It has all the ingredients of a made-for-tv disaster movie: a hurricane is rapidly approaching the coast, the populace prepares for the worst. Then literally out of the blue an airliner drops out of the sky, leaving dozens of dead and wounded in its wake. The major difference between today’s disaster simulation, code-named “Big Blow”, […]
Four minors remain in police detention in Belize City and it is expected that they will be charged with murder on Friday. No names have been released but police apprehended the youths on Wednesday following the fatal shooting of Lincoln Weston. Weston, a mechanic of Yarborough Road, was cut down with a sawed off shotgun […]
While emergency workers were simulating a plane crash in Ladyville, a real aircraft was landing at the nearby Philip Goldson International Airport. Aboard were 42 health professionals from Cuba. Included in the contingent were 6 doctors who were joined for the first time by 36 nurses. The nurses, most of whom are highly trained specialists, […]
Despite all the economic assistance provided to Belize by the government of Taiwan, there has been relatively little real investment by the Taiwanese private sector. One exception to that trend has been the Tao San shrimp farm near Dangriga. On Wednesday, as the company prepared to export its first harvest, Minister of Agriculture Dan Silva […]
If you accept the proposition that “a school is a building with the future inside” then the biggest single influence on that future is the quality of our teachers. Today the body that represents the bulk of Belize’s educators met at the Belize Biltmore Plaza. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Approximately 600 teachers from across the country […]
With over 30,000 members it may be the biggest organisation in Belize. It’s also one of the richest. Last night the Holy Redeemer Credit Union closed the books on yet another year of successful operations. Janelle Chanona, Reporting At the 56th Annual General Meeting of the Holy Redeemer Credit Union, close to 1,800 members turned […]
