The life of a thirty-one year old Atlantic Bank employee was cut short on Sunday morning as she and her husband headed to Belize City. The husband was behind the wheel of the vehicle, which lost control and plunged into the Belize River. He managed to pull himself out of the waters, but his wife […]
Meanwhile, the recent death of a prisoner, which initially had indications of a suicide, is now being determined otherwise. The inmate was found hanging inside his cell on October ninth. A post mortem examination has revealed that prison inmate, Alfonso Ek, was murdered by manual strangulation. Ek was in prison since 2005 for maim and […]
In political news, she had a meteoric rise, but today Belize City Mayor, Zenaida Moya Flowers, appears a falling star. On October first Moya-Flowers was charged with uttering false documents and failure to comply with City Council regulations and within days she was removed from her party’s National Party Council after she had choice words […]
The Venezuelan Housing fund made the headlines for over a year, not because of the good it would have done for Belizeans, but because the U.D.P. administration took former Prime Minister Said Musa to court for theft of ten million U.S. dollars. The Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh ruled that the charge be withdrawn against Musa […]
Turning to the courts, thirty-nine year old Ernest Vasquez took the short road to prison and pleaded guilty to Theft when he was brought before Magistrate Aretha Ford today. This comes on heels of a report by his neighbor Lisa Green that items valuing one thousand two hundred dollars were stolen from inside her car […]
And twenty-five year old Nathaniel Conorquie, the man accused of pulling a major heist, walked off a Robbery charge today. The hold-up occurred on February twentieth 2006 at the Princess Casino in Belize City in which over thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars were stolen. Conorquie, a former chef at the establishment, was only charged with […]
The concept of sustainable tourism, which seeks to allow mass tourism with as little damage to the natural resources, has been around for some time. But this week tourist operators are talking responsible tourism. And while that is also aimed at resource preservation, it simultaneously boosts cultural development. The International Conference on Responsible Tourism (I.C.R.T.) […]
We asked Dujon what the ministry of tourism is doing to make the idea of responsible tourism a reality. Yashin Dujon “The Ministry of Tourism actually is the first government ministry that has incorporated a full environmental policy. You visit our offices at #106 South Street, you’ll find that we do have the water saving […]
The Mexican Embassy is also promoting culture and history. It’s holding a literature-based film festival at the Institute of Mexico on New Town Barracks from the nineteenth to the twenty-second of October and will feature four different films on romance, superstitions and culture. The festival is a part of the embassy’s cultural educational program 2009 […]
It’s a story with a positive twist. A five year old girl has been battling renal failure. Bad and unusual at her age, but the condition has worsened with a number of complications including hypertension and cholesterol. This is not putting her down…she goes to school, takes treatment four times a day and lives as […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and it’s always a pleasure bringing you another this thing we call Sports Monday. Week nine of the B.P.F.L. regular season brought the internecine struggle between F.C. Belize and the Belize Defence Force to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday and indeed the outcome proved to be surprising. For the Military unit, […]
