In a document called a New Time for Belize, Prime Minister Said Musa today presented the budget for the fiscal year 2002/03 to the House of Representatives. While the speech highlighted the adverse economic impact of hurricanes and terrorism, according to the government, G.D.P. still managed to grow by more than four and a half […]
One of the most anticipated aspects of the budget was the future of National Health Insurance. While the Prime Minister has always been N.H.I.’s greatest champion, his two-year attempt at radical health care reform fared no better than Hillary Clinton’s. Despite this morning’s rhetoric, it now seems that N.H.I. is dead on arrival. Prime Minister […]
For Belizean health care providers, today’s announcement that N.H.I. will be put into a coma, is a serious blow. Many doctors-turned-businessmen borrowed large amounts of money to expand their facilities and services, in anticipation of the countrywide health care plan. But according to Dr. Victor Lizarraga of Universal Health Services, the real losers will be […]
Two Chinese women were beaten and robbed this morning in what has become an all too familiar scenario in the city. The latest incident took place around 11:45 at Shung Loong, a grocery shop at eighty-seven Vernon Street. The women, twenty-two year old Su Nong Chen and fifty-five year old Tang Gin Lan, told police […]
Tonight a resident of the Hattieville Prison lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was stabbed by a fellow inmate. Police say they were told that around 1:15 this afternoon, prisoner Alfred Billary was on the compound between maximum and medium security talking to a friend when one Jeffrey Flowers simply walked up […]
A student has drowned while swimming in Corozal Bay. According to police, around eleven a.m. on Thursday seventeen year old Elden Butler of Calcutta Village was bathing near the area known as Miami Beach. Witnesses say he was seen to go under the water and not resurface. Butler was pronounced dead on arrival at Corozal […]
Thirteen witnesses have testified since the Commission of Inquiry investigating the shooting deaths of three Guatemalans began its work on Tuesday. This morning the officer in charge of the eight B.D.F. soldiers sent to San Vicente Village in November of last year took the stand. The statement he gave the police a day after the […]
Those who are incarcerated have plenty of time to think about what they did wrong and how they will set things right when they are released. Today News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand to observe a programme that hopes to make life better, both for the newly freed inmates…and their families. Jacqueline Woods “How […]
