A shooting incident over the weekend has resulted in a Belize City man being injured. According to police reports, forty-two year old Albert Myers of Neal Penn Road was shot in his lower back on Saturday night. Myers told police that he was in the vicinity of the Bismarck Club around 9:00 p.m. on Saturday […]
Three Guatemalans are tonight charged with drug trafficking after police busted them with almost thirty pounds of weed. According to officers on mobile patrol in Orange Walk, on Friday they spotted three men walking down the street carrying backpacks and acting highly suspicious. Police stopped and searched the men and found fifteen point eight pounds […]
Life may be returning to normal in southern Belize following the passage of Hurricane Iris almost three months ago, but there are many people, especially in the Toledo District, who are still in need of supplies. Today, one Belize City couple demonstrated that it is never too late to reach out and give a helping […]
Politics in Trinidad and Tobago have yet to settle down after that country’s last general election ended in a tie in early December. The Trinidadian press is reporting that one of the latest points of contention between current Prime Minister Patrick Manning and former P.M. Basdeo Panday is the People’s National Movement’s new pension scheme. […]
It is a sad, painful fact that while many children go home to parents that love and care for them, there are three times as many, who go home to an environment where they are mistreated, abused and neglected. Too many Belizean children are victims of this practice, evidenced by the number of them being […]
It might be “mawga” season for the rest of us, but one Orange Walk man is tonight seventy-five thousand dollars richer. Oscar Garcia, a sales supervisor of Bowen and Bowen Limited in Orange Walk won Saturday night’s lotto jackpot and after taxes will take home close to sixty-four thousand dollars. An elated Garcia told News […]
If you happened to be on Freetown Road this afternoon and wondered why there was a slow-down in traffic, don’t worry it wasn’t an accident. Earlier today, Caribbean Shores Area Rep Jose Coye opened a drop-in centre and clinic. The facility will be managed by a steering neighbourhood committee with assistance from NDACC. It is […]
As one of the oldest religions to take root in Belizean society, it’s not too surprising that this year the Roman Catholic Church is celebrating its sesquicentennial anniversary. Bishop O.P. Martin says the year long celebration is being held under the theme: “Celebrating the past, serving the present, embracing the future.” Bishop O.P. Martin, Roman […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re in tuned with this latest serving of Sports Monday. Week eleven of this Regent’s Cup Tournament found Acros Brown Bombers in defence of the barracks here in Belize City against who else, Acros Real Verdes of San Ignacio. Okay, we’ll call it the battle of stoves, but there […]
