The trial balloon that floated over Social Security headquarters and Universal Health Services this week has been officially shot down. According to S.S.B.’s chief executive officer, Dr. Louis Zabaneh, the proposal for the board to buy U.H.S. was given to an independent consultant three weeks ago for an initial evaluation. If the assessment proved at […]
Today one local business is looking into the possibility of one of its own being involved in a hold-up that relieved the company of thousands of dollars on one of its busiest days. Manager of Advance Advertising Ideas’ branch at the Tourism Village, thirty-three year-old Cennie Muschamp, reported to police that she was robbed of […]
A forty-seven year old resident of the Stann Creek District has been detained by police following accusations by his two daughters that he has been engaging in sex with them. The fourteen year old, in the company of her mother, told police that she was molested from age eight right up to present. Her older […]
In a follow up to our story last night on environmental degradation in the Pelican Cayes, News 5 has been able to determine, based on data supplied by the Geology Department, that two dredging permits, each for sixteen thousand cubic yards, were issued to Treasure Cove Resort in 2006. An initial comparison of the coordinates […]
The cost of taking a trip to the states is about to go up. According to a U.S. embassy release, come January first, the application fee for a non-immigrant visa will rise by thirty-one percent from the existing two hundred Belize dollars to two hundred and sixty-two. The hike, which is being implemented worldwide, is […]
It’s one of Belize’s most enduring musical institutions and on Sunday evening the Pallotti Chamber Group will be holding its Christmas Concert. The chamber orchestra includes the junior and advanced groups who will perform under the directorship of Jiles Rabinovich. Music teacher and member of the strings department, Colville Young Jr., says the variety of […]
On Wednesday it was the Customs Department that sponsored a kids Christmas party; today it’s those friendly folks at Income Tax. We don’t know what’s gotten into these usually scrooge-like public servants, but Marion Ali reports on the fun. Marion Ali, Reporting They’re popular around town for their talent in the television drama series “Noh […]
For years many Christians have been lamenting the commercialisation of Christmas as the holidays seem to have become just another reason to shop, eat, and fix up the house. But musician Duane Ysaguirre is hoping that the songs on his newly released CD “Christmas Holy Bible” will inspire Belizeans to return to the reason we […]
This morning the Statistical Institute of Belize unveiled the results of a Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey, MICS, which was conducted in 2006 in almost two thousand households across the country. The survey, executed with financial and technical assistance from UNICEF sought to obtain information regarding the progress of women fifteen to forty-nine and children five […]
