A new Mayor for Belize City might be in place by the end of the holiday weekend. Reports reaching News Five late this evening indicate that an official legal opinion on whether or not to allow absent Councilor Eric Kirkwood to vote by proxy was sought by the council and that a verdict has been […]
For a month or so before the elections it was a hot item on the Internet. That is a claim by a U.S. company that it had signed a deal with the Esquivel administration to provide government guaranteed mortgage financing to build thousands of Belizean homes. Authorities at the time denied such reports and issued […]
In a follow up to a story in yesterday’s newscast, it turns out that at the very moment we were reporting that Denvor Willoughby was yet to turn himself in, he was in fact languishing behind bars on Queen Street. Police picked up the twenty-two year old, who was wanted for questioning in connection with […]
In related news, anyone who has ever spent the night in the Queen Street lockup or its big brother up the road in Hattieville, knows that conditions there are not terribly different from the dungeons of the Middle Ages. And if there is one person who has consistently spoken out against the state of the […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway on Wednesday night has claimed the life of a Belize City man. Forty six year old Bruce Shaw was knocked down and killed as he walked on the road between miles seven and eight, shortly after seven o’clock last night. According to police, the driver of the truck, […]
In political news, today’s issue of the “People’s Pulse” can be considered a collector’s item. No, not because it won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism… rather because after this week the official newspaper of the United Democratic Party, like its predecessor the “Beacon,” will be no more. In a press release issued today the U.D.P. […]
We last saw it in 1995 when a record summer heat wave was responsible for the phenomenon known as coral bleaching. Now, according to reports received by the Fisheries Department, the same symptoms seem to be coming back in the wake of the current high temperatures in Belize. Coral bleaching is the term given to […]
Late this evening, Terusuke Terada, the Japanese Ambassador to Belize, signed two separate contracts totaling twenty two thousand U.S. dollars with the Community Home Economics Centre of the St. Mary’s Women’s Group and the St. John’s College Music Education Introduction project. The agreements, are among eleven given to N.G.O.s and institutions under Japan’s Grant Assistance […]
First it was “Hard Time, Ketch and Kill.” Now the self styled bachelor of antics is at it again, only this time Jim Arnold has ventured into the publishing business. His first book, a collection of Creole and English poems titled: “Just For You,” is available at bookstores in Belize City. Arnold says his book […]
It may be a long three months until Christmas but it’s not too early to start thinking of gifts. This morning we visited the Commercial Centre in Belize City and found that a number of artisans are urging customers to “think Belizean”. The exhibition displays a number of art and craft works created by a […]
