They decided not to recommend replacing the Queen as the Head of State; they don’t feel it’s time to remove the Governor General, nor do they believe electing a president would be a change for the better. But while the Political Reform Commission appointed a year ago by the Prime Minister appears to have taken […]
Turning to crime, a young man in Belize City says he was shot after accidentally knocking into another man with his bicycle. Twenty-one year old David Williams says he was riding his bike on Rhaburn’s Alley Tuesday night when he bumped into another young man. Williams says when they met again later, before he had […]
Shortly after David Williams was shot, police received another call, this time from Kiss Restaurant on the corner of Mapp Street and Freetown Road. According to reports, just after nine Tuesday night, the security guard for the restaurant, twenty-five year old Oscar Campos, was on patrol when two Creole men attacked him and tried to […]
In every workplace, employers and employees may not get along all the time, but what happens when a disagreement gets physical? According to Guy Tillett, an employee for over eighteen years at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, right after he signed in to work this morning, he and his immediate supervisor got into a verbal […]
A young man from San Pedro is looking for his little sister and her friend who ran away, saying they are on their way to Canada. According to Abel Santos, on Monday morning his fifteen-year-old sister, Leora Marleny Santos and her friend, fourteen-year-old Carla Elizabeth Sealey left the Santos’ home on Angel Coral Street in […]
In Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting Ministers came one step closer to making the proposed University of Belize a reality by agreeing on its legal framework. The ministers also considered an act to provide for the establishment, management and development of the national university, which will be tabled at the next meeting of the House of Representatives. […]
The Family Services Division has a new home. This arm of the Ministry of Human Development and Women is now located on the second floor of the Commercial Center. At ceremonies this afternoon Minister of Human Development Dolores Balderamos Garcia commented that since legislation was passed making it mandatory to report child abuse, such reports […]
Ever since the days when St. John’s Anglican Primary School was St. Michael’s College the rainy season has meant students have had to wade through mud and water to get to their classes. But now, thanks to the help of landscape architects from Virginia Tech University, the students and teachers will have sidewalks right up […]
They are professionals in their own country, but they will spend the next two years working in Belize as part of a technical assistance program. This morning fourteen Nigerian doctors, nurses and medical specialists arrived at the Philip S.W. Goldson International. They were escorted by Abdu Ado and Mathias I Dogo-Isonagie of the Nigeria High […]
