The body of Agripino Cawich returned home today, arriving at the Philip Goldson International Airport where it was met with military honours. It then travelled by motorcade to Belmopan where it will lie in state at the George Price Centre. Funeral services for the Cayo South representative and Minister of State will take place Wednesday […]
You don’t have to be a member of the clergy to be concerned about the proliferation of nightspots that call themselves bars but are in fact nothing more than brothels. But you do have to be a little bit suspicious of government’s sudden concern with protecting the nation’s morals, especially when it appears that their […]
In other crime news, a suspect has been arrested in last week’s shooting of a Belize City taco vendor. Nineteen-year-old Frank Smith of Raccoon Street has been charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and dangerous harm. One other suspect is still being sought. Food seller Gabriela Garcia was seriously wounded on […]
The British High Commission has announced the approval of two grants, totalling over seventy thousand dollars. The first gift of forty-five thousand dollars will help the Pan American Social Marketing Organisation, PASMO, to implement a campaign to change the public’s behaviour with regard to HIV and AIDS. That effort, utilising the local media, is expected […]
Tonight the Skeen family of Ladyville needs your help in trying to locate their brother. On July thirty-first, thirty-eight year old Gregory Skeen went missing from his home and has not been heard from since. Skeen, who has Down’s Syndrome, cannot speak or read and the family is very concerned that his disability will put […]
It’s no secret that over the last quarter century Belize’s literacy rate has taken a nosedive. But it’s equally obvious that educators are fighting to reverse that trend. Patrick Jones reports.” Patrick Jones, Reporting Keeping in mind the adage that “good teachers are costly; but bad teachers cost even more,” the Anglican Diocese today opened […]
In the old days the neighbourhood cop on the beat was the very essence of police work. Somewhere along the line we strayed from that concept to the point at which today community policing is viewed as some exotic new weapon in crime prevention. But however you view it, more police contact with citizens can […]
