It has been the victim of at least three major outbreaks of water pollution and this morning residents of Dangriga decided it was time to go public with their frustration. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Usually quiet Dangriga town was in uproar this morning as men, women, and children left their homes […]
The first preliminary data has been released from this year’s census. On May 12th, the official census day, the population of Belize stood at 240,204. this compares to the previous census on May 12th, 1991, which showed that a little over 189,000 souls inhabited the jewel. the annual rate of growth over the 9-year period […]
It has only been 11 years since Belize established relations with the Republic of China on Taiwan, and in that short span of time, the dynamic Asian power has become Belize’s most important financial angel. On Thursday morning the highest-ranking Taiwanese official to ever visit Belize, Vice President Annette Lu, will arrive with a 90-person […]
In news from Sydney, Marion Jones will shortly be going for gold medal number two. The semifinal rounds in the 200 metre dash will begin around one Thursday morning Belize time with the final about 2 hours later. A number of other major track and field finals will also be held throughout the night including […]
The National Drug Abuse Control Council, NDACC, in collaboration with the Inter-American Observatory on Drugs, is working towards establishing a national information system on illegal narcotics. According to Ornel Brooks, Executive Director of NDACC, the proposed network is just another step in building mechanisms necessary to combat illicit drugs. Once established, international organizations and government […]
His day job finds him at the Invoice Section of the Customs Department, but in his spare time Karl Tillett is a chronicler of the kind of village life that is rapidly disappearing in Belize. His latest book, “Yenkiman One,” is a collection of short stories that ought to be compulsory reading for today’s Nintendo […]
