The driver believed to have caused Sunday night’s traffic accident on the Northern Highway, which left two people dead, has been charged. According to police, thirty-two year old Gustavo Cardenas Junior of Orange Walk town will answer to two counts of manslaughter by negligence, two counts of causing death by careless conduct, negligent wounding, failure […]
And this afternoon, near the opposite end of the Northern Highway, another vehicle went out of control, although no one was seriously injured. Around three-thirty, thirty-six year old Rigoberto Valdez of Orange Walk drove his Toyota Hilux off the road near mile seven and a half where its forward motion was stopped by a tree. […]
A U.S. citizen of the Stann Creek District is in trouble tonight, accused of keeping a stash of unlicensed weapons and ammo that would be more at home in Baghdad than Hopkins Village. According to police, fifty-year old Hudson Martin was arrested on Saturday after a search of his home resulted in the discovery of […]
Justice in Belize is not often swift, but don’t tell that to a burglar in Corozal. At one-thirty Monday morning police responded to a report of a burglary in progress at St. Paul’s Anglican School. When they arrived they saw a set of bars hanging from a window and four missing louvers. On searching the […]
They can sometimes be annoying, especially if you’re in a hurry and traffic gets backed up…but the presence of police checkpoints on our major highways is a high profile reassurance that authorities are serious about law enforcement. Today, the private sector, in a small way, expressed its appreciation for the effort. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline […]
On Friday, newly appointed Minister of Finance, Ralph Fonseca, joined his Central American colleagues in Washington, D.C., where they met with U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. According to a Belize Government release, the meeting focussed on strategies for growth. In his address to the gathering, Fonseca appealed for understanding […]
It’s called the Technical Assistance for Capacity Building for Trade and Investment Promotion Project…but don’t let the long name fool you…there’s a very simple objective behind all that jargon. A joint venture between the Government of Belize, via BELTRAIDE and the Inter-American Development Bank, what this initiative aims to do is develop already established Belizean […]
It happened last Thursday afternoon in Ladyville, and while it is clear that a boy has been horribly injured, what is not so certain is how and why. Jacqueline Woods is just back with the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Eight-year-old Jose Luis Ortega received first and second degree burns to forty percent of his body […]
