With two juicy political issues in the form of a violent protest in Orange Walk and a less than glowing report from the I.M.F., the Opposition United Democratic Party would not be doing its job if it didn’t try to capitalise on those events. At a press conference this morning, the top brass of the […]
While the Opposition leader had to be careful not to come down too heavily on the security forces he once commanded, there were no such constraints on former Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel. No stranger to governmental economics, the man who spent the two terms as Minister of Finance told the press that an I.M.F. report […]
While the UDP looks at what may have been the political roots of the Tower Hill riot, a commission of inquiry will soon be taking a look of its own into Monday’s violent events in which two rioters were injured by gunshots, presumably fired by security forces. Those two forces, the police and B.D.F., are […]
In crime news, a Belize City business was burglarised sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning. Food and Beverage on the corner of New Road and Pickstock Street was broken into and the owner reports that a safe containing thirty thousand dollars in cash and items worth eight thousand, five hundred dollars was removed from […]
In Toledo, police and that district’s Association of Alcaldes have embarked on an initiative to prevent crime in rural areas. National Security Minister Jorge Espat and Police Commissioner Hughington Williams today met with T.A.A. Chairman Juan Ack in Belmopan where Ack was presented with over six thousand dollars worth of T-shirts, caps, batons and handcuffs. […]
The Barbadian economist and diplomat is known as one of region’s most knowledgeable central bankers. Sir Courtney Blackman has been in Belize since Monday and this evening he gave a talk to business people sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. Ann-Marie spoke to Blackman just prior to his engagement and while he declined to comment […]
A new promotional video on Belize has been produced for the Belize Tourism Board. The twenty-one minute presentation, narrated by Colive Cabral and featuring music by Andy Palacio and Pablo Collado, focuses not just on pretty scenery, but also on Belizean culture. The tape is on sale at the BTB and will be shown tonight […]
It may have passed without much fanfare, but Wednesday was observed as Belmopan Day. Never one to pass up a hot story, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods spent the day in the nation’s capital and came home with the following report. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting In 1961, Hurricane Hattie devastated the colony’s capital Belize City. As a […]
