And in Guyana a severe drought continues to threaten that nation’s agricultural sector, particularly the growing of rice. The C.B.U.’s Barry Collymore has more. Rice farmers in Guyana could lose as much as twelve million United States dollars if the current dry spell affecting the country continues for much longer. This assessment was given today […]
A new artist is displaying his works at the Belisle Art Gallery in Belize City. Patrick Jones stopped by for a look. They are the work of an up and coming artist … and what they lack in color the paintings of Omar Sanchez-Rivera, make up for in originality. Omar Sánchez-Rivera, Artist “The messages are […]
In local crime news the police say that there is nothing of note to report but in Trinidad and Tobago the nation is reeling from a double suicide that is straight out of “Romeo and Juliet”. When two teenaged lovers did not receive the blessing of their parents they decided that life was no longer […]
A ship full of men arrived in Belize City last night but before anyone gets excited, this one was not like the last… It uses sails instead of an engine. Six days after it pulled up anchor in San Andres, Colombia, that country’s classic sailing vessel, the “A.R.C Gloria” arrived in Belize late Tuesday night. […]
The environmental organization Greenpeace reports that the British flagged freighter “Pacific Swan” has entered the Caribbean Sea with a controversial cargo of nuclear waste. It is scheduled to transit the Panama Canal on February sixth, on its way from France to Japan. CARICOM and several Latin American nations have protested the shipment and Greenpeace has […]
On Monday evening officials gathered at Hattieville Prison to formally dedicate the latest addition to the chronically overcrowded facility. News Five’s Patrick Jones discovered that it wasn’t only the prisoners who are short of space. While Prison authorities have been working steadily to improve living conditions for close to nine hundred inmates at Hattieville, today […]
It was one of the most tragic stories this station has ever reported: an innocent little girl, playing in her yard, suddenly struck down by a gunshot. Over the last several days, however, the story has become a happy one. As I discovered this morning, the victim is making a remarkable recovery. Looking at eleven […]
News has been received of the death of Rewachand Budhrani. Better known as Raul, Budhrani was the owner of Starlight store and president of the Indian Community of Belize. He settled here in the early 1970’s and was instrumental in founding the country’s first Hindu temple, on Albert Street. He died in his sleep of […]
Another man who can trace his ancestry to India is in the news tonight. He is well known Belizean jurist George Singh, and in a ceremony this morning in Belmopan he was sworn in as the nation’s Chief Justice. Singh, who replaces the retired Sir George Brown, attended the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica […]
Also buried today was former Chamber of Commerce General Manager Hugh Fuller. Fuller died of a brain aneurysm on Tuesday evening. His interment was the first at Homeland Memorial Park, the new private cemetery at mile seven and a half on the Western Highway.
There is good news this week for the people of Trinidad and Tobago. The Amoco Trinidad Oil Company has announced a record petroleum find some thirty five miles southeast of the main island. Company officials say that the discovery, which they estimate at between forty and seventy million barrels, is the biggest in twenty five […]
The history of the Garifuna people and their struggles has been well documented over the years. But there remains no shortage of people wanting to take just one more look at their remarkable survival. “Journey On,” researched and written by Orange Walk native Nelita Doherty, is the latest publication to tackle the issue. Doherty told […]
An active member of Belize’s business community has passed away. Hugh Fuller Jr. was an accountant by profession who served as General Manager of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry during its high flying years of U.S.A.I.D sponsorship. Fuller, who was 47, suffered from heart problems and died Tuesday evening shortly after being rushed […]
In other news from Belmopan, Evadney Garcia, head of government’s geology and petroleum unit, has been retired in the interest of the service. Her dismissal comes as the result of charges that she breached financial regulations and acted in insubordination to the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Transport. The charges were […]
After many years of dormancy, a copyright bill appears ready to be reintroduced into law, as part of government’s efforts to uphold its obligations as a member of the World Trade Organization. But does the mere passage of legislation guarantee an end to piracy? Trinidad and Tobago Television hit the streets of Port of Spain […]
