With so many recent hikes in the cost of imported petroleum products, we were beginning to think that the laws of economic gravity had abandoned us. Not so. Having spiked at ten dollars per gallon on October eighteenth, the price of premium gasoline has, as of yesterday, retreated to nine twenty-six. Regular is down seventy-nine […]
In weekend crime the big news is that… there isn’t much news… and yes, it’s a pleasure to report. According to police there was an incident in which a sixteen year old suffered a knife wound during a fight with her boyfriend, and another teenager was arrested for an unlicensed firearm… but that’s about it. […]
And while we are not reporting on any new violent crime, the judicial process continues to move slowly on past offences. Today the murder trial of police officer Sheldon Arzu was scheduled to open in the Supreme Court but was postponed due to the introduction of new evidence by the prosecution. Prosecutor Kamar Henry told […]
While one trial has been postponed, another was concluded today with a verdict of guilty. Thirty year old Fernando Elijio was convicted of robbery by Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord and sentenced to five years in Hattieville Prison. On the night of January sixteenth Elijio placed a gun to the head of Michelle Davis on Central […]
The company went bust in 2004 under the burden of over forty-eight million dollars in overdue debt and was placed in the hands of a receiver by creditors. Since that time Novelo’s Bus Company has walked the tightrope of trying to regain financial health while at the same time improving service. But now management is […]
Over one hundred thousand dollars in surgical equipment was today donated to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The new gear, earmarked for the recently created neurosurgery department, came courtesy of the Foundation for International Education in Neurological Surgery. Belize’s first neurosurgeon, Dr. Joel Cervantes, says the equipment will go a long way towards helping Belizeans […]
Another Belizean has returned home from life saving surgery abroad. Nine month old Denfield Anderson, who was born with a hole in his heart, underwent an operation at St. Joseph Children’s Hospital in Tampa, Florida, on October twenty-first. The surgery was a success and doctors say they expect the child to make a full recovery. […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and here?s the latest delivery of Sports Monday. In week nine of the RFG Cup Tournament found the Calcutta Bulls hosting Belmopan United yesterday up north. This is after the Capital City gang had wrestled three points from this very Calcutta Bulls via a successful protest in the B.P.F.L. With […]
