If it was a pilot script for a television soap opera the story would likely be rejected for having too many plot twists. But the saga of BTL, with millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs at stake, is no novella…and today it grew even stranger. Word out of the Jeffrey Prosser camp in Florida […]
The commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the operations of the Development Finance Corporation has held its first meeting. The Monday meeting, which was not open to the public, reviewed its terms of reference, drafted a tentative schedule of public and private hearings and compiled an initial list of documents and records that have been […]
A two-year-old child was killed on Monday afternoon in the Valley of Peace when he was crushed by a falling house. Belmopan police say they were called to the village around three-thirty yesterday afternoon and upon arrival they saw a partially collapsed thatched roof house belonging to thirty-four-year-old Myrna Martinez. Trapped under one of the […]
The Public Utilities Commission today hosted a regional workshop focussing on the increasingly complex role that regulatory organisations play in the Caribbean. Over twenty delegates from member countries of the Organization of Caribbean Utility Regulators, including Belize, sat down to talk about experiences in this relatively new field and how to present themselves to their […]
The sensational deaths of a number of young people over the last few months, the daily reports of robberies, burglaries and other acts of crime and violence are never pleasant stories to have to tell, let alone experience. Now a group of SJC Junior College students want the community to put aside their fears and […]
While the world’s response to the AIDS pandemic may be longer on hope than it is on cash, there are increasing resources being made available to countries like Belize. But more money doesn’t necessarily mean better results. The key, as News 5’s Jacqueline Woods discovered, is how to get organised. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Ministry […]
