Another escaped prisoner has been apprehended. He is twenty-seven year old Robert Hill. The fugitive was caught by police around four this morning in an area off Mahogany Street in the St. Martin De Porres Area of Belize City. Now with Hill safely behind bars, police are concentrating their efforts on apprehending the last inmate […]
Call it a copycat crime, but today there was another jailbreak, this time from the detention area at the Queen Street Police Station. At two-fifteen this afternoon four prisoners broke for freedom after it is believed their cell door was accidentally left open. The four are Jeffrey Flowers, Leonel Sampson, Ronald Reyes, and Francis Petillo. […]
Local residents chased off three hold-up men on Wednesday night as they were shaking down a man who had just come out of the Ebenezer Church on Antelope Street in Belize City. The victim, Marvin Dales, told police that around nine p.m., three men on bicycles came up to him as he was walking to […]
It falls under the general category of “progress brings problems.” That is, another controversy is brewing in the burgeoning cruise tourism industry, this time over a proposed helicopter landing site near the Fort Street Tourism Village. Michelle Williams, a director of the Harbour View Restaurant adjacent to the village, is leading opposition to the heliport […]
On yesterday’s broadcast we reported the optimism expressed over the discovery of oil in the Cayo District. That was good news that may or may not translate into economic benefits for Belize. Hopefully it will because on the same day the drillers found black gold, the market for what was once called green gold was […]
Before the arrival of cruise ships or luxury eco-lodges, scuba divers from all over the world knew about the wonders of Belize’s Barrier Reef. For many diving enthusiasts, Belize’s Blue Hole was a dream dive. Now, Belizean dive masters are realizing their own dreams of taking their place among the world’s top professionals. John Searle, […]
The Youth Business Trust Belize held an induction meeting on Wednesday for volunteer mentors and the young entrepreneurs selected to participate in the organisation’s first programmes in the country. At the meeting, members of Belize’s business community were introduced to the project and given an idea of what will be expected of them. News Five […]
While most of their peers are relaxing on summer holidays, today some student teachers from St. John’s College concluded a course in what is called the expressive arts. It is one of the Ministry of Education?s latest initiatives to expand training for primary school teachers to institutions outside the University of Belize. Today, the venue […]
