There’s good news and bad news out of Maracaibo, Venezuela tonight, where a Belizean delegation is taking part in the Caribbean and Central American Games. The good news is that the highly touted men’s basketball team has finally won its first game, and as a result will qualify for the final round. The bad news […]
While the prognosis for Belizean basketballers remains guarded, government claims that the state of the nation’s health is ready to improve. This is thanks to plans for reform which were unveiled this morning at the Radisson. Patrick Jones reports. The five hundred-page draft report on health care reform is the culmination of four years of […]
At the center of government’s plan to overhaul the health system is the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. After months of washing the facility’s dirty laundry in public, doctors at the three year old institution have succeeded in ousting the medical chief of staff. The doctors say they were not happy with the way Dr. Hugh […]
In crime news police in Belmopan have determined that two men who claimed they were robbed were in fact the robbers themselves. On Saturday night, twenty nine year old Guatemalan Obidio Gudiel, a watchman for Belize Western Energy in Belmopan, told police that four armed men held up his father, Feliciano Gudiel, and escaped with […]
A former senator, newspaper columnist and political activist has died. Rolando Perdomo, who served as a P.U.P. appointed senator from 1989 to 1993, passed away on Sunday in Mexico City where he was being treated for cancer. The sixty year old Perdomo was perhaps best known for his five years as author of the column […]
Returning to Belize last Friday were five members of the Scout Association of Belize. The young men and women, who come from various scout groups in Belize City and Cayo, spent eight days in Taiwan participating in activities marking the twentieth Asia/Pacific and the eighth Scouts of China Jamboree. According to the group’s leader, Orlando […]
He first won the seat in a bye-election occasioned by the bankruptcy of former representative Derek Aikman, and then went on to repeat convincingly in the general election of 1993. Now a seasoned veteran, the P.U.P.’s Jorge Espat is facing a challenge from newcomer Marisa Quan, whose only electoral experience came as a candidate for […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve guessed it right, it’s another portion of Sports Monday. And we take you out to yesterday’s CONCACAF Cup Winners cup showdown at the People’s Stadium where national champion Juventus played host to Municipal of Guatemala. The 2 combatants enter the arena and fans gleam a bit of professional […]
