Officials of Belize Electricity Limited are hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst, as a generating plant failure in Mexico continues to deprive Belize of badly needed power. Since Tuesday the nation has been forced to rely on the Mollejon hydro plant in Cayo and eight diesel units spread around the country to […]
Two suspects in last year’s murder of a British resident in Cayo have been apprehended. On September second, David Butner, the proprietor of El Cenote bar and restaurant, was found lying in his bed in the Cahal Pech area of San Ignacio, dead of multiple stab wounds. The police were seeking several suspects known to […]
For several years now the jacking of Chinese owned shops has been a growth industry for young Belize City criminals, not to mention the news media, which faithfully follow their exploits. On Wednesday night another grocery was hit and not even its name: “Lucky” could protect it. Forty-three year old Chee Yiu Chi told police […]
The body of a drowning victim has been recovered from the Belize River. On Thursday police found the corpse, identified as thirty-five year old Dennis Lockwood of Sandhill, lodged along the bank. Lockwood had been missing since Tuesday when he was seen by his cousin trying to swim across the river near Baker’s Ranch. A […]
He was the UDP government’s mouthpiece for much of its last term in office, but following the party’s landslide defeat in 1998, former journalist Delroy Cuthkelvin has just not been able to find his niche. After an aborted flirtation with the PUP in the form of a cushy job at the Arts Council, Cuthkelvin seemed […]
We’ve seen them before, crawling through the jungle and marching with fully loaded packs. Today the rough and tumble was replaced with spit and polish. Ann-Marie Williams After seventeen weeks of blood, sweat and perhaps a few tears, sixty-five soldiers and two cadets of recruit intake number forty-one, today officially became part of the Belize […]
There is something about the sound of small children spelling large words that inspires confidence in our educational system. News 5’s Jose Sanchez was on hand as Parish Hall reverberated with the letters of the alphabet. Jose Sanchez, Reporting The seventh national Coca Cola Spelling Bee contest is underway and today a large crowd of […]
There are not many job openings in Belize for aeronautical engineers or nuclear physicists… but that doesn’t mean that our children cannot excel in science. For a decade now, the Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Centre has been doing its part to acquaint primary school students with the scientific fundamentals, particularly in the field of […]
