A soldier, by the nature of his profession, is always prepared to die… but when death comes by accident and by his own hand that event is doubly tragic. Today the Belize Defence Force confirmed that Private Erasimo Bol died early Sunday morning at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. At around one a.m. on Friday he […]
One man is dead and another has been injured in a freak accident in Ladyville. On Tuesday afternoon Wilfred Aranda and Omar Acosta, both employees of Caribbean Shrimp Limited, were repairing a machine which generates air bubbles for the shrimp ponds. At the time, according to the company’s owner, Charles Mackintosh, B.E.L. had turned off […]
Another death, this time in Belize City, was reported in the early hours of this morning. At around two-thirty police discovered the body of thirty-eight year old David Mejia, a fisherman of number one-twelve Eve Street. He was found in front of the Cuello Brothers depot on Pickstock Street and pronounced dead on arrival at […]
If you watch the American cop shows on television you know all about the system called parole. That’s when a convicted criminal who has behaved well in prison is released early under strict orders to stay out of trouble. Well it’s taken a while but parole, as I found out this morning, is about to […]
Belize’s Young Men’s Christian Association now stands as a full member of the global YMCA organization. The change in status from associate to full-fledged membership was accomplished last week at the fourteenth World YMCA Council held in Germany. Seven hundred delegates from one hundred and twenty five countries attended, including one hundred and twenty youth […]
Music lovers will soon be able to enjoy the voices of Belizean children as the Arts Council prepares for the selection of the first National Youth Choir. Although it won’t be until August twenty-sixth that rehearsals get underway, interested children between the ages of eight and thirteen are being invited to try out for thirty […]
While the National Youth Choir is being formed, the Arts Council is also taking time out to honor outstanding Belizean artists in an awards ceremony to be held next week. According to Cultural Assistant Phyllis Butler, the theme for this year’s awards is “The magic of the theatre and the soul of the art”. Phyllis […]
It was only a little more than a month ago that the nation’s collective heartbeat was racing just about as fast as our national basketball team was running down the court en route to its first ever CARICOM Championship. Now as a new challenge looms on the horizon the winning coaches and the first wave […]
It was until recently known as the Sea and Air Festival but has now taken on the more regionally flavored name of Costa Maya. But whatever you call it, the annual off-season celebration in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, is a hit with a growing number of tourists and Belizeans alike. Patrick Jones was on the […]
