The Public Utilities Commission has reached what it calls its “initial decision” on an application by Belize Water Services Limited for a raise in water rates. And while the P.U.C. did not approve the thirty-two percent hike the company requested for the five-year period beginning in 2004, it did grant a tariff structure that will […]
While one utility was being granted a rate hike, another was struggling to provide service to one of its biggest customers. At eight twenty-five this morning the entire island of Ambergris Caye lost its electricity supply and power was not restored until over four hours later. According to a press release from Belize Electricity Limited, […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway near the Faber’s Road junction in Belize City has claimed one man’s life and left his passenger seriously injured. Around eight-fifteen this morning a small pickup truck heading west on the highway made a left turn into an automotive shop at mile two and a half. But before […]
It’s not a thoroughfare that carries much traffic, but on the theory that “if you build it, they will come” government has signed a contract for major improvements in the road to the ancient Maya site of Caracol. The upgrading of six miles of road and paving of another nine point two miles will be […]
Most of the British Army personnel involved in the court martial of three Gurkha soldiers are winging their way home across the Atlantic. One young Belizean who also boarded the plane–although flying only as far as Houston–was twenty-year-old Ryan Edwards. Edwards, along with Said Musa Jr. and Eugene Zabaneh Jr., was scheduled to testify for […]
With last minute Christmas shipments for the nation’s merchants hanging in the balance, officials of the Christian Worker’s Union and the company that operates Belize City’s port were meeting today to avert a situation that threatens to shut down Belize’s main commercial point of entry. Patrick Jones was on hand last night as workers gathered […]
With our traditional long stay tourists being granted preferred access to Caracol, the question remains of where to send those day trippers off the increasing number of cruise ships that anchor in the Belize City harbour. This morning News 5’s Patrick Jones received a tour of a new attraction that should prove to be extremely […]
