It is one of our society’s dirty little secrets that you won’t find in any tourist brochure. Like incest, rape and sexual abuse of children, domestic violence is a criminal act that occurs often, but is seldom reported, let alone discussed in the press. But today one badly battered woman decided that she couldn’t take […]
The amnesty for illegally held firearms is over…but one Belize City couple may wish they turned in their guns and ammo when they had the chance. On Thursday police searched a residence on Moho Caye and discovered two pump twelve shotguns, a twelve gauge double barrel shotgun, two thirty-eight handguns, forty-four shotgun shells, sixty-eight bullets […]
The mystery over who will represent the People’s United Party in the upcoming by-election in Cayo South is over. Joaquin Cawich, son of the late Agripino Cawich, earned the right to seek his father’s old seat in the House when he defeated Sam Waight and Carlos Santos in Sunday’s convention. The final tally was seven […]
Over the weekend, the fifth ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization came to an end in Cancun, Mexico. But the big news is that the delegates went home without any sort of agreement in hand. According to Belize’s head of delegation, Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade, Eamon Courtenay, in this instance, no deal […]
The merger took place almost a year ago, but it was only this weekend that Barclays Bank in Belize made the visual transition to FirstCaribbean International. In a ceremony held Sunday afternoon officials from the bank as well as Prime Minister Said Musa described what the bank’s new face means to the region. Julian Murillo, […]
It’s been twenty-five years since St. Francis Xavier and the Methodist High School in Corozal amalgamated to form Corozal Community College. This morning the institution broke ground on two major projects. Patrick Jones, Reporting The groundbreaking ceremonies marked initiation of a project to construct a computer and technology building for the Corozal Community College. Principal […]
It’s called the Belize Extreme Canoe Race. And unlike its better known cousin that travels the same route down the Macal and Belize Rivers, this trip is not done for fun. Eleven teams took part in the second annual event, and in case paddling virtually non-stop from San Ignacio to Belize City is not challenging […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we want to welcome you to this hefty September portion of Sports Monday. There were vents galore for the Belizean sports fan over the weekend. And while we couldn’t capture everything, we certainly are proud to show you what we’ve got. We go straight to the podium inside the […]
