A Belize City cab driver was viciously stabbed to death; his body was found early this morning in Ladyville while his rented van was found hours later in Biscayne Village. According to his relatives, Frank Jacobs’ was stabbed about a hundred times. Thirty-four year old Jacobs worked alongside his brother as a cab driver in […]
A jealous forty year old Glenford “Bucket” Bermudez executed his wife on November twenty-second, 2007 and for taking her life, he will now spend the rest of his life behind bars. Glenford, an ex-B.D.F. soldier, was convicted on April twenty-seventh for the murder of Raquel Requeña Bermudez; the life sentence was handed down today by […]
The media was called out today by one of its own members, who along with a well known business personality, say they have received credible reports that their lives are in danger. They claim in fact that a street figure has confirmed that someone has paid for a hit on them. Media colleague, Channel Seven’s […]
As we reported on Tuesday, a delegation from the newly formed organization, Friends of Belize, is on a three-day working visit to Washington D.C. The delegation was led by former U.S. Ambassador Robert Dieter and former British High Commissioner Philip Priestley. In D.C. they met with several high level government officials to discuss ways in […]
A second lawyer has withdrawn legal representation from Mark Seawell this week and his case has been postponed until he is able to secure a new defense team. Since his arrest in February 2007 the infamous Seawell, who is wanted in the United States for drug trafficking and money laundering offences, has made numerous court […]
Karl Heusner was in court today; no, it’s not the hospital, it’s a twenty-five year Belize City resident. Heusner faces seven charges, but he claims that he was badly beaten by a cop without reason and that he was arrested for a bullet he knew nothing about. Heusner showed Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie his bruised […]
Tonight there are four families in Succotz Village in the west who say that come the rains, they will have no way out of their yards. It has to do with a recently erected fence that has been built by neighbors which blocks the exit to their properties. The four families say they have been […]
It is a road that thousands of tourists travel every year to go cave tubing at the Caves Branch, but the road is rapidly deteriorating and stakeholders are up in arms. The dilapidated road is not only used for the tourism industry, but also by the nearby community of Franks Eddy. For Vitalino Reyes, the […]
Belize’s own Dr. Rachel T. Graham was presented with a prestigious conservation award by no less than Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne, at the Royal Geographic Society in London. Graham saved whale sharks from extinction in Belize and her twenty years of work to preserve the Jewel’s underwater wildlife won her the coveted Whitley Gold […]
Still on the issue of conservation, LightHawk, a nonprofit group of volunteer pilots is looking for someone to bring a very special cargo to Belize. The organization is urgently seeking a volunteer to transport rare falcon chicks from a breeding facility in Sheridan Wyoming in early June. Once in Belize, the birds will be released […]
Kicking and screaming, incessant ranting and stubbornness; those are just a few behavioral problems of children throwing temper tantrums so adults cave in and allow them to have their own way. It’s frustrating for parents or other caretakers to handle these situations, so this week’s Healthy Living hopes to provide the solution to the temper […]
