When the latest U.D.P. candidate reshuffle was announced earlier this week, party executives claimed to have the support from both outgoing standard bearers. But today, Sydney Fuller, the former U.D.P. candidate in the Albert Division said not so. According to Fuller, “The events that have happened are an indication that the party has once again […]
As of midnight last night motorists are paying more for each mile they drive. Premium gasoline is up eight cents to six eighty-nine per gallon, regular rises ten cents to six sixty-four, while diesel is up two cents at four eighty-eight. The Price of kerosene remains unchanged at four dollars and three cents. According to […]
It has been a fixture on the southern coast of Belize for almost two decades, but today the Voice of America compound south of Punta Gorda was handed back to the Government of Belize. The shortwave facility, which began broadcasting in 1984, ceased operations on September fifteenth. With the end of the Cold War and […]
Police in Dangriga are investigating a robbery that occurred at a gas station in that town last night. Attendant at the Esso Havana Service Station, twenty-six year old Patricio Teul, says he was waiting for his boss to return sometime around nine o’clock in order to close up shop. He was inside the office along […]
It’s getting to be that time of year when printers both here and abroad are busy producing their 2003 promotional calendars for dozens of Belizean clients. The problem is that more often than not these calendars are full of mistakes when it comes to the date of local holidays. In the hope of avoiding that […]
A primary school teacher from Yo Creek Village in the Orange Walk District will own a home quicker than she had expected. That’s because the twenty-four year old mother of two will use over fourteen thousand dollars she won in Courts most recent “Catch the Cash” promotion to lay the foundation. News 5’s Marion Ali […]
When they left for Europe last month, the group of local artists and promoters went with high hopes for raising the profile of Belizean music on the international scene. Now that they’ve returned, they’re saying: job done. News 5’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona In October Andy Palacio, Paul Nabor and the other members of […]
There’s an old adage in the real estate business that the three most important attributes of a property are location, location and location. Well, for the woman featured in our next story…that’s just the problem. Marie Lewis, Area Resident “This is from the city. This is not Miss Marie put this here, I never asked […]
