The incumbent People’s United Party has been stung in recent weeks by a number of allegations involving corruption in high places. Today the P.U.P. initiated a long expected counterattack, with the first jab leveled at U.D.P. chairman and Freetown candidate Doug Singh. The P.U.P. campaign is trying to place Singh as a central figure in […]
A B.D.F. soldier is in police custody tonight, accused of stabbing his common law wife. Police say that on Wednesday, just after noon, twenty-nine year old Marvin Card became embroiled in an argument with eighteen-year-old Janiel Castillo at the house they share on Police Street in Belize City. Castillo allegedly reached for an ice pick […]
In more police news another Chinese owned business has been knocked off by robbers. Around four-thirty on Wednesday afternoon thirty-one year old Fang Fe Yong was inside his establishment “Wicked Night Club” on New Road, when a prospective patron approached him and shoved a handgun in his stomach. Fang handed over four hundred and fifty […]
They didn’t launch their manifesto with a big splash, but the United Democratic Party’s candidates for the Belize City Council believe that their ideas and personalities will speak for themselves. Today I caught up with a few members of the slate as they prepared for the final week of the campaign. Wayne Usher, Mayoral Candidate, […]
And so as not to ignore the candidates in Belmopan and the nation’s seven towns we will roll their names and party affiliations. Please note that while there are five independent candidates running for the Belmopan City Council, none of the town council races features so much as a single independent candidate. BELMOPAN CITY COUNCIL […]
Scientists say that Belize is home to one of the healthiest populations of manatees in the world…but the increased pressure of tourism appears to be taking its toll. Last week the corpse of a female manatee calf was found washed up in Driftwood Bay on the north coast of Belize City. It was the third […]
We’re all familiar with illegal drugs like cocaine, crack, marijuana and even heroin…along with Belize’s roll in their production and distribution. But with new narcotic concoctions appearing in the U.S.A. and Europe almost weekly, it’s not easy for the law enforcement community to keep up. With one secret laboratory already discovered in Corozal, authorities here […]
Standardized tests are not necessarily the best indicators of future accomplishment but they do enable us to make at least some kind of comparison between students across wide geographic areas. Today the area of focus was the English speaking Caribbean and, at least this time around, Belize looked very good. For the second time in […]
