The painfully slow process under which residents of three illegal Guatemalan settlements in Belize are being returned across the border now has a new estimated date for completion. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs tells News five that the Guatemalan government has agreed to begin disbursing financial compensation on Wednesday to those settlers willing to voluntarily […]
The People’s United Party continued to select candidates for the next general election, which will likely not be held for another two and a half years. The most hotly contested convention was held on Sunday in the Caribbean Shores constituency in Belize City. When all nine hundred and ninety-nine votes were counted, incumbent representative and […]
In a strange set of coincidences, Cayo’s Mopan River proved to be the final resting-place for three accident victims in three separate incidents over the weekend. On Friday afternoon a Canadian tourist, fifty year old John Raycroft, drowned while tubing near Clarissa Falls. He apparently became separated from his inner tube in the rapids. His […]
A grab-and-run thief made off with a bag full of cash this morning in downtown Belize City. Carmina Baeza, an employee of Delta Store on Albert Street, was walking towards Atlantic Bank with the store’s deposit bag when she was attacked in front of Community Drug Store. Her assailant, a tall dark-skinned man wearing a […]
A twenty-eight year-old Banak Street man clings to life at the K.H.M.H. after he was shot twice over the weekend. Ellis Meighan told police that he was riding his bicycle on Cemetery Road around 9:40 p.m. on Friday. On approaching First Choice Pharmacy two men on foot asked him what he was doing in the […]
An armed robbery reported to police last week was in fact a hoax perpetrated by the alleged victims. On Thursday twenty-three year old Rene Miranda, a truck driver for Femagra Industries, told authorities that two dark complexioned men held him up at gunpoint while he was driving down Police Street in Belize City. They relieved […]
Reports from Belmopan indicate that sometime over the weekend a vandal or vandals invaded the capital city’s graveyard and caused damage to a number of gravestones. Police have apparently detained a large number of teenagers said to be involved in the desecration, but it is not clear at this point what, if any charges, will […]
Forty Orange Walk families have now taken up residence on what promises to be a planned residential community in the San Lorenzo area of the district. Area representative Johnny Briceno, in inaugurating the project on Saturday, says of the ninety homes built in the area seventy have already been sold. Johnny Briceno, Area Rep, Orange […]
It may not rival celebrations in New Orleans or Rio, but San Pedro’s pre-Lenten carnival got underway over the weekend. The carnival parade pictured here took place on Saturday afternoon and was sponsored by the San Pedro carnival committee and San Pedro Town Board. Festivities, including the infamous painting of unwilling participants, continue through Tuesday […]
The Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve may be suffering from the devastation of the Southern Bark Beetle, but that has not stopped the creation of a new park in the reserve’s northwestern corner. Minister of Natural Resources Johnny Briceno signed the official instrument on Friday night at the San Antonio Agricultural Fair, designating approximately five […]
Belizean students who plan on making a career as skilled tradesmen or women now have more opportunities to learn their craft. This is thanks to a twenty-six million dollar Caribbean Development Bank loan signed this morning. CONALEP from neighboring Mexico will also provide technical assistance to the project. Education Minister Cordel Hyde says the newly […]
A pocket-sized booklet outlining children’s rights and responsibilities in cartoon form was this morning launched at the Hattieville Government School. According to National Human Rights Coordinator Maria Gamero, the publication is timely as it coincides with National Children’s Week. Ann-Marie Williams “You hear a lot on child’s rights, but you seldom hear of responsibility. Zero […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we certainly want you to partake of this clubbing version of Sports Monday. The fight world in Belize has literally been in chaos over the past two years, not unlike semi-pro basketball, a victim of inertia at the very top. However, the boxing community was able to put a […]
