It was supposed to be a state of the art facility designed to give Belizeans the quality of hospital care that had been sorely lacking at the old dilapidated Belize City Hospital on the seafront. But the new Belize City Hospital, named after one of the nation’s pioneer physicians, never did live up to its […]
A gas station in Dangriga was targeted by an armed robber over the weekend. Police report that on Saturday night around 8:00 a masked man entered the Shell station at the town’s entrance pointed a gun at attendant Niecy Brown and demanded money. She promptly handed over her waist bag which contained $680 as well […]
Investigations continue into last week’s assault on a Chinese shopkeeper in King’s Park. According to police an I.D. parade was held in which one P.C. Moore was positively identified as one of those present Thursday night when grocer Tam Kin Chan was beaten across the face with a Belikin bottle. Moore was not, however, identified […]
A teenage boy has drowned in the Cayo District. On Sunday afternoon, 15 year old Vitalino Mendez of Selena Village was swimming in the Belize River near Spanish Lookout when, according to his father, he suddenly went under the water and never came up. After over an hour of searching, his lifeless body was discovered […]
It may be just a routine failure of communication but tonight police are taking seriously a missing persons report involving a young child. 5-year-old Juanita Elmira Manzanero of mile twelve and a half on the Western Highway is a student at St. Mary’s Primary in Belize City. When her father arrived at school at 3:30 […]
In news just in from Corozal word has been received that Robert Hill has been sentenced to hang. Hill, tried by Supreme Court Justice Troadio Gonzales, was convicted of murdering Becky Gilharry in February of 1999. He was prosecuted by Special Counsel Simeon Sampson and defended by Yakub Gaznabbi.
His name is Erh-huang Tsai but the new Taiwanese Ambassador to Belize says you can call him Charles. The representative of the nation which gives Belize more financial assistance than any other today presented his credentials to the Governor General in Belmopan and also paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minster. Tsai is the […]
In other news from Belmopan there has been a shuffle in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. This afternoon Minister Dan Silva announced that Beverly Wade has been appointed as interim Fisheries Administrator while her predecessor, George Myvette, will take up a new post in the nation’s capital as Coordinator for Fisheries Policy and Legislation. […]
We usually associate things Garifuna with the month of November, but currently in Dangriga a conference is underway that is taking a closer look at the people who form vibrant communities over much of Central America’s Caribbean coast, not to mention the USA. The sponsoring body is called the World Garifuna Organization. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and you’re strapped in for another ride on Sports Monday. After four straight wins in the current BFL playoffs undefeated Grigamandala took its unblemished record into the Norman Broaster Stadium against a re-surging Real Verdes, knowing full well it wasn’t going to be an easy task to pick up the […]
