They have established a trend by naming their pronouncements after various meeting rooms at the Radisson Fort George Hotel, which are themselves derived from the names of popular ancient Maya sites. Hence today’s gathering of tourism interests produced the Caracol Declaration, not to be confused with last year’s Lamanai Declaration. But whatever you call it, […]
While those in the tourism industry try to hammer out a unified position, one group involved in the business of conservation says it is prepared to fight to the bitter end for what it believes is rightfully theirs. In May of 1993, the Belize Audubon Society was issued a title for the land and building […]
It may not be as flagrant a violation as the twice reported dumping of raw medical waste in residential areas, but the pile of debris, dumped and burn today on the old Western Highway near the Burdon Canal Bridge, is still a danger. After receiving a call from a concerned viewer I traveled to the […]
Monday’s official release by the U.D.P. that it will hold formal talks with Derek Aikman on his political future have aroused a wide range of opinions and emotions on both sides of the political fence. While Aikman himself has not publicly commented on the meeting, scheduled for Thursday, his political opponents have pointed out that […]
When the eruption of the Montserrat volcano drove a medical school on that island to temporarily relocate at Belize’s Biltmore Plaza Hotel, it raised a storm of controversy between government and Belizean doctors. That school eventually moved elsewhere, but unknown to many Belizeans a much smaller and lower profile institution has grown up almost directly […]
