The occasion was a Christmas donation to the wife and family of slain police officer Uwin Armstrong. But with the past, present and perhaps future of the Police Department represented this afternoon at the Caribbean Shores station, it was an ideal opportunity to reflect on the state of Belizean law enforcement. First up was outgoing […]
And while Zetina is moving on, the leadership is being passed to Gerald Westby, who currently heads the National Crimes Investigations Branch. Westby says he will be building on the foundation left by his predecessor and leaning heavily on the support of his senior officers, especially his deputy, Maureen Leslie. Gerald Westby, Commissioner of Police […]
The police top brass, it will be recalled, were present at the Caribbean Shores police station to witness the handing over of a donation to the family of Uwin Armstrong, the policeman who was gunned down on November twenty-sixth as he walked to work. Businessman Santino Castillo donated toys to the children of the fallen […]
Police have arrested one of two men involved in an armed robbery early this morning in Belize City. Just after midnight twenty-two year old Mark Orozco was entering his yard on Zericote Street when two men, one with a handgun, tried to jack him. He reports that one attacker grabbed his neck while the other […]
Land: it’s a source of both great wealth and serious aggravation for many Belizeans. Today Cabinet took steps to deal with at least some of the problems surrounding land, namely taxes. In a press release that could only be described as cryptic, we are told that Cabinet considered proposals from the Ministry of Natural Resources […]
Over the last two decades virtually every major industry in the global economy has seen the number of competing players shrink though massive mergers and buyouts. Locally, however, with most businesses relatively small and family owned, it is rare to see two companies become one. That may be changing, however, at least in the insurance […]
Last week it was the children…and today senior citizens were on the receiving end of the Salvation Army’s Christmas goodwill. Close to sixty men and women from Belize City were invited to the organisation’s main church on Cemetery Road where they received food parcels from pastors of the church, Captain Anthony Sanchez and his wife […]
The Christmas season is always one of paradoxes. Never do people cry louder about hard times, but at the same time spend obscene amounts of money. Well today the best adjective to describe the cash flowing at Benny’s was…splenditious. It was the culmination of the four month long Benny’s Home Centre cash giveaway promotion, with […]
