Two persons are lucky to be alive after the vehicles they were traveling in collided on the Western Highway. The accident happened around ten-thirty Tuesday night. According to reports, forty-eight year old Inez Gomez was driving a freight truck from Belize City to Benque Viejo Del Carmen. When it reached in the vicinity of Central […]
It will be almost one week since the body of taxi driver Roy Geban, was found on the Western Highway with several gun shot wounds. The police so far have not arrested anyone for the crime, but say they have been following up on some leads and it won’t be long before their investigation comes […]
Last week the Police Department conducted an operation in which they recovered numerous items such as TV’s and stereos, believed to be stolen during Hurricane Keith. While some people may have denied holding stolen items in their homes, police say that the true owners are coming forward to claim their possessions. Fitzroy Yearwood, Acting Press […]
Residents of San Antonio Village in the Cayo District now have a refurbished rudimentary water system in place. Work on the system started in May and in September the system started pumping water into the village. The villagers consume about twenty gallons of water per day and the new system, which is capable of pumping […]
Cabinet held a meeting yesterday in which it approved a five percent environmental tax on all imports of empty plastic containers and on the value of products packaged in plastic containers. While this tax is still being worked out, Bowen and Bowen, Belize’s largest producer of soft drinks and bottled water does not expect it […]
The environmental tax was not the only issue that dominated the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Also discussed was the problem that the professions of engineering and architecture are not legally regulated in Belize. The destruction caused by Hurricane Keith emphasized the point that there is a need for regulation of the professions to at least […]
A brand new set of musical instruments was recently handed over to the Orange Walk Drum Corps. The gift is a donation from the Governor General of Belize, Colville Young. As Manuela Ayuso of CTV in Orange Walk reports, the presentation could not have come at a more appropriate time. Manuela Ayuso, Reporting The Orange […]
the annual “Day of the Dead” exhibition is underway at the Institute of Co-operation and Culture Mexico/Belize. The weeklong event is a Mexican tradition, which dates back to around 1800 B.C. to days of the Aztecs. Institute Director Guillermo Gutierrez speaks of the tradition. Guillermo Gutierrez, Director, Cultural Institute “We can see this with Hispanic […]
The Angelus Press has published its first autobiography, the sixth publication of The Belize Chronicle Series. The book documents the life and work of Belizean Sadie Vernon. Ann-Marie was at the launching on Tuesday October thirty-first. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting It’s not everyday a book is launched in Belize and when it is, it’s not usually […]
