Rumours are that negotiators are getting closer to a settlement of the dispute between Belize’s unions and Government but tonight we cannot report a breakthrough in the talks. That leaves one more day before a union imposed deadline, after which the NTUCB says it will return to strike mode on Thursday and Friday. Negotiators met […]
As if it didn’t have enough to worry about, the Government of Belize is once again under assault over its handling of the telecommunications industry. To the surprise of absolutely no one, Jeffrey Prosser’s Innovative Communications Corporation has failed to meet the deadline to come up with the fifty-seven million U.S. dollars it still owes […]
While the big boys sort out their multi-million dollar differences, consumers on the ground still face the uncertainty spawned by the February first tax increases and their subsequent–perhaps temporary–repeal. Today I went out on a shopping trip and found that while most prices have returned to January levels, some people have been left holding the […]
The Ministry of education has announced that, due to the disruption of classes over the last two weeks, the Primary School Examination has been rescheduled. The new dates are Monday, April eleventh for English Language and Science and Monday, May ninth for Math and Social Studies. Registration deadline is Friday, February eleventh. Today Minister of […]
He may be tied up all this week trying to negotiate a settlement in the dispute between Government and the unions but that doesn’t mean GOB negotiator and Minister of National Development Assad Shoman will have a restful weekend. In fact he’ll be heading to Miami, this time for negotiations with Guatemala. According to a […]
A Belize City man who was shot in the neck five days ago has succumbed to his injuries. Stanley Coleman died early Tuesday morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. He was shot in the neck last Thursday afternoon during an altercation with another man in the area of Welch Street. Police say they initially […]
And while Belize City figures heavily in the recent crime wave, the seaside municipality is not the only hot spot. Incidents that were left unreleased by the police press office–but were reported in the U.S. media–involve the robbery of tourists who rent canoes on the Macal River in the vicinity of San Ignacio. One highly […]
In the mood for a celebration? No, not Valentine?s but an equally symbolic occasion, especially for those Belizeans of Chinese extraction. It?s the start of the Year of the Chicken, and as Chinese around the world prepare to ring in the New Year, President of the Belize Chinese Association Lee Mark Chang says this time […]
