An incident this morning at a Teakettle school has puzzled the entire community. Soon after classes began, several standard six students, who use the church as a classroom, fell ill; some of them fainted and had to be rushed to the Western Regional Hospital. All shared similar symptoms of dizziness, nausea and severe headaches. The […]
Belizean, Ian Alamilla, who is living in Westmont, Chicago turned himself in six days after he strangled his estranged wife, Tara, in April 2010. Over a year later, Alamilla pleaded guilty on Thursday to the charge of Murder. In exchange for his guilty plea, Alamilla will be sentenced to no more than fifty years in […]
Leon Hinds was stabbed three times on Wednesday night in an area near 88 Shopping Center on Central American Boulevard. The blade caught him in the neck, chest and lung. His family says they know he is far from perfect, but he is their brother and he didn’t deserve the vicious wounds that almost took […]
Earlier this month, it was discovered that forty-two weapons, including M-16s and M-4 Carbines were stolen from under the noses of the B.D.F. Up to today, no one has been held accountable. So we asked on Tuesday who viewers thought should be held responsible. The answer is as follows: twenty-two percent thought the officers should […]
Badih “Bob” Bou-Nahra departs Belize over the weekend for Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker. He is among eight other finalists competing to take home the pot of more than eight million US dollars. Locally, excitement has been growing and a large contingent of Belizeans will accompany Bob to the grand event at […]
Tomas Antonio Moguel was murdered at his workplace at the Shell One Stop in Orange Walk on the night of October fourteenth. The watchman was executed by one of two gunmen, who simply came from behind the compound and shot him to death at about four-thirty in the morning. On Thursday, police arrested and charged […]
Back in January a little over three hundred police officers of various ranks sat a promotion exam and the results were very poor. Despite the unsatisfactory performance many of them, including those who actually passed the test, eagerly anticipated the publishing of a promotional list with the names of officers who will ascend in rank. […]
The court dealt a heavy blow to British Tourist, twenty-seven year old Paul Smith, a resident of New Castle, England. Smith was charged with a single count of drug trafficking this morning in the court of Magistrate Albert Hoare. He pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking, but guilty to the lesser charge of possession of […]
Police made a significant drug bust on Thursday morning. It happened in an abandoned lot on Baracat Street in Belize City where they discovered a white bucket containing twenty-two black plastic bags with cannabis. It yielded five and three-quarter pounds of weed, which is now in police custody. No one was in the area at […]
A giant in the agriculture industry has passed. Jamaican-Belizean Pat Polack passed away on Monday of this week in the Cayman Islands after a short illness. Polack, known by most as ‘Sheriff’ a name he got years ago because of his love for boots and a Stetson hat, was one of the biggest citrus growers […]
If your attention has been drawn to some dramatic television ads of three young women on a top secret mission, it really has to do with Smart upgrading to its new 3G service. The new service has been in the making for SpeedNet for some time and now with all the legal hurdles finally behind, […]
This weekend, Halloween bashes will be taking place all over the country. But there is a tradition to celebrate “El Dia Los Muertos” that is a main feature in Mexico and the rest of the Americas. The Day of the Dead is really a tradition that combines ancient culture with Catholicism. Locally, in Benque Viejo […]
