We are not really sure when the 1998 election campaign actually started — indeed it may have begun on July first, 1993 — but at least we now know when it will end. Patrick Jones was on hand for the Prime Minister’s big announcement on Sunday and files the following report. Thousands of U.D.P. supporters […]
His opponents may have assembled thousands strong and much of their rhetoric was directed squarely against him, but today opposition leader Said Musa says that his party is ready to go toe to toe with the U.D.P. … and that includes a debate with Manuel Esquivel. Musa laid down that challenge, and a few others, […]
Along with the pitched battle going on in the political arena Said Musa and the P.U.P. have their hands full in another venue: the Supreme Court. There are several dozen libel suits against the party newspaper, The Belize Times, which may come up over the next few months and today the court of Justice Nathan […]
The announcement of the date for general elections has not only set numerous political wheels into motion but also has the news media reacting as well. Today Channel Five and Love FM announced plans to provide joint coverage on election day and night. According to station heads Stewart Krohn and Rene Villanueva, the live broadcast, […]
In crime news police have released the results of a postmortem conducted on the body of naturalized Belizean Rosanne Orrizzi. It shows that she died of gunshot wounds to the head. Orrizzi’s partially decomposed body was discovered last Thursday in the yard of her farm in upper Barton Creek in the Cayo District. Police have […]
In the Toledo District a farmer from San Antonio has died, apparently the result of an accident. Police report that on Saturday afternoon 44 year old Francisco Sho was repairing the roof of his house when he slipped and fell to the ground head first. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Punta Gorda Hospital.
In a death that appeared to be anything but accidental police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a body found floating in the Belize River. On Saturday morning authorities were called to the village of Flower’s Bank where they retrieved the decomposing corpse, which displayed a number of severe cut wounds. The body, […]
The countries at either end of the Caribbean may be several thousand miles apart but they all share the resources of a single body of water. This morning I sat in on a session intended to make the fishermen as multinational as the seafood they catch. For the first time fishing communities and organizations from […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to another great serving of Sports Monday. The B.F.L. three game championship series kicked off last Sunday with Juventus of Orange Walk handing Real Verdes a 2-1 punch at the People’s Stadium. Obviously, going into yesterday’s ball game Real Verdes needed at least a big “W” to force […]
