Authorities on both sides of the Belize-Guatemala border continue their search for a group of armed bandits who terrorized motorists along the Hummingbird Highway last Saturday. Local intelligence gathering mechanisms are operating at maximum overdrive, and authorities say it is only a matter of time before the suspects are hauled in. Earlier this week, a […]
Representatives of various indigenous groups were today given the opportunity to break bread with visiting Nobel Peace Prize Winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum. As Julietta Burrowes reports, the forum was an informal breakfast in Belize City. In her breakfast meeting at the Radisson, Rigoberta Menchu Tum met with leaders and representatives of various indigenous groups and […]
The Belize Electricity Limited has reported the implementation of a program of controlled blackouts that will be carried out over the next couple of days. A company press release says the move is necessary to make up for an unexpected shortfall in electricity production. According to the release, the problem started last week when one […]
The recognition of Belize by Guatemala as a sovereign nation earlier this decade was a major breakthrough in the centuries old dispute between the two countries. While the claim to Belizean territory still lingers, there continues to be steady stream back and forth across the border by citizens of both countries. But not all the […]
