Belize finally has an ambassador to Guatemala. On Wednesday Moises Cal presented his credentials to Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo in a ceremony at the presidential palace. Cal, who formerly served as the programme officer for the United Nations Development Programme in Belize, succeeds Ambassador Mike Mena, who passed away on May second. In a reciprocal […]
Police have made an arrest in Monday’s stabbing death of Richard Cattouse on Kelly Street. Twenty-five year old Steven Anthony Smith was picked up by police on Wednesday in the same Belize City neighbourhood where the crime was committed. Smith has been charged with murder.
He was one of the prisoners apparently victimized on July fourth when three inmates entered cell number forty-one at Hattieville Prison. Glenford Gillett was killed in that attack, while cellmate John Bartley received a large cut wound to his forehead. Bartley was treated at the KHMH and sent back to Hattieville, but is in the […]
A press conference was held today in Barbados to announce plans for regional radio and television coverage of the Olympic games in Sydney Australia. The Caribbean Broadcasting Union and Caribbean News Agency, through their newly created subsidiary, the Caribbean Media Corporation, have purchased the broadcast rights for the games and plan to mount a strong […]
It used to be called “wife beating” but in the era of gender equality it has taken on the more sanitized and less descriptive name of “domestic violence.” But whatever you call it, the abuse of domestic partners in Belize–usually women–has come out of the closet. Faralee Gabourel, Reporting Whether we whisper about it behind […]
We’re not sure whether it’s the time of year or just a journalistic coincidence, but if you’ve been watching this newscast during the last few weeks you might think that the most common creatures inhabiting the Belizean rainforest are British teenagers. Having talked to the trekkers from Trekforce and eaten with the young cadets of […]
