Corozal police have arrested and charged the three young men they say killed eighty-one year old Harry Duesbury at his residence in San Andres Village in the Corozal District. The accused, who all live in the community, have been identified as twenty-six year old Noel Guy and seventeen year old Rosendo Guy, believe to be […]
Also arrested today was twenty year old Allan Martinez of Central American Boulevard in Belize City. Martinez was identified by Roy Latchman as the man who tried to burn his house down Sunday night. Latchman chased the intruder away, but not before he had poured kerosene on the wooden veranda. Martinez has been charged with […]
Details are sketchy tonight, but police are investigating a disturbing allegation involving the rape of a minor. Authorities say an eleven year old has reported that sometime between four and five on Monday evening she was not only kidnapped, but taken to an area in Belize City where at least one of her abductors raped […]
A traffic accident on the Southern Highway has left seven members of a Toledo family injured. Around two on Monday afternoon, twenty-eight year old Domingo Teck was driving his Dodge van in a southerly direction when between miles six and seven, one of the vehicle’s rear wheels broke off its axle. Teck jammed on the […]
Ever since cruise tourism became a big business in Belize it has been viewed by environmentalists with sentiments ranging from disdain to horror. And while those feelings may be justified, a new initiative seeks to go beyond the rhetoric to ask the right questions … and hopefully find answers. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting In 2006, approximately […]
A quick look around the global media scene shows there is no shortage of major issues facing our planet: AIDS, drug abuse, poverty, racism, gender based discrimination, and terrorism to name a few. But the cause that has most recently captured the public’s imagination is global warming–or as it is more scientifically called–climate change. Stewart […]
Since its heyday in the 1970s, Belize’s boxing scene has been on the ropes and maybe even down for the count. But promoter Osmond Martinez is hoping to change all that starting this Saturday night at the Princess Hotel in Belize City. On that night Belizeans will be treated to two professional fights and four […]
Earlier in this newscast we looked at how the cruise tourism industry is trying to come to grips with its impact on the environment. Today in Belize City, that industry–more specifically its economic benefits–figured prominently in a case before the Supreme Court. The question was whether the operators of the Fort Street Tourism Village could […]
