Tonight the foreign ministers of Guatemala and Belize, along with the top brass of the Organisation of American States, are gathered in Washington to hear the two facilitators present their final proposals to end once and for all, the Guatemalan claim to Belize. But judging from the number of bootleg copies circulating between Belize City […]
Just when you think you’ve exhausted all the different ways to chronicle a tragic death, along comes another senseless murder that forces us to describe that which defies rational description. The latest outrage occurred Sunday night just after nine in Belize City. The precise location is a house on the ironically named… Freedom Street. Jacqueline […]
A man from the Toledo District is at the K.H.M.H. tonight recovering from chop wounds he received over the weekend. According to the victim, forty-two year old village Alcalde, Juan Kib, the reason for the attack was a stolen bicycle. (Juan Kib, Alcalde, San Vicente Village, speaking in Ketchi) Domingo Pop, Chairman, San Vicente Village, […]
It has been a while since we heard good news from the citrus industry, but while sugar and bananas have been dominating the economic headlines, Belize’s citrus growers have been quietly watching their assets grow. With poor production in Florida and disease cutting into Brazilian production, world citrus prices have rebounded to the point where […]
The government of Belize also received some good news today. It took the form of a cheque from the government of Taiwan for over eight hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars. The contribution toward the modernisation of our foreign ministry is part of an agreement between Taiwan and several other nations of Central America. The money […]
As part of the September celebrations, tonight photographer Noel Escalante will launch his fourth exhibition of photographs. For the past year and half Escalante has been touring the country in his spare time, taking snapshots of all he encountered. The photographer says the collection of colorful images depicts the diversity of culture in Belize. Noel […]
Now that it occupies one of Belize City’s choicest seaside locations, the organisation with the unwieldy long name is making sure that the public can see what it’s doing. Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute is the country’s major data centre for coastal information on Belize. […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and welcome to this lion edition of Sports Monday. Many of us eagerly awaited the third Lion Man Triathlon staged on Sunday. And for the first time ever in its three-year history, some forty-one athletes, including three females, made a bid for this prestigious title. Now here’s a look at […]
