A Belizean drug trafficker has been sentenced to spend the next three decades behind bars in the United States. According to international news reports, on Thursday, New York district court judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ordered that thirty-six year old Robert Hertular be locked up for the next thirty-three years and four months and pay a […]
Thursday morning’s shooting is officially a murder investigation as the critically wounded victim succumbed to his injuries earlier today. According to doctors at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, around three forty-five this morning twenty year old Sherwin Locke died as a result of his gunshot wounds. Locke had been rushed to the emergency room just […]
Two men who pled guilty to ripping off Courts Belize have been fined and released. According to warehouse manager Roleto Ortiz, sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning he discovered that a flat screen computer monitor, C.P.U., speakers, and several other items, valued at more than two thousand four hundred dollars, were missing. Ortiz’s own […]
Between June to November, meteorologists–both local and international–become household names, but outside the hurricane season, interest in the daily weather report wanes considerably. But what Belizeans may not realise is that climate conditions on the other side of the world can affect our environment here in Belize just as our everyday habits can have long […]
Mudslinging, accusations of victimisation, alleged bribery, and calls for transparency … you probably think I’m talking about national politics right? Well politics might be involved but what I’m actually referring to is the run up to the election of a new President of the Football Federation of Belize. The new body will be in charge […]
While the weather experts were celebrating World Meteorological Day, their counterparts in medicine today marked World Tuberculosis Day. According to Director of the National T.B. Programme, Dr. Ines Moguel, tuberculosis is both preventable and curable, but new cases of the disease continue to be diagnosed every year. Moguel maintains that given Belize’s high HIV prevalence, […]
During the second annual Early Childhood Educators’ Award ceremony on Thursday night, nineteen teachers were honoured for their contribution to education. Recipients were chosen for their years of dedicated service as well as their efforts to develop and improve early childhood education programs. This year’s awardees include Wilfredo Alamilla of ABC Preschool, Gwendolyn Jones from […]
In related news, today the Ministry of Education issued a press release asserting that all the teachers who participated in last Friday’s protest in Belmopan will lose a day’s pay. The Ministry maintains, “While teachers…have the right to take a stand on any issue…such rights must not be done at the expense of our children’s […]
For many students, Math is a difficult subject, evidenced by poor grades countrywide. In an effort to change that reality, over the last four weeks the Social Security Board hosted the Math Olympiad, a student competition designed make math more user friendly. After winning the regional finals, this morning twelve students representing Julian Cho Technical […]
