The Ministry of Health along with the Women’s Department has compiled information on domestic violence through reports it receives from the Police’s Family Violence Unit. The Domestic Violence Surveillance Data reveals what most people already suspect: men are usually the aggressors in the home. Dr. Jorge Polanco, Deputy Director, Health Services “There’s a module to […]
It may be Women’s Week, but in Belize these are not good times to be a little girl. Police today released details of a case in which an eleven year old was abducted and raped a number of times over a three day period. The girl’s mother reports that her daughter left the family’s home […]
In crime news, Minister of National Security Jorge Espat has told News 5 that investigations into the theft of high powered weapons from the BDF and police are close to completion and the case files have been delivered to the Director for Public Prosecutions. On January twenty-ninth, a pair of tech nine machine pistols, four […]
Six schools spread across the country have acquired computers as the result of a promotion by Courts. Customers who spent two hundred dollars at the store received a raffle ticket to win a computer, not for themselves, but for a school of their choice. The package, worth three thousand five hundred dollars, includes a monitor, […]
The Belize Red Cross Society in conjunction with the National Emergency Management Organisation, has organized a Damage Assessment and Needs workshop in order to better coordinate relief work after a disaster. According to Audrey Courtenay, Chairperson, of the Disaster Management Committee, the week long programme is geared to make people understand the urgency required to […]
If you’re planning to spend the holiday weekend in Belize City, then maybe the best way to start is at the Penta Kite Fest. The annual event originated in 1975 as a promotion for 7-Up, and encouraged children to make their own kites. On March ninth, the competition will once again soar high above the […]
These are good times for printers as it seems that not a week goes by without the launching of a new book. While today’s ceremony was not dedicated to poetry, art or fiction, it did highlight an important development in Belizean society. Ann-Marie Williams Belize can now add the first of its kind comprehensive women’s […]
You can measure the ordeal using a number of different yardsticks: time spent on the water, distance travelled, or the number of strokes of the paddle… But however you chose to quantify it, just completing La Ruta Maya is a feat of which even the last place finisher can be proud. Stewart Krohn, Reporting Sometimes […]
