Dangriga police have detained one man and are looking for another following a report from a minor that she was raped by both. The incident reportedly occurred sometime last month. The complainant, a fourteen-year-old student from the town, alleges that while she was walking on Yampa Street a red car driven by someone she knew […]
No news is bad news in the case of Jose Coyoc as police are still on the hunt for the thirty-two year old, wanted for murder and attempted rape. Coyoc, a resident of Xaibe Village in the Corozal District, is accused of breaking into the home of forty-three year old Apolonio Tun on Wednesday and […]
Ever since the cruise craze took off in Belize several years ago, there have been rumblings from those in the overnight tourism industry who believed that large numbers of low cost day trippers was not the way to go. But recently those rumblings have moved from late night bar talk at the eco-lodges to the […]
The Belize Red Cross has launched an appeal to help flood victims in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. More than one thousand people are reportedly dead after their houses were swept away by floods following storms that affected the island of Hispaniola last weekend. Fifteen thousand people have been left homeless. Belize Red Cross Acting […]
For the past three years chefs from across the country have been testing their skills in what has become the de facto cooking championship of Belize. This year, according to the sponsor, Belize Tourism Board, fourteen participants will take part in Taste of Belize. B.T.B.’s Product Development Officer and the competition’s coordinator, Janine Alpuche, says […]
Sometimes when we read the headlines and watch the evening news, it’s easy to become depressed over what appears to be all the bad things happening to Belize’s children. And indeed, being a young Belizean appears to be an increasingly dangerous occupation. But despite the problems, the overwhelming number of our young people manage to […]
If you’ve ever tried to read the weekly column in the Reporter, “Weh Ah Gat Fi Seh,” you know that reading Kriol is more easily imagined than accomplished. Today, on the occasion of the release of a Kriol book of short stories, Patrick Jones decided to give it a try. Patrick Jones, Reporting ?Ah memba […]
