The passengers have long complained about buses racing on the nation’s highways, but today the competition turned deadly, leaving a driver from James Bus Line dead and two employees from Z-Line in police custody. Police say as soon as the two buses left Punta Gorda for Belize City at around eight thirty this morning, they […]
Nine days after a Belize City moneylender was gunned down near St. John’s Cathedral, two men, one of them a deportee from the U.S., were charged with murder. Although one of the accused was initially detained almost immediately after the incident, ever mindful of the recent cases which were dismissed due to lack of evidence, […]
A fugitive from Guatemala was escorted by police to the border at Benque Viejo Del Carmen and handed over to Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday. Virgilio Ramirez was one of four brothers taken into custody October seventh near the southern village of San Vicente by a joint police/B.D.F. patrol when illegal weapons and ammunition were discovered […]
Stann Creek police apprehended a suspect in an armed robbery on Sunday, but shot him in the shoulder while trying to make the arrest. Reports are that twenty-two year old Polo Melendez was spotted near Lynam College in Pomona around ten a.m. this morning, but when police approach he resisted arrest. During the struggle, police […]
A twenty-year-old laborer from Jane Usher Boulevard has been charged in connection with the stabbing of two brothers and one of their friends shortly after midnight on September twenty-six. Police say Leroy Cocom faces two counts of wounding and aggravated assault for the attack on seventeen year old Michael Quan and his fifteen year old […]
The nation’s first referendum will be held at the end of November as voters in Belmopan and the surrounding suburbs go to the polls to decide if they want to become a city and be run by their own City Council. All electors from polling area eighty-six, which includes the capital, San Martin, Las Flores, […]
The sixteen-member Heavenlies Gospel Band is having a special concert this Saturday to try and bring people back to the church. Public Relations Officer for the group Ian Mariano says the concert titled, “It Ain’t Easy” emphasizes that the Christian way of life is hard, but it brings great rewards. The Heavenlies are inviting Belizeans […]
For most of us, dealing with financial institutions is about as comfortable as a visit to the dentist… but today, which just happens to be World Credit Union Day, we have a little story about a man who feels so good about the relationship with his credit union that he went one step beyond merely […]
In March of 1998 a baby manatee, dubbed “Hercules” was rescued near the Belize Port Authority, nursed by volunteers and then transported to Xcaret, Mexico where he is reported to be doing well. This past weekend another baby manatee got some human assistance. The volunteers know that this little one will also have to go […]
