An important and highly confidential document has been changing hands this week and tonight, the people who produced it are staunchly defending their exposed findings. It’s called a policy dialogue paper and entitled “Towards Sustainable Growth and Competitiveness.” It is in essence a review of the social and economic climate of Belize and is compiled […]
Tropical storm Claudette poses little or not threat to Belize…that’s the official word from the National Emergency Management Organization. Through a government press release, however, NEMO says that Claudette is still in the area and the preliminary phase issued on Wednesday for Belize remains in effect. The tropical storm has maintained its northwestward track with […]
If you tried to use to the Swing Bridge on Wednesday evening you were one of many who were shocked to see that the bridge had gotten stuck in the middle of the Belize River. The fault was fixed within hours, but as News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports, the problem highlights just how much strain […]
The case of a foiled bank robbery, which occurred early last year, is over and the three defendants have been sentenced to almost two decades behind bars each. Nineteen-year-old Ryan Valerio was this morning ordered to spend nineteen years in jail, while twenty-nine year old Ecleston Bonilla and thirty year old Clifford Caballero, will spend […]
Meanwhile, Belize City police are investigating an armed hold-up that occurred on Wednesday afternoon. According to businessman Yue Di Liu, he was at his shop on Curassow Street when just after one p.m. a man with a handgun walked up to his window and demanded money. Yue handed over approximately two hundred dollars and the […]
For some time now rampant rumours regarding proposed changes to the administration and courses at the University of Belize have been a source of heated debate. Today, the relevant parties involved held a press conference to inform the media of the latest developments in the ongoing restructuring process. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It appears as though […]
Belizeans everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief tonight as Claudette continues to head north and out of our area. But this close call certainly caught a lot of people off guard and the Atlantic promises to get even more active in the coming months. So were we prepared, and if not, what do we […]
