It was not the grand televised affair envisioned by SPEAR and the Chamber of Commerce but the ninety-minute prime ministerial debate broadcast last night on Love FM was not too bad a substitute. Party leaders Manuel Esquivel and Said Musa took turns throwing punches and how many actually landed, is of course, a matter of […]
Just when we thought the election campaign couldn’t get any more interesting, we were proven wrong. Like a crab after a rainstorm, a new party has emerged from the political muck and declared “count me in”. The Belize National Party, formed just this past Sunday, is headed by Leonard Brackett. While the B.N.P. will not […]
And speaking of big announcements, the one just reaching this desk is right up there with the biggest. The official release will be published on Monday but we are reliably informed that another veteran political activist has decided to jump head first into the deep end of the electoral pool. Nicholas Pollard Senior, former labor […]
While there is no major crime news to report tonight a postmortem has confirmed that a death in Belize City early Wednesday morning, was not the result of a criminal act, just a tragic one. Dr. Mario Estradabran has concluded that fisherman David Mejia, whose body was found outside a Pickstock Street rum depot, died […]
Word has been received from California that a Belizean has been killed in a helicopter crash. Thirty year old Jose Castillo of Corozal had been working for the last five years as a power and airframe mechanic for Heavy Lift Helicopters of Apple Valley, California. Late last month he was among a number of Heavy […]
It’s a constituency that is probably the most affluent in the nation, as it includes the tourism havens of San Pedro and Caye Caulker. It is being contested by a man and a woman, who, although well known in their community, are nonetheless newcomers to the national political scene. Earlier this week the P.U.P.’s Patty […]
Most of the weird events we’ve been experiencing over the last few months have been related to the ongoing political campaign… but this afternoon we were called to look at an occurrence that seems to have come right out of — not the voter registration files — but the X Files. Patrick Jones investigated. Residents […]
The next two big events on many people’s calendars are the general elections on August twenty seventh and the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of St. George’s Caye exactly two weeks later. In tonight’s commentary, News Five’s G. Michael Reid manages to look at both. “Politics, as it has for the past half century […]
