It is never easy to report on a crime of sexual assault… and when the victim of such an inherently distasteful act happens to be a politician it makes things even more complicated. The facts as we understand them are as follows: at around five a.m. Sunday morning Marisa Quan, U.D.P. standard bearer for the […]
In Corozal a weekend visit to the beach proved fatal for a Taiwanese teacher. Twenty two year old Wan Chen Hsieh was bathing Sunday afternoon with a group of her countrymen at Blades Lagoon near Santa Elena when around three she suddenly disappeared under the water. Twenty minutes later her lifeless body was recovered and […]
In other police news, authorities are still looking for the owner of eighty pounds of marijuana found on a farm in Burrell Boom. Seventy three year old Belize City resident Lionel Gentle, his son and some other men, went to visit Gentle’s country estate on Sunday morning. While at the farm, and reportedly while getting […]
Regional leaders appear pleased at the results of the two day Summit of the Americas, which concluded on Sunday in Santiago, Chile. While the way has now been opened to begin formal negotiations on a hemisphere-wide free trade area of the Americas, the concerns of the small states of the Caribbean were addressed and mechanisms […]
“Save The Earth Through Music,” is the theme of a one week summer music camp now being planned for children between the ages of seven and thirteen. To prepare for the session, hosted by the Belize Arts Council, teachers have been invited to learn how music can be integrated into their curriculum. According to the […]
Good evening. I’m James Adderley and welcome to this hefty serving of Sports Monday. We begin with the Belize District Basketball playoffs and here we join M & M Christian Ambassadors making its final stand in the series down one game to Reggae by d River. The Ambassadors try to mount no breeze defense in […]
