The festering wound that is the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has apparently burst its stitches. In a press release issued today, the chairman of the hospital’s interim board, Karl H. Menzies, announced that he has submitted his resignation. While the release did not go into detail, it indicated that the primary reason for the resignation […]
There’s a new Belizean twist on the old adage that the only inevitable occurrences are death and taxes. We’d like to add to the list: the nightly robbery of a Chinese grocery and the pollution of the North Stann Creek after a rainstorm. The shopkeeper of choice on Thursday night was thirty-four year old Zhao […]
There are robberies that occur outside of Belize City and sometimes the perpetrators are actually caught. That’s what happened in Orange Walk in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Sixty-year old Thomas Arzu told police that he was walking down Staine’s Alley around 4:25 when he was grabbed and choked by twenty-four year old Deon […]
Two Belize City men detained on Wednesday and one picked up on Thursday for weapons violations have been charged. Twenty-three year old William Usher, twenty-year old Roque Rosado and twenty-five year old Errol Leslie were charged with the keeping of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. A loaded thirty-eight revolver was found after a search of […]
The body of a forty-four year old Guatemalan missing from his home in Belize since Wednesday, has been found by Guatemalan authorities in the Mopan River. Jose Cristobal Arias was last seen by a friend around 1:00 p.m. heading to Melchor via a “back door” route across the border to avoid detection. When he was […]
If all goes according to plan the next time you eat escabeche those onions will have been grown in Belize. The Ministry of Agriculture has announced local onion production will be expanding drastically this year, up from 8.5 acres to a prospective one hundred and forty. The up and coming industry is centered in the […]
It has not been a good week to show off the attributes of sea, sand and sun, but the five young ladies competing for the title of Miss Costa Maya International have been lighting up the town of San Pedro on their own. News Five’s camera caught up with them as they rehearsed for next […]
While San Pedro has earned a reputation as a happy go lucky tourist destination where fun is the order of the day, it is also a community that must cope with all the normal problems of urban life. On September first the town will inaugurate a curfew for young people and area representative Patty Arceo […]
Tragedies are never pleasant to report but the folks at BEL are hoping that the reporting of one recent incident will shock the public into being more careful in how they put up buildings. Jose Sanchez has more. Jose Sanchez, Reporting A week ago, a sixteen-year old boy was seriously injured when he accidentally touched […]
The weather may have kept most of us indoors this week, but with the promise of sun over the weekend, a family trip may be just what the doctor ordered. As part of our efforts to help people see Belize first, tonight we’ll revisit an attraction centrally located on the Hummingbird Highway. But you better […]
