Stories about deteriorating conditions at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital are nothing new, as this station has, from virtually the day it opened, chronicled everything from shortages of critical supplies and use of outdated medicines… to the building’s leaking roof and peeling tiles. Tonight our look at K.H.M.H. is more serious as the family of a […]
Today, six crew members off a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter may be thinking that they were probably much safer patrolling the high seas for drug traffickers than facing a bunch of robbers that came at them on Wednesday night in Belize City. According to police reports, The men had been socializing at the W.B. Bar […]
When things are slow in the hard news department we can usually depend on our stalwart viewers to provide us with good filler in the form of a wild animal story. This morning was no exception as residents of Albert Street West in the Yabra area reported that a six-foot crocodile, known locally as “haligata,” […]
We had almost forgotten about the nearly century and a half old Anglo Guatemalan dispute over Belize but today we are informed by the Foreign Ministry that on Friday representatives of Belize and Guatemala met in Miami to continue what are termed “technical discussions”. A release states that the Guatemalans proposed that differences over territory […]
In other diplomatic news a delegation from the People’s Republic of China is in Belize looking for opportunities in trade and investment. Viewers should note that these visitors are not from Taiwan, which is known formally as the Republic of China, but from the communist state on the mainland. Belize and the P.R.C. established relations […]
The first completed section of the Southern Highway was officially opened this morning. The thirty kilometer stretch between Cattle Landing and Big Falls was paved at a cost of almost twenty million dollars. Present at the opening ceremonies were the Director General of the Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development Bader M-Al-Humaidhi, Minister of Works, […]
In other development news from the south the Toledo Institute for Development and the Environment, “TIDE,” has signed an agreement with the Interamerican Development Bank for community based environmental monitoring of the district’s coastline. The I.D.B. will provide TIDE with one hundred thousand U.S. dollars to establish a monitoring system to analyze coastal changes as […]
As foreign aid goes it is not in the same league as the Southern Highway or even Coastal Zone Project in Toledo… but don’t tell that to the seventeen farmers who will benefit from a project to be undertaken by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. The Tele Food Micro Project launched this […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to another dose of Sports Monday. We start this session by taking you out to City Center for the high school basketball clash between St. John’s College and E.P. Yorke High School. As usual the St. John’s team comes out very organized as demonstrated here by perfect ball […]
