A B.D.F. plane crash landed this afternoon but we are happy to report that the occupants walked away unhurt. The twin engine Defender was on reconnaissance patrol over the Orange Walk District when around two o’clock it experienced engine problems. The pilot was forced to set the plane down in a swamp some five to […]
It’s a story that has been in the news for almost a week now and the more details that emerge, the more questions arise about the chilling discovery of a dead baby at the city dump. Perhaps the break that police were looking for came today, when they found the mother whose name was on […]
A musician from San Ignacio drowned over the weekend. Reports are that thirty-two year old Anibal Lanza of Cahal Pech area had been swimming in the river on Sunday afternoon when he suddenly disappeared under the water. With help from residents of nearby Santa Familia Road the body was found near the Bullet Tree Bridge. […]
The Western Highway was a dangerous place for pedestrians over the weekend. Around four o’clock on Saturday morning police picked up the body of twenty-three year old Chema Alve Suarez between miles forty-two and forty-three on the Western Highway near Cotton Tree Village. He was apparently the victim of a hit and run accident. Police […]
Earlier this month it was a San Pedro accounts clerk whose clever bookwork landed her a jail cell at Hattieville. A week and a half later, three Belize City gas station supervisors find themselves behind bars for their alleged creative business practices. Twenty-four year old Randolph Young, twenty year old Hector Staine and twenty-one year […]
Two Belize City men who terrorized a neighborhood on Friday night appear to have inflicted more injuries by hitting people with their guns than by firing them. Marlon Budd told police he was riding his bicycle on Central American Boulevard near Antelope Street when Mark Henry and Kareem Swazo approached. Mark Henry reportedly began beating […]
The regional air carrier TACA has always been well known for its generous and attentive in flight service, but if you wanted the wider seats and added legroom associated with first class or business class travel you would have to choose a different airline. No longer. Beginning December first TACA will inaugurate its executive class […]
The Reconstruction and Development Corporation has announced that in the interest of proper financial management, they will be forced to let go a number of staff members. RECONDEV says that although their work has not appreciably increased over the past five years, since 1993 their administrative staff, hired laborers and wage bill have more than […]
As Caribbean countries get ready to face the many challenges of the twenty first century, telecommunication companies in particular, are being encouraged to create a more competitive environment that will better serve the interest of their workers and the region. The issue is being discussed at length, at a five-day conference called by the Caribbean […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is another version of Sports Monday. For the first time ever a full-length marathon of 26 miles was staged in a package yesterday presented by NTV of Japan as they launched their search for a Belizean talent to take to the Sydney Olympics 2000. Now folks this is […]
