With the usually raucous budget debate set for Friday, Prime Minister Said Musa spent today’s lunch hour doing some warm up exercises. The occasion was an address to the Belize Business Bureau at the Biltmore Plaza. Focussing on crime, the economy, and health reform, the P.M. spoke from notes and answered questions from the audience. […]
Today’s meeting of the Business Bureau was not all politics. A few minutes were set aside to present the prestigious Marla Holder Award. This year’s recipient is Eva Middleton. Middleton, who holds a Master’s degree in Public Health, is best known for her work as an early advocate of breast-feeding. She’s also a veteran community […]
Shortly after two this afternoon, three gunmen held up Loskot Hardware and Furniture at number thirty St. Jude Street in Belize City. Manager Gaudencio Pott says when the men entered the compound, they pretended to be interested in buying lumber, but when he turned to tend to a customer, one of the men placed a […]
Another Belize City robbery, this time on Neal Pen Road, has netted a robber four hundred dollars. Around 10:30 Wednesday night twenty-six year old Xu Zhao Hua was closing his shop when he heard a knock on the window. When he opened it, he found himself staring into the business end of a sawed off […]
He was shot in a bicycle drive-by a week ago…and last night he lost the battle for his life. Nineteen-year-old Eurdene Sterling was one of two young men targeted while standing on Sarstoon Street in Belize City on the afternoon of March fourteenth. Police are still looking for the gunmen, one of whom is believed […]
We have a correction to a story we ran last night on what was described to us as an unsuccessful bank robbery. In fact, the thief who entered the Bank of Nova Scotia in Corozal Wednesday morning, was not as hapless as we made him out to be. The real story is that after handing […]
AIDS: it’s a story that’s been with us since 1986 and shows no signs of moving off the front page. Today, those leading the charge against the deadly disease took their campaign to the city. Jacqueline Woods was there. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Last April the National AIDS Commission embarked on a nationwide consultation to establish […]
In a country of many cultures, you’d think that our children would just automatically get to know how Belizeans from different ethnic groups live their lives. Maybe, but one Belize City pre-school is not taking any chances. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting The one hundred and seven children of Lloyd Coffin Pre-school in the Lake Independence area […]
Crime and criminals come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from gunmen in sagging shorts to con men in suits and ties. But while we have become accustomed to stolen cash, stolen jewelry, and even stolen cars, there are thieves in Belize’s rural areas who have set their sights much higher… specialising in the crime […]
