To the relief of virtually all Belizeans, the manhunt ended with a whimper instead of a bang, as accused copkiller Earl Young turned himself in to police. But the question left unanswered after the brutal apparently unprovoked shooting of police constable Uwin Armstrong, is…why? Today I travelled to the Orange Walk District in search of […]
It was a roller coaster of a day for those involved in the lucrative task of handling cargo at the Belize City Port…and News 5’s Patrick Jones chronicled the ups and downs that preceded a last minute settlement of the dispute. Oswin Blease, Operations Manager, Port of Belize Limited ?I am the one who ceased […]
At one hundred and ten thousand tons, she is one of the largest cruise liners to sail in these waters and on December twenty-eighth, the Carnival Valor will make the first of what should be many stops in Belize City Harbour. The Valor, which holds a maximum of just under three thousand passengers, was built […]
Belize’s latest lotto winner dropped by the office of Tropical Gaming this evening to collect his cheque for Wednesday’s fifty thousand dollar jackpot. Eusabio Rodriguez of San Ignacio cruised West with forty-two thousand, five hundred dollars following the deduction of income tax. Saturday’s draw remains at fifty thousand.
The week set aside to focus on the AIDS pandemic may be coming to an end, but efforts to combat the disease remain in high gear. Patrick Jones reports from the Belize City Centre. Patrick Jones, Reporting With statistics showing a worrying trend in HIV infections, the Pan American Social Marketing Organization is engaging the […]
This is not a story we like to run, but as we’re all aware, the news is hardly ever all good. Tonight’s heartbreaker involves Marion Jones, the world’s greatest female athlete and perhaps the planet’s most famous Belizean. Not surprisingly, she is once again being accused of taking banned performance enhancing drugs. But while previous […]
The first public hearing on the alleged mismanagement at the Social Security Board will take place on December fifteenth. That’s the word from the Senate Select Committee formed to investigate the SSB. According to the committee’s latest press release, they have completed an on-site inspection of various pieces of land put up as collateral by […]
And while we are not sure exactly which of the properties in the Data Pro compound are held as collateral, it is apparently not all of them. A release today from Belize Medical College, the U.S. run offshore med school located at Data Pro, indicates that they have recently purchased a second building and lot […]
