He attacked an innocent woman at her Cemetery Road home and took a bullet in the stomach from a neighbourhood Good Samaritan. Today, twenty-two year old Leo Grant was hit by another projectile, this one fired in Magistrate’s Court, where he received a four-year prison sentence for assault. Grant was also charged with burglary, but […]
Since taking over command of Eastern Division on August first, Assistant Commissioner Maureen Leslie has wasted no time in establishing her bona fides with the public she is sworn to serve and protect. Last night she met with seventy-five residents of the Kings Park area to hear their concerns about crime. This was the fourth […]
“We are fixing the problem.” That’s the word from Belize Telecommunications Limited as the company is faced with another outage of email service. According to Public Relations Manager Suzette Tillett, B.T.L. is in the process of installing anti-spam and anti-virus software. This, she says, is in response to customer’s complaints of too many unsolicited emails, […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, today donated computers and special software to a number of agencies for use in monitoring the country’s progress on social issues. First created in 1994 by an N.G.O. in India, UNICEF has since adopted the ChildInfo computer program to monitor the situation of children worldwide. UNICEF Country Representative Nadya […]
It is definitely not your usual Friday night happy hour, but the evening of fine dining and music at the Biltmore Hotel will certainly be entertaining. Guatemalan concert Pianist Rolando Ortega and singer Nelita Castillo, who is also Belize’s Consul in Cancun, will pool their talents in a show to raise funds for the Mercy […]
If you were shut out of Friday’s serenade at the Biltmore, take heart, an event on Saturday night might be just your ticket. The Belize Cancer Society is sponsoring a unique fundraiser built around a dance competition. No, not salsa, meringue, tango or punta… we’re talking waltz. Lizbeth Castillo, Vice President, Belize Cancer Society “We […]
It’s Diabetes Week, and while for years health officials have been telling Belizeans how to avoid and treat this pervasive disease, one look at our overweight and out of shape population tells us that there is a lot of work to be done. This week I’ve been looking at the relationship between diabetes and the […]
