The year may have ended optimistically with only two murders being recorded in the entire month of December…but 2004 is proving to be something else. Before its first dawn there were already two bodies in the K.H.M.H. morgue, both the victims of stab wounds. This morning I tried to piece together the tragic details. Jacqueline […]
Authorities have not been so fortunate in the city’s other New Year’s homicide. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Family and friends call Gilbert Williams Miller, the quiet one. So when the twenty-six year old’s mutilated body was found early New Year’s Day, on the side of this stretch of Sunray Avenue in Coral Grove, at first it […]
It occurred in the closing minutes of 2003, and while the year’s final killing may not result in a charge of murder, the victim is no less dead. He is forty-year-old Joaquin Ax Coc, a Guatemalan resident of the Stann Creek District. Ax was killed by a nervous watchman, fifty-eight year old Domingo Chun, who […]
Not all the violence inflicted this weekend was done by civilians, as three people were wounded by police gunfire. In Cayo, two men were shot by cops following a drug bust on the Western Highway. Police on Wednesday intercepted a car between miles seventy-one and seventy-two in which they found three sacks chock full of […]
She has been acting in the post for the last year, but effective January first, Dr. Corinth Morter-Lewis has been formally appointed as president of the University of Belize. She replaces Dr. Angel Cal who had previously taken an academic sabbatical to head the University’s African and Mayan History project. Cal, although permanently removed from […]
He weighed in at a healthy six pounds fourteen ounces. And just as Antoine Anthony Miles was taking his first breath his name was being inscribed in the record books as 2004’s first baby born at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. When Antoine’s mother, twenty-nine year old Marcia Usher of King’s Park, received the news […]
There are no hills to punish the athletes’ muscles and the route through cane fields and coastal plains lacks the forested splendour of the view from the Western Highway… but the new year’s cycling race from Corozal to Belize City, sponsored by KREM Radio, makes up for the lack of scenery with an abundance of […]
