Charlie McIntosh Kills Home Invader
He has been robbed more times than he can count and last night Ladyville businessman Charlie McIntosh had enough. He shot and killed an intruder who waylaid him inside his home. Darrel Hyde - a resident of Burrell Boom - had broken into McIntosh's home and attacked him with a hammer. But McIntosh fought back...
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Judge Rejects Robert Gillett's Guilty Plea for Killing Maid with Samurai Sword
He pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing a maid with a samurai sword but last week 18 year old Robert Gillett told a judge he didn't do it. And that's why today Justice Adolph Lucas rejected Gillett's guilty plea. But he wasn't free to go home because he will now stand trial for murder Gillett along with...
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Arsonist sentenced to 5 years in prison
In other court news, an American accused of arson has been found guilty and sentenced to spend five years in jail. Thirty-eight old Mauricio Banaza pleaded guilty to setting fire to his Mohammed Street apartment in December 2006, but Justice Adolph Lucas ordered that he undergo a psychiatric evaluation...
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Taxes on fuel going down, but still significant
You don't have to be a taxi driver to know that whatever you're driving, the price to fill up the tank has never been higher. Ten fifty-nine for a gallon of premium, ten forty-five for regular, nine seventy-two for kerosene and nine sixty-one for diesel, the crucial fuel which propels the economy. And while government...
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Female Cross Country Moved to May 25th
"This year the race is going to be on the 25th of May. The reason for the change was that originally they had scheduled the agricultural show for this weekend here which is Mother's Day weekend. Unfortunately when we got information of the change we had already discussed it with the females and their training schedule...
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The First Biography of Sir Colville Youn
As Governor General, Sir Colville Young represents Belize's head of state, but did you know that he also has a razor sharp wit and a snappy sense of humour? Or that he's written poems, plays and musical pieces? Well all that is revealed in the first biography of Sir Colville. It is written by U.S. university professor...
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CitCo promotes healthy life styles with fair
"Today what we'd like to do is to educate the children on the different things that the Belize Human Society offers to the Belize City area, promoting our new animal shelter at mile four and a half on the Western Highway, located on the City Council compound. We do, do adoptions and rehabilitations out of that shelter...
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Student poetry contest focuses on child abuse
Sexual abuse is one of those sensitive issues rarely discussed in our society. But that culture of silence has allowed the crime to damage the lives of thousands of Belizeans. One of the local organisations trying to break the cycle of abuse through awareness is Youth Enhancement Services. One of the YES' initiatives...
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Zebedee Feeding the Needy
He is known as one of the best Belizean bakers in Belize City but what you may not know about seventy seven year old Zebedee Pitterson, the owner of Sunny Side Bakery on Racecourse Street, is that for thirteen years he has been quietly serving the less fortunate especially primary school children who go hungry during...
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