To absolutely nobody’s surprise, the budget speech presented by Prime Minister Said Musa was big on pleasure and small on pain…and with a general election likely between now and the April first date of implementation, any other strategy would have bordered on the absurd. While the Opposition will no doubt characterize the numbers as bogus, […]
One noteworthy occurrence at the National Assembly this morning was the absence of Leader of the Opposition Dean Barrow. According to the honourable member from Mesopotamia, the U.D.P. Chief was out campaigning. But Barrow or no Barrow, Michael Finnegan was not shy about offering his opinion of the Prime Minister’s budget. Michael Finnegan, Area Rep., […]
When fire destroyed the Paslow building on September twenty-ninth, among the casualties was the Belize Municipal Court and all of its furniture and equipment. Since that time the insured items have been replaced and the court moved to the Commercial Centre. Today, as operations continue to rebound from the disaster, the City Council received some […]
And speaking of the Paslow building, this week demolition commenced on the remaining concrete section of the structure. Ministry of Works engineers concluded that the eighty-year-old columns and beams had been too weakened by the fire to support anything other than a single-storey building. Once the site is cleared, design work will begin on a […]
A post-mortem has been conducted on a body discovered Thursday evening, but medical science has not fully cleared up the mystery of how a Belize City man met his untimely end. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The last time Remija Linares saw her brother alive was almost three weeks ago. On […]
It’s not the first time that the Buca Shell gas station has been held up, but that does not make the incident any less terrifying for its employees. Around 8:00 on Thursday night, a red Toyota Corolla pulled up at the station. Two dark complexioned masked men, armed with handguns, got out of the vehicle […]
Twenty-year-old Paulina Coc says there was nothing anyone could have done to save her one month old baby from a fiery death. The infant girl perished in a fire that broke out at the family’s house in Cattle Landing around 7:30 on Thursday night. According to the mother, the baby was sleeping in the bedroom […]
Virtually all of the computers in the government/Intelco internet in schools project have been installed for the direct benefit of students… but today it was the teacher’s turn to get wired, specifically the headquarters of the Belize National Teachers Union in Belize City. B.N.T.U. President John Pinelo says that computer education will only be as […]
Those opposed to the hydroelectric project on the Macal River known as Chalillo, lost a crucial court battle last month when the chief justice ruled that the project’s government approval was properly handled. The only caveat in the judgement was the failure to hold a public hearing where opinion could be solicited on the dam’s […]
