The ongoing effort by Government to build a cruise ship terminal at the old Custom’s Wharf hit another snag today as the Supreme Court granted an injunction preventing the Minister of Natural Resources from transferring several parcels of land to the Belize Port Authority. The land in question, two properties belonging to the Belize Audubon […]
Belize City Mayor Jose Coye this morning presented his council’s budget for fiscal year 1998-1999, which began on April first. In his review of the last twelve months at City Hall, the Mayor said the council’s development program budget for last year was cut by fifty percent by Central Government resulting in the reduction and […]
One of the things that universities are supposed to do, in addition to holding classes, is to conduct research and publish it in books. In the case of our own University College of Belize, it’s taken a while, but the first of what will hopefully be many books, is hot off the U.C.B. press. This […]
Today Belize joins one hundred and ninety fellow members of the World Health Organization to observe World Health Day. This year’s theme for the occasion is one with which none of us could argue: “Let’s Work Together for Safe Motherhood”. This morning I attended a forum on the subject. The birth of a newborn baby […]
In the less than flourishing world of Belizean sport it is the one event that never fails to command the public’s unstinting support. Come Saturday morning, whether you are canoeing in Cayo, swimming in San Pedro or putting down beers in Placencia, chances are you will also be listening to the radio for news of […]
