One day after the remains of a male newborn were found in a pit latrine in Dangriga, police have arrested twenty-seven year old Terene Gonzales. Gonzales is suspected of giving birth at her home on Eleventh Street in Dangriga on Saturday August twenty-first. On Wednesday she was picked up by police who say she confessed […]
Supreme Court Justice John Rivero will be buried Friday in an official funeral in Belmopan. Rivero was killed in a traffic accident on the Western Highway on Monday. Services will be held at the Belmopan Civic Center at two p.m. He is survived by his wife and five children. So far police have not charged […]
Although it has rejected the government’s offer to purchase the land their headquarters is sitting on, the United Democratic Party has agreed to an offer made by the Council of Churches to mediate the dispute between the U.D.P. and the government. Party Leader Dean Barrow says this new development will not change how the party […]
Thirteen years ago, the first AIDS case was diagnosed in Belize. Today, it is estimated that seven thousand people are HIV positive in Belize. As the number is expected to increase, the National AIDS Task Force since 1998 has been working on a National Strategic Action Plan for the year 2000 to 2003. The plan […]
A twenty-one year old man told police he was beaten and robbed and when he regained consciousness he was beaten again, this time by seven men. So far police have only detained one man in connection with the incident and are seeking the others. Kemanie Lacayo told police he was walking on Flamboyant Street on […]
A boat has been reported stolen in Dangriga. Arthur Usher told police around five o’clock this morning, he couldn’t find his boat which he had moored in front of Jungle Huts Resort on Wednesday night. A watchman in the area told Usher that he had seen the boat around one a.m. being driven towards the […]
This new school year, students will have more than just the usual multiplication table and measurements on the back of their exercise books. In conjunction with the Belize Tourism Board, the Angelus Press has released a new series of exercise books. The blanks feature seven different colorful scenes that highlight Belize’s attractions and tourist destinations. […]
When Sherwin Garcia hears about another act of violence or sees the face of a discouraged Belizean trying to get on in life, he does something about it… he writes a poem. Using the reality of Belizean life as inspiration for his work, he says he writes about issues everyone can identify with. He stopped […]
While some express themselves through poetry, others choose a more physical form of personal expression… dance. To encourage more participation in the art, the Belize Arts Council is holding Dance Competition 1999 with a one thousand-dollar cash prize for each of three categories. But as Greg Vernon explains, you’ve got to do more than shake […]
On Tuesday August twenty-fourth, Police Commissioner Ornel Brooks held a press conference to state he believed the police did have strong evidence in the murders of Jackie Malic and Samantha Gordon and criticized the Director of Public Prosecutions Adolph Lucas for ordering that charges be dropped against the men accused of the murders. Today Simeon […]
