Pundits may speculate on the relative popularity of the nation’s two political parties but one point on which both P.U.P. and U.D.P. may agree is that politicians and the process of government are today held in lower esteem then at any point in recent memory. How that situation has come to pass is another story…but […]
And in that spirit of disclosure and transparency on matters of public interest, this morning Prime Minister Said Musa addressed the financial crisis of the telecommunications company Intelco, and the still secret contract the government of Belize signed with the company. Prime Minister Said Musa ?I don?t think people should expect the government to be […]
And while we’re still on the subject of transparency, government appears to be very sensitive regarding a plan to involve the private sector in developing the area around the Caracol archeological site. On Monday of this week an unknown source distributed to the news media copies of what purported to be an unsigned memorandum of […]
Police have arrested the man they believe is responsible for Monday’s killing on the banks of the Macal River. Dionysio Salazar Jr. was today charged with the murder of Rodney August. August, while in the company of a female companion, was fatally attacked with a machete. According to police, before he died, August was able […]
In the past, we have been known to gently needle the Belize Tourism Board for shouting its good news from the rooftops, but keeping quiet about any developments that hint of negativity. Tonight, we have been proven wrong. Buried in the fifth paragraph of a BTB press release comes word that for the first time […]
School may be out for the summer, but this doesn’t mean Belize’s educators are sleeping late. As News 5’s Patrick Jones discovered, the process of learning never takes a break. Patrick Jones, Reporting It sounds, and even looks like a typical classroom, but the teachers of Holy Redeemer Primary School have traded places with their […]
Just as not all teachers are on holiday, it’s not necessarily true that all Belizean children are running wild. Today News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited one site in Belize City where youthful energy was being usefully channeled. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Looking at eleven-year-old Mike Smith, you would not know that only five months ago, he […]
