There are signs of movement tonight in the ongoing labour dispute in the sugar industry. Union and company sources have confirmed to News 5 that at a meeting held today between representatives of Belize Sugar Industries and the Belize Workers Union a new offer was put on the table by the B.W.U. Abandoning its proposal […]
A man believed to be a criminal mastermind is behind bars tonight, the prime suspect in a forgery which allegedly netted him more than two hundred thousand dollars. This man, thirty-five year old Robertino Oprescu, a Romanian national, is the man police believe set up a cobweb of fake companies, forged corporate checks from the […]
Belize and the other hundred and sixty or so other nations of the world are constantly signing international agreements. Some are taken seriously, others quickly forgotten by the signatories. One document that the United Nations seems determined to be remembered involves the status of the planet’s children. Today a U.N. regional representative told journalists that […]
It may have looked like the year’s biggest disaster, but the commotion today in Belmopan was in fact a simulation conducted to better prepare us for the real thing. The exercise was organised by the National Emergency Management Organisation as the culmination of a regional conference dealing with management of disaster scenes. This particular scenario […]
She left Belize over a decade ago with a reputation as the nation’s most accomplished novelist and a job offer at a U.S. University. Today, she was back as keynote speaker on day three of the education summit. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports. Zee Edgell, Author “I learnt that my home language is Creole, but […]
He is not yet a household name in Belize–in fact he’s not even a Belizean. But with a new CD and a hotly promoted concert this weekend at the Bliss, Aurelio Martinez is betting that Paranda music will reach the popular pinnacle that punta rock has presided over for the last two decades. Janelle Chanona, […]
