In the fallout following the much criticized Government guarantee to Universal Health Services, the People’s United Party has taken flak from the Opposition, the public and even from some of its own cabinet ministers for the implications of that decision. The guarantee, signed in December 2004 by Prime Minister Said Musa and Attorney General Francis […]
And while the People’s United Party circles the wagons to defend the decision of Prime Minister Said Musa to grant an open guarantee to U.H.S., on Wednesday the legality of the liability will be challenged in court. According to the Association of Concerned Belizeans, on Wednesday they plan to file suit in the Supreme Court […]
A Sandhill man is recuperating at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight following a traffic accident on the Northern Highway over the weekend. According to police around three Sunday afternoon, Darrell Hyde was riding his bicycle between miles thirteen and fourteen when he was knocked down from behind by a Mitsubishi Gallant. The driver, thirty […]
Meanwhile, a Santa Elena man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder following a stabbing in that municipality. Police reports indicate that around eight thirty on Saturday night, twenty two year old Pedro Melendez was at a shop in Santa Elena when he was attacked by a man armed with a knife. During the […]
In other police news, a teenager has been arrested for joyriding after cops found him driving a stolen car. According to court reports, around twelve thirty on Saturday morning, Bernardo Bay Junior was leaving the Shooter’s Nightclub located on Amara Avenue when three men asked him for a cigarette. Bay says as he looked down […]
A pregnant Gales Point woman and her two children are homeless tonight following a fire over the weekend. According to relatives, on Saturday evening Sherry-Ann Slusher took her three year old and one year old to visit her grandmother in another part of the village but around eight that night, neighbours saw smoke and then […]
The recent spate of deadly violence against women at the hands of their significant others has placed the issues surrounding domestic abuse on the forefront of public concern. But tonight there is yet another disturbing case to report because over the weekend two women were attacked because they tried to help a neighbour who was […]
It was bumper to bumper traffic in Belmopan this weekend as thousands of Belizeans travelled to the capital city to attend the 2007 National Agriculture and Trade Show. According to organizers, on Saturday a record crowd of more than twenty thousand people visited the grounds while Sunday saw a whopping thirty thousand visitors braving the […]
Seven months after Steven “the Seaweed Man” Hemsley made a tearful plea for help for his three year old son who needed leukaemia treatments, tonight we regret to announce that on Friday night the child died. Malecai Hemsley died in his father’s arms after being rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Hemsley was devoted […]
In his quest to strengthen the Belizean education system, this month Dr. Arlie Petters, of the Petters Research Institute, continues to help students prepare to sit this year’s Primary School Examination with specially prepared textbooks and courses on study skills. But according to Petters, this summer he’s taking things a step further by hosting a […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this issue of Sports Monday. Week ten of the Regent Insurance Cup Tournament found SP Costa Del Sol Nairi’s visiting with Sugar Boys Juventus inside the People’s Stadium yesterday looking for that big win in their final regular season outing that would lead them into the […]
