The buildings were old and the boards were dry, so when fire broke out this afternoon in a congested Belize City neighbourhood, it didn’t take long to become a major inferno. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Thick black smoke billowed forth over East Canal on the south side Belize City as a raging fire broke out on […]
Credit Unions may be known as the poor man’s bank, but when you add up their collective resources they are a major factor in Belize’s economy … and that influence is likely to grow. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Today, the Belize Credit Union League has reason to celebrate, because after almost two decades the country’s largest […]
Today twenty primary school children were each awarded three hundred dollars to help pay for their school tuition and other supplies. The donation is the second of its kind under the auspices of the Scotiabank Education Fund. This year a total of sixty-five grants will be awarded to students countrywide. Filomena Castillo, Bank Manager, Belize […]
Pursuing a doctorate is the ultimate in higher education, but for Belizeans, attaining this lofty goal has traditionally meant spending large amounts of time and money abroad, along with the serious disruption of career and family commitments. Today a programme was inaugurated that will allow Belizeans to obtain a doctorate in the field of education […]
In sporting news the Belize Cycling Association has a new president. In elections held last night Gerald Garbutt defeated incumbent Melvin Torres by a large margin, with a record number of members showing up to vote. Rounding out the executive is Ryan Garbutt as Vice President, John Swift is secretary, and Marco Reyes, treasurer. Committee […]
We’ve followed them deep into the Chiquibul Forest and to the top of Baldy Beacon. Today, although the surroundings were less exotic, the B.D.F. volunteers were no less enthusiastic. Kendra Griffith, Reporting “Dispersed across the Santa Cruz Lodge here in the Corozal District are some four hundred members of the volunteer element of the Belize […]
There was a time when any news coming from the western border meant trouble, be it military or diplomatic. But as we have reported, in recent years intense scrutiny along the frontier has highlighted the fact that while negotiations to settle Guatemala’s territorial claim to Belize continue in the corridors of power, for the most […]
