A day at the National Agriculture and Trade Show in Belmopan has ended tragically for a twenty-one year old father of two children. Reports are that Denver Westby of Faber’s Road in Belize City was shot at close range twice as he stood under a tent at the fair around 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. An […]
Sunday’s murder was not the only calamity at this year’s Agriculture and Trade Show. On Saturday afternoon an eleven year old girl was seriously injured when her long hair became tangled in the mechanism of her seat on the ferris wheel. Beatrice Chan of Buena Vista Village in Cayo had part of her scalp lifted […]
This weekend fire enveloped a two-storey wooden house at 3 Mayflower Street in Belize City, leaving the Smith family who occupied the upper flat, homeless. According to Marsha Smith, who lived in the lower flat, around five o’clock on Saturday morning she heard screaming coming from upstairs. Marsha Smith, Fire Victim “I run to the […]
Presentations of oral arguments by Belize and Guatemala continued today at the Organisation of American States in Washington D.C. In replies to questions posed by Belizean negotiators, Guatemala has made it clear that contrary to their earlier arguments they still maintain a claim to the entire country, and not just the land south of the […]
Riding in the open back of a pickup truck is a popular Belizean pastime, but on Friday it meant death for a Cayo man. Twenty-three year old Samuel Shish of Calla Creek Village was riding in the pan of a pickup belonging to Peter Margessam when, between mile sixty-nine and seventy on the Western Highway, […]
President of the Dominican Republic, Hipolito Mejia, arrived in Belize this evening for a one-day visit. Mejia was met at the Philip Goldson International Airport by Prime Minister Said Musa and their motorcade then passed through the principal streets of Belize City. The president heads a delegation of ten. On Wednesday talks will focus primarily […]
There are many people who spend a lot of time talking about preserving culture…but precious few who actually live the culture that is supposedly being preserved. Tonight we meet a man who works with his head and hands to defy that trend. Jose Sanchez, Reporting “Culture for Development–A Man at Work,” is Robert Mariano’s first […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and it’s time for another ride on Sports Monday. Semi-pro basketball took centre stage at the City centre Friday night where the BTL Net clashed with the University of Belize. At the tip off its Ernest Broaster jumping against 6’8″ Eric Maye of the U.S. and we’re underway. We always […]
