A one year old baby lost his life in Lord’s Bank this afternoon. According to Ladyville Police, the baby and a three year old sibling were left in the care of their eleven year old sister when their mother went to Belize City for the day. Around three o’clock, the baby wandered into the front […]
A senior police constable reportedly killed himself in front of his common-law wife early this morning on Rivero Street. Avril Hererra told police that around 1 a.m. Aloysius Guzman was preparing to go to work and told her he had a persistent pain in his hip and that he was tired of living. She says […]
A young woman has reported being raped and assaulted after she and a friend accepted a ride on Sunday morning. Orange Walk police say a nineteen year old woman and her friend were walking in the rain on the Northern Highway around three a.m. on July fourth when twenty-two year old Lance Pelayo and three […]
A Belizean money-changer was held up at gunpoint near the Guatemalan border this morning. Around 8 a.m. Edgar Contreras was on his way to Guatemala from Benque when he says a man stopped his truck and held him up. The robber made off with four thousand quetzales or about one thousand Belizean dollars and fled […]
The 20th annual CARICOM summit ended today in Trinidad and Tobago. CARICOM Heads of Government, including Belize’s Prime Minister Said Musa have concluded that as smaller and poorer nations, they cannot negotiate for markets in traditional ways. This comes after the World Trade Organization ruled that bananas from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries should no […]
Yesterday, the Ministry of Education launched a summer long education program for students who have to repeat a year of primary school. But despite the fact that the parents were told by the teachers and principals of the various schools and notes were sent home, the classrooms at St. John’s Primary School this week were […]
Who could forget the excitement of last year’s CARICOM Basketball Tournament? Well the games are back again, this time in Guyana and this time it is for the under seventeen teams. Arreini Palacio was at the City Center today to meet the Belize team which leaves on the 14th. Fred Gabourel, Coach “I think we […]
The concept of greater autonomy for Belize’s villages, towns and city is one endorsed by both political parties and numerous civic organizations. And one municipality that exercises its autonomy more seriously than most is the town of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. For several months a controversy has been raising the island’s political temperature as a […]
