It seems like we’ve been waiting for years, but after numerous delays and a lot of spirited debate, the first phase of the controversial National Health Insurance scheme finally got off the ground today. Ann-Marie reports from the Matron Roberts Health Centre. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting The long awaited N.H.I. pilot project has been officially launched […]
In crime news, an employee at the Novelo’s Bus Terminal in Benque Viejo has been arrested in connection with the eighty-nine thousand dollars discovered missing from the B.E.L. collection agency on Monday. Eighteen year old Elon Gongora has been charged with the crimes of theft and false accounting. Fifty-eight thousand dollars in cash and another […]
Inmates at Hattieville Prison, like many of their counterparts outside the walls, are turning toward aquaculture as a way to improve their economic status. Today a new programme was launched in which the prisoners will engage in fish farming as part of their rehabilitation. Eleven hundred baby bay-snook were released in a fresh water pond […]
While most of Belize’s international family and economic ties tend to gravitate toward the United States, many enterprising Belizeans are looking to Europe for new marketing opportunities. The music industry is no exception, and today one group of musicians boarded a plane to the old world in search of those two time-honoured commodities: fame and […]
It’s Belize’s best-known venture into the world of international entertainment. Having begun life as San Pedro’s Sea and Air Festival and quickly rechristened with the name Costa Maya, the annual bash on the beach is set to kick off on August sixteenth. Jacqueline Woods has a preview. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The festivities have been trimmed […]
