Five days after she was brutally stabbed during a robbery at her family store in Orange Walk, services were held today for the young businesswoman, wife, and mother. A large crowd gathered to say farewell. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Following funeral services for twenty-six year old Lou Xiao Yue, better known as Susan, there was a […]
To protest the killing, Chinese shops shut nationwide. In Belize City, Chinese businesses from Barrack Road to Mahogany Street to Cemetery Road and beyond were closed. A sign posted outside the shops and restaurants from the Belize Chinese Association read in part, “This is to mourn the violent murder of Mrs. Lou Xiao Yue…in Orange […]
In related news, police say they have caught a notorious chain-snatcher. According to the authorities, this man, twenty-seven year old Rudolph Smith of Plues Street in Belize City is the person responsible for several robberies of jewellery, cell phones, and purses. Smith was positively identified by at least three of his victims and as a […]
Around nine this morning approximately one hundred employees of Belize Telecommunications Limited lined the street in front of the company?s headquarters on St. Thomas Street. A bomb threat had been called in to the facility, forcing workers outside. But when News Five arrived at the scene, one allegation was that when B.T.L.?s unionists had problems […]
If you listened on the radio or watched portions of the Senate Select Committee hearings into the Social Security Board, you were probably riveted by the testimony from General Manager Narda Garcia. Well this week, Chairman of the United Democratic Party, Douglas Singh, sent not one but three separate letters requesting urgent action be taken […]
The Youth Business Trust, a worldwide initiative founded by the Prince of Wales, is launching its programme in Belize. Described as a private sector driven enterprise, the Y.B.T. has assisted more than sixty thousand young entrepreneurs in countries all over the world. A programme team has spent the last four months preparing for tonight’s launch […]
There is a new exhibition in Belize City featuring Mexican artists. And while the theme may intrigue you, the works themselves are sure to surprise you. Janelle Chanona, Reporting It?s called ?Memories? and it?s the latest exhibition to hit the gallery of the Mexican Cultural Institute on Newtown Barracks. According to curator Gerardo Espejo, each […]
