Three days of rain have been an irritant to many Belizeans, but today all that water was a key factor in a man’s death, as a worker toiling in a flooded ditch was electrocuted in Ladyville. Details are sketchy, but we are informed that Marlon Smith, an employee of Jones Cooling and Power, was installing […]
All those contented cows wandering around the bucolic village of Crooked Tree look quaint and harmless… but today one family found out that looks can be dangerously deceiving. Clarita Russell, Mother “It went too far. My child could have been killed and we don’t need anyone to be killed now. It has to be stopped […]
On last night’s newscast we reported on a Belize City woman’s complaint that she was bilked out of fourteen hundred dollars by a cop who took her down payment for a boat and failed to deliver. Today police caught up with the missing constable and put him in bangles and a pickup truck in a […]
In other police news, the department today received a computer upgrade for the press office and records keeping section. At brief ceremonies at the Raccoon Street station, Assistant Commissioner of Police Maureen Leslie this morning accepted the donation from General Manager of Fultec Systems Dean Fuller, who says the gift is part of his company’s […]
It was described on our newscast of June thirteenth as “the worst piece of legislation ever passed by the House of Representatives”, and nothing done since then has caused the news editor to alter his opinion of the Macal River Hydroelectric Bill. With that in mind, we should be gleeful then that today Cabinet announced […]
In related news, Belize Electricity Limited today release figures showing that out of twenty Caribbean countries, Belize’s electricity rates are among the lowest, with only Trinidad and Jamaica charging consumers less. The release was meant to counter advertising put out by opponents of the Chalillo project that showed Belize having the highest rates in comparison […]
If the streets of Belize City looked a bit more crowded than usual today, it was because there were four cruise ships in the harbour. That event, the first of many such days between now and next April, marks the unofficial opening of the high cruise season. This morning at the Tourism Village there were […]
This morning, Saturday’s Lotto Jackpot winner finally walked into the offices of Tropical Gaming Company to claim his prize money. Mark Carcamo of Corozal Town may not have wanted to talk about his good luck on television but he went ahead and played by the rules of the game. Carcamo, who works as a bartender […]
