It was a bad weekend for security guards as two were shot while on duty in separate incidents in Belize City. The good news is that both men lived to tell the tale. Ernest Alarcon, Shooting Victim “So he shoot me inna my leg right here so. Well the doctor claims the bullet gone in–according […]
In other city crime news, a Chinese owned grocery in West Landivar was robbed on Saturday night. Proprietors Qias Na Guan and Zhi Xin Lin told police that as they were closing shop around nine p.m. four armed men emerged from a car parked nearby, entered the store and took fifteen hundred dollars from them, […]
Another case of incest has been reported, this time in the Cayo District. A sixteen year old girl, accompanied by her sister, told San Ignacio police that on the morning of October sixteenth, her father forced her to have sexual intercourse with him. Police are looking for the alleged perpetrator.
And finally, while Belizeans are no strangers to auctions, two coming up next week merit special mention. On Wednesday and Thursday, November sixth and seventh, the government of Belize will be auctioning off two recently acquired twin engine aircraft–both believed to have been used for drug smuggling. The first, a Russian built Antonov 26, was […]
Prices are not what they should be and production has yet to return to record levels…but tonight there is optimism in Belize’s citrus industry, an optimism based on improved competitive efficiency and the fact that for the first time growers are the masters of their own fate. Patrick Jones reports on this weekend’s activities in […]
Twenty-five year old Dalilah Vanzie was the first runner up in the Miss Belize Pageant. That position automatically made her Belize’s entrant in the upcoming Miss World Pageant to be held on December sixth in The People’s Republic of China. Today Dalilah received a much-needed donation from the Belize Chinese Association to help with her […]
It was a packed house at Club Calypso for Sunday’s week two CKTV competition. When the eight singers were finished, two more candidates had advanced to the finals. Maureen Dawson, Host, CKTV “And the winner is Tanisha Bodden.” (Tanisha sings “My Heart Will Go On ” by Celine Dion) Maureen Dawson “Drum roll, because I […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and up jumps another serving of Sports Monday. With maximum co-operation from Raymond Waters, the Regent Insurance Cup Playoffs finally took off over the weekend. Saturday night at the Michael Ashcroft Stadium the number two seed faced the number three seed as defending champion Sagitun hosted the Builder’s Hardware Bandits […]
