It’s happened again, a coke truck has been held up. But fortunately this time, unlike the incident in Maskall in August… no one was killed, but a Bowen and Bowen employee was injured. Eighteen year old Louis Crawford had just completed his run on New Road and dropped off his sideman, Erlin Francis at the […]
Police have also detained a man they believe committed two robberies in Belize City over the past few days, one at the Taiwanese Embassy on Friday and the other at the Fisheries Department on Monday. In both cases a well-dressed young man entered the office during the lunch hour and purported to be looking for […]
Despite some concern that his death may not have been an accident, the police department’s pathologist said today that Orange Walk resident Ivan Cruz died of multiple head and neck injuries characteristic of a road traffic accident. Yesterday police reported that they were called to Guinea Grass Village early Sunday morning after the twenty-three year […]
The Prime Minister Said Musa and Minister of Budget and Planning Ralph Fonseca are in Miami for the annual conference on the Caribbean and Latin America which begins tomorrow. The Miami conference brings together fifteen hundred public and private sector leaders from fifty countries to share information on business and policy developments. This year the […]
Just when the demise of the B.C.B. caused you to reset all the buttons on your radio… it may be necessary to do it all over again. A press release from WAVE Radio announces that the new station will begin broadcasting at six a.m. on Monday, December fourteenth on the frequency 105 point 9. General […]
While many of us are running around helping Santa Claus find the gifts our children are asking for, the Salvation Army has been remembering those children who might otherwise not have a very merry Christmas. Through their annual kettle appeal the Salvation Army held their annual children’s party for two hundred children today at the […]
In addition to the first and second prizes awarded yesterday by Belize Electric Company Limited to the winners of their Secondary School Science Competition, Programme for Belize has also awarded eight merit prizes. Three students from Excelsior College won a scholarship to participate in a two-week research project at inland and marine field stations this […]
All he wanted in October was the twenty-seven inch television from the Courts branch in Orange Walk, but this morning a cane farmer from the San Estevan Village in Orange Walk went to the Courts Belize City branch to claim his prize of twenty thousand dollars in the Courts Serious Cash drawing. Ricardo Vasquez, $20,000 […]
While virtually every government on the planet pays lip service to bringing its educational system into the digital world of the new millennium, there’s one — right here in our region — that’s actually doing something about it. The Inter-American Development Bank today announced that it would be lending Barbados the unprecedented sum of eighty-five […]
What a difference a few weeks can make! At the end of October San Pedranos were staring in shock at their damaged piers and beachfronts. But today, the islanders are once again welcoming visitors to La Isla Bonita. News Five, which showed you the damage right after Hurricane Mitch, was invited out to San Pedro […]
