If you’re standing up, it might be a good time to sit down, because the following news may take a bit of concentration. When we last left the controversy between B.T.L. and government, government lawyers had succeeded in convincing the Supreme Court that a stop order issued by Minister of Public Utilities Ralph Fonseca was […]
One industry in which healthy competition between two companies seems to be working, is domestic aviation. Each day Tropic and Maya Island airlines go wing to wing in an effort to carry the biggest share of the local and tourist traffic. Last week Maya Island celebrated forty years in the air, but today it was […]
In crime news, police are still searching for the man who gunned down thirty-one year old Dwayne Arnold on Monday. The gangland style hit took place at Arnold’s place of business on Cemetery Road in Belize City. Another high profile case has yet to yield an arrest and police are asking for the public’s help. […]
Foreign exchange–or rather the lack of it–is never far from the minds of many Belizeans. While government admits that the situation is tight and is in fact rationing the available funds, it predicts that the position will ease as exports pick up in the second half of the year. In the meantime, according to Chamber […]
If Belize is getting tired of seeing the best entertainers in the Caribbean, performing somewhat past their pinnacle of popularity, you’d never know it by the welcome they received at the airport. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting One of Jamaica’s multi-talented singers, songwriters, producers and composers, Lloyd Lovindeer touched down at the Philip Goldson International Airport this […]
The Lovindeer dance is not the only event happening this Valentine’s weekend. If you like steel band music, “Pan Night” just might interest you. Deputy Mayor Yasmin Shoman says the concert is the city’s way of giving back to the residents. Yasmin Shoman, Deputy Mayor, Belize City “We’re gonna have the Grace Primary Steel Band, […]
It’s only been a decade, but sometimes ten years can seem like a lifetime. In January of 1992, the name Hattieville was synonymous with a hurricane, not a prison, and those Belizeans who resided behind bars did so on an appropriately named street called Gaol Lane. In those days, as reported by a rookie journalist […]
