A twenty two member delegation from the Republic of China on Taiwan may be touring the country to promote investment, but while the high powered visitors are being wined and dined in fancy hotels and restaurants, their less well connected brethren continue to take their licks on the mean streets of Belize City. Today, members […]
While would be robbers may have been shooting up a Belize City shop Tuesday night, the tables were turned in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. When Mark Lizarraga, 36 year old proprietor of Southside Meat Shop on Albert Street, heard a suspicious noise on his verandah, he emerged to find a burglary in progress. […]
Tonight the family of Mark Martinez in Double Head Cabbage remains in shock after an escaped prisoner entered their home and attacked them with a knife. While at this time reports are sketchy, the police say Peter Augustine, who was serving a five year jail term at Hattieville Prison, was one of the inmates taken […]
The 1998 National Secondary School Softball Tournament opens Friday afternoon in the nation’s capital. Eight teams, four male and four female, will make the journey to the Dora Beaton Stadium in Belmopan to compete in the knockout tournament being held under the patronage of the Principals Association and Texaco Belize Limited. Independence High’s boys and […]
A new artist is displaying his works at the Belisle Art Gallery in Belize City. Patrick Jones stopped by for a look. They are the work of an up and coming artist … and what they lack in color the paintings of Omar Sanchez-Rivera, make up for in originality. Omar Sánchez-Rivera, Artist “The messages are […]
In an age when computers automatically correct our printed words, it’s an art that seems almost archaic. But if you’ve ever received a hand or typewritten letter from a person who cannot spell, you know just how painful such communication can be. So how do we promote such skills in our children? There’s nothing like […]
