The man police believe tried to kidnap and rape a 15-year-old earlier this month, is today out on bail. Yesterday Magistrate Dorothy Flowers granted Errol Bishop, also known as Adel Mohammed Abdulla, bail in the amount of $5,000 with one surety of the same amount, which he met. When Bishop appeared in court on March […]
Meanwhile a bus driver from Orange Walk has been arrested and charged with the rape of a teenager. 31 year old Javier Villanueva was charged with rape yesterday after a 19-year-old female worker of the Free Zone reported to police that late Saturday night, Villanueva raped her. According to the young woman, just before 1:00 […]
Today there was territorial dispute. But this time it wasn’t at the border…it was in Belama. Just after 8:00 this morning two Novelo’s buses blocked another company’s bus from going anywhere for almost an hour. The Novelo’s drivers say they did it to help the Police and Transport Department do their job. The other bus […]
One in four people in Belize have jobs that are affected by tourism, that’s according to the Belize Tourism Board anyway, and they want to increase that percentage even more. This morning, as part of Tourism Awareness Week, the BTB gave its report to the industry, outlining its accomplishments this past year and its plans […]
Cabinet had some tourism news of its own this week. According to the Cabinet briefing, the government has given the Belize Tourism Board the green light to proceed with plans for the Tourism Village in the Fort Point area of Belize City. The Village will be developed and operated by a private sector entity, but […]
The Belize Council for the Visually Impaired has acquired a relatively recent computer program that helps blind students become computer literate. They don’t have to see the screen because a voice reads everything out loud for them, including all the computer’s own commands. The Belize Bank has provided a new computer for the program and […]
Every year students “bust their brains” trying to come up with an impressive presentation that’s sure to blow away the judges of that annual environmental science fair at the Belize Zoo. Competition was friendly but fierce between schools from all over the country last week. This year themes ranged from the traditional “save the rainforest” […]
