It’s really just a technical process that involves getting six voters to nominate you, and paying a two hundred dollar deposit. But in Belizean politics no opportunity to show off is ever squandered, so both the major political parties and a few of their smaller brethren turned nomination day into a major photo opportunity for […]
Now for the actual details of the nominations. The official list has just been handed to me and you’re getting them at just the same time I am. Mesopotamia U.D.P. – Michael Finnegan P.U.P. – Ray Lightburn P.D.P. – Lisburn Peters Caribbean Shores U.D.P. – Manuel Esquivel P.U.P. – Jose Coye P.D.P. – Marilyn Pollard […]
In crime news a forty-eight year old farmer from Biscayne Village is the latest Belizean to die on the nation’s highways. Police report that Gilbert Lamb was found around ten thirty Saturday night lying in a pool of blood near mile twenty-two and a half on the Northern Road. He was pronounced dead on arrival […]
Another man named Lamb is in the news tonight, not as a crime victim but as an alleged perpetrator. According to police reports seventeen year old Kirk Lamb was attending a wedding reception Sunday night at the Ex-Servicemen’s League in Belize City when he became involved in an argument with one Marlon Blades. The controversy […]
Another Belize City man has been arrested, in this case for robbery. Police have charged Kelvin Francis, a twenty-five year old mechanic of Pink’s Alley, in connection with an incident which occurred Saturday morning on East Collet Canal. Nineteen year old fisherman Linford Ramclam told police that two men approached him around eleven a.m., one […]
On Sunday morning the gym at Landivar will be the venue for an historic event, as sixty-three Belizeans, whose names are now running on your screen, will see their hard work rewarded with the bestowing of Master’s Degrees in Education from the University of North Florida. The special program between the U.S. university and U.C.B. […]
It is one of the finest natural beaches in the entire country… but virtually nobody — inside or outside Belize — knows about it. That may begin to change, however, thanks to a project financed by the British High Commission. On Friday High Commissioner Tim David will inaugurate a new jetty and boardwalk at Punta […]
They are among the biggest names in Orange Walk and are increasingly prominent on a national level. But come August twenty seventh either Johnny Briceño or Ruben Campos will have his political career rudely interrupted. Patrick Jones had a chat with each of them. Ruben Campos, U.D.P., Orange Walk Central “My central theme is about […]
