San Pedro police are still trying to determine the identities of the two bodies found on the island last week Monday and Tuesday. The bodies were in an advanced state of decomposition. At this time the police do not suspect foul play but rather they are looking at two possibilities as to how they could […]
As a way of giving thanks for Belize’s delivery from the ravages of Hurricane Mitch a number of churches and other organizations are mobilizing their members to assist neighboring Honduras. This evening in Belmopan, the town where most Belizeans took refuge during the threat, there will be a meeting for the team spearheading operation “Belize […]
In related news, the Belize Defense Force will be sending a contingent of soldiers to lend their muscle to a disaster relief operation in Honduras. The troops will be led by Major Lloyd Gillett and includes thirty-two members of the B.D.F. and two police officers. They will leave Big Creek on Thursday afternoon aboard the […]
After thousands of temporary Belmopan residents returned to Belize City, the business of governing the country is back in full swing. The first item on the agenda for yesterday’s Cabinet meeting of course was a postmortem of the government’s emergency exercise. Full disclosure of the effort will be made by the release of the National […]
On the night of October twenty sixth, when most residents of San Pedro Town were trying to evacuate due to the threat of Hurricane Mitch, one American tourist was fighting for her life. Not from a hurricane, but from an intruder who came knocking at her apartment door at nine thirty that Monday night. Police […]
Belize’s national parks and protected areas suffered some damage during Mitch and the Belize Audubon Society is carrying out an assessment and clean up campaign. The Blue Hole National Park, Cockscomb Basin and Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuaries, Half Moon Caye Natural Monument and Guanacaste National Park are closed to the public until November ninth. B.A.S. […]
In the last year twenty-five journalists have been murdered in the Americas, some of them very close to home: four in Mexico, two in Guatemala. The Inter-American Press Association says reporters are fighting a daily battle against drug leaders in Colombia and Mexico and often pay the ultimate price to advance press freedom. By comparison […]
Children loved her when she was dressed as Santa Claus or Mr. Neat and Klean, but Juliet Soberanis who died last Friday will be remembered by the adults in Belize as the one who led the battle cry in the war against cancer. Over the past three years, her name became synonymous with cancer awareness […]
