By almost any measure you choose, it is Belize’s biggest, richest, and most profitable corporation. It is also one of the nation ‘s few remaining monopolies. That fact coupled with rates that many consumers find unconscionable, has made Belize Telecommunications a favourite public whipping boy. Last night, however, the only thing being whipped up was […]
Belize and Guatemala are supposed to be engaging in confidence building measures along the common border, but a release from the Ministry of National Security indicate that illegal incursions by Guatemalan settlers are as prevalent as ever. In August a BDF patrol encountered an illegal farming settlement one kilometre inside Belize’s Chiquibul National Park. The […]
The Ministry of Health has announced that a number of people in Belize City have been diagnosed with Leptospirosis. The cases were detected after the passage of Hurricane Keith. The disease is an acute bacterial condition that is transmitted to humans by eating food and drinking water contaminated with rat faeces and urine and may […]
The Belize Family Court deals with the stormiest of disputes on a regular basis…but today the operation succumbed to some rainy weather. The staff was sent home for their own safety as water poured throughout the office on the top floor of the Commercial Centre. They’ve had the problem before, but apparently Hurricane Keith made […]
A story we ran earlier in the week on recovery efforts in San Pedro utilized a shot of fishermen harvesting a post-Keith boatload of lobster. But the picture may have been misleading. While the lobsters may be plentiful, most commercial fishermen at Caye Caulker no longer have the means to catch them. Jose Sanchez, Reporting […]
