On last night’s newscast we heard from concerned villagers of Crooked Tree who, at a loss to explain the sudden mass death of fish in the waters surrounding their community, pointed to the work of a U.S. scientist using an electric stunning device to collect fish samples for his research. This morning a delegation of […]
Sheldon Burgess, the man police believe held up a delivery truck in Dangriga on Saturday, is tonight behind bars. The twenty-one year old resident of Isla Road in that Southern town turned himself in to police Tuesday evening in the company of his attorney, Antoinette Moore. Burgess had been identified when one of the victims […]
A taxi driver out on a very early run on Monday morning is lucky to be alive after being held up at gunpoint and taken hostage. Police say that according to Luis Navarro, around two-thirty on Monday morning he had just finished a job and was heading back to his base. But at the corner […]
Three police officers whose quick action resulted in the apprehension of a pair of robbers earlier this month were honoured today in a short ceremony in Belize City. Corporals Lenox Broaster, Basil Reyes and Glen Caliz of the Anti-Drug Unit each received a letter of commendation and two hundred dollars cash from Police Commissioner Gerald […]
The United Democratic Party has weighed in on the issue of government’s possible sale of its ten percent stake in the Spanish Lookout oil field. And while the U.D.P. position is supportive of the Belizean public owning shares, the party is adamant that all proceeds from any sale go into the newly created Petroleum Fund–and […]
For the last seven days, a Corozal man has been sitting on a pile of money. On April eleventh, Florencio Catzim held the winning ticket for the sixty thousand dollar Lotto jackpot and this afternoon, he walked into Tropical Gaming Company to claim his prize. Florencio Catzim, Lotto Winner “Just say well I glad I […]
Today the NICH parking lot was the venue of Health Expo 2007. Organised by the Public Health Department and the Belize City Council, the event included the participation of several service providers including the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and the Belize Red Cross. According to Belize City Councillor Wayne Usher, the expo was designed to […]
Ambitious residents of the Toledo District will soon be able to access new loan funds, thanks to a grant from the European Union. The eight hundred and fifty thousand Belize dollar fund, administered through the Toledo Teachers Credit Union, will be used for micro credit to the district’s small entrepreneurs. The money will become available […]
While residents of Crooked Tree were wondering whether a U.S. researcher was killing their fish, another group of gringos was busy on a number of public service projects that will be remembered long after the fish problem is forgotten. Kendra Griffith, Reporting For the next two weeks, thirty-two medical professionals from the U.S. Air Force […]
We cover a lot of violent crimes and road accidents and it’s not unusual for our news crew to arrive at a scene only to find the flashing lights of an ambulance. And while we know how important their work is, many Belizeans may not be aware that the people who provide those emergency medical […]
