If you’ve ever wondered why insurance companies don’t like to write policies on thatched roofed buildings, tonight’s lead story should provide convincing proof. The fire at the Cahal Pech Entertainment Centre overlooking the twin towns of Cayo was nothing short of spectacular. Patrick Jones reports from the scene. Patrick Jones, Reporting The building erupted in […]
A Belize City man, accused of travelling seventy-two miles to rob a jewellery store, today found himself in silver bangles in front of a San Ignacio Magistrate. Twenty-five year old Frank Flowers is accused of robbing J & J Jewellery Shop at the Plaza Del Rio Mall on June twentieth. He and another man are […]
In other crime news, a San Pedro taxi driver has been arrested following the death of a two-year-old pedestrian. Forty-four year old Justino Chan has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and driving without due care and attention after backing over Alexia Santos near the town’s airstrip. The child was […]
Belize is the new home for five Harpy Eagles brought in from Panama over the last several months. Four have been released into the wild, while on Saturday one made its debut at the Belize Zoo. Speaking at the occasion, Rick Watson of the Peregrine Foundation, explained what the programme is all about. Rick Watson, […]
And while the Minister of Natural Resources and Zoo Director were all smiles on Saturday, Sharon Matola, who is also the leading opponent of the Chalillo dam, could not have been pleased with developments in the Macal River Valley. BECOL today announced that a thirty-five foot temporary cofferdam has been completed at the site, which […]
First it was radar guns, then breathalysers…now, once again, it’s bicycles. Will this latest crackdown be any different than the nine-day-wonders of the past? Today I visited the Belize City Traffic Department to find out. Kent Gabb, Manager, Traffic Department “We said we need to go back to registration of bicycles where we can identify […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and welcome to this latest issue of Sports Monday. Week three of the B.P.F.L. football season took Kulture Yabra of Belize City into the unfriendly confines of the Isidoro Beaton Stadium for a showdown with the sub-champion, Builder’s Hardware Bandits of Belmopan. We open with Norman “Tilliman” Nunez launching a […]
