Missing money at the Belize City Council has resulted in the City Manager being suspended. The official account from the City Council is that Marcia Mahler, the city manager for the past two and a half years, was suspended on the fourth of December and is now on leave until the fourteenth of January. According […]
Three weeks after the Police Department confiscated a fleet of late model vehicles from a farm in south Stann Creek, customs officials have yet to file any charges. Law enforcement sources tell News 5 that the investigation files on the ten trucks will be passed on to the department’s legal advisor, Gian Ghandi, who will […]
Prime Minister Said Musa and a high level delegation have attended a summit of the Association of Caribbean States held in Venezuela. The two-day meeting, which ended on Wednesday, was held on Margarita Island and hosted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Among the accomplishments of the gathering was the adoption of a convention declaring the […]
Statistics for the last three months show that despite the negative effects of the September eleventh bombings and Hurricane Iris, the Belizean tourism industry has held its own and should continue to grow during 2002. Numbers released by the Belize Tourism Board show that while September arrivals at the Philip Goldson International Airport dropped by […]
Just saying the word conjures up visions of a warm alcohol induced buzz and toe-tapping musical camaraderie. And although a public library is the last place you’d expect to find a Christmas bram, today the one on North Front Street was jumping. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The exhibition made you feel like a real part of […]
As we’ve seen on this newscast over the last few weeks, the people making local products for Christmas range from expatriate housewives to hardened prison inmates. Today, we discovered how the work of some young people not usually associated with handicrafts just may keep them out of Hattieville. Helen Rosalez, Supervisor, Youth Hostel “Society might […]
It’s one of the nation’s most important buildings…but because the years have not been kind to St. John’s Cathedral, its congregants have had to fight a constant battle to keep the landmark in shape. This weekend they’ll celebrate the latest small victory over the elements. Ann-Marie reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting “The restoration of the cathedral […]
