Gas gwine up again. On December fourteenth, Belize’s Liquid Petroleum Gas Importers were threatening to shut down if the government would not approve an increase in the retail price of butane. After receiving the go ahead the cost for consumers went from fifty-eight to sixty-three dollars for a hundred pound cylinder. Now, only two weeks […]
A Belizean just released from jail after serving a ten-year prison term is on the run after he went on a shooting rampage on Boxing Day targeting Chinese businesses. Guan She Qing clings to life at the KHMH after he was shot in the back at close range. He was selling in his shop at […]
Ambassador Assad Shoman has completed a visit to Guatemala where he held talks with the President and senior officials. In a joint press release it was announced that in his meetings with President Alfonso Portillo, Vice President Juan Francisco Reyes and Foreign Minister Gabriel Orellana, Shoman discussed the progress of establishing confidence-building measures between the […]
In his traditional New Year’s address Prime Minister Said Musa, not surprisingly, focused on the latest developments in negotiations with Guatemala. But he also devoted considerable time to a purely domestic matter. With fresh increases in Social Security contributions due to come on stream this week, the P.M. sought to soften the blow of another […]
After over two decades of operating with four commercial banks, Belize today welcomed number five. Alliance Bank, part of the growing Glenn Godfrey business group, is housed temporarily in the New Road headquarters of the St. James Building Society, but will soon move to premises on Barrack Road. News Five’s Stewart Krohn spoke to Alliance’s […]
There is some difference of opinion over whether this year or last marks the real beginning of the millennium, but one thing we’re sure of is the identity of the first Belizean born this year at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Ann-Marie spoke to the proud parents. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting The New Year was only […]
We don’t usually devote much airtime to honours handed out by the Queen, on the grounds that any award with the name “British Empire” is highly suspicious at best. But the latest release from the Governor General has caught our attention. Vested with a royal appointment is one of our favorite artists, none other than […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into the first offering of Sports Monday for the year 2001. We certainly want to take this opportunity to our many fans around the nation a peaceful and prosperous New Year. Now to the business at hand, the Krem/BEL Cycle Classic blasted off from Corozal Town Monday […]
