We are in the middle of Prison Awareness Week… and while these days are set aside to increase our knowledge and concern for what goes on behind the walls, our lead story tonight concerns a prisoner who went over the wall. Twenty-year old inmate Heidi Martinez apparently broke out of Hattieville on Sunday, but her […]
Police may have been left empty handed in Belize City’s Magistrate Court, but they had better luck in Burrell Boom. Two suspects in Saturday’s killing of Elvis Banner were arrested there and charged with murder. They are nineteen year old Leon Hinds and twenty-five year old Eugene Henderson, both residents of Boom. Banner was chopped […]
There were more problems at Belize Water Services Limited today as recurring difficulties with its old twenty-four inch mains left the city dry most of the day. A series of breaks at mile sixteen on the Northern Highway has challenged the company’s technicians over the last several days as swampy terrain has caused muddy water […]
The town of Dangriga is due for a major face-lift thanks to over six million dollars worth of infrastructural contracts that were signed today. The works consist largely of dredging and realigning several canals that provide drainage for the town. The contracts were signed with Mid-South Investments Limited for just under two million dollars and […]
Alberto Lagos works as chief of security for the Radisson Hotel, but his financial security is one thing that will no longer concern him. Last night he picked the winning numbers in Lotto and today is sixty-thousand dollars richer. Stewart Krohn “You said that you chose the numbers according to something with your three children. […]
This month images of Belize can be seen through the eyes of renowned Venezuelan painter Manuel Piney. Paisajes de Belice or Landscapes of Belize is a twenty-four-piece oil painting exhibition opened for public viewing on Friday. Guillermo Gutierrez, director of the Mexico-Belize Cultural Institute says Piney captures familiar scenes from the point of view of […]
It’s a beauty pageant that takes place every year around this time. No, we’re not talking about Miss Universe. The contestants on this show have experience to accompany their good looks. Enid Oliver, Miss Burrell Boom “I’m here for my last experience of being on the stage.” Juliana Arana, Miss Lake I “I think I’m […]
As Belize’s only prison, the foreboding complex near Hattieville comes in for more than its share of attention. But today, thanks to an ambitious programme by the Police Department, some young people got a taste of what prison life is really all about. Jose Sanchez reports. Sergeant Gilbert Pitts, Police Officer “We get the third […]
