From the very start, lead investigator Mario Vernon said the brutal rape and murder of Lord’s Bank housekeeper Mara Garcia began as a routine amateur robbery by local youths–not some mysterious drug-related retaliation directed against her employer. Today the dramatic arrests and confessions of two teenagers has proved that the soft-spoken Vernon knew what he […]
But no sooner had police cracked one major case than another appeared to take its place–that’s right, the fourth murder in less than a week. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Around seven forty-five this morning, Belize City police had the gruesome task of collecting the body of thirty-nine year old Roderick Todd from an area near mile […]
Another young man from Belize City, wanted on charges of murder and attempted murder in two separate incidents, has been taken into custody. After police put out the word that Edward Barahona was wanted for questioning at a press conference on Monday, the following day he handed himself into San Pedro police. This morning after […]
Every week in the newspapers readers will see the names of dozens of Belizeans whose homes or properties are being sold at auction because they have failed to repay their loans to the Development Finance Corporation. But seldom appearing in the D.F.C. hard pay advertisements are the names of so-called “first Belizeans,” those favoured few […]
There was no bombast, little hard talk, and the name of Said Musa–with or without epithets attached–was not even mentioned. Those observations may say more about the state of the once powerful Trade Union Congress than anything actually said at their nearly two-hour long press conference this afternoon. Billed as an update on union activities […]
