They say that the darkest night comes just before the dawn… and tonight thousands of Belizean commuters are hoping that the inconvenience they experienced today will be followed very soon by the settlement of a major conflict in the bus industry. I spent most of the morning and early afternoon camped out at the bus […]
Late this evening the Transport Board was meeting in Belize City and moments ago Chairman Cedric Borland took a short break to inform the press of what was going on inside. Cedric Borland, Chair, Transport Board ?Those buses running without a valid road service permit and that covers a wide spectrum because we do have […]
The man accused of the burglary of Novelo’s Bus Company has pleaded guilty. Twenty year old Leon Cain, a cashier at the company, was accused of burglary but copped a guilty plea to the lesser charge of handling stolen goods. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers sentenced Cain to a two thousand dollar fine or in default a […]
A young Belize City man has been charged with a string of violent robberies against women. Eighteen year old Kareem Smith appeared Tuesday before Magistrate Margaret McKenzie where he pled not guilty to three separate allegations of robbery, one count of burglary, and one count of wounding. The accusations against Smith date back to August […]
Four policemen convicted of theft last month have appealed those convictions to the Supreme Court. Vladimir Ortega, Jesus Dominguez, Filomeno Badillo, and Cornelio Andueza were found guilty in Magistrate’s Court of taking a hundred dollars from the cash register of Belize City grocer Dennis Chow. The incident, which occurred in March of 2002, was caught […]
Some younger viewers may be unaware that it was not long ago that Belize didn’t have any real new car dealers. In those days you went to an agent who represented one of the auto manufacturers who would then order you a vehicle that might arrive in a few months. Of course back then only […]
The Parents Association for Children with Special Needs is an organization recently formed by those who know just how challenging it is for a differently-abled person to get by in Belize. PACSN relies heavily on community support to fund its programmes and today took the opportunity to get a head start on the sale of […]
