Photo: Dr. Roxana Alvarez - Chief Veterinary Officer, BAHA
GoB breathes a sigh of relief despite first case of New World Screwworm.
Cattle exports to Mexico continue, but under strict quarantine regulations.
BELMOPAN, Mon. Dec. 30, 2024
After Belize recorded its first suspected case of New World Screwworm...
Photo: Hon. Shyne Barrow and Hon. Tracy Taegar-Panton
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 2, 2025
After the October 20, 2024 Unity Convention of the Alliance for Democracy (AFD) led by Albert area representative, Hon. Tracy Panton,...
Photo: Cory Williams - 2025 Krem New Year’s Cycling Classic Champion (Photo: Photo Factory)
by William Ysaguirre
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 2, 2025
Cory Williams of the Miami Blazers team set a new record time of 3:23:23 when...
Photo: Former President Jimmy Carter speaks during a forum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Nov. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
By Meg Kinnard
The Associated Press, Dec. 30, 2024
Jimmy Carter, the...
The US flag has been flying at half-staff in the US since Jimmy Carter, their 39th president and leader of the free world between 1977 and 1980, died on...
On December 25, just a few days from now, we celebrate the birth of the Christ (Jesus of Nazareth), who came into this world a little over 2,000 years...
In the aftermath of the terrible 1931 hurricane, a star-gazing Belizean family patriarch, who later in life had exiled himself on an island, once said that every thirty years...
Despite Central Bank Governor Kareem Michael’s glowing report on our economy, and the assertions therein that it is doing well, and our foreign reserve position is strong, on the...
Photo: Elite Female 2025 Krem New Year’s Classic winners, (l to r) 2nd Francine Gigli; 1st Mary Joyce Monton; 3rd Norma Nunez. (Photo: Photo Factory)
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 2, 2025
Mary Joyce Monton of the Miami Blazers won 2025 KREM New Year’s Female Cycling Classic in uncontested fashion, under pouring rain at the finish line in front of the Belize City Civic Center.
She won the $1,000 first prize and a round trip to the USA, along with the champion’s trophy; while Francine Gigli of Team Lovell claimed the $300 2nd prize and trophy, and Norma Nuñez of the Haulover Punishers team took the $200 3rd prize.
Gigli had led at the outset to win the $500 prize offered by the Holy Redeemer Credit Union...
Photo: (l-r) Jalima Gold, President of the Belize Women’s Seaweed Farmers Association and Christine Rowlands, British High Commissioner
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Dec. 18, 2024
A dynamic woman-led organization – the Belize Women’s Seaweed Farmers Association (BWSFA) – launched its project entitled “Empowering BWSFA: Strengthening Sustainable Seaweed Mariculture through Capacity Building, Marketing, and Innovation,” with the funding of the UK Government’s Sustainable Blue Economies Programme, Blue Social Challenge Fund (BSCF).
Founded in 2019, the BWSFA has been dedicated to developing Belize’s seaweed industry by empowering its members to maximize the production of high-quality, sustainably farmed seaweed and value-added products, fostering livelihoods that uplift communities and enhance climate resilience.
This project addresses the...
In America, they have a saying that goes like this: In the South (slave states), the white man says to the black man, “You can get as close as you want, but don’t get too big.” In the North (abolitionist states), the white man says to the black man, “You can get as big as you want, but don’t get too close.”
In Belize, the elitist group basically says to the roots class, “Just stay where you are. If you try to move up, we’ll put you down.” That’s how I see it after all these years.
As a child in the late 1950s, I saw a sensational group of roots youth...
Photo: Curtis Molina, charged
Monkey River man charged for killing three family members
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Dec. 17, 2024
Photo: (l-r) Eliana Garbutt, Elvis Garbutt, Sr., and Eliss Garbutt - all deceased
Curtis Molina (Garbutt),...
