The announcement came in the form of a government press release issued this evening after the close of business hours…but the impact of the news will be far reaching. After several years of negotiating with a subsidiary of Lufthansa Airlines to take over management of the Philip Goldson International Airport, Government has decided to award […]
They worked in the Cayo courthouse and police station…but today two government employees found themselves in the role of accused. The women, both of San Ignacio, have been charged with numerous offences surrounding the misappropriation of funds. Forty-one year old Antonia Lourdes Castellanos, a clerk and interpreter at San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court, has been charged […]
Police in Belmopan are looking for a pair of armed robbers. The two men, described only as of Hispanic descent, struck a shop on Hummingbird Avenue around six-thirty Thursday evening. They pulled a nine-millimetre pistol on the proprietors and made off with over three thousand dollars in cash and another two thousand worth of jewellery […]
Marijuana smokers hoping to see an end to an alleged weed shortage will not be happy tonight as two busts, one in Orange Walk and the other in Belize City, may put a crimp in the supply of the popular herb. On Wednesday morning cops raided two pot plantations five miles southeast of Guinea Grass […]
The physical transformation of the Bliss Institute into the country’s premiere venue for the performing arts has entered the homestretch. And while the contractors are under pressure to deliver the building for a projected February inauguration, the Belizean public is being invited to be part of the historic metamorphosis on the foreshore. The building will […]
Manatees: they are the aquatic darlings of the conservation world…and it just so happens that Belize has the largest concentration of West India manatees in the region. To keep it that way a Belizean organisation long active in the protection of the marine environment was today charged with the task of giving the sea going […]
