Belmopan, a place closer in spirit to a bucolic village than a city, has always been known as a nice quiet community. Well, even though increasing crime laid that myth to rest years ago, it still hurts when we have to report a violent killing in the nation’s capital. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports. Patrick […]
And in news just in, another murder has been reported, this time in the Belama phase two area of Belize City. Fifty-two year old Quzhei Hua proprietor of 168 Shopping Centre was stabbed to death shortly after six this evening. According to police, a lone man entered the shop and demanded money. When she refused, […]
Accused drug runner Robert Hertular came one-step closer to Riker’s Island today as Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord ruled that he be extradited to face charges in New York. In making his ruling Lord pointed out that extradition is a matter of honour between two nations and it is not for him to try the case […]
The deadlock continues in the sugar industry tonight with the vast majority of unionized factory workers still on strike. That has not stopped Belize Sugar Industries from functioning, however, as a combination of non-striking workers and supervisory personnel are running the Tower Hill factory. While B.S.I. executives are not certain that the grinding can be […]
This morning Belize City Mayor David Fonseca was among a pack of nine riders who cycled from Corozal Town to Belize City. It was the first leg of a four day journey that will take riders to Belmopan, San Ignacio, Dangriga and Punta Gorda. “Ride Across Belize” is an initiative by the Social Security Board […]
In related news, while the Social Security executives were fighting AIDS in Belize City, fire fighters in Belmopan were putting out a blaze at the board’s headquarters. The fire, which originated in the building’s generator room, was quickly extinguished.
The P.S.E. may be over and the results in…but that doesn’t mean primary school students have stopped learning. Today I stopped by one Belize City school where the June heat did not seem to affect the children’s creativity. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Science exhibition is nothing new for the students of St. Joseph Primary School. […]
It’s the one industry in Belize that is never short of statistics–at least when business is good. This week as a supplement to its regular release on monthly visitor arrivals, the Belize Tourism Board has published its annual collection of facts and figures. And while the sixty-two page booklet may not be everyone’s favourite bedtime […]
And if those figures have you hungry and thirsty, we’ll update you on a competition held last weekend called “Taste of Belize.? The gala event at the Radisson featured fourteen professional chefs, five amateur chefs, and six bartenders. When it was all over, Patrick Rodriguez of the Smoky Mermaid restaurant came out on top as […]
