The Belize Police Anti-Drug Unit earned a share in a major drug seizure when a U.S. Coast Guard operation netted over one thousand, five hundred pounds of cocaine. According to Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid, just after one p.m. yesterday, the U.S. Coast Guard informed the Belize Police Department of the movements of a […]
The Belize Government is under some serious pressure tonight from a familiar place over some familiar faces. According to Public Relations Officer for the United States Embassy in Belize, Edgar Embry, this morning a letter was sent to Comptroller of Customs Everard Lopez specifically identifying three luxury S.U.V.s that the U.S. government believes are stolen. […]
His new vehicle may have a suspicious pedigree, but that has not stopped Belize City businessman Luke Espat from pulling off what appears to be a major financial coup. Tonight, the Reporter newspaper is saying that Espat has sealed a deal with the Carnival Corporation to build a marine terminal at the Belize City Port. […]
He was one of those people who dropped out of sight following the March fifth elections, a casualty of highly publicized scandals in the Ministry of Education. But tonight, Dr. Dorian Barrow, the former Chief Executive Officer in that ministry, is back in the news. That’s because he’s landed a new job with the University […]
Nine Chinese-Belizeans remain quarantined at home tonight as medical authorities continue to monitor them for symptoms of the deadly SARS virus. Contrary to what we reported on our newscast last night, it now appears that the quarantined family members are dual nationals of Belize and the People’s Republic of China, and not Taiwan. They are […]
Tonight, a Belize City man is in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital suffering from head and body injuries sustained in a traffic accident around five this evening. According to twenty-year-old Steve Mahler, the driver of this Chevy pick-up truck, he was making a right hand turn from Princess Margaret Drive into St. Thomas Street when […]
If you were driving in Belize City Thursday morning, you may have noticed a special group of pedestrians trying to compete with the cell phone, radio and traffic jams for your attention. Jacqueline Woods explains. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting On May thirty-first, 1997 twenty-seven year old Ricardo Lopez was viciously attacked by another man after a […]
It opened last night to a capacity crowd evenly divided between visiting scholars and local aficionados. But the video and photographic exhibition was not the usual artistic fare presented at the Mexican Cultural Institute. The subject matter was controversial…and the message highly critical of that country’s government and society. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Ebano is the […]
