The Supreme Court today handed down a landmark judgement in a case that challenged the constitutionality of the forced retirement of four public officers last year. And the effects of the ruling will be felt in Belmopan for quite some time. On September eighteenth, 2003, four senior employees of the Customs Department were sent home, […]
In crime news, a robber who targeted the Mennonite settlement of Springfield off the Hummingbird Highway made what is no doubt the easiest heist in his career. According to police, on Sunday morning a man described as Hispanic in appearance, dressed in camouflage and armed with a machete and handgun, approached fifty-one year old John […]
By international standards it is a tempest in a teapot, but these days anything even remotely touching the explosive Middle East situation seems to be hit by bomb fragments. How Belize got involved in the latest controversy at the International Court of Justice at The Hague is somewhat murky, but we somehow wound up as […]
He was one of the movers and shakers on the local music scene and his energy will be sorely missed. Founder of the Larubéya drummers, Dax Thomas, died at the Southern Regional Hospital over the weekend. According to his brother, Bert Ramos, the thirty-one year old musician succumbed on Friday night to complications from kidney […]
A desperate family from Honduras is searching for their loved ones, missing now for more than a year. Fifty-four year old Edgardo Criveli, thirty-eight year old Juan Criveli, thirty-eight year old Juan Carlos David Lopez, ten year old Edgardo Munoz Criveli, and ten year old Juan Alberto Criveli left Omoa Bay in a small fishing […]
This afternoon as part of an ongoing agreement between the City of Belize and the City of Evanston, Illinois, the Belize City Council received two more vehicles for their Transport Department. Mayor David Fonseca says the sister city relationship was established in 1992 and the latest wheels, a 1996 and 2000 Crown Victoria, will compliment […]
The concept of overcoming life’s obstacles is a staple of local newscasts, but our next story is even more inspiring than most. Jacqueline Woods reports on one remarkable man from Orange Walk. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thirty-year-old Adrian Camara looks like any typical employee, but he is not your average worker. Camara was born with no […]
