What a difference majority ownership makes. Barely twenty-four hours after Belize Water Services Limited announced its intention to seek rate hikes of almost nine percent, the company’s new ownerCthe Government of BelizeCsaid “nuttin like dat”. The turnabout was decreed by Cabinet today and conveyed to the public in its regular post meeting press release. As […]
Youth and jobs: it’s a union that everyone agrees is crucial to the nation’s social advancement. But talk is cheap and successful matchmaking has been noticeably rare. Today another major project was unveiled that seeks to put Belize’s underutilised young people to work. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Entra twenty-one, an eighteen […]
In related news, while I.D.B. funds help Belizean youths find jobs, Belize’s representatives on the bank’s board are meeting with fellow directors to chart a future course for the institution. According to a release from the press office, Minister of National Development Mark Espat and financial secretary Carla BarnettCBelize’s governor and deputy governor to the […]
San Ignacio police are no closer in finding the persons responsible for the double homicide that occurred over the weekend on a ranch in the Lower Barton Creek area in the Cayo District. Today, however, the police did release the name of the second person killed in the incident. According to authorities the body they […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions has abandoned legal action against a thirty year old man and a sixteen year old girl, charged with sexual offences. According to court reports, when Hattieville residents Mark Neal and the minor appeared in the Supreme Court today, Crown Counsel Marjorie Moyston entered a nolle prosequi motion, thereby allowing the […]
Every month the police department chooses an employee whom they believe has gone above and beyond the call of duty and recognises that man or woman as officer of the month. Today, the police commissioner announced his choice for March 2006. He is police constable Dwayne McColluch, working out of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. According […]
On Wednesday, Belize Telecommunications Limited will start handing out to its over thirty thousand customers, copies of the 2006 telephone directory. There are some new features that have been added to the book that the phone company believes will please the eyes of subscribers. According to B.T.L. public relations officer Linette Canto, the latest directory […]
The Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan today received a donation of equipment worth in the neighbourhood of half a million dollars. The forty foot container was shipped to Belize through the efforts of the Ministry of Health, Belize Natural Energy and Project CURE, a humanitarian organization based in Colorado. The equipment includes wheelchairs, defibrillators, EKG […]
While the company’s owners gathered in Belmopan to make their contribution to the nation’s medical facilities, the wells, pumps, bowsers, and employees of Belize Natural Energy Limited continued in their efforts to radically improve the nation’s economic health. This afternoon I took a brief tour of the Spanish Lookout oil field and discovered that in […]
