It was a send off the likes of which are rarely seen in the nation of Belize, let alone its sweltering capital. Official business came to a halt this morning as the country paused for the state funeral of Cayo South Area Representative, Agripino Cawich. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting Hundreds of […]
The death of Agripino Cawich is not the only one we note tonight. We have been informed that forty-four year old Martha Reimer, severely injured in a road accident on June twenty-third, passed away on July eighteenth in Guatemala City. Reimer never regained consciousness following the collision on the Western Highway that also claimed the […]
The Chalillo hydroelectric project is today one step closer to shaking off the legal challenges that have dogged it almost from its inception. This morning the Privy Council in London dismissed the application of the conservation consortium, BACONGO, for an interim injunction to halt construction of the dam on the upper Macal River. The injunction […]
It has been almost a month since thirty-seven year old Astrid Perrera-Cheng, co-owner of the local technology shop, U.S. COM, was last seen in Belize. She was supposed to board a July nineteenth flight to Miami on company business, but never showed up at the airport. When a fellow employee, twenty-two year old technician Luis […]
It is one of those bodies you don’t hear much about until the phone company raises rates or the electricity company decides to build a dam, but today the Public Utilities Commission made an effort to assure the public that it is alive and regulating. This morning, representatives of the P.U.C. met with the media […]
Today businessmen and women from across the country met in Belize City to discuss the future of the nation’s international trade. Facilitating the talks is Dr. Richard Bernal, Director General of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery. Bernal has been endorsed by CARICOM governments to negotiate on behalf of the region with the global trade bodies. […]
While most cruise ship agents in Belize City are eagerly awaiting the opening of the second phase of the Tourism Village, tonight one local restaurateur is seeing red. Carlos Romero, owner of the Wet Lizard, which sits squarely between the two villages, walked onto his veranda this morning only to find construction workers driving piles […]
It’s been a very long time since the Golden Girls put Belize on the map of international softball and those tales of past glory are no substitute for today’s hits, runs and victory on the region’s diamonds. But hope springs eternal…as Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting She’s doesn’t have the name recognition of an […]
