Cabinet has spoken on the bus situation … and it appears that a single nationwide transport company is a thing of the past. According to a press briefing on Tuesday’s Cabinet session, the industry will be restructured within a policy of managed competition. Rather than salvage the nationwide monopoly introduced by the Novelo Brothers and […]
They used to avoid each other like sworn enemies … and when the two armies did meet it was often disastrous, like the time four B.D.F. soldiers were kidnapped by their Guatemalan counterparts in 2000. But these days–thanks to sharp prodding and generous financial inducement from the U.K. and O.A.S.–the military forces are looking more […]
Belize City musician Bobo Youth is singing the jailhouse blues tonight after he was hit with a seven year sentence for burglary. The twenty-four year old, also known as Theodore Parchue, and another man, twenty-two year old Maurice Usher, were arrested and charged after police found them inside the HL’s Burger branch on Freetown Road […]
It’s not unusual to hear of police showing up right after a crime, but it’s a surprise to hear tell of a robbery happening right in front of a cop. According to Detective Samuel Bonilla on September twenty-fifth, he was in plainclothes when he saw a man choking a woman on Barrack Road. Bonilla ran […]
A man and woman were acquitted in the Supreme Court today in connection with a report of carnal knowledge by a female minor. Immediately after a nine-member jury was empanelled to hear the case against James Saunders and Geneva Estrada, Prosecutor Kamar Henry rose before Justice Adolph Lucas this morning and offered no further evidence […]
A good friend of Belize has died. Dr. Gay Wilentz, Director of Ethnic Studies at East Carolina University in the U.S.A., also worked as a visiting professor at the University of Belize. Her work here dated back to 1991 and she made it possible for a number of Belizeans to further their studies at E.C.U., […]
Twelve years ago Arthur Samuel Richardson and his two children left their native country of St. Lucia to embark on a journey through Latin America. Today the Richardsons are in Belize on the final leg of their odyssey before returning home. The trip has been financially sustained by the proceeds from exhibitions the family holds […]
When it comes to Caribbean entertainers in Belize, we tend to regard them like fine wine: they just get better with age. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods today sampled the latest vintage. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It?s not the first time that Jamaican Reggae artist Lloyd Lovindeer has been to Belize, but we still treat each trip […]
The nine-day cycling race known as the M and M Tour of Belize becomes more interesting with each new stage. James Adderley was on the road this morning and returns with the latest. James Adderley, Reporting Stage five of the 2006 M&M Tour blasted off under clear skies this morning featuring sixty-eight cyclists on a […]
