It was Shakespeare who said that hell hath no fury like that of a woman scorned. Where he received the inspiration for that line is unclear, but a visit to the Family Court this week conclusively proves that the playwright knew what he was talking about. Jacqueline Woods reports on how a glitch in the […]
Six days after twenty-six year old Gilbert Williams Miller was stabbed to death, this morning police arrested three young men they believe are responsible for the gruesome crime. Twenty-year-old Keon Villanueva, twenty-one year old Jervis Valencia, and eighteen year old Dario Cruickshank have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Miller was killed […]
It was a Christmas Day battle royal in Orange Walk, and when it was over a police officer had lost two fingers to a sharp machete and a father and son tag team of assailants were lying with gunshot wounds to their legs. While the son, nineteen-year-old Julio Alvarado, had been previously charged with a […]
When the Public Utilities Commission last month unveiled its “initial decision” in the Full Tariff Review Proceeding requested by Belize Water Services Limited, the general consensus was that consumers, particularly large ones, would be jumping at the chance to lodge a formal objection to the average fifteen percent rate hikes. Instead, according to a release […]
When on our newscast of January second we ran a story on the first baby of 2004 delivered at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, we never dreamed that less than a week later we would be reporting the child’s death. But while infant mortality is no stranger to Belize, there is evidence that this incident […]
Most of us who tune into U.S. television news are familiar with the introduction of Mad Cow Disease into the United States and the subsequent ban on that country’s beef by most countries of the world. But Belize also has a story about beef and, unlike that up north, the news is good. Stewart Krohn […]
