“Painstakingly detailed” is how one participant described today’s negotiating sessions in Washington D.C.; so much so that at newstime the Belize and Guatemala delegations were locked behind closed doors trying to tie up the loose ends of a set of recommendations that will hopefully move the process one step closer to an eventual solution. News […]
One of Belize’s cross-country buses has become the latest victim in the recent wave of armed robberies. Tuesday night around 8:40 a pair of masked men, one with a gun and the other carrying a knife, jumped out of the bushes near the Hattieville bus stop as a Novelo’s bus en route to Belmopan stopped […]
The donation of an ambulance is not all that unusual but today a particular type of ambulance was donated by the Rotary Club to the Belize Emergency Response Team, which will greatly expand BERT’s capabilities. Having the four wheel drive Toyota Land Cruiser means that in times of need, it’s that much more likely that […]
The summer camp season is in full swing with Belizean children engaged in everything from swimming classes to computer lessons. Today Jose Sanchez stopped by to see how things are going for young footballers. If the vast energy of children on holiday could be harnessed for electricity there would be no need for any Chalillo […]
And in another sports related item we need to make a slight correction in a story we reported on Monday. It seems that we and ESPN jumped the gun on announcing the value of Milt Palacio’s NBA contract with the Boston Celtics. The two-year pact inked today calls for the third year point guard to […]
Last Tuesday morning two armed robbers were shot by a downtown merchant and on Thursday one of them, Erlin Budram, died from his injuries. Today Budram was buried, but what happened during the six days following his death is evidence of a growing crisis in how the law, police and medical system deal with sudden […]
