He’s an outspoken businessman with a reputation for shooting from the hip. As the main shareholder of the privatised Belize City port he also has a huge stake in the outcome of the deal in which Carnival Corporation will build a new cruise terminal in Port Loyola. And today Luke Espat took aim at those […]
It was Belize’s turn to experience our annual fifteen minutes of fame in New York–or in this case, twelve minutes–as United Nations Ambassador Stuart Leslie joined the World’s leaders to deliver his address to the UN General Assembly. There is no shortage of global, regional and local issues to cover and Leslie did his best […]
It wasn’t a hundred new Fords…but every little bit helps. And besides, these new police vehicles were free, courtesy of the Republic of China on Taiwan. During a brief ceremony at the Queen Street Station, Ambassador Charles Tsai this morning handed over an all terrain vehicle and two scooters to Minister of Home Affairs Ralph […]
And while mobility may be at an all time high, police behaviour on the job remains a sore point, with a number of officers around the country being accused of seriously abusing their authority. Fonseca says while he does not condone such behaviour, in most cases, the policemen are simply overreacting to the stress of […]
You don’t have to be a doctor to know that Belizeans are getting bigger…and I’m not referring to height. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on what one group of Belizean policy makers is doing to promote better eating habits. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting In 2004, it is expected that the Ministry of Health will spend approximately […]
