If this week’s news had a theme, it would be Drinking with Friends is Dangerous to Your Health. In the last seven days, three men in separate cases have all died after an evening of serious drinking with buddies. The latest death occurred Wednesday night near Barton Creek in the Cayo District. Reports are that […]
She has gone from Ladyville housewife to Belize’s most wanted, as police have issued an all points bulletin for the arrest of Miriam Aguilar Lopez. The thirty-five year old Honduran is wanted for the murder of her common law husband, thirty-nine year old Luis Foreman. According to police, Aguilar went to Foreman’s house on Tuesday […]
Another Belize City business establishment has been hit up for cash by armed thieves. Employees of HL’s Burger on Freetown Road reported to police that around six thirty on Wednesday evening two men walked into the building, one pulling out a handgun and cranking it. The message was clear and the staff was forced to […]
A man from the Orange Walk district has been arrested and charged with harm following a domestic dispute with his wife. According to police, thirty year old Evertt Tzac came home on Tuesday night and in front of the couple’s children, started to accuse her of having an affair. Concepcion Tzac says her husband started […]
It may not be classified as police news but one Belize City mother believes that if not a crime, it’s at least a shame the way her son is abused at school. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Anna de la Fuente?s 11-year-old son is a student of St. Ignatius Middle School but on Wednesday, the young mother […]
Marion Jones is fighting back against allegations that she took banned performance enhancing drugs during the Sydney 2000 Olympics. On Wednesday the track and field star, who holds both Belizean and U.S. nationality, filed a twenty-five million dollar lawsuit against Victor Conte, head of a San Francisco laboratory who claimed in a television interview that […]
The gift has nothing to do with Christmas, but for Orange Walk’s Escuela Secundaria Mexico the donation of two thousand dollars will go a long way in establishing a new activity at the school. This morning the Mexican Ambassador to Belize, Arturo Trejo, presented the cheque to Principal Juanita Lucas. Arturo Trejol, Mexican Ambassador to […]
With the meaning of the word “mail” increasingly defined as that long list of unsolicited offers that find their way onto your computer, it seems that fewer and fewer Belizeans require the services of the post office. But as Patrick Jones discovered, the facts say otherwise…and until someone figures out how to send a black […]
If you’ve tried to drive through downtown Belize City this week you’ve already discovered that holiday shopping is reaching a crushing crescendo of activity. But Albert and Queen Streets are not the only places clogged with shoppers. As is usual at this time of year many Belizeans are also heading across the Mexican border, some […]
