The body of a young woman lies in the San Ignacio morgue tonight while police try to determine the circumstances of her death. According to police reports, employees of a hotel on George Street in Benque Viejo were alerted to the presence of a dead body in one of their rooms and the authorities were […]
As expected, eighteen-year-old Jeremy Rhaburn has been charged in the shooting of his fifteen year old brother. Rhaburn was arraigned for attempted murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm for the shooting of Edwin Flores, which occurred in Belize City early Sunday morning. He also was charged with handling stolen goods, namely […]
He resigned from the United Democratic Party prior to the 2003 elections and mounted an independent campaign in the Pickstock Division. While that effort was ultimately unsuccessful, Wilfred Elrington made history by running well ahead of the official U.D.P. candidate. This week Elrington began what he hopes will be a long march to Belmopan as […]
This morning, the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired saw the light at the end of a very dark tunnel as some much needed funding has come their way. In Belmopan today, Japan’s Ambassador to Belize, His Excellency Mutusyoshi Nishimura, presented a cheque for more than seventy-five thousand U.S. dollars to Prime Minister Said Musa. […]
It was to be a pivotal moment in the ongoing dispute between the Football Federation of Belize and the National Sports Council …that is the arrival of the General Secretary of CONCACAF Chuck Blazer. But tonight the only direction football is going is nowhere. According to the Belize Premier Football League, they were forced to […]
Like the Belize-Guatemala border which has somehow been turned into an “adjacency line”, in recent years the Belize Barrier Reef has magically metamorphosed into the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. In both cases the prime mover behind the change in nomenclature has been the lure of international finance. Patrick Jones reports on the latest offshore injection of […]
Not all the funding to preserve the nation’s world-class natural attractions comes from abroad. Thanks to our own PACT, the world’s biggest fish will be able to call Belize home for a long time to come. It was not the right time of the year, but still we scanned the surface of the deep blue, […]
