On Saturday morning a jet belonging to the United States government took off from the Philip Goldson International Airport and headed north. Aboard were two Belizeans wanted by the D.E.A. as suspects in a major cocaine smuggling case. And while few outside the men’s immediate family are shedding tears over their departure, there is strong […]
Two more young Belizean men are now counted among the dead as the rough and tumble streets of Belize City provided a bloody backdrop for separate murders over the weekend. The mayhem started on Saturday night when twenty-two year old Eugene Blades was gunned down as he drove his pickup truck along Faber’s Road. Blades, […]
A police patrol on the Northern Highway on Sunday stumbled across a small armoury and may have its owner in custody. According to police reports, the patrol observed a red car, which made an abrupt turn as the cops approached. The suspicious behaviour led the police to follow the car into a parking lot, but […]
The streets of Belize City were not the only killing fields this weekend as the roads in the south also saw their share of bloodshed. On Friday afternoon twenty-four year old Jose Sho of San Vicente Village, Toledo, was run over by the pickup truck in which he was riding. How is this possible? According […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this all female edition of Sports Monday. The men have recently dominated the sport of cycling, but these two weeks will see a lot more focus on the female riders. Yesterday the Belize Cycling Association sponsored the Hill Circuit Classic, a forty-mile race for females that runs […]
