Belmopan may look the same today, but the outlook of its residents will be changed forever. The final tally in Wednesday’s referendum for cityhood showed that the majority voted yes. However the turnout was low, a mere thirty-six percent of the registered two thousand six hundred seventy-six voters, just under a thousand people, caring enough […]
In economic news today’s Belize Times reports that the long awaited full feasibility study for the Chalillo Hydroelectric Project has now been completed. The study, which was promised by government officials as early as August, was done by two Canadian consulting firms, and includes both an economic and environmental analysis. According to the Times the […]
Infrastructure improvements and boosting the economies of the Stann Creek and Toledo Districts were the focus of discussion at this week’s Cabinet meeting in Belmopan on Tuesday. Cabinet agreed to provide two million dollars for street resurfacing and construction in towns all over the country. San Ignacio, Orange Walk and Belmopan will get three hundred […]
Police are looking for a prisoner who escaped on Tuesday morning while being transported to Hattieville from Corozal. Nineteen year old Marcos Popper is reported to have jumped out of a police pickup truck as it slowed to go over a speed bump just outside Orange Walk. Police say he had been wearing handcuffs but […]
Belize City police are also asking the public to be on the lookout for someone they want to bring in for questioning. Police say they are trying to locate Anthony Mortis following a string of burglaries after he left the Department of Corrections. He is Creole, six foot, three inches tall and approximately one hundred […]
Police are questioning four people in connection with an armed robbery attempt in San Ignacio on Wednesday. Jewelry storeowner Oscar Cano was shot in the neck by a dark skinned man who entered the shop around three p.m. The assailant told Cano to put several pieces of gold jewelry in his bag and when Cano […]
It is hard for anyone, man, woman or child, trapped in a violent home to break out of the vicious cycle. With this in mind, the Ministry of Human Development and Women has been working, at the national and regional level, to establish a plan of action in an effort to eliminate this public health […]
Those who stay behind the “scenes” are often the people who are working the hardest to bring joy to the lives of others. Some of those people are the Mercy Sunshine Group. For many years, Sister Cecelia and her Mercy Sunshine Group have been working with the residents of the Sister Cecelia Home and Rockview […]
Earlier this week the Ministry of Education issued a press release saying they were not satisfied with the management of Excelsior High School and intend to implement a Cabinet recommendation that the school be “guided by a community-based board”. The Ministry says the conclusion is based on a three-month study conducted — they say — […]
