Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse at the K.H.M.H., they did. Lucellie Peña, a thirty-two year old mother of five and one of the three patients who received HIV positive blood from the hospital, died on Sunday afternoon, not from AIDS, but from complications following treatment for gallstones. Peña had just been […]
Monday night was a scary one for a Belize City businessman. Sixty-four year old Evan Blades of ice cream parlour fame was at his Freetown Road home watching television when just before 9:00 he heard someone opening his front door with a key. The visitor turned out to be a former employee, Jason Elijio, but […]
A salesman for James Brodie and Company was robbed on Monday morning. Between 9:30 and 10:00, Leslie Pratt parked his car at the corner of East Collet Canal and Vernon Street and entered Century Company limited to collect cash and cheques worth three thousand seven hundred dollars. As he left the building and returned to […]
Hundreds of Belizeans use their voter’s registration card on a daily basis as a means of identification when cashing a cheque or receiving credit, not to mention voting. Today a programme got underway to make those cards work better for their owners. Ann-Marie Williams reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Five thousand of the one hundred and […]
You may not have noticed them on the grocery shelf but that staple of Belizean life, Marie Sharp’s pepper sauce, now comes in some amazing new varieties. While Sharp’s traditional habanero blends are mixed with a carrot base, the new concoction utilises orange and grapefruit pulp. The result, if you can imagine, is even more […]
Stella Maris, Belize’s only school that caters to people with disabilities and special needs, has been operating for years with a shortage of space, but not much longer. A new reinforced concrete facility, courtesy of the United Kingdom government, is about to be constructed to accommodate it’s growing student population. Area Representative for the Freetown […]
It was the closest competition yet, with the top two contestants locked in a tie and the third only two points behind. When the judges finished their conference only one singer could wear last night’s karaoke crown. Here’s how it went. Williams Neal, Host, Karaoke TV “Our winner for tonight is Sheridath Williams.” Sheridath sings […]
There is no shortage of people in this country who talk about building Belize. However, the list of those who actually build as opposed to talking about it is exceedingly short. Unfortunately, that list is about to get even shorter as one of the nation’s most productive developers tonight lies on his deathbed. Javier Berbey […]
The fight against drugs in Belize is being carried out on many levels. Last week we reported on action by the region’s military chiefs. Today the focus shifted to demand reduction and rehabilitation. Jose Sanchez, Reporting The National Drug Abuse Control Council has since February embarked on a countrywide campaign since February to educate high […]
