A third person has been detained in the whopping weekend bank heist in San Ignacio. Sources in the Police Department declined to identify the trio brought in for questioning, except to say that they are not employees of the bank. Observers have speculated that the team of crooks who bored into the vault from a […]
The Ministry of National Security has released the latest crime statistics and according to their figures, major offences in February have dropped over seven percent from a year earlier. The decrease was not across the board, however, for while the number of rapes dropped from thirteen to seven, murders from three to one and thefts […]
It was not a rape, murder, robbery, burglary or theft, but that did not make a crime committed on Friday night any less vicious. A security guard at the Eden nightclub was stabbed when he tried to prevent a man from entering the nightspot. Harrison Walker, thirty-nine, received several knife wounds to the stomach when […]
While on the subject of official statistics, Belize Electricity Limited issued a few of its own today, and while their headline was more hopeful than accurate, the company did make a valid point: that reliance on petroleum for electricity is an invitation to disaster. Quoting a recent survey carried out by CARILEC, the regional association […]
The Belize Defence Force is constructing a new officer’s quarters for “H” Company. Funds for the fifty thousand dollar building located at Eyles Camp in Orange Walk Town are being provided by the Ministry of National Security. Brigadier General Cedric Borland says that the facility will greatly improve the living conditions of the soldiers. Brigadier […]
We’ve recently seen heroes like Marion Jones and Milton Palacio in Belize… and today another sports great visited the jewel… but we’re not sure if his is a household name. Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Cricket is a sport that thrives throughout the English speaking Caribbean, but the sharp crack of bat and ball […]
While Belize struggles to improve the level of health care, the one eventuality that the system finds difficult to deal with is that of a catastrophic accident. Fortunately when all hope seems lost, there are some good folks and organisations ready to step forward. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting It is every child’s dream to go to […]
