Its initial appearance on the public scene a few years back was greeted with a mixture of scepticism, enthusiasm and curiosity. Thumbing its nose at traditional fundraising and flipping the bird to both political parties, the reform movement calling itself We the People, proclaimed that it could revolutionize the Belizean political scene from the ground […]
In related news, the proliferation of independent candidates appears to be extending to the March municipal elections. Today we received a release from a group call B-SAFE, the Belmopan Social Action for Fairness and Equality. On Wednesday afternoon B-SAFE will present its slate of four candidates for the seven-member Belmopan City Council. Those candidates include […]
It’s not exactly an unknown type of crime, but what was once a near nightly occurrence on the streets of Belize City has in recent months been reduced to a rarity. Jacqueline Woods reports from Mahogany Street. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The armed assault and burglary against Gabu Wu and his wife was the first incident […]
They celebrated New Year’s behind bars, but come next week the first set of illegal immigrants for 2003 will be sent home. The prisoners, who number around thirty, hail mainly from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. The Ministry of Home Affairs has submitted an order to vary their sentences, enabling the Minister of Immigration […]
Tonight, we regret to report that the search for three people missing at sea since December twenty-seventh has officially been called off. On Wednesday, a memorial service will be held for British national Ian Jackson, Charles Moody, and Moody’s eleven-year-old son, Shane. The two men were both working for contractor Johnston International. The trio left […]
On yesterday’s newscast B.T.B. director Tracy Taegar summarized the latest tourism figures, pointing to a whopping five fold increase in 2002 cruise arrivals, a respectable two percent rise in airport tourist landings, with a heavy eighteen percent jump in the most recent fourth quarter of the year. Today a closer look at figures provided by […]
Beginning on Monday a new chief, Nerie Sanz, will be taking over at the Belize Agricultural Health Authority. BAHA’s current Managing Director, Pamela Scott, is leaving for El Salvador where she will head a regional project under the Plan Puebla Panama. Scott says the focus of the undertaking is to integrate aspects of plant, food, […]
The pig rearing facility at Central Farm has been transferred to private ownership. A contract was signed today awarding a ten-year lease on the facility to a Guatemalan company, Progenitores Porcinos de Centro America Limited. Under the agreement, the company will develop a modern operation that will produce high quality breeding animals for local farmers […]
This morning, representatives of the governments of Belize and Spain met in Belize City to finalize plans to enhance relations between the two countries. As part of the discussions, the delegations hosted a working luncheon with members of the Belizean press corps to highlight the initiative. According to Moises Cal, Director of International Cooperation in […]
Tonight, the banking community, along with many other Belizeans, mourns the death of one of its own. On Friday, forty-five year old Leopoldo Waight, Director of Provident Bank, died in the United States from complications caused by leukemia. “Polo” as he was well known, began his career at the Royal Bank of Canada in 1979. […]
We often point to Belize’s magnificent Caribbean coast, reefs, cayes and adjoining seas as perhaps the nation’s greatest natural resource. But when it comes to water, Belize’s most important variety may prove to be fresh, not salt. Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting There is so much of it around us that we often take […]
