It has been a bad week for the University of Belize. A financial crisis brought the university to its knees when the current Board of Trustees received information from the Chief Financial Officer and his team which indicated that U.B. was about to go broke. That prompted the board of trustees to implement austerity measures […]
The financial situation at the University of Belize is still under investigation by the board. The board doesn’t run the day to day operations of the school. The institution is run by its president Santos Mahung and the Chief Financial Officer is Harry Lui. Did they have a clear view of the financial stability of […]
A small wooden home in the Saint Martin’s De Porres Area was gutted in an early morning blaze. The neighborhood was engulfed with smoke during the morning commute. The fire is being tagged as arson and that is because, the owner’s common-law wife, with whom he has been living for more than thirty years, reportedly […]
Belize and Guatemala have been trading informally for years, but today trade was formalized with the signing of a partial scope agreement that had been languishing before the Guatemalan congress for years. The agreement was first introduced in 2004, in the days of the Musa and Berger administrations. It was completed the following year and […]
The agreement will provide better trading opportunities and Coleman says the delay in passage of the agreement was with the Guatemalan congress. Orla Kantun Coleman “I know at the technical level we were informed that there were some real glitches in terms of there is a specific committee within the congress that reviews trade agreements […]
The partial scope agreement has finally been ratified, but both countries are still grappling with a territorial claim. You would not have known, however, there is a dispute by Guatemala along the western border today. The OAS administered Adjacency Zone was exploding with cultural activities by both countries. The event marks the end of a […]
There have been frequent reports of home invasions in the city by criminals, but in this case, a family says their house was busted by law enforcement officers. The Saint Martin’s De Porres family claims that this morning at least six police officers arrived at their home armed with a presumably legit warrant to search […]
The grieving mother of Eddie Neal, a.k.a. “EddieMac,” who was gunned down on Monday night in Port Loyola was in court this morning for the arraignment of her son’s accused killer. Michael Foreman was promptly charged with Neal’s murder before Chief Magistrate Margaret Mckenzie. Neal was shot on the left upper chest area and on […]
An old beef is said to be the motive behind Wednesday night’s shooting of seventeen year old Kenrick Longsworth of Castle Street. His mother, Lavern Longsworth, alleges her son’s life was endangered twice on Wednesday and police told the court today that they have the gunman who tried to kill Longsworth while he was at […]
The Court of Appeal has ordered two retrials in its October session. At the end of this session today, convicted murderer, twenty-one year old Tiffara Smith was granted a retrial. Smith was convicted in July of stabbing her brother, Dale Lino, to death in April of 2007. At the trial Smith claimed that on the […]
About a billion people are without food around the world and at least fifty-four thousand families have been affected by a food crisis in neighboring Guatemala. On this side of the border, the National Food and Nutrition Security Commission is hard at work to guarantee food security to the population. So they teamed up with […]
One component of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy is the free movement of skilled labor throughout the region. What this means is that Belizeans have to be more competitive and better prepared. The Mexican government is making available an unlimited number of scholarships to qualified Belizeans who want to take up bachelors and post […]
Educators from the Americas and elsewhere are conferring in Belize City. And from the looks of it, the educators are learning new teaching strategies and having fun. They are taking part in innovative training that is showing new ways of better engaging their students in classroom activities. What does this all lead to? Better learning […]
The weekend is here and that means that Safiyyah has been scouting around for fun activities. Dust off your dancing shoes because there are many bashes around the town and elsewhere and she found out that the Mexican Institute is hosting a travelling showcase of foreign films. Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is What’s Happening […]
