Two Belizean students have captured top honors in competitions sponsored by the Mexican government. According to a press release from the Mexican Embassy, Otoniel Che from Escuela Secundaria Tecnica Mexico was awarded the “Mexico-Central America” prize for being the student with the highest grade average while Aniki Lopez of Sacred Heart School in Dangriga gets […]
Members of the National Sports Council have been appointed and that body is making plans for action. The council is chaired by Marshall Nunez and includes Allan Sharp as first vice chairman, Andrew Smiling as second vice chariman, Yvonne Robinson as secretary and Russel Vellos as treasurer. Committee members are Rushiel Bevans, Nelson Hyde, Peter […]
Almost a year after his first publication hit bookstores countrywide, Leroy Castillo is back with another children’s book. According to the musician turn writer, the response from teachers to the first book, played a big role in this latest production which features added activities on the Rainforest of Belize. Leroy Castillo, Author “It’s a little […]
With a total of eight different artists exhibiting, the gallery called “The Image Factory” is certainly living up to its name. This morning I stopped by for a look. It is the first time the Image factory has put on an exhibition that is highlighting the work of so many different artists. The show, dubbed […]
A twenty-six year old Belize City man has been charged with the crime of murder in what looks like a long-delayed revenge killing. Steven Kelly is reported to have gone to the home of Hartwell Thompson on Lovely Lane, shortly after eleven o’clock on Saturday morning and threatened to kill him. He soon made good […]
It was a strange crime to begin with, but now the case of two European forgers caught in Belize has become even stranger. Police report that Sunday afternoon prison officials discovered the body of thirty four year old Spaniard Kartheinz Gatscher in his cell. Gatscher, who was on remand along with his Italian partner for […]
Around the same time police were called to the scene in Hattieville, their colleagues in Corozal were recovering the body of a man from Corozal Bay. Twenty-five year old Isamel Almora of Corozal Town had been reported missing by his father on Saturday. He had apparently drowned and his body did not surface until the […]
Residents of Jasmine Street in Belize City got a scare on Sunday afternoon when a butane gas tank exploded while being filled. According to the National Fire Service, a truck belonging to Belize Western Energy Limited was on a routine butane gas delivery at the home of Deborah Longsworth Young when the incident happened. In […]
While only minor injuries were reported in Sunday’s explosion, two days earlier in Santa Elena, Cayo, another incident involving a butane gas truck could have had far more serious consequences. The incident happened at the Western Gas Company Depot around eight twenty five on Friday morning as employees were filling up the truck to do […]
After months without a leader, Belize Technical College today has a new principal. At a meeting last Thursday, Minister of Education Cordel Hyde introduced the concept of faculty governance whereby he asked the staff to discuss the situation among themselves and recommend who they wanted as successor to Dr. Cecil Reneau who was elevated to […]
It has been out of the public spotlight for quite some time but it doesn’t mean that the controversy over logging in Toledo has gone away. Over the weekend a group of leaders from several Toledo villages were in Belize City to update the media on the latest developments in the ongoing fight to protect […]
The subject of jobs is one that is dear to the hearts of all of us. Politicians want to provide them, most people who don’t have one, want one, and those who are fortunate enough to have one, usually want a better one. But what does it take to get a job…and hold on ot […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this edition of Sports Monday. The BTL football season so far has been unkind to the city team named Acros who made its homestand at the MCC grounds yesterday, still looking for win number one. The opponent first happened to be the unpredictable Dangriga Jaguars looking for […]
Police in Belmopan are investigating the brutal murder of a man from the village of Las Flores. According to police, they visited the school in the village where they found the body of forty-one year old Jose Antonio Obando with chop wounds to the ribs and throat. Obando’s body awaits a postmortem examination at the […]
While police in Belmopan track down an alleged murderer, in Orange Walk, the search continues for two men who held up a thirty-three year old housewife. According to police, Reina Romero told them that she and her three year old daughter were at home around one thirty Thursday afternoon when two men, one of them […]
The Belize Technical College could soon find itself once again playing a crucial role in the development of the country. That’s according to minister of education Cordel Hyde. Accompanied by the Permanent Secretary and the Chief Education Officer, the minister dropped in on the staff this morning for a brief visit. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick […]
Adolescent Reproductive Health will be the focus of a special summit for youths of the Caribbean this month in Barbados. Sixteen year old Robert Burgess of Belize City will join other young people from across the region for the 1998 Caribbean Youth Summit. Burgess and the other delegates will discuss ways of advancing the agenda […]
A joint Belize/United Kingdom military exercise code named “Caribbean Fury” has begun. According to a government press release, the month-long exercise will involve close to five hundred Royal Marines and B.D.F. soldiers in intensive jungle warfare training and live firing exercises in the Mountain Pine Ridge and Chiquibul Forest Reserve. The exercise will also involve […]
Plans are well underway for another swimming expedition across the Corozal Bay. The four mile swim, which is scheduled for October eleventh, is being organized by Swim Across Belize Outstanding Relief, SABOR. The group was formed shortly after the first swim across the bay last March which raised five thousand dollars to assist the Belize […]
The magic number is down to twenty nine… that’s the number of days left before the closing down of Belize’s oldest broadcasting institution. According to Minister of Broadcasting Mark Espat October thirty-first is slated to be the last day that the financially strapped Broadcasting Corporation of Belize will be on air. But as the date […]
The newly created Ministry of the Sugar Industry is facing its first major controversy, one which farmers in the north are saying could seriously affect the country’s number one foreign exchange earner. Patrick Jones reports. The standoff in “Sugar City” surrounds an audit of the finances of the Belize Cane Farmers Association. Minister of the […]
After three days of brainstorming, prison superintendents of British dependent territories in the Caribbean have ended their annual support conference in Belize City. While for some it was a time to re-acquaint themselves with fellow superintendents, others took the opportunity to gather fresh ideas on tackling problems in their own prison system. Eric Smith, Director […]
Twenty-four hours after the fire alarm was sounded at the corner of North Creek Road and Curasow Street, firemen were once again busy on the southside of the city early this morning. The upper flat of the two-storey building at the corner of thirty-nine Dean and Plues Streets was partially destroyed by fire which broke […]
In crime news, police in Orange Walk are investigating the murder of a sixty-four year old man. Acting upon information received, police say they visited a house at number thirty-two Maskal Street around nine o’clock last night where they found the body of Danilo Ramirez in front of the house. He had been shot to […]
Earlier this week we reported on a shooting incident in Belize City that sent a teenage girl to the emergency room. Reports on Tuesday were that the shooting was the result of a domestic dispute, but as I found out from the victim this morning, there may be more to the story than meets the […]
