It only dawned on us about a week ago that the year 2003 had been remarkably quiet when it came to violent crime. There were assorted shootings to be sure, but none had proved fatal. Until Friday night that is, when around eleven o’clock the nation registered its first murder of the year. As News […]
Another incident over the weekend, this time in Orange Walk, has left a well-known football player hospitalised. Twenty-seven year old Marcelino Tun, star of the Juventus squad, was stabbed in the abdomen around 7:00 Friday night. According to police, the man who wielded the knife, fifty-year-old businessman Santiago Solis, claims that Tun was drunk and […]
Twenty-five year old Jason Brown and seventeen year old Brian Herrera, both charged in connection with a shooting last week, were today denied bail in Magistrate’s Court. Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord kept the men in prison on the grounds that at as of this morning the victim’s medical condition was not clear. The duo, charged […]
Viewers may recall that on October twenty-fourth fisheries officers were busy in Belize City making arrests for the possession of undersized conch. One case against a family of Sarteneja fishermen quickly resulted in a conviction, but the other–against the Northern Fishermen Co-op–could not seem to find judicial traction… until today that is, when the charges […]
Police continue to make life miserable for Belize’s marijuana farmers. On Friday cops destroyed a plantation north of San Pedro Columbia containing almost three thousand, five hundred mature plants, while on Saturday their colleagues in Orange Walk burned a field twice that big south of San Felipe. No arrests were made in either raid. Such […]
In Belize, it’s the document you live and die by: your birth certificate. It’s your ticket to acquire a social security card, passport, voter registration, and even a seat in school. And now the Vital Statistics Unit has gone from this…thumbing through ancient registers, to this, clicking a button…to access records from all over the […]
With the election date now officially set for March fifth, over the weekend politicians from all over the country jumped into high gear, plastering every naked lamp post with signs and going house to house with renewed enthusiasm. In the Pickstock Division, three people will go head to head for area representative: Diane Haylock represents […]
The Ministry of Education has appointed a new chief education officer. She is veteran educator, Maud Hyde. Hyde, who has been working in the field since 1974, most recently served as head of QADS, the ministry’s Quality Assurance and Development Service. She replaces Dr. Cecil Reneau, who will become the director of the new Technical, […]
For the last four year the Berger 404 alumni council has been holding football matches for those youths who are considered to be at risk. The club is now looking to expand the programme beyond Belize City and today got a much needed donation to help meet its goal. This afternoon, the club received twenty-five […]
The phenomenal boom in Belize City’s cruise ship trade has spawned new opportunities in hair braiding and informal retailing. Today I found that moves are afoot to create yet another cruise related job category: city tour guide. Roland Blair, Tour Guide Instructor “You can even lose your license if you get drunk on a job, […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re just in time for this fresh delivery of Sports Monday. Week four of the B.P.F.L. playoffs found three teams with identical two and one records going in. Here in Belize City two of these ball-clubs battled at the M.C.C. Grounds as the defending champion Kulture Yabra plays host […]
