It was as though everything came to a standstill this afternoon around the country, when the Belize Jaguars took on Cuba, to watch Belize’s last opportunity to advance to the second round of the Gold Cup 2013. Anticipation for game three of Belize’s debut in the Gold Cup was best described as nervous, as either […]
Immediately after the disappointing loss to Cuba, which dashed Team Belize’s hopes of qualifying to Round Two of the Gold Cup, Coach Ian Mork faced the media in the standard post-game press conference. Mork was subdued but still relatively positive as he looked not at the loss, but at what Team Belize will take away […]
The postmortem examination has been completed on the newborn that died early Sunday morning at the K.H.M.H. The infant was due on August eighteenth but the expectant mother, Elvira Ack, gave birth on July twelfth. The results have just been released and late this evening, hospital officials told Lawrence Bol that his baby died from […]
The pro-constitution anti-gender policy movement touched down in the city today, proclaiming the bold message NO TO UNIBAM…YES TO GOD. While the underlying theme has been the condemnation of homosexuality as an abomination, the focus has been on the gender policy. The government has committed to making amendments based on input from the church, but […]
As we reported on Monday, the results of a recent study published by the Inter-American Development Bank on challenges being faced within the education sector indicate that Belize is underperforming in comparison with other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to outdated instructional models and materials still in use, teachers rely heavily […]
Seventy-four year old Glen Roaden Senior was reported missing last Tuesday. He was seen leaving his home earlier that day. But the family was clueless as to his whereabouts…that is until late Monday evening, when they were called out to a creek some one hundred and twenty yards off the Jane Usher Boulevard. The decomposed […]
Three years ago, Stephen Buckley was shot by the police paralyzing the left side of his body and unable to work. Buckley was promised assistance by the department, but that never materialized and these days, Buckley has been reduced to hustling on the street to take care of his family. There is little to come […]
On Monday night, we told you about the search being conducted for Edwardo Dominguez, a fisherman from the village of San Andres in the Corozal District. Dominguez was missing since Sunday morning when misfortune struck during a fishing trip to Bacalar Chico near North Ambergris Caye. The skiff on which Dominguez and another fisherman, Ryan […]
A jury of six men and three women deliberated for hours to decide the fate of a fifty-five year old man accused of attacking another man. Romonio Garica was initially charged with Maim upon Alfredo Herrera but later indicted only for the Use of Deadly Means of Harm with Intent to Cause Grievous Harm. The […]
A pair of well-known U.D.P. members, thirty-one year old Brian Edward Audinett, better known as “Yellow man”, along with thirty year old Zone Inspector for the Ministry of Housing, Allan Dale Kelly, was jointly charged with six criminal offenses in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court earlier today. In a report to police, forty-four year old Phillip […]
The ministerial sub-committee that rejected Norwegian Cruise Line’s request to develop Crawl Caye inside the Belize Barrier Reef was tasked to inspect another proposal by the cruise line company. Harvest Caye lies outside the protected zone of the World Heritage Site, but a potential development of the island could possibly interrupt local commerce on the […]
Summer is here and kids are out of school, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t learn. In fact, there are organizations which utilize summer months primarily to catch youths up on vital facets of education which they may not have grasped in the school setting. Two of those problem areas are reading and math, […]
A twelve year old Belize City student has been given the opportunity to tour parts of Mexico because of his participation in an international art exhibit. Ammon Segura, a student of Saint Joseph Primary School, loves to draw so he entered a competition that was devised by the Mexican government. Segura’s piece “Things not to […]
Belize’s journey to Gold Cup 2013 has been described as fairy tale, one in which the Jaguars, a la Cinderella, make their first public appearance to the big dance. The story is one that has been recounted in the local media since the national selection first qualified for the summer games during the UNCAF tournament […]
