It’s day two in the latest war of nerves and words between our two main political parties. And as usual the controversy boils down to how you want to look at it. The U.D.P. says that Marconi Matus is a liar. His specific statements about meetings with Manuel Esquivel have been proven false and thus […]
What a difference a week makes! This morning when a cruise ship dropped anchor in Belize City Harbor there were no protests, no police barricades, no vicious dogs—and if there were any gay men they kept it to themselves. The M.V. Sea Breeze discharged over six hundred passengers on a gloriously beautiful day at the […]
The Society for the Promotion of Education and Research, SPEAR, has teamed up with the Virginia based “For Children Incorporated,” to undertake a program of assistance to local Non-Governmental Organizations. Under the program, says SPEAR’s Support Director Dean Roches, used computers are re-built in the states and sent down to Belize fully equipped. After initial […]
The study of science is not a traditionally strong subject for most Belizean schools, perhaps because the job opportunities in scientific research here are so limited. But much of the success of science education has to do with the way it is taught. Earlier this week I accompanied a group of Belize City students and […]
There’s hardly a week that goes by without our receiving at least one missing person report, either from the police, a distraught family or both. Usually the missing person turns out to be a rebellious teenager or a wayward spouse…who is soon reunited–or at least located–by relieved relatives. But the story we bring you tonight […]
