With prices barely beginning to recover from their lowest level in a decade the citrus industry was not in exactly great shape. Now there’s more bad news as one of the two processing companies, C.C.B., has been hit with a strike. According to James McFoy, President of the Christian Workers Union, around three hundred employees […]
Two more suspects have been arrested in last Thursday’s shoot-out on Kraal Road in Belize City. 22 year old Ernest Savery and 24 year old Collin Bailey, like the three suspects already in custody, have been charged with three counts of attempted murder, wounding and deadly means of harm. All five men, believed to be […]
It was a close call for a number of parked cars on Eyre Street this afternoon but for one moving vehicle it was the end of the line. Reports are that a brown Ford Ranger pickup belonging to BIMCO and driven at the time by the company’s driver, was traveling at high speed down the […]
We last heard from Deon Smith as the victim of a drunken policeman intent on playing Russian Roulette — with Deon’s life. Although a bullet still lingers inside his head, the twenty one year old security guard is making a slow but miraculous recovery. Patrick Jones visited him this morning. If life was a game […]
Two weeks ago we covered a career day held by a consortium of schools on the south side of Belize City. But Gwen Lizarraga High was not the only educational institution I’ve been visiting. Last Friday I ventured to Central Farm to discover that the future of the nation’s agricultural sector is in pretty good […]
