Secondary schools throughout Belize have been receiving new computers, but one school in Dangriga wouldn’t even be able to plug them in if they got them. The Agricultural Natural Resource Institute, ANRI, formally known as Lynam College, has not had electricity for months, has no running water, no phone and no consistent means of transportation […]
In September the presence of the Pink Hibiscus Mealy Bug was detected for the first time in Belize. To combat the problem biological agents, special wasps were brought in from the Caribbean. But the high cost of the insects meant only a minimum could be purchased. Now with funding from the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation […]
In police news, at around seven this morning, Caye Caulker police received a phone call telling them that a body was hanging from a tree near the cemetery. When police arrived on the scene they found the body of twenty-eight year old Mike Diego. The tour guide operator from a Front Street address was suspended […]
Numerous complaints from the public about the quality of health care and the lack of enforcement of existing legislation has lead the Ministry of Health to develop a National Drug Policy. Sharon Sanchez, Chief Pharmacist in the Ministry is coordinating a workshop at the Radisson to work on the document. She says it will help […]
Although he has exhibited in Europe, Mexico, Cuba, the United States and even in the Czech Socialist Republic, Joan Duran who has had a home in Belize since 1972 has never had a show in this country… until now. On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Image Factory and in the words of […]
Months before Carnival in September, carnival band members scour the Belizean community looking for sponsorship. For the past five years, one band has been saying thanks for the assistance by throwing a Christmas party and distributing toys to needy children. This Saturday GEM Belize will give out thirteen hundred toys. Kathy Christie says there’s still […]
In 1980 the Maya Institute of Belize was organized to address a number of issues affecting the Mayas of Belize. But it was not until six years later, when the institute was registered in 1986, that the work really started. The group first focused on education and has successfully developed an alphabet for the Mayan […]
While New Year’s is always a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the past, this December thirty-first, the members of the La Immaculada Church in Orange Walk will have a century’s worth of memories to celebrate. To mark the occasion, volunteers have been breathing new life into this holy space, which has such meaning […]
