The original intention was to have Belize pass its copyright and intellectual property rights legislation by the beginning of 2000, but the complex nature of the issue has lead the Attorney General’s Ministry to take a more cautious approach rather than rush the bill through. To help members of the public understand the issues, which […]
The Women’s Issues Network of Belize has met with Valdemar Castillo, Minister of Labour to discuss the establishment of a Wages Council to review the current minimum wage structure. Mirlin Halliday, head of the Advocacy Committee says the meeting was part of WIN – Belize’s ongoing campaign to establish a single minimum wage. Mirlin Halliday, […]
This morning a tortilla shop owner got a real fright when a van hit his building. Fortunately no one was hurt, but the incident has the owner angry and he says speeding is a recurrent problem on the narrow Berkeley Street. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Anselmo Blanco was inside his tortilla shop when a white van […]
Well-known Belmopan businessman Paul Bradley Sr. is reported to have committed suicide early this morning at his family home. The body was found in the bathroom by his wife. Bradley is the owner of Bradstar Construction on Forrest Drive, one of the firms, which only this week donated supplies to the fire victims in Maya […]
Just about everyone in Belize knows someone who abuses drugs. He or she may be a friend, a co-worker or a member of our own family. Drugs affect all sectors of the society, not just the poor. But while efforts in the past have concentrated on prevention programs in the schools and marijuana plantation eradication […]
It appears tonight that a police patrol in an area off Central American Boulevard saved the life of a Belize City man last weekend. According to an officer in the Dragon Unit, while on Arlington Drive around six-thirty last Friday evening, he saw three men hitting a man over the head with a piece of […]
It may not have been rape, but tonight a sixteen-year-old from Franks Eddy Village was arrested after he allegedly had sex with a twelve-year-old. According to police reports, around five-thirty p.m. on Monday January twenty-fourth, the teenager asked the young girl to meet him behind a school building and when she went there, they had […]
He’s considered the father of Belizean sculpture and his masterpiece the “Sleeping Giant” was even chosen as the watermark for our currency. But now the dust from the wood George Gabb has loved since he was old enough to hold a knife and chisel is affected his sinuses to such an extent he can now […]
If you love a nice cold glass of milk, and we’re not taking about the kind with little powder clumps, the Mennonites at Western Dairies have good news for you. They have acquired a pasteurizing system that should improve the shelf life–or rather the refrigerator shelf life–of their product. Janelle Chanona was in Spanish Lookout […]
