Tonight the Belize Police Department is reeling from the arrest of three officers accused in a sordid story of human trafficking and sexual assault. The drama unfolded in the early morning hours of Saturday at a lonely checkpoint on the Northern Highway, but as I found out today, this case could have far reaching implications […]
Four days after seventy year old Juan Tot was brutally murdered police have yet to determine a clear motive behind the crime. The victim’s body was discovered around nine last Thursday night in an orange orchard belonging to the Citrus Company of Belize in La Democracia Village. Several severe chop wounds had been inflicted to […]
The spate of traffic accidents continued over the weekend as incidents in the north and south of the country have claimed two more lives. According to police around nine on Friday night, a head-on collision between miles fifty-eight and fifty-nine involving a tow head truck and trailer and a small brown car produced fatal results. […]
Meanwhile, the latest victims of armed robbery in Belize City are a couple of high school teachers. According to Saint John’s College teachers Kevin Hall and Brian Plummer, while standing on Kraal Road around nine-thirty on Saturday night, two unmasked men armed with a handgun approached them and demanded money. The culprits escaped with jewellery, […]
A five day workshop designed to address the country’s response to the impact of avian influenza and possible pandemic began this morning in Belize City. The event is being organised by the Ministry of Health in partnership with the Pan American Health Organization, the National Emergency Management Organization, and the Belize Agricultural Health Authority. According […]
In many instances, a group of women sitting down talking informally is dismissed as gossiping. But this week, a Belize City based organisation is hoping to capitalise on that social atmosphere to create an open space for women to address the issues facing their gender. The event is called a Speak Out and is the […]
In just a few months thousands of Belizean students will sit the Primary School Examination and administrators will be holding their breaths. Because when the results were announced in 2006, the national mean performance in math was only forty-five point seven percent, well below the sixty percent deemed satisfactory by the Ministry of Education. The […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and here’s your weekly portion of Sports Monday. The R.F.G. Insurance Cup Tournament which features 12 teams in 2 divisions of 6 kicked off yesterday with all teams seeing action. Here in Belize City the annual B.P.F.L. Football Competition saw F.C. Belize play host to Tex Mar Boys from Mango […]
