Although Belize is already buying electricity from Mexico, BEL is now looking for ways to obtain power from our other Central American neighbors, and to even sell them electricity. Today a representative from SIEPAC, the Electrical Interconnection System of the countries of Central America, spoke to BEL engineers and top management about the benefits of […]
Long suffering customers in the Corozal Free Zone today received some welcome relief as BTL officially inaugurated a project to upgrade telecommunications in the commercial enclave at the Santa Elena Border. Previously the zone’s 31 customers relied on a fixed cellular arrangement, which was both cumbersome and expensive. The new system, relying on underground fibre […]
Minister of Sugar Industry, Local Government and Latin American Affairs, Florencio Marin, attended the inauguration ceremonies for the newly elected President of El Salvador Licenciado Francisco Guillermo Flores Perez. Thirty-nine years old Perez is the third consecutive arena party candidate to win El Salvador’s presidential elections. Accompanying Marin to the ceremonies on June 1st were […]
A team of doctors, nurses and technical personnel, who are part of the Life Enhancement Association for People, LEAP, will once again be in Orange Walk Town to perform much needed surgeries. The medical professionals will perform over twenty surgeries to repair facial deformities such as cleft lips and palates in the new surgical wing […]
They aren’t fancy new pickup trucks or motorcycles, but the donation of six typewriters to the police department from Belize Courts Limited, will be an equally big help to the members of the force who have to do the mountains of paperwork. Violet Williams, Secretary, Police Department “Well there were sometimes when our machines needed […]
A recent survey carried out by the National Drug Abuse Control Council in Belize City and Dangriga revealed that children as young as ten years old are experimenting with alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana. To try and teach children about the ill effects of these substances, particularly on young bodies and minds, the Council sponsored an […]
Tonight on the Last Word commentator G. Michael Reid looks at drug abuse, but he doesn’t confine his thoughts to crack or marijuana. He says we must remember that the legal substances so many of us use on a regular basis are also potential lethal weapons. “This passing week was observed in Belize as drug […]
