When members of Belize’s negotiating team returned home to Belize on Thursday, they not only brought the report of the OAS appointed border surveyor; they also brought his map. That map was shown publicly for the first time on Thursday night’s One on One show featuring negotiators Assad Shoman and Fred Martinez. Martinez first explained […]
The Belmopan City Council found themselves strapped for cash today when three of their workers were held up and robbed of the weekly payroll. Around 10:30 this morning, City Council employees Sebastian Morales, Andy Avila and Wilhelm Coye, left the Belize Bank in a truck with the payroll of nine thousand, five hundred and fifty […]
There’s an old saying that a thief can steal more money with a pen than he can with a gun. That may be true… but only if you don’t get caught. According to police, one Ermino Martin used his pen to write a string of cheques to local nightspots over the last month, all of […]
On Thursday’s newscast we reported that a student of Wesley college shot one Daniel Faber, near his home on Dickenson Street in Belize City. Although police have arrested seventeen year old Leslie Rogers Jr. and charged him with grievous harm and use of deadly means of harm, the matter apparently didn’t end there. Rogers’ friends […]
Those big numbers reported by the Tourism Board for the year 2000 were apparently no fluke. Airport arrival figures for the first month of this new year show a solid eight point five percent increase over a year ago. Just over twelve thousand bonafide tourists landed at the P.G.I.A. in January, more than any January […]
It was Hattieville’s turn to taste the flow from a brand new village water system. Doing the honours Thursday afternoon was area representative Ralph Fonseca. The hundred thousand gallon system serves over three thousand residents of Hattieville and surrounding areas and was built at a cost of five point six million dollars. Funds for the […]
The Michael Ashcroft Foundation continues to help schools nationwide upgrade their educational facilities. On Thursday, phase three of the programme was completed as five more schools were equipped with modern libraries. Richard Painter, CEO, Michael Ashcroft Foundation. “Michael Ashcroft is very keen that the young children in the primary schools has access to books. We’ve […]
The form of entertainment called karaoke has been around Belize for many years, but has never been as popular as today. Riding the crest of that wave is a new TV show. Hosted by veteran broadcaster William Neal, Channel 5’s “Karaoke TV” is looking for talent. Williams Neal, Host, Karaoke TV “Karaoke Television was really […]
The illegal settlers at Machaquila, Rio Blanco and Valentin Camp are not the only ones about to cross the border. An exhibition of Belizean art will also be migrating to Guatemala for the Sixth International Festival of Popular Art. The show, which opens February 15th in the colonial capital of Antigua, will feature ten Belizean […]
Most everyone has heard of heroes with the names of Superman, Batman and Spiderman, not to mention less well endowed characters like Archie and Jughead. While the comic books inhabited by these personalities have been staples for generations of adolescent readers, if one young man has his way they’re going to have to clear some […]
