It was a bloody murder done execution style in broad daylight at a gas station in downtown Belize City, just a few yards away from a primary school packed with children. Today, one year after the shooting death of Urbano Allen the trigger man is finally brought to justice. A somewhat haggard looking Juan Ramirez […]
An investigating team was sent today to the crash site of a B.D.F. Defender aircraft. The twin engine plane was on reconnaissance patrol over the Orange Walk District when it experienced engine problems around two p.m. yesterday. The pilot, Second Lieutenant Jose Lopez was forced to set the plane down in a swamp some five […]
A delegation of Belizeans has returned from Washington where they sought U.S. support for a proposed European banana agreement. The four-member team, led by Minister of Agriculture Dan Silva, formed part of a CARICOM delegation led by Prime Minister Edison James of Dominica. While the U.S. still objects to the proposal by the European Union […]
In political news one of Belize’s minor electoral forces, that is the People’s Democratic Party, today announced the names of its recently elected party officials. According to a release, at a meeting which occurred on September fourth, P.D.P. members gathered in the wake of their crushing electoral defeat and voted in a new slate of […]
The Conscious Youth Development Programme which has up to this point addressed the needs of young men is now reaching out to their female counterparts. C.Y.D.P. is holding a job training workshop for fourteen young women at the Lord’s Bank Community Center. C.Y.D.P. says the workshop, which runs until Friday, is designed to give the […]
You don’t have to take out a huge bank loan and wait months and months for workers to build your dream home. Not if you are willing to downsize your dreams a bit and put your trust in a group of willing Centre for Employment training students. Patrick Jones reports on an innovative program that […]
It hasn’t even been six months, but to most of us — whether we walk or drive — it seems like an eternity since the Belize City Swing Bridge was closed for repairs. And if you’re wondering what’s going on behind the wooden walls and how soon you can go back to your old driving […]
