The national referral hospital has resumed some services after certain areas had to be closed off due to a leaking roof. The K.H.M.H. Authority earlier today announced that specialists’ clinic services have resumed and that appointment are now being scheduled. A very brief release says that patients with appointments will now be treated. A team […]
There was also death and injury on the highways and by-ways, in both instances involving motorbikes. Truck driver forty-six-year-old Endhir Guerra of Orange Walk Town was found dead and decomposing between miles twenty-eight and twenty-nine on the Philip Goldson Highway in the bushes early on Good Friday. He still had on his motorcycle helmet and […]
According to Guatemalan newspaper El Periodico, a potential monkey wrench has been thrown into the plans for the April fifteenth referendum on taking the Belize-Guatemala claim to the International Court of Justice. Two Guatemalan men have filed a constitutional claim challenging the ratification by Congress of the December 2008 Special Agreement and its amendment in […]
The Senate wrapped up its deliberations on the General Revenue and Appropriation Bill very late last Wednesday. All the bills it has debated are now law, but several of them will continue to spark discussion even so. One example is amendments to the Immigration, Belizean Nationality and Passports Acts. These respectively speak to dividing the […]
Concerns were raised that dividing the Immigration Department as proposed in the bills could invite further mischief in a department already badly bruised by the 2011-2013 scandal discussed during last year’s Senate Special Select Committee public hearings. At those hearings, it was abundantly clear that the department had little in human resources to keep it […]
The twenty-first Commonwealth Games gets underway later tonight in the land “Down Under” – Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The Commonwealths are the second largest multi-sport event after the Olympics and held about halfway during each Olympiad. The Belize Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association has selected thirty-six-year-old cyclist, Alicia Thompson as Belize’s flag bearer for the […]
It has been said, only half-jokingly, that in Belize the Easter weekend is not as fun if a Belizean doesn’t win the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic. Indeed the nation’s longest-running sporting event, coming after the quiet of Good Friday, is the signal of a weekend of fun. So as eighty-plus Belizean riders took […]
