There seems to be no shortage of stories coming from behind the walls of the Hattieville Correctional Facility and today is no exception. It seems a well-planned, early morning escape earned four prisoners their freedom and has left one prison guard under suspicion. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Four prisoners are still on the run after they […]
He walked away with top honours in the National Spelling Bee and on Thursday his hometown celebrated with a motorcade. 11-year old Al Sanchez of Louisiana Government School was crowned champion when he spelled the word “tsunami” correctly last Friday at Belize City Centre. In addition to the accolades from his community both Sanchez and […]
If you missed the spelling bee you may want to check out another academic competition, this one taking place at the high school level. Tonight at 7:00 St. Catherine’s Academy and St. John’s College square off in the final round of the Belize Tourism Board’s inter-school debate. The topic for the debate, which is part […]
Belizean PhD’s and other education experts are meeting at the Belize Institute of Management to exchange ideas and come up with a proposal for the implementation of the Belizean Professorship Programme that will be incorporated into the University of Belize curriculum. A total of 7 Belizean professors are participating in the weekend forum. The programme […]
If you haven’t made plans for the weekend yet, one of your options is the National Agriculture and Trade Show. Organizers are expecting that a whopping 40,000 visitors will be patrolling the fairgrounds this weekend and today, vendors were eagerly setting up shop in preparation for all of them. In addition to the food on […]
If you were listening to the radio broadcasts of the House of Representatives today, you probably heard quite a lot of heated discussion on a variety of issues. This morning the man in the hotseat was Minister of Communications and Immigration Maxwell Samuels. The Minister was first asked about the recently concluded amnesty program and […]
