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Illegal Guatemalan settlers to be sent home

The news blackout is over and the newsmakers are back from Washington… and what they have to report should bring Belizeans at least some measure of relief. In a nutshell, the mapmakers commissioned by the OAS have determined that the three principal markers delineating the so-called adjacency line between Belize and Guatemala are almost exactly […]

Student detained for shooting

A seventeen year-old student of Wesley College this afternoon opened fire on an eighteen year-old putting him in the hospital with a wounded leg. Police say the male student shot Daniel Faber of Fisher Waterside in the left thigh with a nine millimetre pistol around 3:30 this afternoon, just after leaving classes for the day. […]

Security guard assaulted, gun stolen

A Haitian security guard was a little luckier last night when instead of being shot, he only suffered the indignity of having his shotgun stolen. Police say thirty-one year old Benjamin Ageymang, was on duty at Chon Saan Restaurant on Euphrates Avenue around 9:45, when three dark-complexioned men attacked him with knives and stole his […]

PACT funds Victoria Peak improvements

Belizeans and tourists alike who visit the nation’s highest peak will soon see some improvements to the area. This is thanks to a fifty thousand dollar grant from the Protected Areas Conservation Trust, PACT, to the Belize Audubon Society. The money will be used to document the various species of plant and animal life in […]

UB agriculture students strike over living conditions

Students at the institution formerly known as the Belize College of Agriculture are better known for raising crops rather than cain. But today they were out of class and on the march, saying that conditions at the school were more like a prison than a university. Jose Sanchez reports from Central Farm. Jose Sanchez, Reporting […]

Travelers tour in London bus

They are a mode of transportation synonymous with life in the historic capital of Great Britain. But what’s a London bus doing in the historic old capital of Belize? This morning Ann-Marie Williams went to find out. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting “Six young people: three men and three women age twenty-three to twenty-nine, are on a […]