After several months of waiting for each side to deliver a surprise knockout blow in the form of imagined scandal or unsubstantiated accusation, it appears tonight that both major political parties have hunkered down to spend the final thirty six hours in determined house to house campaigning accompanied by massive salvos of television and radio […]
To test some of Palacio’s theories and see just what Belizeans are thinking, this morning I hit the scorching streets of Belize City. With less than two days to go before elections, many of Belize’s voters have still not made up their minds. But the law of certainty over a candidate doesn’t mean they don’t […]
He may be in the middle of the biggest race in his political career, but until the results are announced on Thursday night, Jose Coye is still the Mayor of Belize City. And on the eve of the election, the council is headed for another showdown with Central Government. In a letter dated August seventeenth […]
In other political news, as the twenty-nine races go down to the wire some candidates are turning to increasingly imaginative tactics. On Sunday evening, U.D.P. Fort George standard bearer Derek Aikman hired a plane to drop leaflets in the area of his campaign rally. While some of the papers, which contained negative propaganda about his […]
While on the subject of political tactics we are taking the opportunity, at the behest of the Elections and Boundaries Commission, to inform all agents working for the various political parties and candidates that on election day absolutely no electronic communication device, bottles, glass containers or weapons of any type shall be allowed into the […]
And in one more reminder, we’d like to alert viewers and those outside of Belize who catch this newscast on the Internet, that our live coverage on election night, in conjunction with Love FM, will also be available on the worldwide web. Just tell your friends to go to Channel5Belize.com and click on the link […]
While some students are heading back to the classrooms this week, eight youths are leaving classes after a year of studies. The Conscious Youth Development Programme is holding graduation ceremonies at the Bliss Institute this evening, for students successful in this year’s Literacy Program. The program, which started in 1995, is offered as a part […]
Belizeans will not be the only ones celebrating the Bicentennial anniversary of the Battle of St. George’s Caye. Grupo TACA has gotten into the festive mood and today announced new fares for the September Celebrations. The thirty day excursion tickets, dubbed two hundred for two hundred, will be available from August twenty-sixth to September thirtieth. […]
It was a night of charm, grace and wit Saturday at the Fiesta Inn as seven young ladies vied for the title of Miss Belize. When the final two hours of the week long competition were over, the judges decided which of the bevy of the Belizean beauties should wear the sash and crown. Third […]
A fire this morning has destroyed a house in Belize City. The home, at number twenty-four Usher Street was owned by Adeline Ottley and occupied by her daughter Yvonne. Neither the building, nor its contents were insured and total damage is estimated at around twenty-five thousand dollars. There is no word yet on the cause […]
While one house was destroyed by fire this morning, some homeowners in the Faber’s Road extension area got some welcome news this afternoon. Port Loyola standard bearer for the U.D.P., Boots Martinez presided over a brief ceremony where roughly sixty families were informed that the mortgages on their homes have been reduced, in some cases […]
And while we were talking to Boots, we couldn’t help but ask for his comments on the subject of racism which has surfaced late in the campaign, compliments of fellow standard bearer, Hubert Elrington. While Boots obviously didn’t want the issue to intrude on his campaign, he did manage a better explanation than other politicians […]
