A twenty-six year old Belize City man has been charged with the crime of murder in what looks like a long-delayed revenge killing. Steven Kelly is reported to have gone to the home of Hartwell Thompson on Lovely Lane, shortly after eleven o’clock on Saturday morning and threatened to kill him. He soon made good […]
It was a strange crime to begin with, but now the case of two European forgers caught in Belize has become even stranger. Police report that Sunday afternoon prison officials discovered the body of thirty four year old Spaniard Kartheinz Gatscher in his cell. Gatscher, who was on remand along with his Italian partner for […]
Around the same time police were called to the scene in Hattieville, their colleagues in Corozal were recovering the body of a man from Corozal Bay. Twenty-five year old Isamel Almora of Corozal Town had been reported missing by his father on Saturday. He had apparently drowned and his body did not surface until the […]
Residents of Jasmine Street in Belize City got a scare on Sunday afternoon when a butane gas tank exploded while being filled. According to the National Fire Service, a truck belonging to Belize Western Energy Limited was on a routine butane gas delivery at the home of Deborah Longsworth Young when the incident happened. In […]
While only minor injuries were reported in Sunday’s explosion, two days earlier in Santa Elena, Cayo, another incident involving a butane gas truck could have had far more serious consequences. The incident happened at the Western Gas Company Depot around eight twenty five on Friday morning as employees were filling up the truck to do […]
After months without a leader, Belize Technical College today has a new principal. At a meeting last Thursday, Minister of Education Cordel Hyde introduced the concept of faculty governance whereby he asked the staff to discuss the situation among themselves and recommend who they wanted as successor to Dr. Cecil Reneau who was elevated to […]
It has been out of the public spotlight for quite some time but it doesn’t mean that the controversy over logging in Toledo has gone away. Over the weekend a group of leaders from several Toledo villages were in Belize City to update the media on the latest developments in the ongoing fight to protect […]
The subject of jobs is one that is dear to the hearts of all of us. Politicians want to provide them, most people who don’t have one, want one, and those who are fortunate enough to have one, usually want a better one. But what does it take to get a job…and hold on ot […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this edition of Sports Monday. The BTL football season so far has been unkind to the city team named Acros who made its homestand at the MCC grounds yesterday, still looking for win number one. The opponent first happened to be the unpredictable Dangriga Jaguars looking for […]
