Twenty-four hours after the gruesome discovery of the body of a dead baby at the City’s garbage dump, police are still trying to piece together the who, what, why and when. A postmortem examination was conducted on the body today by Pathologist Dr. Mario Estradabran, but up to news time, he had not made the […]
In other crime news law enforcement authorities continue to disrupt the marijuana trade just as the prime harvesting season approaches. On Wednesday morning police and B.D.F. personnel operating in the Orange Walk District discovered no less than three weed plantations in the area known as Vaqueros Camp. According to an official release the farms contained […]
It is fitting that in the midst of a day of sometime torrential rain, a group of Belize’s top professionals met to discuss the subject of… water. Patrick Jones reports from the Radisson. The two-day meeting brings together over twenty representatives of organizations that depend heavily on the country’s water resources. Acting Chief Meteorologist Justin […]
The Ministry of Tourism and Broadcasting has announced the names of members of the Belize Broadcasting Authority. The list is led by Chairman Philip Zuniga and includes Silvana Woods, Jimmy Johnson, Frank Arzu, Pauline Rodriguez Romero and Father Noel Leslie along with ex-officio members Clifford Slusher and Marian McNab. The B.B.A. is the body which […]
While on the subject of broadcasting, media houses nationwide have received requests from Atlantic Industries Limited, the Malaysian company engaged in controversial logging activities in Toledo, to come visit their southern operations and report on what they find. In the past the Malaysians have refused to speak to the Belizean press but have apparently had […]
Less than two months ago the then opposition People’s United Party campaigned hard on the promise that, if elected, they would get Belize’s economic train on the move once again. Now that the P.U.P. owns the railroad, everyone from the unemployed Belizean on the street to the millionaire potential investor wants to know when the […]
