It began as a tactic to support efforts by the unions and political Opposition to force the resignation of the government and hold new elections. But the sabotage of the nation’s electrical system, hardly a brilliant idea in the first place, appears destined to backfire as an irate public is growing weary of the inconvenience […]
As if B.E.L. repair crews in Orange Walk did not have enough to worry about, last night they and local residents faced the havoc created by mother nature in the form of a violent storm. Patrick Jones, Reporting Across San Jose Palmar Village the scene was the same…families were drying out their belongings and starting […]
It’s not going to change the world, but it just might change how the world sees Belize. It’s called the Belize Foreign Policy Yearbook, 2004 and is designed to keep the international community up to date on the state of the country’s diplomacy and its stance on issues such as foreign trade. According to Belize’s […]
And while the Foreign Affairs Minister was upbeat about the new book, there was no getting around the fact that Belize is mired in a foreign affair that has a federal judge in Miami lashing us mercilessly to the tune of fifty thousand U.S. dollars per day. According to Smith, G.O.B. is not happy with […]
Since the violence and destruction of April twentieth in the commercial capital, the silence from the student body governments of the University of Belize and Saint John’s College Junior College has been deafening. But this afternoon, U.B. and S.J.C.J.C. called a joint press conference in Belize City to “clear their name.” While admitting to leading […]
It’s a good thing that a twenty-one year old Belize City woman decided to call the police instead of walking into her house after noticing something amiss with her front door. The woman, a B.D.F. soldier, had just returned from work around four this morning when she made the discovery. Police arrived shortly after her […]
If the following story doesn’t make you lock your door, then I don’t know what will. Police report that around four Tuesday afternoon a thirteen-year-old student of Kraal Road was confronted by a man standing inside her house wearing not so much as a stitch of clothing. The teenager told police that she was watching […]
