If the number of media reports are any indication, then there would be no doubt that Belize’s children are the most heavily studied and subsidized group in the country. And while that point is debatable, what isn’t is that under the prodding of UNICEF and the local agencies it funds, the nation’s young people are […]
In crime news, law enforcement authorities have reported at least partial success in their efforts to maintain law and order and are also offering some advice to the public. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This is the car Belize City police believe was used as the get away vehicle in a robbery that occurred at a business […]
In a story, we ran in yesterday’s newscast we incorrectly reported that no suspects were ever apprehended in the robbery of the Belize Bank branch in Orange Walk in March. In fact seven people are currently before the Orange Walk magistrate’s court, accused of holding up the bank. About a week after the March second […]
It was big news when a Guatemalan helicopter, allegedly laden with cocaine, made a forced landing on the Belize side of the Sarstoon River after being shot at by Guatemalan authorities. That was in March and in the days following the incident there were hard words between the two countries over who had salvage rights […]
The members of a newly created bilateral panel were sworn in today at the OAS office along the western border. The Belize/Guatemala Border Health Commission is made up of seven health officials from each country who will work toward promoting better health on both sides of the frontier. “Illness respects no borders”, said Minister of […]
This weekend the Institute of Creative Arts invites the public to a show that we don’t often see in Belize. On Saturday master illusionist and hypnotist James Kellogg Jr plans to dazzle you with some of his magical tricks with the hope that by the end of the show he would have raised enough money […]
It is not often that one project can transform a city and it is doubtful that the impressive Fort George reclamation project shown to the media today will by itself turn Belize City around. But it’s an important step that, coupled with the new Carnival Cruise Complex in Port Loyola, will give the nation’s largest […]
