It’s the new telecommunications company, with competitive rates and cutting edge technology, offering exciting services to thousands of new customers. No, we’re not talking about INTELCO, although the business plan pitched to the press this morning sounds eerily close to the rhetoric uttered barely two years ago by the now defunct company. It’s the latest […]
And in related news, there may be serious implications for the local telecom scene following an administrative ruling in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It seems that BTL owner Jeffrey Prosser is no better at avoiding controversy than his predecessor, Michael Ashcroft. The latest news from St. Thomas is that the Virgin Islands Public Services Commission […]
And while the government of Belize will have to take whatever heat may result from any guarantees offered to Prosser, a late release just received from Cabinet outlines that body’s plan to make good on the Prime Minister’s various pledges of greater accountability and transparency in the management of the nation’s finances. I will read […]
By all accounts it’s doing the kind of high quality reasonably priced printing that customers have always wanted…but that hasn’t stopped Print Belize’s vocal competitors from crying foul over the way in which the former government printery was privatised. Today the Belmopan based company raised its profile by opening a branch in Belize City and […]
Today there was another important addition to the body of Belizean scholarship as this afternoon, the third edition of Readings in Belizean History was released. The collection of essays was expanded and updated after months of painstaking work. According to Froyla Salam of the Institute of Social and Cultural Research, the essays contained in the […]
Not very long ago the drive out of Belize City along the Western Highway featured little more than a parade of eyesores stretching from the garbage dump to the Burdon Canal Bridge. And while today the low lying area can hardly be called scenic, there is a renaissance of sorts featuring new houses, new businesses, […]
