Crime doesn’t get much more brazen than a daylight bank heist…and that’s exactly what happened today in Orange Walk. At news time one of the robbers, believed to be part of a gang of six, lay dead, while his accomplices remain on the loose, the subject of a massive manhunt. Patrick Jones has just returned […]
This afternoon, police retrieved the dead body of an American woman found floating in a lagoon near Gales Point Village. The woman, described as Caucasian, appears to be in her fifties and is believed to be from New Orleans but has been residing in the village. According to reports from the community, the woman, known […]
In the past four days, three persons have died in the Belize District following accidents on the Northern Highway. In the latest fatality, thirty-eight year old Henry Sedacey, a resident of Gardenia Village, lost his life on Monday evening after he was knocked off his bicycle. According to police, they have detained the driver of […]
They say that what goes up must come down… and while the laws of gravity do not apply to fuel prices, consumers should be relieved to know that, for this week at least, a large tank of butane will cost five dollars less. A government release today announced that as of March fourth the price […]
This week, trade ministers from the Caribbean Community will convene in Belize for the sixteenth session of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED). While discussion will no doubt touch on the Haitian crisis, the focus will be on major trade issues affecting CARICOM, including sugar, and on Thursday, the ministers with responsibility for […]
And by all accounts, the road ahead for the region will be much easier once the Caribbean comes together to compete as a bloc on the world market. According to Byron Blake, CARICOM Assistant Secretary General, the idea is to take stock of where we are, focus on the future, and devise the way forward. […]
He was a Trinidadian by nationality, but during the late 1970s and early 80s there was not a Belizean who didn’t claim him as our own. Fitzroy Guisseppi, the boxer who achieved his greatest glory in Belize, died on Saturday night in Jamaica. The fifty-five year old suffered an apparent heart attack while watching a […]
