Security was tight and the atmosphere at the Supreme Court was tense on Monday night as the twelve-member jury in the trial of Leslie Pipersburg and Patrick Robateau deliberated the fate of the accused murderers. A little over two hours after they received the case from trial judge Troadio Gonzalez, the jury forelady informed the […]
Reports of sexual assault continue to pour into police stations countrywide. In Corozal, a man has been arrested and charged for the rape and carnal knowledge of his twelve year old stepdaughter. The incident occurred in December. In Dangriga another step-dad was booked on the same two charges following a report filed by a fourteen-year-old […]
There may be an indecent amount of crime and violence in Belize today…but there’s also plenty of love. For one Belize City woman: a century’s worth. Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting On Saturday, Ethel Fairweather will be celebrating her one-hundredth birthday. She still manages to get up at six each morning and […]
They are the next generation of women who will carry on the work of the Young Women’s Christian Association. And today, as the “Y” celebrates nearly fifty years of service, children from the Y.W.C.A. preschool entertained a group of visiting officials from the city of Evanston, Illinois. According to President of the Y.W.C.A., Dame Elaine […]
The world of university education is changing. What was once considered a cloistered life in an ivory tower has now become an interactive experience in the real world…a world that for the students in our next story includes Belize. Jacqueline Woods reports from Gales Point. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Ideally, every student who gets the opportunity […]
For a while it seemed that every day there was a news item on another school being equipped with an Intelco computer lab. Then at some point the press releases stepped and the only stories you saw about Intelco were about delays in the company’s introduction of service. Well, over the last week or so […]
