There is a school of thought in certain circles that says all the gang type violence in Belize City really isn’t so tragic because it’s just criminals killing each other, a type of extreme population control for the underclass. But even if one accepts this twisted logic, events on Monday night demonstrate that flying bullets […]
Information is sketchy, but it appears that a Guatemalan resident of Jalacte Village in Toledo has been murdered after crossing the border into Guatemala. Fifty-six year old Vicente Ramirez, whose home was just inside Belizean territory, was found dead on Sunday several hundred yards across the frontier. The farmer, who died of machete wounds, had […]
In other news from the frontier we are reliably informed that action will soon be taken to remove illegal Guatemalan residents from a settlement they now inhabit in Belize. Under an agreement with the Guatemalan government a team from the International Organisation on Migration will conduct a survey of the community at Edwards Central in […]
Any owner of a new vehicle knows it was bound to happen… but it still hurts just the same. One of those shiny new Mercedes Benz busses got mashed up this morning. The accident happened just before eight on the Western Highway when a Novelos Executive bus ran into the back of a trailer loaded […]
People who travel in the south of the country will be happy to hear that two new projects will make life on the road a little less bumpy and dusty. Minister of Works Henry Canton today signed two contracts under the Feeder Roads Rehabilitation Project. The first, with Albert Reimer of Valley Ranch Enterprise, was […]
Last time it was the Mr. Nice Guy competition and now the same organizers have planned a pageant in which nine contestants from Gwen Liz, E.P. Yorke and YWCA will vie for the title of Miss Southside. Pageant Organizer Mark Jenkins says that the young ladies are ready for an entertaining night. Mark Jenkins, Pageant […]
Princess Anne will be visiting Belize next month. Her itinerary has not been released, but the dates are April seventeenth through twentieth and her visit is part of a larger tour to El Salvador, Honduras, Dominica and Bermuda. She last came this way in the 1980’s and paid a visit to the Belize Zoo, a […]
In San Pedro this afternoon Prime Minister Said Musa broke ground for a new campus for St. Matthew’s Medical University. The offshore U.S. operated med. school has been operating out of rented premises since 1997 and the construction represents a significant commitment to the institution’s future in Belize. Seven Belizean students, all on scholarships, attend […]
