One person is dead and several have been left injured following a Saturday afternoon traffic accident on the Western Highway. The collision occurred shortly after 2:00 p.m. between a pickup truck and a Novelos bus travelling in opposite directions. Police report that as the vehicles reached between miles twenty-eight and twenty-nine, near the Belize Zoo […]
It’s every woman’s nightmare…but for one young Belize City woman, the experience was all too real. On Sunday night twenty-nine year old Lauren Ciego was sleeping inside her home on Fern Lane when she was awakened by the sound of her bedroom door being pushed open. Ciego says by the time she sat up, a […]
Exactly one year ago today, a fourteen-year-old boy lost the battle for his life after a brutal bar brawl left him in a coma. David Zabaneh Jr. had been a student at Saint John’s College at the time and was out with three friends at Raul’s Rose Garden, a bar and brothel on the Northern […]
Later this week, a Belizean delegation will join representatives of Latin American and Caribbean countries in Spain for a series of meetings with that country and the European Union. On Thursday, Prime Minister Said Musa, Minister of Foreign Affairs Assad Shoman and their counterparts from the Caribbean Community, will discuss opportunities for ventures with Spanish […]
Mother’s Day saw thousands of Belizean women being wined, dined and otherwise appreciated by their loved ones. But today, Ann-Marie spoke to one young mother at the K.H.M.H. who had a special reason to celebrate. Ann-Marie Williams Mother’s Day is usually a time when children honour their mother, but the tables turned on Sunday for […]
At over one hundred and seven thousand dollars, it’s the biggest lotto jackpot since the current franchise holder took over the game in 1995. Today we dropped by the lotto office, and even though we did not find a long line of people buying tickets, we were told that sales have increased substantially for Wednesday’s […]
It was part of the original plan for the Belize City Tourism Village, but is only just now being put into place. A number of water taxis, previously working out of other locations on the Haulover Creek, have joined together to form the Tourism Village Water Taxi Association. According to association president-pro-tem Joe Marin, getting […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’ve just crashed into this monster ride on Sports Monday. We kick things off with the Mother’s Day Cycle Classic, which rolled off Sunday morning from Santa Elena, Cayo. Here’s the start as all four contestants get busy, namely Anamarie Bennett, Marinette Flowers defending champion, Fiona Humes Gonzalez former […]
