Almost one week before the polls open for nationwide general and municipal elections, the big news is that…there is no big news. Going into the home stretch leading up to the March fifth balloting, each party strongly hinted that there would be political bombshells bursting like fireworks on News Year’s eve. Instead, those in charge […]
Police were up early this morning in the Stann Creek Valley, not picking oranges, but investigating a dead body found in an orchard. The corpse of an unidentified man was discovered around five a.m. at a farm off the Melinda Road. The body, believed to be that of a Hispanic male, was in the early […]
Today, her family made the painful decision to remove twenty-four year old Tanya Lamb from a machine that was keeping her alive at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Lamb, the mother of a two-year-old girl, suffered severe head and body injuries following a traffic accident that occurred around 5:30 Sunday evening in Belize City. According […]
A Dangriga man has died, presumably of drowning. The body of thirty-five year old Robert Matthew Leslie of an Isla Road address was discovered Monday evening floating in the river near that town’s main bridge. Leslie was taken to the Southern Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Police say that there were […]
Another sudden death, this time in Corozal, is being classified by police as a tragic accident. Forty-four year old Roberto Correa of San Roman Village died early this morning from a shotgun blast to his chest. According to police, Correa, a truck driver, arrived home from his farm around five-thirty this morning. His family heard […]
Tired of all those political ads on your local television newscast? No comment here, but if I asked you to name your favourite spot, which one would you choose? I put that question to my colleague, Jacqueline Woods, and have to say that I agree. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The first election he’ll be able to […]
Sunday has been declared by government as a National Day of Prayer. On that day we are being asked to attend our usual place of worship and to specifically pray for a peaceful electoral process on March fifth. The Belize Council of Churches has echoed that sentiment in a letter circulated today, which calls on […]
The administration, staff and students of Bethel Assembly Primary are counting their blessings tonight after government announced its decision to repair the school in the wake of last week’s fire. A press release issued today indicated that the Ministry of Education has presented a grant for almost nineteen thousand dollars to Reverend Lloyd Wright, the […]
If you’ve walked along Belize City’s Southern Foreshore recently, you will have noticed that something’s not quite right. That’s what Jacqueline Woods did, but upon closer inspection she discovered that while things may look topsy-turvy, all the commotion is for a worthy cause. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It took about three and a half years to […]
We try not to copy the mass feeding frenzy of the U.S. media, but sometimes events up north can’t help but get us thinking. That’s what I did following recent tragedies in Chicago and Rhode Island…and after speaking to the Fire Chief this afternoon my worst fears for Belize have been confirmed. Janelle Chanona, Reporting […]
