In other news from the frontier we are reliably informed that action will soon be taken to remove illegal Guatemalan residents from a settlement they now inhabit in Belize. Under an agreement with the Guatemalan government a team from the International Organisation on Migration will conduct a survey of the community at Edwards Central in […]
Any owner of a new vehicle knows it was bound to happen… but it still hurts just the same. One of those shiny new Mercedes Benz busses got mashed up this morning. The accident happened just before eight on the Western Highway when a Novelos Executive bus ran into the back of a trailer loaded […]
People who travel in the south of the country will be happy to hear that two new projects will make life on the road a little less bumpy and dusty. Minister of Works Henry Canton today signed two contracts under the Feeder Roads Rehabilitation Project. The first, with Albert Reimer of Valley Ranch Enterprise, was […]
Last time it was the Mr. Nice Guy competition and now the same organizers have planned a pageant in which nine contestants from Gwen Liz, E.P. Yorke and YWCA will vie for the title of Miss Southside. Pageant Organizer Mark Jenkins says that the young ladies are ready for an entertaining night. Mark Jenkins, Pageant […]
Princess Anne will be visiting Belize next month. Her itinerary has not been released, but the dates are April seventeenth through twentieth and her visit is part of a larger tour to El Salvador, Honduras, Dominica and Bermuda. She last came this way in the 1980’s and paid a visit to the Belize Zoo, a […]
In San Pedro this afternoon Prime Minister Said Musa broke ground for a new campus for St. Matthew’s Medical University. The offshore U.S. operated med. school has been operating out of rented premises since 1997 and the construction represents a significant commitment to the institution’s future in Belize. Seven Belizean students, all on scholarships, attend […]
They have come under increasing pressure for incompetence, brutality and corruption, but today the Police Department recovered at least a few square centimeters of lost public relations ground. News 5’s Jose Sanchez reports from Belmopan. Jose Sanchez “For the past few months police were unable to crack the two cases of stolen ammunition and high […]
Another taxi driver has been found shot to death. This time it’s thirty-five year old Nigerian, Tayo David Anjorin of Campus Avenue in Belize City. Police say on Thursday Anjorin’s common-law wife Margaret Miller reported that the day before Anjorin left their home around six-fifteen a.m. in his blue Toyota Corolla taxi and had not […]
An eighty-two year old grandmother and three grandchildren are homeless after a fire on Saturday gutted their house on West Street in Belize City. Doris Adolphus declined to appear on camera, but did describe the tragic events of that morning. Doris Adolphus, Fire Victim “I was washing upstairs in my bathroom, using the washing machine. […]
If you own a cellular phone or make calls to a cellular subscriber of the non-prepaid variety, you will soon see a dramatic reduction in your monthly bill. Belize Telecommunications Ltd. has announced that effective May first, the per minute rate will drop by twenty percent from eighty-five cents to seventy cents. Likewise, the discounted […]
Belizeans travelling to Mexico stand to benefit from increased diplomatic representation across the border. On Sunday a new Belize consulate was inaugurated in Chetumal by Prime Minister Said Musa. The office, Located at 91 Avenida Armada de Mexico, is manned by Consul General Rick Moguel and will be open daily from nine a.m. to one […]
Last month’s tourism figures are in and while the rate of increase has slowed, a record number of visitors continue to make Belize their destination of choice. Arrivals for February rose by three percent over one year earlier, which was itself a record month. In fact, every month since October 1999 has set a record […]
Over five thousand primary school students countrywide are preparing to sit the Primary School Examination, P.S.E., on May seventh. The Ministry of Education found it necessary to embark on a public information campaign to better prepare students, teachers and parents for the exam, which has replaced the twenty year old B.N.S.E. Permanent Secretary in the […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re in tuned with this offering of Sports Monday. Friday brought another big double header of Division I basketball at Bird’s Isle and we pick up the action late in the first half with M&M Christian Ambassadors boasting a ten point lead over Mirab. The Ambassadors extend the lead […]
Intense negotiations had been going on for a number of weeks, but today the contract was finally signed, sealed and delivered. The Water and Sewerage Authority is no more and in its place stands a private company, majority owned by foreign investors. The deal is part of government’s overall plan to divest itself of functions […]
A robbery attempt Thursday night in the heart of downtown Belize City resulted in a big surprise for one of the robbers. A group of masked gunmen entered Lavish store on the corner of Albert and Church Street shortly after seven. When they left, it was without one member of the gang. Girish Tekchandani, Store […]
Lavish was not the only Belize City business that was robbed on Thursday. About a quarter after six the Shell One-Stop Gas Station at the corner of Cemetery Road and Central American Boulevard was raided by at least twenty young men coming from the direction of Lord’s Ridge Cemetery. Leticia Ford, the gas station’s manager, […]
Negotiations between the Christian Workers Union and the Belize Ports Authority over wages and benefits for some seventy-five port workers are still at an impasse. Unionised workers called us out to the port on Thursday to complain that their two percent lump sum payment for April first to December thirty-first and their five percent increase […]
The Belize government may be out of the water business, but it’s still very much involved in ensuring that the water we purchase and drink is safe. The Ministry of Health and Pan American Health Organization are involved in a project to establish a national drinking water standard. Felipe Solsona from the Pan American Center […]
Vista Dance Studio, so named because of its location in the Vista Del Mar Area of Ladyville, stages its fourth annual dance recital Sunday at the Biltmore. Owner and former dancer Sistie Fairweather Harmes says the show affords the students an opportunity to show their talent while cultivating excellence. Sistie Fairweather Harmes, Owner, Vista Dance […]
Milk Clouds, the latest exhibition at the Image Factory, is the first local production for Santiago Cal. Now twenty-seven years old, Cal lived in Belmopan for many years before moving to the U.S. with his family in 1986. And from his studio in Nebraska, he has created sculptures he lovingly calls heads and ticks. As […]
The incidents of ineptitude have been spread over several administrations. There was the truckload of Guatemalan murderers who drove right past Belmopan on their easy ride to freedom; the heartbreaking failure to crack the case of a serial child killer in Belize City; and numerous well documented cases of police brutality leading in at least […]
A Belize City man has been charged with last weekend’s shooting death in Yabra. Twenty-two year old Guyanese national Hillaire Sears has been remanded to Hattieville for the murder of Rodwell Neal on Sunday morning. It is alleged that Sears shot Neal after Neal had beaten Sear’s girlfriend Cherrymae Howard. Howard has told Channel 5 […]
Close to seventy participants representing the Banana Growers Association, government, banana workers, trade unions and NGOs gathered at the Radisson this morning to find a way to avoid what appears to be a dismal future for one of Belize’s most important exports. Ann-Marie Williams reports. Ann-Marie Williams Today’s forum was sparked by “Fruit of Their […]
It’s a long running dispute that seems to boil over into public protest every few months. Today the Port employees belonging to the Christian Workers Union were once again on the march. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Some one hundred Port Authority workers are up in arms. They say their collective bargaining agreement for salary increases and […]
