It started as an almost routine union protest over the dismissal of three employees at Belize Telecommunications Limited. Over a month after those initial firings the growing intensity of the controversy makes it look like a train wreck just waiting to happen. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the latest from the union camp. Rene Gomez, […]
They keep the peace in the majority of Belizean households and there’s no reason to doubt that they can do the same thing on the nation’s streets. I’m talking about women as cops. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Corporal Sharmaine Robateau is just one of the one hundred and fifty police female officers on staff who help […]
In November 2004, a uniformed police officer walking alone at night was executed by a single gunshot to the head. In the days that followed the disturbing crime, his colleagues arrested a young man and charged him with the murder based on an eyewitness=s account of the incident. But when the case finally landed before […]
You can argue that it is the people who pull the trigger that do the killing, but you can’t dispute that the abundant presence of guns sure helps. Today a large number of those deadly weapons were put out of commission. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting The six hundred and eleven guns that were destroyed represent only […]
During brief handing over ceremonies today, Scotiabank contributed some much needed money to two organisations that promote women’s well-being. According to the bank’s Country Manager, Pat Andrews, earlier this year his staff petitioned the institution’s head office in Toronto for the funds. This morning, Andrews had the honour of handing over the cheques for two […]
Today the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has dramatically increased its range of services due to a gift of thirty wheelchairs. The donation comes courtesy of the Tubal Trade and Vocational Institute whose students assembled the special set of wheels after receiving the parts from an international group with contacts in China. These wheelchairs may not […]
In academic jargon it is referred to as the art and science of mixology. We call it bartending…and as anyone who’s ever spent a full night serving drinks can tell you, it’s a demanding job that requires a full measure of physical and mental skills. Today one institution with mixology in its curriculum received a […]
