The killing of a Guatemalan civilian by the B.D.F. near the border in June of 1999 was a controversial case from the start, but things got stickier for the Amandala when the newspaper’s account of the incident landed it in court for libel. Today Supreme Court Justice Samuel Awich ruled that the story, which identified […]
Another controversial event will soon be the subject of a commission of inquiry. It was announced today that the commission appointed to look into the events of July thirtieth at Tower Hill Bridge will begin hearings at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August twenty-second. Those hearing will run through Friday at the La Immaculada Credit Union Conference […]
If you need any proof that the devil is alive and well in Belize, you need not look any further than the latest building site of Habitat for Humanity. We reported on Wednesday that dozens of Belizeans were providing volunteer labour to construct the house of Elsa Augustine on Police Street. This morning workers arrived […]
On, July twenty-eighth the National Junior Basketball Team arrived in the Bahamas to compete in the CARICOM basketball tournament. But just a couple of hours before the team was scheduled to play against Barbados, they received the disturbing news that while the team could play it would not be allowed into the medal round. Why? […]
With the long anticipated National Health Insurance pilot project now underway, it remains to be seen whether the N.H.I. concept will prove workable in the Belizean context. This morning News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams made her rounds. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Today we visited the four southside clinics to see how registration and health care services are […]
