Tonight a young man hovers on the edge of life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the victim of a late morning shooting near Mahogany Street. The victim has been identified as twenty year old Sherwin Locke. According to an eyewitness, around eleven this morning, Locke emerged from this path and ran onto Electric Avenue […]
Doing a news story on a long time colleague–who is also a business competitor–is not an easy task. The story in question focuses on Rene Villanueva, the veteran broadcaster, who today launched his new book. I received my start in broadcasting under Rene at Radio Belize and because of that relationship, was too close to […]
Quick police work has led to the arrest of two men following a jewellery heist in Independence Village. According to the victim, Walter Panting, sometime between six on Wednesday night and seven on Thursday morning, a thief or thieves broke into his store and stole more than ten thousand dollars worth of chains, bracelets, earrings […]
Meanwhile, persistent efforts by Belize City police have resulted in the arrest of the second suspect in a burglary that occurred in February. According to court reports, on Wednesday morning investigators tracked down Jason Clark near his Frederick Street home and immediately detained him. Clark appeared before Magistrate Sharon Fraser this morning where he pled […]
It was a good day for police all around today as officers in Belmopan are also reporting that they have arrested seven people in connection with separate crimes. In the first incident, Evergreen Primary School principal Pamela Neal reported to police that over the weekend, three computers were stolen from the institution’s computer lab. Police […]
HIV/AIDS … it’s been around for over two decades and the way the situation looks, it’ll be with us for quite a while. According to UNAIDS statistics, at the end of 2006 there were thirty-nine point five million people worldwide infected with HIV and seventeen point seven million of them are women … which is […]
The much anticipated Southside Poverty Alleviation Project is about to take on a visible presence in the old capital. On Wednesday, four contracts were signed for infrastructural improvements in the Collet, Port Loyola, and Lake Independence areas of the city. The work will include the paving and upgrading of roads and sidewalks, improved drainage, and […]
Meanwhile in Hopkins, that village’s water system will be upgraded through an increasingly popular model involving a partnership between the local water board and a private developer. The one hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollar project will refurbish an existing well, construct two new wells, install pumps, and lay over two miles of PVC pipe. The […]
We say it every year when World Water Day rolls around. That is, Belizeans are blessed with some of the planet’s most abundant water resources. Yet, we always have to remind ourselves that we can’t take that blessing for granted. Rudolph Williams, Hydrologist “When it comes to this region, Belize has the highest per capita […]
