On the first day this week without a murder, it may seem like overkill to lead tonight’s newscast with a story on a homicide–especially one that occurred back in March. But the unsolved death of an American woman in Gales Point Village has left the picturesque community in a state of fear and agitation. This […]
Another Mennonite child has died in a traffic mishap caused by a family member. One-year-old Giana Kornelson was killed on Thursday when her aunt, twenty-year-old Anita Loewen, ran the child over with her Ford F-150 pickup while driving in the family’s yard in Spanish Lookout. Police are investigating. In a similar incident last weekend in […]
Belize’s international credit rating may be in for some trouble. That news comes courtesy of the ratings service Moody’s which announced that it was conducting a review of the country’s status amid concerns that current economic policy could not support the sustainability of increased debt. Such a move, which would increase Belize’s borrowing costs, comes […]
She’s employed as secretary to the policy analyst in the Ministry of Agriculture, but this afternoon Nigna Andrews, known to most of her friends as Mimiom, collected big–not her retirement benefits, but one of the largest payouts in Belize’s lotto history. On Wednesday night the jackpot stood at a tidy one hundred and thirty-five thousand […]
A team of business experts from the Republic of China on Taiwan today met with local business people in Belize City. The half-day seminar dealt with various aspects of trade cooperation between Belize and Taiwan. According to Counsellor Yin-Yih Lee, the participants shared views on how to maximize mutual benefits from local products by applying […]
The battlefield park: it’s a place where people from all walks of life cross paths on a daily basis, some passing through on their way to do business, others meeting old friends and some just relaxing in the shade. But this afternoon it was the people who’ve taken up permanent residence inside the park that […]
Belize is well known internationally for its large population of manatees…but how many of us have actually seen one up close? This morning if you happened to be on the Southern Foreshore near the Bliss, you would have seen, not one, but perhaps as many as eight manatees cavorting in the shallow muddy waters at […]
The fledgling local movie industry is tonight celebrating another milestone with the premiere showing of the latest production entitled: “Risking it All.” According to writer/director Kimberly Vasquez, the ninety-minute film is a sequel to her first effort “Choices”, with the issue of HIV/AIDS as the central theme. Vasquez says that it took her nine months […]
