There are developments on the labour front tonight as Belize’s unions and private sector meet with government and amongst themselves. But while the strike by teachers and public officers continues for the ninth and fourth day respectively, Belize’s consumers are for the first time feeling the direct effects of government’s new budget and its increased […]
As promised, the Government of Belize has responded to suggestions made by the NTUCB on where new tax revenues can be found and other proposals under the category of good governance. While that response has come in too late to reproduce in its entirety, in general it accepts most of the recommendations, which include more […]
Outside of the negotiating rooms the nation’s striking unions were busy keeping up the pressure…and the morale of their membership. Patrick Jones reports on what the teachers were up to today in Belize City. Patrick Jones, Reporting Symbolism was big at today?s B.N.T.U. rally as teachers held a mock funeral for all the things…and people […]
On Monday night, approximately two hundred and fifty members of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry attended a special general meeting to decide on their next plan of action. As a result of the discussions, three resolutions were passed: One, that the ten point reform package presented to the Government of Belize on November […]
He didn’t realize as he watched last night’s news story on the murder of Arthur Crawford that within a short time he would become the latest victim in a series of fatal shootings in Belize City. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-two year old Shona Oshon says she was home with her […]
Some three hours after his picture was shown on this newscast Monday Night, twenty-two year old Charles Hinds walked in to the Queen Street Police Station and handed himself into authorities. Hinds was sought by police for the murder of twenty-year-old Arthur Crawford who was shot around eleven thirty on Saturday night on Central American […]
Forty-one year old Marconi Leal is lucky to be alive after he was shot in the chest around ten on Monday night. The shooting occurred just as Leal was collecting rent in the amount of two thousand dollars from a tenant on Cemetery Road. But who would have known other than the tenant and landlord […]
The news this week–and on countless other weeks–has been full of violent crime; murders and shootings in particular. A few days ago we were visited by a man who is no stranger to the gun. But unlike his brethren in the hospital or cemetery this man had plenty of time to think about the culture […]
