Facing a twenty-six to three deficit in the House of Representatives, the opposition United Democratic Party has nothing, if not a long way to go. Today UDP leader Dean Barrow unveiled some new faces in the party hierarchy, which he hopes will energize the rank and file, as well as the voting public. Ann-Marie Williams, […]
An inmate at the Hattieville Prison is dead of an apparent suicide. At around three fifteen this afternoon, twenty-year-old Jason Flowers was found dead in his cell, hanging from an electrical wire tied around his neck. Flowers was serving a fourteen year sentence for a series of crimes and was scheduled to appear in court […]
It has been suspected for some time, but officials in the Ministry of Natural Resources have now confirmed that our spectacular Mountain Pine Ridge may one day soon be reduced to just a Mountain Ridge. The problem is the southern bark beetle, a pest which has invaded the area and infested as much as fifty […]
A Chinese Grocery shop was robbed today in Belize City… But the amount stolen was more worthy of a Brodies or Romacs. At twelve-thirty this afternoon four men entered Vin Hong Store at five Euphrates Avenue and held up the owners at gun point. The men escaped with thirty thousand dollars in cash and ten […]
The Government of the Untied Kingdom has made an additional donation toward hurricane Keith relief. Working through its Department for International Development, DFID, the British have committed over six hundred thousand Belize dollars to UNICEF to help ten thousand people directly affected by recent floods. Previous British financial contributions have taken the form of grants […]
Not all official generosity in Belize has to do with Hurricane Keith. Today Barclays Bank presented a cheque for three thousand four hundred dollars to assist the St. Vincent DePaul Society in the feeding programme at St. Joseph Primary School. The programme provides a nutritious daily lunch to thirty children at a cost of around […]
In virtually any society, among the most colourful and expressive citizens are those who drive taxis. Belize is no exception to that rule and this morning I met a group of taxi drivers who were not only ready to talk, but were loudly crying foul. (Taxi drivers arguing) Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It was an accident […]
In a follow up to yesterday’s report on Sports Monday, the National Sports Council, BNFA and BFL have issued the following press release. Hon. Cordel Hyde, Minister of Sports, this morning met with representatives from the BNFA, the BFL and the National Sports Council at MCC Grounds and made a joint commitment to the development […]
Those of us in the news media are generally forced, if only by the nature of our jobs, to know a little bit of what’s happening in the world outside Belize. On the day when voters in the United States of America are electing the man who will become the world’s most powerful citizen, we […]
