They keep popping up like mushrooms in a cow pasture after a rainstorm. That’s counterfeit hundred dollar bills, and in their latest appearance the funny money turned up, not in a dimly lit bar or busy gas station, but in the cash drawer of the nation’s biggest financial institution. A teller at the Orange Walk […]
These are not the best of times for Belize Water Services Limited. Since purchasing the assets of the Water and Sewerage Authority several months ago, the company has had to explain frequent water shortages in Belize City as well as make major repairs to the dangerously neglected sewer system in Belmopan. The latest calamity is […]
There is nothing new about people going to the United States for medical treatment, except that a recent excursion has revealed the possibility of a new and potentially fatal type of substance abuse in Belize. Mercury, also known as quicksilver, is an element usually used in thermometers, but a Belizean admitted to Cook County Hospital […]
It was a low key ceremony held under a tent on the beach, but the project being inaugurated was radical in concept and bold in scope. Janelle Chanona reports from San Pedro. Janelle Chanona, Reporting The official launching of the Meso-American Barrier Reef System Project in San Pedro on Wednesday brought together environmental ministers from […]
It was the first time a formal ceremony of recognition has been held to honour the nation’s highest young achievers. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams was on hand this morning at Parish Hall to join in the congratulations. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting It was on May seventeenth that the top high school scorers in Belize were presented […]
