It was a particularly brutal crime, the kind that’s not supposed to happen in a small country where everybody is said to know everybody else. Today police arrested and charged three men whom they claim committed the atrocity… and called in the press to talk. A little over two months after a Coca Cola truck […]
While planning seems to have been the M.O. in the holdup of the Coca-Cola delivery truck, in Belmopan a month long series of burglaries appears to have been the result of similar intentions. Officer in Charge of the Belmopan police station, Gerald Bernard, says that no less than thirty-three burglaries were reported between September third […]
A search for drugs in Belize City has led to the discovery of an illegal substance far more deadly: guns. Early Friday morning police entered the home of twenty-four year old fish vendor Freddy Grant at forty East Collet Canal. In addition to finding three parcels of suspected marijuana they also recovered a nine millimeter […]
Another search for drugs, this time in the Orange Walk District, has netted authorities a much bigger haul of weed… but nothing in the way of suspects. On Monday morning police raided a plantation four miles southwest of San Felipe Village where they discovered two thousand, five hundred cannabis plants over six feet tall. All […]
A Belize City bicyclist was injured this afternoon when he was run over by a mini-bus. Reports are sketchy but the unidentified man apparently went down to the pavement after slipping on the deck of the Bel-China Bridge and the vehicle ran over his head. He is currently undergoing emergency treatment at the Karl Heusner […]
A Belizean delegation has returned from Washington where members attended the annual general meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. The head of the group, budget and planning Minister Ralph Fonseca, told officials there of his government’s intention to get the nation’s economy moving in a way which would create jobs within an […]
Many of us can remember those days of the not-so-distant past, when the Haulover Creek was little more than an open sewer and the waters around Belize City were full of floating garbage. And while few would deny that the old capital has cleaned up its act, there’s still a long way to go. One […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and welcome to this Tuesday edition of Sports Monday. With its first win in the B.F.L. football season coming last weekend at the M.C.C. Grounds, the city based team Acros looked to make it two in a row at that same venue Sunday when they played host to the defending […]
