With the war in Iraq unfolding on our TV screens, Belize and Belizeans can do little more than hope for the best and prepare for the worst. In the international diplomatic manoeuvring prior to the U.S. invasion, we managed to keep a low profile as the drama played out in the U.N. Security Council, a […]
Three people have been detained by police for what appears to be a forged document racket. On Tuesday cops busted a twenty-two year old Salvadoran resident of Victoria Street in Belize City and found him in possession of five fake permanent resident permits. The suspect claimed the bogus papers came from another Salvadoran named Hugo […]
According to local law enforcement authorities, every year police pathologists conduct post-mortem examinations on more than three hundred bodies…all this with limited manpower and resources. It comes as a welcome relief then, for those who must work in the dead zone, that construction work has begun on a National Forensics Laboratory. The lab, to be […]
With a few notable exceptions, the world of the Belizean media is one dominated by the young. And like most people of my generation, we may not always appreciate the problems faced by our elders. To correct the situation, members of the media were this morning invited to spend some quality time with senior citizens. […]
Every year thousand of visitors enter Belize to join their local counterparts in the passionate pastime called bird watching. Today, I did some bird watching of my own at the airport as some very special specimens became naturalised Belizeans. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning’s TACA flight out of El Salvador had precious cargo in its […]
