On yesterday’s newscast we reported on the last minute rush of applicants for Belizean citizenship, with the expectation that they would quickly go and register to vote. Last night in San Ignacio an attempt to monitor that registration process was met with more than just a verbal protest. Patrick Jones reports. According to S.E.N. TV […]
Meanwhile, back at the Immigration Department in Belmopan, we continued our efforts to find out exactly what was going on yesterday, as a large crowd of immigrants sought to complete their paperwork for citizenship. Immigration Director Merlene Martinez, who was out of the office at the time our news team was present on Tuesday morning, […]
If you haven’t registered by now you’re almost certainly not going to be able to vote on August twenty seventh, as registration officials will be working hard tonight simply to process the applications already in hand. But while the process is nearing an end, Chief Elections Officer Urban Reyes acknowledged that the people who administer […]
We didn’t really need the press release, but today SPEAR and the Chamber of Commerce made it official. There are not going to be any political debates — at least not with the two NGOs as sponsors. As we have reported previously, it became apparent that neither the P.U.P. nor the U.D.P. were really enthusiastic […]
While the election campaign continues to intensify, at least two of the major players on the government side will be taking a few days off from the mayhem to attend to affairs of state. Foreign Minister Dean Barrow left today and Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel will depart tomorrow for a summit of leaders from Central […]
It’s been a festering sore point in relations between the United States and Belize… that is, the perception that local law enforcement authorities were not as tough as they should be in the war against narcotics. But aside from criticism, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is also offering a helping hand. A two-day seminar on […]
In times of peace prepare for war. That’s what many primary school teachers are doing this summer. But this war, according to News Five’s Arreini Palacio, may be a beneficial one. Come this September, learning ABC’s and 123’s in Belize District primary schools will be a little bit more fun for students. Over one hundred […]
If you took a poll to name the most admired women in the Caribbean the name of Billie Miller of Barbados would likely be somewhere near the top of the list. And if you changed the word “women” to “people” the result just might be the same. Miller was in Belize today to lend support […]
