Not a week goes by that we do not receive a notice from the Police Department concerning a missing person. Usually the subject in question is a teenaged girl, either fed up with an abusive home or infatuated with Mr. Right. But sometimes the report does not fit the familiar pattern and that’s the disturbing […]
Police in Independence have arrested and charged a resident of that village in connection with the sexual assault of a fourteen year old girl. Twenty-seven year old Rolando Hernandez Andrade is accused of raping the child late on Saturday night. The girl told police that she was home alone, when someone she knew well raped […]
In Belmopan, an overnight robbery has left a Chinese businessman short of thousands of dollars and the culprits dodging the cops. According to thirty-two year old Charlie Cao of Everyday Supermarket in Belmopan, around nine on Monday night he was collecting the day’s Boledo sales from a number of vendors when two men, one armed […]
Belize’s banana growers may face the prospect of lower prices from the European Union but the E.U. is trying to make up for that cut in subsidies by offering technical assistance. Yesterday in Belmopan Prime Minister Said Musa and the European Commission’s Gerd Jarchow signed an agreement that will make available seven point five million […]
Inspiration to put pen to paper or in this digital age, put fingers to the keypad, can come from a wide range of emotions: anger, fear, happiness or love. For journalist Adele Ramos, a tumultuous break-up drove her to sit down at a computer and when she got up, the core of Phases: A Love […]
Long before the advent of high calibre printing presses, cameras and computers, the art of reproducing pretty pictures had to be done by hand, using what would be considered by today’s standards, primitive tools. But the art of zincography, or engraving images onto metal sheets, then using acid to corrode untreated areas of the surface, […]
It’s a well established programme that has been around for some time, an honest attempt to implement the popular notion of community policing. But relations between the police and many Belize City neighbourhoods are not what they should be. Today Jacqueline Woods sat in on a training session that seeks to make one group of […]
He’s a cane farmer from Orange Walk…a father of eight…and now, one of two winners of Saturday’s Lotto jackpot. Fifty-one year old Belarmino Rodriguez from San Estevan Village this afternoon travelled to the lotto office on Queen Street, accompanied by one of his daughters and his comadre to claim his half of the one hundred […]
