It’s a post that doesn’t pay particularly well, involves six or seven day workweeks and makes far more enemies than friends. But the job of Director of Tourism is a crucial one in an industry that many see as Belize’s best hope for economic salvation. Today we are reliably informed that the person chosen as […]
In other government news the press briefing issued following yesterday’s Cabinet meeting reveals a number of proposals for future action. Chief among them was the formation of a committee to review the logging licenses granted to Malaysian companies in the Toledo District. The body will be comprised of one representative each from the Ministry of […]
In crime news, some highly creative accounting has landed a twenty-four year old San Pedro clerk in a whole heap of trouble. Police on the island are accusing Ruth Guerra of embezzling over fifty six thousand dollars from the Island Marketers Gas Station between August and September. Here is how it allegedly happened. Guerra, who […]
In Orange Walk, police have caught up with one of three men who held up a grocery shop last month. On September twenty-sixth, the trio, one armed with a knife and another with a gun, are reported to have entered Margarita Salazar’s grocery shop in Orange Walk Town and ordered soft drinks. One of the […]
They have taken their share of criticism over the years as well as experienced a few moments of glory. Today the National Fire Service got some recognition and a bit of needed assistance. The donation did not include any fire fighting equipment but according to fire chief, Henry Baizar, the gift, of a computer and […]
The epidemic known as crime does not seem to have any respect for our most revered institutions and traditions. This morning I visited a place where some heartless criminals are threatening to steal something so valuable that we had assumed it was thief-proof: an education. Since 1995, the students of All Saints School have been […]
It is a building that seemed cursed from the day the first pile was driven for its misplaced foundation. Almost two decades later the Belize City Centre still has its share of woes. Patrick Jones has more. Patrick Jones “From the outside, it looks like a pretty good facility. But appearances don’t always tell the […]
