You don’t have to go to the University of Belize to know that the higher one climbs on the educational ladder, the greater the preponderance of females. Combine that trend with our daily crime reports, featuring almost entirely young males, and you realise that Belize is faced with a major challenge. And we’re not the […]
A body has been found in Belmopan and police need your help to solve the mystery of how it got there. The corpse, identified as thirty-three year old Guatemalan Hugo Lionel Ramirez, was discovered lying in the middle of the Hummingbird Highway near the Agriculture Show grounds around ten Tuesday night. The dead man displayed […]
When the butane dealers went on strike she was forced to close her restaurant because the gas ran out. Today the popular fried chicken emporium Li Chee is again shut tight … only this time it’s because proprietor Yanli Tan was raided by immigration officers and charged with employing five foreign workers without obtaining work […]
With yesterday’s O.A.S. recommendation that the Guatemalan claim to Belize would best be resolved by the International Court of Justice, Belizeans learned that they would soon be faced with some tough decisions; namely, whether to approve the submission of the case to a process that would be binding on both parties. Today we asked one […]
It’s almost a predetermined occurrence—each time our local football boys take the field against their regional or international counterparts, the end result is a merciless beating. But football officials want to turn that around by the next World Cup scheduled for South Africa in 2010. To reach that goal, Belize will have to make it […]
Today Central American representatives in the field of renewable energy gathered to review their progress and look at future ways of enhancing the industry. The discussions are part of the Energy and Environment Partnership with Central America’s Tenth Regional Forum on the topic. Both local and regional experts believe that renewable energy has tremendous potential, […]
I will introduce the following story with a disclaimer that the statistics cited may not be very accurate … which only serves to illustrate the point of the story: that even though cancer is a major killer of Belizeans we have very little information on the disease. That situation, however, as News Five’s Marion Ali […]
