The last time you saw them they were being hugged by their families as they returned home from captivity in Guatemala. For their families, they were heroes all through their nine days in a Guatemalan detention center, but today the Belize Four were honored in an official way by their military and police superiors with […]
In related news, a Belize Defense Force patrol has captured a large group of Guatemalans who illegally entered Belize. According to reports, around two thirty this morning the patrol was near the border in the Orange Walk district when they found eighteen Guatemalans who had just crossed over. The group was immediately detained and taken […]
In an effort to prepare officers who work with domestic violence cases, 25 Police Officers today completed a one-week training on the dynamics of Family Violence and related issues. The topics included forms of abuse, why women stay or leave, interviewing techniques, rape, gender and masculinity and counseling services. The training was jointly organized by […]
There was an unfortunate incident at the House of Culture this afternoon, when a man visiting the grounds is reported to have exposed himself to a group of students viewing a tourism week display. Fortunately the Tourism Police Unit immediately apprehended the suspect and turned him over to Police. He is being detained pending charges.
The Belize Cancer Society recently held it’s 3rd annual general meeting. In his keynote address, Dr. Neil K. Garbutt proposed that “attitude has a great deal to do with one’s health and the outcome of one’s survival, when afflicted by diseases such as cancer.” Special awards were presented to Dr. Greg Castillo for his outstanding […]
St. John’s College is embarking on an ambitious project, which will not only benefit students, but the larger community. The Landivar campus will be the site of the new National Center for Art Education and Cultural Understanding. The Center is scheduled to open in August and will offer art education courses for primary and secondary […]
Two Belizean students got some culture exposure of their own at Trinidad and Tobago’s carnival as part of a cultural exchange. David Matus and Melonie Bowen say it was worth missing three weeks of school, even though they have “a pile” of make-up work now. David Matus “Since we were the first Belizeans to go […]
The traffic was redirected on Freetown Road today while the National Fire Service conducted another of its monthly simulations. But this time, the exercise incorporated the new school fire safety program by using Bethel Primary School as the test site. The drill even included two instances of children trapped in the building and a rescue […]
