When Florencio Marin announced his resignation from Cabinet last month to take over the chairmanship of the Corozal Free Zone it was a matter of some speculation as to who, if anyone, would succeed him. Today the mystery ended when government announced that veteran politician Valdemar Castillo would get a seat at the big table […]
On Friday we managed to get out a news report while the flames were still blazing… and in the cold light of New Year’s Day neighborhood residents saw just how lucky they were that more damage wasn’t done. Six houses were affected in the New Year’s Eve fire at the corner of Cemetery Road and […]
As the National Fire Service continued their investigation into the New Year’s Eve conflagration on West Street, the very next night they were once again called out, this time to the corner of King and Albert Streets. Shortly after seven, someone in the neighborhood observed smoke coming from the V.J. Max Store. Although the fire […]
A tourist from the United States has died while SCUBA diving off San Pedro. On the afternoon of January first, thirty-five year old Robert Marks of Westminster, Colorado was ascending from a depth of around eighty feet at the Amigos wreck site and signaled to divemaster Carlos Garbutt that all was well. But by the […]
At news time tonight, twenty-four year old Kevin Coye is still in critical condition after being involved in a traffic accident on New Year’s Eve. Coye was flown to a hospital in Guatemala City for medical treatment on Saturday afternoon and we are told his condition has improved but that doctors will be monitoring him […]
Around midnight on December thirty-first, expectant mothers throughout the world pushed a little harder and watched the clock carefully, hoping to cash in on the proceeds of having the first baby of the millennium. There were more contenders, and hype, in foreign hospitals, but that didn’t stop the K.H.M.H. from making sure Belize’s baby 2000 […]
When he wasn’t honoring the nation’s newborns Prime Minister Musa managed to find time to state his views to the Belizean people. In his eighteen minute Millennium Address the P.M. touched on a variety of issues, both foreign and domestic. He pledged to increasingly involve the NGO community in government’s work and promised to include […]
If you and your family flocked to the Memorial Park on New Year’s Eve expecting a fireworks extravaganza on the order of Sydney, Paris or Times Square, you were no doubt disappointed. And the fact is that even if you were not expecting a world class event, you still may have felt a bit let […]
It’s the biggest payoff this side of Lotto and by lunchtime on Tuesday we’ll all know who is fifty thousand dollars richer. That’s the jackpot in the final Millennium Mania Draw sponsored by Courts. The barrel spins at eleven a.m. at the downtown Belize City store so stand by. One especially nice feature of the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and on behalf of the entire staff of Sports Monday we want to wish you the very best in 2000. In the meantime we followed the match-up in week fifteen of the B.F.L. Regent’s Millennium Cup which swung through the festive season. The trail led us to beautiful Dangriga where […]
