When you are inside your house after dark the last thing you expect to hear are gunshots. And you surely don’t expect a bullet to hit you. But that is exactly what happened to sixty five year old resident of one eighty nine West Canal, Barbara Savery. She was leaning on her window when one […]
It was pretty much your usual sitting of the House of Representatives today in Belmopan, despite promises of a mass protest by the United Democratic Party. In fact there were no U.D.P. supporters visible in the immediate vicinity of the National Assembly and the morning began with the usual presentation of papers and bills for […]
But while financial issues seemed to dominate today’s proceedings, with the Minister of Budget and Planning Ralph Fonseca introducing a number of bills designed to make Belize more attractive to foreign investors, retirees and offshore bankers, there was one piece of legislation presented for a first reading which dealt with a concern almost everyone can […]
Although they were not visible at the start of the House meeting this morning, a couple of hours later a group of United Democratic Party demonstrators did make their way to the market square. The main attraction of the procession was what Opposition Leader Dean Barrow called the “Economic train that is going backwards.” News […]
The Belize Defense Force will be having an all day fair tomorrow at Price Barracks in Ladyville. The force is celebrating its twenty first anniversary. One of the main attractions will be the T-L-7 Firefly Plane which is used in the force to screen potential pilots. There will also be an aerobatic display and the […]
The Human Rights Commission of Belize is holding a two-day educational workshop at the Belize City Center. The main purpose of the workshop is to discuss domestic violence, child abuse, police brutality, labor, missing children, abuse of power, child labor, discrimination and human rights. It ends tomorrow at four p.m.
Maybe you’ve seen them around. They are the twenty-two truant officers who are trying to get our children back in school. Their job is not an easy one since the children they encounter may be suffering from a lot of social and emotional problems. To help the officers get the children off the streets the […]
Belize’s schools find it hard enough to get the equipment they need, but their efforts to provide for the students are made even more difficult when school property is stolen. Today the Principal of St. Luke Methodist Primary School is appealing to the community to help them recover something stolen from the school yesterday. St. […]
If you use a computer then you may want to pay keen attention to G. Michael Reid’s Last Word tonight as he examines the real or imagined threat of a computer bug that could put your world in a tailspin. “Time marches along its ceaseless course, and considering the pace at which it is moving […]
