Today a new building was dedicated in Belmopan that both the donor and recipient hope will help curb crime. The Joint Intelligence Coordinating Centre will be the place where police focus their intelligence gathering efforts, aiming specifically at drug and arms trafficking, alien smuggling and other activities of particular interest to the United States of […]
Those violent forces referred to by Espat were hard at work, both before and after his speech in Belmopan. Details are still sketchy, but it appears that the Maya site of Cahal Pech was the scene of a particularly brutal murder this afternoon. Between 4:00 and 4:30, two men, apparently with black paint on their […]
A young man who was found early Sunday morning bleeding from several stab wounds to the body died shortly after he was rushed to the Belmopan Hospital. Police say at about 7:45 that morning they were called out to an area between Maya Mopan and Salvapan Villages behind Belmopan. There they found nineteen year old […]
An altercation involving two men and a woman in the Stann Creek District has left both guys wounded and arrested. According to police reports, on Friday afternoon twenty-year old Honduran Lazaro Salinas of Mayan King Village went looking for his former common law wife, Noelia Diaz. Reports are that he tracked her down at the […]
A fire in Lord’s Bank, near Ladyville, has destroyed a wooden house. At 9:30 Saturday morning a neighbour saw smoke coming from the roof of the building, which at the time was unoccupied. While fire and police personnel were called to the scene and the flames extinguished, the house and contents, valued at twenty-five thousand […]
It’s official. Belize is no longer on that select list of nations that are without a single movie theatre. To the delight of Belizean film fans, the first movie projector to roll in nearly eight years went into operation on Friday night at the Princess Hotel in Belize City. The opening night VIP crowd watched […]
They have been among Belize’s most durable, not to mention endearing musical performers. Over the weekend Mr. Peters and the Boom ‘n Chime Band returned from ambassadorial duties in Mexico where they participated in the annual Patriotic Humanitarian Festival in Campeche. The band played for three days in both formal and recreational venues including the […]
While efforts to put more Belizeans into their own homes continue nationwide, some folks on the south side of Belize City have a different problem–that is, how to get to the homes in which they already live. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting For the past nine years, residents who live behind Police Street in the Lake Independence […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and you’re just in time for this latest dish of Sports Monday. There’s something special happening at the City Centre these days. Very quietly a group of young Belizeans have been using this vaunted venue to be the best they can be in volleyball play. As we head into the […]
