The unions are threatening to strike, a powerful minister prepares to testify at the D.F.C. hearings, and Belizean women gather for a summit focussed on the pressing issue of domestic violence. But this afternoon the nation paused to remember a man whose influence will be felt long after those other events are forgotten. Janelle Chanona […]
Today is being observed globally as International Women’s Day … and if this year’s observance seems a little more important than in year’s past, it’s because in recent months the issue of violence against women has hit Belize like a shotgun blast. In late 2006 and early 2007, no less than three women were brutally […]
And on Monday while Belizeans were marking the opening of Women’s Week, a female resident of San Pedro was feeling the pain of a violent attack. According to police, sixty year old Phillipa Rosalez reported to authorities that on Monday evening her common-law husband, fifty-two year old David Cruz, came home drunk. Something apparently displeased […]
Following a guilty verdict in the Supreme Court last Thursday, today a convicted killer was sentenced to life behind bars. Justice Adolph Lucas handed down that fate to twenty year old Michael Fox just before three this afternoon. Fox had been found culpable of the fatal shooting of twenty one year old Sydney Bradley, which […]
They may be bogged down in a debilitating war in Iraq and an increasingly dangerous situation in Afghanistan but that has not stopped the United States military from carrying out its humanitarian commitments in other parts of the world … like Belize. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting In three months, these Belize Defence Force Soldiers and United […]
His offer to help Christine Perriott was emphatically spurned by the unions and his entreaties to B.T.L.’s management were dismissed as political grandstanding. That makes Labour Minister Francis Fonseca very much a man in the middle, a veritable U.N. peacekeeper standing between Hezbollah and the Israeli army. Today Fonseca told reporters that the N.T.U.C.B. is […]
The minister, who also holds the portfolio for education, took the opportunity to soothe ruffled feathers in the teaching community. For the last two weeks Fonseca and education officials had been feeling the backlash from primary school teachers who feel they were “set-up” by being asked to take–and do poorly–on the P.S.E. Francis Fonseca, Minister […]
