Despite a record pace of violent crime, the double killing known as murder/suicide is still a rarity in Belize. On Monday night, however, that senseless tragedy struck the tightly knit Southern town of Punta Gorda. Police there are still trying to find out what caused forty-four year old Adrian Genus to murder his twenty-seven year […]
CARICOM heads of government, meeting in Grenada, today continued to wade through a packed agenda. The question of Haiti was debated and, according to a Belize government Press Office release, Prime Minister Said Musa noted that the question of whether to recognise Haiti’s interim government was a political, not a legal one. The fact that […]
The United Nations joint programme on HIV/AIDS today released its biennial report on the global war against the deadly disease. And it’s not a pretty picture of the virus’s march across the planet. According to UNAIDS, HIV infections hit a record high last year with five million new infections worldwide, bringing the global number of […]
Each year around this time we try to cover the training exercise of the BDF volunteer element. Usually the story takes us to the Mountain Pine Ridge or dense jungle of the Cayo, Stann Creek or Toledo Districts. This morning, however, our coverage was much closer to home… Jacqueline Woods, Reporting If you recently travelled […]
In the not too distant past, if you made your way to Goff’s Caye, chances are yours would be the only boat there. Even a crowded weekend would usually find no more than a half dozen skiffs moored in the clear blue waters off the beach. That, of course, was before the arrival of cruise […]
