Two people are dead as poor weather conditions, heavy vehicles, and high beams proved to be the perfect combination for tragedy on the Western Highway. Sometime around 6:45 Wednesday evening, forty-two year old Daniel Archer was driving a Novelo’s bus from Belmopan to Belize City, when as he reached between miles thirty-three and thirty-four, heavy […]
Two months ago a twenty-one year old Belize City woman, Elizabeth Williams, was shot and killed as she sat watching television in her house on Freedom Street. Today, police have arrested a suspect in that crime. Twenty-five year old security guard, Gregory Smith, of Jane Usher Boulevard, was this morning charged with murder. He appeared […]
Police have also rounded up a suspect in another high profile homicide, this time in Dangriga. Twenty-one year old Darren Chiu of Oak Street in that southern town was arrested on Wednesday and charged with abetment to commit murder. Businessman Wen Dong Liu was shot to death during an attempted robbery on November ninth. Leslie […]
Meanwhile, police today formally charged twenty-five year old Kevin Gonzalez Junior, a chef of San Pedro Town, with murder. Gonzalez was initially charged with conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit burglary. The new charge is in connection with the murder of sixty-three year old Justo Jairo Perez, who was bludgeoned to death at […]
The British High Commission in Belmopan has announced a number of small initiatives to aid a wide range of Belizean causes. In a ceremony this evening in Belmopan a cheque for four thousand, five hundred dollars was presented to the Belmopan chapter of the Belize Cancer Society. The funds, generated by a garden party hosted […]
The Thursday morning ritual of thumbing through the local papers was a little more interesting than usual today…given the dramatic headline of Millions from DFC for a favoured few in the Guardian newspaper. The front page article of the Opposition weekly lists several companies, who reportedly borrowed significant sums of money from the Development Finance […]
If our next story has a familiar ring to it, it’s because two weeks ago we went through a very similar exercise. The airline in question was U.S. Air; today it’s Air Jamaica inaugurating virtually identical four-times-a-week service between the U.S. and Belize via its Montego Bay hub. But while for many people one airline […]
