Never in Belize’s history have a few feet of concrete resulted in so much judicial acrimony. But with millions at stake in the highly competitive cruise industry, the warring parties in the dispute over access to the Tourism Village are as determined as Obama and Clinton to end up on top. Today one side was […]
Firemen across the country have been seeing red for the last two weeks but instead of flames, they were looking at their empty wallets. The newly trained firefighters say they’ve yet to be given the cheques due to them on April fifteenth and have been unable to find out why. When we called Fire Chief […]
Two more suspects have been charged in connection with the high stakes break in at the penthouse apartment of businessman Luke Espat. Twenty-nine year old Kent Skeete of Mahogany Street and eighteen year old Michael Plunkett of Supal Street in Belize City were arraigned today for Burglary and Conspiracy to Commit Burglary in the court […]
A family of four escaped serious injury or death this evening when this four-door Mazda flipped several times on the Western Highway. Driver of the vehicle, twenty-seven year old Leon Usher, an employee of Advance Advertising and resident of Gibnut Street in Belize City, was heading from Belmopan towards the old capital when at mile […]
We are used to periodic visits by ships of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard as well as the U.K.’s Royal Navy, but next week a new flag will fly in Belize City Harbour: that of Taiwan. A training squadron of that country’s navy is making a goodwill tour through the Caribbean that will stop […]
The national animal of Belize, as any child can tell you, is the mountain cow, more formally know as Baird’s Tapir. But unlike the other national symbols, which tend to be a generic tree, flower or bird, the top animal spot has come to be personified by a single tapir who resides at the Belize […]
