Talking about ten thousand houses and fifteen thousand jobs is a lot easier than actually doing something to transform these campaign promises into reality. Today, at ceremonies marking the opening of classes at the Center for Employment Training in Belize City, officials made it clear that it’s their intention to form solid linkages between the […]
from monthly government subsidies while at the same time competing with private sector broadcasters, will simply be shut down and its assets sold. Of prime concern to government in carrying out this process is to help the over thirty B.C.B. employees to find new jobs and to ensure that existing operations will fill the vacuum […]
In other government news today’s weekly Cabinet briefing reported that a number of decisions were reached at Tuesday’s meeting of that body. Among them are plans to reopen the farmers and small business bank created late in the last P.U.P. administration, and the upgrading of the post of Chief of Staff at the Karl Heusner […]
A Belizean student from Toledo has won a four year undergraduate scholarship at Queen’s University in Canada. Celestino Oh, from San Pedro Columbia, was the fourth person from the Caribbean this year to receive the Scotiabank Merit Scholarship. A release from the bank says Oh was given the scholarship for his outstanding academic achievement, including […]
Two years after they were charged with stealing and conspiracy to steal close to seventy thousand dollars from the Water and Sewerage Authority, James Castillo, Paul Elliot, Clayton Arzu and Anette Gongora, all former employees of WASA, were today acquitted of all charges by Chief Magistrate, Herbert Lord. According to Lutchman Sooknandan, one of the […]
In other court news Justice George Meerabux has resigned from his recently awarded seat on the Belize Court of Appeal. Meerabux had been appointed on August twenty sixth as kind of an alternate judge of the court at the same time that Justice George Singh was appointed to the substantive post. The reason cited for […]
In the American media the damage has been overshadowed by its continuing threat to U.S. territories and mainland, but several islands of the Eastern Caribbean were severely battered by Hurricane Georges. The pictures on your screen are from Antigua, where the storm killed two people and severely injured five. Two thousand Antiguans are homeless, electricity […]
You’ve seen his work on this newscast before, but as I discovered this morning, artist Alex Sanker just keeps getting better and better. In the five years that Alex Sanker has been painting, there has been a tremendous improvement in this artist’s work. According to the artist, while he does not believe he has reached […]
September is the month in which Belizeans are asked to examine their attitude toward history… and for many that means deciding how close an ancestry to claim to those dashing figures known as the Baymen. But, as this next story demonstrates, not all the Baymen remained on this side of the Atlantic. Many — minus […]
