It may be a quarter century late but Government will soon be formulating a national energy policy. That decision was made by Cabinet on Tuesday following a yearlong study on a national energy plan. That study, partly financed by the United Nations Development Programme, recommended that an Office of Energy be established within the Ministry […]
Thousands of students in the nation’s capital, from preschool to university got an unexpected holiday today, as the Ministry of Education took the extraordinary step of suspending mid-week classes. The suspension, according to a ministry official, was taken primarily for health reasons, as Belize Water Services had informed Belmopan residents that its entire system would […]
Sports fans eagerly anticipating semi-pro football action this weekend will have to wait until next year as the Belize Premier Football League has decided to cancel the Commissioner’s Cup Tournament. According to commissioner of the BPFL Maito Perdomo, three teams have already indicated that they would not be participating this year. Kulture Yabra has cited […]
Details are sketchy but an altercation between acquaintances in the Corozal District has left one man dead and another in police custody. According to police reports, on Tuesday night sixty-four year old Edward L. Guck, a resident of Consejo Shores, was involved in a fight with another man, identified by witnesses as forty-two year old […]
It may not have the stature of a Delta or U.S. Air but a new international airline is slated to inaugurate service to Belize. Beginning Friday Tikal Jets will fly twice weekly from Guatemala City to Belize City via Flores. The flights, which will run Monday and Friday, are scheduled to arrive at the P.G.I.A. […]
Over the last three months, Tropical Gaming Company has paid out over two hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars in lotto jackpots. Today the company paid out another eighty two thousand, five hundred as the winner of Saturday’s jackpot stopped by to collect his prize. Belize City resident Leonard Castro told News 5 that he used […]
Experts have been telling us for years that diabetes is on the rise in Belize, but statistics show that in addition to the very young and very old, it is teenagers and young adults who are increasingly at risk. The reason is believed to be unhealthy lifestyles coupled with an acute ignorance of how damaging […]
This afternoon, Belize’s candidate in the annual Unsung Heroes competition sponsored by FirstCaribbean International Bank was officially introduced to the public. She is sixty-year-old Margaret Juan, a nurse who has worked at the Good Shepard Clinic in Succotz Village for the past twenty years. Juan was selected from a group of fifteen nominees in recognition […]
