We’ve come a long way from the days when people would wait for hours at public standpipes and water pressure in Belize City’s municipal system was measured by ounces per square inch rather than pounds. But the rapid expansion of the city and its satellite communities has outstripped the Water and Sewage Authority’s ability to […]
A Chinese owned shop may be a typical target for robbery, but the wanton destruction caused by Belize City’s young thugs is spreading far beyond the barred windows and locked cash drawers of the corner grocery. The latest fatality in the city’s crime spree is not an immigrant from Asia, but from the continent of […]
The killing of a security guard from Ghana has brought to light the little known fact that an increasing number of African immigrants are beginning to call Belize home. While some Africans in Belize, such as U.B. professor Dr. Joseph Iyo and sculptor Stephen Okeke, have achieved widespread notoriety, most labour in more commonplace occupations, […]
The killing Friday night was not the only crime to occur at a Chinese establishment on Central American Boulevard this weekend. Police report that on Friday night shortly after 10:00, four masked men, two of whom were armed with handguns, held up a shop only a few hundred yards south of Sonny’s. Proprietor Lu He […]
Belize City police are not the only ones dealing with violent crimes. On Sunday a man was found dead in the village of San Lazaro in the Orange Walk District. The lifeless body of thirty-five year old Guatemalan Augustine Castellanos was discovered by a fellow villager lying in the middle of the road just after […]
A twenty-three year old San Ignacio man is lucky to be alive after the vehicle he was traveling in slipped off the town’s temporary wooden bridge and overturned. According to witnesses, around 2:30 Sunday afternoon, Alejandro Rodriguez was making his way alone across the low wooden span when the accident occurred. It is not known […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and you’re on board for another flight of Sports Monday. The National Guinness Eight Ball Billiard Tournament kicked off the Belize District round of the event Friday night. Catt’s Place comes into its first confrontation as the host team against Bismark Club and are up two matches to nil when […]
