After four this evening an accident occurred at mile four on the Northern Highway. It involved a Ford 250 pickup truck belonging to Bowen and Bowen Limited and Daihatsu Delta pickup truck owned by Madisco. Both vehicles were headed towards Belize City when they collided. Pedro Sanchez, Junior, an employee of Madisco, explained what caused […]
On March fourth, an elderly resident of Chan Pine Ridge in the Orange Walk District was brutally attacked outside his home. Eighty year old Jose Caal, a father of sixteen children, fell unconscious and had to be rushed to the hospital. He did not survive the attack and before his demise, he was able to […]
A mechanic of Hattieville is spending his first night behind bars at Hattieville tonight after he was remanded for having sexual intercourse with a thirteen year old girl. Fifty-one year old Cyril Hanker is charged with Carnal Knowledge and Grievous Harm. Because the nature of the offenses is indictable, Hanker was denied bail. The girl, […]
Also in Magistrates’ Court, twenty-four year old Harold Mutrie pleaded guilty to Possession of Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition and was sentenced to two years in prison. Mutrie was one of five persons charged with keeping a glock nine millimeter pistol and fifteen rounds. While the charges against the other defendants were withdrawn, they were not […]
A mother almost joined her son at the Hattieville facilities as a prison inmate for using indecent words to a police constable. The woman, thirty-four year old Lavern Longsworth, appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare on Tuesday. She was fined a hundred dollars and given until April thirtieth to pay but court records showed that she […]
The highly publicized extradition appeal by Rhett Fuller has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal and Fuller is behind bars pending a bail application. His attorney, Eamon Courtenay, is not giving up and has said they are prepared to go to the Privy Council if so required. While his fate is up in the […]
Lola Delgado’s Art and Idiocy exhibition opened Wednesday night at the House of Culture, and tonight there is another exhibit that art connoisseurs can’t miss. It is entitled “Roots Life’’ which is opening at the Bliss by Pen Cayetano who resides in Germany and takes periodic trips home. His latest artwork is inspired by Belizean […]
It may be a work day but there’s no reason why you can’t pop in at the Anglican Cathedral College‘s fair on Friday. Organizers have been planning since the end of last year and have prepared an assortment of activities to entertain the entire family. According to Alex Norales, one of the organizers, this annual […]
Available information indicates that hypertension is affecting a large segment of the population and most of time the causes are unknown. Healthy Living this week looks at the symptoms of this health problem. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting Hypertension or high blood pressure is an all too common condition in Belize. In fact, hypertension has been one […]
Three persons traveling north died on the spot in Carmelita Village in the outskirts of Orange Walk Town this morning. The traffic mishap on the open highway is the worst this year resulting in the horrific death of the three, two of whom were decapitated. Thirty-three year old Atilio Ulloa of Simon Lamb Street who […]
At Tuesday’s cabinet meeting, a new transport system was approved to deal with a temporary ban on buses from Mexico and Guatemala that traverse the jewel. The problem had been brewing for some time but it recently came to a head when stakeholders complained that the foreign tourism buses were being allowed to make stops […]
The increase we are proposing is only one dollar per gallon on gasolines and diesel.” Those were Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s words when he spoke of the new Revenue Replacement Duty on fuel prices when he introduced the 2009/ 2010 budget on March sixth. The PM is projecting to raise thirty million dollars through the […]
In 2006, the Geology Department issued two dredging permits, each for sixteen thousand cubic yards, for a development on one of the Pelican Cayes. That very year, the Pelican range was included in the South Water Caye Marine Reserve, a part of the Belize Barrier Reef World Heritage Site. Since the dredging and land fill […]
An immigration officer at the P.G.I.A. and a businessman who were accused of importing eleven thousand five hundred U.S. dollars into Belize were found not guilty of the charge today. The case stems from a sting operation at the Phillip Goldson International Airport back on May thirty-first, 2008. It was alleged that during a police […]
In other court news, an eighteen year old youth was today fined four hundred dollars after he pleaded guilty to beating a Chinese businessman at the Queen Street Police Station. Trevor Lamb admitted to beating Yong Sheng Zhang inside the cellblock at the station around eleven-thirty on January thirtieth. Lamb had first pleaded not guilty […]
Today is the fifth day since forty-four year old Enrique Ricardo Magana went missing without a trace from his home in San Joaquin Village, Corozal and family members still have no clue on his whereabouts. The family says Magana’s disappearance is strange because he has never stayed away. On Saturday morning when he left home […]
Every year the University of Belize hosts a Wellness Fair at each of its campuses. Student Services Coordinator, Sharon Palacio, says it’s all to keep a healthy student population. Jose Sanchez reports from the U.B. Belize City Business and Social Science’s Campus. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Every year the University of Belize hosts a Wellness Fair […]
There is another publication to add to your growing collection by Belizean authors and it is by Harold Usher, a survivor of Prostate Cancer who has been living in Canada for over forty years. Fifteen years later and still cancer-free, Usher has teamed up with his Urologist Joseph Chin and put on paper his experiences […]
The 2009 Telemedia directory is hot off the press and this year the book has been enhanced with new features. It is user friendly and carries a cultural theme dedicated to foods in Belize. Aside from telephone information, the directory also contains recipes from the country’s different ethnicities and general data about the jewel including […]
There are two exhibitions by well-known artists who are shaking up the art scene in the old Capital. The first event for the week is taking place at the House of Culture entitled “Art and Idiocy” by Lola Delgado of Seine Bight. It is the first solo exhibit by the fifty-six year old artist and […]
