It is becoming an all too common story, and frequently one with a very sad ending: children being knocked down. Over the weekend, it happened again, and although the latest victim is recovering, the driver is still unidentified, and the child and his mother are still shaken from the experience. Karl Malic, Knocked down off […]
A twenty-year-old man from Esperanza died Friday night after his Isuzu Trooper flipped over on the Western Highway. Abraham Lopez succumbed to his injuries at the San Ignacio Hospital, while his two passengers, twenty-five year old Jose Lopez and nineteen year old Kerry Lopez, were hospitalised. The incident occurred between miles sixty-seven and sixty-eight sometime […]
Drivers in the northern districts have been under the gun recently, the speed gun that is. The police and transport departments joined forces over the weekend for a special operation that resulted in forty-four drivers receiving court summons for speeding, fifty-four tickets were given out for poor vehicle maintenance, insurance violations, and overcrowding, while thirty […]
Two police officers were treated at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital today after a detainee reportedly attacked them with a broken light fixture. According to a release from the Police Department, around nine this morning twenty-five year old Albert Middleton, who was in a holding cell, asked to be taken to the restroom. On the […]
Three residents of Paraiso Village in the Corozal District have been arrested for transporting persons for the purpose of exploitation as prostitutes. Police say last Thursday a police constable riding a bus en route to Belize City from Benque became suspicious of a young man in the company of five Hispanic women. He began to […]
The President of the Court of Appeal, Ira Rowe, has passed away. The seventy-five year old justice was found dead in his hotel room on Sunday on the Turks and Caicos Islands where he had gone to hear appeal cases. A statement from Attorney General Eamon Courtenay was issued this afternoon saying, “Justice Rowe was […]
There were no caps or gowns, but a graduation ceremony this afternoon was just as meaningful for ten people who successfully completed a special tour guide training. Aldo Perez, Graduate, Specialty Marine Tour Guide Program “Well first of all, it’s a great achievement. It’s the first of its kind and I think it’s long overdue. […]
While the ten special marine tour guides were getting their certificates and having lunch with the Minister at the Princess Hotel, down the street at the Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute a group of their colleagues were learning about the proper use of Goff’s Caye, a tiny one acre island located twelve miles offshore […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re in tuned with this week’s version of Sports Monday. We begin with the B.P.F.L.’s B League clash at Sandhill field where Belize Rural All Stars caught up with Creative Tiles of Ladyville. And Henry Gillette fires this monster at Elias Hercules whose gallant attempt at save is foiled […]
