The battle lines have been drawn, both between the two major political parties and within the ruling P.U.P. After a day of intrigue in Belmopan, on the eve of Friday’s meeting of the House of Representatives here’s how things stand. Sources indicate that Prime Minister Said Musa has negotiated an agreement with the Belize Bank […]
In the meantime, Opposition Leader Dean Barrow will introduce his motions, which on principle no PUP will support, however much they might agree with his sentiments. News Five’s Stewart Krohn spoke to Barrow this morning, before many of these details became known. We asked him what he expected to happen, both inside and outside the […]
And while it will likely have little effect on the size of tomorrow’s rally, it should be noted that today’s Guardian ran what appears to be the first Belizean political advertisement ever presented in Chinese. The full page ad inviting the public to Friday’s protest, also ran in English and Spanish.
Almost anyone who drives a car has at some time fantasized about what he or she would do if their car plunged under water … and how you would manage to escape. Unfortunately, that grim fantasy became reality around two this morning on the wooden bridge connecting the twin towns of San Ignacio and Santa […]
Another traffic accident, this time in San Pedro Town, has also claimed a life. Police will more than likely bring charges against forty-two year old Eladio Balam after the vehicle he was driving hit and killed eight year old primary school student Jose Raudalez. According to reports, young Raudalez was heading home for lunch around […]
Around the same time that Raudalez was knocked down, another tragedy involving a young victim was unfolding in Dangriga at the residence of thirty-seven year old Antoinette Flowers. Police in that southern municipality report that Flowers was at home with her one year old daughter, Ann Marie Martinez, when the mother left the toddler in […]
A Belize City youth lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the victim of yet another shooting. According to police, twenty-one year old Marvin Ramirez was critically wounded after an unidentified gunman shot him in the left side of the chest, abdomen, hip, thigh, wrist, and bicep. Ramirez reportedly came under a hail of bullets […]
With tourism growing solidly in Belize, those involved in the industry are always trying to find ways to improve what the country has to offer. And with funding from the Inter-American Development Bank, the Belize Tourism Board and Belize Tourism Industry Association launched one such project in 2005, entitled Improving Small Business Competitiveness in the […]
We are a bit late in reporting it, but we happen to be in the middle of Education Week. Wednesday’s feature event was a fair to focus on the latest development in the classroom. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Despite the hot weather, many primary school students attended the fair in observance of Education Week. Maud Hyde, […]
Most of the news these days involving Belize Telecommunications Limited has to do with controversy: the ownership fight between Michael Ashcroft and Jeffrey Prosser, the labour dispute with its union, and the lawsuit filed by Christine Perriott over her termination. But despite the wrangling, the phones keep ringing and the gigabytes keep flowing. Today B.T.L. […]
