It happens every year with the regularity of rice and beans for Sunday dinner or Jim Reeves on Love FM. This year’s debate of the budget presented on February twenty-third ran true to form: long and contentious. Needless to say, the plan that the government found so solidly full of promise was characterized by the […]
There is little official progress to report on the weekend’s theft of over two hundred and seventy thousand dollars from the San Ignacio branch of the Belize Bank, but unconfirmed talk on the street is that some of the stolen notes have surfaced in the Cayo District. Police and bank officials declined to comment on […]
More concrete developments have come to light in the case of the high powered weapons stolen from the Police Training School in Belmopan on January twenty-ninth. One gun was confirmed recovered by police today, adding to the six previously found. Sources in the police force suggest that Thursday may see the collection of the four […]
The government of the United Kingdom has appointed a new high commissioner to Belize. Philip Priestly will take up his appointment in July, replacing the current high commissioner, Tim David. The fifty-four year old Priestly has served in a number of diplomatic posts in Europe, Africa and Asia, including a stint as his country’s Ambassador […]
The case couldn’t have been made better had it been scripted in Hollywood. Yesterday’s message from B.E.L., based on a survey showing skyrocketing electricity rates around the Caribbean Islands, was that Belize should not rely on imported petroleum for its power needs. Today’s lesson, based on a massive generating failure in Mexico, is that we […]
While the two major political parties roll into high gear for the convention season and a fledgling third party seeks to find its wings, the nation’s official electoral machinery is being readied to facilitate the wishes of voters. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports that, like the Boy Scouts, the Elections and Boundaries Department adheres to […]
It may have been the closest competition yet and by the end of the night the judges had the unenviable task of choosing between six entertaining singers on this week’s edition of Karaoke TV. Host William Neal announced their decision and the winner took the mike for an encore. William Neal, Host, Karaoke TV “The […]
It’s an industry that is a study in contradiction. While bringing in almost thirty-eight million U.S. dollars in foreign exchange, that money is divided among only nine farmers. It employs several thousand workers, but most of them have been imported from the neighbouring republics. And although it receives massive subsidies from Europe, those employees are […]
