It is, unfortunately, not an unusual crime…but the report of a sadistic child rape in Belize City today sent a shockwave of revulsion through the community. Whether heard on the radio talk shows or around the office water cooler, the question persisted: why? Jacqueline Woods, Reporting ?He hurt me and made me cry? That?s what […]
It is always disturbing whenever we hear that a child has been sexually abused and the pain and fear these helpless victims experience is difficult to imagine. The question is: what would possess anyone to hurt such a small defenceless human being? According to Doctor Roy Lopez, a psychiatrist at Universal Health Services, while he […]
With the clock ticking loudly on the need for concrete measures to reduce Government’s deficit, all eyes are focussed on the Prime Minister’s budget speech, which has been announced for Friday, January fourteenth. A press release following Tuesday’s cabinet meeting–the last to be held before the speech–reports that Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Said […]
Three more suspects have been arrested and charged in the Christmas Eve killing of Police Constable Nedi Reymundo. They are twenty-five year old Glen Jordan, twenty-six year old Winston Jones and twenty-two year old Wendel Vernon, all charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. They join twenty-three year old Chadrick DeBride who was charged […]
In other crime news, the office of All Saints Anglican Church in Kings Park has been burglarised. The break-in occurred sometime between Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning after the burglar bars were pried off. The inventory of stolen items has not been completed but among the missing goods are a quantity of used clothing valued […]
It’s almost a rite of passage for boys growing up in Belize City. That is…having your bicycle jacked. Well, tonight two suspected bike jackers are being asked to account for their actions. Following a report that a young man was forced off his wheels around mile two on the Northern Highway on Sunday afternoon police […]
The global fight against AIDS is not being waged on a single battlefield or even led by a unified command. Instead it is largely a war of small skirmishes–scientific, social, political–conducted all over the world, sometimes successful, sometimes not. In Belize a new initiative currently being implemented with assistance from the United States Department of […]
For over twenty-five years, doctors from the Shriners Hospitals for Children located in St. Louis, Missouri, have been volunteering their services to help local kids with bone disorders and other developmental problems. To date over a hundred boys and girls from all over the country have received specialists’ care in the U.S.A. This week, volunteers […]
