He was killed Wednesday night and his body found Thursday morning, but Punta Gorda police today arrested three men they believe abducted Juan Chiac from his Toledo home and shot him to death. Brothers Secundino and Arcenio Garcia, age forty-eight and fifty-four respectively, along with their nineteen-year-old nephew, Jery Garcia, have been charged with murder. […]
Two cases of rape in Belize City have the police sexual offence unit working overtime. A nineteen-year-old woman reports that in the wee hours of Saturday morning while walking home on McKay Boulevard she was approached by a Hispanic man who at knifepoint forced her into a nearby house under construction where she was raped. […]
On Friday he was in top form on the floor of the National Assembly, but this afternoon Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber was in another Belmopan forum, this time in the role of the accused. Cops in the nation’s capital hauled Faber before the Magistrate’s Court to answer to charges of two counts each of […]
It is not a voice often heard in Belize these days, but on the occasion of World AIDS Day, U.S. Ambassador Russell Freeman spoke out on the importance of fighting the deadly virus and reducing the stigma attached to those infected. Russell Freeman, U.S. Ambassador to Belize “President Bush has always made the fight against […]
The delegates have come from as far south as Panama and as far north as Mexico City. What they’re debating is the best way forward for the region’s Atlantic Coast. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting The two-day conference brings together representatives of community groups of the Meso-American region to devise a development work plan […]
When the last phone call was made from this studio on Friday night there were thousand of disappointed viewers all over the country. But members of one household at mile forty-seven on the Western Highway were shaking their heads in disbelief. They had just won a ticket on American Airlines and five hundred dollars cash. […]
A two-day art exhibition opens tonight at the Smokey Mermaid restaurant in Belize City; but this will not be your usual display of pretty paintings hanging on the wall. In fact what you will see will be an array of handmade sterling silver jewellery straight from Havana, Cuba. A pair of jewellers from the island, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and it’s that time to take another ride on Sports Monday. The final weekend of the Regent Cup Playoffs was suppose to be a showcase for the two teams advancing to the championship series, so let’s check in with Kulture Yabra to see if the Belize City team would keep […]
