The concept of using the public purse to enrich the governing elite is not a new concept–not in Belize and not anywhere. But it appears that the level of financial impropriety by the Government, Development Finance Corporation and Social Security Board on behalf of INTELCO has become so outrageous that the blue and white wall […]
An Orange Walk man has been arrested and charged with rape. On Saturday, a seventeen-year-old domestic reported to police that on Thursday morning twenty-eight year old Leonardo Patt of Trial Farm forced her into his pickup at gunpoint, drove to a deserted area and engaged in sex against her will.
Two men have been detained after trying to pass a pair of bogus blue notes at a Belize City gas station. According to an attendant at Pound Yard Esso, on Monday morning, a Dodge Ram van pulled up and its driver ordered two hundred dollars worth of gasoline. After handing the attendant two rolled up […]
There were hundreds of applications, but in the end only twenty five boys and girls from all over the country were chosen to receive high school scholarships from Belize Telecommunications Limited. The scholarships are part of B.T.L.?s stay in school campaign and since its inception in 1991, the company has given over two hundred and […]
It poses no immediate threat to Belize, but when it comes to hurricanes or tropical storms, we have seen too many times that forecasting is still a very inexact science. That is why meteorologists in Belize and the region are keeping a close eye on Charley, the season?s third named storm, which is tonight swimming […]
It took us a while to get hold of the video tape, but last Thursday night thousands of spectators gathered in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, for the selection of La Reina de la Costa Maya. Here?s how it went after the judges had handed in their ballots. Master of Ceremonies The second runner up…Miss Belize. […]
Every performer loves to play to a packed house and while the crowd assembled today on the football field at Hattieville Prison could only be called a captive audience, there is no denying that they got their money?s worth. Janelle Chanona, Reporting There are variety shows, and then there are variety shows. This latest version […]
