If you’ve been following the news lately you’ve noticed that, through crimes, accidents, natural causes and even a few unsolved mysteries, there has been no shortage of dead bodies in Belize. Those sheer numbers and a less than efficient system of dealing with them, have led to some problems… as I found out the hard […]
In a decision that may have far reaching effects on the relationship between government and its employees, the Supreme Court has ordered authorities to reinstate a fired public officer and pay him over three years of back salary. In 1994 Jason Guerrero was terminated from his job as music coordinator with the Belize Arts Council, […]
For several months he was one of Belize’s most wanted fugitives but unlike his more famous colleague, Wensworth Mangar, who died in a hail of police bullets, Douglas Williams was quietly apprehended on June third. This morning, shortly past midnight, Williams was found dead in his maximum-security cell at Hattieville Prison. According to a police […]
Another visitor to Belize has died, although in this case no foul play is suspected. Fifty-six year old Irene Bein, a tourist from New York, was snorkeling at Hol Chan Marine Reserve, along with her twenty two year old son, when she began experiencing breathing problems and passed out. She was taken ashore, where CPR […]
Police in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, believe they’ve finally caught up with a robber who has held up at least two of the island’s drinking establishments during the past couple of weeks. Lius Lima Carrera, a twenty-one year old Guatemalan resident of San Pedro, has been charged with two counts of robbery and aggravated assault. […]
The four Corozal representatives in the House, all members of the People’s United Party, today invited the press to hear their take on the upcoming elections. Patrick Jones was on hand to get the P.U.P. version of life in the north. The joint press conference hosted by the incumbent P.U.P. representatives in Corozal was to […]
One candidate is the Prime Minister, the other is mayor of the nation’s largest municipality. The P.M.’s margin of victory the last time around was only forty votes and the challenger has been working hard ever since. Tonight in our continuing coverage of “Elections ’98” we look at the showdown in Caribbean Shores. Manuel Esquivel, […]
In a piece of late breaking news the government’s Belize Information Service has just issued a press release on the Commission of Inquiry called to look into allegations of wrong doing in connection with the Economic Citizenship Programme conducted from 1989 to 1993. To absolutely nobody’s surprise, the two commissioners have concluded, with exquisite timing, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and yes this is yet another serving of Sports Monday. The final push for Belize’s participation in the eighteenth Central American and Caribbean Games is currently underway and so we decided to check in yesterday at the City Centre where the national male basketball team of Belize was working up […]
