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Belizean wins Earth science award

While the Punta Rebels may be having their share of troubles in the world of copyright another resident of Dangriga is celebrating a unique triumph. As winner of the Guinness Earth Science Award he’s heading out for two weeks of adventure. Luis Manuel Sosa, Winner, Guinness Earth Science Award “I thought it was a joke. […]

Habitat for Humanity opens Belize office

This is the one time every five years that Belizeans should have no trouble securing land. Indeed, some politicians are handing out house lots like they were ideals on a hot summer day. But a lot is not a house… and to help bridge that gap a well known organization is about to set up […]

G. Michael Reid on politics and basketball

The victory of Team Belize in the recent CARICOM Basketball Championships must rank as one of the greatest sporting triumphs in the nation’s history, right along side the victory of the 1974 softball Golden Girls and the 1979 boxing title won by Fitzroy Guiseppi. But the implications of the big “W” go well beyond sports. […]

Police say O.W. murder was retaliation

A young man has been arrested and two minors detained in connection with a brutal kidnapping and rape in Orange Walk. Nineteen year old Mark Vega was charged today with murder, conspiracy to murder, rape and abduction. According to Orange Walk police the deceased, Roberto Herbert, had an altercation with Vega sometime on Sunday. Vega […]

Man charged in fatal accident

Another Orange Walk man, thirty-three year old Vincent Crawford, has been charged in connection with a fatal traffic accident on the Northern Highway on Sunday. Crawford has been charged with theft and manslaughter following the death of eighteen year old Melissa Sutherland. According to twenty-four year old Frank Dawson, he and three other people were […]

Belize City man charged in robbery, wounding

A twenty-three year old Belize City man who is apparently in the habit of “stronging” bicycles is behind bars on a number of charges. Mark Middleton was picked up by police following a report made by twenty-one year old Bernard Bahadur that he was attacked on Friday night by two men. Bahadur identified Middleton as […]

Charges filed in Belmopan road death

In other police news, a twenty-one-year-old Cave’s Branch resident has been charged in connection with a fatal traffic accident on Friday night in Belmopan. Windell Middleton was killed instantly when a vehicle driven by Darren Reymundo crashed into him head on. According to police, Middleton’s body was found in a ditch on Constitution Drive. Reymundo […]

Musa suit against commission thrown out, will be filed again

A much anticipated Supreme Court ruling on an application for judicial review of the latest government appointed commission of inquiry has been postponed indefinitely. Justice Manuel Sosa late Tuesday threw out the case brought by People’s United Party leader Said Musa against commissioners Harry Lui and William Tillett on a technicality. Solicitor General Gian Ghandi […]

International Dance Festival gets underway in Belize City

We haven’t seen them in a while but beginning today Belize’s best dancers and some talented friends from abroad are making the stage — and our minds — come alive. Arreini Palacio reports. Professional dancers from Cuba, Jamaica, Honduras, the Untied States and Belize have converged on the Bliss Institute for Belize’s first International Dance […]

Pets rule in weekend fashion show

The Creole language contains a number of phrases which refer to man’s best friend. Take for example, at the height of mango season we’ve got fruit “fo stone daag wit”… or a less than grand house is called a “daag sidong”. Well, as they say in the English language: “every dog will have his day”… […]