It may be the best kept secret in town, but as I speak tonight a new Mayor and Deputy Mayor are being elected at Belize City Hall. Although the contenders have managed to keep their campaigning for the top spot out of the public’s eye, indications are that the intra-party contest will be a fight […]
A traffic accident on private property off the Northern Highway Wednesday night has claimed the life of one man. Police reports say Cornelus Fehr was driving a tractor on Nova Shrimp Farm between miles twelve and thirteen around 7:00pm when he lost control of the vehicle and it overturned into a ditch. Fehr was trapped […]
In crime news the six U.S. students and their professor who yesterday pled guilty to exporting Mayan artifacts will not have to spend time behind bars. Working against the magistrate’s ultimatum to pay up today or go to Hattieville, the American visitors this morning presented the money to the Clerk of Magistrate’s Court in Belize […]
In political news a special sitting of the House of Representatives has been called for the morning of Wednesday, March eighteenth. It is believed that Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Manuel Esquivel will be presenting his government’s budget for the fiscal year which begins on April first. Since this is the last budget presentation […]
On Sunday the Sibun Watershed Association will be officially launching a project to promote the protection and sustainable development of the land and communities around the Sibun River. Armed with a U.N.D.P. grant of eighty thousand dollars, the group will look to strengthen its ability to manage the watershed, enhance bio-diversity and reverse those activities […]
If the people along the Sibun are concerned about threats to their flora and fauna, villagers in Seine Bight are tonight worrying about some unwanted visitors. For the last two weeks two jaguars have been roaming the area and residents are beginning to get edgy. The sightings were first made almost two weeks ago on […]
Unbeknownst to Belizean sporting fans, there has been an international weightlifting champion in the country since last December. Thirty four year old American David Karam, who has been studying at the Belize Medical College at Bally Gardens on the Northern Highway, is a three times World Champion Powerlifter. The athlete has also managed to beat […]
It may ultimately take the sudden death of a well known Belizean to shock the nation into safe sex, as no amount of education seems capable of slowing down the spread of AIDS in Belize. Authorities keep on fighting the good fight, however, as I discovered today at the Belize Institute of Management. The workshop […]
The news that visiting students were attempting to take Mayan artifacts out of the country did not surprise many Belizeans, who have long believed that foreign archeologists routinely export their best finds and show only the second rate stuff to government inspectors. While most visiting archeologists in fact would not dare to smuggle artifacts and […]
