Their names are not exactly unfamiliar and tonight three young guys from Ladyville are spending the first of what might be many nights in Hattieville. Sixteen year old Shane Bahadur, twenty year old Levi Bahadur and twenty-seven year old Michael Arnold were today arrested and charged with the murder of shopkeeper Kong Yi. The twenty-eight […]
He may be eighty-one years old, but it seems his lungs are in pretty good shape. They’d have to be… because when San Ignacio police busted Archibald Walford with sixteen and a half pounds of marijuana he told the cops that the massive haul was his personal stash. Needless to say, what amounted to more […]
Today, Belize officially assumed the presidency of the Central American Tourism Council, with Minister Mark Espat accepting his new role during brief ceremonies this afternoon in Belize City. Espat says chairing the subsidiary body of the Central American Integration System, SICA, will give Belize the opportunity to drive our local agenda, but in such a […]
The Oddfellows are back in Belize. No, they are not a bunch of men doing strange things, but that is how they got their name…as in the 1820s back in England, men doing charity work was a little odd. From branches around the globe, the Oddfellows have done everything from building orphanages, homeless shelters to […]
This afternoon, if you happened to pass by the Sister Cecilia Home for the Elderly, you could not help but hear sweet sounds coming from inside the building. The residents were celebrating the latest donation made to them by Belize Water Services Limited. For some time the staff and residents have been without a fully […]
Since arriving in Belize eight years ago from Nigeria, Stephen Okeke has achieved notoriety as a sculptor, inventor and businessman. His latest venture casts him in the role of author…with a plain speaking self-help book that tells it straight to prospective Belizean entrepreneurs. “The Psychology of the Belizean Marketplace” may not become a bestseller, but […]
On the surface, Belize’s system of plentiful protected areas looks like a model of farsighted planning and efficiency. But underneath all those lush rainforests and spectacular coral reefs, there may not be as much coordination as meets the eye. Jacqueline Woods reports from Belmopan. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting While almost fifty percent of the country’s territory […]
