Belize is anticipating significant savings on the cost of petroleum under the recently signed agreement between Venezuela and thirteen Caribbean countries. At least that’s the word from Cabinet. In a statement released today and included in the regular press briefing on yesterday’s Cabinet session, government said that as a signatory to the Petrocaribe Energy Cooperation […]
In other news from Cabinet, that body has taken a number of policy decisions. Among them are initiatives to better regulate the growing yacht charter industry and promote tourism by private aircraft. The idea is to make entry procedures for private planes more efficient, while at the same time maintaining necessary security measures at the […]
And while that was the extent of revelations from Cabinet, Smith, as has become customary, also took questions from the floor on a wide range of topics. When asked by News Five for the status of the proposed Carnival cruise port in Belize City, the Minister of Tourism was upbeat. Godfrey Smith, Minster of Tourism […]
And on recently published speculation that, as part of a Cabinet reshuffle, he might be tapped for the post of Deputy Prime Minister, Smith was as smooth as Teflon. Godfrey Smith ?The statement that I have been lobbying ever since the convention for the post of Deputy Prime Minister is completely untrue. I have not […]
The trial of police officer Sherwood Wade got underway today in the Supreme Court…and the prosecution is already having a rough time. Wade, it will be recalled, is charged with manslaughter and manslaughter by negligence in the death of Darnell McDonald. On the night of June fourteenth, 2003, McDonald was killed by a bullet to […]
This week Belizean students received another opportunity to earn an international degree…without ever leaving the country. Today officials of Galen University, based at Central Farm in the Cayo District, announced that it has been approved as a regional campus of the University of Indianapolis in the United States. According to Galen’s planning coordinator, Marion Cayetano, […]
It is no secret that for the last thirty years fishermen from neighbouring Honduras and Guatemala, having emptied their own waters of edible seafood, have been working hard to deplete ours. With enforcement of anti-poaching laws hampered by lack of resources and political will, there is hope that a new strategy, unveiled this morning by […]
On Tuesday afternoon ceremonies were held to officially open the Agripino Cawich Bridge over the Belize River near Roaring Creek. In his address, Prime Minister Said Musa pointed out that this important link, like many other valuable infrastructure projects, was once the subject of partisan ridicule. Prime Minister Said Musa ?There have been many who […]
It’s bad enough when you’re laid up in the hospital with life threatening injuries. It’s even worse when you don’t know how you got them. Jacqueline Woods reports on a mystery confronting an Orange Walk family. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-three year old Gilberto Pat lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with a brain fracture, […]
