The dust appeared to have settled of late on the August nationalization of Telemedia, but the issue has surfaced head on again because of an outstanding debt of forty-five million dollars for which the British Caribbean Bank is demanding payment. Senator Godwin Hulse says that for government to acquire this loan, which would have to […]
On Tuesday, Smart announced that it had fully restored its international and roaming services, through another source, and not through Telemedia which last Friday pulled the plug on the company stranding ninety thousand subscribers. Word to News Five is that the situation got physical this afternoon when Smart made adjustments to its external equipment, which […]
Guatemalan national, twenty-two year old Glenda Montero of Succotz Village was on trial for the murder of her husband Cornelio; a crime police say she admitted to committing. But tonight Glenda is free because the caution statement with her confession, which the case depended upon, was not allowed into evidence and police had no other […]
Another issue that has now been settled is the squabble between Ministers Michael Finnegan and Carlos Perdomo. That was over a parcel of land being purchased by one of Finnegan’s Constituents, Dawn Jorguenson, and which was being taken away by Perdomo back in October. But after a public tongue lashing from Finnegan, he and the […]
Both the Corozal and Orange Walk teachers unions have publicly come out against the proposed amendments to the Education Act, primarily because of the terms of the Teaching Services Commission. The Minister of Education, Patrick Faber, has said he is moving ahead and the amendment will be tabled in the House on December eleventh. Since […]
It’s the season for giving and six organizations are benefiting from a large supply of medical and educational material. The donation was made today by the U.S. armed forces to the Belize Defense Force for onward distribution to the Non Governmental Organizations. A representative from the U.S. Embassy was on hand to make the delivery. […]
And in the city there was another group of happy recipients. Three hundred plus students scored top grades in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate, formerly C.X.C., and one in the Caribbean Advance Proficiency Examination earlier this year. Today, they were honored at an award ceremony. The students from high schools and sixth forms came out […]
He was born four years ago with a rare skin condition and since then the brave young boy has been fighting the odds. But Tarell Sutherland needs your help and urgently so. He is only the second person in Belize to carry this disease. His mother, Nicole McDougal, says that Tarell has a congenital skin […]
Moses Leviy made a scheduled appearance at the Hattieville prison at the invitation of Youth for the Future as part of his rehabilitation that would hopefully land him back to the United States. Leviy did not take questions from the press, but he did admit that he was responsible for the shooting in a Manhattan […]
There were one thousand three hundred fifty-one cases of domestic violence reported in 2008. That is what the statistics show, but the National Women’s Commission, the Women’s Department and the Y.W.C.A. have collaborated on an exhibit to get the public to look beyond the numbers. According to Public Relations Officer for the Y.W.C.A., Ann-Marie Williams, […]
As we have reported, the website of the Hayward Charitable Belize Trust Fund was launched today and if you have not checked it out, then you are invited to go on line to so do at www.thehaywardcharitablebelizetrust.com. Not-for-profit organizations who wish to apply for funding can so do. Up to twenty million dollars annually will […]
