The conventional local wisdom on CARICOM is that Belize gives much and receives little. That may or may not have been true in the past, but an announcement today should go a long way toward changing that impression in the future. The news, brought home from Barbados by the Prime Minister, is that CARICOM’s Regional […]
The venue for the Prime Minister’s announcement was the beginning of the Dangriga leg of his nationwide tour. The P.M. was received at the town’s entrance this morning with a cultural welcome. He visited the drainage project on Saint Vincent Street and toured a number of the town’s neighbourhoods, accompanied by Mayor Cassian Nunez. One […]
A signing took place in Belize City today for a technical cooperation project to boost the nation’s trade and investment. That effort involves a grant of almost a million Belize dollars from the Inter-American Development Bank. Signing on behalf of Government was Minister of Budget Management, Ralph Fonseca, while the bank’s representative in Belize, Hugo […]
Meanwhile, BELTRAIDE’s Executive Chairman, Jose Alpuche, says the project will target its resources at direct contact between buyers and sellers. Jose Alpuche, Executive Chairman, BELTRAIDE “Matching markets with actual production here in Belize, where we find little difficulties, attempt to solve them. So it’s in effect a direct link, business to business. That’s the most […]
When the Paslow Building burned on September twenty-eighth, the media spotlight was firmly focussed on the fire department’s amazing new hook and ladder truck…and rightly so. But while fire fighters in Belize City boast state of the art equipment, the same could not be said for the rest of the country. Today two vehicles came […]
There was plenty of activity today at the Memorial Park…and it had nothing to do with the three cruise ships in the harbour. News 5’s Janelle Chanona has more. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon as part of the Second International Dance Festival, dancers from Forces of Nature, a dance company based in New York, gave […]
Art in Belize comes in many forms and an exhibition on this week in Belize City proves you don’t have to be an expert to go public. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For the next two days, over a hundred entries submitted to the Belize City Lions Club as part of a poster contest will be displayed […]
When it comes to sheer creative talent, there are few Belizeans in the same league as Pen Cayetano. The only problem is that we don’t see enough of him. Fortunately, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods sat him down at the opening of his latest exhibition of paintings. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting For the past twelve years, forty-eight […]
