If it is clarity you are seeking in tonight’s newscast please be forewarned; the situation is as confused as ever. The bottom line is that no agreement has been officially signed to end any industrial action by any of the nation’s labour unions and to our knowledge no new negotiations are scheduled. Add to the […]
With the militant core of the teachers union clearly out of sync with its leadership and the prospect of schools opening on Friday melting like an ideal dropped on a hot pavement, the stage was set this morning for union members and their supporters to take to the streets. Patrick Jones reports that the march […]
The plague of deadly violence that has infected the city–particularly its south side–shows no signs of coming under control. Once again today, like a number of times earlier in the week, I was called to witness the bloody aftermath. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-three year old Jermaine Barrow was at his usual hang out spot at […]
Twenty-five year old Marlon Fisher remains in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Fisher, who is unable to breathe on his own due to gunshot wounds to the chest and lower back, is being assisted with a ventilator machine. As the Fisher family hopes for the best, Belize City police have arrested […]
On Thursday, a twelve-year-old girl walked into the Orange Walk police station and told the authorities that since November twenty eighth she has been living and having sex with twenty five year old cane cutter Ernesto Magana. No, it was not a case of a run away child falling into a premature romance. According to […]
One holds an impressive resume with stints as a politician, historian, diplomat, cabinet minister and Prime Minister’s best friend. The other is an expert in public finance and administration, former Deputy Secretary General of CARICOM and current financial secretary. Together Assad Shoman and Dr. Carla Barnett form Government’s frontline negotiating team in the current dispute […]
