticed it’s Women’s Week and while there was no shortage of news items devoted to women in politics, women in sports, women in the work place and women’s health, there was not one word expressed about a subject that is of more than just passing interest to many Belizean women: that […]
It may be the best kept secret in town, but as I speak tonight a new Mayor and Deputy Mayor are being elected at Belize City Hall. Although the contenders have managed to keep their campaigning for the top spot out of the public’s eye, indications are that the intra-party contest will be a fight […]
A traffic accident on private property off the Northern Highway Wednesday night has claimed the life of one man. Police reports say Cornelus Fehr was driving a tractor on Nova Shrimp Farm between miles twelve and thirteen around 7:00pm when he lost control of the vehicle and it overturned into a ditch. Fehr was trapped […]
In crime news the six U.S. students and their professor who yesterday pled guilty to exporting Mayan artifacts will not have to spend time behind bars. Working against the magistrate’s ultimatum to pay up today or go to Hattieville, the American visitors this morning presented the money to the Clerk of Magistrate’s Court in Belize […]
In political news a special sitting of the House of Representatives has been called for the morning of Wednesday, March eighteenth. It is believed that Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Manuel Esquivel will be presenting his government’s budget for the fiscal year which begins on April first. Since this is the last budget presentation […]
On Sunday the Sibun Watershed Association will be officially launching a project to promote the protection and sustainable development of the land and communities around the Sibun River. Armed with a U.N.D.P. grant of eighty thousand dollars, the group will look to strengthen its ability to manage the watershed, enhance bio-diversity and reverse those activities […]
If the people along the Sibun are concerned about threats to their flora and fauna, villagers in Seine Bight are tonight worrying about some unwanted visitors. For the last two weeks two jaguars have been roaming the area and residents are beginning to get edgy. The sightings were first made almost two weeks ago on […]
Unbeknownst to Belizean sporting fans, there has been an international weightlifting champion in the country since last December. Thirty four year old American David Karam, who has been studying at the Belize Medical College at Bally Gardens on the Northern Highway, is a three times World Champion Powerlifter. The athlete has also managed to beat […]
It may ultimately take the sudden death of a well known Belizean to shock the nation into safe sex, as no amount of education seems capable of slowing down the spread of AIDS in Belize. Authorities keep on fighting the good fight, however, as I discovered today at the Belize Institute of Management. The workshop […]
The news that visiting students were attempting to take Mayan artifacts out of the country did not surprise many Belizeans, who have long believed that foreign archeologists routinely export their best finds and show only the second rate stuff to government inspectors. While most visiting archeologists in fact would not dare to smuggle artifacts and […]
The party has been he party has been methodically carving out a public position on what it believes are the key issues of the day… And today it was the P.U.P’s time to focus on the issue of women… Or more specifically the absence of women in the higher ranks of government. The 1998 P.U.P’s […]
While the People’s United Party highlighted some of the obstacles facing Belizean women, during a forum today hosted by the National Commission for Women, Kathy Esquivel, the commission’s president said, the focus should not be on the problems women face. Instead women should celebrate who they are and the contributions they have made to society. […]
For the past week the Archaeology Department has been conducting exercises with security officers at Philip Goldson International Airport in an effort to halt the growing export of Mayan artifacts. But according to Archaeology Commissioner John Morris, he never thought the work would bear fruit so soon. This morning six U.S. students and their professor […]
The soon-to-be inaugurated president of Costa Rica arrived in Belize today for a brief visit. Dr. Miguel Angel Rodriguez made the half day stopover as part of a get acquainted tour of Central America, having already made the rounds of Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. President-elect Rodriguez met with Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel and […]
In the wake of last weekend’s accidental death of a Belize City man by electrocution, Belize Electricity Limited has issued a press release denying any liability in the incident and offering tips to the public on how to avoid the danger of high voltage lines. According to B.E.L., the accident which killed John Myvette and […]
They may call it the Hattieville Ramada but anyone who’s been a guest there can assure you that her majesty’s hotel is not the kind of resort you want to visit twice. But for a hundred and fifty of the prison’s inmates things may get a little bit more comfortable thanks to a donation from […]
