The hurricane named Iris is now a memory, but for thousands of Belizeans in the southern third of the country, those memories will be causing pain for a long time to come. To briefly recap, Iris made landfall around seven-thirty Monday night with the eye passing just north of Monkey River. Maximum sustained winds reached […]
When Hurricane Iris first appeared as a tropical depression and later as a tropical storm, it looked like it would wreak its havoc on Jamaica, Cuba, Cayman or Mexico…and even when it clearly headed for Belize, the landfall of choice seemed to be San Pedro or Belize City. So what happened? Deputy Chief Meteorologist Justin […]
In other news, a mega drug bust, which would usually be a headline, has for this week anyway, been relegated to a footnote. Details are sketchy, but at around 4:00 this morning police raided the rented apartment of a Mexican man at mile three on the Northern Highway where they found around fifty parcels of […]
Also, the state funeral for one of Belize’s foremost politicians and patriots, Philip Stanley Wilberforce Goldson, has been rescheduled for Thursday at 2:00 p.m. at Holy Redeemer Cathedral in Belize City. The seventy-eight year old statesman died in a Florida hospital on Wednesday after a long illness.
Ava Lovell “Janelle I understand you have some political news as well, could you enlighten us?” Janelle Chanona There are strong, rumours tonight, it has not been confirmed officially, but apparently Minister of National Security Jorge Espat has submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Musa. He apparently did this Monday night. But as I said, […]
