Police are today trying to piece together clues that may help them solve the mystery of who killed well-known contractor Phillip Chin. They are still not certain if Chin was abducted from his house at mile two and a half on the Northern Highway or went willingly with whoever decided to shoot him and dump […]
What should have been a wonderful trip to the reef, today turned into tragedy for a group of American tourists. According to police reports, the visitors were vacationing in San Pedro and decided to take a snorkelling trip to Sergeant’s Caye. After arriving on the island around 11:00 this morning, sixty-seven year old Eula Davis […]
It’s not an unusual news story by any means, but the latest break in at a Belize City primary school is reminding officials that the impending installation of five thousand computers in Belizean schools will not come without problems. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Police are still following up on information that may lead to the arrest […]
Most of the visiting dignitaries have departed, but the effects of the CARICOM-Central American Summit will remain in Belize for some time. Chief among them is the strengthening of Belize’s role as the link between the two sub-regions. On Tuesday, that status received support from an unlikely quarter: Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo. According to Portillo, […]
One of the key topics of discussion at this week’s CARICOM Summit was the need for bold and concrete regional initiatives to deal with crime and its underlying causes. Today, on the national level, a cross-section of Belizeans met to chart the future for the group most responsible for the crime problem and its solution: […]
Another subject dealt with at the CARICOM summit was the temporary closure of the Caribbean Media Corporation. That non-profit company, jointly owned by the Caribbean News Agency and Caribbean Broadcasting Union, ceased operations on January fourth. As a result, the region’s broadcasters–including Channel 5–have been deprived of virtually all of their pan Caribbean programming. But […]
Another sign that Belize is being irresistibly sucked into the mainstream of global life is the decision by B.T.L. to switch from our current five-digit telephone numbers to the internationally accepted seven-digit system. According to a release from BTL, the new scheme will be implemented on May first. Customers will keep their present numbers as […]
A hundred years from now when historians of the future evaluate the performance of the government led by Prime Minister Said Musa, chances are they will not dwell on the ten thousand houses, fifteen thousand jobs, rise in crime or fall of foreign exchange. Instead they will focus on an achievement, though seemingly minor at […]
