He received the news on Friday that a U.S. Federal Court in Miami has ordered the Belize Government to return control of Belize Telecommunications Ltd. to Jeffrey Prosser. Today Prime Minister Said Musa–himself an attorney–chose to put a different spin on the decision and continued to maintain that with a little bit of goodwill, everything […]
As the Prime Minister examines his options, workers at B.T.L. say they are fed up with foreign ownership and will settle for nothing less than putting the company back in Belizean hands. President of Belize Communication Workers Union, Paul Perriot and Management Representative Dale Trujeque, say it’s time for the Prime Minister to act on […]
While B.T.L. workers were pushing Belmopan for local ownership, the National Trade Union Congress announced plans to keep up the pressure on Government over increased taxes. According to a release received this evening from the N.T.U.C.B., the Public Service Union is instituting an indefinite go slow/work to rule action effective immediately. The N.T.U.C.B. has also […]
He was no stranger to the public, as a New Year’s Eve altercation with security men at the Princess Hotel was headline news in the media. But tonight twenty-two-year-old Eder Alamilla is dead, the victim of what appears to be a suicide by gunshot as he sat in his car near the unfinished St. Anthony’s […]
San Ignacio police have still not yet charged anyone in connection with the murder of sixty-three-year-old U.S. national Donald Kostecki. Kostecki, a deacon with the Sacred Heart Parish in San Ignacio, was found around eight Friday morning, lying near his pickup truck at his home in the Kontiki Extension Area of the town. The body […]
Belize City police have arrested and charged two men following the robbery of a restaurant on Friday night. Twenty-four-year-old Jian Quang Chen of a West street address told police that shortly before midnight on Friday he was inside his establishment, the Sunshine Restaurant, when two men entered and robbed him of cash and jewellery. Police […]
Sixty-seven fishermen, members at the National Fisherman’s Cooperative, will be involved in the co-management of two of the country’s leading marine protected areas. The sites, located at the Lighthouse Reef Atoll, are the Half Moon Caye Natural Monument and the Blue Hole Natural Monument. The news came at ceremonies marking the first disbursement of forty […]
We import too much food from abroad and much of that food is bad for us. And while that’s not exactly news to anyone who’s walked the aisles of a supermarket, what is worth noting is that this week in Belize City a number of nations are getting together to try to do something about […]
There?s a new promotion at Courts and on Saturday morning it got off to a flying start. The contestant, Urvilla Kelly, chose one of five treasure chests, not knowing which one held the top prize of five thousand dollars and which held lesser amounts of cash. Raphael Martinez, Host, Courts Treasure Chest ?It has to […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?ve logged on to Sports Monday. We don?t know why most of the main stream media has chosen to ignore the King of the Ballers Tournament at Big Birds Isle, but it certainly features the best in Belizean Basketball at this time. If you don?t believe […]
