When the proposal for a mandatory national health insurance system was introduced earlier this year, it was turned into a public relations nightmare for its author, the Social Security Board. Since that time little has been heard from NHI until today, when the Ministry of Health officially launched the NHI pilot programme on the southside […]
Hattieville prison lies to the north of the Western Highway, so its inmates will not receive the benefits of the NHI pilot project. Pity, because on Wednesday the population of that institution increased by three when a trio of muggers were convicted of jacking a pair of tourists, who were walking by the Princess Hotel […]
Police continue to make times tough for the nation’s weed smokers. A raid in the Corozal District on Wednesday morning resulted in the destruction of a plantation with three thousand mature marijuana plants averaging six feet tall. Forty-four year old Marcelino Gilharry and fifty-year old Cecilio Villanueva of San Antonio Village were found on the […]
We haven’t seen many Lotto success stories lately, largely because the game has been suspended since December. But while the big draw is off the air, the scratch game has never stopped. Today Vern Usher of Dangriga is ten thousand dollars richer after winning that particular game of chance. News Five caught up with him […]
To most of us, the word science is synonymous with technology…and it follows that the more advanced the technology, the better the quality of science education. That may not be true, however. As I learned this morning, science is less about computer chips and robots than it is about learning to think. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
It’s a nation whose government can’t seem to resist giving us a hard time…but on the people to people level Guatemalans and Belizeans seem to get along just fine. And nowhere was this demonstrated better than last night at the Costa Maya Festival in San Pedro. Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting No borders could […]
