Women’s Week: it’s hardly the kind of story you’d expect to lead this newscast following a long holiday weekend. But the progress of Belizean women has been building slowly over many, often frustrating years. And if future historians are asked to cite a point at which the movement reached critical mass, it would probably be […]
From the dance floor on Wilson Street, it was a short hop to the exhibition floor on North Front Street where the interlocking worlds of work and artistic expression were on display at the Image Factory. Janelle Chanona, Reporting It?s called ?She means We?, the official exhibition of Women?s Week in Belize. The show features […]
Not all the artistic expression of Women’s Week was manifested through crafts. On Saturday night the stage at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts came alive with the poetry of women from Belize and abroad. Here are some highlights, courtesy of the National Institute of Culture and History. Poet #1 ?Today her spirit freely […]
The Belmopan City Council has responded to reports on this newscast of political victimisation in the nation’s capital. Today, in a three sentence press release the council has essentially confirmed those charges, stating: “Mr. Vincent Pascascio, Valuation Officer, is presently on administrative leave with benefits because of his active public campaigning for the People’s United […]
A Belize City student remains in critical condition tonight after he sustained a gunshot wound to the head on Friday night. But this shooting was no ordinary drive by or the result of a “misunderstanding.” Police reports are that around ten that night, seventeen year old Aubrey Hernandez and two female relatives were sitting outside […]
Tonight authorities are looking for a hit and run driver after a traffic accident in the Cayo district left a man dead. Reports are that between four and five Sunday morning, forty-two year old Modesto Chulin was walking on the Cristo Rey Road when he was knocked down by a passing vehicle and left for […]
A weekend fishing trip has ended in tragedy, claiming the life of a Dangriga man. On Monday, forty-five year old Edwin Coleman and two friends, Jorge Fuentes and Marvin Coleman, went fishing near Columbus Caye, about sixteen miles off the coast. According to the men, during the trip their net got caught in some rocks […]
The family of Lydia Rodriguez is in mourning following the young woman’s death on Sunday night. According to relatives, Rodriguez passed away in her sleep around eight-thirty p.m., surrounded by loved ones. On February seventh, the pregnant woman was involved in a traffic accident on the Guinea Grass road that left her in critical condition. […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions has withdrawn charges of murder against four men. This afternoon Darren Banks, Joel Bishop, Joseph Bishop, and Akeem Logan-Gotoy appeared before Magistrate Sharon Fraser where they were informed of their good fortune. According to Fraser, while the murder charges have been dropped, she was not certain if the D.P.P. wanted […]
In other court news, two men were arraigned today for burglary and assault before Magistrate Harry Hulett. Nineteen year old Jovi Carballo was this afternoon read charges of one count of aggravated burglary and two counts of aggravated assault, along with a charge of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary, which is shared jointly with seventeen […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this hefty version of Sports Monday. The Baron Bliss weekend brought with it a plethora of sporting activity and we?ve got most of it for you. First we head west to the Hawkesworth Bridge in San Ignacio for the ninth running of this La Ruta Maya event. This year?s […]
