If you were anticipating a labour strike in the local telecommunications industry today, you can relax because it didn’t happen. Turns out a technicality has pushed any plans for industrial action against B.T.L. to March fifth. According to executives of the Belize Communication Workers Union, talks with the company and Minister of Labour will continue […]
In other news from the B.T.L. front, it was hardly a surprise, but after the Government of Belize and Michael Ashcroft appointed directors of Belize Telecommunications Limited failed to show up at a board meeting called by Jeffrey Prosser, the American businessman says he’s taking his case back to the courts. According to Prosser’s local […]
On January first, Belize assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the Central American Integration System, SICA. From the get-go Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Courtenay, maintained that his government would use the opportunity to bridge the gap between Central America and CARICOM. Today, after numerous meetings and discussions, the diplomats made a significant […]
The latest in a disturbing series of collisions between motor vehicles and pedestrians occurred yesterday in the Stann Creek District. Today, I visited the victims at the K.H.M.H. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Forty-four year old Elida Hernandez and nine year old Maria Lopez remain in a serious condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after the […]
In related news, around seven on Wednesday night san Ignacio police were at another accident scene between miles sixty-seven and sixty-eight. At the crash site, authorities observed a blue Toyota Four Runner that had damage to the front of the vehicle and a red Isuzu pickup off the road with its four wheels in the […]
Following the death of an elderly man in a traffic accident on the Northern Highway, police have arrested and charged the driver involved. According to court reports, this morning forty-five year old Rudolph Smith, a driver for the Postal Service, was arraigned on the charges of causing death by careless conduct, manslaughter by negligence and […]
The Belize Tourism Board today hosted the nation’s first ever Tourism Summit. The well attended meeting featured a strong roster of international speakers who focussed on such issues as the importance of branding, air travel capacity, controlling the cruise industry, and the question of growth versus protection of the environment. On that issue News Five’s […]
Following official ground breaking ceremonies in the Cayo District, contractors are now implementing the first stages of construction for the new San Ignacio Community Hospital. The site is located on the Bullet Tree Road in San Ignacio Town. According to a press release issued by the Ministry of Health, the twenty-four thousand square foot facility […]
In addition to the groundbreaking in Cayo, two major initiatives by the European Union for the sugar and banana industry were formalised today in Belmopan. Signing for Belize was Prime Minister Said Musa, while newly appointed E.U. representative, Marco Mazzochi-Alemanni did the honours for the Europeans. The seven point six million dollars for the sugar […]
A King’s Park resident is without his car tonight as around five-thirty this evening it literally went up in smoke. Eduardo Castillo, a friend of the owner, explains what happened. Eduardo Castillo “First, I see this car just start to smoke inside right. And me and the owner, Martin Martinez, we just come and remove […]
It’s not an organisation that runs to the media everyday for publicity, but quietly, in its own solid way, Belize’s Scouting movement has been making its mark for the better part of a century. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting It may not be Belize’s biggest computer centre but its effects could be large. Hilberto Riverol, Executive Dir., […]
