A few small cracks in the wall began to show Wednesday afternoon and by this morning the phone and data lines between Belmopan and Belize City were buzzing with rumours that the Prime Minister was reconsidering his hard line stance on the U.H.S. loan motion. The talk was confirmed this afternoon when Said Musa, following […]
As word of the Prime Minister’s plan to withdraw the Universal Health Services motion spread throughout the country, many wondered how this latest development would be received by the Opposition and what impact, if any, the move would have on the United Democratic Party’s plans to once again protest in Belmopan. Late this afternoon, U.D.P. […]
The story of how Prime Minister Said Musa came to change his mind involved many factors. While the overwhelming sentiment of the citizenry formed the basis for everything that followed, those feelings were well known for weeks. What were the individual straws that broke the proverbial camel’s back? One important input came from the nation’s […]
Also helping to change the Prime Minister’s mind was the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which at a meeting of the National Economic Council on Wednesday, gave the Prime Minister advice … and laid out the consequences if he didn’t follow it. The Chamber’s C.E.O., Kevin Herrera, spoke to us early this afternoon, prior […]
Also remaining closed, it appears, will be many of the nation’s schools, as the union representing Belize’s teachers has decided to go ahead with its plans to protest. Will the rank and file respond? Clement Wade, General Manager, Catholic Schools “They will look at whether what they are doing is worth making the sacrifice and […]
The University of Belize is the latest educational institution to suffer a break-in. According to a police press release, on Wednesday morning the library assistant at the Freetown Road campus filed a report that sometime between five p.m. on Tuesday and eight Wednesday morning its Engineering Resource Centre was burglarised. Stolen from the room were […]
A new C.D. debuted on the music scene this week and it’s packing three punches. The compilation is religious, it’s in Kriol, and it’s locally composed. For the past year, more than twenty people representing different denominations have been working with a visiting enthnomusicologist to translate the Bible to Kriol. But during that project, participants […]
The latest political developments, while dramatic in their own right, have done little to quell the fear of many Belizeans that the demonstrations still planned for tomorrow could turn hostile and lead to significant destruction of property. But when does a violent confrontation become a riot? The question is more than academic, as News Five’s […]
