It was announced with all the fanfare and drama the press and public have come to expect every time the police want to make a point. Reeling from charges of ineptitude and brutality on the part of law enforcement authorities, the Minister of National Security and his Commissioner of Police on Friday assured the nation […]
While Trujillo, Davis and West have no doubt as to the innocence of Teul and Vasquez, police Commissioner Ornel Brooks remained defiantly unconvinced. At a press briefing this afternoon in Belmopan, he called into question the motive behind the weekend’s stunning eyewitness testimonies. Brooks told reporters that when officers went to H.T.A. Bowman Limited situated […]
As crimes go it may not compare to the mayhem on the Hummingbird, but by Belize City standards it was a major stickup. Shortly after one this morning, twenty five year old Santiago Zaiden, security guard at the Fiesta Inn reported that he went to investigate a noise coming from the south part of the […]
In news of a more upbeat nature Governor General Sir Colville Young was busy today pushing his pet project of making Belize more musically literate. This morning he presented an assortment of bugles, drums and cymbals to Holy Redeemer Upper School and then traveled across town to Queen’s Square Anglican where he made a similar […]
In economic news, while the United States is working to kill the Caribbean banana industry it is at the same time providing price supports for the region’s sugar producers. A release from the U.S. embassy has announced a second increase in Belize’s sugar quota. The additional two thousand, two hundred and thirty four metric tons […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s a fresh serving of Sports Monday. If you’ve been waiting for your dose of professional football play then yesterday was payday as the B.F.L. opened its 1998 knockout football competition with five ball games nationwide. We caught up with the action at M.C.C. Grounds and the Acros team […]
