It was an audacious crime but it now appears that the thieves may have had more guts than brains. On Wednesday night a gang of burglars broke into the small museum building at the Maya site of Cahal Pech overlooking San Ignacio. They entered by tearing off a piece of the roof and made off […]
Nearly three months after a daylight heist on North Front Street netted one thief $20,000, a Belize City man has been arrested and charged with the crime. This morning Jermaine Williams appeared in Magistrate’s Court to answer charges of robbery in connection with an incident that occurred in February of this year. According to police […]
In Belmopan today, the Prime Minister got a chance to do some manual labor. The occasion was the groundbreaking for a new school building being built for the expansion of Our Lady of Guadelupe Roman Catholic School. As he addressed the gathering, Musa endorsed the church state system saying he was committed to instilling a […]
Even though Belize’s roads are awash in brand new sport utility vehicles, the bunch of SUV’s we found parked off the Northern Highway by Bella Vista still raised a few eyebrows. The half dozen or so new 2001 Acuras are here as part of a sneak preview of the not-yet-available vehicles that the Japanese auto […]
I’ve heard men say the day they understand a woman, is the day they die. Well boys, understanding comes with listening and tonight, both men and women will be doing a lot of talking ABOUT women. The evening program, called “The Women’s Book of Woe and Wonder: A night of poetry and creative works,” will […]
This weekend marked the continuation of one of the driest dry seasons in recent memory, with many parts of the country receiving less than half of their normal rainfall for the first four months of the year. But while most Belizeans look vainly to the heavens in search of precipitation, one farmer has decided that […]
Earlier in the week we offered a short preview of this weekend’s Cashew Festival taking place in the idyllic village of Crooked Tree. If that wasn’t enough to get you interested, then tonight’s story should have you reaching for a bottle of cashew wine. We ran this piece in 1996. It features William Neal taking […]
