The date of general elections will be announced next week. That’s the gospel according to the Belize Times. In its issue that hit the streets this morning, the P.U.P. party newspaper ended its lead story by saying that Prime Minister Said Musa had informed them of this via telephone on Wednesday night. Coupled with the […]
Meanwhile, although the election is close enough to taste and a partisan media war has been waged for what seems like years, many mass party candidates and almost all of the third party entries enjoy little name recognition outside their own constituencies. In an effort to better inform viewers as to who they may find […]
Three days into the New Year and still not a single murder … but it’s not for lack of trying. Sometime around seven last night, a lone gunman on a bike shot eighteen year old Enrique Alvarez as he stood in a yard at the corner of Curl Thompson and Man-o-war Streets in the Port […]
A Corozal woman is traumatized tonight after she was kidnapped, punched, raped and left stranded on the roadside. The twenty two year old housewife reported to police that sometime around six thirty yesterday evening she was walking on the Santa Rita Road when a green car with tinted windows pulled up. The woman said three […]
The first reported robbery for the New Year occurred in the Belize District. Fifty year old Alfonso PineIo reported to police that around three o’clock yesterday afternoon he was at his business named Seidy’s Shopping Centre in Burrell Boom Village when two men entered the store. Pinelo said he left the counter to fill an […]
It was a story that sort of appeared out of nowhere, involving the always intriguing elements of art, money and politics. And while it’s sometimes hard to figure out who’s playing whom, the battle of the Bust continues. News Five’s Marion Ali has an update. Marion Ali, Reporting The fiasco over the bust of Philip […]
And while the tempest over the bust may play out for a few more days, lost in the storm is the very man immortalised in bronze: Philip Goldson. For those older folks who may not remember or younger ones who didn’t pay attention in school, Philip Goldson, born in 1923, was one of the giants […]
Santa Rosa. It’s a tiny settlement of Guatemalans on the Belize side of the border in Toledo that has for many years been inextricably linked to a settlement of Guatemala’s claim to our country. While Belizean authorities successfully removed other illegal Guatemalan squatter communities such as Machaquila and Rio Blanco, Santa Rosa perhaps because of […]
