Twenty-four hours is not a whole lot of time to visit a city, let alone a country, but Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is packing in as much as he can. Following public ceremonies and private meetings in Belmopan yesterday afternoon and a dinner in his honour in Belize City last night, the youthful leader this […]
Once President Chen was airborne, Prime Minister Musa’s thoughts were no doubt free to return to the matters that were on his plate before the interlude of the state visit. That is, the nation’s finances. And tonight there are signs that his government is making some progress in its bid for some new injections of […]
Police are trying to determine the identity of a female corpse that was found floating in the waters just off BTL Park on Newtown Barracks. The discovery was made around eleven twenty this morning by people in the area. The woman is believed to be in her late fifties or early sixties, of clear complexion, […]
The man who police believe stabbed Otilio Pacheco to death has been formally charged. Forty-two year old Francis Bennett has been remanded to Hattieville prison and will face trial for murder. He is alleged to have stabbed the fifty-seven year old Pacheco in his chest a number of times early Thursday morning during an altercation […]
On last night’s newscast a late schedule, dead battery and slow moving motorcade combined to prevent us from showing footage of the Belmopan leg of President Chen Shui-bian’s state visit. Tonight we’ll bring you up to date on those events in the nation’s capital. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Shortly after arriving at the George Price Centre, […]
State visits are not something we do every day in Belize…and just as our leaders need to alter their normal way of doing things so do some of the rest of us, including journalists. In between photo ops over the last twenty-four hours, cameraman Brent Toombs has put together a short piece on how things […]
Today the ministry of health handed over twenty-five bicycles to the Belize District Community Nurses Aides. The donation is just one of many measures M.O.H. is undertaking to strengthen health programmes in rural areas of the country. The nurses say that the wheels are long overdue and they are grateful for the assistance. Anna Gillett, […]
“The best of Tony Wright” is the latest release from the veteran artist. Wright says the album consists of thirteen songs that have all been well received by Belizeans. Today the musician stopped by our studios to promote the CD for the upcoming September celebrations. Tony Wright, Recording Artist “Most of them were some of […]
