Health officials predicted that the flooding associated with Hurricane Mitch could lead to an outbreak of cholera… and today that prediction has come to pass. Authorities report that last Thursday a seventy-eight year old resident of Salvapan died from the disease at Belmopan Hospital. Doctors say that his age and the late stage at which […]
Another familiar disease has been associated with a fatality, this time in Belize City. Police pathologist Dr. Mario Estradabran reports that, according to his postmortem examination, the man found dead yesterday at the city dump died of tuberculosis. The body of thirty-eight year old Clifford Carr, originally of Dangriga, was discovered at the Belize Waste […]
The report on yesterday’s news of a city wide raid on illegal boledo vendors came as a surprise to most residents of the old capital, who have come to accept the widespread practice as just one more facet of daily urban life. No more, reports Assistant Commissioner of Police Hughington Williams, who told us that […]
In crime news of a more violent nature a woman well known to those of us in the media was this morning the victim of what appears to be a brutal and random assault. Former B.C.B. marketing executive Anita Cheong was walking over the Pound Yard Bridge this morning around seven thirty when a man, […]
For most of us our picture of Hurricane Mitch is that provided by the international news media, particularly television. But if you venture into the Belisle Art Gallery at the Bliss Institute you’ll find images of Mitch which spring from the eye of an observer much closer to home. Local businessman Lascelle Arnold, who along […]
In yesterday’s newscast we reported on the knockdown and death of a bicyclist in the village of Hattieville. This morning I traveled to the roadside community and discovered that what many journalists all too often see only as a printed police report, has a far more personal and urgent meaning to the people touched by […]
