The International Monetary Fund today released the public information notice, a bulletin that goes along with the report on the country’s Article Four consultation. While it wasn’t exactly a glowing assessment of the country’s fiscal health, the government?s spin-doctors and officials of the Ministry of Finance and Central Bank worked overtime this afternoon to gain […]
On Saturday, the first set of students in a Master’s Degree programme in public health will graduate during a ceremony at the Radisson Fort George. The programme, which started in 2002, is aimed at preparing experienced health professionals to assume leadership roles as members of multi disciplinary teams which will develop public health projects. The […]
A man from San Jose Succotz has been arrested for shooting his two sons. Diego Cocom Sr. reportedly went home drunk on Thursday evening and got into an argument with his two sons, aged twenty-three and sixteen. According to witnesses, Cocom picked up a sixteen gauge shotgun and threatened to kill them both. When they […]
Some four hundred and fifty children who belong to the Police Youth Cadet Corps are spending the last few days of their Easter vacation attending the Police Department’s annual sports camp. The event was opened on Thursday evening at the Michael Ashcroft Stadium in Independence with a lively ceremony. The young people range in age […]
The National Drug Abuse Control Council, NDACC, has released the results of the latest survey of Belizean high school students… and the news is not good. A sample of second and fourth year students revealed that a startling twenty-five percent of those surveyed, or one in four of the students, reported consuming more than six […]
Most of us think of libraries as just places that house collections of books. But that perception is changing… and today one Belize City library opened a special exhibition that the staff is hoping will not only be educational, but enjoyable as well. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Turton Library on North Front Street not only […]
Anyone interested in the history of the Belize-Guatemala territorial dispute will welcome a new publication by former Ambassador James Murphy. “The Guatemalan Claim to Belize: A Handbook on the Negotiations” gives a concise account of the efforts to end the claim in simplified language. Murphy spent the last year and a half researching archival material […]
