The report was submitted on Monday to the Prime Minister, but according to the P.M.’s office copies will not be provided to the media until Wednesday afternoon. So all we have to go on is a government press release, which supposedly summarizes what the report has to say. “The report,” of course, is that made […]
In more news from the campaign trail, the National Alliance for Belizean Rights has released its slate of candidates for next month’s elections. Most prominent on the list is Gilda Lewis in the Albert division. Lewis will attempt to follow in the footsteps of the party’s founder and leader Philip Goldson, who is retiring from […]
Two weeks after the assault on cameraman Emil Rodriguez, at the hands of Inesita Fernandez, daughter of U.D.P. candidate Salvador Fernandez, another Cayo resident has formally lodged a complaint against a relative of a U.D.P candidate. Michael Juan, the nephew of Eduardo ‘Dito’ Juan, U.D.P Standard Bearer for Cayo Central, was questioned by San Ignacio […]
With over four thousand, four hundred voters it’s the largest constituency in Belize City. It’s two major candidates, both first timers, have been working the division for several years. Tonight as part of our continuing series on “Elections ’98” News Five’s Patrick Jones takes a look at the political progress in Port Loyola. Dolores Balderamos […]
During the last several months many Belizeans have wrestled with the question of whether they should register to vote. Others, who have registered, are still trying to decide whether or not to actually cast a ballot. On his trip to Corozal on Monday, Patrick Jones ran into a man on a mission to get every […]
In Belize we are all too familiar with illness, and the ability or inability our medical system to restore and maintain our health. But as anyone who has ever endured a lengthy illness can attest, the process of recovery is an intensely personal experience. So it has been with Orlando Chavarria. His name was once […]
