It sprang to life on the back of a P.U.P. Cabinet revolt and subsequent revelations of serious financial mismanagement by the Musa administration. But even at the height of public discontent with Belmopan, the knock on the Opposition United Democratic Party was that it never said exactly how it would do things better. Today the […]
And that’s where the P.U.P. butts in. Not thirty seconds after Barrow had wrapped up his press conference, the Musa administration’s point man on P.R., Minister of Information Godfrey Smith, made himself available to respond to Barrow’s statements. According to Smith, his government can climb out of its financial black hole, without raising taxes. Godfrey […]
And while Minister of Information Godfrey Smith was fighting to hold the line in his government’s war against the U.D.P., Foreign Minister Godfrey Smith was on the offensive…against key members of his own diplomatic corps. First to face the firing squad was Belize’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Stuart Leslie. The forty year old Leslie, […]
While partisan politics pushed the story off the front page, the question of who is going to own and control B.T.L. is not going to go away any time soon. Today Attorney General Francis Fonseca explained why the clock is ticking loudly. Francis Fonseca, Attorney General ?There are certain external obligations that the government have, […]
It used to be that playground squabbles would end in a black eye or busted lip. But times have changed, and a misunderstanding at a sporting venue in Belize City on Tuesday afternoon has left a thirteen year old boy hospitalised and a twelve year old in police custody. Police say that around three-thirty Tuesday […]
Police have arrested and charged four men in connection with the Monday jacking of a grocery store on Faber’s Road in Belize City. Twenty-Five year old Kirk Baird, nineteen-year-old Shane Morgan, nineteen-year-old Jordine Jergenson, and eighteen-year-old Aaron Adolphus have been charged with four counts each of robbery. Fifty-year-old Fu Hung reported to Police that sometime […]
We keep hearing that unrestrained cable television is killing our children’s reading skills…and while that may or may not be true, Belizean educators are fiercely clinging to the value of the written word. Today News 5’s Patrick Jones saw first hand that all is not yet lost. Jasmine Tillett, ?The Fox?s Cheese? ?And that Fox […]
