The northern approach to Belize City has a well deserved reputation for vehicular danger, but a fatal accident that took place on the highway last night has the victim’s family, not to mention police, shaking their heads in disgust. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting For the past three and a […]
A scheme to extort money from a Mennonite businessman has earned three Cayo brothers an all expense paid vacation in Her Majesty’s hotel at Hattieville. Norman, Armando and Daniel Cal, ages nineteen, twenty-one and twenty-seven respectively, are reported to have threatened a neighbour, Village Council Chairman Daniel Friesen of Lower Barton Creek, that if he […]
A U.S. tourist has died while vacationing at San Pedro. According to police, sixty-eight year old William Conrad of Texas was snorkelling at Shark Ray Alley south of Ambergris Caye, when he suddenly collapsed and could not be revived. Heart failure is suspected as the cause of death. Conrad’s body was transported to the Karl […]
Town Councils throughout the country were today without their top brass as Mayors and their deputies travelled to Belize City as guests of the City Council. The occasion was the first meeting of the Mayors Association since the March fifth elections. And while there were some new faces in the room, many of the old […]
The chairperson of Helpage Belize, Maria Elena Sylvestre, is the sixth woman to receive the Dr. Marla Holder Achievement Award. This afternoon, the Belize Business Bureau held a luncheon ceremony at the Smokey Mermaid Restaurant to honour her. The award is given each year to a woman who has contributed significantly to society, particularly in […]
The Santiago Castillo group of companies officially launched a new line of multi-vitamins targeted for people over fifty years old and at the same time extended a helping hand to the care giving institutions for the elderly. Multibionta Fifty is a multivitamin supplement designed especially to meet the needs of older people. And while today’s […]
We’re not sure what vitamins they’re taking, but come this weekend a bunch of young men will be in need of all the strength they can muster. This morning I met them out on the Western Highway. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Before dawn these disciples of cycling pay homage to the highway…pacing…sprinting…sometimes struggling to keep up. […]
The war in the Middle East appears to be rapidly coming to an end, and Belizeans, along with the rest of the world, have watched the brief campaign with varying proportions of shock and awe. For many residents of Belize City, particularly those in one southside neighbourhood, the U.S. march through Iraq has a familiar […]
