It was the kind of crime that, although no longer surprising, is no less disturbing. More details of Thursday’s cold blooded murder and robbery on the Old Northern Highway are slowly emerging from police, the surviving victim and officials of the company the two delivery men were working for. Today in the aftermath of the […]
There’s good news and then there’s not so good news to report tonight from the southern coastal town of Punta Gorda. The good news is that the quick actions of the police resulted in the speedy apprehension of an accused forgery artist, John Gabriel, after the check he issued to a local shop, turned out […]
Still in Toledo, no foul play is suspected in the death of a U.S. national in the village of Hopeville. Forty nine-year old John Richard Marik’s lifeless body was discovered on a sofa in his living room early this morning by his wife. According to Mrs. Marik, her husband had earlier been complaining of chest […]
In other crime news, Belize City police have arrested and charged one of their own in connection with a shooting incident late Thursday night at a popular night-club on the Western Highway. P.C. Eddison Castillo is charged with the crimes of wounding and the use of deadly means of harm. The charges result from a […]
And in news just in, we have received reports of a traffic accident in Camalote Village in the Cayo District. A vehicle travelling on the Western Highway apparently ran into two teenagers walking along the road. The girl has died and the boy was injured and is now at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital.
It has been trumpeted from the U.D.P. rostrum for several weeks now, but today a B.I.S. press release officially announced government’s new policy for assisting needy primary school students with textbooks. The program, which is being made possible by the United Kingdom’s initiative to cancel the debt repayments owed by Commonwealth nations and use the […]
Both major candidates are former ministers of past P.U.P. governments. Luis Sylvestre’s career spanned the transition from colony to independence and after a brief political retirement he re-emerged last year as a standard bearer for the U.D.P. Ralph Fonseca, a former senator, was first elected to the House from the newly created constituency in 1993 […]
The National Male Basketball Team may have left for the Central American and Caribbean Games, but the championship fever has not died. The Belize Youth Development Department has been seeking out some future stars by holding a series of midnight marathons. From July twenty-ninth to the thirty-first, six teams made up of sixteen to nineteen […]
The weekly commentaries of G. Michael Reid have usually combined an artist’s touch for language with a streetwise philosopher’s understanding of the human condition. Tonight he turns those abilities in a more personal direction, toward a subject that has obviously been on his mind for quite some time. “I did my first Last Word almost […]
