It was bound to happen. With the massive hysteria surrounding child abuse in Belize it was only a matter of time before someone took advantage of the situation to make a false accusation. Today a number of media houses received anonymous phone calls from an individual who said the editor of the Belize Times, Michael […]
There was an arrest for child molestation today as thirty-four year old Glenford Villanueva Baines, a construction worker of Hattieville was handcuffed and taken over to Magistrate’s Court. The arrest comes after an intensive investigation police have been conducting over the past several months. According to the police, a fourteen year old student of the […]
A twenty five year old Chinese businessman lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with a broken nose after he was attacked in his shop around nine thirty on Wednesday night. According to the police, Lue Xui Ming, proprietor of Ming’s Shop at number three Lakeview Street, was about to close his grocery store, when […]
With the near miss by Hurricane Mitch and plans for satellite towns in the works, the Belize Chamber of Commerce and the Ministry of Housing feel the establishment of comprehensive building codes is long overdue. Today the Chamber and the Organization of American States sponsored a workshop on modernizing and enforcing these codes. OAS consultant […]
If you ever had to undergo surgery and needed anesthesia, no doubt you have had the overwhelming fear and concern about how it will be done, how you will feel and if the procedure is safe. But once you have had the operation and recovered from either the local or general anesthesia, you can’t help […]
The hurricane season officially starts on June first, however, the National Emergency Management Organization, NEMO has been preparing itself in case the country is threatened by another storm this year. Last week, NEMO began a hurricane simulation exercise revolving around the fictitious storm Sylvia. Today the pretend storm was “located” two hundred and fifty-five miles […]
When you remember your school days what do you think of? You probably remember hours spent sitting in rows copying work from the board. The Belize Teacher’s Training College is trying to change this way of conducting class by getting the students more involved. So far the new approach seems to be working. News Five […]
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