There were persistent rumours of large numbers of Spanish speaking strangers hanging around a quiet Corozal neighborhood. And after several days of surveillance, on Monday police made their move on an abandoned house in Santa Rita. What they found was twenty-eight Salvadorans, all of whom had entered Belize illegally and appeared to be awaiting transport […]
They say that familiarity breeds contempt and in the case of two employees of a Belize City business establishment, it also bred violence. Twenty-seven year old Arton Bowen, a sales representative of Mala’s store on New Road was stabbed with a knife four times by his co-worker. According to sources, Bowen and the messenger, Keon […]
He cried wolf. That’s the story of eighteen-year old Myron Harris who reported to police on Monday that at about 9:20 on Saturday night he was attacked by an unknown individual and innocently stabbed. Harris, a resident of number forty-eight South Street initially told police that he was walking in the Conch Shell Bay area […]
To the younger generation the name Karl Heusner has meaning only as the two words which proceed “Memorial Hospital”. And even that connection may soon be lost as the media prefer the abbreviation KHMH. But to those Belizeans over fifty, Karl Heusner was a real human being, a dedicated physician who for thirty-six years treated […]
Mental health in Belize tends to be equated with wherever the “crazy house” happens to be located at any given time. For many years there was Seaview, a colonial era hell hole on the Barracks. More recently we have Rockview, a somewhat less hellish hole off the Western Highway near Gracy Rock. But mental health […]
A bus and pickup collided today on the Western Highway at Georgeville. Reports are that the four by four pickup was going too fats and lost control when it hit the speed bump in the middle of the village. The pickup rammed head on into the bus. No one on the bus was injured but […]
It is an old and venerable British institution right up there with the Magna Carta and Tower of London. But the elite English boarding school known as Eton is about more than just top hats and tradition. Eton’s students, it seems, also get out and about. Last week I caught up with a special group […]
