It did not exactly come as a surprise, but the U.D.P.’s long awaited latest charges of scandal finally arrived this afternoon in the now classic form of the press conference at the Radisson. Whether you were a believer or not, it was vintage Barrow. News 5’s Stewart Krohn reports. Stewart Krohn, Reporting He described it […]
While today was supposed to belong to the U.D.P., it was the People’s United Party that may have received the afternoon’s best news. For over a week, P.U.P. operatives had been dropping hints that U.D.P. Albert candidate Marilyn Williams held a U.S. passport… and that under Belize’s constitution that fact disqualifies her from sitting in […]
Eight months after Mark Dougal was beaten and killed, the police have made another arrest in the murder. Authorities have detained thirty-two year old Russell Garoy of a Banak Street address and charged him with murder and perjury. Garoy is the second person to be charged with the crime. On August twentieth, 2002, Derrick Bain […]
The project got off to a late start, but in the last few weeks before elections the Intelco computers in schools initiative is making up for lost time. On Tuesday students in the Cayo and Stann Creek Districts heard the words “Dude, you’re gettin a Dell,” as another one hundred and forty-four computers were turned […]
The Elections and Boundaries Department reports that as of January 2003, there were one hundred and seventeen thousand, four hundred and fifteen persons who are eligible to vote on March fifth. However, with only one week to go before the general and municipal elections, there are still some applicants who do not know if they […]
Our coverage of divisional races has thus far focussed on hot contests in Belize City. But if history is any guide, some of most fiercely fought battles have taken place in the wild, wild west… and that’s were I was today. The political climate in the Cayo District, like everywhere else in Belize this week, […]
Promises before a Belizean election are as plentiful as corn in Spanish Lookout. That’s why public officers made sure that they got it on the dotted line prior to March fifth. The contract for a three-year twenty-four percent salary increase was signed today by the Prime Minister in a ceremony this afternoon in Belmopan. This […]
Residents of the Stann Creek District should be getting used to the sights and sounds of Black hawk helicopters, as the U.S. Army is gearing up for another humanitarian exercise. Rather than chasing the Republican guard across the Iraqi desert, these National Guard soldiers will be building schools in Dangriga. The “New Horizons 2003” exercises […]
A private university in the Cayo District? That’s right, this afternoon during brief ceremonies at Central Farm off the Western Highway, ambitious plans for Galen University were unveiled. Founders of the institution say the idea has been in the works for years and if everything goes right, classes should start this September. According to one […]
