Earlier this week the common-law wife of former S.J.C. teacher Carlos Milan, accused of molesting her seven-year-old daughter, filed an affidavit with the Magistrate’s Court to drop all charges. Today relatives say the woman attempted to remove the girl and her brother from their grandmother’s home, where they have been staying since the May 4th […]
Orange Walk police have discovered fifty two thousand dollars in counterfeit U.S. currency at an Orange Walk Town hotel room. As a result of the discovery, three men have been detained pending the outcome of the investigation. They are Colombian Onasis Daniel Melo Garcia, Venezuelan Silvio DeJesus Salinas Santamaria, and Belizean Matthew Williams of Orange […]
An eighteen year old has been charged with raping his twelve year old niece. Reports are that Martin Chen, a laborer of Poppy Show Road in the Toledo District went by the minor’s house around eight Wednesday night. The girl was home alone while her mother had gone to church. Chen allegedly had sexual intercourse […]
Among the election promises made by the P.U.P. was the establishment of a Public Utilities Commission to regulate rates being charged to consumers. Today the government moved one step closer to setting up this autonomous body when the House of Representatives passed the Public Utilities Commission Bill. Minister of Industry and Commerce, Jose Coye said […]
While the Public Utilities Commission may have an impact on the Belizean pocketbook, reducing crimes against women and children is the purpose of another Bill presented by Minister of Human Development Women and Youth Dolores Balderamos Garcia. The amendment to the Criminal Code, which was introduced at a previous House meeting, regularizes the penalties for […]
Over five hundred shareholders crowded the Biltmore Plaza Thursday night to find out just how well their company, B.T.L., performed over the last financial year… and they weren’t disappointed. Gross revenues increased to a record eighty million dollars, pretax profits rose to a peak of forty-two million, after tax profits reached an all time high […]
This Saturday, the inmates of the Youth Enhancement Academy will host family and selected friends at the Ladyville compound at their second “Family Day”. They want the people they care about to see the progress they have made in turning their lives around. Rupert Avila, Inmate, Y.E.A. “Rehabilitation, it makes you see what you really […]
On Sunday the Belize Club of the International Association of Lions will meet in its first cabinet meeting to discuss its plans for the year 2000. Governor of District 59, which incorporates all of Belize, Leo Cuellar, says he hopes to work with other volunteer organizations to improve the lives of Belizeans. Leo Cuellar, Governor, […]
They are about to be assigned to villages all over the country for two years of service, but today thirty Peace Corps volunteers were sworn in by the American Ambassador Carolyn Curiel. The Prime Minister Said Musa gave the keynote address at the ceremony at the King’s Park Church of the Nazarene. The trainees spent […]
Belizeans have always had a fondness for honoring special people by naming something after him or her. There is the Leo Bradley Library, the Gwen Lizarraga High School, the Baron Bliss Lighthouse, the Raymond Parks Night Shelter and the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital just to name a few. Prompted by an intriguing street sign in […]
