He is the Minister of Finance but until today Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel had kept a low public profile on the new tax that he plans to impose on business people. But in a marathon meeting held this morning at the Biltmore, the P.M. broke his silence and stood toe to toe with some of […]
The Western Highway was a deadly place for road users this week. Fifty-two year old Orlando Sosa of Belmopan is the third victim of a traffic fatality on that road in as many days. According to police, Sosa was attempting to cross the highway in Roaring Creek Village around seven thirty Thursday night when he […]
Yesterday we reported on the erection of new traffic lights in two places along Central American Boulevard. Today we noticed that some of those lights are now functioning… and found that the intersection at Mahogany Street is one big accident waiting to happen. Standing at the busy intersection at the corner of Central American Boulevard […]
Football fans who want to follow their favorite teams this weekend will have no shortage of action as the closet thing to local favorites — Mexico and Jamaica — will be playing their inaugural matches. On Saturday morning our northern neighbor takes on South Korea at nine thirty while Sunday afternoon at one the Reggae […]
We’ve been wondering when News Five commentator G. Michael Reid would take a break from the City Centre and basketball to cast his watchful eye on the state of the treasury. Tonight he has the last word on a familiar topic: taxes. “There is an old adage, which suggest that nothing in this world is […]
