They announced an impending rise in bus fares on Wednesday…but declined to detail the specific prices until today. As News 5’s Janelle Chanona discovered, for passengers, the news wasn’t pretty. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning twelve of the country’s bus operators presented the new fares that will come into effect on Monday, April fifteenth. From […]
We don’t know if it’s a good sign or bad, but the facilitators in the OAS sponsored mediation have asked to meet with the leaders of Belize and Guatemala. Both President Alfonso Portillo and Prime Minister Said Musa have agreed to the request and the tête-à-tête will take place in Guatemala on Saturday, April thirteenth, […]
Despite the widespread belief that Belize is in the grip of a major crime wave, one category of potential victims that seems to have enjoyed a period of relative tranquillity is that of tourists. Until this week that is, when three British visitors were held up and robbed at gunpoint on the Southern Highway. The […]
An escaped prisoner has been captured…and wounded in the process. Twenty-one year old Emerson Talbert, an inmate at Hattieville, was labouring as part of a work gang in Belize City on Thursday when he made a break for freedom. He managed to elude his guards until nightfall, when he was apprehended in the vicinity of […]
The report of an escaped prisoner and robbery of British citizens on the Southern Highway makes us recall another crime story we first reported in 1998. In August of that year, British Raleigh Venturer Anna Lightfoot was brutally murdered near the village of Red Bank by villagers Estevan Sho and Alan Cal. Lightfoot was stabbed […]
Since the Friends of Paediatrics was established in 1998, more than one hundred children in Belize have been identified with various heart problems. Almost fifty of the young patients have already received surgery while the other children have been put on a waiting list. Friends of Paediatrics is a non-governmental organisation that provides specialised medical […]
