And in more encouraging news from the sea, the Coastal Zone Management Authority reports that two orphaned manatees have been successfully introduced to a new home near Gale’s point. Woody was transported from Sarteneja on May fourth while Hercules made the long trek from Xcaret in Mexico on May tenth. The health of the two […]
While the growing Corozal free Zone continues to boost the economy of Northern Belize, a new tourism project adjoining the zone promises to make the area a Mecca for more than just shoppers looking for bargain liquor and gasoline. The Galeria Maya Project, located on the waters of Four-Miles Lagoon, centres around the construction of […]
The farmers of the year have been announced by the Ministry of Agriculture. Winner of the title Senior Farmer of the Year is Julian Patt of San Estevan in the Orange Walk District. Junior Farmer of the Year is Giovanni Tun of Freetown Sibun in the Belize District, while Woman Farmer of the Year is […]
It was high drama last night as the last semi-final competition in Karaoke Television was held at the Bellevue’s King Street Station. After five fine performances the judges rendered their decision on which two singers would advance to the finals. William Neal, Host, Karaoke TV “Our first winner for tonight is Darwin Cayetano.” (Darwin singing […]
In the past non-governmental organizations had to fight to raise funds for projects that would help to build communities or preserve the environment. But a small grant programme facilitated by the United Nations Development Plan is making it easier for many development projects to get off the ground. Philip Balderamos, Co-ordinator, G.E.F. Small Grants Prog. […]
Reverberations from the beating death of a fourteen-year-old boy by British soldiers are being felt even stronger tonight as a joint investigation of the incident gathers steam. Thirty soldiers remain confined to their barracks at Ladyville as a team of five military police investigators and their Belizean counterparts try to unravel exactly what took place […]
One person who will figure prominently in the investigation is the man who owns Raul’s Rose Garden and was present on the night of the incident. This afternoon Raul Magaña told Ann-Marie what he saw and how it was that four teenagers came to be patrons in his nightspot. Raul Magaña, Owner, Raul’s Rose Garden […]
Despite Magaña’s admonitions to his bouncer, it is clear that self-policing of bars and nightclubs is not going to keep out underage patrons. That job will fall to police and the body, which grants bars their licenses to sell booze. Rene Skeen is both the chairman of the Ladyville Village Council and member of the […]
The soldiers now confined at Price Barracks are members of an elite-fighting unit called the Gurkhas. Citizens of Nepal, near India, the Gurkhas first began fighting for the British in 1815 following their defeat by Great Britain in a border dispute. They helped the British fight various rebellions in India and by World War One […]
In more crime news a man has been arrested in connection with a stabbing in the Corozal District. Francisco Pineda, a labourer of San Narciso Village was charged with attempted murder after an incident in San Pedro Village on May twelfth, in which he is accused of stabbing Jose Peña of Christo Rey Village. Peña, […]
St. John’s Church on Albert Street has been in need of repair for a long time. Increasingly the one hundred and eighty-eight-year-old landmark and its parishioners have had to endure a leaky roof, not to mention rotting beams. Supporters have staged numerous fund raising activities to fix the problems and finally those efforts seem to […]
It’s not often that we see official wrongs put right, but today was one of those days that an aggrieved citizen actually received satisfaction. Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Last week in the wee hours of Thursday morning, a police officer crashed one of the department’s pickup trucks into the home of Orlando Lanza […]
A fourteen-year-old boy is dead after being beaten in what appears to be a brawl on Thursday night. The incident occurred at Raul’s Rose Garden, a popular bar and brothel located near mile eight on the Northern Highway. Details are sketchy, but the deceased, David Zabaneh Jr. is a first form student at St. John’s […]
Police are trying to find out whether Mervin Valerio, a thirty-eight year old labourer of Georgeville Village in the Cayo District, had already died when he was run over by a Novelo’s bus on Saturday. The bus driver, Albino Moh, told police that around 3:30 a.m. he was driving to Belize City and upon reaching […]
A Mother’s Day shooting incident has left a Chinese businesswoman of Orange Walk Town in a stable condition and six men on the run. Police say around 7:30 Sunday night the men entered Taisan’s Restaurant on Queen Victoria Avenue and ordered food and drink from Yu Fa Chen, the owner. After they finished eating, the […]
Taisan’s Restaurant wasn’t the only Chinese establishment robbed over the weekend. Police say they are also looking for a dark-skinned masked gunman who entered Quan Sing Supermarket on Racecourse Street in Belize City and stole four hundred dollars. Donna Lee, the thirty-year old shop owner told police that the men held a black handgun to […]
A group of tourists in Cayo got a bit more of a Belize adventure than they bargained for this weekend. On Sunday four guests and their tour guide were held up as they drove in a van on their way to Chaa Creek Resort. Guide Philip Burns, twenty-four, of Yute Expeditions, had just picked up […]
You’d never know it from today’s newscast, but the Ministry of National Security reports that in April major crimes fell by seven point two percent from a year earlier. Incidents of rape, murder, robbery and burglary all either stayed constant of dropped, while theft increased slightly over April 2000. A total of one hundred sixteen […]
There has been a happy ending to the disappearance of former Chief Justice, Sir George Brown. Sir George, who wandered away from his wife in the vicinity of Belama on the Northern Highway on Thursday, was found Friday night near the Haulover Creek. The former Chief Justice suffers from a neurological disorder known as partial […]
In matters of diplomacy it sometimes turns out that no action is the best action to take. That’s what has apparently happened in the case of the illegal Guatemalan settlement at Edwards Central in Toledo. While both governments nitpicked over how to get rid of the settlers, who had crossed the border in search of […]
The People’s United Party has a new standard bearer for the Dangriga constituency. In the convention held on Sunday Sylvia Flores received seven hundred and sixty votes compared to two hundred and fifty-six for Ivan Ramos and fifty-two for Anthony Adderley. Flores, who currently serves as Speaker of the House and is a former mayor […]
While Belize police last week racked up a near record cocaine bust, their counterparts in the U.S. have also did some record breaking of their own–and Belize figures prominently in the action. On Sunday the U.S. Coast Guard in San Diego searched a fishing boat, the “Svesda Maru,” which the Navy had earlier seized in […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and welcome aboard this pleasant flight on Sports Monday that’s bound to get you off. We start with the 2001 edition of the female Cross-Country Classic. Here we join the start of the seventy mile ride featuring five of the top seven female cyclists of this country we call Belize, […]
The family of Sir George Brown is asking for the nation’s help tonight. Sir George, the former Chief Justice of Belize and well-known sportsman, has been missing since Thursday just before noon. He was with his wife at the Belama branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia when he apparently walked off while she tended […]
Two men were formally arraigned today in connection with Wednesday’s massive drug bust. Brothers Robert and Adrian Hertular appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord where they were charged with drug trafficking. Bail was denied, for now at least, and the pair will reappear in court on May thirty-first. Three other suspects detained in the raids […]
