It has happened again, two more children have burned to death in their home after being left alone. This time however, there were reports to Social Services that the children had been neglected in the past. The report did not come from neighbors, but from staff members at the Karl Heusner Memorial who treated one […]
A Belize City man has been arrested and charged after a shooting on Tuesday. Thirty-year-old Philip Lightburn, an auto dealer on Cemetery Road, has been charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and grievous harm after twenty-one year old David Williams reported to police that Lightburn shot him. According to Williams, he […]
The Belize Biltmore Plaza was packed today as over four hundred fifty people attended the first day of the National Symposium on the State of the Environment. The two-day event includes presentations on a wide range of issues from waste management to aquaculture to population growth. Various NGOs also mounted displays on their organizations. While […]
Over the next five months a total of four thousand Louisiana National Guard personnel and military reservists from fourteen states and Puerto Rico will be rotating in and out of Belize as part of the New Horizons 2000 mission. These “citizen soldiers,” college students or working professionals who devote themselves to the US military on […]
Three referees and five assistant refs have been approved by the International Football Federation, FIFA. The Belize National Football Association presented the official FIFA badges yesterday at a brief ceremony. B.N.F.A. President Dr. Bertie Chimilio advised the referees and assistants to not allow anyone to intimidate them or hinder them from the execution of their […]
The Department of Immigration and Nationality Services received a donation of ten computers today from the government of Canada. The computers will be used to link the department into a regional communication network and give them access to migration data. The presentation was made by Nesa Scott a counselor with the Embassy of Canada in […]
A husband and wife who are both doctors are in Belize as part of the Omni Med Medical education program which is entering its second year. Dr. Michael Morley, an ophthalmologist, and Dr. Katherine Morrow, an emergency physician, are the sixth and seventh medical professionals to take part in the Belize Cooperative Health Education Program. […]
