Could UFO’s (Unidentified Flying Objects) be visiting Belize? That’s what some residents of Belmopan and the surrounding areas are wondering after a strange sighting of a mass of bright, circular lights south of the capital city and over the uninhabited mountains, exactly a week ago.
Briceño: “If we do not heed the voices of the people, those people who have put us so soundly in Opposition, then we will face the real risk of destroying the very party we have sworn to protect.”
A night of mayhem and murder! 2 dead, 3 critical, 13 injured in three related shootings and a chopping: City statistics – so far, a murder every 4-½ days
A hundred thousand voters across Belize spoke, in fact screamed, in clear and decisive terms today when they voted out the People’s United Party from office and took back power from the party’s long-time campaign manager, Ralph Fonseca, who suffered an astounding defeat from the United Democratic Party’s unknown newcomer, Michael “Hutchie” Hutchinson, in Belize Rural Central—an area that was deemed impenetrable, dominated by Fonseca since the constituency was carved out by the then ruling PUP in 1993.
Today police completed the installation process of surveillance cameras around the old capital. Six cameras were put in place and the software drivers installed at central monitoring command at Racoon Street.
Today, the village of Hattieville, sixteen miles from the metropolis, Belize City, and home to some 1,500 hardy souls, both transplants and descendants of those who first settled here thanks to the village’s namesake, Hurricane Hattie of 1961, seemed quiet, as usual.
Does the recent agreement that Government signed with the new owners of Universal Health Services (UHS) amount to another breach of the Finance and Audit (Reform) Act, 2005? That’s the question we posed to Financial Secretary Joe Waight today when we queried the details of the still undisclosed agreement.
