On Thursday Belize will receive a visit from the head of state of Colombia. President Andres Pastrana will touch down briefly at nine-fifteen in the morning at Philip Goldson International Airport, before moving on to Mexico City for the inauguration of President Vicente Fox. Pastrana’s jet will be preceded on the tarmac by the arrival […]
Residents of the Belize and Toledo districts will soon benefit from two major infrastructural projects. After many years of talk, the Burrell Boom Road between the Northern and Western Highways, will finally be upgraded and paved. Work will begin soon on the seventeen point three million dollar project, which will be carried out by Cisco […]
Charges of brutality against the police department are not unusual. In fact, in August two police officers were relieved of duty following accusations of inappropriate behaviour in Orange Walk. Today we received a visit from a young man who also claims to have been victimized at the hands of Orange Walk police. Derick Arnold says […]
The sixty-first meeting of CSUCA, the Consejo Superior Universitario Centroamericano, has concluded its deliberations and issued a communiqué seeking to ease tensions between Belize and Guatemala. In a press release issued this afternoon the meeting of universities from all over Central America reiterated its support for the independent development of the University of Belize. It […]
Significant measures are being taken by government towards the control and eradication of the Southern Pine Bark Beetle, which threatens to decimate the trees of the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve. The Belize Agricultural Health Authority, BAHA, has announced two directives to combat the problem. One order states that the beetle is a notifiable plant […]
Last week we ran a story on problems created for students forced to navigate a north side street turned into mush by a construction project. Tonight we focus on a southside neighbourhood whose street problems appear to be rooted in simple neglect. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Driving through parts of Lake Independence Division can be a […]
As World AIDS Day draws near on Friday; all eyes are focused on ways to slow down the deadliest epidemic of modern times. The World Health Organisation’s Director General, Gro Harlem Brundtland, in her World Aids Day message, says that as fathers, grandfathers, brothers, sons, friends, husbands and partners, it is men who most determine […]
