It was a key plank in the P.U.P.’s successful electoral platform…and while the reality may have fallen slightly short of the campaign promise, today’s delivery of pension cheques marked one of the first concrete fulfilments of the ruling party’s manifesto. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Since it was announced that women sixty-five […]
Fifteen Cubans who had fled their country in boats and washed up in Belize were today deported to Havana. The illegal immigrants, who had been cooling their heels in Hattieville prison, sought political asylum here, but under long standing agreements between Belize and Cuba, they were sent home. This morning the handcuffed deportees were placed […]
With Belize’s Prime Minister Said Musa currently sitting as President of the Central American Integration System, his ministers are now assuming their roles as heads of SICA’s subsidiary bodies. On Tuesday, Minister Mark Espat took over leadership of the Tourism Council, and as of today Minister of Health, Jose Coye, is in charge of COMISCA, […]
Plans to construct a new four-lane bridge at the Northern border with Mexico are to be finalized in early August, with construction to start next year. According to press reports from Chetumal, the new bridge will be built less than a half-mile up river from the existing span over the Rio Hondo at Santa Elena. […]
After nearly two years of protests and court cases it finally seems that the question of B.T.L. rates is about to get down to the nitty gritty: that is dollars and cents. According to consumer rights activist, Lascelle Arnold, more than twenty-one days have elapsed since the Supreme Court of Belize ruled that the price […]
Its budget has been slashed and structure radically altered…but faculty and staff at the University of Belize will not be short-changed on pay increases. A release from U.B. today confirmed that its employees, like public officers working directly for government, will be granted the same five and eight percent pay raises for senior and junior […]
They are not expected to bring back the gold…or any silver and bronze for that matter, but seven athletes left Belize today to represent the nation in the Pan American Games being held in the Dominican Republic. The team consists of Michael Aguilar, Leonard Arnold, Orson Elrington, Patrick Fuller, Jayson Jones, David Sanchez and Tricia […]
On June tenth 2002, twenty-five year old Douglas Hyde, then a counsellor and teacher at Anglican Cathedral College, made news after a student accused him of rape. The fourteen year old told police that she and another female student went to see Hyde on school business and it was after the other young lady left […]
