A year and a half ago when Milo Paz was president, he submitted a needs or wish list to medical doctors and foundations, and on January 1, Mr. Paz received the good news that a shipment is due to be dispatched shortly and destined to the Ministry of Health for the San Pedro Lions Poly Clinic. Mr. Paz has received the summary of packing list which is several pages long and which is enough to fill up a container. The estimated value of this donation is over a million dollars. More

4 days after it sprung a 13% increase in electricity rates on consumers, the PUC today held a press briefing to explain its decision. Chairman Dr. Gilbert Canton, explained why light bills continue to go up even when BEL gets a third of its power from locally produced hydro electricity which is not affected by increasing prices in petroleum. More

The Belize Tourism Industry Association issued a release today saying they do not accept exempt status under the General Sales Tax schedule. We do not accept the exempt status because it is not an equitable status for the hotel industry and the hotel sector to accept. In other words with an exempt status what we are faced with is paying in the GST but not receiving any credit at the end. So they are basically raise our costs on our production and kind of created an unfair playing field with not only the other sectors within our country but both regionally and globally. It will increase our costs and make our products a lot more expensive at the end of the day. The Belize Tourism Association as well as the Belize Hotel Association. More