Over the last three years the People’s United Party government has lurched from crisis to crisis … with words like Social Security, D.F.C., and U.H.S. permanently associated with the perception of flawed and failed governance. But in politics, like show business and sports, what you’re most remembered for is your latest performance. And for the […]
His visit was sandwiched between two summits and the P.U.P. convention, but the brief state visit of Mexican President Felipe Calderon came off as scheduled Saturday in Belmopan. The President paid a courtesy call on the Governor General, met privately with the Prime Minister, was hosted for lunch and conferred with the Order of Belize. […]
The badly burned corpse of a man has been found in the charred remains of a house in the Corozal District … and a post-mortem suggests that it was a case of murder. The body of sixty-nine year old Humberto Waight was discovered on Saturday morning in the blackened ruins of the small concrete home […]
A Belize City man hovers between life and death tonight, the apparent victim of a knife attack prompted by extreme jealousy. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting The last time Yvette Flowers says she saw her common law husband thirty year old Nolan Arana was around ten on Sunday morning when she left him caring for their seven […]
Despite the lack of arrests in the two stabbings, police did have some success in other areas. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Several police operations in Belize City over the weekend have resulted in arrests and the confiscation of firearms and ammunition. In one of the incidents Alfred Smith suffered injuries after he tried to get away […]
Whether they are in or out of uniform, the police are always on the job or at least that was case for special police constable Kirk Flowers, who over the weekend caught a chain snatcher by surprise. It all went down around eleven forty-five on Sunday morning. Flowers, who, was off duty and out of […]
The government spends millions of dollars on health care each year, but in the end, how does Belmopan know how well the system is working? Starting this morning authorities are implementing a policy that seeks to find out. Dr. Peter Allen, Director, Policy, Analysis, Planning Unit, M.O.H. “The end result has to be that there […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We take you immediately to the Princess Hotel and Casino where Saturday night Belizean boxing took centre stage. In the centre of the square ring is the new promoter Osmond Martinez introducing Wilmer Rene Fernandez of Honduras to his right and local boozing talent Horace […]
