It was a terrible discovery to begin with and now the story appears to be even more shocking. A post mortem today on an infant found over the weekend in Dangriga indicates that it was not an aborted fetus but a healthy child–born alive–whose throat was deliberately cut. Police are now treating the case as […]
Despite depressed world prices and some technical glitches in the early months of this year’s fruit processing, there is cautious optimism in southern Belize over the future of the citrus industry. Officials are predicting a record crop of six point two million boxes of orange and grapefruit, markets are being opened in Europe and the […]
While the future of citrus appears to be looking up, the situation at at-least one large orange farm is still very much up in the air. Workers at the Hummingbird Citrus Limited II at mile three on the Coastal Road are in their second week of a strike. News Five understands that despite a directive […]
Lovers of lobster should take note that as of today, eating or even possessing your favorite delicacy could land you in trouble with the law. Closed season for spiny lobster, also known as crayfish, runs from February fifteenth through June fourteenth. But while those who eat the sweet seafood may mope, the people who catch […]
Minister of Economic Development Ralph Fonseca represented Belize at a Caribbean Development Bank/International Monetary Fund conference in Barbados over the weekend then met with potential investors in New York. The CDB/IMF conference covered topics such as repositioning the Caribbean for globalization, offshore services industry, fiscal and political reform, elimination of poverty and small states initiative […]
The Public Service Union has expelled its Secretary General because he is running for political office. The PSU says they made the decision because Hubert Enriquez represents public officers, who are banned from political activity and the general membership had not endorsed his candidacy. Enriquez is running as an independent in the upcoming Belmopan City […]
The Belize Tourism Board is reminding visitors, travel writers and local private sector travel and tour organizations that there is still time to make nominations for the first tourism awards. To make the process easier BTB says a nomination form is available on their website at www.travelbelize.org. Awards will recognize individuals and organizations for excellent […]
The Philatelic Bureau has released its Animals Definitive Issue, or if you’re not a collector and need a translation: the post office has animal stamps. The twelve new stamps include the five cent green iguana, the ten cent gibnut, the fifteen cent black howler monkey, the twenty-five cent tamandua or ants bear, the thirty cent […]
The Challilo Dam. The words conjure up different images for different people. For some, it represents a more efficient way to reduce the cost of electricity. Others envision the flooding of part of the Belizean rainforest. The arguments on both sides are rich in conviction–and emotion–and each claims they have scientific data to back them […]
