He assumed the post of Police Commissioner in November of 1996 and during the nearly three years that followed the career of Ornel Brooks has been nothing less than a roller coaster. The ride ranged from the dramatic highs of multi-million dollar drug busts to the lows of tainted evidence, coerced confessions, corrupted cops, daring […]
While the public will be watching the new Commissioner of Police closely, hoping he can do more to bring crime under control, over the weekend another Belize City man was killed. Who murdered Philip Pou and why? At the moment, no one has any answers, least of all his family. Everyday fifty-year-old Philip Pou parked […]
Tragedy also struck two other families this weekend as two traffic accidents claimed the lives of a well known businessman and a sixteen year old girl. Around ten thirty p.m. on Saturday night Collet Maheia Senior, age sixty-nine was heading towards his home at mile three and three quarters on the Northern Highway when he […]
On Friday night, a car being driven by twenty-three year old George Leslie crashed into a tree. Sixteen year old Erica Cal, who was sitting in the back seat with two other girls her age, suffered severe injuries and died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Another passenger in the front seat, Luis Gillette, twenty-three […]
Also on Friday night a customs officer was hit by a van which was trying to evade a customs checkpoint outside Yo Creek Village, Orange Walk. Ceslo Marin was standing near the customs vehicle when a white van drove at high speed through the checkpoint and hit the Customs Department vehicle. The driver jumped out […]
Belize City is under quarantine after the Ministry of Agriculture discovered what they suspect may be the Pink Hibiscus Mealy Bug. While officials stress they have not yet received official confirmation that the bugs discovered in Buttonwood Bay and Bella Vista are indeed the P.H.M.B., they are taking a number of precautions. Within the next […]
Today the Venus Bus Terminal in Belize City looked like a ghost town. On Saturday the service, one of the country’s biggest, went on strike. The move has put approximately seventy people out of a job temporarily but City Branch Manager Edilberto Chen, says the strike is to protest what Venus management says is unfair […]
Although Cancer Awareness Month does not start until the first of October, the public is invited to learn more about breast cancer at a lecture tomorrow night at the Bliss Institute. Dr. Garrett Lynch, an oncologist from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston is the guest speaker. Today Dr. Lynch met with members of […]
Belizean producers are being encouraged to find new markets for their products and improve quality. The Belize Institute of Management, BIM, under its Trade Promotion and Business Development project, has been assisting local companies with a diverse range of products to compete with international products. Two more proposals have been approved for funding and technical […]
It’s a sight that would turn any stomach, trash all over, reeking mud, used baby diapers strewn about. But it’s not a landfill or a trash heap, it’s the Haulover Creek. And the situation is getting out of hand with people deliberately throwing buckets and bag fulls into the river every day. Janelle Chanona went […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is yet another dose of Sports Monday. Sir George Brown’s Acros Bombers made its debut into semi-pro football against no less than the three time defending champion Juventus of Orange Walk yesterday in the friendly confines of the M.C.C. Grounds. In the opening moments the champions must give […]
