A woman and young boy are dead following a traffic accident that occurred this morning near Trial Farm in the Orange Walk District. According to police reports, around eleven-fifteen, twenty-eight year old Silvana Vellos of San Andres Village in the Corozal District was heading on the Northern Highway towards Orange Walk Town in her Toyota […]
They were not fatal, but wet weather over the weekend contributed to a number of other traffic accidents. The first occurred around six on Saturday evening on the Southern Highway and left ten people hospitalised. Twenty-eight year old Tashira Wagner of Independence Village told police she was carrying fifteen passengers in her Isuzu pickup truck […]
It was a brazen armed robbery in an upscale Belize City neighbourhood, but today police told the media that the case was quickly cracked and the perpetrators have been arrested. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Belize City police strongly believe the proprietor of the Tequila Bar, fifty-one year old Derek Nisbet may have been followed for days […]
A convicted cop killer will spend the rest of his life behind bars. That was the sentence handed down to twenty-six year old Chadrick Debride this afternoon by Justice Troadio Gonzalez. Earlier this month, Debride was convicted in connection with the shooting death of Police Constable Nedi Reymundo. On Christmas Eve in 2004, Reymundo had […]
From its start, the Commission of Inquiry into the Development Finance Corporation has had a rough time, particularly when Chairman David Price died, leaving the two remaining Commissioners to co-chair the remainder of the proceedings. As odd a couple as Herbert Lord and Merlene Bailey-Martinez may have appeared, no one thought they would have wound […]
The Public Service Union has elected a new President. She is Jacqueline Willoughby Sanchez. Willoughby was previously the first Vice President of the union and takes over from Dylan Reneau, who will now serve as Secretary General. Other members of the executive include Lizandro Quiroz as first V.P., Ofelia Gomez as second V.P., Audrey Bennett […]
Traffic on the Hummingbird Highway came to a standstill early this morning after an eighteen wheeler jack-knifed across the road. According to Guatemalan driver Carlos Lima, around six-thirty a.m. he was heading towards Dangriga with forty tonnes of cement on his flatbed, but as he attempted to ascend the hill between miles twenty-eight and twenty-nine, […]
The controversy appeared to have been settled back in May when citizens of the West Landivar neighbourhood convinced the Belize City Council that a marina proposed by businessman David Gegg ought not to go forward. Apparently the developer is not giving up so easily. Over the weekend workers began to chop mangrove on the site […]
People who regularly wait to catch a ride at the corner of Western Avenue and the Western Highway will no longer need to brave the sun or rain for that lift. Thanks to Belize Medical Associates, a bus stop will now provide the much needed shelter. According to B.M.A.’s marketing manager, Therese Diego, the construction […]
It may seem odd that a government department that took in one hundred and eighty-six million dollars of consumer’s money in the last twelve months might try to keep that information on the down low, but leave it to our good friends at the General Sales Tax office to actually make us happy to pay […]
Sports correspondent James Adderley is out of the country this week, but we convinced Janelle Chanona to try her hand at reporting the athletic action this weekend, courtesy of Berger Paints. In sporting news from the diamond, a small but diehard group of softball fans showed up in Sand Hill on Sunday afternoon to witness […]
