The mood in Cayo this afternoon was one of anger mixed with disbelief. But as night falls on the twin towns there is a whiff of fear in the usually tranquil area as two cold blooded killers are on the loose and a well liked young man lies in the San Ignacio morgue. The Mas […]
Less than six hours after Geoffrey Mas lost his life in Cayo, a similarly cold-blooded execution was carried out Monday night in Belize City. According to police reports, twenty-one year old Orvin White was sitting with his seventeen year old girlfriend, Juanita Hines in front of her house on Iguana Street when three men approached. […]
A Belize City man has apparently taken his own life. Carmen Hernandez, a thirty-eight year old naturalized Belizean, originally from El Salvador, was found hanging from a rope at a warehouse at mile three on the Northern Highway. Hernandez was employed at the warehouse as a watchman and also did work as a mason. On […]
Police are asking the public for help in locating a man who has been missing for ten days. Donald Roland Sutherland, better known as “Roli” was last seen drinking a beer on New Road on July fourteenth. He was reported missing on July twenty-first by his mother, Valencia Sutherland. Sutherland lives at seventeen Pickstock Street […]
Arriving in Belize today was British Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, John Battle. Battle, whose responsibilities include trade with Latin America, is slated to hold talks with Prime Minister Said Musa and cabinet colleagues Johnny Briceno, Ralph Fonseca and Jorge Espat. Battle will also meet with Police Commissioner Hughington Williams to […]
Belize will be working more closely with the other nations of Central America to promote the region’s tourism. That’s the message that emerged from meetings held today between officials of various local tourism industry groups and representatives from regional tourism bodies. Members from the Belize Tourism Industry Association, Tour Guide Association, Tour Operators Association and […]
Usually, parents would turn to a book in preparation for the naming of a newborn child. But what would you do if you had to name one hundred and one babies? That’s not exactly the problem faced by the Belize City Council, but it did have the task of naming one hundred and one of […]
The body of water known as North Creek would never be found on any postcard… unless it was part of a series on urban squalor. But while the Belize City neighbourhood may be down, it may yet find a way out. Dickie Bradley, Minister of Housing “Well one look at this you must know that […]
