How much is not exactly clear, but a significant portion of Belize’s business community will close down on Wednesday to demonstrate their exasperation at a crime situation that is widely perceived to be out of control. The dominant feeling among merchants was summed up by Albert Street’s Beulah Sikaffy, herself a victim of a violent […]
While the business community tries to rally the public against crime, members of the criminal class are reminding us that not all law breakers sport bandannas and pants that sag. Janelle Chanona, Reporting With three charges pending for incidents in September 2001 and four other court cases that were either struck out or dismissed, twenty-one […]
Another Belize City resident is counting herself lucky tonight after a stray gunshot threatened the life of herself and her children. According to Cafara Bennett of number six Mayflower Street, around 4:30 this morning, a bullet slammed through the back wall of her home, bounced off a bedroom wall, went through to the bathroom, broke […]
Not all recent efforts by police have been in vain. The department reports that in Orange Walk two men, one of them a fifteen-year-old, have been arrested and charged with robbery and grievous harm. Twenty-year-old Daniel Cowo and the minor are accused of being among a gang that attacked a twenty-three year old on a […]
Acting with a patience that bordered on inaction, the Customs Department finally called it a day for Stann Creek businessman John Zabaneh–or at least his fleet of uncustomed vehicles. The ten late model SUV’s and pickups, seized at Zabaneh’s Mayan King farm in November, were forfeited when Zabaneh could not produce evidence of good title. […]
While her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second will get no closer to Belize this year than her current trip to Jamaica, we will be included on the royal itinerary of her son Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. The now divorced Prince, perhaps best known for his tempestuous marriage to Sarah Ferguson, will visit Belize […]
You won’t always see her marching on the picket lines or starring on the talk show circuit, but for nearly twenty years Therese Bowman Rath has laboured diligently on the front lines of the environmental movement. On Saturday, her efforts were officially recognised when she was honoured with the James A. Waight Conservation Award. The […]
It was last year’s surprise hit, capturing the attention of a viewing public hungry for local entertainment. And with the peculiar institution known as karaoke still as popular as ever, Karaoke Television is back for an encore. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Tonight, KTV 2002 starts on Channel 5. Over the next thirteen weeks, sixty contestants will […]
