It is news just in. Around six this evening Lauren Augustine, a ramp supervisor for Tropic Air at the Municipal Airstrip, was shot as he rode his bicycle home from work. According to witnesses, Augustine was approaching the corner of St. Matthew and St. Charles Street when a young man riding in the opposite direction […]
With a government proclaimed deadline of June fifth looming large and no deal on the table, representatives of B.T.L. employees are growing restless as their chances of purchasing over thirty-seven percent of the company are breaking up like a bad cell phone connection. Today union representatives accused Belmopan of hindering their efforts to Belizeanize the […]
All hopes of rescuing a missing toddler in Toledo were dashed early this afternoon when the child’s skeletal remains were found in the general vicinity of where he was last seen five days ago. According to police, two-year-old Rosendo Coy’s bones were found today in the bush near Sunday Wood Village. At this time, however, […]
She’s called the “mother of all snakeheads”, a wholesale smuggler of illegal Chinese immigrants into the United States and the target of an intense law enforcement investigation spanning the globe for more than two decades. And when she was finally arrested, guess what she had in her pocket? A Belize passport. That’s right, when this […]
This week, researchers at the Institute of Social and Cultural Research are exploring the vast world of religion, specifically, the connection of mainstream beliefs to African roots. Here in Belize, Catholicism and Obeah might be household names but have you ever heard of Pocomania or Santeria? Programme Director of the I.S.C.R., Froyla Salam, maintains that […]
He is the latest in a line of young art prodigies who seem to spring up from diverse environments countrywide… And today I took a good look at his work. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Growing up on the picturesque Placencia peninsula, nineteen year old Ernest Garcia has always tried to capture the beauty of his surroundings […]
It’s a day that the nation’s major phone company usually celebrates each year with an ambitious display of its latest technology…and while 2005 was no exception, the hoopla put out today by Belize Telecommunications Limited took place under a very dark cloud. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting The observance of World Telecommunications Day this […]
