He’s been on the police wanted list since Monday night after four Chinese businesspeople were attacked, two of them fatally in Dangriga Town. But four days later the law has caught up with eighteen year old Percival Jones. This afternoon police apprehended Jones not in Dangriga, but Belize City. The teen had just dropped by […]
A villager from Bullet Tree Falls, Cayo will be spending three years behind bars after pleading guilty to Drug Trafficking. Thirty year old Miguel Angel Mendez was nabbed around eleven Thursday morning by a police border patrol unit as he was exiting the administrative building at the Belize Western Border on his return from Melchor. […]
Ladyville police are investigating a report of Unlawful Carnal Knowledge upon an eight year old. The minor, accompanied by her mother, told police that on several occasions this year while she was visiting a relative, Anthony Myvette, he had sexual intercourse with her. An examination on the child has confirmed that she was molested and […]
Security guards are hired to protect person and property, but today one employee was charged for failing to do his job. Forty-four year old Phillip Estrada, a security guard at the Youth Hostel, pleaded not guilty when he appeared in court today for allegedly stealing a shade of wire from his employer. According to reports, […]
It is not often that we hear good things about the Police, but today the department gave credit where it is due and honoured fourteen of its employees. In a ceremony this afternoon in Belize City, twelve police officers, a special constable and a civilian member of staff were recognised for outstanding service for the […]
The Conscious Youth Development Program received a much needed boost to a project today when two companies donated seventeen thousand dollars. Telemedia handed over a cheque for twelve thousand dollars, while the Mirage group of companies gave five thousand. The funds, along with additional financing from government, were used to purchase a hundred and fifty-nine […]
Donations continue to pour in for flood victims and the organizations that assist them. The latest good Samaritans are the Social Security Board and the Archer Daniels Midland Company, better known as A.D.M. This morning S.S.B. donated two hundred thousand dollars to the National Emergency Organization. Meanwhile, a press release from A.D.M. says it will […]
Today was the final day of the sixth annual conference of the Organization of Caribbean Utility Regulators… and telecommunications was the topic taking centre stage. Among the presenters this morning was Chairman of Telemedia, Dean Boyce, who spoke on achieving Universal Service. Boyce says one of the challenges towards that goal is that Belize’s population […]
“We need you today, you might need us tomorrow” is the motto of the Belize Cancer Society and one family that has taken that phrase to heart is the Skeens. Since the inauguration of the society over a decade ago, the family has donated approximately thirty-one thousand dollars to the organization. Their latest contribution assisted […]
November is commemorated as Diabetes Awareness Month and the Belize Diabetes Association is raising awareness with a number of events leading up to World Diabetes Day. The activities kick off tomorrow morning with a walk and tonight B.D.A. President Anthony Castillo is encouraging the public to participate. Anthony Castillo, President, B.D.A. “I would like to […]
Remembrance Day is a day set aside to give thanks to all those men and women around the world who served in the two world wars. Belizeans and residents of other Caribbean countries joined the allied forces and served as the British West Indies Regiment. Though observed internationally on the eleventh, locally a service to […]
Do you like dancing, bingo, chicken wings or art? Then listen up because tonight’s edition of What’s Happening Belize has got them all. Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is What’s Happening Belize. This weekend the P.T.A. of Bishop Martin High School in Orange Walk would like to invite all high school and sixth form students […]
