There was much fanfare at the ground-breaking for a Carnival Cruise ship terminal in Belize City last week. At that event Prime Minister Said Musa went on record that he sees no clash between the Fort Street Tourism Village owned by Royal Caribbean and the soon to be Carnival port. In fact, he assured both […]
Today the Ministry of Health is being cautiously optimistic following the results of a study conducted on HIV and AIDS over the past five years in Belize. According to Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Edwards, they have noticed there was a decrease in the rate of increase of new HIV infections and they hope that the finding […]
It’s a sentence that’s on just about every brochure about Belize…forty-two percent of our natural resources are protected. And although numerous studies have been conducted to highlight that fact, there has never been an effort to put together a protected areas policy and system plan to ensure that Belize’s resources are being properly managed…that is […]
A woman has been hospitalized after being shot while on her veranda on Yarborough Road in Belize City. On Tuesday night Jacklyn Williams and her nephew, nineteen year old Godfrey Hemsley, were outside around eight when two men approached the house. One of the men raised a handgun and fired a total of nine shots, […]
With the assistance of the public, Orange Walk police have arrested a man in connection with a fatal hit and run accident on the Northern Highway. Twenty-six year old Henry Garcia of Sarteneja Village was charged today with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, driving without due care and attention, failure to stop […]
The Novelo’s Bus company and its multi-million dollar fiasco with D.F.C. has largely faded from the public spotlight, but a recent incident which took a number of the company’s buses out of commission is a stark reminder that the Novelo’s bankruptcy has not been forgotten–at least not by one malicious person, or persons. Patrick Jones […]
