In recent years the growth areas in Belize’s economy have been products like citrus, bananas and shrimp farming… not to mention tourism. But there was a time not very long ago that the nation’s survival began and ended with one word: sugar. Today, despite some recent setbacks, sugar is still a huge business and vital […]
The case of the heavily armed Mennonites arrested last week in the Cayo District is expanding and today two more suspects were charged, one of them, a police officer. P.C. Ramon Manzanero, currently stationed at San Pedro, was charged with two counts of blackmail and conspiracy to blackmail. Also charged with the same crimes were […]
As we reported on yesterday’s newscast, twenty-two year old Luis Urbina has been detained by Orange Walk police and may face charges in connection with a rampage of murder, rape and robbery that ranged across Corozal and Orange Walk in June. Today, Urbina, who was charged on Tuesday with a long pending drug offence, was […]
A fire this morning on Neal Pen Road has left a house almost totally destroyed and its owner out on the street. Jacqueline Woods reports on a tragedy that may not have been an accident. Cecil Emmanuel, Fire Victim “No, I no save nothing, a boy just gave me this pants. I come out with […]
A break in B.T.L.’s fibre optic cable cut off all telecommunications to Belmopan today, shutting down services to the nation’s capital as well as any function dependent on the earth station. So aside from being unable to call our friends in government for most of the day, the fault also sidelined vital computer networks used […]
Interest is once again heating up in the lotto jackpot, which has risen to eighty-seven thousand, five hundred dollars for tonight’s draw. What lotto players may have forgotten, however, is that there is still a hefty jackpot from last month that remains unclaimed. On July sixth the winning ticket was sold at John’s Supermarket in […]
An international effort centred in Germany has resulted in the donation of a large quantity of school furniture for victims of Hurricane Iris. On Tuesday, the shipment of desks, chairs and blackboards arrived at the Belize City port. The items were donated by schools throughout Germany that heard about the hurricane and the damage it […]
