Although it has been hinted at for months, the Organization of American States has made it official. That is, with negotiations unable to resolve the Guatemalan claim to Belize, the O.A.S. Secretary General is recommending that the dispute be settled by the International Court of Justice. In a statement dated November thirteenth but not released […]
In other news out of Belmopan, the Prime Minister left the country today en route to Kampala, Uganda for a meeting of Commonwealth Heads of Government. The fifty-three member grouping of former British colonies includes countries as large as India and as technologically advanced as the U.K., Canada, and Australia. The commonwealth has traditionally been […]
Police have charged two teenagers from San Joaquin, Corozal, with the savage murder of a fellow villager. When they were summoned to the scene at the home of forty-seven year old Gregorio Tzul around six on Sunday morning, police made the gruesome discovery. They found the partially nude body of his brother, forty-nine year old […]
Although there were no signs of violence on the body of a man from San Jose Succotz, tonight Cayo police are not ruling out that foul play may have been involved in his death. That’s because the post-mortem on the body of thirty-two year old Rudy Alfredo Bautista was inconclusive due to the advanced state […]
The manager of a Belize City gas station was wounded in a robbery attempt on Saturday morning. Cops were called out to the Buca Shell Service Station at mile two and a half on the Northern Highway where they found thirty-three year old Herbert Parham lying on the floor outside the back door of his […]
Thirty-six year-old Alexander “Lexus” Tesecum was remanded to prison today for allegedly pointing a pistol at a police constable. Tesecum was charged with Aggravated Assault on P.C. James Jones when he appeared before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez. He was remanded into custody until December twenty-first. The incident occurred about two forty-five a.m. on November second, but […]
Belize’s two local airlines are feeling the pinch following the banning of Belizean commercial flights into Guatemala. According to spokespersons for Tropic and Maya Island Air, the ban, which was instituted on November fifteenth, involves the upgrading of Guatemala’s civil aviation standards: specifically their requirement that all airlines flying to the country have a valid […]
He took over the post in August, but it was not until this afternoon that Dr. Santos Mahung was officially inaugurated as President of the University of Belize. To celebrate the installation, today the school hosted a number of activities including a symposium on the Guatemalan claim to Belize, a breakfast meeting with the business […]
While it’s common knowledge that the Commercial Free Zone at our Northern border is something less than leak proof, for most Belizeans who took advantage of the zone’s open day on Saturday it was a new experience. And as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, despite all the hype, restrictions, and predictions of chaos … a […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re certainly glad you could join us for this serving of Sports Monday. We’re inside beautiful Dangriga Sunday morning where this bust of Thomas Vincent Ramos silently presides over the start of today’s seventy-five mile cycle race weaved into the Garifuna Settlement Day programme in Dangriga. As the athletes […]
