Police in Belmopan are investigating the brutal murder of a man from the village of Las Flores. According to police, they visited the school in the village where they found the body of forty-one year old Jose Antonio Obando with chop wounds to the ribs and throat. Obando’s body awaits a postmortem examination at the […]
While police in Belmopan track down an alleged murderer, in Orange Walk, the search continues for two men who held up a thirty-three year old housewife. According to police, Reina Romero told them that she and her three year old daughter were at home around one thirty Thursday afternoon when two men, one of them […]
The Belize Technical College could soon find itself once again playing a crucial role in the development of the country. That’s according to minister of education Cordel Hyde. Accompanied by the Permanent Secretary and the Chief Education Officer, the minister dropped in on the staff this morning for a brief visit. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick […]
Adolescent Reproductive Health will be the focus of a special summit for youths of the Caribbean this month in Barbados. Sixteen year old Robert Burgess of Belize City will join other young people from across the region for the 1998 Caribbean Youth Summit. Burgess and the other delegates will discuss ways of advancing the agenda […]
A joint Belize/United Kingdom military exercise code named “Caribbean Fury” has begun. According to a government press release, the month-long exercise will involve close to five hundred Royal Marines and B.D.F. soldiers in intensive jungle warfare training and live firing exercises in the Mountain Pine Ridge and Chiquibul Forest Reserve. The exercise will also involve […]
Plans are well underway for another swimming expedition across the Corozal Bay. The four mile swim, which is scheduled for October eleventh, is being organized by Swim Across Belize Outstanding Relief, SABOR. The group was formed shortly after the first swim across the bay last March which raised five thousand dollars to assist the Belize […]
The magic number is down to twenty nine… that’s the number of days left before the closing down of Belize’s oldest broadcasting institution. According to Minister of Broadcasting Mark Espat October thirty-first is slated to be the last day that the financially strapped Broadcasting Corporation of Belize will be on air. But as the date […]
