The incidents of ineptitude have been spread over several administrations. There was the truckload of Guatemalan murderers who drove right past Belmopan on their easy ride to freedom; the heartbreaking failure to crack the case of a serial child killer in Belize City; and numerous well documented cases of police brutality leading in at least […]
A Belize City man has been charged with last weekend’s shooting death in Yabra. Twenty-two year old Guyanese national Hillaire Sears has been remanded to Hattieville for the murder of Rodwell Neal on Sunday morning. It is alleged that Sears shot Neal after Neal had beaten Sear’s girlfriend Cherrymae Howard. Howard has told Channel 5 […]
Close to seventy participants representing the Banana Growers Association, government, banana workers, trade unions and NGOs gathered at the Radisson this morning to find a way to avoid what appears to be a dismal future for one of Belize’s most important exports. Ann-Marie Williams reports. Ann-Marie Williams Today’s forum was sparked by “Fruit of Their […]
It’s a long running dispute that seems to boil over into public protest every few months. Today the Port employees belonging to the Christian Workers Union were once again on the march. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Some one hundred Port Authority workers are up in arms. They say their collective bargaining agreement for salary increases and […]
Belize Electricity Limited today received the bad news that Mexico will not be able to supply prime time electricity until April 4th. The disabled 484 megawatt Merida Three plant was supposed to be up and running by Friday, and the delay will mean that Belize’s energy situation will be touch and go for the next […]
The made in Belize movie ‘After the Storm’ made its TV premier on Tuesday night on the USA Network and was shown on Channel 5 on Wednesday. Most viewers agree that the film, based on a short story by Ernest Hemmingway, was a good cure for insomnia. But while the script may have been a […]
