Members of the public who had planned to go to the public hearings ordered by the Public Utilities Commission to complain about the new BTL rates had to change their plans today, after learning the hearings have been abruptly postponed. On Monday, B.T.L. took the P.U.C. to the Supreme Court and walked out with an […]
Given the current foreign exchange crisis in Belize, one of Government’s ideas was to make sure the commercial free zone was dollarised. To help with that process, G.O.B. suggested casas de cambios or currency changers for zone shoppers. But today, the man in charge of C.F.Z., Florencio Marin, told members of the Belizean and Mexican […]
The discovery of two bodies in the Chiquibul National Park has prompted a joint Belize/Guatemala investigation into their deaths. Forensic pathologists from Belize, accompanied by Belizean and Guatemalan officials, are in the area today to conduct an on-site post-mortem of the bodies of two men found on Sunday about two kilometers inside Belize. According to […]
Nearly two months after Hurricane Iris laid waste to several communities in the south, victims of the storm continue to receive much need aid from both at home and abroad. Today, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust, PACT, donated twenty-five thousand dollars to the Red Cross Society to assist those affected by Iris. Director General of […]
Police have identified the body of a man found in the sea off Dangriga on Monday. According to police, he is twenty-one year old Shedrack Norris Jorgensen, a messenger of Ebony Street in Belize City. Jorgensen was found in the waters off the Dangriga Town Pier dressed only in his boxer shorts. The body is […]
If you decided to go au natural and get a real Christmas tree for your living room this year, you better make sure you get permission first. According to a release from the Forestry Department, they will not be selling trees this season due to the effects of Hurricane Iris in the southern plains and […]
You might not be able to have a real Christmas tree in your house this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have some other plant-life in your neck of the woods. Today, News 5 Ann-Marie Williams took to the streets of Belize City to dig up some greenery to deck your halls. Elena Usher, […]
