Tonight there is a major new plot twist in the continuing drama surrounding the fate of Belize Telecommunications Limited. What had been a story of two suitors, each competing for the favours of the lovely maiden known as B.T.L., has suddenly become a three-way competition…and while the new boy at B.T.L.’S door doesn’t have the […]
While suitors, new and old, fought over its affections, today B.T.L.’s DigiCell got a “Smart” competitor. That’s the name of the newest service to throw its hat into the telecommunications ring. Smart, offshoot of Speednet Communications Limited, today held its soft launch. With its interconnection agreement with Belize Telecommunications Limited now in operation, this afternoon […]
It doesn’t come as much of a surprise but the opposition United Democratic Party has condemned the government’s decision to implement new tax measures and its failure to follow the suggestions of the N.T.U.C.B. and Chamber of Commerce for alternative budget measures. In a release issued today the U.D.P. called upon Belizeans to “recommit themselves […]
He claims he was punched in the face by a police officer, and tonight nineteen-year-old Marvis Espinosa is in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital awaiting surgery to repair a broken jaw. It’s a story that starts early on Saturday morning, when Espinosa says he was going home from a night club in Orange Walk and […]
In only seven years it’s become a March tradition that unites Belizeans from East to West. The eighth edition of La Ruta Maya kicks off early Friday morning and News 5’s Patrick Jones has a preview. Patrick Jones, Reporting Over eighty teams of three paddlers each will suit up this weekend and head out down […]
