It had all the elements of a comic crime caper worthy of such esteemed novelists as Elmore Leonard or Donald Westlake. But this wasn’t fiction and tonight four men are facing the hard reality of prison life, having been accused of involvement in a scheme to send three thousand pounds of weed to Miami in […]
There may not be a crime involved but tonight the family of fifteen year old Joyce Hemmans is in need of your help. According to Hemmans’ mother, Emily Bethram, her daughter, who lives on Faber’s Road Extension with her grandmother, was sent about two blocks away to get some water shortly after eight on Thursday […]
Middle managers from the public and private sectors in the Caribbean and Canada are meeting in Belize this week to try and figure out how both groups can work more closely. Over forty top-level officials including permanent secretaries from Belize are attending the three-day conference, which opened today at the Radisson Hotel. Organizers say the […]
Hundreds of primary school children, teachers and residents of the Stann Creek and Toledo Districts are the latest beneficiaries of infrastructural assistance from the Social Investment Fund. Three new projects funded by SIF were handed over on Monday. They include the rehabilitation of the Holy Angels Primary School and principal’s office in Pomona Village, Stann […]
The Belize Tourist Board is happily reporting a healthy increase in tourist arrivals. They quote airport statistics showing that the number of tourists arriving during the first three months of the year — the heart of the season — increased by ten point six five percent over the similar period in 1997 to thirty one […]
Football fans who are not sure where to find their favorite World Cup team will get a little break these next few weeks, courtesy of Channel Five and the Caribbean Broadcasting Union. As was the case with the Atlanta Olympics, the broadcast rights to the competition are owned by the C.B.U., but other broadcasters and […]
With Belizean women being visible everywhere from the bases to the boardrooms we are no longer surprised when we see a female in what was once considered an exclusively male occupation. But one profession has managed to resist feminine integration — until now that is. Since the birth of Tropic Air in 1979, the San […]
