It was a truce that was never meant to last…but the Christmas-New Year’s lull in Belize’s ongoing political wars has officially ended. With the House of Representative scheduled to meet on Friday and Speaker B.Q. Pitts ready to pass sentence on P.U.P. Leader Said Musa, government has cranked up its taxpayer funded propaganda machine and […]
In crime news police in Toledo have a “whodunit” on their hands in the village of San Pedro Columbia. All they know is that early Monday morning they were called to the house of thirty-four year old Jose Pop. Lying face down in a drain in front of that house they found the body of […]
She died last year from a bullet wound to the head from her boyfriend’s 38 caliber pistol. Today the case against that boyfriend, twenty-six year old Francis Vasquez, reached a conclusion as he pled guilty to the crime of death by careless conduct. Friends of Emmanuel, citing a history of physical abuse at the hands […]
If you are among the many Belizeans along the coast who looked skyward on Saturday and saw the menacing silhouette of 3 huge strange looking helicopters, you can now breathe a little easier. The choppers were not part of any invasion force. According to the Defense Ministry the three Chinook helicopters belonging to the U.S. […]
Over the next six months representatives from the Department of Women’s Affairs, The National Women’s Commission and other groups from throughout the country will embark on a study which will assess the opportunities for women’s political leadership in Belize. According to Women’s Commission President Kathy Esquivel, when you look at just how under represented women […]
In what could only be described as a happy ending Guyana’s major political parties have agreed to compromise in an election dispute which threatened to cripple the beleaguered South American nation. Brokered by a three man Caricom mediation team, the agreement specifies that new elections will be called at the end of three years, instead […]
The organization is more frequently associated with preventing abuse of children, promoting infant nutrition and advancing the rights of the child. But today UNICEF got involved with some older kids, who find themselves on the wrong side of the law. The UNICEF donation of woodworking tools to the Youth Enhancement Academy comes at a time […]
But the Youth Enhancement Academy is not the only arm of the Department of Corrections that is looking to advance its future. The entire facility is attempting to change its image and is starting from within. The first of a series of in-service training courses for prison wardens began Monday at Price Barracks in Ladyville. […]
