A burglary at the old Belize City hospital has left the Medical Department short of over twenty one thousand dollars. The money was left in the accounts office when some of the medical staff did not collect their salaries on October twenty-seventh. When Finance Officer Hugh Broaster returned to the office on Monday, he noticed […]
Businesses should be on the lookout for a woman shopping in Belize City with bogus checks. Police have documented two similar incidents of forgery in the past two weeks. On the sixteenth of October the unidentified woman purchased household items from Vishu Paragrani’s “V-Mart” store on Albert Street. She paid with a Scotia Bank cheque […]
A couple of years ago it was standard procedure that when a driver was arrested and charged for a traffic accident in which a person was killed, his licence was usually suspended. If the evidence indicated that the driver was drunk and the accident was a hit and run, the suspension would be automatic. On […]
There is no shortage of crime these days and to help combat and prevent it, the police department has welcomed some new muscle. The seventy-three men and five women who make up recruit squad number seventy-three, survived twenty weeks of intensive training which included criminal law, evidence, traffic and community policing. Minister of National Security, […]
More details have become available on the agreement signed Wednesday between Belize and Guatemala. The twelve point document, signed at OAS headquarters in Washington D.C., deals solely with confidence building measures that will be undertaken by both countries along their common border. Article one lays the groundwork by stipulating that the measures outlined in the […]
It comes as no surprise, but officials of the Belize Tourism Board report that as a result of Hurricane Keith, tourist arrivals are way down. The latest monthly figures from the Philip Goldson International Airport show that arrivals declined by thirty percent compared to October of 1999. Minister of Tourism, Mark Espat is optimistic, however, […]
Two more donations have been made to help Belizeans in the wake of Hurricane Keith. IMMARBE, the International Marine Registry of Belize, along with its associates abroad, has supplied government with a cheque for eighteen thousand dollars. The management of the Smokey Mermaid Restaurant has donated three thousand seven hundred dollars to the Red Cross […]
While many donours have opened their wallets to provide us with relief in the wake of Hurricane Keith, the Chinese community in Belize has decided to contribute to the effort the old fashioned way… by working for the money. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting A group of Chinese macramé students are painstakingly preparing for a food and […]
This coming Sunday will be observed as Remembrance Day, a time set aside to honour all those men and women who gave their lives in the world’s all too frequent wars. Earlier in the week I met with members of an organisation which is dedicated to both the memory of the dead and the welfare […]
